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She was married to Francis Oliver, born in Illinois in 1894 of Irish parents. The 1940 census shows that he was a printer of bank notes. The boy in the pictures may be her son, Thomas Hugh Oliver, born in 1917 in Los Angeles. He would be about ten in the pictures, which seems right. Thomas Oliver served in the US Army in WWII and Korea. He retired a Lt. Colonel. He died in 1997 in Virginia and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In her later years, Lillian lived in Northern Virginia, either with or near her son. She died in Petersburg, VA at the age of 92. The other woman in the porch picture may be Mary Jane "Minnie" Irven Archer, her mother. She was born in Northern Ireland in 1873. She and her husband lived a few blocks away in Los Angeles on E. 47th Street in 1930. The couple owned the house at 6718 2nd Avenue. |
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And here I thought it was the valet. lol. _ |
We have seen quite alot of these 'Nite-Life' souvenir photographs on nla. I'm pretty sure this one is new to the thread. (I spotted it not too long ago on ebay)
Wednesday evening, January 3, 1945 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/pAack7.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/HYEDa4.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/tQa4mw.jpg As a reminder: Bamba Club, 626 N. Spring St. Los Angeles in 1943. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/5L8cDL.jpg yesterdays-print Private eye Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) shoots a U in front of the Bamba Club in Kiss Me Deadly [c.1955] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/SR9Wul.jpg yesterdays-print _ |
This is how it all begins. Soon he'll be buying diapers and a diamond.
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Tension [1949]
'mystery' location.
Michael Leddy at Orange Crate Art blog has chosen this drugstore as the "Best Drugstore in Movies". https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ei2hdL.jpg orange crate art But he doesn't know the exact location. (he thinks Culver City is a possibility) He picked this particular drugstore because the story evolves around the store. (see below) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/N17ENr.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/pdVcNe.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/jjBpN9.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/tL1Jks.jpg I could be wrong, but I believe the drugstore interiors were filmed on a set. The inside looks too pristine to me. (although the front door matches with the exterior shot) Tension [1949] starring - Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse and Barry Sullivan. Here is the location list from IMDB "Malibu Lagoon State Beach - 23200 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California, USA" "10350 Bellwood Avenue, Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA" "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA" "Malibu, California, USA" "Culver City, California, USA" ________ I thought I'd go ahead and post a gsv of 10350 Bellwood Avenue. (it's really cool!) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/iLMSDd.jpg GSV Unfortunately, I don't have a screen-grab of the apartment building from the movie. :( _ |
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Incidentally, that's just a standard plate number format for the time. After 'ABC 123', they switched to the '123 ABC' format in 1969. |
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I looked to see where Bellwood Ave. is located in Century City and saw that it was close to 20th Century Fox Studios. I then looked up the film on imdb to see if it was a Fox film, but it isn't, it's an MGM film. It does say that MGM borrowed Richard Basehart for the film from Fox. Audrey Totter had been told she'd get star billing, but when MGM borrowed Basehart from Fox, one of the demands of Fox was they'd do it if Basehart got star billing. As for this: Quote:
The trivia section for the film Tension has this item: "Tension" was shooting at about the same time in 1949 as Side Street (1950), and the latter film utilizes the pharmacy set and its phone booth to allow Farley Granger to make a phone call. And not related to any of the above, but interesting: Portions of André Previn's music score from Tension were recycled as the title theme for same studio's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). |
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I was feeling pleased with myself for tracking down the location of the drugstore in "Tension" to the southwest corner of W 6th Street and S Alexandria Avenue (3500 W 6th Street), right up until I went looking for pictures, and found that GW had already solved the mystery in 2012! - see post #7784. Here's a screengrab showing the Standard Station mentioned by GW. The "S Alexandria Ave" sign is half in shadow just above the "Bus Stop" sign on the left. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LATension1.jpg Looking the other way, the El Parador Apartments signs are props, but Jasper Tailor Shop at 3510 W 6th Street was real. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LATension2.jpg This looks like an actual Culver City location. Warren Quimby (Richard Basehart) tries to relax here when his wife walks out. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LATension3.jpg Quimby, as Paul Sothern, rents an apartment at the rear of 10350 Bellwood Avenue. Here's Mary Chanler (Cyd Charisse) between the front and rear apartments. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LATension4.jpg We only get to see the front of the apartments near the end of the movie. Here's Claire Quimby (Audrey Totter) arriving... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LATension5.jpg ... and going down an alley to the back, where the movie's denouement occurs. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LATension6.jpg All screengrabs MGM |
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What, pray-tel, is Cyd Charisse taking a photograph of? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eRuAwJ.jpg A table-top glass menagerie?? :shrug: __ |
Tension redux
Here's a mid-century 'mystery' building that also appears in Tension.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LAa5zz.jpg orange crate art I'm going to go out on a limb ;) and say this is located somewhere in Culver City near MGM. You get a glimpse of a side window in this screen-grab. (that's Richard Basehart) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/WnK6q4.jpg ditto The flat-roofed building is in the background of this shot as well. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/1MAV3r.jpg ditto Audrey left / Richard right _ |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/wksVbM.jpg Wandering LA "Yvonne DeCarlo dancing at the Bamba Club. Her partner is Tony Curtis in his first ever screen appearance." quote from Wandering LA\ Does anyone know if the Bamba Club scenes were actually filmed INSIDE the club? _ |
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We're familiar with numerous photographs of McKinley's visit to Los Angeles...but I don't think we have seen his train!!
"Snapshot Photograph - President McKinley's Campaign Train in California 1899" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/OtSHbZ.jpg EBAY To give you a sense of the time period: Here's the other mode of transportation in 1899. "1899 PHOTOGRAPH OF HORSE DRAWN STAGE COACH, CALIFORNIA" [asking: $149.76] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/vFJ5hG.jpg EBAY Hmmmm...the seller says stage coach...I don't see a stage coach :shrug:. I see a buggy and a wagon. _ |
At first, I thought this was McKinley's train coming down Hollywood Blvd. ;)
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