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Thanks for the kind comments about Perry Mason
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Everybody Loves Raymond
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But then, I didn't think anyone could ever top Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes until Jeremy Brett blew it away in the 80's PBS series. |
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LOL, I was thinking of that, too. Nowadays, this gentlemen's tennis attire would be what people wear to dress up and go out for an evening. (At least on a hot L.A. night.) _________________ Quote:
Now I'm interested! Any info you can share? Possible premiere date? How many episodes a season? Etc. |
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Please, for all that is Holy, do not make the mistake that "Gangster Squad" did and show people firing automatics with a two-handed grip. My father was a peace officer during the 1930s and he and most of his colleagues hated automatics. His saying was that more people got shot by accident with automatics than got shot on purpose with revolvers. He also taught me to shoot with his service revolver. One handed, arm outstretched. Sight picture, sight alignment, squeeze. And also, please have somebody teach your actors how to wear a hat :-) (Another howler in "Gangster Squad") (Example below, from 1933) http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Parents.jpg |
For what it's worth, although Brutalism isn't my favorite archtectural style, I quite like the Liberty Savings and Loan building from yesterday's post.
----------------- Hopefully, we're back to a less contentious building with today's Julius Shulman post. It's "Job 559: Stiles Oliver Clements, Zandt Carpet Company, 1949". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original A different angle on the sign. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The parking lot around the back. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original This is the only interior shot. It's a great open space with no supporting columns. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The Zandt Carpet Co was at 1122 N Vine Street, with the Colehurst Apartments at 1106. While the apartment building is still standing (the first floor has lost some of its glamour), the carpet store has gone, replaced by the Hollywood Social Security Office. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV Here's the 2003 demo permit, which I believe shows the building in the Shulman photos. Who writes "Demo entire building" on a Stiles Oliver Clements design? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Online Building Records |
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The permit for the Colehurst Apartments was pulled by the Cornelius Cole Company in 1924, a week before Cornelius Cole, a one-time US Senator, died at 102. He founded Colegrove (which coincidentally was his wife's maiden name) and some of the streets thereabouts are named for family members: Cole St., Willoughby Ave., Eleanor St. and Seward St.. Cole was from Lodi, NY, that name is via him too. The Colehurst was designed by Lester Hudson Hibbard, who had a long and prolific career after starting as a draftsman for Hunt and Grey. Cole campaigned long and loudly against the proposed Hollywood Cemetery "blighting" his town, but, he's now buried there, as is Mr Hibbard. Orchard Gables was designed for Sen Cole by Norman Foote in 1904: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HZ...g=w683-h512-no M2A Saved from the wrecking ball and now nicely repurposed as LACER, a non-profit youth arts organization, it's at Wilcox and Fountain: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wq...A=w900-h543-no gsv The Colehurst (yes, it's had a parapet correction): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mZ...w=w671-h524-no gsv Just east of the Colehurst at 6245 Santa Monica Blvd, is Paramount Recorders. It has a great history. All the individual Beatles recorded here e_r. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tw...=w1169-h447-no gsv |
Banning home on Fort Hill
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I think we've already seen this 1927 photo of the Banning home: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original 00026524 at LAPL This photo appears to have been taken around the same time as the previous image. There is a glimpse of the Banning carriage house at far right: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original Islandora You previously posted this nice shot of the Banning carriage house: Quote:
The Banning carriage house is at the center of this image I just came across. It looks north on N. Hill Street on Decoration (now Memorial) Day, c. 1907-09. The school building at the left edge of the photo (just north of the 1891 LAHS building) is not on the 1906 Sanborn Map, but it is on the 1910 Baist Map. At right is the High School Annex: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.png~original SCWHR-P-005-N0258 at Seaver Center Here's the Banning home at 535 N. Broadway and carriage house at 535-1/2 on the 1906 Sanborn: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL |
Court Flight Site and 1853/54 Jail
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with the two-story brick 1853/54 jail just above and to the right of center. Fort St./Broadway runs along the base of the hill, with New High and Spring Streets east of and parallel to Fort/Broadway. The Temple Clocktower Court House is at upper left: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original 487373 at Huntington Digital Library |
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1899. Less than a quarter of a century later, the slope looked like this, with Franklin coming in to meet Broadway in the lower, left corner: Quote:
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https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4236/3...e57df83a_b.jpg Is it just my fevered imagination or can we see the Baker and Wills homes? it seemed like a match the other night but now I'm not so sure. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4219/3...28f01df8_b.jpg as a reminder: Quote:
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Once as I was going west on the sidewalk... walking towards me was singer Bobby Sherman. We had a brief encounter by the white gate at the right in this T2 photo....hugely friendly guy. Coincidentally we're almost the exact same age. :previous: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pss4l7mzl4.jpg |
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Not with any certainty but I don't believe the house was used as a single family residence following Mary's passing in 1919 as the girls had by then moved on. By 1937 the main house was a warren of small rental spaces and the carriage house had become the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart Convent. Herman Schulteis recorded both structures in '37. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2822/9...376dc62c_o.jpgThe former home of Mary Hollister Banning, Fort Moore Hill, Herman Schultheis, ca.1937 Originally built by former local beer maker Jacob Philippi when he opened shop as a barkeep on Fort Moore Hill in about 1877. Being difficult to reach, particularly after a rain, the saloon attracted a rough crowd and after a few years of fist-,gun- and knife fights Philippi called it quits and retreated back down the hill simply boarding it up and leaving. Following Phineas Banning's death in 1885, his widow, Mary Hollister Banning relocated from Wilmington and chose to purchase and refurbish the structure as a rather unusual home. With two strong-willed daughters in tow, particularly Lucy the younger girl whose life of misbegotten decision-making could fill a book, Mary appreciated the relative isolation as well as the view and frequent breeze the brow of the hill afforded. At 535 N. Broadway, here, well past its prime, now serving as a boarding house, it overlooked the north portal of the Broadway tunnel. Mary's step-son Hancock Banning built his own house on Fort Moore Hill at 416 N. Broadway. It overlooked the south portal of the Broadway tunnel. https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7316/1...d9b16da1_o.jpgMissionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart Convent, Herman Schultheis, 1937 Well, this is interesting. Here is the archived (LAPL) caption: 'This Queen Anne structure on Fort Moore Hill was the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart Convent. Women perform daily tasks in the yard. The city view to the south(?) is striking because the convent is built next a the steep hillside.' Before becoming a convent, this was the carriage house of the former home of Mary Hollister Banning and it overlooks Sonora Town to the north, not the south. The main house was originally Jacob Philippi's Saloon which Mary Banning had purchased in 1887-8 or so and had turned into a well appointed, if odd, mansion. The main house faced N. Broadway on top of Fort Moore Hill while the carriage house backed up to N. Hill Street where it passed in front of the high school, and looked down on what would become Sunset Boulevard. Architecturally, the carriage house echoed the distinctive main house/former saloon. LAPL More on the wild daughter Lucy... http://articles.latimes.com/2004/sep/05/local/me-then5 |
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