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620 S Ardmore, between Wilshire and 6th.... Built in 1924 according to the assessor. The movie... Welcome to LA? (1976) Quote:
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:previous: That's the apartment building all right GW! I was afraid it had been torn down.
I don't think the film was 'Welcome To L.A.' Alan Rudolph films are languid and slow, this Keitel film didn't feel that way at all. I had the soundtrack to 'Welcome To L.A.' when I was in college.....I played that sucker over and over again. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...912/ldPua2.jpg http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/t...Welcome+To+L.A. __ |
I couldn't resist. I had to go and check out the skylight.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/1rWYlm.jpg google_earth :previous: I'm surprised that one side of the apartment has a peaked roof. It isn't noticeable from the street or in my screengrab. Here's the skylight again. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/az3Q87.jpg mystery Harvey Keitel movie It's the same dimensions alright, but I didn't realize there would be peaked glass above the leaded glass squares. __ I was also surprised by how beautiful the front entrance is. In the movie, the place was a bit run down. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/s507nz.jpg gsv / detail |
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Hmmm... 'Mother, Juggs & Speed' was filmed around LA... can't get it to come up on youtube to look for the the Ardmore building though... |
Walker & Eisen were top-flight architects; 620 S Ardmore was something more than just a builder's ordinary apartment building, not really surprising considering the "uptown" neighborhood.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...dmoreapts1.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...eaptsttext.jpg Times Sept 9, 1923 On Dec 13, 1923, the Times reported on a project of "Screen Scintillator" Ruth Roland...also by Walker & Eisen--could she have also developed 620? This much larger co-op apartment project just south of it at the NE corner of Wilshire & Ardmore was never built--although in June there was a news item saying that excavations would begin soon, it looks like Mr. O'Melveny succeeded in putting a stop to it (see the bottommost article).... (I think some of her Wilshire district real-estate deals have come up on NLA before.) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...154%2520PM.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...206%2520PM.jpg Times Dec 30, 1923: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C...2520PM.bmp.jpg Times Jan 4, 1924: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J...135%2520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H...146%2520PM.jpg Times Jan 11, 1924 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...2520PM.bmp.jpg |
Greetings NLAer's,
Thought I'd throw another thing onto the Noirish bulletin board: there's an exhibition about Bunker Hill at LA Public Library Central, using images and objects culled from their vast and stellar collection. As y'all know, the LAPL online images aren't scanned in high-res à la USC or the Huntington, so it's especially nice to see some old favorites in large format. http://www.lapl.org/sites/default/fi...tcardimage.jpg Click here for more info: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/exhibits/bunker-hill-rear-view-mirror There's also a celebration of the official opening on Wednesday, May 13th, at 6:00pm. I didn't find a link to that on the LAPL site but did find a Facebook invite, for those of you so Facebook'd. https://www.facebook.com/events/947727811944468/ At this opening party you can purchase copies of the accompanying book—which I've seen and consider to be the best book yet on the subject, so, you Hill fans, or those of you who fill your shelves with Old LA in general, make certain to pick up this forthcoming slender, but indispensable volume. |
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trailer https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-v...24734%2BPM.jpg Orion/IMDB |
:previous: That's it tovanger2!!
Whoa, I just noticed it says 1997. I was waaaay off. No wonder I couldn't find it. Thanks for the back-story on 620 Ardmore Avenue GW. I had to laugh at the headline 'Screen Scintillator To Build Spacious Hostelry'. Here's the scintillator herself, Ms. Ruth Roland http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/URRB66.jpg https://books.google.com/books?id=W8...0estate&f=true She also invested here: "Later she put her fortune to work in real estate, buying a tract of land between Universal City and Hollywood that she subdivided and sold to her fellow workers in the movie industry." https://books.google.com/books?id=W8...0estate&f=true It would be fun to figure out the location of Ms. Roland's early subdivision. It must be somewhere on the east side of Cahuenga Pass. # # # http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...912/ldPua2.jpg If anyone is interested in listening to one of the song from 'Welcome To L.A.' here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkEImzsOHY It begins with a way too brief shot of Lauren Hutton. The song ends around the 2:00 minute mark. After that, there's a long scene between Keith Carradine and a sickly Geraldine Chaplin who thinks she's dying of tuberculosis like Greta Garbo in Camille. __ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...2520PM.bmp.jpg A few more grabs from City of Industry... I see that the 1955 building to the right of 620 still stands.... Where's my chainsaw? |
:previous: I see a sliver of the peaked roof in your second to last screen-grab GW.
I was surprised that the entire movie 'City of Industry' is on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMAOPHuzQJo __ |
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IAMNOTASTALKER details the Cliff House here Timothy Hutton, Wade Dominguez and Harvey Keitel even find time to stop by the Ambassador Hotel: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W...41955%2BPM.jpg orion I couldn't find Ruth Roland's development, but she did build the house below for a cousin. It's one of only seven Burbank buildings on the California Register of Historic Resources still in private hands. Her family hung on to it for 87 years, selling last year. The MLS photos are here https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...33055%2BPM.jpg www.burbankca.gov https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...34156%2BPM.jpg silenceisplatinum |
I think this 'before and after' is pretty amazing.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/D83fhs.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...673/ocCYSn.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...909/2qZrbm.jpg http://www.viewfromaloft.org/before_and_after_la/ "Figueroa and Temple, then and now. 1939 via Caltrans. Current image via googlemaps." Notice how the curved bridge has pretty much stayed the same, while everything around it has evolved (or shall I say devolved) __ |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/FlsA0D.jpg gsv I wonder who built them...and for whom? As you can see, their basic design is identical (the middle one has added a garage....can you imagine how small that one is inside!!) __ |
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From what I can tell, there was Roland Square and an apparent extension, New Roland Square, to the southeast of the Wilshire/Fairfax intersection; another Roland Square, presumably but not definitely connected to the Scintillator, was, according to this ad from the Times of April 9, 1922, in Glendale: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...2520PM.bmp.jpg |
:previous: Ms. Roland was investing in every direction! Good for her.
I just came across this 1929 photograph on eBay. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/sMKkEl.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1929-AUTO-Cl...item25a53f6b04 :previous: A few inches to the left, and we would have been able to read the name of the APTS. (otherwise, there's not much to go on with this mystery location) here's the information on the reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/2mzR3U.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1929-AUTO-Cl...item25a53f6b04 |
This is also very interesting.
Earl Carroll Vanities sign, 1950. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/0petlE.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1950...item4ae7a37c9f Pinky Lee? __ |
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Pinky Lee was a well known burlesque and comedy act. He went from his days in vaudeville to a children's TV show in the 1950s. He always claimed that his act was squeaky clean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_Lee Pee Wee Herman took a lot of his shtick directly from Pinky. Here he is on TV: https://youtu.be/OXDO_n_4qw4 |
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I found this matchbook on eBay a few nights ago.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lsCoffeeMB.jpg eBay The Burl Room on Hollywood Boulevard and Burls Restaurant No 2 on W Pico Boulevard both appear in the 1956 CD (below). The 1960 CD has The Burl Room and Burls Restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard (I couldn't see the W Pico location, but the later CDs don't seem to list that area). Burls Restaurant continues to appear at 4483 Hollywood Boulevard throughout the 1960s, but is listed as Burls Coffee Shop in 1973. The 1987 CD lists the Chinese Garden Cafe at 4483 Hollywood Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...BurlRoomCD.jpg LAPL Despite the Hollywood Boulevard restaurant existing for at least 17 years, I haven't managed to find a picture of it. |
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