More on the Occidental fire


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LAT Nov 20, 1976

I've visited Hollywood Historic photos many times, but I did not notice this photo during any of those visits. (If this photo has been on NLA before, my mind is going.)

It's captioned: View of the Cahuenga Pass with the Barham bridge, the Mulholland bridge and Monkey Island.

http://hollywoodhistoricphotos.com/i...nga%20Pass.jpgHollywood Historic Photos

It's dated 1949, well after Monkey Island had closed. There's pretty clear details of the building and grounds. (Can anyone enlarge that lower right corner? :worship:) I also wonder what was located next door to Monkey Island in this photograph.

Flyingwedge posted this rare photo of Monkey Island off to the side as seen in "The March-April 1949 issue of California Highways and Public Works." Photo looking south at the 101 and the Barham bridge, here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=36237

Monkey Island, resampled:

http://www.BoebertandBlossom.com/LAN...nkeyIsland.jpg

Cheers,

Earl

3 more buildings from Disney's Hollywood Studios
 

At the end of my Golden-era Hollywood versus Disney’s Hollywood Studios – a side-by-side comparison blog post

https://martinturnbull.wordpress.com...de-comparison/

I have three buildings they included whose real-life counterparts I couldn't ID. If anyone here knows what/where they are/were, I'd love to hear from you. I thought this first one with the blue tile was especially well done:

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https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...img_07821.jpeg

https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...img_07751.jpeg

Thanks Earl, much appreciated!

Part of this looks very much like the Beverly-Poinsettia Commercial Building (7290 Beverly Blvd.), designed by John Robert Harris in 1930. Unfortunately the "MILK" sign is covering up important details.

http://www.whereislosangeles.com/Yuk.../LOGO/milk.jpg

The building was discussed briefly in this forum a couple years back, in a post from Martin Pal. (There may have been earlier discussions too; the search function of this forum is dreadful.)

This is modeled on the Oakland Floral Depot building, a deep blue terra cotta Art Deco building constructed in 1931. It's still standing.

re: My Favorite Martian spaceship / New Orleans Square
Were you sober? nevermind ;)


Keep searching Martin. I would really like to see it.



I'm pretty sure we discussed New Orleans Square in the early days of the thread. The building was originally a grocery store.

I remember New Orlean Square. Inside it was kind of like Pirates of the Carribean but without the pirates.

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Wow, Monkey Island, huh? I've never before heard of this place. Was it an amusement park of some kind?

(That photo has a nice view of Lake Hollywood in the background)

Judging by the photo above, Monkey Island would have been where El Paseo De Cahuenga Park is now, yes?

https://i.imgur.com/IAmERDZ.jpgGoogle Maps

The reason Dalmations are used in Firehouses is because they are notoriously deaf and are not freaked out by the fire alarms. So although all dogs may calm horses, only deaf dogs can do it in a screaming firehouse. Thus, Dalmations.

I don't know about the art gallery, but I do know that in the late 1980s / early 1990s that same space was occupied by EZ-TV, which offered very low cost video production rentals and video editing to fringe creative types like myself. I edited one project there, and also took an evening class in video production from a guy named Aron Ranen. The spaceship prop from My Favorite Martian was right there by the entrance, exactly as you described. I got to look at it up close. It had passed through several owners and was in pretty shabby condition.

Another reason Dalmatians were used is that the horses are left by themselves some distance away from a fire. The Fire Brigade cannot spare a man to watch the horses....all of them are needed to fight the fire. Therefore the dogs stay with the horses as a calming influence.

Some dog breeds are known to agitate and excite horses.

They are still chosen by many fire fighters as pets in honor of their heroism in the past.

LA's most famous fire dog.
https://images-platform.99static.com...hment_89736094
old file.

Thanks, E_R! Something I forgot to mention was that there was also a Radio Station at the top of Occidental Center. It had been gone for a few years by the time I arrived in 1974. But I remember listening to it in the late 1960s or early 1970s: "Soaring high above Los Angeles from Beautiful Occidental Center, this is K (Something)." I can't remember the call letters. I think it was a "beautiful music" format a la KPOL. (But NOT KPOL).

Another Occidental Center mystery to unravel! I haven't had much luck trying to find the phantom station.

Can't speak for the Playboy Club. But over at Occidental Center, once you got past the dark paneling and luminous ceilings, the office space could be quite a letdown. My desk, circa June 1977. Maybe one of the reasons the November 1976 fire was so intense. Paper, paper, paper. Note the greenbar computer printouts.

The battleship gray furniture would have fit in quite nicely in any number of Noirish films. And that suit coat draped over the back of the chair ...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1902/...fcf1d4fb_b.jpg

Thank you, Hoss! I had forgotten that arson was suspected. I wonder if the arsonist was ever found. (I can account for my whereabouts that evening & morning).

Thank you, Gaylord. I hadn't heard about the fire when I headed out to work that day, so when I got to Occidental Center, everyone was just standing around outside. Eventually word drifted to us to go home.

I was using the Park & Ride lot in Studio City, and of course there was no express service outbound that time of the morning. So, it was a looong ride back on the pokey 93 bus, stopping at every other corner in Downtown & Hollywood.

Until the fire happened, we all assumed that those shiny round discs in the ceiling were ultra modern fire sprinklers. Nope!

Could it have been KUTE-FM? This is from a round-up of radio stations by format in the March 25, 1967 edition of 'Billboard':

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAKute-FM1.jpg
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To save people some googling, here's the Oakland Floral Depot building at 1900 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...oralDepot1.jpg
GSV

My Favorite Martian, Uncle Martin, Martin Pal

Martin, Is there something you are not telling us?

:previous:

:haha::haha::haha:





Perhaps I thought EZ-TV was some sort of gallery? That does sound right, though. EZ-TV registers as the name!

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I found this Vimeo video titled:
John Dorr's Tour of EZ-TV (1986)



It does go into the lobby from the outside where I saw the MFM spaceship, but it was not there in 1986 yet. He does talk about art exhibits (paintings) in the screening room which is probably why I was remembering it as a gallery.

The following link has a lot of info about the history of EZTV and it's locations. It was in West Hollywood in the New Orleans Square building from 1983-1994.
http://www.eztvmedia.com/the-west-ho...1983-1994.html