Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull (Post 6690878)

It look like that by the time this photo was taken outside the Hollywood Bowl in the 1950s, Los Angeles’ transformation from “best public transportation network in the world” to “city most reliant on the automobile” was well underway. But, I’m wondering, what those logs in the foreground were for. It looks like construction was going on but as far as I’m aware--does anyone here know anything better?--the land opposite the Bowl’s entrance was a parking lot until the Cecil B. DeMille barn (where filming took place on “The Squaw Man” (1914), the first feature film to be produced in the Hollywood area) was moved there in 1983.

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Originally Posted by oldstuff (Post 6688281)

David Geedy appears with his wife Retta in Kendallsville, Indiana in the 1900 Census. They were married in 1884. He does not appear in the 1910 Census in Los Angeles but does in the 1920. In that year he is living at 1672 W. 23rd Street. He is listed as being the owner of the building, with a Homer and Tessie Norcross listed as being renters. Apparently the building was divided into a duplex by 1920. That number does not appear in Los Angeles in the current Assessor's records. It does appear as 1666 and that shows the structure being built in 1914.

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 6691066)

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5568/...7846ea8a_b.jpgThe Big Sleep, Howard Hawks, 1946

The world is full of glamour shots and portraits of Lauren Bacall. I thought
we'd look at something like this instead. Howard Hawks (on the left) reads
through a scene one last time with his players before committing it to
celluloid.

Next to Hawks is Sonia Darrin as Agnes Lowzier: 'A half-smart guy, that's
what I always draw. Never once a man who's smart all the way around the
course. Never once.'

Philip Marlowe: 'I hurt you much, sugar?'


Agnes Lowzier: 'You and every other man I've ever met.',


Next an unnamed script girl (I wish we had her name),

Then Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutlege: 'Do you always think you can handle
people like, uh, trained seals?'

Philip Marlowe: 'Uh-huh. I usually get away with it too.'


Vivian: 'How nice for you.'

And then, of course, Bogie as Phillip Marlowe: 'She tried to sit in my lap while
I was standing up.'

The fine, stalwart supporting player Jean Louis Heydt as Joe Brody listens
intently on the right.

Warner Bros., Howard Hawks, 1946

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 6691787)

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Originally Posted by Earl Boebert (Post 6692183)

FYI, there are two versions of the Bogart/Bacall "The Big Sleep" extant, one from 1945 and an expanded version from 1946 with the celebrated "racehorse" scene. Roger Ebert thought the second was better, others (including myself) disagree.

Cheers,

Earl

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 4567629)

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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 6692764)

More to come...

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull (Post 6689233)

So what's the machine the guy is pushing? The upright stick is probably for alignment/aiming for whatever gets done with this gizmo.

Originally Posted by Earl Boebert (Post 6692183)

FYI, there are two versions of the Bogart/Bacall "The Big Sleep" extant, one from 1945 and an expanded version from 1946 with the celebrated "racehorse" scene. Roger Ebert thought the second was better, others (including myself) disagree.

Cheers,

Earl

Originally Posted by 1612havenhurstdrive (Post 6679018)

"Stop!" I wanted to shout inanely 500 pages ago, "I'm trying to catch up!" -- Six months of reading, one month just in the last dozen of pages, in a vain attempt to make this all last longer. The closer I got to the end, the more I realized I was reaching today's real time, where the stories would end, and I'd have to start writing my own. I have to thank folks like the GaylordWilshires, the lorens, the collection of Martins, and especially the fostering E_R, amongst EVERYONE here, for an incredible journey through our collective histories.

I come bearing gifts, like any good first-time visitor to your world. Lived here in LA for the last 26 years since going through college, where I spent hours lost in old USC yearbooks in various libraries around campus trying to piece together the histories of that small area of town, and dwelled here in the 'Crescent Heights' subdivision of West Hollywood for two decades, gathering local lore and history through 4am jaunts lost in blogs along the internets.

Want to see an inside last look at Perino's, circa 2002? In a moment...i'm still saying Hello! ...it's taken a long time traveling here to be able to do so. So many times in reading the forum, I've shouted "that's right there!" wanting to write immediately, but within pages we receive all the correct answers (sometimes some false information at first, but it always seems to get settled out), so I learned a lot of patience to read everything before jumping here. You all are awesome.

So yes, E_R, you have legions of followers coming up reading through the ranks of pages, all with more information and stories coming, I'm sure. Here are a few topics I've been waiting to speak about (and will get to mentioning further in separate notes, now that I've reached "hello!" status here, and apologies for just an introductory tease)... AIP/Movietown Plaza, Aldous Huxley living near The Huxley, Barney's Beanery/ABC rumors, Rexall Owl Drugs and the Doors of Perception, mountain removal at the top of Laurel Canyon, the fabulous Quonsets of the Culver City Airport, Northridge Quake and Santa Monica's 4th street (including the Central Tower red-tagging), Exposition trains of 1986, the Byrds basement rehearsals, more of Crescent Heights, and Perinos.

As for Perino's, and a first attempt at posting from Imageshack, it was used for filming long after it fully closed as a restaurant, as we know. I spent two days there during the music video filming of "Are You In?" from the rockband Incubus in 2002. The couches, chandeliers, lamps, furnishings, and kitchen equipment, we were told, were all as original as the place could be after all those years. The entire video was shot inside old Perino's, so freezeframe to your heart's content.

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I'm very excited to be at the end of your storytelling, and looking forward to much more!
- 1612havenhurstdrive (aka in real world, brett)

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 6693247)

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