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The palm tree in the distance on the right is majestically still there! The Eucalypti on the right, too. https://i.postimg.cc/x8ShF7nd/Sant-Mon-Mel.jpg gsv The palm tree is at the corner of Melrose and Almont. |
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Excellent post on the Toddler House, Noir Noir. ..I tried to dig up some additional information on poor Ginger O' Dare but came up empty. (her real name would have helped) This snapshot just showed up on eBay "VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH '14 FLOOD RAILROAD BRIDGE ARROYO LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA PHOTO" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/mftibJ.jpg eBay Pretty exciting stuff but I couldn't help but notice the impressive house on the hill. This house....Does anyone recognize it? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/rEbYD6.jpg .................................The horse is sad because his barn was swept away. . |
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Here's another original snapshot currently listed on eBay "VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1920'S EGYPTIAN COURT FOUNTAIN AVE HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA PHOTO" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ge13Em.jpg Link This was going to be a mystery loc. until I noticed this. . . The seller included Written on back: " RISSMAN EGYPTIAN COURT AT 5141-1/2 FOUNTAIN AVE IN HOLLYWOOD NEAR LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA " Much to my surprise, it's still there! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/8LPk6E.jpg GSV Now I want to know if the statue (that appears in the 1920s snapshot) is still in place. ...........................................This Beauty. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/uo4kA3.jpg detail I attempted to gaze into the courtyard. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/xmFXlu.jpg But it's impossible to see that far back. Does anyone live in the area? :whip: . |
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Here's a signed Ginger O'Dare publicity picture for you. https://i.imgur.com/Rx5sNgT.jpg facebook.com - Burlyqnell - Vintage Photos of Burlesque Dancers This odd little story from 1937 appears to indicate O'Dare was her real surname. :shrug: https://i.imgur.com/iswNqP7.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News, 9 April 1937 And she was the inspiration for a 1980's sitcom character. The Cavanaughs, a sitcom which ran for two series on CBS in 1986 and 1989, was created by Robert Moloney. The character Kit Cavanaugh in the series was loosely based on the life of Moloney's mother - Ginger O'Dare. Kit in the series is a Las Vegas showgirl who returns to her Irish-Catholic family in Boston. encyclopedia.com |
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Jack Rissman, owner of the Egyptian Court Apartments, and his wife robbed at gunpoint in 1925. https://i.imgur.com/tEsLbAg.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News, 6 January 1925 |
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See how there's no plaque at the bottom front of the pedestal in the photo above? But in this 1954 photo below, there's a plaque in that spot that describes White's accomplishments: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...of_Records.jpg examiner-c44-73927 @ USC Digital Library Unfortunately, that plaque couldn't be used on the statue's new pedestal: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...ill_stands.jpg October 30, 1958, San Pedro News-Pilot @ Newspapers.com Maybe the county sold the granite pedestal at auction? If so, that may have been around the Spring/Summer of 1961, when the pedestal's home, the "Plaza de la Justicia," was cleared. I think White's statue had been in the lower right corner of this photo: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...red_-_Copy.jpg June 26, 1961, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via Los Angeles Public Library |
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Ginger O'Dare was much more beautiful than I expected, Noir Noir. Thanks for posting the publicity still. re: The odd crime story. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/GMtGJV.jpg edited My curiosity was piqued so I dug a bit further and found out that Robert Irwin has a Los Angeles connection, or more precisely, a Pasadena connection. First of all, here is poor Veronica Gedeon, Robert Irwin's New York murder victim. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/t0R4Kx.jpg ephemeralnewyork And again. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/hJN4Ee.jpg archetron And here's Robert Irwin after his arrest in 1937. ..(the same year he sent the flowers to Ginger O'Dare) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/7HNiP5.jpg eBay The Los Angeles connection? Let's start with Robert Irwin's real name. . .drumroll. . .his full birth name is Fenelon Arroyo Seco Irwin. I kid you not! (see below) The son of evangelist parents, Irwin was actually born in Arroyo Seco Park near Pasadena, California on August 5, 1907. He was named for the nearby river (as was the park) and one of his father's favorite theologians, François Fénelon. Hence, he entered life as Fenelon Arroyo Seco Irwin. This also caught my attention:...Being a sculptor, Irwin idolized Larado Taft, one of the leading sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and later moved in with Taft's family. Then, working in a waxworks studio in Los Angeles, Irwin carved commercial busts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other public figures." Being of an inquisitive nature, :) I am now trying to figure out which "waxwork studio" Irwin worked at in Los Angeles. Robert George Irwin https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/3uVnyc.jpg Irwin was convicted of the triple slaying and committed to a New York State mental hospital for life. (he died in 1975) . |
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He worked for a while at the waxworks studio of Katherine Stuberg and also at A1 Decorating. https://i.imgur.com/vxQYUEe.jpg Google Books - The Mad Sculptor By Harold Schechter https://i.imgur.com/8PnBvWT.jpg rescarta.lapl.org I cannot find a location for the Stuberg studio. :???: Here's Katherine Stuberg working on Albert Einstein. https://i.imgur.com/dLeAPlZ.jpg gettyimages.com And with a lifesize Franklin D. Roosevelt figure. https://i.imgur.com/NpXbBCc.jpg archive.org - Hollywood-Sport-Broadway 1943-10-12 This is a bust of Herbert Hoover sculpted by Robert Irwin. https://i.imgur.com/Ip2iJgT.jpg hoover.blogs.archives.gov Just before those jobs Robert Irwin also worked with the sculptor Carlo Romanelli for about a year in 1927/28 https://i.imgur.com/dCA5KLQ.jpg Google Books - The Mad Sculptor By Harold Schechter Romanelli had a studio at his home on N. Hoover St. https://i.imgur.com/GFC3mFI.jpg rescarta.lapl.org What's left of it. https://i.imgur.com/jlhJVMf.jpg redfin.com |
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https://i.postimg.cc/Bvkx9ZXs/Stuberg-36-CD.jpg 1936 LA City Directory Here's 1306 Gordon nowadays: https://i.postimg.cc/B6F2qWKF/Stuberg-1306-Gordon.jpg gsv |
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https://montrealrampage.com/wp-conte...n-voyeur1.jpeg As you notice, the edges are cropped from the version shown in riichkay's post. I mention this because in the top version on the left side it appears to show that the center of Santa Monica Blvd. is being used as parking spaces (correct?) ...and that is something I have never seen before in any photo of this area. ___ In the linked article it says: Hopper took about a dozen pictures of Geldzahler at the billboard factory, and then, while driving west on Hollywood Boulevard near Musso & Frank Grill, he and Geldzahler encountered the weird spectacle of a woman lying in the middle of the street. This Hopper photograph would become known as “Untitled (Hollywood’s Largest Toy Shop with fallen woman).” Here's that photo: (I didn't find it in a search of NLA.) https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net...normalized.jpgArtsy |
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Thanks odinthor. That is one of the two Katherine Stuberg(h)s - mother (K.C) and daughter (K.M) who both sculpted in wax. I needed to add a "h" to find the studio. :) In the 1920's - https://i.imgur.com/9wFhd2x.jpg rescarta.lapl.org They moved the studio to Beverly Blvd. in the late 1930's - https://i.imgur.com/prv9I1m.jpg rescarta.lapl.org The Stuberghs provided the wax figures for The Motion Picture Museum and Hall Of Fame in the early 1930's. https://i.imgur.com/PUW2mOp.jpg waxipedia.blogspot.com https://i.imgur.com/1iMznIZ.jpg waxipedia.blogspot.com |
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RE: 5939-45 Sunset Blvd. at Gordon. Godzilla is correct. The Old Spaghetti Factory facade was (illegally) torn down in 2011. But the Spaghetti Factory facade wasn't original and, in my humble opinion, rather unattractive. As you can see, scavenged columns and metal framework from an entirely different building were added. (what's up with that?) Spaghetti Factory facade. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/LdXaYP.jpg Here's the original facade of 5939-45 Sunset Blvd. - It was built as Peerless Automobile Showroom. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/zi1KzE.jpg jhgraham The replica is more in tune with the original facade. . than with whatever was going on with the Spaghetti Factory facade.. And here is the facade when the building was home to KNX Radio. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/XGd6wc.jpg paradiseleased So I wonder what happened to the original columns? . |
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Further reading for anyone who's interested.. 5939-45 Sunset Blvd. at Gordon. Hollywood Daily Citizen, June 25, 1924. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/BTfAjX.jpg jhgraham https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/wexRYs.jpg jhgraham . |
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This is a bust of Herbert Hoover sculpted by Robert Irwin. https://i.imgur.com/Ip2iJgT.jpg hoover.blogs.archives.gov :previous: A brief treatise on men's collars Hoover gave up his stiff starched detachable collars sometime between losing to FDR in 1932, and chairing the government reorganization committee in the early 1950s when I have seen pictures of him with comfortable modern attached business collars as part of his shirt. Modern attached collars in dress business shirts appeared at least as early as the mid 1920s (Arrow shirts with attached collars), but some like Hoover kept wearing the uncomfortable high starched collars. At some point, Hoover choose comfort. His collars must have been so uncomfortable in Washington summers. The military and most workingmen and people at leisure had been wearing shirts with attached unstarched collars that looked modern as early as 1900, since it was an annoyance to attach the starched collars plus they were uncomfortable. Imagine being under fire and having to attach a collar in a battle. In dress uniforms, formal attached collars may still have been used, not sure. Most businessmen and politicians kept their old starched detachable collars on until the mid 1920s. When they left work and got home, they usually removed the collars which were attached to the shirt by fasteners, especially in hot weather. The shirts without the collars resembled a t-shirt with long sleeves (short sleeve dress shirts didn't appear until the 1930s, although short sleeve undershirts and polo shirts existed in the 1920s--men just rolled up their sleeves in hot weather). In photos of the 1925 Scopes Trial, both Bryan and Darrow removed their collars even in court because it was so hot. Pictures exist. In the many photos of the 1920s I have seen, it seems that by 1927 or 1928, modern collars were becoming dominant, tuxedo wing collars and high Hoover collars less common except in the most formal settings. By 1929, most of the traders on the floor of the stock exchange appeared to be wearing modern attached collars and business suits in pictures I have seen of the Great Crash. But Hoover persisted with his high collars long after. And tuxedo suits with wing collars are still rented and worn in formal settings like weddings, formal proms and parties, and diplomatic events. Tradition. |
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