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I've always been interesting in the many actor and actresses who appear to be on the cusp of stardom, and then something derails their dreams.
While thumbing through an issue of Hollywood Filmograph (1932) this striking photograph caught my eye. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/FtPXy1.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/Q1RV1s.jpg https://archive.org/details/texts Yet I drew a blank on the name, so I typed his name into IMDB, but came up with nothing. So what happened to Joe Roig's starring role in 'Laughing Boy'? Well, it turns out Universal Pictures abandoned 'Laughing Boy' :(, and MGM picked it up and replaced Mr. Roig with silent film star Ramon Navarro. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/kNbgbV.jpg http://www.sedonamonthly.com/ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/6eJ5qg.jpg below: Ramom Novarro reading 'Laughing Boy'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...631/hyR2HZ.jpg I'm hoping someone here on NLA will be able to dig up some more information on my 'man-crush' ;) Joe Roig. Hollywood Filmograph mentions that he had appeared in earlier films.* *They even mentioned one of his previous films by name, 'Tiger Shark' ..but he isn't listed as one of the cast on IMdB.(and IMdB says it's a complete list) Tiger Shark (1932) cast list http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023594/...=tt_cl_sm#cast __ postscript: It's too bad they didn't cast a Native American for the part. They no doubt needed a box office draw -thus the lead role going to Ramon Novarro (in fact, that's probably why Joe Roig lost the part) |
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240? Cool! Those lights were powered by DC, weren't they? At least I seem to recall reading somewhere that they were. The switch to AC and general obsolescence doomed them. Tesla won with AC, but Edison triumphed over all with his particular innovation of the incandescent light bulb. |
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More Home? Remarkable panorama of Third and Hill Streets>>>>> http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/4214/rec/56 Home Telephone Co. building, circa 1902 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 The "Aldine" and neighbors. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/4214/rec/56 City of London? (Center left) Steel construction is what building? (Hamburger's at Eight and Broadway, evidently post-dated this 1902 image by 2-3 years.) http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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Older DWP Photos
Found on http://waterandpower.org/museum/museum.html
First light standards Main & Commercial 1882 http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...treetlight.jpg http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...reet_1880s.jpg Distribution Station #2 1920s http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...ibrary/DS2.jpg Distribution Station #3 Harbor Blvd,, and Regan Street http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...ibrary/DS3.jpg Olive Switching Station 1916 http://waterandpower.org/Library%20o...g_Station1.jpg 218 South Hill 1933 http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...ne_Workers.jpg Banning Street electrical Plant 1888 http://waterandpower.org/DWP-LA%20Pu...Plant_1888.jpg |
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The LA Times, November 1, 1968. http://imageshack.com/a/img633/4849/Op0rcr.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img661/7941/YNLZUe.jpghttp://imageshack.com/a/img661/7884/gdsjOz.jpghttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...star-beat.html The late, great Ramon Novarro's body being removed. http://imageshack.com/a/img661/329/rC8CaI.jpghttp://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/ferg...aul-photos.htm The Ferguson brothers in 1968. http://imageshack.com/a/img673/9633/fQRtmj.jpghttp://www.criminaljusticedegreesgui...d-history.html On the flip side of noir, I just can't help but laugh out loud every time I hear the name Lupe Velez. That's because the first time I ever heard her name was on an episode of Frasier. Roz Doyle described to Frasier Lupe's suicide in a hilarious way. Only years later did I find out that Lupe had been a real person. For anyone interested in a ghoulish laugh, the YouTube link is below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUmv-0K4a0 The sad reality, though, is that Lupe died a broken woman. The head-in-the-toilet story nothing but a cruel urban legend. http://imageshack.com/a/img909/8425/0KRd71.jpghttps://mvozus.files.wordpress.com/2...prjofw0_12.jpg Lupe, in her casket, finally at peace. http://imageshack.com/a/img661/5792/a7W3RP.jpghttps://mvozus.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/vogel156.jpg |
:previous: poor Lupe in her casket. :(
below: We're all familiar with this building on the northwest corner of Hollywood & Vine. Hollywood Filmograph 1929. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...908/KZ5G3j.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/kclzcf.jpg https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr91holl below: Here's a rare look at the building in it's infancy. (decades before Melody Lane and Hody's) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/FjsrbX.jpg _Hollywood Filmograph 1929 / detail_ |
I came across this slide in a pile of early-70s the other day, and my first reaction was, wait, what? What skyscraper were they building on Wilshire at Beaudry in the early-70s? And then I realized ooooh, this is when they expanded and re-skinned Signal!
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8603/...1cb46e7e_o.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8603/...9e9b46c2_o.jpg (I wanted to share the slide in part because it includes Woodbury, an old favorite of ours...) A few words about Signal Oil, why notcha. Charles Luckman & Assoc—began construction in October '58; it was finished in February 1960. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8642/...cb69317f_b.jpgusc The United Air Lines bldg is 1954, and the white one west of it 1959, per city records. UAL as a white building with the concrete canopies and projecting windows, pretty nice modernist structure, once. Looks like its neighbor didn't dig the concrete screen effect on its windows and chopped 'em off. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7366/...27feb5c0_b.jpg https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7452/...139b1bfa_b.jpgusc 29 May 1973: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8595/...0d486fcf_b.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8632/...95f930d9_b.jpg Today: http://www.you-are-here.com/los_angeles/signal_oil.jpgyouarehere |
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It's baaaack!
Idle Hour is scheduled for reopening today, Friday the 13th.
http://la.curbed.com/tags/idle-hour-cafe If you're curious and go, bring back some interior pics, please. Here are the Connollys, the original owners, the photo probably from around opening day in 1941. Looks like there was a cutout letter shortage back then. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7418/...97568534_o.jpgMuseum of the San Fernando Valley http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ur#post4939871 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ur#post6359692 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ur#post6767591 |
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Consider these points from the LA Times and LA Herald . . . Nov 9 1889: The Plaza is described as having "four large caoutchouc [rubber] trees, some shrubbery, a dry fountain and no seats, the whole surrounded by an iron fence." Perhaps the fountain was broken? Aug 15 1890 [LAH]: The Plaza is described as being "without seats or shade, except the four large caoutchouc trees . . ." May 17 1892: "The motion by [Mr. Summerland] for benches in the plaza square met with ill success . . . ." Oct 21 1892: "Two of the large rubber trees had to be topped, owing to damage sustained in last winter's windstorm." That storm was on December 11, 1891. The trees on the east and west side of the Plaza certainly look like they've been topped. Dec 8 1893: Installing some settees in the Plaza was considered, because some property owners said "the benches there at present were entirely inadequate." After some discussion of concern that undesirables might sleep on them, "At the suggestion of the mayor, six of the seats were ordered placed at the plaza . . . ." Does "entirely inadequate" mean there were some seats in the Plaza? There are no seats in either photo above. Jan 1 1894 [LAH]: Plaza park needs are described as "pruning two of the four large ficus macrophylla . . ." The Plaza is consistently described in these articles as having four large trees; I can't explain why they're called both caoutchouc and ficus. I don't see any other tree there I'd call "large." Jan 1 1896: "In this park there is a very pretty fountain, cement walks and numerous seats . . . ." I too arrived at a no-earlier-than-1888 date for both photos above, but via the LA City Water Company building at Alameda and Marchessault, which opened on May 26, 1888 (per 5/27/88 LAT): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original Here's that building being torn down in 1939: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/90010/rec/11 Quote:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original LAPL Here it is on the 1906 Map as 527 Prospect: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original LAPL 527 Prospect is in the upper right corner of this wider 1894 view. The bridge over the creek (between "Street" and "Pleasant") is on Macy Street, which today with Brooklyn Avenue is all the same street: Cesar Chavez Avenue. The area between Gallardo Street on the left and Prospect Place -- now Progress Place -- on the right is where the San Bernardino Freeway is today: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original LAPL The same area today on GoogleMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0535...2541,18z?hl=en From 1892 until at least 1899, 527 Prospect Place (not Avenue) was the home of Richard Molony (not Moloney): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original 1893 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com Richard Molony lived to be 99 and has his own Wikipedia page!: http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calin.../07/517865.pdf |
Just one more post about this pretty Plaza pic and I'll be quiet again. :rolleyes:
http://otters.net/img/lanoir/plaza_c1888_crop_1152.jpg U.S.C. Digital Library (All) Some interesting finds with the Zoom view: Did Chinatown at one time actually extend westward to include the Plaza? A Chinese storefront sign on the Tapia/Olvera adobe (at right). https://otters.net/img/lanoir/chines...storefront.jpg More Chinese signage on the Lugo House (far upper left), with two men in traditional garb on an adjoining stoop (far lower right). https://otters.net/img/lanoir/chinesecharacterslugo.jpg Still more Chinese signage on the Navarro building on Marchessault Street next to the Lugo House. Also a sign in English for what appears to be a tea merchant named Tung San(g?). One man on the street corner is in Western dress, while the other appears to be wearing a "tailed" overgarment. (There's a third person on the stoop in the shadows, too.) https://otters.net/img/lanoir/chineseonmarchessault.jpg I would love to be able to read these old bills! https://otters.net/img/lanoir/winestreetbills.jpg A lawn sprinkler, and electric-powered fountain. If you think about it, these water fixtures and their usage for strictly aesthetic purposes are fairly audacious symbolic statements by the city, a quarter century before the Lankershim miracle. https://otters.net/img/lanoir/plazaf...dsprinkler.jpg And what is that contraption at upper right? A closer look. https://otters.net/img/lanoir/plazawhatsis.jpg To me, it kind of resembles an upright piano, but I doubt that's what it really is. Another electric light! I think this image could be detailed enough that an expert on such matters could tell us the make, model and year this lamp was produced. https://otters.net/img/lanoir/electr...plazac1888.jpg And what, praytell, could this ornamental fixture be purposed for? Possibly a drinking fountain? If so, you'd have to be very careful not to slice open your scalp on one of those many sharp metal edges above it. (Perhaps the top part is meant to discourage its use by horses?) https://otters.net/img/lanoir/plazao...lsomething.jpg Speaking of horses, there are none to be seen. Anywhere. No obvious horse manure, either, though there might be a few nuggets over there on Wine Street. Still, the roads look remarkably clean for a still exclusively horse-drawn city. And even more curious, there are no people on the Plaza. Not a one. And what else is missing? It's perhaps not an obvious absence at first glance, but look: there isn't a single seat or bench of any kind, or any other horizontal surface that a person could use to sit on and relax and enjoy this picturesque little park. (EDIT: Flyingwedge apparently beat me to the punch on this one!) Was this a 19th century version of today's Pershing Square approach to "no loitering?" |
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JScott, here is a close-up of the ornamental fixture/fountain with young boys to give you a sense of the size. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/7Gidrt.jpg old file #1 On the right there appears to be a sign tacked on the tree trunk. close up: I believe it says 'Keep Off The Grass'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/L9GJjX.jpg detail a slightly larger look at the ornamental 'fountain'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/gOmITd.jpg And here's a good look at one of the sprinkler heads. (is that a young Joe Roig on the right? ;)) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/uWuk3t.jpg detail All these details are from this glass slide that was for sale a couple years ago on ebay. (it took me awhile to find it again) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/QyRrTk.jpg old file #1 / originally found on ebay If you look closely, there is a bench at the extreme left edge of the slide. Also note that the mission bell tower has been remodeled. (I never understood why they did that) below: A close look at a couple of the stores. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/rZK8qC.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/6ZFSQM.jpg __ |
Thank you Flyingwedge. What a wonderful post.
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Thank you for figuring out why the two trees are trimmed in the photo. I thought they must have been pruned for transplanting, but I think one can make out all four of them in the previous landscape scheme. Also, here (notice the steps up to the then-fountain). These four trees are absolute monsters now. Between them and the brick wall (which seems to have been there since the 1920s), the Plaza is all but closed off. I'd go back to the design in the old photos in a heartbeat, even though it might mean taking out four 144-year-old trees. See also here, here and here. And finally, some benches (see extreme left and right). Benches here too: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-B...21923%2BPM.jpg Werner Von Boltenstern Postcard Collection, Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library via Nathan Masters Thank you too JScott. We had fun with this. Quote:
I've just seen your last post e-r. Thank you so much. Gorgeous. |
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Such a great photo, ER! Does anyone know the exact year when the three bells were reinstalled at the top of the Plaza Church, replacing the gazebo? And also what year was the gazebo installed. I've always been curious about this and thought maybe the bells were put in around 1900. ________ |
I come across a lot of 'Ostrich Cart' photos on ebay, but this one stood apart.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/TGv0Ih.jpg ebay :previous: I've never noticed that large house with the Alligator Farm sign on top before. -the Ostrich Farm and the Alligator Farm were next door to each other (see map below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/B2Q4U9.png __ |
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One can see the old church in the 1858 photo of Los Angeles. It was quite different: http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/00008203.jpg lapl |
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