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Bill Putnam, sound engineer extraordinaire and founder of United/Western (and my one time boss) engineers a session at 6000 Sunset. Mr. Putnam recorded Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and many others in this room.
Can anyone identify the liquor bottle in the background? http://wwww.dkse.net/david/610_MT.2.jpg http://www.uaudio.com/about/our-story |
All from my personal collection:
Dean Martin listens to playback of a Christmas album at 6000 Sunset http://dkse.net/david/6000.Sunset/6000.Dean.jpg Bing Crosby in session at 6050 Sunset http://dkse.net/david/6000.Sunset/6000.Bing.jpg Frank Sinatra at 6000 Sunset http://wwww.dkse.net/david/6000.Sunset/6000.Sinatra.jpg Liza Minelli at 6000 Sunset http://dkse.net/david/6000.Sunset/6000.Liza.jpg Sammy Davis Jr. clowning around at 6000 Sunset http://dkse.net/david/6000.Sunset/6000.Sammy.jpg Johnny Mathis at 6000 Sunset http://dkse.net/david/6000.Sunset/6000.Mathis.jpg |
Which leads us to Peggy Lee...
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Stella Castellucci was a native of L.A. and a harpist of renown-- https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C...2520PM.bmp.jpgHarp in L.A. A bit of bio: "Stella Castellucci, a native of Los Angeles, CA, is part of a musical family tradtion. Her father, Louis Castellucci, was a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and [descended] from a family of Italian symphonic bandmasters.... Stella began in radio as staff musician for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in Hollywood, CA, at the age of 19. Afterwhich, she entered an eight year musical relationship with famed singer and actress, Miss Peggy Lee, where she played harp in jazz sextets and quintets that backed Miss Lee during tours throughout the US." (via Harp in L.A.) |
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A perfect example of what you're talking about Gaylord_Wilshire is the Fitzgerald House at 3115 W. Adams Street built in 1903. This is a tuck pointers' wet dream. http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/223...house3115w.jpg google street view http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/9...househisto.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fi...s_Angeles).jpg You know a house is in trouble when an owner can't afford to properly repair the windows. The beautiful arched window has been replaced by two small windows. What to do about the rest of the window? Just fill it in with cheap paneling. http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/8...housewindo.jpg detail below: Aerial view of the Fitzgerald House showing an apartment building next door to the west and an empty lot to the east which is now a part of the Fitzgerald property. http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/7...raldaerial.jpg below: The apartment building next door is late50s/early 60s kitsch. It is extremely close to the Fitzgerald and obviously brings down the value of the house. http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/3...aerialneig.jpg google street view ______ In the aerial above, the house with the diagonal sidewalk at 25th St. and Arlington Ave. was used as the Fishers' Home in 'Six Feet Under'. You can glimpse the roof of the Fitzgerald House on the left. http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/367...aerialneig.jpg google street view ______ |
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Not sure if Gracie ever finished the Castle in the Sky, but here she is partying hard with who else.........Bert Rovere! |
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;5516640]A perfect example of what you're talking about Gaylord_Wilshire is the Fitzgerald House at 3115 W. Adams Street built in 1903.
This is a tuck pointers' wet dream... I lived in apartment house just east of the empty lot on the corner of Arlington and West Adams...there was at that time, 1951, a wonderful old mansion where the empty lot is today...perhaps there is a picture of it in the archives. I remember wondering who lived there as the only folks I ever saw was a young man who would mow the lawn and tend the gardens. |
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The property to the east of the house wasn't always part of its lot--on it once stood a house belonging to members of the Joughin family, who owned large acreage in the area. The Fitzgerald house sat on a part of the Joughin tract. The corner steps and stone wall belonged to the original corner house; you'll notice that it doesn't extend past the original east property line of the Fitzgerald house. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View |
Fitzgerald and crime on Adams Street
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James T. Fitzgerald of the Fitzgerald Music Company moved into 3115 West Adams (then numbered 2315) sometime after July 3, 1904, which is when the above appeared in the Times. Within a few years Fitzgerald moved to South Pasadena, only to return in 1911 to the northwest corner of Adams and Western when he bought the Neustadt house (2445 S Western Ave) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...23151final.jpgLAT November 11, 1907 https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL More history of 3115: http://articles.latimes.com/2004/nov...cal/me-manor19 |
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Today Gaylord_Wilshire mentioned that the tract was owned by the Joughin family. Hopefully this clue will lead us to a photograph of the elusive manor. -fingers crossed- |
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http://www.westadamsheritage.org/ima...ds_mansion.jpg westadamsheritage.org http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...ewpark/cm1.jpg westadamsheritage.org http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...ewpark/cm2.jpg westadamsheritage.org ^ if that's the house you were thinking of, then, yes, for some reason there are almost no really good pics of it, & nothing of it in the usc digital library. that's surprising cuz it was one of the most impressive looking mansions in the adams section of LA. Its north & south sides had white columned porticos, sort of like a White House of LA. The LA unified school dist tore it down over 30 yrs ago in a notorious case of incompetency & negligence. |
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Joughins were listed at 3101 W Adams Street in 1909, 1915 and 1923 but then not in the 1926 CD or after; other family members built or moved to a house or were for some reason listed at 2320 West 25th Street, which backed up to 3101 W. Adams (never have been sure why Adams is numbered differently from the street one block north). https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...00/joughin.jpgGoogle Street View 2320 West 25th Street; the Auguste Marquis/Fisher & Sons funeral parlor (2302) is at left. Top four photos in quote were via LAPL |
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I know this is a really old post, but that grocery store is beautiful! Why can't they still be like this today?! |
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http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026100.jpgLAPL Harvard Hall (left) and Rugby Hall at the original Harvard School campus, Western at Venice, Los Angeles http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026099.jpgLAPL http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026101.jpgLAPL https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k...usenlarged.jpgHarvard-Westlake School Per the Harvard-Westlake site, some history: "Harvard School, a military school with 42 boys, was established in 1900 by Grenville C. Emery in a barley field at what is now the corner of Western Avenue and Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles. Mr. Emery received permission from Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University President, to use the Harvard name. "In 1911, Harvard School became a non-profit corporation when Mr. Emery transferred ownership to the Episcopal Church. By the mid 1920’s Harvard had outgrown its original campus. A plan to reestablish the school on a site near Westwood was abandoned because of the worsening Depression. With a $25,000 loan for down payment by aviation pioneer Donald W. Douglas, founder of Douglas Aircraft Company, the school moved to the defunct Hollywood Country Club on Coldwater Canyon in 1937 and became an independent, self-governing school. "The end of the ’60s saw dramatic changes in Harvard School. Boarding was discontinued and military training was dropped. In 1969, Christopher Berrisford became Harvard School’s first lay headmaster since Mr. Emery, and its enrollment surpassed 800 by 1987 when Thomas C. Hudnut became Headmaster. ..."In October 1989, the Boards of Trustees of the two schools agreed to merge the schools with Mr. Hudnut named as Harvard-Westlake’s first Headmaster. Full coeducation began in September 1991, with an enrollment approaching 1600, grades 7 - 9 at Westlake's North Faring Road location and grades 10 - 12 at Harvard's Coldwater Canyon campus. In the fall of 2008, an expanded and renovated Middle School campus opened at the North Faring Road location." Some might say that Grenville Emery's asking Charles Eliot for permission to use the Harvard name as an example of the need of a developing Los Angeles to legitimize itself with East Coast references. I'll never forget a line of Mrs. Smythe (formerly Smith) in that cinema classic Bright Eyes: "I'm very anxious to show [my sister] that we can do things exactly as well out here as they do in the east." There seems to be no trace of the Harvard campus on Western Avenue. |
Aerial view of Page Military Academy at 1201 S. Cochran Avenue. The road running left to right is San Vicente Boulevard.
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4...cademy1201.jpg LAPL below: Aerial dated 1915. http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8...1from1915t.jpg LAPL below: In this view the administration building is seen facing Cochran Avenue. The street at left is San Vicente Boulevard. Notice the cadets lined up in the training field. http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/436...cademyaeri.jpg LAPL The Page Military Academy was at this location from 1915 to 1958. below: In this aerial you can still make out the triangular outline of the military academy. http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/430...cademynowv.jpg google street view Today the site is the Villa Vicente Apartment Complex. http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/4...llavicente.jpg google street view |
This is how I first came across Page Military Academy:
I was searching old photographs for kites and came across this amazing photo. It seems an annual project at the academy was for the cadets to build an enormous kite. http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/8...aryacademy.jpg LAPL http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8...aryacademy.jpg LAPL |
......another year and an even LARGER kite...this time to be flown at what looks like Mines Field or perhaps another airport in the vicinity.
below: Assembling the parts. http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8...stakeapart.jpg LAPL ....almost there. http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8...stakeapart.jpg LAPL Viola! http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/911...antickitel.jpg LAPL It flies!! http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9...gem1g2lapl.jpg LAPL ____ |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL Well, if it isn't Felix the Cat... http://www.originalbombers.com/ob/wp...ol-640x480.jpgOriginal Bombers For years I told people I knew the man who came up with Fritz the Cat, an acquaintance named Fred Halliday, not knowing that he couldn't have since he was born after Fritz was "born." Turned out he wrote a ribald update of the Fritz character called "The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat" in the '70s. |
I remember that 'Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat'. I was just a little boy and couldn't understand how a cartoon could be x-rated.
I believe the ad showed 'Fritz'(a nasty doppelganger of Felix) smoking a big ol' stoagy.....at least I think it was a stoagy. lol |
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