...just found on ebay.

Los Angeles 1936
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a good view of a Boos Bros. Cafeteria
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press information
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It says "walks off his hotel roof", which hotel would this be?
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Downtown NOIR
 

ER.....Probably the Hotel Cecil.

A lot of strange things have happened up on that roof. Just ask Elisa Lam about it.

I might be staying there later next month and maybe not. My sister thinks it not a good idea for me to stay at the Cecil. It looks very noirish
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse5b355ec.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps332bfc5d.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps953aa0c8.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps50f74173.jpg

Murder on Crenshaw Blvd, 1958
 

A then and now crime scene near the intersection of Jefferson and Crenshaw

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Source: USC digital archives



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Personal

The building that was once a Jazz club, became a Japanese theater that showed samurai movies (Toyo and later Kokusai theater) is now a performing arts theater.

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Source: Cinema Treasures blog

Funny you should post this now. In the past two months, I've gone ahead and unearthed practically everything there is to know about this building and its history. In fact, I'll be giving a free slideshow lecture about it tomorrow (Sunday) in downtown L.A.

A tidbit: one of the land's first owners was Mrs. Genevieve Paddleford, America's most notorious "international adventuress and love pirate" for nearly 40 years. Hers is quite a story.

Fascinating stuff!

Bruce's bungalow
 

Hi, Ethereal. While rereading your first post (which noirishers know by heart by now as we always get on the first page when we come on the thread), I wondered what is the address of your small bungalow and wanted to see it on Google Maps.

Very noirish before and after bighen. -nice job.
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I finally found a postcard of Busch's Garden on Sunset. The owner's son was serial killer Henry Adolph Busch.

established 1932
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read more about the murders here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8102


and here to see information GW located, and a photo of the killer's apartment.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8103


and finally here by rCarlton
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8104


matchbook cover posted last June by GaylordWilshire
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5060 Sunset Blvd. today
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gsv
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AlvaroLegido, my address was 935 1/2 Hancock Ave. West Hollywood. You'll see that there are three bungalows
and I lived in the rear of the first bungalow. (they were built in 1946)
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A little more on the old Crenshaw Theatre here. Thought we'd also seen more pictures of it, but can't find them now....

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3262

Can't wait!



So glad it's the weekend. I finally have a minute to catch up with the thread. So many gorgeous posts. Thank you.

Some odd bits tripped over on the net this week:


Ed Fuentes may have figured out why our downtown streets don't quite conform to the Laws of the Indies:
http://www.viewfromaloft.org/2013/06...h-to-tree.html


One of the Einar Petersen murals from the Rosslyn is up on eBay:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/20...rsen_mural.php


la.curbed has some previously-mentioned-on-the-thread hotel recommendations for CityBoyDoug, including the Ritz Milner, Hollywood Historic and Coral Sands:
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...00_a_night.php


And, finally, the Getty has acquired three sets of sequenced aerial pix from Lane Barden
The Linear City Portfolio
Viewed in sequence on Barden's site, they really do give one a new perspective
on favorite and familiar locations:

Wilshire Blvd from the sea to DTLA (9 images)
http://www.lanebarden.com/en/01_Sequ.../03_Sequence3/
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...40002%2BPM.jpg

The LA River, Canoga Park to the sea (18 images)
http://www.lanebarden.com/en/01_Sequ.../01_Sequence1/
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...40224%2BPM.jpg

And the Alameda Supply Corridor (10 images)
http://www.lanebarden.com/en/01_Sequ.../02_Sequence2/

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U...40450%2BPM.jpg

More info: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/20...QQ4BT8.twitter

We haven't visited the Shanghai Cafe yet on noirish Los Angeles.

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ebay
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Pet Shop Boys and Other Musings
 

Posted originally by ethereal_reality
-earlier tonight I came across this interesting 1959 slide.
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-trying to figure out the address, I searched under 'florists' in the 1956 city directory since the 'plants' sign is prominent. Eventually I found a Germain's...but as a pet shop at 625 S. Hill Street. I looked at the slide again and decided the window display does look a bit like a pet shop.

http://imageshack.com/scaled/large/96/sjbz.jpgGoogle Street View

It looks like the building housing Germains has been replaced by another monstrosity. But you have the right address for Germains. To be certain, I found some detailing on the side windows of the building next door, which still stands, minus the earlier fire escape. The matching areas are circled in red.

...then I noticed 'Snafu Coffee Shop' several lines below Germain's in the directory and remembered this photograph I posted here last week.
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At first I thought the 'Transocean Air Lines' office was the old 'Germains Pet Shop' space. -but the addresses don't seem to add up.
Now (after a few beers) I am completely c o n f u s e d!
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http://imageshack.com/scaled/large/196/rcqg.jpgGoogle Street View

I was dumbfounded to see that the old Snafu building is still with us. I had assumed the old photo showed it during demolition, but it is definitely the same place. The two small buildings were simply remodeled into one storefront. For proof, look at the top left edge of the roof, and how it aligns with the brickwork on its neighbor. Identical in both shots.

:previous: Thank you Albany NY! This was driving me crazy.
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GSView

LA......we love it!

This was done from atop the Biltmore - and skipping over trees of Pershing Square there is the Hill St. Boos Bros. and a portion of the Metropolitan/Paramount Theater building to the cafeteria's right side--

Spotted one of these yesterday at Santa Monica Promenade at S.M.Blvd --

Today sorting thru old material at One Archives I found an invite card (early 1970s) for Troy Perry's MCC congregation -- Encore Theater -Melrose nr Van Ness - Somewhat similar name as what stuck in my memory erroneously as the Esquire-- Now that's corrected...

Weird objects....imo.

Ice Cream Cone Trash Can
 

Many cities in mainland China do the same thing with pandas, chickens, etc. A happier, friendlier trash can!

Cheers,
Jack

I guess it keeps their minds off of the crappy lives they lead in communist countries.

Thanks for the follow-up. The Encore Theater appears in the '73 directory at 5308 Melrose . . . XXX--3545. According to Cinema treasures, it started out in the '40s as the "Melvan" and later became a TV sound stage and warehouse before being revamped and renamed the Encore (1963), before another rechristening as the Continental ('80s) and ending up as a place exclusive for the parking of cars.

Photos (that don't reproduce well) and misspelling of theater name (Melvin): http://s3.amazonaws.com/bo-assets/pr...lksBKWUr8fU%3D


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