Thanks for the information, quickstop.



I spotted another 'giant' downtown.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/bEyPuu.jpg
anthony hernandez

He's wearing white gloves so I think he was directing traffic.


The dispassionate look on the girl's face perfectly reflects the daily grind.


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I found this amazing panorama from the 1920s showing Hollywood.

https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g...16.40%20AM.png

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/19711

I zoomed in and was looking around and noticed this bridge. What do you think it is?

https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g...49.21%20AM.png

e_r, in lieu of an address, could I interest you in a recipe?


https://i.postimg.cc/wMf5QKp8/Nutbur...AT-9-10-50.jpg
LA Times, 9/10/1950

If anyone has this novel:

https://i.postimg.cc/rF7xVNyJ/Nurburgers2.jpg
Amazon.com

and can read the entirety of p. 44 . . .

https://i.postimg.cc/Sx88JYJp/Nutburgers3.jpg
google book search

and the book is describing a real scene, then we might have a clue...

Aerial shot of MGM's Circus Maximus set for “Ben-Hur” at La Cienega and Venice Boulev
 

To film the spectacular Circus Maximus chariot race for 1924's Ben-Hur MGM built an enormous set where La Cienega and Venice Boulevards meet. La Cienega is the straight road cutting the top left hand corner, and Venice is the one at a slight diagonal from one side of the photo to the other. Most of this land is now home to the Santa Monica Freeway.


https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...geles-1924.jpg

https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...enice-2020.png

:previous:

You can still see the location of the set at the center of this 1928 image. Comparing it with the current Google Maps view, I'd say it stretched from the Kaiser Permanent Venice Medical Offices towards the intersection of S Crescent Heights Boulevard and Sawyer Street. I sampled a few house prices in the area, and they all came out between $1.3 and $2.1 million - I wonder how much the land cost in 1924?

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...BenHurSet1.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

Aerial shot of MGM's Circus Maximus set for “Ben-Hur” at La Cienega and Venice Boulev
 

OH WOW! You really can see it, can't you? I never heard what they did with the set? Maybe the left it up, like DW Griffin did with his "Intolerance" set over where the Vista Theater now stands.

Another Angle

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cgY-uCiAl...2Bhur%2B29.jpg
Hollywood Photographs via Hobot's Random pic thread

https://66.media.tumblr.com/eb8c473c...gw4o1_500.gifv
King Bros.---United Artists

Maybe the Nutburgers was not an establishment in it's own right but part of "Gates' Nut Kettle" at the SW corner of Sunset and Doheny.


The few references I could find for a "Nutburgers" point to that location.


Ronald Reagan was a visitor -

https://i.imgur.com/FwFF47R.jpg
salon.com


And Charlie Chaplin's sons were fans -

https://i.imgur.com/tRe62Mm.jpg
socalarchhistory.blogspot.com


Here's the location in 1937 which also appears to be the year of the film footage -

https://i.imgur.com/xxoDtXc.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu


You can see cars pulled in head-on to the building like in the film.


:shrug:



The sign on the corner of Sunset and Doheny for "Gates' Nut Kettle" posted in 2013.

^^^
I always wondered what happened to Thrifty's. Great ice cream. 3 scoop icecream cones for 15 cents as late as the 1970s. I guess they became RiteAids, or were taken over by them. At least they kept the Thrifty ice cream. I recall Thrifty headquarters in the 1980s was in an office building next to the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire. Used to work near there. Now both the Ambassador and Thriftys are gone with the wind. When did the A&P chain go bye bye in L.A.? Used to have Safeways and Piggly Wigglies. Now gone.

^^^

With covid 19 meat shortgages looming due to packing plant outbreaks, we might be back to eating nutburgers soon. :help:

Apologies. Didn't see that. I remember Trancas. Was it named for the owner? My fave place to eat in Malibu back in the 1960s was the Sea Lion. Pretty good sea food. The sand dabs were good. The waves literally crashed onto the big picture glass windows. My family used to drive from the hot Valley during summer down Topanga Canyon, and it would emerge on the coast not far from the Sea Lion. The temperature always seemed at least 20 degrees cooler than the SF Valley. What a relief and a good Sunday dinner too!

A little more on Gates' Nut Kettle...


https://i.postimg.cc/k5WrB1KH/gates1-bmp.jpg
Froim the Palm spring Desert Sun Nov 5, 1937



A little noir at 9115 Sunset: On May 5, 1940, in a list under this headline were a Robert Dale and a Ralph Parker of 9115....

https://i.postimg.cc/8c5LnYbX/9115headline-bmp.jpg



Also associated with 9115 Sunset was

https://i.postimg.cc/Kj4X0Z3K/9115edwards-bmp.jpg
Hollywood Reporter May 23, 1939

:shrug:

I believe ''Trancas" is the name of the canyon that exits into the ocean. Anyone know different?

Other film library services offering the same nutburgers footage have it dated 1937.


https://i.imgur.com/wvBevLt.jpg
producerslibrary.com

https://i.imgur.com/cfFEtkH.jpg
footagefarm.com

If we face food shortages in the future, yes we'll be eating ''nut burgers" which contain NO meat but does contain Velveeta cheese which is not cheese but a gross fake cheese milk product. Bon Appetite.
My fav is Faux Apple Pie. It contains no apples...but substitutes zucchini squash or crackers.

No apples in this treat:
http://www.ketovangelistkitchen.com/...de-300x239.jpg
Recipes dot com

How does that figure in to LA history??

Yea, it was scary in those Los Angeles days....I can remember.:yes:
This was an era in Los Angeles schools that I saw several of my classmates on crutches.....polio. Kids were mostly affected.