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https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...g?format=1500w Tin Can Beach.....just raw beachfront land. People would park off the highway and walk down to the sand and surf. Many stayed overnight and unfortunately left trash behind. |
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https://s26.postimg.org/wqc45y67t/Wind_Surf_L.jpg odinthor collection. or https://s26.postimg.org/ijwdaw349/Wasted.jpg odinthor collection. or https://s26.postimg.org/ldzioeag9/Hunt_B2.jpg odinthor collection. or https://s26.postimg.org/jap3g9d2x/Bolsa_Ch.jpg odinthor collection. Dedicated Noirishers will methinks go :???: . . . |
Hermosa, Manhattan, Shakespeare Beach, Moses Sherman, Eli Clark
OK, beach it is.
I saw this 1909 image on ebay: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...1=w628-h475-no Reverse: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9R...n=w866-h161-no details: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ck...1=w475-h472-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/aC...c=w364-h439-no Shakespeare Beach (a name I never heard as a child) has come up before in regards to this image posted by e_r: Quote:
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via your mention of Kim Fowley, I found out about a place that I hadn't heard of before (no doubt some of you have) The Malibu Corral. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/A79bsl.jpg www.lsb3.com "The Malibu Corral was a funky, wooden, one level structure painted green. It lay on the mountain side of the road, about half way up the highway, and had a large gravel/dirt parking area in front. It had a long bar and small dance floor and a stage about 8". At any given night the Corral would have hippies on acid and actors enjoying the atmosphere. Bikers having their beers and musicians sitting in or hanging out in the crowd." What a trip. The story goes: Fowley heard an obscure band, St John Green, at the Corral & envisioned a new style of music"—"The Canyon" sound. (referring to Topanga Canyon) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/zNIvnz.jpg St John Green was to become Fowley's muse as he wove a mystical tale about the 'Dark Shadows of the Canyon' and the 'Mysterious Canyon' people who had left the world behind to become one with nature." archive.is below: Publicity shot of St John Green during its time as Fowley's 'muse'. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/sUPB8J.jpg archive.is :previous: I'm pretty sure I see a cross through the trees. ...for some reason, this doesn't look like Topanga Canyon to me. (I'm thinking...maybe..somewhere near that little country church in Hollywood?) I really dig this 'mystical' photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/NOHtrV.jpg archive.is They're in someone's apartment holding up a lamp wrapped in a coat. (not quite what I was expecting ;)) Alas, St John Green made only ONE album. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/rtPE6N.jpgrare/ebay :previous: Yicks! the back cover looks more familiar. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Elpttp.jpgebay __ So here's the rub: There doesn't appear to be many photographs of the Malibu Corral online. I was hoping one of you might find additional photos of the place. (I just found that one photograph, twice) rub number #2 The location: "The Malibu Corral was on the mountain side of the road, about half way up the highway." :previous: That's all I got. :shrug: I would like to see what's there now; and if any remnants of the place have survived. (I believe it burnt down in 1973) any HELP would be appreciated...of course. __ |
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Are you referring to this elaborate foot bridge? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/K1wAp8.jpg detail / lol. ;) And what in Sam Blazes is this?? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/gYKr6s.jpg odinthor collection OK I'll wager a guess: Is it a left-over piece of infrastructure at Fort MacArthur? __ thanks for sharing these photographs odinthor. |
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You know me...I just had to have a closer look at the photo. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/LXm7JA.jpg :previous: Is that three pronged 'thingy' a decapitated tree painted white? (why would they paint it white?) Before I enlarged the photo I thought the prong-thingy was a nurse waving her arms in the air. (although I did wonder about her skinny neck ;) lol This is a great find as well. Quote:
__ PART TWO: While searching for additional information on Lomshier/Loamshire Hospital, I happened upon another hospital in the vicinity that I wasn't aware of. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/j6gJCS.jpg lapl / 1915-16 directory below: the hospital appears to have had an 'outpost' closer to the tourist area. (unless that is an entirely different hosp. :shrug:) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/XARLU1.jpg ditto I'm unfamiliar with Fredericks Station too. Here's an aerial of the former site at 2322 Superior Ave. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/0ikmJA.jpg google earth If I'm not mistaken, that triangular piece of land used to be an island (surrounded on all sides by canals), but I haven't found the right map to show if this is true or not. If true, that would place the hospital on a canal. cool __ |
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I grew up in Manhattan Beach. I lived and worked in Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo for most of my life. I know the Valley/Ardmore corridor where the railway tracks once were, and the surrounding topography, like I know the back of my own hand. The one key feature in this photo that caught my attention is the fairly steep grade of the hillside in the upper left corner of the photo. There simply is no hillside that steep anywhere near the corridor where the tracks once lay. The hills are all very gentle slopes. http://manhattanbeachhistorical.org/...hotos/O065.jpg "Circa 1912: Looking NE with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (AT&SF) railroad tracks stretching towards El Camino Real (Sepulveda Blvd.) near the intersection with Rosecrans Blvd." [source: Manhattan Beach Historical Society] http://manhattanbeachhistorical.org/...hotos/O031.jpg "Circa 1920s: Looking east on Marine Ave. near where Pacific Ave. crossed the Santa Fe railroad tracks. Note the absence of Valley Dr. and Ardmore Ave." [source: Manhattan Beach Historical Society] http://manhattanbeachhistorical.org/...hotos/O271.jpg "Circa 1927: Aerial photo of the Manhattan Beach from above Looking north from just south of First St." (The Standard Oil Refinery is in the upper right, and the rail lines leading to it are clear as day. No steep hillsides in sight.) [source: Manhattan Beach Historical Society] I have no doubt that the photo ER shared does not show Manhattan Beach. |
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More on the Bolsa Chica Gun Club:
https://s26.postimg.org/3w9emnyhl/Bolsa_Gun.jpg Los Angeles Times 10/19/1899 via ProQuest via CSULB Library I was going to add that, along with the fixed blind mentioned earlier, I also recall seeing what was evidently a moveable, wooden, one, on the site. If memory serves, it was painted a light, chalky, green. The article states that the external appearance of the clubhouse was not attractive. Yes, indeed: From a distance, sixty years after it was built, it looked to me just like a barn. ___ Edit add: https://s26.postimg.org/7coyceiqx/Bo...GS-photo_L.jpg The Bolsa Chica Gun Club in 1933; USGS Photo Library (slightly enlarged) |
[IMG]https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/emtHU2.jpg[/IMG] (interior shot of the decaying Vermont ave Presbyterian church 2017) old basketball in focus altar /rotting roof rafting in the background
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Originally Posted by Slauson Slim:
Trippy Sunset Blvd. film. The abandoned Pandora's Box at Sunset and Crescent Heights, girl selling LA Free Press, coffee house. Lots of good times on Sunset - Ben Frank's, Whisky, Fifth Estate, Sea Witch, The Trip, underground movies at cinematheque 16, Harry's Open Pit, sitting on the wall that used to be next to the Whisky watching life stroll by....being hassled once by Kim Fowley ..shows at the Palladium, Kaleidoscope, Ciro's/Hullaballoo.... * * * Great memories of the late 1960s and the Sunset Strip. We used to sell the Free (Freep) Press on the old Pandora's Box site for 15 cents, nine cents to the distributor (Mitch) and six cents to the seller. As soon as we got enough money, we went to Harry's Open Pit and got half a chicken with fries for 55 cents. Saw "Don't Look Back" at the Fifth Estate (or was it the Cinematheque 16?) |
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(This query is in reference to recent posts about a photograph that was taken back there.) |
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Here is Eddy's photograph in a more doable size.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/zcZYyl.jpg Interior shot of the decaying Vermont Ave Presbyterian Church 2017 (old basketball in focus altar /rotting roof rafting in the background) This is a really intriguing photograph Eddy so I take it the sanctuary was being used as a basketball court. (were there hoops?) If the roof had that much damage in 2007 I'm surprised there is still a roof ten years later! In a harsher climate (like I'm accustomed to :() only the walls would be left. __ Eddy has interior photographs of other dilapidated churches in L.A. that he plans to post on nla. Can anyone give him pointers on how to minimize the size of the photographs It depends on his web-hosting site, right? (I cheated & just used a screen-grab) Thanks _ |
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The name of the bar was 'The Corral', but most people knew it as the 'Topanga Corral' (and not the 'Malibu Corral', like that dude from st john green called it :hell: The snapshot below is from a blog named Topanga Corral (that has only two entries from back in 2011) looks like a dump https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/D4Lzgu.jpg tc.blog (check it out / there's a snapshot of George Harrison inside the place) As for the location... utter surprise https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VNPDVj.jpg topanga messenger "Topanga Mineral Springs, originally named Horshoe Bend Inn, was located on the plot of land near the big curve at Santa Maria Road. In the 1960s and ‘70s the site was home to Topanga’s famous rock and roll club, The Corral." from the topanga messenger Here's a better, and clearer, photograph when it was the Horseshoe Bend Inn. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/AyUPVz.jpg calisphere Perhaps we've seen this photograph before. (I remember talking about "Horseshoe Bend" some time ago on nla) __ side note: There is another photo of Topanga Mineral Springs that shows some sort of look-out point on the hill to the right (where those ropes are leading to in the pic above :previous:) but it's from the ucla archives and their site appears to be down tonight. maybe tomorrow. __nite all |
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