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Here's e_r's picture with the center margin removed. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original And here's a current aerial view looking east. The main studio still stands. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Google Maps |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/JvOAQU.jpg http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/ 1927. -most of the buildings are being pulled down in advance of the studio's move to Studio City. _ |
Mack Sennet Studios
Thx e_r and HossC.
Another Mack Sennett triangle-shaped studio, also on Effie Street? LOL. |
I happened across the following three photographs of men in uniform flirting with some pretty girls (by letting them where their hats :))
Here's one of the girls standing outside a cocktail lounge while the two military guys look on. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/6sXX9b.jpg The seller says the photograph were taken in Balboa CA. (20 miles south of Long Beach) Here's another pose by the same gal. (I wonder if she was an employee or a patron?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/xV3XnP.jpg It looks like there might be a semi-circular transom above the doorway. Girl #2 is standing in front of a different storefront. (I believe it says something "ladies" on the window) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/2NyFBd.jpg I thought it would be fun to try and locate where exactly the three 1940s snapshot were taken. __ I didn't realize Balboa had a Fun-Zone akin to the Pike in L.B. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/D3aYpC.jpg old file / probably from eBay Does anyone remember a film noir starring Joan Bennett that takes place on Balboa Island? (the film opens with her driving to downtown Los Angeles) I have some screen-grabs somewhere in my files. I'll have to see if I can locate them again. __ |
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Here are a couple of wider shots of the Balboa Pavillion. Although these were undated, I found one of them dated as 1940 by another seller. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from eBay Balboa Pavilion is still standing at the end of Main Street, Newport Beach. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...aPavilion3.jpg GSV This shop on the corner of E Balboa Boulevard seems to match the one seen in e_r's first two pictures. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV Most of the tiles survive. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: Good work Hoss.
So this is the doorway the gal in the hat was posing in front of in my first two photographs (below). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...910/LUwsTN.jpg eBay / detail Can anyone make out the name? Cosby's? I'm really glad it's still standing. It's a beautiful little building. __ |
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This view doesn't show the corner building on the right, but I like that massive black car in front of the pharmacy (it's blocking almost half the pedestrian cross-walk)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/H6c805.jpg http://www.balboapavilion.com/Photospavilion.html I imagine they just ran in for a second to pick up some aspirin. ;) |
OK, here's part 2 of my Palisades High School post. This is "Job 3339: Adrian Wilson and Associates, Palisades High School (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1962." Dating from a year after yesterday's post, it shows the completed school. I've only picked a selection of photos - the full set contains five more. We start with this panoramic shot which I've had to lighten. Next to the lamppost on the right is a sign for the Mayfair Market sticking up into the sky - I'll return to it at the bottom of the post.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original A closer look at the buildings, track and football field. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original It's difficult to tell from the photos here, but I think this is the northern end of a tunnel leading under the road to the sports field. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original The simple, shallow zig-zag roofs continue across all the buildings. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original Even in 1962, the campus already contained quite a bit of vegetation. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original Just like Providence High School, this site has wide, open, gentle stairs. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original This is the only interior shot in the set. I'd have liked to have seen some classrooms. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The school still stands at 15777 Bowdoin Street, Pacific Palisades. Compare this shot to the third image above. If you ignore the modern vehicles and students' dress, very little has changed http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV Finally, I found this 1955 image of the Mayfair Market that I mentioned above. Located on Sunset Boulevard, it's now a branch of Gelson's. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Santa Monica Public Library |
I just came across the following postcards in an old file of mine. (I collected them from eBay a few years ago)
"All Nations Expansion" Assembly, August 13-17, 1947. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/YpfZB4.jpg ebay Aerial View of Trailer Camp http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/lbm3US.jpg ebay :previous: I believe this is the same location as the 1929 auto show fire. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/sXwwlX.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/iOCmk1.jpg eBay :previous: Top right, the Immersion Pool. -so where was this located? -was it a municipal pool? Are those four kids in Lost & Found? ;) _____ I just did some googlin' and found a couple additional photographs. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/i7DlwN.jpg http://www.paragonis.com/Emails/?p=806 Chatting outside the Jehovah Witness tent city, Los Angeles August 14, 1947. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/wcSI8f.jpg http://www.paragonis.com/Emails/?p=806 I remember when I was growing up "watchtower" people would periodically come knock on our door. (this was in a tiny town in Illinois) __ |
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That would be The Reckless Moment, released in 1949. Seems to me we have discussed it here before--but--couldn't find anything. http://annyas.com/screenshots/update...itle-small.jpg http://www.lassothemovies.com/wp-con...ent-1949-4.png |
:previous: Yes! that's it GW. Thanks for your help.
If I remember correctly, the film opens with Ms. Bennett driving this big white(?) car to downtown los Angeles. __ |
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I don't believe we've seen this postcard on NLA.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/bssd6z.jpg eBay A while back I posted a photograph of one of the class rooms (2nd Grade, 1909) http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=30851 but I couldn't locate any other images of the exterior of Grant School on NLA. __ |
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Initial release: 1949 My kind of movie.....perfect. |
:previous: Thanks for the recap CityBoyDoug.
Where do you think this was taken, Chasen's ....Perino's? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/3wyCMo.jpg old file / eBay Nope, it was taken on a train; Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles, in the Domeliner "Gold Room". (hence all that "gold" on the table) Just for fun: Here's a cut-a-way of Union Pacific's Domeliner. (I have loved cut-a-ways ever since i was a kid) - the Gold Room is located in the center of the rail-car, labeled "private dining". http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/Kv0DuE.jpg http://dtxmcclain.tumblr.com/post/56...omeliners-1956 We have discussed the Domeliner numerous times on NLA. I always remember one comment about how difficult it was to control the temperature inside the Domeliner car. "it was always swelteringly hot inside." Yet the foursome in the photograph look pretty comfortable to me ;). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...905/m40Tko.png -perhaps the Gold Room was cooler than the upper level. __ |
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http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/001_2.jpg heading out from somewher in LA http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...obelle/006.jpg at the beach http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/002_2.jpg They met some cute soldiers who were riding around in a jeep and spent the rest of the day with them. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/005_1.jpg the boys took them out for steak dinners in the evening http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/004_1.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/003_3.jpg the no trying on of hats, though, that I could see. pictures: my own |
:previous: Fanastic photographs NoirCityDame! Your Grandmother and her friends look like such a fun group.
Thanks so much for sharing them with us. __ |
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