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For what it's worth, a couple of other recent posts of mine in which images didn't appear, repaired... http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=46536 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=46595 |
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I visited Wallich's once when I arrived in California. It turned out to be the last year of it's existence. Another question came to me. What used to be in the location where the Cinerama Dome was being built? (Or the RCA Building for that matter.) Did you ever visit the Coffee Dan's around the corner from Wallich's on Vine? |
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Hello, LA Noirishers!
I've been trying to locate a PRE-1926 straight-down aerial photo of the area in the picture below - specifically, before Spring Street was straightened out to facilitate the building of the the new City Hall. Does such a photo exist? Here is a Baist map showing the area I'm trying to find: https://i.imgur.com/wMAt3Jy.jpgLINK For comparison purposes, here is an aerial from November 29, 1933, which is after Spring Street was straightened: https://i.imgur.com/c9uaiOm.jpgFrameFinder Flight C_2816, Frame 1 By the way, FrameFinder only goes back to 1929. Historic Aerials only goes back to 1948. |
Greetings folk, as long as we're discussing all things Los Angeles and noir, I figure someone has to mention the new book from Taschen. Dark City is a monster, a 450-page hardback one at that. Granted, if you're a devoted noirisher, a bunch of the images won't be new to you. But it's still chock full of great stuff and should hold a place on everyone's bookshelf.
Check it out—real bullet holes in the cover! https://farm1.staticflickr.com/945/4...35a027cf_b.jpg The TOC– https://farm1.staticflickr.com/863/4...affd5db4_b.jpg What I really dig about it are the reproductions of pulp mags, nine of them scattered through the book— https://farm1.staticflickr.com/864/4...8eb98aee_b.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/828/2...f8c4740b_b.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/965/4...63312e6a_b.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/979/4...050b27ae_b.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/948/4...302bc87a_b.jpg There's also an appendix listing twenty other places (films, books) to go for Angelenic noir— https://farm1.staticflickr.com/870/4...2dcc0a5c_b.jpg |
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One thing I liked about that era was that there were dozens of coffee shops, where customers were served at the counter with a napkin, a spoon and a cup of coffee (and saucer), including refills. All for a dime. No standing in line for coffee in a paper cup for 1.75. Get your own cream and sugar, look for a clean table and pay for refills. We lost something in the transition. My favorite coffee shops back then were the two Coffee Dan's on Hollywood Blvd, Aldo's where the KFWB disc jockeys would hang out, Toff's, the Plaza coffee shop, the Brown Derby coffee shop, the Snow White coffee shop, the Copper Skillet and many others. I never went in the Coffee Dan's on Vine Street. There were a number of hamburger stands around, too.There was one on Cahuenga and one on Vine, both north of Hollywood Blvd. The snack bar next to the Huntington-Hartford and the one across from the Hotel Wilcox (where Ava Gardner was a regular when she was brought to Hollywood) were great greasy alternatives to McDonalds. Arthur J's and Carolina Pines, Jr. were very popular, as was the Ranch Market and Cantor's, both open all night. Same with Philippe's downtown. I first went there in 1964, back when it was open 24 hours a day. When I would get off work at Music City at 2:00 am, the dark streets of the Los Angeles underworld beckoned. I helped open the Westwood Free Press & Kazoo in Westwood Village in 1968 and we stayed open until 2:00 am, as well. That bookstore and head shop changed Westwood forever. No more sleepy village. 1968 was a cultural shock to everyone not ready for it. No more Lawrence Welk and Pat Boone. Now, it was the Beatles White Album. All those great, early 1960's joints became passé. It was about the Bido Lido, the Fifth Estate, Fred C. Dobbs and the new world of hip coffee houses. We went from ten cent coffee shops to $1 coffee houses. The scene was changing. |
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He toured with Nirvana in 1993/1994. And he's been an on again/off again member of The Foo Fighters for nearly 25 years. |
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Hey Bill, thanks, I'll have to check that out. Its good to know. |
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Gun Crazy is a real treat Otis.
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I didn't realize there was a cinema in the old Utter-McKinley Mortuary. (or did I just forget?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/SI9jtK.jpg LAPL In the photograph below you can see the columns of the old mortuary. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/8gEpTz.jpg Midcenturymodernlosangeles / closed facebook page via losangelestheatres A bit of history: " In 1964 exploitation film producer Robert Lippard [or Lippert?] purchased a theater on the Sunset Strip. The theater only had 16mm capability and Lippard's intent was to screen nudie-cuties. But when the Strip became the destination for the hippie culture, his programming choice proved fruitless." "The theater ('little more than an anonymous doorway under awnning') was taken over by Lewis Teague, a NYU graduate in film studies. Teague offered to run the theater as an art house, and after introducing new weekly programs (European art films), renamed it Cinematheque-16. Roger Delfont at ADSAUSAGE FREEP, April 1968 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/DtKcLO.jpg ADSAUSAGE FREEP, October 1966 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/3YTQrj.jpg ADSAUSAGE I'll end with Mother of Inventions' FREAK OUT! map reprinted in the Los Angeles Free Press. [c.1966] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NbCqCv.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/foscQd.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/7vjS3O.jpg afka.net I pieced it together so you can read it. (you're welcome ;)) Enjoy! __ |
I went to/hung out at many of those Hollywood places - fifth estate, blue grotto (blue blotto), Whisky, the Trip, troubadour, Sea Witch, It’s Boss, Palladium, kaleidoscope, ciro’s, ash grove...etc. Lots of great music.
The Buffalo Springfield song “For What It’s Worth” was written about the Sunset Strip Riots stemming from enforcement of the 10 pm curfew for those under 18. I bought Vox wah and tone bender guitar pedals - still own them - and records at Wallichs. Once I saw two of The Chambers Brothers in there buying guitar strings. Barney Kessel had a guitar shop in Hollywood. Movies at cinemateque 16 with my artist girlfriend - Warhol, Kenneth Angers, Jonas Mekas etc. Books at free press book store. Eats at Ben Franks, Pink’s, tommy’s, Harry’s Open Pit, norm’s, Canter’s, and later oki dog, hamburger hamlet and nucleus nuance. |
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I sold the Freep (15 cents a copy; keep 9 cents and give distributor 6 cents) on the old Pandora's Box site and then crossed the street to Harry's Open Pit for half a BBQ chicken and fries for 55 cents. Saw Mimi Fariña nightly at the Ash Grove and Don't Look Back at Cinemateque 16. The most popular after hours spots were Ben Frank's, Cantor's and Carolina Pines, Jr. Long-hairs and hippies (not the same thing) crowded those restaurants until another hot spot drew them away. Wild Man fisher and General Hershey Bar were ubiquitous. |
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It shows New High Street still complete, but Spring Street is a dead end as the city hall is well under construction and already topped out. Here is another one: http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_image.../c-113_268.tif All the photos in Flight ID C-113 are dated by the site as August 1, 1927, but it would seem that date is an approximation. The two above are from a flight line west of city hall numbered below 300; the flight line east of city hall - also with Flight ID C-113 and numbered above 300 - are clearly from slightly later as New High Street has been torn up in those. Neither is as early as you're looking for, however. |
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https://i.imgur.com/ui9P2Tt.jpg That's pretty good, actually - it may not show “old” Spring perfectly, but you can still see where the streets used to be. And I'm beginning to doubt that an earlier shot even exists. Thank you for digging through FrameFinder to find it. I (obviously) didn't find that image when I searched FrameFinder, but I guess I'm still learning how to use their site - I just realized that they have a time slider for setting what time period you wish to see photos from. :rolleyes: |
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I know this isn't a "straight-down aerial photo", but it does show the area in an aerial view taken from a balloon in around 1910. Just left of center, the Hall of Records is under construction. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...oonAerial1.jpg Detail of image in USC Digital Library |
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That edition has some sequences where it has just the audio and maybe some stills . . . and I can remember seeing the visuals on at least a few of them. For instance, the lost footage where Spencer Tracy is in the ice cream parlor's phone booth talking to Buster Keaton on the phone: They show head shots of Keaton on the phone . . . but only from behind, so we don't see his face until at the beginning of the chase at the end of the movie. Then Tracy puts down the phone. On the audio, we hear "funny" music: What's happening is that Tracy starts leaving the phone booth . . . remembers something . . . then goes back to check the instrument's coin return receptacle (in case some former patron had abandoned some change). Again, when Dick Shawn takes a flying leap from his beach shack into his (girlfriend's) convertible: They only have stills; but I remember seeing it, and remember my mother saying "Oh!" at the feat. Good times! :haha: |
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What a beautiful image. Los Angeles used to be so lovely. |
What is the name of that website - all of you guys use it - that only lets you see aerial images in a tiny window, then displays totally obnoxious watermarks all over the image... like this?
https://i.imgur.com/7uCV2K3.jpg I made the above image in Photoshop, but that's just what it looks like - TONS of watermarks. I couldn't find the website in my bookmarks, nor could I find it via a Google search... if one of you folks could give me the link, I'd really appreciate it! :worship: |
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