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'Noirish' view taken from the hills of Griffith Park, showing a 'cone of light' emanating from the Los Angeles Coliseum.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/24sftV.jpg eBay Navy-Day Victory Celebration, 10-27-1945. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...901/C7Ddha.jpg eBay -sorry to say, but it reminds me of this: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...912/FwPRf6.jpg http://riowang.blogspot.com/2012/11/before-storm.html |
Here's another intriguing photograph I recently came across on eBay.
Heavy Rain, Los Angeles 1927 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/u6OC9q.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1927-Vintage...item25a7c16966 Does anyone recognize this street? A closer view- http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/QjAOmk.jpg detail from http://www.ebay.com/itm/1927-Vintage...item25a7c16966 __ |
Greystone and Sunset Strip
I went to a vintage car show last month at Greystone. Besides the fabulous cars, the mansion was open for touring top to bottom. I got scolded for taking photos inside, tho everybody else was too.
This spiral staircase leads down from the children’s wing to the adult playroom... http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../staircase.jpg It has a bar- a wooden panel pulls down to hide it- with it closed it looks just like the other paneling in the room. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...20playroom.jpg The bowling alley http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ng%20alley.jpg The billiard table http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/poolroom.jpg A section of the kitchen. There’s a complete second smaller kitchen upstairs, above it, near the children’s rooms. I guess Nanny could make them snacks up there without having to troop all the way downstairs. They’re connected by a dumbwaiter. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/kitchen2.jpg The police spotlight on one of Greystone’s chimneys. Apparently before radios in cars, HQ could signal red or green to patrolmen in the vicinity and they’d know to report in. The upstairs windows are for Ned Doheny’s room. The lower ones are for the murder room (where, the day I was there a vendow was selling really nice motorcycle clothing). http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/chimney1.jpg From a distance. It's the nearer one. The larger chimney group is the living room. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/chimney.jpg The greenhouse http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...greenhouse.jpg A 1926 Rolls Royce Lady and a 1931 Cadillac lady. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../rollshood.jpghttp://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...odornament.jpg Earlier that morning I photographed some buildings on Sunset near Doheny Rd. I hadn’t meant to do a then-and-now, it just worked out that way. Here's looking up Sunset toward the white moderne building at 9169. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...et-doheny2.jpg Similar view c. 1949 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...doheney-49.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104378.jpg Looking the other way. The building on the left used to be where the Cock n' Bull was. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ny%20split.jpg how it looked in 1930s with the bare poinsettia field. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...nBull-1937.jpg I can't find the link. I'm sure this is an LAPL collection. 9100 block now. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...4_BURST002.jpg c. 1938 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0in%201937.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101537.jpg The Crosby Building, 9028, and a glimpse of the 1957 soon-to-be-demolished building built for Scandia restaurant at 9040. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0building3.jpg A close up http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...by-closeup.jpg Same, c. 1938 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...rosby%2037.jpg http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics18/00018870.jpg The noirish back of the building http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ng-%20rear.jpg Then it was off to Dupar's before heading to the show. |
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Thank you for the shots of Greystone. When the AFI was headquartered there we pretty much had the run of the place. It's good to see it again. Your 'then & nows' were terrific too. |
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Very intering posts, Noircitydame and tovangar2. Thanks. ------------ I found this 1933 picture on eBay a couple of nights ago. As the caption says, Joe de la Cruz is shown with a 1911 Ford which spent 18 years in storage in Mexico City before he drove it to Los Angeles. I had a quick look at 1232 East 9th Street (now East Olympic Boulevard), but couldn't recognize any buildings. The car must have been nearly opposite the Morgan, Walls & Clements designed Gotfredson Truck Corporation showroom at 1235 East Olympic. GaylordWilshire wrote about that building in post #17994. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eDeLaCruz1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eDeLaCruz2.jpg eBay |
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Looks like it might be the "Mariposa Ravine" we've see here before-- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics19/00019252.jpg From post 5866 |
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ER discovered this a while back-- I think there were follow-ups, but any further searching on the pages just after his post bring up a "phishing scam" alert on my computer. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1607 |
Yes, but tovanger2's post was much more informative than mine.
I didn't realize the Perelson home was so close to the Ennis House. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/B8VXdE.jpg and this is, indeed, spooky. original posted by t2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/mNMr03.jpg http://mylabucketlist.com/2012/09/24...z-bucket-list/ *I just noticed T2 deleted her post. :( |
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Sorry e_r. |
I hope you reconsider t2. There was no comparison between your post and mine. You actually included research in your post.
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Perelson Case
With apologies to e_r and sopas ej:
The Perelson case is one of those crimes that people get obsessed with (although nothing like on the scale of the Black Dahlia). Dr Harold Perelson, 50, (originally from New York) lived with his wife Lillian, a 42-year-old Buckeye, and their children: Judye, 18, Joel, 13, and Debbie, 11, in a 5,000 sq ft Spanish-style home at 2475 Glendower Place in Los Feliz. (Finished basement with servants' quarters, high-ceilinged main floor, 4bd/3ba upstairs and a ballroom on the third floor.) It was built for $20K in 1925, designed by Henry A Weiner. As one can see from the map the property runs from Glendower Place to Glendower Avenue with Frank Lloyd Wright's much larger Ennis House across the avenue: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...35804%2BPM.jpg gsv On 6 December 1959, after his family went to bed, and for reasons not entirely clear, Dr Perelson elected to bludgeon his wife to death in their bed. Daughter Judye, apparently hearing the commotion, entered her parents' room and was also attacked with the same ball-peen hammer that her father had just used to kill her mother. Judye escaped and, covered in blood, ran down the hill to the next-door neighbors at No. 2471. The younger children, investigating their sister's screams were told by their father to go back to bed as it was only a nightmare. The alarmed neighbor from No. 2471 ran up the hill to the Perelson house, encountered the agitated and blood-soaked doctor and told him to go lie down. Dr Perelson obeyed but drank a glass of acid before lying down and dying next to his wife: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-D...70347%2BPM.jpg The couple were buried next to each other with matching headstones at Home of Peace (a misnomer in this case) Cemetery in Whittier: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u...83631%2BPM.jpg find a grave The children were taken away by out-of-state relatives. So far so good. It's the next bit that's the weird part. The home was sold with contents intact (I hope somebody at least threw the murder bed out), in a probate auction some months after the murder/suicide, to Emily and Julian Enrique of Lincoln Heights. Without much disturbing the Perelson's belongings, the Enriques stored some filing cabinets in the home, but never stayed there. Son Rudy Enrique, a retired music store manager from Mount Washington, inherited in 1994 and continued as his parents had. He has said he has no interest in selling the house or using it either (Zillow now values it at $4.1 million). The only maintenance done has been in response to city complaints (the exasperated neighbors also banded together to paint the curbside garage). After 56 years, there's so much water damage, the house would need gutting and a new interior at the very least to make it habitable again, but it's now probably a tear-down. Views through the uncurtained windows show a spooky tableau of mid-century family life where 1960 never arrived: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U...74130%2BPM.jpg mylabucketlist The Enrique's filing cabinets keeping company down in the basement with Mrs. Perelson's hand washing: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-F...15853%2BAM.jpg mylabucketlist I'm not sure what happened to the children. Some are convinced that Judye is now Judith Hendler, the acrylic jewelry designer of some renown, based in Huntington Beach. My interest is in what happens next. Rudy Enrique is up in his 80s now. Unless he has an heir to carry on the odd family tradition, there's going to be some changes, at last, at 2475 Glendower Place: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-g...71626%2BPM.jpg gsv jan 2015 More info: LAT VICE I AM NOT A STALKER My LA Bucket List the hundreds the irony supplement laist Many more on google. This one's all over the net. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... UPDATE: The house for sale: http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/29/11322...z-murder-house The house sold on 18 July 2016 for $2,289,500. MASSES of photos of the now empty house are here: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/24...20809000_zpid/ Gloria Allred's daughter buys the Los Feliz "Murder House": http://www.latimes.com/business/real...nap-story.html Pix of the interior before it was emptied: http://la.curbed.com/2016/4/4/113634...r-house-inside |
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We're 1460 pages in, so we're bound to get repeats, especially with some sparsely captioned posts and a weak search facility. I know that I've been guilty of not properly captioning pictures, repeating subjects and pointing out other people's repetition, so I hope I come out even :). I can think of several occasions when a subject has received much better attention the second time around, and even those that don't can act as a good reminder to topics that have been forgotten. Personally, I have no recollection of knowing the great story of 2475 Glendower Place before today. |
I just found out Edward Fickett's mid-century modern Scandia Restaurant with it's 'Rat-Pack' cool chalet-style swagger was torn down last week. :( (on June 9th I believe)
It took about an hour. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/p1XEQj.jpg gsv 1970s http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/jYypVi.jpg http://martinostimemachine.blogspot....set-strip.html 1960s http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/hwWmtL.jpg http://www.oldlarestaurants.com/scandia/ Say Goodbye to the Scandia Building http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/i...ndia-building/ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/jSGM2h.jpg http://martinostimemachine.blogspot....set-strip.html |
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Excellent post on Greystone Manor & Sunset NoirCityDame!
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Thanks for sharing your pics NCD. |
Shopping center in Encino at 4922 Balboa & Ventura Boulevard, Monday evening, January 23rd 1961.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/H8MuDp.jpg http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2...omment-page-1/ The shopping center pretty much has the same configuration today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/9Jxdtf.jpg gsv |
"This remarkable photograph from a Keystone Kops silent film made around 1918 shows Los Angeles Railway "Maggies" nos. 1 and 7." -Ralph Cantos
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/N89Juk.jpg http://www.pacificelectric.org/los-a...y-nos-1-and-7/ Looking south on Douglas Street from just above Ridge Way. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/1LFSRa.jpg gsv Surprisingly, we haven't seen much of the Keystone Kops on NLA. This is the only previous post I could find, and it's from 5 years ago! Quote:
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While looking for the location of the sepia Keystone Kops photograph, I noticed this interesting house at 1417 Ridge Way.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/8vKWFe.jpg gsv It was built in 1912. has a wonderful little balcony http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/lK3ort.jpg detail This is Angelino Heights so there are many such houses. |
The Swenson Motel at 88th and S Figueroa Streets. The City Directories give the exact address as 8803 S Figueroa Street.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nsonMotel1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nsonMotel2.jpg eBay Here's 8803 S Figueroa Street today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...llMoonInn1.jpg GSV Zooming in, it looks like the Full Moon Inn is the same building with a few small modifications. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...llMoonInn2.jpg GSV |
The Stuart K Oliver house, which's popped up here before a number of times, gets a nice little write-up by Nathan Masters as part of the "LA as Subject" series: http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/last-house-standing-on-bunker-hill.html
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