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Just because: Here's a close-up of the Wilcox Hotel as seen in the Hollywood Diorama that toured the country from 1946-48 to give people an idea of what the city of Hollywood looked like. (I've mentioned it on NLA before.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...PG?format=500wAprilClemmer There are photos of the diorama at this LINK. FYI: The Hotel Wilcox building is still there as the Mama Shelter. (The art-deco Hollywood Post Office is across the street.) In 2015 Mama Shelter opened, a "hip hotel, restaurant and bar destination in Hollywood which [...] includes 70 hotel rooms which start around $150 each and include amenities like iMac computers in every room and fun, youthful décor (designed by Philippe Starck) and things like message boards above the fireplace and Hollywood-centric movie scripts included in guest rooms. The ground floor includes a bar, full-service restaurant (with food by Benjamin Bailly) and a coffee shop selling Intelligentsia products. The rooftop features another restaurant/bar as well as an outdoor gym." --LINK. The area is rapidly changing: The intersection of Selma and Wilcox has seen the opening of the Dream and the French-based Mama Shelter hotels (mentioned above) in the last few years. An under construction Thompson Hotel is slated to rise two doors south of the Mama Shelter on Wilcox. About a half-block to the north, on Wilcox near Hollywood Boulevard, the 134-room Whisky Hotel is in the works. In 2019 the City Council approved plans to build an eight-story hotel at Selma and Wilcox Avenues (the Selma Wilcox Hotel). The Hollywood Citizen News building next door to Mama Shelter (Hotel Wilcox), a 1936 view: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/t4dW...ISC_1936_5.jpgCurbedLA A more recent view: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...N+Pic+EDIT.JPGMiramarCapital The building is set to be transformed into restaurants and events space. |
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My parents weren't drinkers but on the rare occasion they did imbibe it was always the old standby, 7 & 7. (Seagram's 7 Crown Whiskey and 7-UP) Complimentary soap from the Wilcox Hotel. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/Uk2hT6.jpg I was surprised the address of the Wilcox Hotel isn't on Wilcox but on Selma Avenue. But I should have known because the entrance to the hotel is on Selma. (SHOWN BELOW - ON THE RIGHT) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/tvIEGq.jpg detail Look right up there :previous:................................................................................................................ . |
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As for going to the Hollywood Canteen, I'm afraid these boys missed out. It wasn't to open for another month...October 3, 1942. Quote:
They could have visited the Hollywood USO club on Cahuenga Blvd. at that time, however. The Hollywood USO opened on February 2, 1942, until June of 1943, when it moved to a second location a block or two south on the west side of Cahuenga. The original location was on the second floor of the building on the southeast corner of Hollywood & Cahuenga Blvds., entrance on Cahuenga (if it's the same 1943 address as now it's 1654 Cahuenga.), so the photo below is its second location. 1531 Cahuenga. https://i2.wp.com/martinturnbull.com...87%2C355&ssl=1 |
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Maybe that's them standing in front, the cameraman the 4th buddy. I sure hope they got "lucky" with Barbara Stanwyck or Paulette Goddard. Charlie wouldn't have minded. |
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but there's an obvious PROBLEM with this scenario: Were cameras with self-timers commercially available in the 1940s? :shrug: Before I beat the Wilcox Hotel to death https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/711/hImCoG.gif I just realized the Wilcox Hotel is in this noirish photograph from 1937. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/jAePY4.jpg martinturnbull :previous: That's the Wilcox Hotel on the left. ....We're looking north on Wilcox just before Selma. Hollywood Blvd. is in the distance. (the two lighted towers are atop the Warners Theater) . . .as most of you already know. re: the noirish photo....."All we need is a trench coat, a set of brass knuckles, and a dame with a secret, and we’re all set.".....Martin Turnbull . |
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There's a good chance the three buddies also visited Long Beach. The following three snapshot were listed on eBay by the seller who listed the Wilcox Hotel photograph and, like the Wilcox Hotel photo, they're dated 1942. One of them (the third one, below) has writing on the reverse that appears to match the writing on the back of the Wilcox Hotel snapshot. #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/YbZcUJ.jpg ebay A closer look at #1. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/QXKKcr.jpg detail That's a nifty liquor store built in front of a house. #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/CUMg65.jpg ebay This is my favorite of the three. #3 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Ia3pzk.jpg ebay I don't recognize this Hilton as being in long Beach. . but this is the one that has writing on the back & it does, in fact, say Long Beach. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/pi4MU4.jpg A closer look at #3 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/lH3PVo.jpg detail . |
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The Hilton Hotel was one of the names that The Breakers Hotel at 210 E Ocean Boulevard has gone by over the years. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds GSV |
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The "Bulk Wine" sign most likely belonged to Benjamin Krupinsky's Liquor store at 345 E Ocean. It shared an address with Milton P Skinner's postage stamp business. |
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https://i.imgur.com/XWOHSID.jpg Self-timers were first marketed to the general public during the WWI era; the image below, touting this “newest” device, is from either 1916 or 1917 (the exact printing date of this brochure is up for debate): https://i.imgur.com/YkvhkBQ.jpg Self-timers became ubiquitous with the general public in the early 1930s - early enough that the lads in the above photo certainly could have used one. This is the oldest self-timer that I own - a Polaroid #192 from 1963: https://i.imgur.com/bfmuJby.jpg It still functions perfectly! |
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bonanzastatic The so-called 7~7 was a popular drink in that era and still going in the 1960s. |
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