I think you are right that this is Santa Maria. Looks to me like this is the Santa Maria Greyhound station once addressed 315 N Broadway--now numbered 313. ER's vintage interior view seems to match the openings and shapes of 313, and I can imagine the outside sign once having read GREYHOUND or BUS STATION. Noting what looked like a Pegasus logo, someone here wondered if the building across the street in the vintage view might have been a Mobil station...seems it might instead have been Jerry's Hancock service at 320 N B'way--the flying horse instead being a rooster.


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Interesting form line for the Rooster there GW ... but I'm still putting my money on Flying Horse for the win. :)

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OK...yes, more like a flying horse than a rooster...digging a little further, I've found that Jerry's Hancock service of 320 N B'way, SM, was, sometime before 1958, DON'S MOBIL SERVICE...listed at 320 N B'way, SM, in 1948.... so, horse became rooster....

While I cannot pin down the location of the actual café, I did find info as to where they lived in the area. Maybe someone who has more time can figure out the name changes in the roads and pin down the location of their home. They did live in the same place for many years.

Diltz
Emma Evertson was born in Kentucky in 1875. She married Hershel Diltz, who was born in Illinois in about 1870. They were married in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1894. Hershel is also listed as Budge Hershel and he may have also gone by Buddy. They two sons, Hubert, 1897- 1957 and David, born in 1916.
By 1920 they had moved to California and were living in Glendale, at 1664 Glendale Avenue, on rented property that is now Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Hershel was working as a house carpenter.
From 1930 onward, they are listed at RFD 1, box 63, Camarillo. The census listings show RFD 1 -Camarillo and Thousand Oaks. The 1930 Census lists Emma as being the owner of a restaurant. Budy (Buddy or Budge) is still listed as a house carpenter, son David, then 14 is living there as well. Budge’s father was also a carpenter. This census lists the place as Conejo District, Camarillo Township and Thousand Oaks School District.
Emma appears in the 1940 Census, living in Camarillo on RR 1. In that census she is listed as living with a grandson, Delmar, 14. She is 66 and there is no occupation listed. She is widowed by that time. Budge had died on April 17, 1937. Also listed as living on the same property at that time are a Jack Cavanaugh, 40, who was apparently operating the Café and his wife Betty. Joan Carney, a cousin, age 13, is also listed, as is a housekeeper Lyenn Binkley.

Emma died on May 4, 1942 in Ventura County and is buried in Ivy Lawn Cemetery in Ventura. Budge, who had died in 1937 is also buried in Ivy Lawn. Find a Grave does not have a picture of their gravesite but does have one for Budge’s father Lyman Diltz, and who served in the Civil War with the 105th Indiana Volunteers.

~1966 - 801 W. Pico, Santa Monica

If the address is correct, the structure has been supplanted by a mini-mail/Starbucks. :shrug:



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Not aware that this March 1938 view of the Santa Fe Bridge over Arroyo Seco paralleling the Pasadena Ave Bridge has been seen on NLA - yet.

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More 1938 flood images (some which may not have been on NLA) can be found here > https://www.vintag.es/2014/12/35-bla...-1938-los.html





Laurel Canyon at Kirkwood Ave. (Watch out Lorendoc!)
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Downtown LA (Definitely not Sowbelly car weather.)
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Roosevelt Highway (now Pacific Coast Highway) at Santa Monica Canyon
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The Left Board says:

Greyhound Lines

Santa Maria

Northbound

San Luis Obispo Paso Robles Salinas

San Jose San Francisco


and the Right Board Says:

Greyhound Lines

Santa Maria

Southbound

Santa Barbara Oxnard Santa Monica

Westwood Los Angeles

Actually found a pic of it, in my side yard, from about thirteen years ago...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1886/...26197d37_b.jpg

Well done!

:tup:

:previous: Your "side yard" looks like a great place to snoop around.
What was your address again? ;)

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Thanks, GaylordWilshire, for the follow-up providing the former address of the Greyhound station. I think we have a consensus now that the photo was taken in Santa Maria.

Also a tip o' the hat to KevinW for what appears to be an accurate reading of the travel board, and to CityBoyDoug for the map that provides confirmation.

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Thanks Hoss. The two are very similar in their designs.

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old file / originally from ebay





UPDATE:

I just came across this photograph of 'The Black Sleep' stars having lunch.

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Let's take a closer look at Tor's menu :previous:

Yep, Tail O' the Cock
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TOR'S MENU

The evergreens outside the window in the luncheon photo make me think the Valley more than La Cienega Blvd.
Also....the trees (outside the window) are somewhat similar to the trees shown in front of the valley Tail O the Cock. (refer to color postcard #2)
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update #2

I just read that the La Cienega 'Tail O' the Cock was extensively decorated at Christmas time. (at times there was even a live Santa on the roof!)
Could the 'trees out the window' be seasonal decorations? I ask, because it looks like there's 'snow' out that window too.
(or is it my imagination playing tricks on me again:shrug:)


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Here are some fun California pools that you can't swim in ...the Permit said For display only.....NO swimming.

https://www.vintagelosangeles.org/im...valleypool.gif

The mania for private swimming pools began after World War I and may well be directly linked to Hollywood, which not only glamorized them on film, but made them a symbol of status within the film colony.

:previous: That's a great photograph CBD.

Sorry CBD, your map was too small for me to read. (and there was no link)

just so you know: the only thing worse than my eyesight is my memory.

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EXCELLENT discovery GW! I agree, this is probably the old bus stop diner! Fantastic job!

And special thanks to Kevin W for the detailed bus routes.

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What in the heck is going on over on the right side of this sign???
It looks like a lightning rod fell out of the sky and impaled a pigeon!!

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GIPHY

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:previous: Lon Chaney Jr.,far left. He was born in 1906 as Creighton Tull Cheney. In 1927, he would have been 21 years old. The '27 directory lists Creighton T Chaney at 735 N. Laurel Ave. A '30 building permit for a room addition lists owner as C T Chaney. Chaney did not start acting until after his father's passing in 1930. Chaney's bio indicates prior to acting, he was employed at an LA Appliance Company, where he married the boss's daughter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney_Jr.

Chaney in Dracula v Frankenstein, 1971( - or while preparing for role at Tail O' The Cock ?)
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How many can recite the LA County official song?



Official LA County Song and Flag. https://www.lacounty.gov/government/...ial-song-flag/



735 N Laurel interior
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a rich fat-ass capitalist :haha::haha::haha:

I understand ER. I'm able to see the computer screen with an old pair of VA Rx glasses and even with that, only one eye is serviceable. The other eye working but with waviness. Oh well,
deal with it.....

:D:D:D

Mercury bi-chloride garners headlines? A precursor to even bigger scandals.

Lon' Cheney Jr's father met a tragic end, dying from lung cancer and a throat hemorrhage. But evidently, he had to endure the tragedy of his first wife's attempted suicide in or at the Majestic Theater.


Majestic is on the left
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1915
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More Chaney miscellanea?

Lon Chaney Sr's residence was at 507 N. Linden Drive. Tmage is undated. Structure was demolished.
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In September '20, Jack Pickford's wife, actress Olive Thomas, reportedly died from accidental bichloride of mercury poisoning.https://news.google.com/newspapers?i...+mercury&hl=en http://https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0..._=nm_ov_bio_sm


More on Jack and Olive. https://brightlightsfilm.com/wp-cont...ew-york-times/ Olive is no stranger to NLA, but her images seem to be playing hide and go seek. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16138 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=37759

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This purported image of Olive may have been part of a GW post :previous: . Is Olive a cut-a-paste target?
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