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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library Here's a closer view showing what the description calls "a twisted wood fence" and "several wooden structures". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Detail of picture above. I've still got no idea what it is! |
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Thank you Lorendoc, there it is! |
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____ I have one more question (you knew that was coming didn't you) Last night I noticed a line of trees that appear to have been windswept to a perilous angle. (if you look closely you can see the tree trunk) from yesterday https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/4EO9R6.jpg HoosC detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/h8S7o7.jpg The angle is so severe the trees could have been a tourist draw all by themselves. (not unlike the Cypress trees on Monterey Peninsula ) __ And I'm not even going to mention the little look-out spot with the fence and bench across from a well groomed pocket park. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/kKq6NN.jpg It's obviously meant for automobile tourists since there's no other way to get there. (nothing mysterious...just a small detail I hadn't noticed before) __ |
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The house sits at the corner of Carla Ridge and Walker Drive. This is in the Trousdale Estates area of Beverly Hills. This is the house you can see from the lawn of 440 Walker Drive. https://www.thepinnaclelist.com/prop...-hills-ca-usa/ |
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There are a stand of trees to the left of the small building that are standing upright. The slanted "trees" (they still look like trees to me) are a bit further down the road. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/rfxCie.pngcontrast adjusted I won't even mention that shadowy figure walking through an opening in the trees (I'll chalk that one up to my imagination ;)) |
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. Anyone "Driving Home for Christmas?"https://psv4.userapi.com/c816735/u69..._automania.gif Long Room "Driving Home for Christmas Oh, I can't wait to see those faces Driving in my car, driving home for Christmas. It's gonna take some time, But I'll get there Top to toe in tailbacks Oh, I got red lights all around Soon there'll be a freeway (?) Get my feet on holy ground... I'm driving home for Christmas... ..with a thousand memories..." Hear this upbeat song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU2IeveIJ_A |
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https://www.jamesellroy.net/uploads/...08a863c106.jpg Los Angeles, 1950. Red crosscurrents and a string of brutal killings. The characters: Danny Upshaw—a sheriff’s deputy stuck with a bunch of murders that nobody cares about. Mal Considine—DA’s Office brass, climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his own career. Buzz Meeks—bagman, ex-goon and pimp for Howard Hughes, a man who fights Communism for the money. All three have purchased tickets to a nightmare worse than their darkest dreams. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_C6kND_Ezjv...-the-Man_1.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_C6kND_Ezjv...-the-Man_1.jpg Hunt the Man Down is a snappy thriller from the RKO B-Team with Gig Young out in front of a cast of relative unknowns. A cheap, 68 minute quickie, it’s nevertheless an entertaining film that strays into the realm of film noir in unusual ways. The film script opens at an anonymous L.A. watering hole.... |
:previous: I wasn't aware of Hunt the Man Down CBD. I'll have to check it out.
Any film that starts at an anonymous L.A. watering hole sounds good to me. |
I don't believe we have seen this photograph on nla.
"Whittier Boulevard, East Los Angeles, California" http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/12...924/Lg3Y7b.jpg donated by Donald R. Swickard If you look closely one of the signs on the tent says 'Olympic Games', so the date is probably 1932. And it appears they're welcoming someone back to town. http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/10...924/iXZPGp.jpg the plaster company is selling bathtubs and backyard incinerators ---> ___ update: The person they're welcoming back is Buck Jones. http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/80...922/lnYllz.jpg I concentrated so much on the Olympic sign I missed his name on the car. __ |
Who is Yma Sumac?
The negative of this photograph was on ebay last week.
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/12...924/uBekJi.jpgebay In case you didn't know; Yma Sumac was a Peruvian singer with an otherworldly vocal range of four and a half octaves, from B2 to F♯7. At the peak of her fame, in the 1950s, she topped record charts, filled nightclubs and ultimately became a cult heroine. She was also (apparently) able to sing in a remarkable "double voice". Ms Sumac lived most of her life in Los Angeles and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. A photograph of her appeared not so long ago in the Los Angeles Times. http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/12...922/qvX6RA.jpg ymasumac (hopefully I posted this large enough so you can read it) http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/12...924/jLfvUM.jpg You can also read the article HERE. __ |
Mystery structure south from Palisades Park
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I took the googlemobile to the area on Ocean next to Palisades Park, just above the California Incline, and I found a structure still there that looks much like this one. When I saw the previous posts with the view of the road below, and the parks, I thought it looked like what the California Incline could have been before it was shaped and paved for auto traffic. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4596/...06b3c1af_b.jpg image by Kimberly, on Flickr Satellite view https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4597/...4d46ffcb_b.jpg image by Kimberly, on Flickr |
Velma of Christmas Past
Let's briefly return to a post from six Christmas's ago. (page 285!)
Miss Velma at her Universal World Church in Los Angeles. http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/10...923/Vw0gbU.jpg skyscraperpage Miss Velma was most famous for her extravagant Christmas Pageants. Here's Velma (dressed as a Christmas angel) as she 'flies' horizontally over the stage at the Universal World Church"' in this clip Santa arrives in a mini-bus. (i.e. glorified golf cart) _____________________________________ update: I just came across these newspaper clippings earlier today. Apparently, at some point in her reign Miss Velma started the "Miss Velma's Campaign for Youth". http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/80...923/6FSxMy.jpg banardesign Velma as Cinderella. http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/12...924/58Qgk8.jpg :previous: isn't that the Easter dress? Another theme was Outer Space where Velma "goes to the Moon" http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/80...924/k2WIf1.jpg I was bonkers about the Outer Space when I was a kid. http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/10...922/ZoI0zJ.jpg M E R R Y - C H R I S T M A S - E V E R Y O N E ! & Happy Holidays :) Bruce _____________________________________________________________ If you're a newcomer to nla...or a glutton for punishment you can go HERE to meet Velma's husband (who also happens to be her first cousin) and HERE for an informative follow-up. view the 'otherworldly' World Church plans HERE one last post HERE |
Pre-Yankee Los Angeles taps me on the shoulder and says it would like to wish our genial preceptor e_r and everyone at NLA the warmest and best Yuletide!
Here is a little about the Christmas traditions typical of the 1830s-1840s from the reminiscences of Don Arturo Bandini (quoted from Navidad/Pastorela, edited by Susanna Bryant Dakin, 1958): "Navidad! Pasquas! Noche Buena! Christmas! What memories of good old times gone, never to return, must the above words bring back to the minds of old Californians. [ . . . ] For us muchachos and younger folks, however, the Vispera de Navidad, or Christmas Eve, was the day of great expectations. I remember how a lot of us would get on the roof of our large adobe house to watch for the arrival of the different great rancheros escorting [from his rancho to the area of the Plaza in Los Angeles] each his individual gaily decorated carreta (ox-cart) which contained his family. What canopies these humble conveyances carried! Great silken bedspreads, worked with the most beautiful flowers, the fringe serving as a screen and reaching to the axle. Others had coverings of gay rebosos, China crepe, and lace curtains, with flowers and figures embroidered in vivid colors. And the escorts: how shall I describe the trappings of the gallant horse and his still more gallant rider, and not be charged with exaggeration? Fortunately, I know many, both Americans and Spanish- Americans, that can corroborate my statements. "The costume of the early Californians was picturesque and serviceable; for riding, especially, it was most appropriate; the short, graceful jacket, beautifully embroidered in silver or gold, the trousers snug at the seat, but expanding from thigh to ankle; the side-seams being open, the wearer, if he so preferred, could bring them together by means of silver buttons or clasps in the shape of tiny shells; underneath all this was the snowy calzonillo, or riding drawers. Others used knee-breeches and botas, a species of leggings worn to protect the lower part of the leg. On the bota the embroiderer used her greatest ingenuity to show it to the best advantage; indeed the early Californian was more particular about the beauty of this article than almost any other part of his dress. The bota was wrapped two or three times around the leg and fastened at the top by a wide and tasseled garter. As in the middle ages some knights carried to extremes the length of their pointed shoes, even to the extent of attaching the end to their girdles, so did some of the early Californians with the cords and tassels of their botas, the ends of which would touch the ground. [ . . . ] "Such were some of the sights of olden California. In those days everybody knew everybody else, and as the well-known families passed by, the bright curtains would part, young and old faces peered out, and shrill greetings flew from carreta (wagon) to house, and vice versa. But the event was yet to come. Gaily decorated and festooned carretas, prancing horses, and splendid horsemen were a common enough sight for us, but the Pastores--Ah! that was something that occurred but once a year during Navidad Christmas time. Los Pastores The Shepherds is a species of sacred drama, something like the Passion Play [ . . . ] The last play given by the pastores in Los Angeles City was on the Christmas eve of 1861. The place selected for the occasion was the site on which now stands the present Pico House, then a large courtyard pertaining to the Pico homestead [ . . . ] "It is a sad task to recall to mind, and more so to note down, all the events and customs of those happy days. Still some comfort may be derived from the knowledge that the perusal may afford the reader pleasure, and that he may join with the chronicler in heartily bidding the good old times a 'Feliz Noche Buena!' ." And so, to the members of NLA, who I know take great pleasure in contemplating the old days of our little Pueblo, I wish you a hearty and heart-felt Feliz Noche Buena! |
. MERRY CHRISTMAS NOIRISHERS! Caption: Shooting of snow scene at studio, Ford and Santa Claus, Hollywood, Southern California, 1935. http://68.media.tumblr.com/da97e17ae...hjho1_1280.jpg USC Library/Dick Whittington Here's a Busby Berkley-esque photo of some ladies with a bare legged Santa around a Christmas tree on an unnamed Los Angeles beach in 1927. http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/...geles-1927.jpg Smithsonian Institution, Archives Center, National Museum of American History We've seen a lot of similar images, but I don't recall this one before; a Getty Images photo of Hollywood Blvd. at the holidays, looking east from Las Palmas. No date is given, but the Vogue Theatre has a banner showing The Story of Molly X playing, which premiered in November, 1949. https://c7.alamy.com/comp/C1W9CK/usa...ght-C1W9CK.jpg Notice the ladder leading up to an opening in the bottom of the tree. Could a person crawl inside them? To the right of this tree is a blade sign for a place I don't recall before. It looks like it's the Royal Room, or the curved neon above "Royal" indicates it might be the Royal (something) Room. I believe this location was later the Gold Cup. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos...87?s=2048x2048 https://media.gettyimages.com/photos...75?s=2048x2048 Getty Images Since we're at Hollywood and Blvd. and Las Palmas, here's a mid-60's look down the street. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vgzrlN5BH...KolchakAns.jpg Los Angeles Theatres You can see a Christmas tree on either side of the photo. On the left is Miceli's restaurant and the Las Palmas Theater. Straight ahead is the First Baptist church at Selma Ave. On the right corner, the location doesn't seem to be the "Royal" anything and hasn't become the Gold Cup yet, but I can't make out the name. The blade sign facing Hollywood Blvd. might say "Cheese Shop." https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kLHhAhBur...52C%2B1933.jpg VIntage SoCal/History in photos And lastly, not enough information to find the location, but here's a lady mailing her Christmas packages in Los Angeles, 1933. Happy Holidays! . |
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