Originally Posted by Los Angeles Past (Post 5403920)

F3 and GaylordWilshire,

Speaking of stylin' 1940s automobiles, can you maybe ID this car? All my life I've wondered what make it was, but this photo from our family album gives no indication. As I've said before on this thread, my mom worked for the popular baritone singer John Charles Thomas during the war years, and he bought this fancy new station wagon at the end of 1945. (The photo was taken Christmas 1945 at JCT's home at 2100 Mandeville Canyon Rd.)


http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...gon_xmas45.jpg


-S

Originally Posted by Fab Fifties Fan (Post 5404025)

Beautiful! That is a 1941 Packard 120 but it is in a woodie style I have not seen before. The normal 120 woodie is a typical station wagon. I am sure this is a Darrin customization (Packard factory ordered), but I really want to find out if it is a one-off.

With your permission Scott, I would love to send this picture to my Packard club to get further information?

~F3

Originally Posted by Los Angeles Past (Post 5404043)

Absolutely! Please do. Like I said, I've been curious about this car forever. What do you think the chrome lettering says? Seems to start with an 'O' and end with a 'rty'. I could never figure that out.

Thanks to you and unihikid for the replies!

-S

PS: On the back, John Charles typed, "Lest ye forget the new station wagon....." I wonder why he'd call a '41 Packard "new" in 1945? Maybe that's when he had the coachwork done? I guess we'll never know.

Originally Posted by ChristinaR (Post 5387838)

Hi gsjansen,

All the Bunker Hill assessor log photos have be scanned, but are still in the queue to be cataloged.
Cheers.

Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 5402097)

tending to the garden once again...........................

an authur by the name of Martin Turnbull has written several novels that revolve around the garden of allah. on his web page he has posted the following aerial image of the complex that i had never seen before.

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...unsetariel.jpg
Source: The Garden of Allah Novels by Martin Turnbull

Originally Posted by ChristinaR (Post 5404984)

I could be mistaken, but I always thought this was an image of the miniature model of the complex that used to be on display inside the bank where there Garden of Allah once stood. It is definitely the same photo that was used for the cover of Sheilah Graham's book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...283155&s=books

Cheers!

Originally Posted by SilentLocations (Post 5405539)

IMG]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6202/...9dbec163a0.jpg Stan and Ollie and a Drive Through Bunker Hill by SilentEchoes57, on Flickr[/IMG]

The footage not only provides a wonderful glimpse of post-WWII Bunker
Hill, now lost to civic redevelopment, but illuminates Los Angeles
during the silent film era as well.

As I explain in my book Silent Visions, Harold Lloyd filmed scenes for
seven different movies at the intersection of 3rd and Grand, on Bunker
Hill, more scenes than at any other location in Los Angeles. It was a
popular place for Laurel and Hardy, and other Hal Roach Studio stars to
film as well. The Prelinger film drives twice by Lloyd’s intersection of
3rd and Grand, providing razor sharp images of where Lloyd and other
silent stars filmed.

You can see where several Roach silent comedies were filmed along the Prelinger film route on my blog below.

http://silentlocations.wordpress.com...h-bunker-hill/

Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 5405576)

wow! i had always heard about the model, and that it once was displayed in the bank that now sits where the garden of allah was. i wonder where the model is now..............i had no idea that the image i posted from martin turnbull's site was actually the model. now that i look at it more closely, i have to agree with you christina, this is indeed a photo of the model!

thanks so much for your educated eye in pointing this out!


very cool :cool:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5407472)

e_r: What a find--what a building. I think the architect--and I use the term loosely--was either inspired on a visit to a movie set or the builder had gotten a good deal on the salvage of one.