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Traffic Signal/Signs in MP
I too was disappointed in the detail on the signal and traffic signs in MP. They were correct for the period but things were just not right.
The ACME signal was red but, as mentioned, no STOP arm extended! The diamond STOP sign was wrong, no detail, no nothing. Sad. I would have been happy to provide photos or actual period signs for use or reproduction if they had only contacted me. Maybe next time, www.caltrafficsigns.com |
Seriously...I must severely lack talent in tracking down old photos. Grandma danced at the Ebell too, and I've walked by it plenty of times but never saw any old photos. Thanks Ethereal!
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oops! I didn't realize andrea517 had reposted my pics.
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I seem to have a bit of a mystery here. After my post on the Ebell Club I thought I would view the club on Google Street View. This is the Ebell Club fronting on Wilshire. Now compare it with the color postcard and photo above. http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/487...ntingwilsh.jpg Even though the color postcard has a theater in the right place, the main building looks entirely different. I know that there were numerous Ebell Clubs across the country (and even in the Los Angeles area) so it's possible this is a different location. |
I just solved my own mystery.
The building in question was the Ebell Club when it was located on Figueroa. http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/9...llfigueroa.jpg usc digital archive The first Ebell Club was located on Broadway (this photo is from 1905). For some reason I love this rather odd looking building. http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/12/...oadway1905.jpg usc digital archive I don't remember seeing either of these photos in the USC archive before. |
The Opera Reading Club of Hollywood
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_d...9226-052~1.jpgUSCDL
I do love club ladies... ever since seeing the snooty society matrons that Curley, Larry & Moe would sometimes encounter. I suppose every city had them--in New Orleans where I grew up there is still the Orleans Club ("Orleans" pronounced the French way, mind you), and I swear those stout ladies still have hair that makes you think of George Washington or Jane Wyman. Dowdy dresses over the knee. Great hats. And rather large dogs crammed into sensible pumps--no FMPs for these girls. :previous: ethereal: That Confederate soldier in your pic below is a long way from home.... |
Wilshire and Lucerne? Isn't that where the Higgins-Verbeck mansion is located?
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Oldest Women's Club in SoCal...Pasadena 1888 !
Seen here in 1930, The Shakepeare Club of Pasadena was a forum and lauching point for "progressive ideas" such as public kindergarten, public restrooms, juvenile court and the Pasadena Humane Society according to their website.http://www.shakespeareclub.org/Shakespeare.htm
http://www.shakespeareclub.org/photopresday.jpg Here is the club house as photographed in 1907 http://www.pasadenaviews.com/wp-cont...n-pasadena.jpg The house was the scene of a meeting of men in 1907 that formed the Pasadena Realty Board. I wonder how progressive that was??.http://www.pasadenaviews.com/pasadena-city-guide/ |
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Boomer: Now THOSE are some real club ladies.... and thank God for them and their civilizing forces all over the country I knew that there were Ebell clubs all over SoCal, but I never knew of this one way down on 71st Street: http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics21/00045238.jpgLAPL http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics21/00045244.jpgLAPL The South Ebell Club, 7101 S. Menlo. The boys seem to have taken over, but at least it's still there in all its Deco glory: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_d...90915%20AM.jpgGoogle Street View Highland Park had its own branch at 131 Avenue 57, also still there: http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics20/00019762.jpgLAPL http://you-are-here.com/building/ebell.jpgyou-are-here.com Scott: The Verbeck house is across Wilshire from the Ebell and just north on Lucerne: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1097 |
Here is another photo of the High Park Ebell.
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/1...ighlandpar.jpg usc digital archive This one seems to have a touch of the arts and craft movement. The art deco Ebell on Menlo is amazing. I'm glad you found that one Gaylord Wilshire. |
a great image of Hollywood Young Republicans on Mother's Day 1954, in indignation over vandals smearing the billboard of Mildred Younger, candidate for State Senator. they are giving her a good clean scrubbing
the billboard was located on sunset boulevard just east of figueroa http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...111-017~1?v=hr Source: USC Digital Archive here is a 1960 front facade image of the house that was located at 835 sunset boulevard that is visible on the left side of the billboard http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061512.jpg Source: LAPL here's it's neighbor at 849 sunset boulevard http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics50/00059936.jpg Source: LAPL a 1924 image looking east on sunset across figueroa, today, this view would be of the orsini apartment complex http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics08/00013932.jpg Source: LAPL yikes! look at all that traffic with nary a stop sign nor semaphore in site! |
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She lost more than the election
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Native Angeleno Mildred Younger (1920-2006), with a great hat and a great Miracle Mile backdrop. Younger has an interesting story, if not exactly noir. From her Times obit (http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov...l/me-younger16): "Younger was a graduate of Los Angeles High School and a debate champion at USC, where she earned a degree in art history in 1942.... She ran for office... in 1954, narrowly losing her bid to become the first woman in the state Senate. She subsequently was a successful radio and television host but was sidelined in 1958 when she lost her voice after a bout with polio and a car accident. She did not recover her voice for 17 years." Btw, it seems you can't get away from that other L.A. Mildred: The first pic to appear when Googling "Mildred Younger" is this: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_z...dredPierce.jpgWarner Bros. (The caption begins: "When Mildred's younger daughter Kay....") |
Bike Clubs
LA Bicycle Club 1887 @ the "Fiesta de Los Angeles"
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-8614?v=hrUSC the building on the left looks like a hotel. Is this a recognized location to any of you?? Times Bike club (men and woman) -Western Ave looking north toward Pico! 1895 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-6416?v=hrUSC A few blks further north on Western 29 years later (1924). 3 decades sure can change everything. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-9042?v=hrUSC |
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Great pics, LAboomer! I can't guess where that first picture might've been taken. I love the third pic with the horse and wagon off to the side; I didn't think that would've been seen anymore by 1924. 10 years earlier, sure. Gaylord, I like that everything seems to point towards Mildred Pierce. It used to be on youtube now it's not, but I remember a spoof Carol Burnett did where she played Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce, Vicki Lawrence was Veda and Harvey Korman played Monty. _______________________________________________________________ West side of Main Street, just north of 7th, 1941. Hi, sailor, where are you headed? Looking for company? http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/120/aaang5249k.jpg USC Archive Same view from Google Street View. http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/811/picture1ohy.png |
I like that before/after sopas_ej!
The 1929 opening of the Chapman Market at 3465 W. Sixth Street. http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/5...ncirca1929.jpg lapl http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3...npalmslapl.jpg lapl below: A view of the interior parking lot. http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2...ketparking.jpg lapl http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8...eriorcourt.jpg lapl http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3...nentr2lapl.jpg lapl ________________ Luckily the Chapman Market has survived after all these years. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...ket6thstne.jpg Brett Hampton http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5...ketbrettha.jpg Brett Hampton http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/155...manmarket1.jpg Brett Hampton _____________ There is a separate building on the other side of Alexandria Ave. I don't know if this building is part of the original complex or a later addition. http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/537...tbuildingb.jpg lsiryan http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8...treetview1.jpg google street view ___________ |
Much of the movie "Old School" (2003) was filmed at the Ebell Club which doubled as a college in the movie.
I could only find one scene on youtube from the movie that I believe shows a bit of the club: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DerQzE8HbvA |
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Oh yes. Even up to the mid-1990s, along Sunset Blvd. towards downtown you would see stairs, retaining walls and foundations of what I always assumed were grand old houses. I called these blocks the "stairs to nowhere." |
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Last year I happened to snap a photo of its parking lot with my cell phone camera. Not a great quality pic: http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/1...5410417927.jpg Sad to see that that fountain is gone. |
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