Some genius at Ford should make a complete replica of that car (but modern on the inside). Would sell like hotcakes. Not talking PT cruiser--but a real replica. Bonnie & Clyde's fave car--the V8 flathead. Tired of these wimpy modern cars. 1920s & early '30s (pre-streamline)...When cars were cars etc. Who wouldn't want a car like that?

I recall watching a bad but somewhat entertaining film about the Nesbit/Thaw/White murder-love triangle scandal. "Girl on the Red Velvet Swing". A young & lovely Joan Collins played "Gibson Girl" Nesbit, her nutty husband Thaw was played by Farley Granger, and doomed playboy architect Sanford "Sanny" White was played by Ray Milland, who always seemed slightly drunk. Apparently White pushed a nude Nesbit on a velvet swing in his secret love nest lair in the White-designed old Madison Square Garden (where he was also shot by Thaw at a banquet on the roof garden). Was the swing story made up by Nesbit to get her rich husband acquitted in his trial? Apparently there really was a red velvet swing. The rotating statue of the huntress/goddess Diana on top of Madison Square Garden campenile was rumored to have been posed by a nude Evelyn Nesbit, so this added to the hoopoolah of the trial. Before O.J., this was the "trial of the century".

Always thought Milland was somewhat overrated as an actor. Was well cast in the "Lost Weekend" though as a drunk. One of Milland's last films, "The Man With the X-Ray Eyes" is a hoot. Also has insult comedian Don Rickles in a bit part. Mad scientist Milland discovers eye drops that allows him to see through clothing. Of course he was always watching pretty ladies, when not drunk. The potboiler ends with some preacher shouting "if thine eyes offend thee, pluck them out!" & Milland does exactly that. The End.

The Nesbit/Thaw/White murder triangle was also covered in the book & film "Ragtime", of course. Enjoyable watching old trooper Jimmy Cagney play the police commissioner in that film.

Good luck on your march Martin. Sounds like a good place to pick up chicks.

Where's the blood? These come up as the post-hacking bedrooms of Carrie and Robert Payne....


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ei...-6w=w1366-h768https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uG...JpA=w1366-h768



The items below are from insomnia...



While we're stretching NLA to NYC for a bit-- Stanford White's "love nest" was not at MSG but rather across the park at 22 West 24th St-- it collapsed from neglect (if not from structural stresses in the White era) a few years ago. (The lot is now used as a parking lot.)


The research varies-- the conjugal visits are not verifiable, of course...if they did occur, it is not "inconceivable" that Evelyn deliberately got herself knocked up to extort money from the Thaw family. She clearly wasn't playing with a full deck herself, or was simply and not implausibly looking for money, if she thought it was a good idea to even keep in touch with an obviously insane husband, a cold-blooded murder, who in 1916 was arrested for beating--and diddling--a 19-year-old boy. (As for his family's side--while no paragons themselves, their disapproval is understandable, since she had nothing if not a trashy past. Any money given by them to Evelyn was probably to keep the little grubber quiet.) Sad story all around. Evelyn never really had a chance, exploited by a grotesque pimp of a mother and then everyone else.



Ford would likely fire anyone who came up with such an unworkable, non-volume idea. If you want a stock-appearing '32 Ford with a modern drivetrain, I'm sure there are some for sale in Hemming's.

Beach in the 1880s
 

This is North Santa Monica Beach in the 1880s, shortly after the Southern Pacific railroad reached the town. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QEwGk3lmXp...ngeles+(1).jpg

The airplane is the XB43 by Douglas. An article in the Los Angeles Times 18 May 1946 has a more head-on photo. It was said that the XB43 was 100 mph faster than the XB-42 also by Douglas but pushed by contra-rotating propellers The vertical tail fin looks a lot like that of an A-26

Pershing Square or "Soap Box Park"
 

Long a gathering place of everyone from Anarchist to just plain folk. Not as popular for "Soap Boxing" as in other times but it appears to be coming back to popularity. [IMG]http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/t...psskk1srhi.jpg[/IMG] photo LAPL.

Where'd you get the pic, deputy?

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Here's the reverse of the Santa Monica picture.

E. G. Morrison, Photographer At Santa Monica, In Tent, On The Beach, Near Santa Monica Bath House.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
Huntington Digital Library

It's a really nice early image apparently predating the long wharf.

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I thought I'd look for E. G. Morrison's tent. Instead, I found one which I think says "Coffee and Ice Cream Parlor" (on the flag), and another selling Fruits, Candies, Lemonade and Cigars.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
Huntington Digital Library

A few years ago, the present owners of the American Storage Building painted some of its ornamentation ORANGE. I cringe every time I drive by.

Ha! Did the exact same thing. Ran the zoom all the way up and scanned around looking for his photo tent. Did you see he died in 1888?

I'm recalling that we decided that there were briefly two Carpenter's for a time at Sunset and Vine, one on the Northeast corner and across the street on the Southeast corner, hence the two Sunset Blvd. addresses in the 1936 CD, the reason being the construction of NBC on the Northeast corner. I am guessing the Carpenter's that's being recently discussed is the one on the Northeast corner?

As luck would have it, today's Julius Shulman post also takes us to Santa Monica. It's "Job 3403: Allison and Rible, Rand Corporation (Santa Monica, Calif.), 1962". This is the only color image in the set. The black Thunderbird and red/white Chevy really stand out amongst the other drab colors.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

Here's the other side of the building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

This close-up shows the entrance under the building. There are three other images in the set which just show similar angles, so I left them out.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

The building was white and gray in 2004.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
www.californiacoastline.org

It was demolished not long after the picture above was taken, and the site is now Tongva Park. As you can see from the image below, the RAND Corporation has moved a couple of blocks south.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
Google Maps

Brings back memories. Meeting with Willis Ware and the other pioneers of computer security there and at SDC. Followed by beer and burgers at the Oar House. [Dries tear, carries on :-)]

Cheers,

Earl

Cool Picture
 

Hollywoodland subdivision groundbreaking publicity photo includes a plow, mules and surveyors.
https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress..._lh1epgnc2.jpg
— thisweekincaliforniahistory.com

GW, here's a pic of the ax murderer as he returns to the scene of the crime.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/KVacQv.jpg
ebay

It took me a bit to find this. I had it stashed away in one of my old files.

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Xlnt
 

The XLNT tamale recipe that is still being used today dates back to 1906.
— articles.latimes.com

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrc7gnQnDF1qzswnx.jpg

1870
Old Plaza Church Los Angeles
Close-up view of the 'Old Plaza Church' (Mission Nuestra Senora Reina de Los Angeles) as it appeared in 1870. The three-story church features corner buttresses with spire-like tips.

http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...hurch_1870.jpg


— waterandpower.org