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This structure and its bank vault have been seen before as the United California Bank. http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=16655 (Suspect it has been featured in one or two Films/TV shows.) http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6...b0c53d8f_o.jpg |
Jean Harlow, wearing a sailor outfit and her Cadillac V16, c.1934. I guess she preferred big powerful cars.
I wonder if this mystery location is her home? Here is a link: http://www.image-archeology.com/Home...y_Hills_CA.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psn915elyo.jpg |
Nancy Kelly
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Edit: I seem to have found it, what do you guys think - was it worth saving? http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townn...9af7.image.jpg |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original 1891 LACD @ LAPL Giese's home may have been renumbered from 256 to 840 Bellevue: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original 1888 LACD @ fold3.com Here is the June 1949 Sanborn Map; 840 Sunset's address is at top center, with the house on the back of the lot: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original Proquest via LAPL Set back from Sunset on the rear of the lot, under the red star, is 840 Sunset. Under the green star is 830-32 Sunset, with two gables facing north onto Sunset: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original DW-V7-1-5 @ USCDL (thanks to HossC) The building permit to move 840 Sunset to the rear of the lot is dated November 21, 1914: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original LADBS The Giese home at 840 Bellevue is on the seam between two volumes of the 1894 Sanborn (at upper right on the left-hand map, and at upper left on the right-hand map). At some point the home was remodeled from one story plus basement to two stories: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original Proquest via LAPL Although the 1888 Sanborn does not show Sunset and Figueroa (then Bellevue and Pearl) in detail, it shows the area on a wider map (in the lower left corner, Hope ends at Temple). I've marked the site of 840 Bellevue with a red star. Below the red star, to the left of the M in Montreal, is an intersection with an abnormally wide, curved corner: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original Proquest via LAPL This looks south; it's from the 1888 William Henry Jackson panoramic photo we've seen before. The intersection with the wide, curved corner is at the left edge of the photo, just above center. It is possible though by no means certain that I've marked 830-32 Bellevue/Sunset with a green star and the Giese home at 840 with a red star: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original Denver Public Library At Historic Aerials, I think 840 Sunset is visible on the 1994 view. The house is definitely gone in the 2004 shot. |
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---------------------- This Julius Shulman post is another long shot. Again, there's no information with the photos, so it may not be in LA. It appears that this drive-in was still under construction when Mr Shulman visited. This is "Job 275: Drive-in Theater, 1948". Does anyone recognize it? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Could the "Kyle Steel" sign give us a clue to the location? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute |
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Kyle Steel was at 3240 N. Durfee Ave., El Monte (location now in the City of Industry), according to that popular publication, Western Industrial Purchasing Guide, p. 339 (1955). Publication Steel, Vol. 13, p. 184, of the same year, tells us that the company had just "completed construction of a 75,000-sq-ft plant in El Monte, Calif. It will fabricate steel for industrial and commercial buildings." 1956's Western Metalworking, Vol. 14, p. 95, reports that Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. had purchased Kyle Steel Co. |
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Thanks, odinthor. Now you've provided the name, I was able to find these images of the Studio Drive-In's marquee sign. The site also has a small version of the first Shulman image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ioDriveIn1.jpg drive-ins.com And here's a daytime shot after it closed. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ioDriveIn2.jpg drive-ins.com |
re: location of the "longest bar in the world"
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Here's how the Bicknell Bldg looked in 1920. -decades before it was home to the "longest bar in the world". http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/FdM2Dy.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/ocW8DD.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=23136 Originally posted by odinthor http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/zXEfxP.jpg Two orchestra pits in one bar? -sounds cacophonous! And as odinthor pointed out, the above article is dated Dec. 16, 1938. In other words, the bar lasted only a few months past the Legion convention. I still haven't figure out the name of the bar. _ |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/VAW8y8.jpg I couldn't resist circling it.;) Thanks for locating the SP,LA & SL RR arrowhead emblem Hoss. I thought I had covered every angle of that bridge. While I was driving around in the google-mobile searching for the RR emblem, I found another interesting tidbit of history in the area. About 1,500 feet northwest of this spot (along Whittier Boulevard) there is a "one-of-a-kind" tree. ('one-of-a-kind' as in...the only one on Earth!) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/zDyUv4.jpg google_earth a closer look. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/KbYtlX.jpg The tree's name is the "Paradox Hybrid Walnut Tree". History & Significance: "Mr. George Weinshank planted the Paradox Hybrid Walnut Tree as an agricultural experiment. Mr. Weinshank taught agriculture at the Whittier State School and the planting of the tree was connected to an experimental planting conducted through the University of California, Department of Agriculture. The tree is an unusual cross between the Black and English walnuts, and is "believed to be one of a kind today." (Report from Consultants and Researchers C.J. Pilkerton and Associates). As of January 19, 1994, Park Department official’s report fruit production still occurs, however, the age of the tree prohibits the development of mature fruit as the walnuts are dropped prior to ripening. The method of grafting the two trees was conducted with failed results was abandoned and the tree, possibly part of a larger grove, was left to die. The subject walnut tree consistently obtained water or moisture from a nearby reservoir and flourished at the site. In 1955, highway plans illustrated the removal of the walnut tree. Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Whittier Chapter and the Native Daughters of the Golden West, Parlor #298 and Whittier Community Beautiful persuaded the State to save the tree, and allow it to be maintained within a 3,000 foot long divider strip. The health of the tree was questionable and some surgery was performed on the tree. The park facility includes a graded area of approximately 500 feet and in length and the sidewalks were installed on both sides of the tree. Although the health of the tree improved, the parkway surrounding the tree proved to be too difficult to maintain for the Whittier Community Beautiful organization, and a long term agreement between the Whittier City Park Department and the State was executed. Maintenance jurisdiction of both the tree and the divider strip was thus handed over to the City in 1965. The tree has a canopy of approximately 100 feet and a trunk diameter of more than 13 feet in The Walnut Tree stands beside a widely traveled highway, Whittier Boulevard, and serves as a highly visible natural landmark." www.whittiermuseum.org http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/gqzCGa.jpg http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/W...ee_Whittier_CA Today, it has some low-tech branch support. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/mMpqyM.jpg www.haymaking.com ....from the google-mobile. (looking a bit scraggly) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/QS7lby.jpg gsv :previous: Partially hidden by some shrubs on the left, is a plaque (shown below). -also note the "Camino Real Bell" on the right. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/24cimy.jpg http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=50978 __ |
Ad found in the 1938 Los Angeles City Directory.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/AX0iau.jpg http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...00003/00000003 This fine looking building would have been directly behind the Los Angeles Examiner Bldg. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/vnFjId.jpg google_aerial Does anyone know when it was torn down? _______________ I've been searching for a glimpse of it in vintage aerials but I haven't any luck (yet). I thought for sure it would be in this 1926 aerial. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/ndBFcx.jpg waterandpower.org But I don't see it. __ |
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Thanks for this link comparing the Bunker Hill video of 70 years ago to now as posted at The New Yorker. I enjoyed this. |
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In a similar vein, I found this video on youtube recently: Ed Ruscha's Hollywood Boulevard, 1973 and 2002 It is 4 blocks of Hollywood Blvd. It's not stated on the page, but I figured out that it starts from McCadden Place on the north side of Hollywood Blvd. and goes east to Hudson Ave. Then it turns to the south side and goes back west down to McCadden Place. You can't really make them out clearly, but something to notice, when it starts, up that street (McCadden) on the far left, is the famous Don the Beachcomber's restaurant and directly at the end of the street in the distance, at Yucca, is Patsy D'Amore's Villa Capri restaurant. Other buildings we've discussed on NLA that you'll see are, among others, Pickwick Books, Phil Harris Records, the Jane's House, the Vogue Theatre (playing The Scarecrow and Frenzy in 1973), Musso & Frank's and McGoo's on the north side. On the south side you'll see the Fox Theatre (formerly the Iris) playing two Bruce Lee films in 1973, J.J. Newberry's, Frederick's of Hollywood, the New-View Theatre a year before it became the Pussycat Theatre in 1974 and played Deep Throat for ten years, The Gold Cup, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Inn, one year before it was bought by Scientology. (The former Christie Hotel aka Drake Hotel.) Then it stops a few hundred feet before it would've gotten to Coffee Dan's :rolleyes: wouldn't you know. You'll also see places we haven't mentioned liked Sillman's, Young China, La Casita, Cheap Feet and The House of Pants. :) If this had been mentioned before, I didn't locate it. |
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The windows and cornice seem about right, the doors in the right position, you can even see the fanlight over the top and the row of square windows to the left of it, and the indent to the left facade of the building matches too |
When doing my previous post, I looked up info to see when the Hollywood Inn had been sold and I found this bit of information:
There is a plaque on the sidewalk on the corner of McCadden and Hollywood Blvd. where the Hollywood Inn was. http://tonyortega.org/wp-content/upl...e.Hotel_.7.jpg http://tonyortega.org/2014/11/27/an-...that-portends/ Then I found what is said to be the only known footage of this parade on Hollywood Blvd. in 1970. This was three years before Ruscha's photographs of the same area. There's about six minutes of footage. In it, you can see some of those same buildings--the Hollywood Inn, The Gold Cup; The Egyptian Theatre's blade sign is lit up, but I couldn't tell what film was being shown. You can see the New-View Theatre which is playing The Boys in the Band and The Gay Deceivers. There's also some businesses like the Bi-Rite Drugstore, Regal Shoes and the Supply Sergeant and a brief view of the Pickwick Bookstore. The film is rather blurry, but very interesting. Footage begins at 1:20. http://laist.com/2016/06/13/weho_pride_history.php |
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My apologies to Tourmaline for not remembering his excellent post.
Note the basketball or tennis court on the roof. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/UpyK4s.jpg detail / enlarged -and that's an impressive six-story blade sign. __ Oh, and thanks Joe Gillis, for pointing out the building circled below is the same bldg.(before the upper stories were constructed) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/4PSq2j.jpg detail/lapl At first I thought there was a round 'turret' on the roof.....now I think it's an optical illusion. So what in the heck is it anyway? (my eyes are stilling deceiving me) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/TlyGHV.jpg extreme detail ;) __ |
re: William Eythe and mystery woman at the opening of the Milton J. Kreis at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
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Was there anything specific that led you to deduce the woman in the photograph was her? ___ As for this.... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/gkmRMY.jpg http://annyas.com/screenshots I've always thought Nancy Kelly's performance in 'The Bad Seed' was quite strange. The way she speaks just seems so odd to me. Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/W7HtuB.jpg http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2...seed-1956.html I wondered if anyone else felt the same way about her performance, so I went a' googling ;) Indeed, there are numerous criticisms online about her acting in 'The Bad Seed' (despite being nominated as best actress) Here's a rather humorous example: "By the time 'The Bad Seed' was made, the principals had given nearly a thousand performances on Broadway — and all of them played to the last row of the second balcony. Nancy Kelly's acting is so mannered that it’s almost kabuki, and her vocal cords sound as if they have been tempest-tossed for years upon the billowy main of gin, under lowering clouds of tobacco. It’s a husky voice that sounds best in its lowest register, but Kelly favors her upper register, which produces an asthmatic rasp, like the last few drops of bathwater being squeezed out of a rubber duck." http://www.tr10023.com/?p=583 ______________ Believe it or not, there's another performance in the film that makes Ms. Kelly's acting seem understated. That performance belongs...... Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/lyuKJt.jpg http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2...seed-1956.html Her inebriated scene will haunt you til' the day you die. Ms. Heckart was also nominated for 'the Bad Seed', as best supporting actress. ____ And last but not least, there's the title character. Patty McCormick as Rhode Penmark http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/us82rS.jpg http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2...seed-1956.html Believe me, she is the bad seed to end all bad seeds. Here's one of her infamous lines.... "Why should I feel bad, I'm not the one who died." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/XW4IwL.jpg http://emanuellevy.com/review/bad-seed-the-1956/ Ms McCormack, at the tender age of 11, was also nominated for her role in 'The Bad Seed'. - a total of 3 nominations in the acting category. They all lost. __ |
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I agree the "theatrical woman" resembles certain photos of Nancy Kelly & certainly don't deny MrCory's claim, but I too am interested in why he's positive it is her. |
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And put me in the group that has always found Kelly's performance in BAD SEED to be over the top. |
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