Originally Posted by JoeW (Post 5649731)

A friend recently sent a link to this vintage 1946 Columbia reel. I thought it was really neat and then thought the gang her might enjoy it. http://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-5
It is a film taken from the train while moving out of the LA area at night. Hope you like it
JoeW

Originally Posted by austlar1 (Post 5650000)

Regarding Franchot Tone and his toney background. I briefly attended boarding school with Jeff Tone, who was Franchot Tone's son by the woman he left for Payton. I remember once when Franchot Tone visited the school and was an honored lunch guest who was introduced to all the impressionable boys at the school by the headmaster. There was no mention that Mr. Tone had this drawn out and ugly affair with the trollop Barbara Payton. We were left with the impression that Franchot Tone was an aristocratic and wealthy movie star of impeccable background. His son, Jeff, was golden and beautiful. He seemed to have such a glamorous life with homes and parents in NYC and Beverly Hills. Who knew about his agrieved mother and all the scandal!

Originally Posted by 3940dxer (Post 5649947)

This morning I re-discovered this old 1887 aerial balloon may and spent a few hours trying to decode the main downtown streets. Here's what I came up with -- please correct me anyone, if you notice any errors or important omissions. (I oriented it vertically for publication here, to save viewers from massive amounts of scrolling.)

http://dkse.net/david/1887.balloon.markup.1200.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5649443)

I like the street activity in this postcard of the Angelus Temple.


http://imageshack.us/a/img846/3402/a...mpleflickr.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zilf/53...57594063877166

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5650255)

[IMG]--"but not the crazy übertramp that Payton was".

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5650365)

"with the trollop Barbara Payton." -austlar1

You know I love you all dearly, especially you Gaylord_Wilshire, but I'm a bit uncomfortable with the disparaging remarks
about Barbara Payton.

None of us can possibly understand what was going in her mind.
To me she seemed to be struggling with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

Give her the benefit of the doubt and let her rest in peace.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5650390)

I'm really not interested in Barbara Payton at all, other than as a sad noir footnote. I'm not sure why we're now expected to venerate her, and I definitely won't try to give her a psychiatric evaluation, any more than I would Mickey Cohen, Virginia Hill, Hazel Glab, Betty Short, Brenda Allen or any of the other characters we've discussed. Are there to be only genteel references to the dark side of Hollywood figures of the noir era on a thread called Noirish Los Angeles?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5650467)

G_W
I apologize for my post. There should be no censorship in a public forum.

Who in the heck is Hazel Glab?

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Originally Posted by Mayor Shaw (Post 5650530)

E_R, thanks, still getting a handle on the uploads, don't know why some went sideways (I do too sometimes). Hazel Glab was a real cookie... defo book worthy.