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Vermont Avenue Pictures - Help Appreciated.
Seeking photos of Vermont Avenue between 4th and 6th Streets from 1960 and earlier. Specifically east side of street. Need to know what types of occupancies were located here. Photos are for report I am preparing for work. Thank you in advance. |
We've seen countless photographs looking north on Vine from Sunset (you know, the iconic NBC Radio corner).
But this 1957 photo was taken a bit south of Sunset. It shows a bar on the right named 'The Hangover' with a darkened 'cocktails' sign to it's right, and there's another sign that says 'Johnny White', (was he a headliner at 'The Hangover' cocktail lounge?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/qlqv71.jpg old file sopas_ej posted this back in 2011, but there were no follow-ups or questions. Now days on NLA, we have a tendency to explore minutiae of this sort.... like, who the heck is 'Johnny White'? and who owned 'The Hangover'? :previous: Good stuff like that. ;) __ |
Gen Sets and Wig-Wags
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The fellow at the right of the frame in the second picture is not me. I was able to avoid the need for glasses for another 20 years! Cheers, Jack |
I just found this in an old file of mine.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/toR9Af.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/4z46hp.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/VHymZN.jpg ...and today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/hV4TcX.jpg GSV As far as I can tell, not too many years separate the two photographs, but a short palm tree has appeared next to the brick building on the left. (was it transplanted?....or was there a huge growth spurt? ;)) here's an aerial to get your bearings. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/iywWhL.jpg google_earth __ |
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http://i1037.photobucket.com/albums/...ail%20view.jpg Wikipedia |
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Check the Billy Berg's wiki page for other clubs he was involved with. Wiki discusses Billy Berg's club at No. 1356 Vine (that would be at the SE corner of DeLongpre and Vine), not 1456, as does the KCET post here, so I'm getting more than a little confused. I don't know if Berg ran both clubs or just the one. Maybe BDiH can explain more. 1456 was demolished. 1356 is still there, the buillding now divided into two (maybe 3?) businesses, a restaurant and a liquor store, addressed 1360 and 1356: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...24356%2BAM.jpg gsv More on 1356 here with all kinds of excellent info You've been here before e_r. There's a Hangover matchbook cover here, but my computer's being cranky and won't let me post the photo. There was/is more on Vine south of Sunset. The Mandarin Market/Hollywood Ranch Market (demolished), much covered here, Villa Elaine at No. 1245, also discussed, Claud Beelman's 1948 Don Lee Mutual Broadcast Building at No. 1313, now the AMPAS Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study (also mentioned). Last, but not least, is Competition Motors at 1219 Vine (demolished) where James Dean's Spyder was getting a last tune-up before Dean drove it away on his last day. While waiting for the car he, his dad, his uncle, his friend, Bill Hickman and photographer Sanford Roth crossed Vine to the Hollywood Ranch Market for coffee and doughnuts. A short telling of the tale is here. Another is here. A long version covering Dean's whole last day is here complete with a sort of annoying video. The wiki page for the events of September 30, 1955 is here. James Dean in the forecourt of Competition Motors, 1219 Vine St, 30 September 1955. His passenger is Competition Motors mechanic Rolf Wütherich (Wütherich survived the crash later that day, but died in another wreck in 1981). Behind them Bill Hickman is at the wheel of Dean's 1955 Ford Country Squire station wagon towing an empty trailer. Photographer Sanford Roth is Hickman's passenger. The Hollywood Ranch Market is at right and the Taft Building is in the distance at Hollywood and Vine: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-o...25638%2BPM.jpg lacurbed I found nothing on Johnny White. |
Lorendoc also quoted your post on the fire at the "ultra-ultra" Swing Club
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Never Give A Sucker An Even Break...Locations?
I was re-watching Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, which is my favorite W.C. Fields film and I believe his last. The ending features a fast paced, rambunctious scene in which W.C. races through the streets of L.A. to rush a woman to a hospital. There are a lot of outdoor shots and intriguing glimpses of the city, but the scenes move so quickly that it's hard to identify anything.
Does anyone know the locations of any of those shots? One section looks like the Cahuenga Pass, and others look like the Hyperion and/or Glendale Ave. viaducts near the L.A. River. This Youtube link has the complete film, in excellent quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcomeIxQddI. The car scene starts at about 1:05:00. http://www.daneena.com/viaduct.jpg Hyperion viaduct? http://www.daneena.com/Lakeside.a.jpg Toluca Lake area, maybe Riverside Drive? |
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Hyperion Viaduct from Waverly Drive overpass: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0...2520AM.bmp.jpgGSV July 2014 From the HV roadway under the overpass: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520AM.bmp.jpgGSV July 2014 10106 Riverside Drive: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520AM.bmp.jpgGSV Oct 2011 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101628.jpgLAPL |
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...2520AM.bmp.jpgShorpy
A detail from a huge Shorpy image we may have seen before (http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/4a25789a.jpg)--the man in the Wm May Garland office window and the steam in the reflection on the window around the corner.... |
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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ng#post5813944 Posted Aug 29, 2012, 5:24 AM #9027 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ng#post5811856 Posted Aug 27, 2012, 9:37 AM #9008 |
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Thanks for pointing that out. Your links lead to your own pages rather than NLA, so here's full-size copy of the Shorpy image to explore directly here, an image worth repeating after three years: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8425/7...9d842815_o.jpgShorpy I hadn't noticed the reflection of steam coming from the top of a distant building in one of the window before--can anyone identify the building? (Have we done this before...?) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520PM.bmp.jpg |
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I vaguely remember seeing a smaller version of this photograph years ago on NLA.
I wanted to do a before & after of this intersection, but I can't figure out where it is. (is that part of the raised Union Station tracks on the right?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/uoxD1f.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/Nj4I2I.jpg old file of mine :previous: What a menagerie of posters on that building! -everything from the Mayan Theater (I can't quite make out what's playing) to Barnes Sells-Floto Circus to Motor Boats to 'Love Nest', and something big happening on April 4 (lower right hand side of the building, partially covered) |
Here is a one-of-kind snapshot that is rather dreamily noirish.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/tFjAE6.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/pyGNTS.jpg eBay It looks like 'The Thin Man' might be premiering at Graumans. (I only say this because of the William Powell-Myrna Loy banner over Hollywood Boulevard) __ |
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I feel as though we're looking south across Aliso just east of San Pedro (seen at the right). |
My post p. 634 #12 663 No wonder you can't do a Before & After
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On the next photo, we see the railroad cutting the block between Los Angeles and Alameda starting north from the block on the previous photo (between San Pedro and Alameda). http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5297/...11bcb665_b.jpg Source: USC Digital Archive http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...NG-4129-T?v=hr |
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