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Handsome Stranger Oct 5, 2018 2:09 AM
Has this house been discussed here previously? 947 N. Martel Avenue. I just found out about it.

https://i.postimg.cc/CL2qJ2rb/k01b.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Vs3GTKhP/k02.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/4xG84mZ8/k04.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/Qx14rpL9/k03.jpg

It was commissioned by actor Wallace Beery, who asked architect William Kesling to design something that would "encompass the concept of flight." The house was built in 1936 and Beery owned it for less than a year. (He doesn't strike me as someone who might have an appreciation for Streamline Moderne architecture.)

The house is reportedly one of just 15 Kesling-designed residences still standing in Los Angeles. The current owner is a "developer" who submitted plans to the city to build a 17-unit condo complex on the property and an adjacent site.

Fortunately, the city’s cultural heritage commission just this week approved an application for historic-cultural landmark status for the house. So it might not be torn down after all.

I know this neighborhood fairly well; I frequently drive down many nearby streets as shortcuts. But apparently I've never driven on this block of Martel because I never knew this house existed.

CityBoyDoug Oct 5, 2018 2:20 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by rentatrip (Post 8336364)
------I worked on the Wright Flyer (built by Jack Lambie) used in the Film, THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
(starring Stacey and Jimmy Keach) , after the shoot, we sort of rebuilt it , out at "Planes of Fame"
in Anaheim ,that would have been Autumn of 1971.... I helped build the Wright / Valentine Model B
AKA Yellow Bird , the Valentine Wright machine was used in the AT&T film , WINDS OF KITTY HAWK
http://www.wright-b-flyer.org/wp-con...c2-300x211.jpg
Planes of Fame:

Located in: Chino Airport
Address: 14998 Cal Aero Drive, Chino, CA 91710

Godzilla Oct 5, 2018 3:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 8336421)
Has this house been discussed here previously? 947 N. Martel Avenue. I just found out about it.

https://i.postimg.cc/CL2qJ2rb/k01b.jpg


It was commissioned by actor Wallace Beery, who asked architect William Kesling to design something that would "encompass the concept of flight." The house was built in 1936 and Beery owned it for less than a year. (He doesn't strike me as someone who might have an appreciation for Streamline Moderne architecture.)


. . . . .


I know this neighborhood fairly well; I frequently drive down many nearby streets as shortcuts. But apparently I've never driven on this block of Martel because I never knew this house existed.



While Beery may not fit the archetype, he was a pilot as well as an actor. This might explain his interest in streamlined design.


https://dmairfield.com/people/ranald...lace_Beery.jpg https://dmairfield.com/people/ranald...lace_Beery.jpg






Currently unable to locate the post or posts, but I believe we have seen another Beery/Kesling - streamline gem located at 754-756 N. Harper Avenue. (Waring and Harper)



https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8c/b3...083d4ec96b.jpghttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/8c/b3...083d4ec96b.jpg

sadykadie2 Oct 5, 2018 5:45 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8335412)
After merging several frames together, the task becomes easier.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ookerJump1.jpg

Here's as close as I could get in Google Maps.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ookerJump2.jpg
Google Maps

I think the jump took place where I've arrowed. The top of the St James Apartments appears on the far left of the framegrabs.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ookerJump3.jpg
Google Maps

The jump roof belongs to the Cameo Hotel at 504 S Bonnie Brae Street.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ookerJump4.jpg
GSV
Dang, Hoss YOU ROCK!:worship:

Scott Charles Oct 5, 2018 7:57 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by rentatrip (Post 8335996)
Well let us just say that I am probably one of a dozen people
who has actually worked on construction of two different WRIGHT
Brothers Vintage Aircraft / and I have flown hang gliders since
1971 ...........
That is so cool! I say this as a major, life-long aviation fan, as well as an admirer of the Wright Brothers.

Of course, as with so many other things, my real interest in planes begins to wane somewhere in the 1950s. The old propjob planes were so unique and beautiful. And then the jets came along, and they all kind of looked the same (in my opinion, of course).

Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8335997)
I remember seeing Heather Locklear going up the outside escalator at the Beverly Center...as I was going down. Talk about craning one's neck. She was so very pretty.
I met her once while she was filming Melrose Place. She was drop dead gorgeous. For some reason I had never thought she was all that great looking on TV, but in person..! An absolute knockout.

She was really, really sweet, too. Very friendly, and without a sign of any “star attitude”.

BillinGlendaleCA Oct 5, 2018 9:14 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8335997)
:previous: That's soooo cool! I am duly impressed.



For awhile it was on METV...and I caught a couple episodes. (I never watched the series when it was first broadcast)...but my cable company dropped METV. :hell:

I remember seeing Heather Locklear going up the outside escalator at the Beverly Center...as I was going down. Talk about craning one's neck. lol
She was so very pretty. I feel sad for her now that she's going through some really rough times. I hear she was, and probably still is, very sweet.
Addiction (if that's the cause) is tough to overcome.

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I've known for a number of years that Heather and I were at UCLA at the same time, but there were 30,000 students at UCLA then. What I didn't know until about a year ago, is that she grew up in Thousand Oaks(given the news about her in the past year or so I knew she lived there now). She graduated from Newbury Park High School, so using the detective skills that I've honed at this here website, I deduced that she must have gone to Colina Intermediate school, where I also went to school. She's a year younger than I, and my 8th grade yearbook has a picture of a 12 yo Heather Locklear. I don't remember her, but I do remember having her sister in some of my classes(same grade as me).

Bristolian Oct 5, 2018 2:53 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8336238)
I had a look at the opening credits to TJ Hooker for nostalgia purposes, and spotted the jump just a few seconds in:

• Video Link
Hoss, Great work figuring out the episode and the location of the jump!

For double extra credit, can you figure out where William Shatner bought his hairpiece?

odinthor Oct 5, 2018 3:41 PM
I'm finding these Kesling structures very aesthetically pleasing. :tup:

Just thought I'd say that.

That is all. Carry on.

SHERIFFPAUL Oct 5, 2018 6:03 PM
William Kesling’s Skinner House
 
William Kesling’s Skinner House, 1530 Easterly Terrace Silver Lake streamline moderne and Los Angeles historic monument.

This 1930’s architecture is a late version of the Art Deco style with its curving forms and long horizontal lines. The 1937 Skinner house is a 3 bedroom 2 bath home on a a 4,999sf lot in the Hills of Silver Lake South of the Reservoir. The living space is just over 2,000sf and displays many of the classic StreamlineModernearchitectural features. Interestingly, it is mirrored by the Vanderpool House next door that was built one year earlier.

https://assets.site-static.com/userF...c-monument.jpg

Photo courtesy of LA Property Solutions

Flyingwedge Oct 6, 2018 3:14 AM
:previous: The second photo at this link shows a partial view of the Skinner Home under construction.

ethereal_reality Oct 6, 2018 5:50 AM
A glimpse inside a pre-Prohibition bar in Los Angeles.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/JDXmJ9.png
EBAY


The name of the bar and an address is written in pencil on the back.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/6ATadV.jpg
search purposes: 7/6/06 B & L Bar. 425 So. Spring St. closed 1919

When I first came across the photograph I checked the city directories. I found no evidence of a B & L Bar at that location. :shrug:


The star n' stripes bunting is, no doubt, still hanging because the 4th of July Holiday. [two days before the photo was taken]

Did patriotic decorations, back at the turn of the last century, include evergreen cuttings? If you look closely, there are cuttings on the light fixture(s).

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/cWrKI4.jpg

Photograph taken by: Pierce & Co. at 127 W. Sixth Street, Los Angeles Calif.

EBAY

ethereal_reality Oct 6, 2018 6:11 AM
A Pasadena 'mystery'.

Does anyone know the where-abouts of a Glen Rosa park?

This spiral hedge at 'Glen Rosa', in Pasadena, was only one of several cypress bowers representing occult symbols in the park.
The hedge shown below, is 156 feet in circumference. The outer edge of the hedge is only three feet high and rises to nine feet in the center.
In the center of the spiral is a young Monterey pine."

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/BCHweQ.jpg
found in an old file of mine - source unknown

I am very intrigued by this. What kind of park has 'occult' symbols? :shrug:

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Beaudry Oct 6, 2018 6:20 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 7053912)
So, there should be no argument that Maidens of Fetish Street AKA Girls on F Street is a weird, terrible, wonderful picture—described in a review here—and note, if you will that in the accompanying video, at 1:04, there's the stained glass of The Castle. It's not the only Bunker Hill reference, later on the narrator makes a point of saying the "House of Fetish" is up on the Hill, first mentioning that our protagonist Nick takes the Flight:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8896/1...0acc8a89_z.jpg(all screen grabs, from Maidens, SWV)

This is the Angels Flight...that ascends and descends countless times daily...where the angels fear to tread, the flight that is incapable of surmounting the plight of our human misery. Where this hill has never budged and bridged the border of the ravaged slum with all its potent and stomach turning smells, when each individual's flight to the top of the hill never seems to leave behind his despaired hopes and disillusioned agonies. Nick is no different from all the others; and its thirty-second journey of hopeless dejection.

Which brings us to the question, where was the House of Fetish? Because when Jim Dawson said it was the Berke Mansion, up on Bunker Hill at Second and Hope, and I took a look at the film, I was sold. But years later I took another look and it's not the Berke. Compare:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/428/18...5b45702e_c.jpg
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/401/18...93d99209_c.jpgcalstatelib

I mean you can see how one would certainly think so, but no. Some more shots of the mystery house:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8834/1...39cca072_c.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8834/1...94811002_z.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8885/1...5854900c_z.jpg

I thought I'd figured it out, actually—it had to be that mucked-up house at the corner of Edgware and Carroll. But no, turns out that was the Stilson-Bradford House, looked nothing like this. What got me thinking that in part is that after Nick rides up Angels Flight and it shows the panorama of "the Hill," that's actually shot from the roof of the Stilson-Bradford House:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8835/1...5e9294f6_c.jpg

Moreover, in the establishing shot of "the city", judging by the way the DWP is turned, its relationship to City Hall, and how the Hwd Fwy runs, certainly seems like Carroll Ave, or nearby:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8857/1...f0005664_z.jpg

Of course I just realized that I could have just posted a single image of the house and one the Noirishers here would have in ten seconds said "Oh yeah, that's the Schmendrik-Doppes House" or somesuch...but explanatory text and pictures are much more fun.
Soooooo y'all might recall the above post where I asked the Noirish collective if anyone recognized this house, to no avail. Well I was at the Huntington yesterday and came across this in their collections:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1933/...7dc95a07_o.png

The Joseph Mesmer house, her address was 2219 Lincoln Park Avenue, and according to DBS was issued a demo permit in September 1966. So that solves that.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1937/...6c58b88f_b.jpg

My Lord, what a breathtaking house. As seen in the distance in this post from 2013. Also see here and here.

HossC Oct 6, 2018 5:55 PM
:previous:

I wanted to check out the size of Joseph Mesmer's land, so I started with the 1921 Baist map. You can see the house on plot 4 to the left of Lincoln Park Avenue.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...smerHouse1.jpg
www.historicmapworks.com

Despite the block having provisional (and quite large) plot subdivisions, this August 2, 1927 aerial shows that the house was surrounded by a lot of land and trees. I wonder if the trees blocked the view of Selig Zoo.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...smerHouse2.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

By October 2, 1962 (roughly four years before its demolition) the neighbors had got much closer, with Alta Street finishing only just south of the house.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...smerHouse3.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

Here's a current view (the house was actually at the top of the driveway to the left of Google's arrow).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...smerHouse4.jpg
Google Maps

The large building on the right of Lincoln Park Avenue in the 1962 image caught my eye, especially as it's missing from the current view. After a little digging, I found that it was a hospital, known as City View Hospital for most of its life. The building permit is dated 9/14/59.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
www.ladbs.org

The demo permit is dated 9/2/92, and includes the instructions "burned & closed. remove walls, footing, slab & AC", so was it burned before demolition? I haven't found any pictues yet, but I did find this reference in an article about the Japanese Hospital at laconservancy.org:
The Japanese Hospital's services continued to expand during the postwar era. In 1961, it was purchased by Keiro Senior Healthcare, who relocated it to a larger facility in Lincoln Heights the following year under the name City View Hospital.

As discriminatory practices became less common, younger generations questioned the need for an exclusively Japanese hospital. In 1985, City View Hospital closed its doors and transferred its services for Japanese patients to a wing at St. Vincent's Medical Center.

The Lincoln Heights location was later demolished, but the Boyle Heights facility operates today as a nursing home.

Flyingwedge Oct 6, 2018 7:38 PM
One more photo of Joseph Mesmer's home
 
:previous:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pslce1nwor.jpg


Greater Los Angeles and Southern California, Robert J. Burdette editor, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906 @ Internet Archive

ethereal_reality Oct 6, 2018 11:55 PM
'mystery' hollow.

Do you think there are enough clues in this photograph to figure out the location? [1979]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eH32lS.jpg
ids.si.edu / Douglas Hill, 1979

Landscape\plant
Cityscape\California\Los Angeles
Architecture Exterior\domestic\house
Architecture Exterior\science\power lines




Here is a closer look at the buildings, municipal(?) vehicles, a dirt road...& an unknown shape. [at far right]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/jGK6K5.jpg
DETAIL

ethereal_reality Oct 7, 2018 12:09 AM
Here's a companion photograph, also 1979. (and also a mystery)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/F2sKvB.jpg
ide.si.edu / Douglas Hill, 1979

Landscape\road
Cityscape\California\Los Angeles
Architecture Exterior\domestic\house
Architecture Exterior\commercial\skyscraper


A closer look at the residence and surrounding area.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/akfTim.jpg
DETAIL

I believe this is further west than the previous photo. If I'm not mistaken, the tall buildings in the distance are in Century City.

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HossC Oct 7, 2018 5:24 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8338140)

'mystery' hollow.

Do you think there are enough clues in this photograph to figure out the location? [1979]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eH32lS.jpg
ids.si.edu / Douglas Hill, 1979
We're on Mulholland Drive, looking across Hillpark Drive. There's now a newer development in the foreground.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...llandView1.jpg
GSV

odinthor Oct 7, 2018 5:31 AM
:previous:

Best contribution I can make is to assert that the yellow-flowered plants are some member of the mustard family, the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae to traditionalists), perhaps Sinapis arvensis, late in its season.

BillinGlendaleCA Oct 7, 2018 10:37 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8338147)
Here's a companion photograph, also 1979. (and also a mystery)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/F2sKvB.jpg
ide.si.edu / Douglas Hill, 1979

Landscape\road
Cityscape\California\Los Angeles
Architecture Exterior\domestic\house
Architecture Exterior\commercial\skyscraper


A closer look at the residence and surrounding area.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/akfTim.jpg
DETAIL

I believe this is further west than the previous photo. If I'm not mistaken, the tall buildings in the distance are Century City.

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I agree that the taller buildings are Century City, I think this may be Beverly Park North. Beverly Park was originally developed in the mid-60's as a golf course, but that went bust. They then started development of Beverly Park South in 1979, that's the low rent district with the 5,000 sq ft houses. Beverly Park North was completed in 1990 and sports some 30,000 sq ft homes. I believe the house in the picture has been replaced by a McMansion.

Here's the 1971 view:
https://i.postimg.cc/nVv7DhDK/Bevery_Park1971.png
UCSB FrameFinder.

I also looked at a 1965 aerial and everything had been cleared in the canyon, some vegetation has grown back in the 1971 aerial and more had grown back in ER's photo if I'm correct.

Here's the current view from Google Maps:
https://i.postimg.cc/NF7HqdcC/Beverly_Park_Current.png

This area is in the hills above the Upper Franklin Canyon reservoir where they filmed the opening of the Andy Griffith Show.


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