SkyscraperPage Forum - noirish Los Angeles

Prev 1 477 977 1377 1427 1467 1473 1474 1475 147614771478 1479 1480 1481 1487 1527 1577 1977 2477 3078 Next

Viewing Page 1477 of 3078

Show 50 post(s) from this thread on one page

SkyscraperPage Forum (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/index.php)

- Found City Photos (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=23)

- - noirish Los Angeles (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=170279)

Martin Pal

Jul 6, 2015 5:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noircitydame (Post 7085158)

That Coffee Dan's at 6776! I have seen no good pictures showing the front. Nobody seems to have taken a picture of it on purpose!

LOL, ain't that the truth!

From several things that I've read, a lot of celebrities used to congregate in there on one occasion or another. (Like Montgomery Clift, for one.) You'd think someone might have photographed the front of it -- "That's where I saw so and so...!"

Thanks for this post, I enjoyed all those photos.
___

I liked everyone's ruminations on that contour chair, too, heh!
Now I want one. (Need one!)
___

I know this is always there, but I just happened to see it at the bottom of the page and it made me laugh:

This thread has more than 10 replies.

oldstuff

Jul 6, 2015 5:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7085866)

The original Seven Swingin' Gentlemen (in order of appearance, beginning with morning drive):Bruce Hayes, Al Jarvis (Your Make-believe Ballroom), Joe Yokum, Elliot Field (and his Cast of Thousands), B. Mitchell Reed, Bill Ballance, and Ted Quillan.

Elliott Field is the last of them remaining with us. You can find his autobiography on Amazon, ditto Chuck Blore's (the Program Director behind the Color Radio format). I'm presently working through Dave Hull's (from rival KRLA).

FWIW, Blore asserts that the AFTRA strike at KFWB in 1962 began the station's terminal decline as a top-40 station.

Don't forget Lohman and Barkley, who were at KFWB in 1967-1968 before moving to KFI

oldstuff

Jul 6, 2015 5:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7083369)

The Horace Appels, father and son, were all over the papers at one time (especially dad). This little article mentions them both:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v...34318%2BPM.jpg
LA Herald, 1/22/1908

The Bullard Block (seen before on the thread):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H...31023%2BPM.jpg
pinterest

(I couldn't find the photo of HH Appel, Sr oldstuff. If you send me the link, I'll put it up.)

Sorry, I steered you wrong. It was located in the 1909 CALIFORNIA, HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. I found it through an Ancestry.com search for Horace Hilary Appel.

I can't post at all but if someone else can get into Ancestry, search the full name and then find the publication, maybe you can figure out how to save it so it will post.

tovangar2

Jul 6, 2015 7:01 PM

Horace Appel, Sr., Attorney

:previous:

Here he is, the father of the quarter-dispensing son:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i...15118%2BAM.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k...20409%2BPM.jpg
google

I don't have access to Ancestry.com, but "History of the Bench and Bar of Southern California" (1909) is a free e-book on google. HHA, Sr appears on page 125. Piece of cake.

Is there a family resemblance CBD?

CityBoyDoug

Jul 6, 2015 7:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7086387)

I'm not sure about a family resemblance. Sorry Tovangar but I may have discarded the old photo of son Horace. I have thousands of photos and they really get out of control...plus many of them I have no idea who they are.

tovangar2

Jul 6, 2015 7:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7086472)

I have thousands of photos and they really get out of control...plus many of them I have no idea who they are.

Right there with you CBD. I keep meaning to scan mine, but there's so many it would take the rest of my life to do a proper job. Only a few generations ago people had just a hand-full of photos of friends and family. Sometimes I envy them. Like the Total Information Awareness program, too much information can be the same as none at all.

ethereal_reality

Jul 6, 2015 10:40 PM

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! :) I really appreciate it.

NEON HEAVEN

The following three slides are from the same 1940s group that I posted last week.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/lQU0rJ.jpg
eBay

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/905/YsAEfg.jpg
eBay

:previous: There's the Owl that Martin_Pal pointed out last week and a couple days ago.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/07ootr.jpg
eBay

:previous: -first time I've seen 'The White Spot' sign in living color.

Enjoy!

__

ethereal_reality

Jul 6, 2015 11:17 PM

Ouch!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/9zCKY6.jpg
eBay

"Forty-five persons were injured, some seriously, when this Hollywood-Los Angeles bus swerved to avoid hitting an auto and crashed
into a lamp post and palm tree after hurtling the street curb."
5/10/44

__

ethereal_reality

Jul 6, 2015 11:26 PM

tovangar2

Jul 6, 2015 11:46 PM

:previous:
That's an end pole (notice the guy-wires). The info on the pole was probably useful to LADWP workers (as to exactly where they were on the grid etc).

That's not "the Courthouse". Those pix (#2, #3, #4, #6 & #7) are City Hall :-)

I'm not sure why, but this photo of Union Station conjured up a strong (and welcome) memory of the way cars' wool-flannel headliners smelled back in the day. Thank you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7086729)

#1
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/mN7AIl.jpg
eBay
__

John Maddox Roberts

Jul 6, 2015 11:47 PM

Those white markings may be metal plates.

Mstimc

Jul 7, 2015 2:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts (Post 7086756)

Those white markings may be metal plates.

Yes, and the numbers could be pole or circuit numbers. Back in the day, I interned in Anaheim's Public Utilities Department and they gave their grid circuits women's' names, like Juliet and Kathleen. So if someone said "Juliet 151 is down", you'd instantly known within a block or two where the problem was. Now I'm sure they use GPS.

so-cal-bear

Jul 7, 2015 2:04 AM

For a second there, I thought to myself, That is a big saguaro cactus next to the palm tree. Its just a street light :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7086719)

so-cal-bear

Jul 7, 2015 2:13 AM

We were there to see friends off back to Albuquerque on the Amtrak Southwest Chief. Union Station is a happening place now. It was in serious decline back in the 80's I used to see it quite often as a kid in the late 70's up to the mid-80's when my grandmother used to go to the main terminal annex post office across the street.

Utility poles have numbers to quickly find them should there be a problem.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7086729)

Eight album photographs from December 1946.

#1
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/mN7AIl.jpg
eBay

:previous: Does anyone know the purpose of the white markings (and numbers) on the utility pole?

__

Noircitydame

Jul 7, 2015 2:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7086683)

Enjoy!

__

Many thanks for posting all of those.
This scene is so idylic and seems so far removed from wartime.
Hollywood High jalopies. I can't tell what the lead car is- some Plymouth or Dodge. The other one is a 1930 Ford (Model A) standard roadster. No top? no problem (it never rains in LA). I wonder if the two fellows dashing up the stairs are the drivers, and if they went on to fly bombers.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...hot%20rods.jpg

It could be the set of an Andy Hardy film.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...20Roadster.jpg
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/a...r-jpg.2175574/

CityBoyDoug

Jul 7, 2015 5:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noircitydame (Post 7087175)

Notice a mall parking lot before the 1960s. Most of the car windows are open and the doors obviously unlocked. Unimaginable in 2015.
The US is a very different place since Nov 22, 1963...in fact it no longer exists.

ethereal_reality

Jul 7, 2015 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7084725)

ER, your cake won't be the sheet of flame that I'll get in a few days (see below),
but what's a generation (or two) between noirishers?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...538/nRQrp1.jpg

Happy Birthday t2!! Today's her day. :)

tovangar2

Jul 7, 2015 10:11 PM

:previous:

LOL. Hey Boss. Thx

ethereal_reality

Jul 7, 2015 10:15 PM

1940s Westwood I believe.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/tRSPoV.jpg
eBay

CityBoyDoug

Jul 7, 2015 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7087721)

:previous:

LOL. Hey Boss. Thx