:previous: Since my earlier post I have found several references to it as the Studio Theater Playhouse as far back as 1966.
But then I found this 2000 article that refers to it as the Colony Studio Theatre (a reference to the silent movie house?) http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9...olonynamei.jpg http://articles.glendalenewspress.co...spring-color/3 ......and this. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-...atre-playhouse The L.A. Times article says the theater seats 99, while Cinema Treasures says it seats 525. I can understand the loss of some seats when it became a live performance venue.....but losing 426 seats!?! _____ After learning the number of seats (or lack there of) I went back for a second look. The building is much deeper than it appears from the street, so perhaps it did originally seat 525. http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/4...iversideab.jpg google aerial _____ |
A beautiful twilight photograph of Hollywood & Vine (looking north on vine).
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/2...einderbysp.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=18605 I was surprised by the over-sized Miller High Life Beer sign atop the Taft Building. I don't recall very many photos with this Miller sign. At ground level on the right is the complex that housed the Vine Street Brown Derby. below: Here is another view with the towering Miller sign, along with a pretty impressive 'Hotel PLAZA' sign. 'The Broadway Hollywood' sign is of course iconic and still in place (thank God). http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/4...60largerib.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...rolNumber=1856 Notice the large presence of Western Air Lines in the Vine Street Brown Derby complex on the right. On the opposite side of the street, the CBS Vine Street Theater is undergoing some type of renovation. _____ |
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After checking this Google aerial, I see the 'Hotel Plaza' sign is still in place, but hidden behind a billboard. :( http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/4...asignbehin.jpg google street view I wonder if they still light up the 'PLAZA' sign at night despite the unfortunately placed billboard? Perhaps someone that's going out for dinner at Musso & Frank's on Friday evening could find out for us. ;) ____ |
Greystone Mansion grounds
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If anyone is awake...turn on TCM. There's a good Ginger Rogers noir on now (Ginger rogers in noir?), called Perfect Strangers---some great location shots, including the roof and towers of the Terminal Annex Post Office, city hall, Hall of Records-- don't know if there will be more. Anyone got a copy for screen shots?
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This is one of those quarries that has been driving me crazy forever... I'm definitely not totally convinced--in fact would have to say no if pushed, given a number of detail discrepancies, but wishful thinking has me wondering if the building above might possibly have once stood at 4032 Hooper Avenue... that it might have once been part of the campus of Stiles Clements's amazing Thomas Jefferson high School, still standing on 41st between Hooper and Compton. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...2520AM.bmp.jpgLAPL The school building in the Google Street View below now stands at 4032 Hooper... I'm wanting to believe that the streamlined mystery building was once there and part of Clements's multi-building campus.... I've looked and looked for more Schultheis pics of the school, but haven't found any. The answer may lie only in some obscure Morgan Walls & Clements archive. (Btw, my reservations include the differing windows from other campus buildings, the plaque on front that looks to me, for some reason, less school- and more business-like, and that there is now no house across the street with a steep Craftsman roof to be reflected in the window....) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-C...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View (Could the streamline building somehow now be contained in the box...?) |
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BTW, the top of Sunset-Vine Tower would be a great place to view the sign...if it were still open to the public. Back in the 70's there was a bar-restaurant-club on the top floor called Simply Blues and wow, was that a fun place to hang out! I believe the owner's name was George Blue or Blues. The place had nearly 360 degree views and the food was pretty good. They had live music too. Simply Blues closed ages ago, then there was a fire in the building and it lay empty for many years. I think there was talk of demolishing it, for a while. It has recently re-opened as a luxury apartment complex. http://you-are-here.com/sunset/vine.jpg http://you-are-here.com/sunset/vine.html http://www.jozjozjoz.com/archives/S+...-01-14p-sm.jpg http://you-are-here.com/sunset/vine.html http://dbase1.lapl.org/images/menus/...g/26298-01.jpg http://dbase1.lapl.org/images/menus/...g/26298-01.jpg |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-y...2%252520PM.jpg
This image of the modernization of Schwab's is from an hourlong KCET show called "Things That Aren't Here Anymore": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQQBIgNDkQ&noredirect=1 |
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-E...2520PM.bmp.jpg Hollywood Reporter
I wasn't aware of the Chinese's change of ownership. I don't know that it didn't need an ungrade, but his sort of makes me sick: "Since taking over in April, Samaha and Kushner have begun hatching plans to leverage the iconic structure into a chain of replica theaters throughout the U.S. and beyond." Read all about it (and weep?): http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...llywood-279246 (I love the two comments at the end of the story.) |
Per GaylordWilshire's request, here's a few frame grabs from Perfect Strangers.
I think the first two were probably shot inside the real Hall of Records; this was not a big budget film and it's unlikely Warner's would have built sets with such detailed ceilings for this one brief scene. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-O.../s720/PS01.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7.../s720/PS02.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b.../s720/PS03.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j.../s720/PS04.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Y.../s720/PS05.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e.../s720/PS06.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-L.../s720/PS07.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E.../s720/PS08.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6.../s720/PS09.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M.../s720/PS10.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] This one comes at the tail end of a lap dissolve between two scenes, which is why you can kind of see two gentlemen from the previous scene. I grabbed this frame anyway just for the clear view of the signage. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P.../s720/PS11.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-S.../s720/PS12.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W.../s720/PS13.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m.../s720/PS14.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h.../s720/PS15.jpg [source: Warner Home Video] |
Hotel Normandie makeover
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Handsome: Thanks for the GREAT set of screenshots from Perfect Strangers--exactly what my eyes grabbed. When people ask me how I got interested in the history of L.A.--well, it's just these kinds of images from movies and tv that did it. I knew what the Los Angeles City Hall looked like before I even knew my own hometown had one.
As for the Normandie-- https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Here's the link to the Times story Squirm mentioned: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,4303557.story Let's hope it's a success... maybe the developers will then dust off the Plaza and its rooftop sign. |
The Hotel Normandie during a VERY rainy day in 1922.
http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/7...ie1922lapl.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=22745 ...and again in 1978 with some unfortunate signs. http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9...annelaskey.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=4968275 The Hotel Normandie article in today's L.A. Times was really interesting...thanks for providing the link 'Those Who Squirm'. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,4303557.story I would have missed it otherwise. ____ Also, I LOVED the screen-grabs 'Handsome Stranger'. Great job!! ____ |
Coulter's
From 1941:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg39/...jpg&res=medium lileks.com http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg692...jpg&res=medium lileks.com A couple more photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/5340944...n/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/5340944...n/photostream/ |
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http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/3231/equakem2.jpg http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com...1_archive.html http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1...ematte1974.jpg http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com...1_archive.html It's the building where the office workers are lowered to safety using a hose and an office chair. below: Lorne Greene scared shitless. http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/861...ornegreene.jpg Universal Pictures 1974 Now it's the secretary's turn. I wonder how much this poor woman was paid? http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6...gsecretary.jpg |
Chinatown
Here are a couple of photos that I don't think we have seen:
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5...hinatown12.jpg A 1937 file photo shows old Chinatown and a chop suey restaurant. In the background is the construction of Union Station. (Los Angeles Times) http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/7...hinatown02.jpg Entrance to the new China City, which celebrated its opening on Aug. 2, 1939. (Los Angeles Times) |
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Great find FredH !! The two photos that you linked are completely new to me. I've been looking EVERYWHERE for photos like these. I hope you don't mind if I post the photos here....a lot of times people skip the links. below: I didn't realize this beautiful window even existed. Notice the exquisite curved glass. http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7...ndowflickr.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/5340944...n/photostream/ below: The elevator bank in Coulter's on Wilshire. http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/2...rsinterior.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/5340944...n/photostream/ Kudos to you FredH, your discovery made my night. :) |
Wow...I just saw your Chinatown post FredH.
The first photo of the Union Station clock tower and Old Chinatown almost made me fall out of my chair. That is such a unique photograph.....it's simply amazing. |
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The Broadway sign is well maintained and looks great at night! Thanks for your comments about Sunset-Vine tower. I didn't know that was the building in Earthquake. (And BTW, Musso and Frank's was expensive, but fantastic in every way.) |
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