I don't know about the brass foundry, e_r, but this is identified as probably the 1894 La Fiesta Parade, which had
a Mt. Lowe float. This photo looks north on Hill Street toward Fifth Street. Hazard's Pavilion is on the left, with the
Rose Mansion up behind it:

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Here's a close up. That's the same float from your photo, plus I think the guy on the horse at lower left,
with his hand on his hat, is the same guy in your photo wearing light-colored pants and hat and riding a
horse under the Brass Foundry sign:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original

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Thank you FW.

One can see Mary Hazard Taft's & Harley Taft's second Pershing Sq home on the corner of 5th and Hill (they'd left for Hollywood in '92). Pershing Sq looks amazing, long before John Parkinson's redesign.


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Nah, I think that's a generic, terrified spinster. Thatcher's the busybody with the rubber stamp.

Remember when we discussed this framed billboard in December 2014? For the record, we concluded that the BBC had misplaced the recreation in their documentary. Well, it looks like all six parts of the documentary, hosted by Ed Asner, are now on YouTube (they were in the recommendations when I watched the recently posted Hollywood videos). Here's the first part:

Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 1: Birth of A Titan

• Video Link

The other episodes are:

Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 2: Let’s Face The Music and Dance (edited)

Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 3: A Woman’s Lot

Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 4: It’s All True (edited)

Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 5: Dark Victory

Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 6: Howard’s Way

NB. Episodes 2 and 4 have been edited slightly for copyright reasons. Episode 2 is missing some Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers numbers, and episode 4 has had a clip of Citizen Kane removed.

Regarding the identity of the women with the scissors, I suspect she's a nun ready to cut out the naughty bits.

You have it about right. All the houses on N. Broadway on Fort Moore Hill, with the exception of Mary Hollister Banning's house, will be gone by '47. That low, modern looking building that has replaced the U.S. Hotel houses the Stakeout bar, favorite of L.A.'s finest.

Again, "framing" reminiscent of the structure on top of the Virginia Apartments, Hollywood Blvd.

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Cartoonist Ron Cobb went on to become a major contributor to films like STAR WARS, ALIEN and CONAN THE BARBARIAN thorugh his design concepts. He was also part of a project called NIGHT SKIES and was set to direct it. Producer Steven Spielberg later revised the concept and directed it himself as E.T.

Did someone say Gower Gultch?


Since you mentioned it. . .

Ever notice the address on the otherwise nondescript RKO steps?

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The Virginia, Hollywood Blvd. Sans Hat. most likely mid-'30s ('36)
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Speaking of art, [yet unknown location] burlesque shows had a lot of it. Suspect it was downtown, '36.
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When in town, look for a place with hot and cold water. "134"
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147 Main Street - Too good not to repost.
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WigWag recommends not going too far off the beaten [Beverly Hills] Bridle Path. You could get lost and end up on the wrong blog.

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Noah Cross giving directions to the Abacore Club?
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Martin: Doubtful this has anything to do with MI., mostly because it predates it by 3-4 years.

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"Ohh. WigWag!"


Max Factor employee.
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Judging by the vehicles--I think both have Packard chassis--I'd say the image without the rooftop box is more mid-to-late 20s rather than 30s...but then again, it might have been taken right before the box went up...

Maybe this has already been discovered..can't remember--but here's a BP for a rooftop sign dated July 1, 1936...not much of a description, but perhaps it refers to the box.

If so, it didn't last long... as indicated by the sign on the second-floor corner, the owner was going to erect a new building... demo BP dated August 9, 1937



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As seen in post 33863 the neutered Sontag store by S. Charles Lee was the replacement. BP dated August 13, 1937...


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OK, so this Malibu house isn't by John Lautner, but it is interesting. It's Julius Shulman's "Job 2168: Richard Spencer, Spencer House (Malibu, Calif.), 1956".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

A shiny Thunderbird to go with the new house.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Looking up from the beach.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

The barrier in the picture above marks where the PCH crosses.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

Here's the bit that sticks out towards the ocean.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

I should probably recognize the building on the beach which can be seen through the end panel - it's gone now.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

A modern, 1950s living area.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original

The TV really dates this photo.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original

This is the kitchen, which is through the serving hatch in the image above.

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Who'd want to sit with their back to that view? Note the rocks in the ocean on the right.

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All from Getty Research Institute

The house was located above Castle Rock on Porto Marina Way in Pacific Palisades. If you have a spare $4,950, you can buy an unframed 20 x 24" color print of the house at juliusshulman.org. From the description of the print:

Also known as "The House on a Cliff", this house was later destroyed by the city after the hillside around the house collapsed in 1975. Although the home was still clinging to the cliff, the city declared the home unsafe as it could slip onto the highway below.

As far as I can tell, the Spencer House was where I've arrowed in the view below. The steps to the beach and rocks are still there. I also think that some of the wall from the first picture survives to the left of the houes with the blue awnings.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
Google Maps

I believe the WC Fields-looking guy in the above left full-length poster is Joe Yule, Burlesque comic and father of Mickey Rooney. Yule was a mainstay of the Main Street Follies for many years.

http://images.google.com/url?q=http:...gCnQhSZjeDH86w

Mon plaisir.
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To quote a certain German soldier, "Verry interesting..."
I wonder if the HFPA got their award idea from this!

As for World Wide Pictures, the answer has a lot to do with names and locations being established, bought, sold and altered. Info below from various sites.

The 1932 film you linked said it was produced at the California Tiffany Studio.

This studio started as the Reliance-Majestic Studios, an early American movie studio in Hollywood, originally built around 1914 at 4516 Sunset Boulevard.

Within a few years, it became the home of D. W. Griffith and Mutual Film Corporation. Later the studio's name was changed to Fine Arts Studios, and was sometimes known as the Griffith Studio and as the Griffith Artcraft Studio. The studio was formed by Mutual as a partnership between D. W. Griffith and Majestic Studio owner Harry Aitken.

The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Broken Blossoms (1919) were partially or fully lensed at the studio. The sets for Intolerance (1916) were erected across the street where the Vista Theatre stands.

Thomas Ince's Kay-Bee Pictures, Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, and D. W. Griffith's Reliance-Majestic Studio were combined to form the Triangle Film Corporation, which was headed by Harry and Roy Aitken.

In 1927, Tiffany Pictures acquired the lot. Upon Tiffany's bankruptcy in 1932, the stages were renamed Talisman Studios, used as a rental studio by a variety of studios such as Monogram Pictures.

About Tiffany itself: Tiffany Productions was a movie-making venture founded in 1921 by star Mae Murray, her then-husband, director Robert Z. Leonard, and Maurice H. Hoffman, who made eight films, all released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Murray and Leonard divorced in 1925 and almost simultaneously the downward spiral of Tiffany began.

Starting in 1925, Tiffany released 70 features, both silent and sound, twenty of which were Westerns. To produce their films, Tiffany acquired the former Reliance-Majestic Studios lot at 4516 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles in 1927.

From 1927 to 1930, John M. Stahl was the director of Tiffany and renamed the company Tiffany-Stahl Productions. Head of Tiffany was Phil Goldstone with his vice president Maurice H. Hoffman. Leonard A. Young, who simultaneously ran the L. A. Young Spring and Wire Company, bought into Tiffany from Hoffman in 1929. In 1930, it became simply the Tiffany Studios and in 1932, it became the California Tiffany Studios.

Some of Tiffany's later movies were released by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures. Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution company that existed from 1927 to 1933.

This is the 4516 Sunset Blvd. area when it was Tiffany-Stahl.
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Not sure what the streets here are...the Vista Theatre opened in 1923, is it pictured here, I can't tell.

An early 1960's fire destroyed virtually all of the buildings except for one sound stage which remained until 1975. The former studio site is now a Von's with a large parking lot.

Here's a Shulman photo for the budget minded noirisher.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps5diiqetn.jpg
JS

I like this photo because the beam looks like part of the guy on the left's body, like he's a genie or something!




$4950.00. Pricey!
[Even at $875.00]

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"...and your little dog, too."

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In the color Getty images of this house that HossC linked, there are several of the above color photo and they're decidedly different in color/tone as well.
(They're all in reverse, too.)

Also, you can see a wire (power line?) connecting to the corner of the roof. Also in the b&w photos if you look for it.

There's a 1993 LAT article, "Trouble in Paradise: Dream Homes Slip Away", on the problems up at Porto Marina Way and Castellammare. The Spencer isn't the only home that's gone missing.

The Spenser's doomed home is mentioned in passing in the article:

"Longtime residents remember the last big slide, in 1969. It prompted Los Angeles to bury pilings to bolster streets and spelled the doom of three homes plus a cliff-side house that threatened to tumble down onto Pacific Coast Highway. Neighbors were kept awake at night as crews struggled to cut that house free of its anchoring posts and take it down."

Those do look like the Spenser's stone walls, with some less-attractive additions by Cal-Trans on the left:
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The ongoing work trying to prevent PCH from falling onto the beach has been mentioned before on the thread (partially pictured on the left in your last photo).

FYI, concerning Garry Winogrand. In my recent correspondence with SFMOMA and the Fraenkel Gallery, I was told there is a Winogrand documentary, an independent, crowd-funded documentary project that's in production now and the trailer can be viewed at this link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...photographable

We've been here before.

Here's the streets (we're looking southeast):
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movielocationsplus

The Vista doesn't appear. It's off the left margin in the shot above.

Current, with the Von's and it's parking lot at center, on the old studio site (north at the top):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/D1...Q=w506-h443-no
google maps

More pix here and here