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re: Bohemian Gardens.
I can't thank you enough for the your insightful post Flyingwedge The sanborn maps were fascinating. (as usual) First of all I have to confess. I always thought the Selig Zoo was located inside Eastlake/Lincoln Park. (I should have known better since it was privately owned) But I'm still confused about a couple other things. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/2OyzCk.jpg Quote:
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/plr3Dt.jpg But the house appears in a different spot in the sanborns. (unless I'm looking at it cockeyed) that said, I think the area shown in the top photograph is the area I've marked in yellow below. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/t24VV7.jpg that is until I looked at this aerial again. (this is exhausting) I don't see the paned windows in the building on the right. (I'm pretty sure those are huge doors hanging on a rail) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/WjKcK2.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/bBqbSH.jpg BUT it's definitely the same house that's outlined in the sanborn map (even though it's facing a different way.) In the sanborn, the porch is facing the building and the turret is in the back. They must have turned it when they built the building next door. If I had to make a guess, I'd say the building on the right was renovated at some point. (it was built between 1920 and 1924). So yes, this could be the same spot shown in the top photo. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Now let's look at the photographs that were taken closer to the earthen mound that show the fort-like structure. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/JpcLZC.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/QunxYT.jpg I'm almost certain the photographs were taken in the area shown below in yellow. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/li9LdI.jpg But after ALL THIS we still don't know which building was the Bohemian Gardens, right? (or did I miss that part? lol Here's a far-flung possibility: perhaps Bohemian Gardens was in the old Selig Administration Building (Mission Inn) with parking behind the building. That would at least place the cars in the location(s) shown in the photographs. SIDE NOTE: Were the two building with orange dots candidates for the nightclub FW? (is that the reason you put dots on them?) __ |
Thanks for the response to the church slides GaylordWilshire, Handsome Stranger and LA KITTY KAT. meow
Before I call it a night here are two more slides. "Vtg 1953 3D Stereo Slide LOS ANGELES Street Scene WILSHIRE BLVD Hotel STATLER" #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/921/29oH3h.jpg ebay Dayum...that's some scooter. #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/okSPLH.jpg ebay Good night folks! |
ER, I'm enthralled by that Flying A Service sign opposite the Statler...but where the heck is the gas station? https://s3.amazonaws.com/pix.iemoji.com/andr33/1818.png
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He is buried in the Angelus Abbey Memorial Park in Compton. Find a Grave indicates that his address at the time of his death was 1497 Henderson Street in Long Beach. That site indicates that he was retired at the time of his death. His widow lived until 1961.[/QUOTE] This morning I find more about the Plumb family. Apparently Elwood and Bertha were divorced prior to his death. Bertha, who was apparently a practical nurse, is found in the 1930 Census, listed as being divorced, and living as a boarder with a couple named Richardson at 8274 Marmont in Los Angeles. There are no records which show when they were divorced. Bertha then appears in a voter registration in Tracy, California in 1934 where she was working as a clerk. |
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Looks like it must have been just a parking lot with a pump for its customers, not a full-fledged station.... https://s22.postimg.cc/7xqjz5bj5/san...lerw_Fly_A.jpg |
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He is buried in the Angelus Abbey Memorial Park in Compton. Find a Grave indicates that his address at the time of his death was 1497 Henderson Street in Long Beach. That site indicates that he was retired at the time of his death. His widow lived until 1961.[/QUOTE] This morning I find more about the Plumb family. Elwood and Bertha were divorced in South Dakota prior to 1925. They had a daughter, Carol Joy, who was born in 1917 and died in 1922 in South Dakota. Bertha, who was apparently a practical nurse, is found in the 1930 Census, listed as being divorced, and living as a boarder with a couple named Richardson at 8274 Marmont in Los Angeles. Bertha then appears in a voter registration in Tracy, California in 1934 where she was working as a clerk. |
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I found a thorough account of the Statler here: https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com...mic-age-hotel/ which included this exterior shot which shows a couple of gas pumps but no actual station. It looks to be fairly close, time-wise to the 1953 shot posted by e_r. https://i.imgur.com/6ebiCe3.jpg?1 "Dick" Whittington/USC Another view showing the Flying A sign and St. Pauls Cathedral https://i.imgur.com/ZdtmZe2.jpg?1 Examiner/USC |
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An earlier Associated Oil sign is visible here: https://s22.postimg.cc/46m1ahmc1/sta...edsign.bmp.jpg This may be a rendering made between the ASSOCIATED sign and the round Flying A one, or the round one lasted but a minute...anyway, you can see the pumps... https://s22.postimg.cc/w6q4umsbl/statlerpumps.bmp.jpg Both USCDL And a couple more... With the round Flying A sign and the pumps... https://s22.postimg.cc/dm6i0wyq9/statler4.jpg There was yet another Flying A sign in the view of the hotel as the Statler Hilton.... https://s22.postimg.cc/o90b6gh75/statler3.jpg Both LAPL |
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GaylordWilshire and Bristolian, many thanks for the follow-up on that Flying A sign. I've never heard of branded gas pumps at a public parking lot, with no attached gas station. Very interesting! I wonder how common or uncommon such a setup was. The Associated Oil sign intrigues me too. I did a little online reading and learned that in 1938 Associated Oil merged with Tidewater Petroleum, the parent company of Flying A.
AlvaroLegido and CityBoyDoug, that's definitely a questionable list of film noirs. (Or is it films noir?) I can accept Sunset Blvd as film noir. The Third Man is kind of iffy. But Rebecca? Nuh-uh! "My, my, my! Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! You know, you're the second guy I've met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail." |
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The Julian Oil Company built the first filling station on the corner in 1923 There was a regular Associated station on the corner--addressed 625 S Figueroa—in the '48 directory. The Statler must have bought the property to create parking for itself, leaving an island in place.... |
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I would say these two photos do indeed show the same cars, check out the three just below the letters "image" on the watermark: one vehicle is on its side, one upside down, and the next right side up, from north to south on the east side of the parking lot: https://imageshack.com/i/pmKU7bRwj https://imageshack.com/i/po1EDkAlj |
For me, film noir involves a rejection of the idealism of earlier films. In noir, nobody is really innocent. Even the best people are deeply flawed. People who are not career criminals think they can solve their problems with a crime, just this once. As Sterling Hayden says in "The Killing," "They've all got a little larceny in 'em."
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