We took a look at Eddie Meyer's Trading Post (used airplane lot) at Third Street and Vermont. Could have sworn I'd seen a head-on image of the sign to the right (with an address).:shrug:

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The "Trading Post" image/s were from '46. No obvious CD listing for that year. Curious about any contemporary aerial images depicting the aircraft. Noted a couple of undated aerials documenting the (eventual) construction of Ralph's Groceries at Third and Vermont. The images certainly establish enough open land for small aircraft to touch and go, and views of the Sacatela / Bimini Slough.


Undated Third and Vermont
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics33/00066410.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics33/00066410.jpg


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Per earlier posts, Eddie Meyer went on to touch other areas of transportation, from "Hollywood."





A double typo? :uhh:

Eddie Meyer. The '56 and '60 CDs list Eddie at 646 N Lapeer Drive.


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And then there is 5280 Sunset. (Location still used for car repairs.)
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On the left of the above photo, across the street in the background, is most likely the marquee of the Paramount (El Capitan) Theater,
so I'm guessing that she is in Toff's Coffee Shop that was on the corner in the area of all the photos in the post.

We're south of the Boulevard on Schrader. I can't explain the sign (above) unless the street name was changed at some point. Schrader almost lines up w/ Hudson. Neither cross Hollywood Blvd (Schrader running south of it and Hudson to the north):

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lo...Tu4=w1366-h768
gsv

That's the Hudson Apartments, formerly the Hillview (Parcher & Strong 1916-20). It was financed by Lasky and Goldwyn and is no stranger to the thread:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/H7...366-h768-rw-no
google maps

It's wiki page is here

A fun 1920 ad for the Hillview is here




P.S.

Here's a reference to the street name change:
(No wonder I never heard of Schrader when I lived in Hollywood in the late 70s)


P.P.S.

And this from LAT:

"Hollywood: Street Name Change Draws Fire"
September 04, 1994



Rand Schrader's wiki page is here


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ethereal_reality - St. Brendan was our parish church in the 1950s and early 60s and also for me in the 1970s. I thought the view looked familiar right away. I remember the Craftsman house on the SW corner of 3rd and Van Ness well. Thanks to tovanger2 and CityBoyDoug for elaborating!

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The Ralphs at 3410 W Third--seen in both views above across Vermont Avenue from the house circled--appears to have
been built in 1948. As for the house, it is 317 S Vermont.... Its story is here


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xC...366-h768-rw-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_j...Bw4=w1366-h768
theburnsandallenshow.blogspot


...not me, I hate spam

1700 block of E. 103rd St., Watts ("Charcoal Alley"), August 1965

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psnwagl2ea.jpg
LAFD


50 years later:

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pszpiw14cn.png


Manchester Ave., just east of Hoover, looking west. Appropriately, the flag partially visible on the right has been lowered to half-staff:

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psmitcwvhg.jpg


Manchester Ct. is gone, it's now part of a school playground. Jack in The Box and the bldg adjacent with the "DEAF" signage in '65 survive....incredible how many retail businesses deserted the area following the riots:


http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psoceol8wi.png


Unknown location:

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psclm2gtck.jpg
Julian Wasser



Central & Vernon:
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6us4w0kz.jpg

Wow... that guy in the hard hat on the other side of the glass, reaching out. What a moment.

Wouldn't you like to know the story behind this shot? (And what was the photographer doing there???)

:previous:


As was noted, Julian Wasser was the photographer of this iconic shot. It's been reproduced repeatedly since it was taken in August 1965

Wasser's website is here

A short article/book review re Wasser, and Weegee's influence on the teen, is here

"One day the bureau [AP] was visited by the legendary crime photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, who was in Washington promoting a book. “He invited me to ride along with him in his car,” says Wasser. “He had an old Chevy, and he’d cruise around the city taking pictures. He was a fat dirty slob but he was very interesting, and as a spot news photographer he was the best.” The only advice he gave the young upstart was “find another profession”, but Wasser was hooked. “I would steal my father’s car and listen to my police radio, respond to the calls and shoot pictures that I would sell to The Washington Post. They paid only $25 a picture."

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ND...iDk=w1366-h768
coagula


...I'd guess Wasser was there b/c he was well-trained, very experienced and obsessed w/ getting the shot.

"Exterior view of Beverly Boulevard before and during Phyllis Morris era."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/7zcXa2.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/IanF7x.jpg
http://la.racked.com/2014/11/4/75705...esign-district





"Phyllis Morris in her 1953 pink Eldorado Cadillac delivering her pink poodle lamps in West Hollywood
with pink-dyed poodles Pamela and Scherzo in the front seat.'

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/Vc2Ijz.jpg
http://la.racked.com/2014/11/4/75705...esign-district

To be honest I had never heard of Phyllis Morris and her poodle lamps until I happened upon the above photographs.




I found one of her lamps at an auction site.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/kUy5KB.jpg
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/li.../id-f_1130074/

Phyllis Morris Sculptural Poodle Lamp, circa 1953

$2,700
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Yowsa!

Moulin's Service Station....Feed.....Firewood (?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/R4uFju.jpg
ebay

Does this gas station ring a bell? (pun intended ;))

The seller says it was located in Glendale. [but gave no street address]



Let's take a closer look.


#1
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detail

:previous: I spy a street number. 1820



#2
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#3
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Known location
 

http://i.imgur.com/4LGq8PR.jpg
http://www.craigkrullgallery.com/Wasser/index7.html



This was taken inside the Midway Furniture store at 8764 S. Broadway. Here's a current view:

http://i.imgur.com/Dx9BnLF.jpg
GSV

Note the roof line of the buildings on the west side of Broadway in each photograph. Thrifty's was at 8763 S. Broadway. There are two shotguns to be seen in the 1965 picture: with the eye of faith, the less threatening one seems to say 8700 S.

More barking about Barkies.


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Jakes "Mity Nice"
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Barkies money shot
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...c.jpg~original




Jane Cowl in Robert Sherwood's Broadway play, "The Road to Rome." This played at the Belasco for three weeks in '28.

Quote:

" . . . The Road to Rome" . . . a triumph for feminism. But what ever Its symbolical intent, If It has any, this play by Robert Emmet Sherwood, currently at the Belasco Theater, with Miss Jane Cowl, is thoroughly delightful, rather magnificently naughty, and fraught with a certain penetrating meaning as well. "The Road to Rome" played to a large and interested audience at its opening last evening. It drew the reward of laughter, and the emoluments of applause, and proved in practically every respect a triumph for its author, its star, and a generally competent cast. Sherwood's play has been much talked about. It is here for an engagement of only three weeks. That it will draw crowds scarcely needs prophesying. 8-15-1928 LA Times

Does a generally competent cast imply some incompetence?

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...e.jpg~original



http://s357.photobucket.com/user/Mar...t3goe.jpg.html



On the left of American Storage is "Fluff and Fold" for automobiles. Do they charge by the pound or number of windows?

Take your car to Carpenter's Beverly Auto Laundry.
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American Storage offered storage and moving.


http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~original


Avant-gardiste de l'aérodynamique

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Often imitated, rarely duplicated.
http://jack-nance.journal-of-life.co...6c54427028.JPGhttp://jack-nance.journal-of-life.co...6c54427028.JPG

Huh. That's a Max Maltzman building from 1946. Maltzman also did the Ravenswood, the Wilshire Bowl & many others including 410 N Rossmore (sort of), if you remember that one.


Excellent. Thank you Lorendoc.

St. Brendan Church appeared in the Our Gang/Little Rascals 1930 film "Pups is Pups." It's the church seen at the end of the film when Wheezer is reunited with his pups.

Here's a then-and-now video of the locations used in the film, including the church...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-deFEcN1nQ

I visited the church a few months ago and went inside. It's a beautiful church.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WL1zslRAkeY/hqdefault.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7L...366-h768-rw-no


Connecting a few random NLA dots--the house to the right of the JANE COWL sign still stands at 305 N Westmoreland...along with a house on the same block seen previously in post 5597:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/00080/00080156.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V...stmore120.jpg]

Well, she or a customer were doing ok, because that looks like a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud parked in the lot :-)

They were/are legendary for having the most incredible Heath Robinson (hey, it's an English car) braking system ever devised:

https://rollsroycesilvercloud.files....lver-cloud.jpg

Cheers,

Earl

:previous:


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4w...366-h768-rw-no


Looks like Phyllis might have had a series of (pink?) Rollers.... She definitely seems to have raised tacky to an art form.

Thank you Tehmeh, that was really fun :-)

:previous: Several sources say St. Brendan was the church used in the last moments of the 1953 'War Of The Worlds

"The church, where Dr. Forrester (Gene Barry) searches for Sylvia (Ann Robinson) as time runs out for the human race, is St Brendan’s, Third Street at Van Ness Avenue."
http://www.movie-locations.com/movie...l#.WGanbhsrJPY

But when I watched this clip the interior looks different.

• Video Link

...so I'm not entirely sure what scene they're talking about.





For comparison, here's the amazing sanctuary of St. Brendan.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/xTBRAE.jpg
yelp

I couldn't help but notice the glow at the peak of the roof.:previous:





Well it turns out the church has a unique skylight!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/7ia5ML.jpg
yelp

:previous: So beautiful!



vintage St. Brendan

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/BKumjE.jpg
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Here's a complete list of movies that have used St. Brendan. 19 titles!
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?loc..._=ttloc_loc_10
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