Jack London / Finn Frolich
 

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I tried to find the "famous" photo mentioned in this 1981 quote, but could not:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2c...g=w612-h184-no
literary l.a., 1981

Unless I mis-remembered, or there was another segment like this on a different episode, which is entirely possible, Decades Channel,
now airing the series this year, had this jogger coming down the Angels Flight tracks in front of Olivet...or Sinai?

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...20Laugh-In.png

Filmed in 1968.

If you want to see the several second segment, it starts at 14:58 on this youtube post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe60DObTTr4

Marker, Marker, all and all, which is the fairest . . . ;)



From Unihikid:
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[BSuperior Hermosa Beach post:[/B] http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10676


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Looking at sand dunes makes me hungry and thirsty.



Circa 1890, Pavilion restaurant. Corner of Ocean and Railroad Ave.

Fishy specialties?
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Same/similar bridge, :shrug: a few (six) years later.

Quote:

View is looking north across the bridge on Ocean Avenue, from the Arcadia Hotel. A trolley can be seen on the right. In the middle of the photograph, a sign reads "Arcadia Baths, hot salt baths, new tubs."

1896
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Jackson's Napa Soda

1895 City Directory
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And in 1909, Coca Cola was bottled at 816 Stephenson Ave.? And/or 612 South San Pedro?
1909 CD
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...y.jpg~original



An appeal to large families?

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps2oeylzw4.jpg 1896CD

Zimbalist and Moore also had recurring roles on "Maverick," as Dandy Jim Buckley and Beau Maverick, respectively.

I don't know what e_r's photo shows, but I don't think it shows either Manhattan or Hermosa Beach. There isn't enough sand,
and there are too many trees. Also, that steep hill in background looks out of place.

This photo looks north from just below 1st Street in south Manhattan Beach, c. 1927:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original

Manhattan Beach Historical Society


Here we look north from north Redondo Beach, up into Hermosa Beach, with Manhattan Beach further in the distance, c. 1927:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original

Manhattan Beach Historical Society

"Miss Los Angeles contest, 1954"

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http://vintage2068.rssing.com (darkened & enlarged)



We first saw Muriel and Shelly back in 2012 courtesy of MR.

I wonder who won the contest......was it just these two?

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I hope the Angeleno won :-)

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Torrance? (I can't tell how much is lost in the fog in the historic photo). I'm also not clear on the P.E. route along there. There was the one on the coast and another that came into Torrance through Gardena

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VX...g=w893-h471-no
gsv

:previous: That hill looks about right.



Woman poses for a snapshot on the shoulder of the Hollywood Freeway in 1959.

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Charles Phoenix via http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/09/01/freeway-poser/

This is at the bottom of the embankment where Muriel and Shelly posed five years earlier.
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Still searching for a photograph of the elusive M. O. P. folks.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/WCpVei.jpg
:previous: Thanks for the additional information Martin. You're right about the view....any windows facing south would be a spectacular view (even on a lower floor)

I've been searching off and on for a couple days & I still haven't found a photograph of 'My Own Place/M.O.P.' or the 'Jordanell Cocktail Lounge'. :(





But I have found a few close-ups of Finley's Restaurant when it was located in the Mocambo.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/IJ0V0F.jpggettyarchives

:previous: This is singer Johnnie Ray and an unknown woman in front of the Mocambo nightclub on June 7, 1954.



Does anyone recognize the young lady? (you see her face better in the pic. below)

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http://www.gettyimages.com/event/mic...ure-id73986432






Just for fun....

The following two photos show starlet Kathy Marlowe and an unnamed man on December 1, 1954.

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http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/ne...ure-id76667371

I've never heard of 'Kathy Marlowe' (and I don't recognize the unnamed man)





Whoever he was...he drove a nice sports car.

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Sherry's...always exciting in 1949, 3:55 AM
 

1949

Mickey Cohen, 35, shot outside the nightclub... still lying on the sidewalk.

Mickey Cohen's bodyguard Neddie Herbert is loaded into an ambulance. Cohen’s entourage was ambushed outside the nightclub on the Strip by two men with shotguns lying in wait across the street.
Herbert later died from his wounds.

Sherry’s...a nightspot that was popular with movie stars and mobsters




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I think we're too far south here, t2. PE's Redondo lines joined at Catalina Ave. & Pearl St. and then ran southward to Cliffton-by-the-Sea (later abbreviated as "Cliffton" or "Clifton") at the north end of what's now the Hollywood Riviera neighborhood of Torrance. Trackage ended at the city line.

I have a question about the ATSF photo as well. If that's Longfellow Ave. at the center of the photo, then the right-of-way should begin curving to the left a block further on at 30th St. But I can't see anything that indicates it's doing so. The gap in the trees (where the track would be) would seem to indicate that it remained straight. I also agree that the hill at the left of the frame looks to be in the wrong place.

Cabaret Concert Theatre
 

There is a youtube interview with famous "female illusionist" Charles Pierce where he tells host Skip E. Lowe about working in the early 1950's, fresh out of the Pasadena Playhouse, at a nightclub/theatre on Sunset Blvd. in Silverlake called "Cabaret Concert." Cabaret Concert was started in 1950 by a dancer named Miriam Schiller as a showcase for aspiring performers. It ran until 1961, described as "a popular nightspot among television and film producers, talent scouts, agents and celebrities," and as having "a shadowy atmosphere with candlelit tables, poetry readings, jazz and folk singers, and dancers in black leotards." Many famous names and familiar faces of the 1950's through the 1970's, mostly television personalities, started out at Cabaret Concert, some of them working for little money and doubling as wait staff and ticket takers.

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Charles Pierce, "Female Illusionist"
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El Cid at 4212 Sunset, originally Cabaret Concert 1950-1961
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Inside stairs and lower courtyard of Cabaret Concert/El Cid
clubzone.com


Regular performers included Ann B. Davis ("Schultzie" on the Bob Cummings Show" and later housekeeper Alice in "The Brady Bunch"), Jo Ann Worley ("Laugh In"), vivacious television actress Ruta Lee, Ken Berry ("F Troop," "Mayberry R.F.D.," and "Mama's Family"), Berry's wife Jackie Joseph (the original "Little Shop of Horrors," and "The Doris Day Show"), Comedic actor and game show host Bert Convy, jazz singers Ruth Olay and Ketty Lester, Ann Morgan Guilbert (Rob and Laura's neighbor Millie Helper on "The Dick Van Dyke Show,") and voluptuous blonde bombshell/schemer Joyce Jameson. In real life, Joyce was the long-time girlfriend of "The Man From Uncle's" Robert Vaughn. She suffered from depression and and committed suicide with pills at age 54 in 1987.

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Joyce Jameson
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Ann B. Davis
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Jo Ann Worley on "laugh-In"
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Ruta Lee
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Jackie Joseph and Ken Berry
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The famous musical comedy revue "The Billy Barnes Review" played for two years starting in 1956 at Cabaret Concert, then moved to the larger Las Palmas Theatre and eventually to Broadway.

The Cabaret Concert building, whose facade is a long stucco wall with a Mission-Style parapet over the street entrance, is located at 4212 Sunset Blvd. near Myra. Today it is known as "El Cid," a flamenco restaurant - theatre, doubling as a venue for eclectic musical acts. The building has an unusual layout. Photos show stairs going down from near the entrance to a lower courtyard and bar; beyond that is a cavernous room with a stage at the far end. The step-down, split-level layout owes to it being built on a hillside on the north side of Sunset. Below the building is a valley with mostly older houses (I gather this from google photographs).

The land where El Cid/Cabaret Concert is located was originally a "cornfield" used by D.W. Griffith to film scenes for his epic "Birth of a Nation," (originally entitled "The Clansman") around 1914. Griffith's studio, the Reliance-Majestic Studio - sometimes known as The Griffith Studio and Majestic Studio, later the Fine-Arts Studio - was nearby at 4516 Sunset, now a Von's parking lot. The story goes that Griffith built or was involved in the building of the El Cid structure in 1915, and he screened his film there for the outrageously high admission price of $2.00 - about $48.00 today.

In the 1920's the building's facade was startlingly remodeled into the bizarre "Jail Cafe," prominently featured here at NLA; about 1932 it became The Gateway Theatre, where for several years an old-fashioned melodrama called "The Blackguard Returns" played.

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Jail Cafe 1920's
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Gateway Theatre 1930's, The Blackguard Returns
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A Charles Pierce postscript:
Pierce was an aspiring stage actor when he occasionally performed at Cabaret Concert around 1952/53. His biographer writes that Pierce's offerings, such as a performance of a Noel Coward sketch, were tepidly received. One night a friend ran into an excited Pierce at a gay bar on Melrose near Vine called "The Golden Carp," (the writer surmised it may have originally been a Chinese restaurant and the name was retained). Pierce had just come from seeing a noted impressionist named Arthur Blake at The Bar of Music (recently featured here at NLA) on Beverly Blvd. in Hollywood. Blake was a big name at the time, a friend of Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, and Talullah Bankhead, and a regular at The Trocadero and nightclubs in New York. He wasn't then a drag performer per se, but used a few props such as hats and scarves to impersonate both female and male celebrities, although he excelled at "haughty divas." Bette Davis said that Arthur Blake was the only impressionist to "get her right."

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Arthur Blake,1940's
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Arthur Blake and pal Talullah Bankhead, early 1950's
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Bar of Music, Hollywood
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For Charles Pierce, seeing Arthur Blake that night was an epiphany; he began writing campy material and soon introduced his new drag persona at an Altadena spot called "Club La Vie."

An accquaintance and Pasadena Playhouse classmate of Pierce's around this time was young playwright/novelist James Leo Herlihy, who rented an inexpensive room at an old house in Hollywood called "Orchard Gables" - recently saved from demolition and now a center for non-profit organizations. Herlihy went on to success writing plays and novels that were made into movies: "Blue Denim," "All Fall Down," and "Midnight Cowboy." My friend Richard Lamparski remembers meeting Herlihy at Orchard Gables and describes him as "one of the unhappiest people I've ever met." Herlihy lived alternately in Key West and Silverlake, and killed himself with pills at age 66 in 1993.

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James Leo Herlihy
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Orchard Gables, 1904 Hollywood house once surrounded by citrus orchards
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The last I saw of Edd in a professional capacity was his Dick Clark-like role as a DJ in 'Hairspray'. John Travolta was in drag.
Byrnes and Roger Smith are about the same age, although one got the idea from the 77SS series that Edd was far his junior. I often wonder if either stops by the other's house on occasion just to visit? Do they hang out and watch reruns of 77SS? That would be just too cool.

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FWIW, Roger "Beau" Moore appeared in at least one 77SS episode and there are likely several others still around who made guest appearances on the show.

(Dates unk)



Edd making time for his hair.

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Roger Smith and Ann Margret.


Something catches Roger's attention.

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Ann searches for WigWag. :cool:

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:P


I'm guessing that's Connie Stevens in the car with Edd.
Roger Smith was still somewhat dapper-looking as he got older, although now a bit on the pudgy side. But at his age, he's probably happy he still has hair.

Both Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip were produced by Howie Horwitz at CBS. The shows would oftentimes swap scripts and re-adapt to the appropriate time period. Warner Bros. was a master at producing tv shows in an assembly-line fashion.

I once saw a You Tube clip of an interview with Horwitz discussing his days at CBS. I wanted to post it here but couldn't find it again.

In 1959, Connie Stevens had a hit record called, I swear this is true, "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb." 77SS was a cultural phenomenon for its time.

Triumph TR2, made from 1953 - 1955
http://i.imgur.com/CeUVm7M.jpg?1
https://www.scparts.co.uk/sc_en/brit...1953-1967.html

Thanks for that post, JeffDiego, I've never heard of that place before, though I've heard of almost everyone you posted about that was connected to it!


I know Billy Barnes from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. He composed all the original song numbers used on the show, many of them quite fantastic.
"Blondes", sung by Carol Channing and Goldie Hawn is one of my favorites.
He also appeared on the show occasionally, playing the piano.

Arthur Blake looks like Tiny Tim in that photo you posted. IMO.

I believe I've seen all of Brandon De Wilde's movies except Blue Denim. I've never come across it on TV, but I see that it's available on DVD.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...BlueDenim1.jpg

They sure have gotten themselves into a contorted position!

I guess it was also called Blue Jeans?

http://www.thevideobeat.com/media/de.../bluedenim.jpg


Brandon's magazine? :shrug:

http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7284/...3dd5990c16.jpg From HERE

Here they are singing it on a TV show:

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It Never Gets Old...
 

For anyone who remembers the 77 Sunset Strip tv show, this Connie Stevens song is invariably conjured up as the slim proof of their knowledge of the series. Hard to even call it a "song" actually. It was mainly a collection of Edd Byrnes reciting Kookie-like phrases such as "Gitchy" and "Reit" while Connie monotonously repeats "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb..."
I'm pretty sure it didn't sweep the Grammys or get covered by the Boston Pops.

Perhaps in his old age, Edd Byrnes has the song playing incessantly on his 1959 hi-fi console as he shuffles around the house in his robe, sipping vodka directly from the bottle and remembering the good ole days. Just sayin'.