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Tinsel Town...after dark.
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It was well known in Hollywood that Natasha was a lesbian. No comment is needed about Rudy. His favorite party guests were the muscular Latin gardeners he hired to trim the roses and mow the lawn. Oy vey, such a life.:cool::D:cool::D |
Hollywood Forever
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One can see the strip malls in the Google Maps aerial: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-n...83116%2BPM.jpg google maps Here's a view of the shorter strip mall at Gower and Santa Monica Blvd built in front of the cemetery wall. There's a generous break for the cemetery entrance and then another, much longer strip running all the way to Van Ness. (And hey, check out those utility poles) https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...83747%2BPM.jpg gsv The strips weren't built until after I'd moved. I'm kind of in two minds about this development. The lawns were much loved by dog-walkers, frisbee-players and kids. However, as ugly as the strips are, the neighborhood desperately needed more retail and services. Too bad the cemetery didn't benefit. The then-owner was using the cemetery as his personal piggy-bank. The guy was a complete scoundrel. |
I found this picture the other day while looking for pictures of S La Brea Avenue. It shows the rather attractive Motor Tires Inc service station at La Brea and 2nd in 1931.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rTiresInc1.jpg USC Digital Library Here's a detail shot of the pumps. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rTiresInc2.jpg Detail of picture above. I think it can be seen on the north-west corner of the intersection in this 1948 aerial image. Assuming I've got the right building, it can still be seen in 1980. The 1989 image is pretty blurry, but I think it shows the building currently on that site. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rTiresInc3.jpg Historic Aerials I had a go at finding the service station in the City Directories. The 1929 edition contains this advert with five branches listed, but not the one on La Brea. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rTiresInc4.jpg LAPL By the 1932 edition, probably published less than a year after the USC picture was taken, Motor Tires Inc has become Goodyear Service Inc. Their entry lists over a dozen branches, but the La Brea site is still not among them. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rTiresInc5.jpg LAPL Finally, I found a listing for the 181 S La Brea site in the 1936 CD. It looks like Goodyear Service Inc had trimmed their business down to a head office and four branches. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rTiresInc6.jpg LAPL |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...VineMotel1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...VineMotel2.jpg eBay Here's how the Vagabond Inn looked from above. The site went all the way through from Vine Street to Lillian Way. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...VineMotel3.jpg Google Maps The Vagabond Inn didn't have many favorable reviews on yelp.com, although I liked the one that spoke about the wires sticking out of the "smoke dictator" :). Maybe the reviews were behind a name change to the Vine Inn & Suites sometime between August 2012 and February 2014 (going by the GSV images). The image below appears to show the motel still in operation in March 2014. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...VineMotel4.jpg GSV The July 2014 GSV image shows the buildings intact, but there's a six foot fence across the front of the property, and a large piece of Caterpillar machinery in the parking lot. By August 2014 (the most recent GSV image currently available), it's a different story. Has anything been built in its place? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...VineMotel5.jpg GSV |
Gas Station
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Cheers, Jack |
I found this a few weeks ago on eBay.
"Los Angeles, La Fiesta Parade, 1915" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/bmSz4k.jpg eBay I've been trying to locate The Frankfort Apartments. I've kept the photo LARGE to see the details / scroll right ------>to see the Pantages billboard advertising 'The Serpent of the Nile'. __ thx for the info. on the 'Galloping Goose' Wig_Wag. (Jack) |
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New Hotel on Vine Street to Replace Vagabond Inn Julie Grist | November 19, 2014 The less-than-lovely former Vagabond Inn is but a distant memory [...] so we were wondering what’s on the slate for 1133 Vine Street? Turns out it’s a new hotel – a 112 room, six-story hotel that will sit deep on the skinny lot along the west side of Vine at Lillian Way [...] and will offer a small ground floor cafe, swimming pool and 63 parking spaces, mostly underground. http://d2uaszwku8m8xd.cloudfront.net...1/Vine-Inn.jpg http://www.larchmontbuzz.com/larchmo...-vagabond-inn/ |
"Schaefer Hat Works, Los Angeles."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/6qERgi.jpg eBay cute lil' illustration / but no other information. |
Glass candy container in the shape of the dirigible U.S.S. Los Angeles.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/iP1H8Q.jpg eBay "Has working aluminum screw-on cap. Blimp with closure measures 6 inches. Silver paint has chipped but in very good condition." __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ellBrowne1.jpg books.google.com I also found a advert for the show in the November 4, 1913 edition of the San Francisco Call. It refers to the Pantages Theatre at 937 Market Street, San Francisco. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ellBrowne2.jpg California Digital Newspaper Collection --------------- Thanks for the follow-up on the Vagabond Inn's replacement, Martin Pal. |
:previous: I had trouble finding anything on the Frankfort Apartment as well HossC.
I thought it would be relatively easy dig something up, what with the prominent sign and that rounded 'room' on the roof. -not to mention the other unique 'tower'. Completely surprised about Bothwell Browne being a female impersonator. -just a few days ago we were talking about Rae Bourbon and the B.B.B. Cellar. __ |
There's a small preview of Bothwell Browne's only film, "Yankee Doodle in Berlin" (1919) on YouTube. It's only a minute, but Browne's transformation is a wonder.
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A wagon decorated for the La Fiesta de Los Angeles Parade, an event that took place on May 3, 1915. The back building sign (above the words 'Drink Coca-Cola') appears to read The Frankfort Apartments, a building I cannot locate in old city directories. The billboard on the right, however, refers to the downtown Pantages Theatre. At the time, the theatre was running a new play called, "The Claim Agent." Also advertised on the billboard is a vaudeville sketch called, "The Serpent of the Nile," starring female impersonator Bothwell Browne as "Cleopatra." The sketch originally debuted in Los Angeles in 1913, so Browne must be doing a reprise. As for the parade route, the La Fiesta de Los Angeles started at the intersection of 11th and Hill streets, moved north on Hill to 9th, east on 9th to Broadway, north on Broadway to 1st, east on 1st to Spring, and south on Spring to 9th. |
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These posts, and several others around them, discuss the gas station, Paramount Studios and several other buildings in the area. ANOTHER GAS STATION: In the above aerial, at approximately 5400 Melrose Ave. at Bronson, is Dave's Texaco Gas Station. I discovered a website with a page titled: "Melrose Avenue Circa 1944 - 1948." The introduction reads as follows: The following notes describe true events and activities concerning my friends and me during our High School years in the Hollywood/Los Angeles area prior to and following the end of WW II when Southern California was a much different place than it is today. The storyline centers around Dave's Texaco Gas Station on Melrose Avenue located across the street from RKO & Paramount Studios in Hollywood… http://melrose.vonborks.org/ The following is a current aerial of the area where the author has overlayed (in yellow) many of the places he talks about that are no longer present. You can see that where the gas station was located is now a parking lot. http://melrose.vonborks.org/img5.jpg The building west of it, Lucy's Restaurant, is also gone and now part of the parking lot. It was a restaurant owned by Steven Crane, formerly married to Lana Turner, and he has stories about this. He has a table of contents of locations that he talks about, including ones I've not heard of before, like The Airliner Lounge, a bar off Hollywood Blvd. at Wilcox. (He has a question mark after Wilcox.) He tells a lot of interesting stories, not all of them PG rated! (Involving drugs, jail, celebrities, a gang bang...for instance.) He was born in 1929, so he was a teenager during this period; fifteen in 1944. It's an entertaining read! He doesn't provide addresses and there is only a couple photographs, like this one of the author's friend Eddy and his girlfriend in front of the Texaco Station on the left and on the right is the same girl with the author, who has the unlikely name of Manfred von Borks: http://melrose.vonborks.org/img8.gif Some of the locations he has stories about are John Burroughs Junior High Fairfax High School Hollywood High School The Airliner Lounge Lucy’s Restaurant Leroy Shoes Melrose Grotto Polar Palace* Spyders Pool Hall The Beer Garden *I see that the Polar Palace has been mentioned "once" on NLA. In post #4153, HERE, there is one photo of it from May 16, 1963...when it burned to the ground. |
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Here is the phone # if anyone wants to call and ask: (405) 872-9997. I am at work and they frown on things like that.... |
POLAR PALACE
I found a couple more photos on A BRIEF HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA ICE RINKS. http://www.squareone.org/PolarPalace/ Polar Palace began its life in 1928 as Glacier Palace, a huge barn of a wooden structure at at 613 N. Van Ness Avenue between Melrose Avenue and Clinton Street. The rink would be renamed the Winter Garden some years later. In 1934, it reopened as the Polar Palace, Exterior http://www.squareone.org/PolarPalace/polarext1.gif Interior http://www.squareone.org/PolarPalace/int1.jpg Another photograph of the fire http://www.squareone.org/PolarPalace/polarfire2.gif |
That will be a shame to box in the Figueroa Hotel. I stayed there a few days a couple years back and really enjoyed it.
This forum prompted me to look up the history of the building. It was the first woman financed real estate project as the YWCA. |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...673/4Hu3Wo.jpg LAPL By 1932, it had moved several doors away to 1287 W. Jefferson, and opened another outlet at 628 S. Olive. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...540/1NYtla.jpg LAPL __ |
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Rip-Van-Winkle Motel and Apartments
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/903/XxcsBu.jpg ebay reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/ggBzOF.jpg -it's still there, under it's new moniker....Grand Motel (yeah, right) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/gNr1WE.jpg GSV -on the far right there's even a 'port-corchere'. :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/KNBOB3.jpg GSV __ |
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