Richfield Oil
 

OMG, Richfield. They knew how to splurge, including the most beautiful building money could buy and the crackerjack plane above. Left us some nice pix though. Thx MR.

"When Richfield Oil went into receivership in 1931, an audit revealed an operating loss of $54,000,000. Officials of the company had been maintaining a suite of rooms at a downtown hotel at an annual rental of $50,000 and had been spending company funds, at the rate of $50,000 per month, for entertainment. Certain of these officials were indebted to the company for sums ranging from five to five hundred thousand dollars. Items such as alimony, purchases of jewelery, "repair of speedboat", and so forth, had been blithely charged to the company. One official had given a yacht party off Catalina Island for some motion picture stars. Late at night, an airplane, specially chartered, flew over the yacht and showered his guests with gardenias."

Carey McWilliams
"Southern California, An Island on the Land"
chap XII, 3.

Apparently Norma Talmadge willed this building to her sister Natalie upon her death in '57. The address was then listed as 1413-1421 1/2 N Crescent Heights: http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/NT/addresses.htm

Great pix. Thx.

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Los Angeles and the automobile, Dick Whittington, 1958

An interesting if unusual take on the Los Angeles skyline.

USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

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Private Collection


Jerry Illich's 1895 building at 219 W 3rd St., as seen in Los Angeles Today Architecturally, published in 1896.


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LAT

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Private Collection/GSV


The Fred J. Byrne Building by Theodore Eisen and Sumner Hunt--now the Pan American Lofts--at the northwest corner of Broadway and 3rd, 1895...as seen in Los Angeles Today Architecturally, published in 1896.

Thx. Gorgeous pic. (Illich was sure one for flying the flag.)

This was just across Frank Court from the beautiful (and slightly later) Douglas Block and just two doors east of the Rindge Building?

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gsv

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http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/birds...f-los-angeles/


Great location.

There...
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LAT (detail) posted previously by GW


Sounds like heaven.



Too bad it's gone, but I guess that red car needed a parking space:
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gsv

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KCET



He's still there--full story here.


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GSV

Beautiful as it was, it didn't last long, having been replaced by the Delmonte by 1914. Perhaps prematurely tearing down one beautiful building to replace it with a bigger, less beautiful building is in our civic DNA.

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The little circular balcony over the entry is such a small feature yet it shows the architectural thought and detail that so many of the old buildings had. It would appear to have no real value other than it was special…

Well maybe I’m wrong..i see the flag line drops to the balcony, so maybe it was used to lower and raise the flag, although I would think the flag might get caught on the building face…

Yes, but it's nice to "remember" what a beautiful streetscape that was around the turn of the 20th century with Angels Flight rising at the end.

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...and it's still pretty good. Better than many.

Gives new meaning to the term: Tree house

Always really liked this image. Have we seen it here before? I don't remember it being posted. It's a nice reverse angle of your post albeit a few years earlier.

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Aerial of Civic Center, 1945

LAPL

My guess is 129 S. Hope. The last surviving cottage (front left, facing the address) in an eight or nine unit court.

LA area funiculars.

Mt. Lowe's solitude in the heart of the city? For some reason, the depicted trolleys all seem to be going . . . downhill. (Melancholy noir?)

So many previous "Flying Trolley" references. Good starting points:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=370
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=376


Mt. Lowe - Circa '23
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1962 When noir and color converge.
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1965 - Lonely
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1965
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077825.jpg

Loneliest
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Undated - Court Flight
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026573.jpg




1984 - City of Industry. An air of monochromatic solitude. (Currently part of Pacific Palms Resort, La Puente)
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ALL from Lapl

e_r reposted this pic earlier this month. I'm using it as an excuse to post some more screen grabs from "Cry Danger" (1951) (I already posted some of Union Station from the opening sequence).Most of you have already seen the film. I think "Cry Danger" is a kind of a minor, but really fun, film, said to be directed by Dick Powell, even though Robert Parrish got the credit. Filmed in 21 days. There's only a couple of green screens, most of the outdoor scenes are shot on the streets. There's a couple of good location interiors too. Snappy dialogue and plenty of nice shots of "my" childhood LA.

Lots of other screen grabs from "Cry Danger" have been posted here on the thread. I'll try not to repeat. First, to save confusion, here's a useful map of the Clover Trailer Park (not a set-up. It was real):

Title card (a train is seen zipping though orange groves; we're headed for LA):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...710%2520PM.jpg

The dive bar (OMG, that man can rock a fedora):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-E...559%2520PM.jpg

3rd & Olive at night (Angels Flight Cafe in the backgound):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...818%2520PM.jpg

3rd & Olive at night, the reverse shot (great shadows):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...921%2520PM.jpg

Dick Powell drops Rhonda Fleming off at "work":
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Looking for info:
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Finding trouble:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5...305%2520PM.jpg

Interior of the Nugent/Grand/"Crosley" Deli (so much better than that terrible grocery store set in Double Indemnity):
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Entering the Nugent/Grand/"Crosley" lobby (3rd & Grand):
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Cab turning in at the Clover Trailer Park:
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Clover Trailer Park at night:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...721%2520PM.jpg

Assassination at Clover Trailer Park:
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William Conrad outside the old Central Police Station, 1st & Hill (the excuse for this post):
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Thugs traveling east on 3rd, at Olive:
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Thugs arriving at 3rd & Olive (Angels Flight Cafe in backgound):
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Oh no, here come the cops (3rd & Olive):
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The shootout at 3rd & Olive:
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Powell walks away from Clover Trailer Park on N Hill Place:
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All above, RKO Radio Pictures / netflix


The "Cry Danger" trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kut03z4ItU8

More location info: http://americanfilmnoir.com/page17.html

I'm sure it has been noted before. The work place is at 7000 Romaine, an address inextricably connected with RKO and someone named Howard Hughes.


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See: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7681

I did know that one:
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...but I can't ID the residential street and apartment building. It'll be on the net somewhere.

BTW, the best scene in "The Aviator": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH5Q12Yb5u8




P.S. Accoding to IMDB, the "Cry Danger" car was a unibody 2-door 1950 Nash Statesman 600 which featured the 1-year only "uniscope" instrument pod (seen above).

And some info on 7000 Romaine:
http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com...dquarters.html
http://rdujour.com/2013/03/05/places...t-one-eye-l-a/


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http://www.flickr.com/photos/3138321...in/photostream

You are blocks north with your guess - This was at 321 S.Hope - just by its lonesome always at the top o the stairway rising from 3rd Street west tunnel-see LAPL photo database - I helped the curator with this location back in 2004 -- Actually it is in their image (A-004-109 L.A. - Residences-Bunker Hill )-Viewed looking at it from a railway position hovering over the stairway facing south and the hulk of the Sawyer Apts stand adjacent then to this wee cottage with the palm tree --