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As for Billie Burke, good for her, if true. But a recent biography debunks it. I guess it's always been true that in some minds there's no such thing as a straight actor. I don't know about women, but I do know that--being one--some gay men have a tendency to co-opt every male actor... except for the unattractive ones.... |
FLASHBACK to the WHITE SLAVERYtrial of 1940. Almost a decade earlier than Ms. Allen's tribulations in the post above.
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First of all, e_r: I love the Brenda Allen gallery. What a piece of work she was. I'd gotten so used to seeing her in her usual heavy '40s makeup, it was a shock to see her as a fresh-faced girl. But I also wanted to say that it looks to me like the Figueroa Street house in your pic above is the same as house on left below it--the convex mansard, the iron cresting, the dormers, the little flat dormer over the upstairs windows flanking the center porch, the first-floor porch spindlework.... I have a bunch of pics somewhere of Figueroa Street house & will have to sift through them to see if it can be further identified. Unless there is an intervention and my L.A. obsession is stopped. |
I'm trying to find a photo of a pharmacy on the corner of 6th and Spring Streets circa 1900.
I recently acquired a box full of antique apothecary bottles and among them was one with raised letters saying "E.P. Deville Pharmacist 6th & Spring Sts. Los Angeles Pharmacie Francaise." In Charles Lummis's December 1899 "Land of Sunshine" magazine in the new residents Commercial Blue Book section, under the Druggists heading, they list "EP Deville Sixth and Spring sts. Tel. Main 799" I found one photo of a drug store on that intersection, but from several decades later, and I'm not sure if that one evolved from E.P. Deville's business or not. I don't know which corner Deville was on. If he was having his own custom bottles made he must have been a fairly prominent pharmacist. |
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As for an intervention, I hope to God that NEVER happens. What would we ever do without you? |
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Above is De Ville's listing from the 1899 L.A. city directory--this would have been the northeast corner of 6th & Spring. I did a little search for a pic from the era on the LAPL & USC files & didn't see anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if something were to turn up. Btw, it seems that alot of drugstores had their own custom bottles in those days. Maybe glue for paper labels wasn't sticky enough then....:jester: Quote:
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Brenda was a fascinating lady. I was just reading about her in a book on the Black Dahlia case, how she may have been tied into it somehow.
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A few downtown department store remnants
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And one from when the May Co. was Hamburgers: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-d...2520AM.bmp.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...2520AM.bmp.jpg Pics via Trader Chris |
Now is the perfect time of the year for a downtown history crawl. Seeing these pics makes me want to pack up the camera, the notebook and slide on down the 110 for an early Sunday morning site-see.
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I searched past posts to make sure these color photographs of the old Coulter's on Wilshire haven't been posted yet.
___ The following photos were taken in 1978 by Marlene Laskey & her daughter Ann. As you can see in the photos, the Stiles O. Clements designed building was a Broadway store at this point in time. http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2...adwayannel.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=4979780 http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6...ltersa1978.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=4979780 below: Can you imagine what this looked like at night. The interior lighting diffused through the semi-opaque glass blocks. I imagine you could see the shadows of people milling about. http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/9/c...adway1978a.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=4979780 http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/9...adway1978a.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=4979780 This streamline modern masterpiece was demolished in the 1980s. |
Pioneer Savings at 3245 Wilshire Boulevard.
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6...savings324.jpg postcard/ebay ..and in real life. http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3...ersavings1.jpg google street view It's fun doing these comparisons. ____ |
hmm I wonder if it did ever have the spire?
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:previous: I wondered the same thing Dylan.
It's my favorite part of the building, and the gold ties in with the gold slats on the opposite side of the building. ____ Today, the building is home to the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea. http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4...rconsulate.jpg google street view |
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:previous: Leave it to Gaylord_Wilshire. :)
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oh sweet thanks! I thought perhaps it had been excluded when the building was built because the part of the building that would support it has a different cladding than shown in the rendering, so I thought perhaps the design was altered when built from what is shown in the rendering.
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