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That's funny i went with a couple of friends last night to a pretty good italian restaurant (Lomeli's) and near by is an old drive in. It's called the Roadium, i think we we're still in Gardena and off of Redondo Beach Blvd(2500 W Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance, CA 90504)...if this one was called the Roadium, was the one we passed by a twin or did the name change...
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There is a bluff on Echandia St., just north of Propect Park which, if my memory is correct, is a similar view.
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County General Hospital view from bluff
A Google Earth view from the same area:
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I had to merge two Baist maps to get this 1921 view, and, as I've said previously, they were never designed to be joined together. This is just before the Medical Center was built in the area near the top right corner. Prospect Park is in the lower left corner. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...erView1921.jpg www.historicmapworks.com/www.historicmapworks.com Compared to my previous post, I've included a wider area in this 1948 view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...erView1948.jpg Historic Aerials The freeways have made quite a difference to this location. This 2012 image covers roughly the same area as GatoVerde's Google Earth view (above). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...erView2012.jpg Historic Aerials |
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The 'Roadium' you and your friends came across the other night is the 'Roadium' in my photograph. (below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/UwuipM.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/efI2zG.jpg http://www.roadarch.com/13/9/roadium.jpg The address I posted earlier (in Paramount) was incorrect. Sorry about that. a rocket display in 1964. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/GRSbaG.jpg http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10951/photos/98386 :previous: Standard drive-in fare, "Straight Jacket" and "The Haunted Palace". lol __ |
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The image is deceiving as it is not really a large expanse of land depicted but rather a view from one bluff to another without revealing the urban expanse between and below, i.e. Ramona (Interstate 10), etc.
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at least the 80's. The open air dining room/restaurant area is still around and is where I learned to love Caesar salads. Well, "good" Caesar salads. They made one for our group right there at table side, and complete with raw egg and anchovies. (Hardly anyone does the "raw egg" bit any more. They use those liquid egg substitutes for "safety" concerns.) I'd sure love to have looked up and seen that ceiling. Unless this room pictured was somewhere other than where I believe the dining room to be...of course. Also, if one looks into the Blossom Room expecting to see something out of the past, you'll be disappointed. It's basically like most large hotel room spaces where it's the decoration that someone does that makes it memorable. It does, though, also have a gorgeous designed ceiling which can be lighted in different ways. The Blake Edwards film SUNSET, which recreated the first Academy Awards, filmed those scenes in the Blossom Room, but besides being a bad film, it also had bad art direction. (My opinion of course.) |
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Hollywood and Asians in the film industry where Anna May Wong was heavily and deservedly represented, but I don't recall them ever mentioning this. Drat! I'd love to see those ten episodes! This is probably even more surprising to me than when I recently discovered that JEAN ARTHUR had her own sitcom! In 1966! It was called THE JEAN ARTHUR SHOW. She played a defense attorney who practiced law with her recently graduated 25 year old son (Ron Harper). It was on from 9/12/66 to 12/5/66, so not successful. So 13 episodes, I'm guessing. ___ IMDB says 12 episodes. I guess I was surprised because her last film was SHANE in 1953. So to discover she'd tried a series 13 years after that was fascinating. The only other TV listed that she did was one episode of the series Gunsmoke in 1965. (I also read once that she taught an acting class at a college. One of her pupils was Meryl Streep.) |
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Since we're in the area.... We've seen this graceful pedestrian bridge only once before on NLA, way back on page 120 (posted by Los Angeles Past)* I've enlarged it somewhat. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/wa1OJV.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/fyf1oo.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/5231/rec/7 "Pedestrian Bridge over Ramona Boulevard at Pomeroy Avenue, 1930s." I've often wondered where exactly it was located. I was curious about the 'Drug Store / Soda Fountain (below) -note the massive County Hospital looming behind it. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/3o28qK.jpg detail and I wondered about this 'footbridge' that is visible to the left of the deco pedestrian bridge. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/3EaEIN.jpg detail on the right, below the drug store, is a R.R. stop. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/GLub7k.jpg detail and then there's this substantial white building (substation?) at the same level as the tracks. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/OZKYCo.jpg detail lastly, there's some writing on a bench below the bridge. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/8FHOJf.jpg detail below: Do you think this is the deco pedestrian bridge? 1948 / posted by HossC http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/Y5eUBv.jpg the area today. it appears Pomeroy has been cut in half by the 10. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/7HKGAO.jpg __ oops. I almost forgot about HossC's 1921 baist map. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/VKylYf.jpg Pomeroy Avenue seems awfully short...now I'm a bit more confused. (of course this is many years earlier) __ *Los Angeles Past's post from 2010, includes some great images of 1930s Ramona Blvd. infrastructure. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2384 __ |
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Interesting that there was a HULA HUT at 8204 Beverly Blvd. and a HAWAIIAN HUT at 7210 Beverly Blvd. And thanks for my word of the day! Quote:
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:previous: I've been wondering about the location of that pedestrian bridge for a long time. Thanks Hoss!
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The BBC documentary about the around-the-world trip of the Graf Zeppelin in 1929 includes the Los Angeles visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jq7oRxw-g A bit overlong, some repetitive (and occasionally incorrect) stock footage, and a somewhat cloying emphasis on the lady journalist whose diaries were used as a basis, but many fascinating shots, especially for viewers unfamiliar with those amazing beasts. Cheers, Earl |
I don't believe we've seen Mary's Lighthouse on NLA. (I searched)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/TAMQcL.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/NBasHY.jpg eBay :previous: note the little dog and dog house behind the wire fence. __ "Mary's Lighthouse, 6002 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, The Youngest Real Estate Broker in the World." |
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http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...pscefcpx5h.jpg Photo By Craig Rasmussen from the El SerEno Historical Website: http://www.elserenohistoricalsociety.org/P___E_RR.php Cheers, Jack |
Several months ago I asked if anyone remembered the tiny hold-out property that stood for years in front of the Pacific Design Center.
While going through some really old files of mine last night I found a photograph of it. I remembered it as a house, but it turns out it was nothing more than a "shanty with a tar-paper roof". Hugo's Plating, 8661 Melrose Avenue. I believe that's Hugo out front. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/huULLb.jpg old file / possibly flickr In this vertical photo you can see the blue glass of the Pacific Design Center behind the trees at the top. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...901/30LRXw.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...673/zqpEof.jpg I believe this layout from Interiors Magazine (1987) shows the location of Hugo's Plating (I placed a red arrow just below the notch in the property line) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/u7Oacx.jpg Interiors http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com...1_archive.html excerpt from 1997 LATimes article http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/uiIwPD.jpg http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-...-design-center 1998 LATimes. Bought for $450,000 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/5cddRT.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/BgT0V8.jpg http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jan/31/local/me-14008 __ |
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Curious just how young was Mary Vittitoe? (She received her real estate license in 1920). The 1923 CD lists Mary's Realty at 6002 Hollywood Blvd., with proprietors, Mary and S.A. Vittitoe. The '26CD lists (President) Mary Vittitoe's residence as nearby 5908 Hollywood Blvd. (This later address is not the most legible.) It seems that per the 1920 census, Mary may have been a slient movie actress too. (1711 N. Talmadge Street) https://books.google.com/books?id=Rn...ngeles&f=false Mary's 1923 "Press Photo" http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAwMFg3OD...Uri7P/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAwMFg3OD...Uri7P/$_57.JPG |
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