S. Charles Lee did the gorgeous Hollywood Regency remodel of the Max Factor building, combining an old furniture warehouse and a garage. The shorter, garage portion is now a Mel's Drive-in.



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This one is positively swoon-worthy BRR. That's the Hotel Hollywood on the right.






No spoilers on "What Price Hollywood?" Biff. You have to see it :-)

Excellent post on 927 and 937 Orange Street FW.



Originally posted by Flyingwedge
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/IrYwdJ.jpg

I can't get over that elaborate 'spire' on top of the cupola------->

I don't believe I've seen anything quite like it.

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Seen it and, given enough time, lived it. Could have said "Took me to the cleaners, Harvey's." ;)




And from the top!
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Battery up!
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:shrug:

Was the sign a discard or - could this be theater-adjacent parking? everywhere. (Think it most likely the former.:uhh:)

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There's a parking lot in front of the cinema building rather than a street. The marquee would've been roughly where Yogurtland is today. It was probably placed to catch the attention of traffic on Main Street, which wasn't lined with trees when the cinema opened.

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

They're wind chimes. Yes, it's a frightening thought, and I'm going to go lie down just thinking about it; but they're wind chimes. When I go to Fashion Island, I park near there. The upside is that they hardly ever make any sound (at least in my experience).

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odinthor beat me to it!

From seecalifornia.com:

"Made of bronze, the installation takes up an entire panel wall of the building and are considered a sculpture created by mural artist Tom Van Sant. They aren't his only piece of artwork but are certainly one of the most enjoyable because they make sounds. The chimes were installed in September 1967, and set a Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest wind chime."

Here's a better picture.

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

Robinson's is now Macy's, but the chimes are still there.

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

This is the other building featured in the Julius Shulman photoset that I posted yesterday. It's still "Job 6269: Phelps and Morris, miscellaneous projects (Long Beach, Calif.), 1984". The sign on the side says "The Belmont" and "A Racquetball and Athletic Club".

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

These look like the racquetball courts.

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

A reverse view from near the "Sundeck" sign.

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

There was also a gym ...

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

... and a small pool.

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

All from Getty Research Institute

The Belmont Athletic Club is still in business at 4918 E 2nd Street, Long Beach - just a stone's throw from yesterday's Gibraltar Savings location. The front has been opened up with large windows on the second floor. They've kept the Art Deco typeface.

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

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

:previous: WIND CHIMES!?!

Well,...now I've seen everything. Thanks odinthor & HossC

ha ha ha...I think someone got that sign from a Fox theater parking lot.

Large sand filled pot in front of doorman's ticket box for your cigarettes.

Occasionally they might count the ticket stubs in the box to check if they had reason that some employee was cheating the box office and reselling tickets.

Tuxedo man appears to be the theater manager. The assistant manager and doorman are in the back by the door.

Hoss, I believe this is the east end of the old Belmont Theater and Commercial Building.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/tUcDlQ.jpg
http://theoddduck.net

:previous: The Belmont Athletic Club is where the Wallace Beery banner is...above at far left.




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http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...loads/2016/08/




http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/HbjlGG.jpg
south is at top.

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At the lower left it looks like they have installed credit card parking meters.

Irving Hindin sold dresses at 6363 Hollywood Blvd in the late '30s...


Perhaps at the west end of the Art Deco building here...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Sz...=w1326-h501-no


across from which in the vintage view is reflected this building (apparently then in Moderne diguise)...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YA...=w1075-h528-no


By 1942, Hindin's had moved downtown to 317 W. 8th, which would have been where this building is now, one with a special name (at least up until May 2011)...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VF...=w1031-h707-no

All GSV

Yep. That's the theater in which I saw the Charlton Heston Ben-Hur when I was but a tyke. That show was so overpowering to this li'l kid, what with the chariot race and all, that I came within a whisker of fainting as we walked out and had to be supported in our walk back to the car. (Nowadays, I think that Ben-Hur is bloated, and infinitely prefer the earlier one with Ramon Novarro et al.)

Thanks Bristolian, but I'm afraid the building is too small. It already houses the Keller Paint & Lacquer Store.


Although, I see where you got 'MASON'.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...923/aGbfTv.jpg



The complete photograph here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=40327

Here's a rather difficult 'mystery' location.

Unknown coffee shop in North Hollywood, 1950.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/WKjIKs.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/Sk3pAL.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/simpso...7PkBuB-cz4GLh/

"My grandmother, Addie Simpson, at the cafe where her daughter Marie was working." -C. Simpson

written on the back of the original photo:
"Taken in North Hollywood"
scanned from the original negative




The Best Clue (obviously :))

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/yBs1KA.jpgdetail

I figure if you guys can figure out Keller Paint and Lacquer Co., you might have a shot at this one too.

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Another pictures from the same source shows the name as Wetzel's Coffee Shop. That hasn't helped me find an address. The search goes on ...

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
simms54 on Flickr

:previous: oops, I jumped the gun. I should have checked the rest of the photographs.

Did it say who the young lad was?

I rediscovered the following screen-grabs in one of my older files.

They're from a family's 8mm movie (hence the lady posing by the Sanchez Street sign)

#1
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/dmXit6.jpg

note the shuttered Plaza Cafe'




#2
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/uhbLIn.jpg
old file




#3
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/S3APom.jpg



below: In this similar view you get a glimpse of the end of the block (not sure if the freeway has been built at this point in time)

#4
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/q29Ycp.jpg
old file



Here's Sanchez Street today (no automobiles allowed)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/cF1GJx.jpg
gsv




below: The Plaza Cafe' in 1949 (as seen from the northeast) -this might be just a few years earlier than the 8mm home movie.

Originally posted by tovangar2
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/PFsgEp.jpg
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=31356
lapl


Check out tovangar2's excellent post (with numerous vintage photographs of Sanchez Street!)
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=31356


*I'm still searching for the source of the home movie. If it looks familiar to anyone, please let me know.