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In looking something up about Robert Young, I happened to notice and read about this television series I knew nothing about. Does anyone else know anything about it?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Title_Card.jpg Title Card for TV series "City of Angels," February through May, 1976. Synopsis: Set in Los Angeles in the 1930's, this period detective series was patterned after the hit motion picture Chinatown. It concerned the exploits of Jake Axminster, an often broke but always free-wheeling private investigator who was not above stretching the law and his ethics to get the information he wanted. He keeps his office in downtown L.A.’s historic Bradbury Building, phone number OXford-8704. The office was run by a beautiful but daffy secretary who also ran a switchboard for call girls. A mid-season replacement, it was known more for it's period production design and vintage cars and fashions than for dramatic involvement and it was soon cancelled after one season. (13 episodes. One of the episodes is titled "The House on Orange Grove Avenue.") It starred Wayne Rogers and Elaine Joyce. --TVRage |
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Note the gate tower of Singleton Court https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7444/...18d5912d_b.jpg ...and the Holton Arms https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7309/...a51aec45_o.jpg |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGcaFtxJH8A There might be a few episodes posted also. |
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Ok brethren, especially those with an keen eye for early residential, here's a mystery (to me at least). An RPPC postmarked from Station B, from Sarah to Dorothy Van Vleck ("This is a picture of our house. With Love.") of Baltimore. I looked in the '09 directory for a Young who's also a physician and found a couple, one down at 42nd near Fig where the houses tend toward the bungalows there in the flats, and one lived at 427 S Alvarado, where now there's an early-20s apartment...fairly raised from the street which I don't see here so I'm not feeling it for Alvarado. Was thinking one of y'all might immediately recognize this big bracketed-Italianate with the large square cupola right off the bat or can puzzle out where it might have been. |
I was reading the article about the 5-4 Ballroom(not 54) and saw this line....
"Within 10 blocks on Broadway--the new name for Moneta--numerous blues venues sprouted, including the defunct Dixie Club at 59th Street and Cotton Club at 50th." Now i remember a few years back us talking about Frank Sebatians Cotton Club in Culver City...I also remember my dad telling me about his first gig at the Savoy near the 5-4..but whats this about a CC on 50th? |
I can see it all now....
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Villa de Paredon Blanco
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UPDATE: I just checked the 1906 Sanborn, which I should have done first, and the house there doesn't match the photo. Sorry. FURTHER UPDATE: I hope this makes up for jumping the gun earlier: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original Beautiful Highlands of Los Angeles @ Hathi Trust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=25 This was the home of J. E. Hollenbeck and was just south of the Hollenbeck Retirement Home, the building with the two turrets at the right of the above photo. Here are both buildings in an undated photo: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics03/00011204.jpg The home was old enough to appear in Thompson and West's History of Los Angeles County, California (1880): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original Internet Archive -- https://archive.org/stream/historyof...ge/65/mode/1up So perhaps in 1908 Dr. Young worked at or was a resident of the Hollenbeck Home? |
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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26239 |
More Hollenbeck Home at 573 S. Boyle Avenue
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original http://collections.nhm.org/seaver-ce...&refirn=592520 The Seaver Center also has this view looking over Hollenbeck Park Lake at both Hollenbeck Homes: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original http://collections.nhm.org/seaver-ce...&refirn=590974 It seems that the view in the above photo would now be replaced by a view of the Golden State Freeway: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ho...60e0f587?hl=en |
Here's a postcard showing a view I don't remember seeing before. It's looking down New High Street towards Court Street with the tower of the Times Building in the background. The seller dates it at 1908.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Street1908.jpg eBay This is how the area appears on the 1910 Baist map. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Street1910.jpg www.historicmapworks.com |
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Los Angeles Street, the Wholesale District, circa 1910.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...elesSt1910.jpg eBay A slightly wider shot from 1918. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lesSt1918a.jpg USC Digital Library A close-up of some of the horses. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lesSt1918b.jpg Detail of picture above. |
Poorhouse and the Longstreet Palms
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Trying to catch up on the last few pages of the thread, I was struck by e_r's colored ebay slide of the Longstreet Palms. The full set appears to be intact in the photo. Only about half of them now remain. I hope the rest don't vanish in the next 65 years. |
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