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http://imageshack.us/a/img256/5576/a...ubcoin1eby.jpg The Colony Club was real enough. The coin is probably just a souvenir and advertising gag. http://petermoruzzi.files.wordpress....pg?w=442&h=361 http://petermoruzzi.com/2011/01/27/l...colony-club-2/ BTW Candy Barr used to "dance" there on occasion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Barr |
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You might reasonably question his conclusions but I don't think you can mount much of an attack on his scholarship. At least no one has to this point. Not Heise nor Robinson.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8432/7...33c636f5_b.jpg UnderGround 1 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8430/7...1f1377ef_b.jpg UnderGround from Urban Underworlds, chap. 4, Thomas Heise, Rutgers University Press, 2011 I might also call your attention to page 315 of this thread, there is a bit of a discussion on this subject between E_R and RickM. Interesting stuff. By the way, my copy of Tarnished Angels which I found a couple of months ago weighed in at $75. ouch. |
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Check out these links regarding early Italian immigrants, wine making and prostitution in early Los Angeles. I want to learn more about this guy Bartolo Ballerino. http://www.reocities.com/OrganizedCr...osangeles.html http://www.geocities.ws/jiggy2000_us/1900.html This is a good read also: http://www.swagger.la/los-angeles-al...inal-sin-city/ ...and E_R's post here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6265 |
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Heading over to page 315 now....thanks. EDIT: LOL. I just posted that link too. I can see we're both on the same trail here. |
The Octoroon was at 438 N. Alameda.
Who wins the prize? E_R? Rick_M said " Mme. Bollanger, Cora Phillips and the notable Pearl Morton were prime players." http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/8...csupomona1.jpg California State University Pomona As far as the legitimacy of the tokens go, I'm not so sure now. The "Octoroon" tokens are listed among the fantasy tokens. http://www.saloontokens.info/page21.php |
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yeah, 438 N. Alameda. That's what I said. Check post no. 8645, pg 433 |
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EDIT: On your post: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8645 The top two token photos look authentic and the bottom two look faux. The complete CSU Pomona text on prostitution text, as E_R posted earlier, is here: http://www.csupomona.edu/~reshaffer/...ple/prostx.htm |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img687/1340/aacolonyclub1a.jpg http://petermoruzzi.com/2011/01/27/l...colony-club-2/ ___ ...and here is Rick M's interesting post from page 314. http://imageshack.us/a/img717/8097/a...postjan201.jpg Rick M |
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Thanks and you at least have my undying appreciation and respect. |
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Saw this in the Times this morning and it made me think of Sopas ej's post from a few years ago:
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http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8qEDwfHWKL0/S4...0178741a_j.jpg http://www.latimes.com/includes/soun...y_hall/02a.jpghttp://www.latimes.com/includes/soun...y_hall/02b.jpg 1951 - Ellis R. Bosworth / Associated Press 2009 - Scott Harrison / Los Angeles Times And from 1910 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-6120?v=hr http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2544/...2cd2f923_o.jpg USC Digital Archive |
You're welcome, of course. I was trying not to be too pedantic but thought the Octoroon should get its due. I'm planning/hoping to eventually post a longish treatment of the red light district, ladies of the evening, houses of ill-fame and the like. But it is surprising how little pictorial material survives. But I am slowly collecting things I think will be of interest.
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Silent film star Mae Murray (she of the 'bee stung lips') at the height of her popularity.
http://imageshack.us/a/img831/9544/a...akonraddot.jpg http://doctormacro.com/Images/Murray...,%20Mae_03.jpg below: Decades later, an impish figure turns up on Hollywood Boulevard. http://imageshack.us/a/img232/7241/a...ay1964huge.jpg http://www.findadeath.com/forum/forum.php http://imageshack.us/a/img152/9306/aamaemurray1964a.jpg below: A brief bio of Mae Murray's twilight years. Was she the inspiration for Norma Desmond?? http://imageshack.us/a/img213/8928/s...adeathdotc.jpg http://www.findadeath.com/forum/forum.php ___ An obscure advertisement for Mae Murray at the Mocambo nightclub (date unknown). http://imageshack.us/a/img26/3258/aa...yatmocambo.jpg ebay __ |
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ebay http://imageshack.us/a/img515/6498/aahotelwilcox1r.jpg reverse below: The Hotel Wilcox today. The rooftop sign is missing but the structural elements are still in place. http://imageshack.us/a/img821/9481/a...ilcoxtoday.jpg google street view ___ |
[QUOTE=KevinW;5777797]Saw this in the Times this morning and it made me think of Sopas ej's post from a few years ago:
and going further back: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8qEDwfHWKL0/S4...0178741a_j.jpg http://www.latimes.com/includes/soun...y_hall/02a.jpghttp://www.latimes.com/includes/soun...y_hall/02b.jpg 1951 - Ellis R. Bosworth / Associated Press 2009 - Scott Harrison / Los Angeles Times Excellent post with pictures i have not seen before, which has fueled me more so to ask about the funicular, "Court Flight" are there any sources to search for photos in the late 50's when the small hill was getting ready to be shaved and what about the old Broadway Hotel next to the tracks. I see the photos taken at the top of old Hall of records but the view is obstructed from seeing soon to be former Court Flight. Thanks. |
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Always really liked this Ansel Adams shot. Nearly a reverse angle of that last pic.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8028/7...e3222e6b_o.jpg court street terminus at court flight, ca. 1940 Ansel Adams And since it's quiet around here I'll hop back in and add this image. Back in February (Feb 4, 2012, page 317, post no. 6324), FredH posted four of these very dramatic nighttime shots. I was taken with how they added an entirely new kind of depth to such familiar surroundings. This particular image closely approximates the view we are looking at...and yes, Court Flight can be seen http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7269/7...c2891f26_o.jpg nighttime cityscape from city hall tower looking west, WWII dimout, 1943 And if my eyes don't deceive me, there across Broadway just to the right of the Hall of Records, the little boxy building is Joe's Cafe. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7248/7...1785f38f_o.jpg Johnny and Mick walking up Broadway, ca. 1948 murderpedia.org |
Los Angeles panorama, 1910
I liked those last two images from KevinW's and sopas ej's post so much, I thought I'd go ahead and marry them as it seemed apparent they were taken at the same time and may very well have been originally a panorama anyway.
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View from City Hall
Nice work Kevin...and all the rest of you as well.
What I take away from this is that over 100 years they have turned the central city from a bustling, dense American downtown, with a not-overwhelming scale (none of the buildings were oppressively big, of course, thanks to the 150 foot rule) into...... ....something like an overgrown Warner Center. :yuck: |
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