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This reminded me of the location right across the street (Van Ness Ave.) from KTLA that had a distinctive "icon" for many years. What I first knew as Metromedia Square/KTTV Channel 11 was located at 5746 Sunset Blvd. at Van Ness Ave. This is an aerial showing Metromedia Square (outlined) in 1994. To be honest, I didn't know it encompassed that large an area. To the left of Metromedia across Van Ness is KTLA where the tower is located. The triangle shaped area across the street to the north is a Denny's Restaurant. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...QQ_outline.jpg Cropped from a 1998 USGS DOQQ scan of "Hollywood NW" The icon I am referring to is the art installation on the rooftop of the building, titled "Starsteps." You might recall this E_R. http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...Metromedia.JPG Mark Goodson This was lit up and bright white at night and could not be missed traveling up the Hollywood Freeway at night. You would always know where the Sunset Blvd. exit was located without needing to read any signs. What I did not know until recently was that this location started out as the Nassour Studios. They were built in 1946 and officially opened Jan. 1, 1947. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour2.jpgEdward Nassour Nassour's son writes: My dad purchased the land on Sunset in the early forties. Originally, there were just the old, one story commercial structures and one of them was converted into a rather small shooting stage. My dad...had the old buildings demolished and went ahead with the new construction. A modern Art Deco-styled projection room and modern offices were located on the buildings fronting Sunset. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour3.jpgEdward Nassour Dressing rooms were constructed adjacent to stages 1 and 2. An old converted two story apartment building located down the street on Van Ness housed producers and writers. Over 100 independent films were shot there while under my family's ownership, Orson Wells had offices at the studio as did Paul Henreid along with Pine-Thomas Productions. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour1.jpgEdward Nassour Nassour Studios (1947–1950). In 1950 my dad sold the studio to Norman Chandler who owned The Los Angeles Times. He was looking for a facility to permanently house KTTV channel 11 and my dad's studio fit the bill perfectly. The sound stages had been built with television production in mind. Times-Mirror Company owned it from 1950–1963 and was known as KTTV Studios from 1950-1967. Metromedia owned it from 1963–2000. After a major renovation in 1967 it was known as Metromedia Square. It was also known as Fox Television Center from 1986 –1996. Many famous television series were filmed or taped at Metromedia such as Three's Company and almost all of Norman Lear's shows like All in the Family, Maude, Good Times and The Jeffersons. I saw several series taped here in the late 70's and early 80's. (I saw an All in the Family and I remember one called Apple Pie starring Rue McClanahan, Jack Gilford and Dabney Coleman.) Metromedia sold the land to the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2000. The building was demolished by the school district in 2003. Here's a photo, taken Saturday, April 19, 2003, to be exact, right before the studio was demolished, showing some of the ghost signage over the years. http://www.movielocationsplus.com/nassour5.jpgEdward Nassour Now, in the places where cultural touchstones like Walter and Maude argued, Archie and Edith disagreed, Jack, Janet and Chrissy invited us to knock on their door and the Jeffersons moved on up, students run track and play football and hopefully learn something at the Helen Bernstein High School, a campus which opened in 2008. (You can see the KTLA tower at the southwest corner of Sunset and Van Ness, near that tall bluish-green building, which must be relatively new. The Denny's Restaurant is still there, too.) http://www.perkinswill.com/files/pro...ial_main10.jpgHollywood Aerial Art Academy It looks like the site's filming days are not over, though. An article about the school being used as a major filming site for Glee, HERE! |
:previous: Very interesting post Martin_Pal. I had forgotten all about the 'Starsteps' sculpture on the roof. When I saw your photograph of it, it instantly came back to me.
And I had never heard of the Nassour Studios....until now. __ Thanks for the additional information on the Dinnerhorn oldstuff. Here's the platter you mentioned. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/SjWOKn.png http://www.rubylane.com/item/192576-...fornia-platter ...now, if we can just find that photograph. :) __ |
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Now can you find one of the front of Coffee Dan's on Hollywood Blvd. near Highland! :haha: What year does anyone suppose the photo is from? It can't be 1962 as Capitol Records had moved by then. The cars look 1940's to me. By the way, in other photos of this area from afar, I've tried to make out what the store is on the right of Coffee Dan's...and close-up I still can't read it! :shrug: Thanks for finding this, E_R, I love it. http://waterandpower.org/5%20Histori..._St_ca1948.jpgDept. of Water & Power/DWP |
The newest car I see is the back of a 1949-50 Ford...
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Is this really special? Back in my bar days, I sat at many bars that seemed to be rotating. :cheers::D |
:previous: lol CBD.
once more....(and a bit larger) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/cyExws.jpgebay Quote:
It's the shop of designer tailor Beni Gerson (which seems to match the signage). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/M7KYN5.png LAPL __ |
Here's a token for the Dinnerhorn that I found on eBay.
"The greatest guy in the world - the man who takes his family out to dine" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rhornToken.jpg eBay I also came across a short article titled Things that aren’t here anymore on insidesocal.com. There was no information in the article itself, but among the comments I found the following post by Barbara Karady: "Our employee, Lucky White, built the Rotabar, the only rotating bar in Southern California, in the Dinnerhorn Restaurant on Azusa in Covina. Lucky also created the "star" that appeared on top of the Eastland Mall in Covina, CA. I have researched all that I am able, and have not found anything in the Covina Argus or from Google. Can you help me with any information about these 2 creations? Lucky White worked for Valencia Heights Water Company (VHWC) and the company is celebrating its 100th Anniversary. His wife (89 years old) still works for VHWC and I would love to honor her husband at a staff dinner at the old Dinnerhorn, now Clearman's Northwood's Inn, October 17, 2012. Can you help? I would appreciate any information that you could share. Thank you." This is Clearman's North Woods Inn. Looking at the old aerial pictures, the plot was still filled with trees in 1948. The 1954 image shows the plot cleared, but there are still plenty of trees nearby. The first structure on the site appears in the 1965 image, which also shows a large building and huge parking lot across the street to the north. The current restaurant building appears to be unchanged since around 1972. Incidentally, the 1972 image shows writing on the roof of the large building across the street, which identifies it as belonging to Conrac. The Conrac building was replaced by a gated housing development sometime between 1980 and 1995. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...thWoodsInn.jpg GSV |
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They have free peanuts on the table and you throw the shells on the floor...lovely barn ambiance. :P:P:P http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psef90e16d.jpg Clearman's franchise |
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I used to have a map of the studios, from the directory published in the late 80's, I doubt I have it any more. Also, the KTLA tower is featured extensively (although digitally altered with different call letters) in the Nightcrawler movie which is currently out |
:previous: Do you recommend Nightcrawler Arch2000? I heard the 'look' of the film is pretty impressive...very neo-noirish.
__ Still no Dinnerhorn bugle blowing boy, but I found a whole family atop an A&W in La Puente (just south of West Covina), circa 1965. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/Ler0dX.png http://westcovinalapuentebaldwinpark...ente-1965.html __ |
I just came across this obscure postcard on ebay.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/B1hKfh.jpgebay (it's a bit hard to read) "Aviary No.1 of E.M. Grider's Birdland. 1301-1313 Central Avenue, Los Angeles Cal." *using Skyscraperpage's search function.......'Birdland' came up with nothing. __ |
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As Pee Wee Marquette once said, "Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we have something special down here at Birdland this evening." (OK, so he was talking about the New York jazz club and not this attraction in Los Angeles). This article is from the December 25, 1910 edition of the Los Angeles Herald.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...d.jpg~original California Digital Newspaper Collection Here's Aviary No.3. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ABirdland2.jpg SDSU Library |
:previous: You work fast HossC. Bravo!
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Duration.... February-March 1938 Fatalities.... 113-115 Damages.... About US$40 million ($627 million in 2011 dollars) 5,601 buildings destroyed 1,500 buildings damaged several small towns completely destroyed Large portions of Riverside and Orange counties completely inundated. I can remember old-timers talking about it when I was young. |
In 1938 there was some flooding on New Year's Eve. My mother told a story about going to a New Year's party at the house that is just to the right of the gate to Miradero (Brand Castle/Library) in Glendale and having so much water come down the canyon and down Grandview Blvd. that they could not go home and had to stay the night. The house, which is still there, is on a slight rise and was not damaged. My parents lived in Burbank and my dad said that the street that they lived on was not paved then and there was a giant hole washed in front of their house and that they city's new police care practically disappeared into the water filled hole.
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A Google image search brings up a picture of him. The Wikipedia section on him indicates that he was also a Los Angeles City Council Member. There is a note of "noir": apparently his wife filed suit against him in 1914 for a legal separation but was unsuccessful. She alleged that he was "intoxicated almost daily". |
Federal courthouse site under construction.
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:previous: It's good to see that the old Hotel Astor building (lower right) has survived. (I know we've discussed this before, but I thought I'd mention it again :))
Thanks for the before and after DTLAdenizen. __ With the recent 'Birdland' posts I was reminded of these photographs that I've had in an old file for quite some time. Los Angeles, 1930s http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/XnoIqQ.jpgebay newspaper clippings http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/7iR1a2.jpgebay See what you can dig up on Mr. & Mrs. J.E. Pepin oldstuff. __ |
I found this the other night with the rainy Vermont slide and the Capitol Records Vine St. slide.
I've been trying to read the various programs listed on the marquee above the front doors. The center one is Dolores something...and...well... it's a bit difficult isn't it. Any help would be appreciated. CBS Columbia Square at 6121 Sunset Blvd. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/snAhET.jpg ebay At first I thought that was a Dept. of Forestry truck, now I'm thinking it might be a Ma Bell truck. (it comes down to whether that's a bell or a pine tree in the circular logo) I never expected Bell telephone trucks to be GREEN! __ |
E_R, thanks for the Beni Gerson "ID"!
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This is a pretty amazing collection of photos of the 1938 floods from the valley perspective of things. Thanks for posting them! In total, it gives quite an upsetting picture of what happened then. It's also a bit strange to view them as rain has been so scarce the past few years. It seems the news covers every single water main break we have now because we just like to see some water covering the dry streets. (Yesterday, a water main break on Benedict Canyon, near Mulholland Dr., in Beverly Hills. The news reports that Los Angeles county has approximately three water main breaks every day.) |
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The first section: ____ ____ PRESENTS 4:30 PM "SANTA ANITA HANDICAP" Second section: DOLORES DRIVE-IN PRESENTS "____ ____ HERE TONITE" 12:05 AM (second word might be Horne?) Third section: __ PRESENTS "FAMILY FUN" ___ JAY STEWART __:__ PM |
:previous: Well you certainly did a lot better than I did MP. I only got as far as 'Dolores'. lol
__ Thanksgiving food line 1956. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/XkcBsW.png http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/ ...same view today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/6IWEkB.png GSV I had to do a little snooping to find the location. (see below / 1956 L.A. directory) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/Apg7Je.png http://www.lapl.org/collections-reso...al-collections __ |
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Curbed LA picked up my blog post on the first modern images of the endangered Warner Huntington Park Theatre.
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See: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm7...ace_shortfilms Cheers, Jack |
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I found a petition to preserve this building. I'm not sure if this is the best we could do but anything helps. Link: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/pro...fb&r_by=953281 Quote:
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"HAWTHORNE HERE TONIGHT" 12:05 AM And the second line of the right-hand marquee looks like: RING JAY STEWART 12:__ PM |
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Found a pic of one. http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbs...a-at-the-time/ Scroll down 2/3 of the page. Happy Turkey Day everyone! Casey |
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For some reason the narrators of documentaries and travelogues during this period seem to have taken as a foundation that Northeastern upper-class accent--whether they possessed it or not-- and then added a layer of Kansas-rural-midwestern; I really cannot account for it any other way. James A. Fitzpatrick, perhaps the best known narrator from this era, grew up in Connecticut but sounds as rural as a Kansan wheat farmer. Gayne Whitman was from Chicago but I hear no trace of what today I would consider a typical upper Midwestern accent. Still another factor may have been the perception of actors and directors that given the limitations of early sound equipment they had to enunciate a certain way...like the woman said...ROUND tones. ROUND tones... |
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Check out this Billie Burke rant. The accent fits the character: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqv9eReYfm8 http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...rn32ix9VPgtbDw |
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The once trendy Sky Room. Burbank Airport, 1940. Below we have dining al fresco on the tarmac...enjoy prop-wash, the roar of the engines and a lovely salad.
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I found this picture of 4th and Hill on eBay a couple of nights ago, but I decided to edit out the watermark and even out the blemishes in the sky before I posted it. A smaller version (along with many other images and much information about this block) was previously posted by ProphetM in post #16025. The seller dates the picture at circa 1920, but it must be about a decade earlier because otherwise we'd be looking straight at the base of the Black Building.
For fun, I thought I'd do a quick round-up of the buildings and signage, so I searched the 1909 and 1911 City Directories. I'll start with the fruit stand on the corner which the 1909 CD lists as a grocery business belonging to H M Wisler at 361 S Hill. I'm not sure whether the house behind it is on Hill or 4th, but it might be Lizzie M Warner's furnished rooms at 357 S Hill. On the left is the Hotel Antlers at 421 W 4th Street. There appear to be two or three buildings below the hotel, but all I could find was Mrs Leocadie Diemer's hair goods at 413 W 4th Street and Thomas M Wood's The Wood furnished rooms at 417 W 4th Street, both in the 1911 CD. To the right of the Antlers are the Wales Apartments at 344 S Olive. Continuing right, the small writing at the top says Holtzclaw-Stubbs-Shriner Co. Their listing in the 1911 CD places them at 347 S Hill Street, although it notes that the company has been succeeded by Shriner & Allen Co. The company is listed as Holtzclaw Allen & Co in the 1909 CD where their business is described as decorators and antique furniture. The Delmonico Italian restaurant advertised on the wall below can be seen on the right of the picture, although it isn't in the City Directories (the 1909 and 1911 CDs both list a restaurant owned by Aurelio Garau at 351 S Hill, with the latter also naming him as the owner of furnished rooms at 355 S Hill). The other wall sign is for Earl V. Lewis' Kodak Store at 226 W 4th Street - we covered it back in post #18648. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...thHilleBay.jpg eBay The roof which can be seen on the far right of the picture above belongs to the old University Club at 349 South Hill. GaylordWilshire previously posted the picture below, but the image is currently missing, so here it is again. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tyClubHill.jpg USC Digital Library For reference, here's an up-to-date view of 4th and Hill from roughly the same position as the first. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4thHillGSV.jpg GSV A couple of previous posts about 4th and Hill: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16062 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16253 |
Mingus Auto Delivery Co. (I love the kid in his little racing cart)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...674/8mwgUs.jpgebay I believe this photograph was taken in front of 621 Towne Avenue. 1918 L.A. Directory http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/TCPuMo.pngLAPL The houses are long gone...replaced by industrial buildings. __ |
Vincent Photo Co.-early novelty postcard / advertisement
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She looks awfully familiar....
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I came across this interesting slide earlier tonight on ebay.
Broadway and 7th, 1965 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/F5MgAi.jpg DR. NO on the marquee...very cool. The Tower Theater is visible down the block...with the huge 'Newsreel' blade sign. __ |
Performers from the nightclub Café de Paree, Los Angeles
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/cRc0OA.jpgebay by Cloud's Studio, L.A. (have we heard of this photographer's studio before?) After a few google searches....I found this matchbook. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/mDIi8g.pnghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/aW3yx0.png also ebay __ |
I found a few pictures on eBay from around the harbor area, so I thought I'd post them together.
Here's a panorama of the harbor from August 9, 1919. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...a.jpg~original eBay The seller also included this detail of the grain elevators. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...arbor1919b.jpg eBay Just over 75 years ago, Terminal Island was about to lose its "best know prisoner". A certain Al Capone had to pay $10,000 is tax liens to secure his release after serving 11 years in prison. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...andPrison1.jpg eBay All the main buildings are still there, although there have been some additions. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...andPrison2.jpg Google Maps Across the water and slightly north was this Mobilgas station in San Pedro. The Hotel Fern was at 230 W 7th Street. The gas station and hotel have since been replaced by the Crowne Plaza Los Angeles Harbor Hotel. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AHotelFern.jpg eBay |
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