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----------------- I thought this was going to be another hard-to-find Beverly Hills house from Julius Shulman when I saw the title. It's "Job 3042: William Beckett, Heston House (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1960". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's the other image in the set. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute I bet there were more shots in the set, because it shows the home of Charlton Heston. It came onto the market for the first time in 2015. Here are some recent images from Variety (there are more at the link below). I'll start with a wider view of the entrance. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...stonHouse3.jpg This looks like a sunburst design on the carpet. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...stonHouse4.jpg A beautiful view blocked by a thousand books! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...stonHouse5.jpg Finally, the pool. There's also a tennis court (see the Google Maps view below). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...stonHouse6.jpg All from variety.com/Nourmand & Associates A 2016 Variety article says that the house sold for $12.2m to French film director-producer Luc Besson. Let's hope he's happy with it, and doesn't raze it to build some ugly monstrosity. The house, which can be found at 2859 Coldwater Canyon Drive, still looks OK on the current aerial view. I've included the whole driveway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original Google Maps The house was also covered by la.curbed.com. |
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http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s.../Shulman1.jpeg Julius seated at right. http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s.../Shulman2.jpeg Julius second from right. http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...Bradbury1.jpeg As an added bonus Ray Bradbury (seated) was the keynote speaker. I couldn't afford any of Mr. Shulman's monographs at the time (would have been nice to have one on hand to get autographed), but I did have a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes for Mr. Bradbury to sign. |
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In his autobiography, The Name Above the Title (The Macmillan Company, 1971), director Frank Capra mentions that he made his WWII government films at that old Western Avenue studio. Page 339: "The old Western Avenue Twentieth Century Studios had been abandoned years ago. It was now a pile of run-down buildings -- a ghost studio. I asked Darryl [Zanuck] to let me have it for my film section and for Tom Lewis's Armed Forces Radio. He said, 'Of course, it's all yours.' He'd have it cleaned up and painted for me." Page 339 [regarding Capra's recruiting director George Stevens]: "Come over to Western Avenue. The old Fox studio." Page 340: "The whole Why We Fight series, the Know Your Ally, Know Your Enemy series, the Army-Navy Screen Magazine, The Negro Soldier in World War II were all made in that falling-apart borrowed studio with scrounged furniture and equipment . . . ." |
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http://lesdiagonalesdutemps.over-blog.com/ "Academy Awards Coffee Shop waitress, USA Hollywood CA 1960" A closer look. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/GU9OJF.jpg taken by Dennis Stock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Stock So was this coffee shop at the Academy Headquarters or the Academy Awards Ceremony? (1960 was the last year the ceremony was held at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood) To me, the bust looks like Marlon Brando. (possibly a left-over prop from 'Julius Caesar', 1953) This curious photo is on the front of the cash register. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/49fYG8.jpgdetail To me, it looks like it was taken at an early gay pride parade. (I have no idea why it's on the front of the cash register) This second snapshot on the cash register has me stumped. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/4uznsk.jpgdetail Could the man on the left be Humphrey Bogart and the larger man Clark Gable. (?) And here's the 'thingy' on top of the register. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...923/ePlawm.jpg ? ? ? ? ? ( no. idea.) One last curious item. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/L1ItaK.jpgdetail It's a triangular placard that appears to be advertising a coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard (I can't read the four digit street number) The illustration is a Parisian kiosk. __ |
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By the 70s, the studio was not the showplace it was when William Fox was in charge (below), but still very much a going concern. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ak...Q=w802-h530-no 21cfblog Of course Deluxe was there the whole time, from 1917 to 2014. That's quite a run. And, hey, what about that bench? Do you think it still exists somewhere in the back of the property department? |
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The plaster bust above is Marlon Brando by self-taught artist Kenneth Kendall .. More about Mr. Kendall at this link....http://www.kennethkendallart.com/about Kenneth Kendall, a West Hollywood portrait painter and sculptor, met James Dean only once, when the young actor dropped by Kendall's studio on Melrose Avenue. But that meeting in early 1955 would have a lasting effect on Kendall, who devoted the next half a century to preserving Dean's memory through oil paintings, sculptures and monuments. Dennis Stock's claim to fame was that he was a friend and photographer of actor James Dean. His book link is below: https://www.amazon.com/Dennis-Stock-...ock+james+dean James Dean and Dennis Stock....1955 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps3e1twzab.jpg 1.bp.blogspot. |
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I wonder how the bust ended up in the coffee shop? Here's the artist with the Marlon Brandon bust. (per your link) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/DKMgta.jpg http://www.kennethkendallart.com/about It turns out, the artist was an extra during the "Friends,Romans..Countrymen" speech in 'Julius Caesar'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/aV4o2C.jpg http://www.kennethkendallart.com/about Quote:
The studio on Melrose. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/E8L4CR.jpg I checked 'gsv' & couldn't locate the building. I'm afraid it's long gone. :( _ |
The Rex Arms from one of the rooms in the Statler Hotel [c.1960]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/ElkTyk.jpg ebay :previous: This is pretty amazing. (is that a huge water-tower on the top of that building in the distance?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/WZH36s.jpg ebay One of the non-Statler slides. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/ODAKRo.jpg ebay The window at Florsheim's. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/2zIgmI.jpg ebay The link to all the slides. (including several more of the Statler) Enjoy! http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1960...QAAOSwSypY~vld |
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A few short years earlier, circa 1960, Venice was somewhat forlorn and off the beaten path, which of course is one of the reasons it attracted "funk" and "beat" etc. Some referred to the area as a slum. Venice also served as a home base for artistic/political/philosophical iconoclasts, like Tom Laughlin, of "Billy Jack" fame. Tom and his wife, Delores Taylor, founded a Montessori preschool in Santa Monica in'59. Quote:
The Gas House (demolished in '62), and many of the characters pictured below, is discussed in this article: The Gas House: Beatniks vs. Neatniks and the Battle for Venice Beach's Soul." https://www.kcet.org/history-society...ce-beachs-soul http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/335a71714a250213_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/335a71714a250213_large Tom and his familia http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d2f43cbe4574a78f_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d2f43cbe4574a78f_large Billy Jack and wife/costar Delores http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...9c2600e014.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...9c2600e014.jpg Billy Jack v Chuck Norris? :coolugh: :surrender: Um, dig it. http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0bc47b4b617b345a_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0bc47b4b617b345a_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/32cdc04837a76f46_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/32cdc04837a76f46_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b003b04dba78d2c7_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b003b04dba78d2c7_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a5851614dd3b4a80_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a5851614dd3b4a80_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/e47c89bf6fc64685_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/e47c89bf6fc64685_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/699e15ee468f0e8d_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/699e15ee468f0e8d_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/2d7b915e5943c67c_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/2d7b915e5943c67c_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b837766d118111ea_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b837766d118111ea_large When incandescents were hot. Artist Nico Van Den Heuvel. Previously mentioned on NLA. http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/f93f4a41e0b29a96_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/f93f4a41e0b29a96_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/1fcba4115a737d44_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/1fcba4115a737d44_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0e442ec59fc9f417_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0e442ec59fc9f417_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c276f7de21ddb2a8_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c276f7de21ddb2a8_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/26dde742e666cfe5_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/26dde742e666cfe5_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/74b5ce59ac634a8c_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/74b5ce59ac634a8c_large Time out for a sandwich? https://images.fineartamerica.com/im...-garry-gay.jpghttps://images.fineartamerica.com/im...-garry-gay.jpg http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a5f63d58995b3bab_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a5f63d58995b3bab_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0a55c69254bf552c_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0a55c69254bf552c_large One has to wonder . . . whether pre-Gilligan, Bob Denver, spent time at the Gas House, researching his Maynard G. Krebs character. :yes: Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver as Dobie and Maynard http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EHNj9OnxsV...b%2BDenver.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EHNj9OnxsV...b%2BDenver.jpg |
Two of my favorite James Dean pics both by Dennis Stock...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4174/3...b411ecf7_o.jpgBack home in Indiana, 1955
Getting a haircut in Fairmount, Indiana, 1955, photo by Dennis Stock https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2874/9...de82255d_o.jpgFairmount, Dennis Stock, 1955. With his cousin Markie. Fairmount, Indiana,1955. Photo by Dennis Stock Then a bit of the hip... https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2860/3...a2f180e4_b.jpgThe Interlude and the Crescendo, 8572 Sunset Boulevard, 1957 The Interlude and the Crescendo, joined at the hip. (I think this may have been on here a while back) And then a turn to the beat side... https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2940/3...01a48a11_b.jpgBeat, 1958 April 1958. "The 'Beatnik' community of San Francisco's North Beach district, socializing at a local coffee house, at a 'beat' party and other activities." 35mm negative from photos by Cal Bernstein for the Look magazine assignment "The Bored, the Bearded and the Beat." |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IT...A=w315-h614-no laherald 4 sept 1913 |
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But for the most part, and considering Indiana is generally not the mecca from which most Hollywood icons hail from, James Dean is not celebrated nearly as much as Jimmy Dean (we're big on breakfast meats here). I always though James a bit over-emoting in his roles. That teenage angst thing got a little old after a while. Steve McQueen was way more cool. I'm sure many will disagree with me. |
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