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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...PolaHouse1.jpg Ebay The second is a colonial style house. According to allanellenberger.com, Pola lived in this house during her relationship with Rudolph Valentino in 1925-1926. One of Pola's mini biographies on IMDb.com says "Pola made a spectacle of herself when she threw herself on the late Rudolph Valentino's coffin". There's more info about the house at that link, including the address at 621 North Beverly Boulevard, Beverly Hills. The house is still standing. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...PolaHouse2.jpg Ebay That page at allanellenberger.com also has a slightly smaller version of the picture below, which they identify as the backyard of the house above in the 1920s. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...PolaHouse3.jpg www.welcometosilentmovies.com As per the description, this is the garden of her home in Beverly Hills. It could be the house above, or it could be the one below. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...PolaHouse4.jpg Ebay This is her other home that's listed as Beverly Hills. The Ebay seller posted the reverse of the postcard, but it only contained the publisher's name, so there's no address or date. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...PolaHouse5.jpg Ebay |
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Well, HossC, there is much confusion about Pola Negri's Colonial house... it was actually built by silent star Priscilla Dean and her husband actor Wheeler Oakman in 1922 and attributed to architects Walker & Eisen (Oviatt and Fine Arts buildings, Beverly-Wilshire, Hotel Normandie). According to a 1986 California Historic Resources inventory, it was at 610 North Beverly Drive, BH. Oakman & Dean sold it to Pola, who sold it to "well-known philanthropist" Max Strauss. Next was Hal Roach, who was moving from Berkeley Square: http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles....ach-house.html 610 N Beverly was demolished and there is a different house on the site now. The house across and up the street at 621 is cited in some places on the web as the Oakman-Dean/Negri/Roach house—it has similar columns, as did the one once at 610. But it isn't Pola's house. The Calif Historic Resources document:http://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles...BeverlyDr..PDF https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-w...232%2520PM.jpg From: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/16091398...-Beverly-Hills https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-o...ionadCOMPL.jpgLATimes March 22, 1936 Another shot of Pola at the front door: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...2520PM.bmp.jpgunknown |
Pyrenees Castle
I know we have touched base with Phil Spector here and there,but have we looked at his house....KCET has a great article about how it came about with a few old pictures.
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/\ Thanks for the link to the Pyrenees Castle. That's a great and more detailed account of the castle than I've seen.
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since a lot of people have a tendency to skip the links I thought I'd go ahead and post a couple photographs (before/after comparison).
-hope you don't mind unihikid. The Pyrenees Castle/larger image http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics03/00021339.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img32/3325/1z3y.jpg Sylester Dupuy residence http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures...nightmare.html originally posted by PHX31 http://imageshack.us/a/img163/6250/erim.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img14/7466/26we.jpg http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures...nightmare.html thanks for the heads up on the kcet article unihikid. -u2 PHX31 :) This place fascinates me. __ |
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Ronnie Quillan testifies Aug. 29, 1957
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Butts' Candyland, Broadway Arcade Building circa 1930
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Lewd mail order business, 1960
http://imageshack.us/a/img707/6328/6bgy.jpg http://www.lapl.org/ June 21, 1960: "Arrested in raid - Atty. Rose Kimsey of Burbank, right, talks to trio suspected of running lewd mail order business. Suspects are, from left, Leslie Nachman, 24, of Hollywood, and Conrad R. Strauss, 25, and Mildred McCabe, both of Los Angeles. __ |
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1929: http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...ps74edc155.jpg lapl.org http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4976913e.jpg There are several other examples in DTLA. |
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-glad you brought up the Grant Building sportbiker. I had almost forgotten about that giant shoe! just for fun http://imageshack.us/a/img29/6614/imt2.jpgebay http://imageshack.us/a/img801/5623/dzos.jpgebay |
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Anyone heard of Maxey's Singapore Spa? http://imageshack.us/a/img15/8034/t73d.jpg ebay I bet they were offering more than radium at this spa. ;) __ |
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The address on the matchbook is 119 South Fairfax. Apparently they were "Famous For Barbecued Spare Ribs ..." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAMaxeys1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAMaxeys2.jpg loveofmatchbooks.blogspot.com |
Realize that since I've advanced only to the upper 80s/lower 90s pages of this thread, anything I post risks being a repeat…
What interests me about the Grant Building (glad to know the name) is a bit of advertising in the trim above the first floor: http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2fd5fe9d.jpg I see "NATURAL FOO…". Given my best Wheel of Fortune skills and the available space for the remainder of the word, my guess would be "NATURAL FOOD". By itself it's a curiosity, but combine that with the country's first vegetarian cafeteria at 3rd and Hill, and it makes me wonder if L.A. was already a hotbed of foodie and granola types a hundred years ago. |
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There is little dispute that some Los Angelinos embraced novel diets and unusual "health-promoting" lifestyles, and this certainly include celebrities connected with Hollywood. But the primary "granola" influence may have come from the likes of Cornflake King, John Kellogg (Battle Creek, MI), and C.W. Post of Grape-Nuts and Post Toasties fame. ;) http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5267/...e3c8159f_b.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3870 1910(?) http://www.publicartinla.com/Downtow...roa/AF1910.jpghttp://www.publicartinla.com/Downtow...roa/AF1910.jpg |
-a parade float in, what looks like, Little Tokyo.
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