Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 6950432)

Krell58, if I might follow your example, I'll climb out on a different limb and guess that we're looking north across Santa Monica Blvd. in West Los Angeles between the 20th Century lot and Westwood Blvd.

My source for L.A. street lighting options didn't make mention of the fixtures shown in the photo, but the railway right-of-way and ground contour look familiar.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6950898)

In the second episode there's another chase through the Civic Center (even though they leave the freeway at the Fairfax Avenue exit). Here's the parking garage of the State of California Building as seen from the entrance of the 2nd Street tunnel.

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The chase ends when they pull over the drunk driver on 2nd Street between Figueroa and the Harbor Freeway. Just for fun I thought I'd include this shot looking south-west from 2nd. The view was completely clear to the far side of 4th Street. It's likely that this episode was filmed in early 1977, so the Westin Bonaventure Hotel on the left would have only been about a year old at the time.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5577765)

Wonderful Post David-3940dxer!!


I wasn't aware of a Bungalow Land until that map...very cool find. I get confused with the area at the top of Laurel Canyon. I still wouldn't be able to point out where the 'Lookout Inn' used to be. I would find it interesting to see a photo taken from Hollywood and looking up into the Laurel Canyon area and have a X to mark the spot (hint hint) ;)

Sorry I can't answer your question about the locations of the Log House and Tavern Inn.
It would be fun to find out more about the remnant of the stone fireplace.


When you're up in that area have you noticed a building that kinda looks like an elementary school?
Here's a photo of it from the late 1970s or early 80s.

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Back in the day it was a secret film studio that produced government films (atomic films during the Cold War). It's been mentioned briefly in the thread a few years back. Anyway, I just thought it would be cool to see more recent photos of this mysterious place.
Everyone loves a mystery....right? :)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6951214)

"The day thirteen Ford V-8s were delivered to the Los Angeles Police Department."

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I'm intrigued by the location of this press photo. I can't quit figure out where it was taken (what parking lot?). The ramshackle buildings in the upper left corner
have thrown me for a loop.

Does anyone have an idea where this was taken?
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Here is the full description from eBay.
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The "Order of De Molay" -what the heck is that?
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Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 6950960)

Thx, I couldn't get around to posting the recipe for concrete, so I'm glad you did. My contractor grandfather couldn't stand people referring to concrete as "cement". I gotta admit though, people do use the terms interchangeably. As long as they're not making the stuff, no harm done.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5140971)

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Originally Posted by ProphetM (Post 6951371)

I believe this photo was taken looking west on 1st Street from Spring, or from between Spring & Main. The building on the right is the State Building, and the ramshackle-ish building at left is the side of the building(s) that sat next to the old Times Building. The brick building with double windows is the back corner of the Times Building itself, which (as has been discussed a few times) jutted out from the rest of the building at the inside corner of their property. That whole conglomeration of buildings sat on the State building's front lawn until they were torn down about 1938.

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6951090)

ER....The Bohemian Cafe looks like it was a cool place.

Back in 1959 Rockabilly singer Tommy Facenda recorded a series of popular songs about local high schools nationwide.
Here's his Los Angeles version... to play, click You Tube link:

https://youtu.be/aIaGA6k6E5Q

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Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 6949095)

IIRC, these diversions were made to provide space for small structures that housed pumps in the center of the right-of-way. The pumps and the structures that housed them subsequently were removed, but I don't believe that the tracks were ever straightened.

Originally Posted by agakhan61 (Post 6951379)

Tyrone Daily Herald 30 March 1932, pg. 4
Roscoe Arbuckle will do 2 weeks at Stark's Bohemian Cafe before he starts that vaudeville tour.

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 6950902)

First, welcome to the forum. I hope you'll hang around. As I think I've mentioned, I grew up in and around the several grocery stores my father operated in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, primarily the original store at Burton Way and Doheny Drive. We delivered groceries and liquor all over the west-side and when I got my drivers license (1960) I was recruited to be the vacation relief and back-up driver. I vaguely remember the Bel Air Sands going in but I don't remember exactly when but sometime before I got my license. Here's a goofy publicity shot announcing the opening but it is not dated, but still interesting in a kitschy kind of a way. I remember a story that went around about this place in the old days. Someone pointed out to me there was virtually no sign on the exterior. From the freeway, you couldn't see a name of any kind. So, the story goes, the place was built by one of the big chains (Holiday Inn when I heard the story) and in a major faux pas they had failed to note Bel Air had a very strict sign ordinance and were going to be prohibited from having any substantial corporate signage. As this played against their hidebound branding culture the hotel was sold off (maybe even before it opened) to the Bel Air Sands interests. I have no way of knowing if it's a true story but I did hear it several times over the years (Holiday Inn was interchangeable with other chains in the retelling). I remember a murder there in maybe '62 or '63 but I think you might safely say that about any semi-high profile hotel.

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