Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5954063)

Your posted photo reminds me that of the time a former work colleague told that one of the most vivid (and not unpleasant) memories of his childhood was watching Clara Bow have it off with King Vidor in the back seat of a car in his father's driveway while a party was in progress in the house. Dunno if it was a LaSalle.

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5953812)

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 5914192)

Church and house on Hollywood Blvd, ca. 1905 Cross street is either Ivar or Cherokee. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7267
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics39/00039371.jpg
1907
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007787.jpglapl

East on Hollywood Blvd from Cherokee. Source marks image as '55, more likely circa '24, as indicated on second image.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032807.jpglapl
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007813.jpg

1930 - 6646 Hollywood Blvd. - Cherokee Building
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...8MDUTM486J.jpgCalStLib

Hollywood and Cherokee apartments, 1937 (?) Assume complex is north of Hollywood Blvd.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070647.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070649.jpglapl

1937 - NW corner Hollywood and Cherokee
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098558.jpglapl

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...3668808E5?v=hrUSC Digital

Originally Posted by Los Angeles Past (Post 5119107)

(in reply to sopas_ej)I can't stop looking at this phenomenal image! What an incredible historical treasure. First thing I went looking for was the semi-legendary ancient sycamore tree for which Aliso Street was named. I think I heard once that it was located near where the old Maier Brewery stood, but I can't see anything in that general area that stands out as possibly being the tree...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5165/...9eebabae_o.jpg

BTW, is there a URL link for this image? I'd like to learn more about its provenance, if possible.

-Scott

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5954215)

Did you ever get your question answered about the location of the sycamore? El Aliso is on the right, surrounded by the low-level white buildings of Vignes' El Aliso Winery.

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 5954158)

I went looking for more information on the U.P. Hotel at Ceres and Central...

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3221/00041854.jpg
lapl

...and found it right here on our own thread.

Beaudry had posted this photo way back on June 2, 2010:

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/6...01a0339d0b.jpg
USC

There is our hotel on the right, and it is directly across the street from the Union Pacific Station at 5th and Central. That not only explains why it was named the U.P. Hotel, but also why there was even a hotel there at all.

Also, check out the tracks going down Ceres!

Originally Posted by Los Angeles Past (Post 5954218)

Oh, yes! Your previous post about El Aliso and the Tongva was one of my favorites in this whole thread. :tup:

-Scott

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5954221)

Thank you so much FredH. I can see now the balusters that filled-in the roofline trim on the hotel. It's one of the joys of this thread that one can look back at previous posts and suddenly see buildings one has just learned about. Abigail Stark's house is an example. Since GW told us about it, I look at previous photos with new eyes.

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 5954242)

Just to link together (so to speak) a couple of recent posts:

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/1869/capturecud.jpg
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/4236/capture1vf.jpg

Darn! That would have been noirish.

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5954414)

[COLOR="Indigo"][SIZE="2"][FONT="Tahoma"]The road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.

Rightly or wrongly, Ms. Bow's publicity machine most successfully personified her as "it." The stills released from her films speak for themselves. Her cafe was popular or at least advertised as popular. Ms. Bow offered her hospitality to football heroes from USC and visiting teams at her home and other locations. "Hospitality" is a matter of interpretation.

The likelihood of her being acquainted with Wayne and Vidor in a small company town, under a huge magnifying glass, was great - even if it never happened. (T'ee.) This could have occurred at parties, premiers, the Fox commissary, the "It" Cafe, the second to the last row of the Ritz Theater, the La Brea Food Spot, Simon's, King Vidor's lengthy driveway on Summit Drive (below) or in the Shadow of the Sunset Tower. I have a strong suspicion that some observations were accurate but misinterpreted. As a consummate professional, Ms. Bow may have been merely rehearsing or researching film roles with K.Vidor. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Hobocat (Post 5954299)

I love all the great photos on this site! Keeps me entertained for hours. The train station at 526 S Central was actually Southern Pacific's Central Station. In the days before Union Station (pre 1939) each of the 3 major carriers had their own stations. Santa Fe's was La Grande Station at 100 S Santa Fe Ave and Union Pacific's was right across the L.A. River from there. Railroad Hotels were common near depots in those days and it's possible this was once the "S.P." Hotel and a name change may have occured after Central Station was closed and new owners took over.

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5954747)

LOL. My poorly constructed sentence may have misled one into thinking it was Vidor's driveway. It was actually Alfred Santell's, although I cannot now remember where that house was (let alone how secluded the drive).

Thx for the excellent link :-)

I do like Leland Bryant. His Afton Arms is how we got on this tangent to begin with.