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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Wikipedia Add a little color. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Ebay I'll finish with a picture of some priests on the steps of St. Vincent's College in 1911. The caption says "More than fifty priests are shown, along with a man at foreground center that appears to be a bishop." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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8601 Wilshire. NW Corner of Stanley and Wilshire. Now a high rise. Curious how long it lasted. The '48 Aerial indicates some sort of drive-in restaurant. By '56 the Winzit Investment Co. was at the address. http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...earch_doc=8601 Not to be confused with Delores', approx 1 block east, (Wilshire and Ledoux) which clearly lasted until the '70s early '80s. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yr4jSa2fy...22.18%2BAM.pnghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yr4jSa2fy...22.18%2BAM.png http://www.retrometrookc.org/wp-cont...California.jpghttp://www.retrometrookc.org/wp-cont...California.jpg http://www.retrometrookc.org/wp-cont...th%20notes.jpghttp://www.retrometrookc.org/wp-cont...th%20notes.jpg |
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Interesting archwork in the distance. Near the current El Coyote. Not to be confused with the former El Coyote on 105 La Brea. And the McDonnells at Beverly and La Brea. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=15975 Notice large structure in distance. Sure looks like Highland Ave storage (below). Covered here many times. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qb_fu5WPd4.../El-Coyote.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics18/00008708.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics18/00008708.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics18/00008788.jpg http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...od_Storage.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/Historical_...od_Storage.jpg |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/706/ex7g.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/577/htpz.jpg I thought you'd go there to buy chickens, not sell them. __ Thanks for the information on Chutes Park's neighbor St. Vincents College HossC. -much appreciated. |
This is rather small, but it's still a very cool view.
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whereabouts on Vine Street and Hollywood Blvd. -- people who had reminisced about them on other sites often posted conflicting information about them. I had looked a few things up in the city directories, but never posted about it--I was hoping to find another photo or two of the places, but since I haven't as yet: There were no Coffee Dan's listed as early as 1942, By 1956 there's several listed. Not only are there the ones we knew about on Vine St. and Hollywood Blvd., it appears there was a second one on the north side of Hollywood Blvd. at or near Cahuenga Blvd. at 6405. 1511 North Vine St. HO4-2290 6405 Hollywood Blvd. HO4-8449 6776 Hollywood Blvd. HO4-0667 Then there's the Wilshire Blvd. one that has been said to be built in 1948: 9561 Wilshire Blvd. BEV. HILLS CR5-1061 There's the two locations downtown that have been mentioned: 406 W. 8th St. TU-6784 452 S. Broadway MU-4808 There was another listed that I hadn't heard about before: (I believe Hoover Blvd. is somewhere around USC?) 3408 Hoover Blvd. RI8-9425 And listed as "offices" (Coffee Dan's, Inc.) was this location: 7972 Beverly Blvd. WE3-9291 By March of 1960 these were the only ones left: 6405 Hollywood Blvd. HO4-8449 6776 Hollywood Blvd. HO4-0667 3408 Hoover Blvd. RI8-9425 7972 Beverly Blvd. WE3-9291 A little over a year later (October '61) all of these places were gone. Which doesn't explain the following post with a photograph listed as 1966: Quote:
(6576 Van Nuys Blvd., on the east side of Van Nuys Blvd. between Victory and Vanowen.) Someone posted one of these youtube videos before...HossC I think. I believe it was the nighttime one, but I couldn't find the link right now. This video shows COFFEE DAN'S at 6776 Hollywood Blvd., near Highland, at night in 1961. It'll be on the left of the screen when they get to Highland Ave. You can see the neon sign arrows moving. Remember by October of '61 the directory does not have any Coffee Dan's listed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT3GcGqkZdw This video was taken during the day and is dated early 1950's. When the camera gets to Highland, coming from the oppsosite direction as the above video, before they turn North on Highland, on the right hand side you can see Coffee Dan's and the same neon lights at the intersection during the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ANs...0HH-C2&index=9 Boron By the way, with all the posts about Boron a few days ago, I noticed in the 1960 photo of Coffee Dan's above, on the left you can see a partial Richfield billboard advertising Boron. Looks like it's "new and improved." |
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Location currently occupied by Albertsons Wedding Chapel. In house catering? :rolleyes: "Where friendships are renewed." (How about started?) http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...3db737b997.jpghttp://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...3db737b997.jpg |
That giant percolator-shaped Ben-Hur coffee stand is amazing! I knew L.A. has always been known for this sort of thing, but such a tribute to caffeine I have never seen.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/703/p35r.jpg I tried to locate this vantage point, but I didn't have much luck. __ |
I just received the new Criterion Blu-Ray edition of the 1963 comedy classic It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Included in the package is a filming location map and legend covering Southern California. Enjoy! :)
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:previous: That's a really fun map Lwize. Thanks for scanning (and posting) it for us.
Your next assignment is to find each of these locations and post a photograph. :) I've never watched It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World from beginning to end. A quarter of the way into it my brain just wants to explode. |
As most of you know I can't resist a roof-top sign, this one has a giant watch.
Imperial Market 600 S. Vermont (no date) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/59/xanb.jpg old cd of mine/ |
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Several years ago, a couple of pals and I were driving around an historical enclave off West Adams and came across an atmospheric old "Southern Gothic" mansion in disrepair; peeling paint, sagging shutters etc. I got out of the car to snap a couple of photos, and as soon as I raised the camera, an angry woman's voice yelled out from behind a dark-screened window, "Don't be takin' no pictures, get off my property!" I replied that I was on the sidewalk, not on her property, and just wanted a photo to make a drawing from. She wasn't having it! I took one picture, and she yells "Okay, I'm comin' out! I got back in the car and we drove off a couple of blocks to look at more houses. Suddenly she comes screeching up the street in her car and boxes us in, angrily shouting accusations, "How dare you!" etc. I profusely apologized to get her to calm down (privately thinking "this woman is insane.") She too demanded to know, "How would I feel if someone came to my neighborhood and took a picture of my house??!!" and I too thought I would be just fine and dandy if someone wanted a photo of my house. No problem. The logic of thinking that photographing a building or house is an "invasion of privacy" escapes me. She eventually calmed down and left, but it was scary for a few moments there. We all had a good laugh after she she drove away, but I later castigated myself for "defiantly" snapping that picture, because she could've had a vicious dog or a gun. I had antagonized a walking time bomb who was looking for a target for her rage. She also may have had something to hide...a drug operation, or whatever. I've wondered what that house looks like now...and just may return to photograph it again, from a moving car! |
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The first two photos above are of Chutes Park in San Francisco (see photos at Calisphere, for example: http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030...nb29b-FID4.jpg). The last photo is ID'd at LAPL as a 1930s Schultheis shot of Pacific Ocean Park (http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics06/00022638.jpg). LAPL has another image of the ride when it cost 25 cents and is ID'd as Ocean Park Pier 1957: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original LAPL - http://jpg1.lapl.org/00096/00096916.jpg And here's a complete, but smaller, version of the photo you posted earlier (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...tcount=19226): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original California State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...AV6YHUKMTT.jpg |
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