Feb. 27, 1958

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Madison Complex & GRanite 4
 

Thanks to both of you. I couldn't find anything on our local exchange, GRanite 4, at the link, but did have a host of questions answered about the Madison Complex on Grand.

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I don't know about Jane Adams, who might have thought of catchier screen name, but Mrs. Ron Waller was even more famous... the "Zsa Zsa Gabor picture" was apparently the Hungarian lady's 1958 masterpiece, Queen of Outer Space. Mrs. Ron Waller was known professionally as Marjorie Durant. Her claim to fame, even more than her memorable role as one of the "Venusians" (Venus being an all-woman planet for the purposes of the movie), was that she was (and apparently, is) the daughter of Marjorie Merriwether Post (which I think makes her the half-sister of the actually famous Dina Merrill). I'm no cynic, of course, but I can't help but wonder if perhaps Mummy's money helped her to be found "not guilty" of drunk driving....

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As captioned by the library:
"Mrs. Marjorie (Ron) Waller, 28, at wheel of her sports car in front of her home at 235 Entrada
Drive, Santa Monica Canyon, which is under 24-hour guard by private detectives
reportedly hired by her wealthy grandmother. Dog in pix is her toy French poodle VIP
(meaning Very Important Poodle)."

Why do I think that being under 24-hour guard and posing for publicity pictures is counterproductive? Anyway, the house at 235 Entrada Drive is still there, though remodeled and obscured by %&*ing trees. (Have I ever mentioned that I liked L.A. better before all these trees?)

The pattern on Coulters is truly impressive.

The shadows suggest these images are from the late afternoon and that this might have been the start of the evening commute. Surprising that in '39 this area was so prone to rush hour congestion that it warranted traffic redirection. The far left eastbound lane is being used for westbound traffic. Were there that many motorists who commuted from West LA and Santa Monica to Downtown? What's next, bus only and hov lanes?

Source notes refer to this as "Suicide lane." Noticed this in other Wilshire photos at Western. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9133 I wonder if this was a Wilshire phenomenon or whether other main streets (without Streetcars) had traffic lanes that changed direction at different times of the day.

No parking meters and so few street parking signs!

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:previous: All of this is so great GW! 'Queen of Outer Space' is one of the first movies I can remember watching as a child. The other two are 'The Boy with Green Hair' and 'The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T'.
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A '58 Dual-Ghia Convertible? Or a '57?
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Smile of Confidence ?
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Is anyone else getting the USC digital pictures all broken-up? They seem to be cut into 4 different image files, and I get the top two and the bottom left picture on one line, followed by the bottom right picture on a second line, which places it beneath the top left picture. It's like a jigsaw puzzle that hasn't been totally assembled yet.

hydraulic lane dividers
 

You made me remember the hydraulic, pop-up lane dividers on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. They divided the eight-lane road into six lanes & two, north or south, depending on the rush hour, morning or evening. I think they existed from after the war until about the late 70's when they were abandoned in favor of hand-dropping traffic cones from slow-moving trucks. The automated dividers were a good enough idea in that "progress"-minded era, but when they failed, as they did on occasion, it was disastrous.

I'm amazed LA was doing the same thing with no markers at all. No wonder it was called the "Suicide Lane".

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I've been trying to make out the sign at lower right....is it Hotel...Aberdeen?

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early...early...early.

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'SC recently changed its format so that it is difficult to post higher resolution photos without stitching them together. I found myself playing with the zoom feature ("control" and "+" or "-" keys) and found the photos seemed to come together. I fear that unless everyone were to use the same monitor or monitor settings, posting larger images viewable by everyone will be hit or miss.

Even worse than the picture puzzles created by the new format is the fact that some old links either don't work or have disappeared. Look at some of the earlier postings and you may or may not see an image from SC. Trying to reedit the posts to include a "better" working link still has some kinks, as I have received several "oops missing image" messages.

hth

The Betsy Ross?...never heard of it.

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Chop Suey Crazy
 

Just in case you had any doubts about whether the Tuey Far Low restaurant in Chinatown (1939) served
Chop Suey, here they are sporting no less than three neon signs.

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lapl

By the way, the wife is from Taiwan and I asked her once what exactly chop suey was. She gave
me a look like I was completely nuts...not the only time that has ever happened though. :koko:

:previous: Your 'chop suey' post made me smile FredH.


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Stoner & Texas 1963
 

I'm liking this 1963 photo of Stoner Ave looking south to Texas Ave more and more kznyc2k. I keep returning to it.

The composition is outstanding and the color wonderfully evocative. The height of the tower combined with the land dropping rapidly away in this area gives a pleasantly disorientating point-of-view. The Barrington Plaza towers look like a brave-new-world, Bauhausian, but failed, public-housing complex in Europe somewhere, maybe suburban Brussels, and are in stark contrast to the haphazard jumble of buildings on the east end of the University High campus, which span four or more decades. One's eye, guided by the sidewalks on either side of Stoner Ave, is drawn to the top of the frame, where Stoner picks up again on the other side of campus. The curve of the retaining wall under the south tower nicely mirrors the curve of the track surrounding Uni's athletic field in the upper right of the photo.

This image is one of the more enjoyable things I've seen this week. Thx for posting.

The Bridge to Nowhere
 

Back in the 1930's, the residents of the San Gabriel Valley decided that cutting a road through the San Gabriel Mountains
to the resort city of Wrightwood on the other side, was a good idea. The plan was to generally follow the East Fork of the
San Gabriel River. After a few years of blasting, road building, and bridge building, the Great Flood of 1938 came along and
washed it all away (except for one bridge).

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The bridge is not connected to anything and it takes a nine mile round trip hike to get up there. Its main use now seems to be for bungee jumping.

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Google Maps

The Bridge to Nowhere comes by its name fairly, because it really is in the middle of nowhere. You can find it somewhere inside this red circle:

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If anyone wants to attempt the hike, the instructions (with a nice video) are here:

http://www.losangeleshikingguide.hik...tional-forest/

Brown Derby, Wilshire west of Alexandria
 

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The open windows are a nice touch.

Culver City aerials
 

Triangle Studios, Culver, Washington & Venice Blvds running west, 1922
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DeMille Studios (formerly Ince, later Selznick, later still, Culver) with
Hal Roach Studios to the east. Washington and Culver Blvds cross in the foreground, 1923
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The Hotel Aberdeen was at 310 N Broadway...where the Hall of Justice, seen under construction in 1925, is today. It was across B'way from the WCTU (which we've seen here before) at the NW corner of Temple.