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Let me add a bit about Angeles Abbey. The reason it looks so much like the awesome and aforementioned "63 Acres Done as Tunisian City" Expo is because they were both designed by Long Beach architect Hugh R Davies—that is, Davies designed the main mausoleum in Compton in '26, opens in '27, and fair organizers nabbed Davies therefrom to do the Pacific Southwest Expo of '28.
Angeles Abbey gets confusing because there are multiple minaret'd structures, yes. Here is the 1927 mausoleum by Davies. (Images mine unless otherwise noted.) https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4546/...a5af6a16_b.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4551/...1fc695f4_c.jpg Although in terrible shape (and having a sketchy history involving murder, and burying people under roads) it is still pretty grand— https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4566/...d4f49d33_c.jpg See in the above image the Judson Studios art glass window? That's of the Angelus: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4540/...b5cbf985_c.jpg Which is at once a painting of prayer and a funeral for a dead baby, depending whom you ask. Once it was all alone in the cemetery, like so: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4584/...d8df0a40_b.jpglapl Then they added on this about 1930, which I presume is also by Davies: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4540/...e5ffc0f1_z.jpg And then in 1931 they added the "Abbey of the Flowers" mausoleum to the north, which is not by Davies, but by Clarence N Aldrich: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4570/...ffb6a060_o.pngLA Times via Proquest Which is why there are three Islamic-y mausolea there today, as such: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4565/...ecdf4d6e_b.jpgbingmaps The main dome was once covered in Islamic tile. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4541/...95eeb716_c.jpg calisphere/esotouric The main mausoleum is chock full of Calco and Claycraft, mostly Calco, made in South Gate. The later mausoleum to the north is full of American Encaustic tile, made in Vernon. Some shots here. Just an amazing place. Leaving aside it being consecrated ground and all, it deserves better. |
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Critics would shake their heads and say, "Sigh, rats [climbing up the foliage, nesting in it]." Then they'd sigh again, and add, "And what about maintenance on the wall proper?" Then they'd frown and say, "And all those fallen leaves blowing around," as they'd walk away. But the better sort like it! :cheers: |
Thank you e_r and Beaudry for all the info on Angelus Abbey. I don't think I've ever even heard of it before. Another welcome amazement from NLA.
It may be the dearth of big-name celebrity burials that's rendered Angelus Abbey so anonymous: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uZ...0=w588-h494-no find a grave Racially segregated through the 60s, Angelus Abbey has been African American owned since the 70s according to this from LAT. Quote:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tp...w=w751-h429-no beaudry (detail) I love that Calco tile was used on this job, I'm a big fan of Rufus Keeler. ...................................................................... Thanks odinthor for the info on Boston ivy. I've never had a problem re rats with it. Mine, at least, never seemed to have enough mass to give them a purchase for a nest. My neighbors' English ivy, grown in a great mound over a high wire fence, was a different matter. They finally gave up and grubbed it out. |
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For those who might be interested, Richard Neutra's under-threat Chuey Residence (2460 Sunset Plaza Drive), 1956, has been nominated for landmark status by the LA Conservancy
LA curbed on the home here (illustrated with some of Julius Shulman's 1960 photos) Listing photos here Also, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles' nomination to the have the Hollywood Reporter building (mentioned before on the thread) designated as a Historic-Cultural Monument was approved by the full City Council in November. |
Beaudry, thanks so much for your post on the Angeles Abbey.
Since you mentioned "murder" I had to see what that was all about. from your link: (for people who skip the links) "But the death knell for Angeles Abbey tolled decisively in August 1976, when headlines blared the grim tale of the murder of 76-year-old Martha Eddington of Rosemead, beaten and strangled as she visited the mezzanine-level crypts of her daughter Margaret Brown and son-in-law Ralph Pejsa. It was initially reported that she had been killed over the weekend, but not found until Monday afternoon, when an anonymous tip advised police to look behind a curtain. The autopsy, less widely publicized, showed that she had been killed a few hours before she was found, in a pool of blood, with a broken vase bearing the name of her dead daughter close by." esotouric Now that's what I call a cold blooded murder. -poor lady :( When you say 'mezzanine' you're referring to the original mausoleum and not the 'Abbey of the Flowers', right? __ Earlier today I happened upon this tidbit: Fans of the television series Westworld had been having a hard time figuring out where this scene (an orgy in the Mexican town of Pariah) was shot. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/3GsIVw.jpg It was finally figured out that the scene was filmed in the mausoleum at Angeles Abbey! re:seeing stars note the mezzanine level where Mrs. Eddington met her fate. __ |
Help finding this location?
This photo is said to be downtown Los Angeles in 1920, taken from the Security Pacific National Bank collection. A friend of mine posted it to Facebook and I said I'd see if you guys could maybe figure out where it is. Any takers? The clearest sign I can see in the photo is for a place called Spear's.
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One of the first things I discovered was that he played Felipe in the rediscovered 1928 film 'Ramona'. starring Dolores Del Rio http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/rwJOUI.jpg scvhistory This 'Ramona' was considered a lost film. Here's Roland Drew in a scene with the lovely Dolores Del Rio. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/bCsYvt.jpg scvhistory HISTORY / REDISCOVERY "The Nazis confiscated the copy (now the only copy) of "Ramona" in the former Czechoslovakia, which they occupied in 1939, and brought it (and countless other films) to Berlin. Next, when the Soviet Union liberated Berlin, "Ramona" was removed to the Soviet film archive, Gosfilmofond, outside of Moscow. Then, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Czech archivist Myrtil Frida found it in Gosfilmofond (now the State Film Fund of the Russian Federation) and carried "Ramona" back to the Czech National Film Archive (Národní filmový archiv) in Prague." So the film survived WWII and the fall of the Soviet Union. __________________________________________ Roland Drew [1900 - 1988] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/Okr7zE.jpg R.I.P. |
I found this video of some clips from the 1975 movie "Aloha Bobby and Rose".
About 5 min in there's the seedy looking Studio City hotel, and next to it are the Jewish War Veterans, and the Iron Horse Steaks steakhouse. Any ideas on this location? I'm thinking it's on Ventura at this google street view. 11745 Ventura Blvd https://goo.gl/maps/R2TemRtWpRo A while later is an Earl Schibe paint joint near an old Wil Wright ice cream store. |
Browsing through more Calisphere-located photos, I found this one:
https://i.imgur.com/UEb1hYJ.jpg Calisphere.org ...which was titled "Unidentified Street," taken in 1966. The only clue is the "Tanner Gray Line" office, which according to the CDs was at 1207 W. 3rd Street. That would make the cross-street Boylston and has us looking west up 3rd Street. There seem to be apartments on the south side of 3rd. The Sanborn 1921 map here: https://i.imgur.com/llyUU0r.jpg sanborn via lapl ...shows a 3-story apartment (the "Altamont") down 3rd Street on the south side, and the large Tanner Gray Line office/bus dispatch building is on the right. Here is a modern view from a little further back, highlighting another of Geoff Palmer's creations, this one called the Visconti, where the Tanner Gray Line building stood once upon a time... https://i.imgur.com/h3qvqrc.jpg GSV |
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I enjoyed this video Krell58. I used to live in Studio City and I vaguely remember the Iron Horse name, but not specifically where it was located. The video also has some other interesting things... You first see the Hollywood sign in daylight followed by Hollywood Blvd. at night at the beginning, looking east from just past the Pantages, which is showing Don't Look in the Basement aka The Forgotten and Last House on the Left. As the camera pans down the blvd. you see the numerous street lights (that we've talked about on NLA before) with the orange/red stars on them lit up like they're all in a line, as the movie title appears. (They're lit so brightly you can hardly see the "stars" on them.) A bit after the Studio City segment mentioned above we see a baby blue Volkswagen convertible that drives down Sunset Plaza Drive to Sunset Blvd. (where the Trocadero used to be located) and makes a right turn onto Sunset Blvd., again at night. There's a drive down Sunset Blvd. with looks at several of the famous, and sometimes fantastic, music related billboards that used to be a staple on the strip. In this trip you'll see billboards related to Ringo, Neil Young, Billy Preston, Marvin Gaye billboard at Horn Ave., Elton John, Al Green, Steven Cohn, Electric Light Orchestra, Bette Midler and The Rolling Stones, interspersed with a few locations: Tower Records, Brian Auger marquee at the Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Roxy and The Rainbow. This is followed by a quick shot driving west down Hollywood Blvd. going past the Hollywood Inn and the Egyptian Theatre playing Hello, Dolly. (A re-release?) Good stuff, thanks! |
Frank Garbutt home @ 321 S. Alvarado
My May 2015 post on this residence has a partial street view and a couple aerials,
but I believe we're still looking for good street view photos of the house. I haven't found any yet either, but I think the following represents new-to-NLA info on 321 S. Alvarado: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original This is the Alvarado side of the house. I wonder if the turret on the right was really shaped like that? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original July 26, 1903, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL |
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"This would be in Sycamore Canyon in the local San Gabriel Mountains just above Pasadena here in Los Angeles County and the area was very popular with hunting lodge places and recreation hiking and camping with Mt Lowe and Mt Wilson and so many other trails locations and such. These places came and went through the decades with some wiped out due to a fire or flood or just being abandoned." Do you think it's possible the seller placed Sycamore Canyon "above Pasadena" because of the photographer's stamp. :shrug: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/CHCr0b.jpg __ |
Dunno if this is appropriate here, but I find hysterical headlines from the NYT tiresome:
"California Fires Enter the Heart of Los Angeles" At least they didn't cap it off with an exclamation point. |
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