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Here's an earlier reddit where the aerial photo was discussed, and the link to the nifty National Archives page where it appeared. One eagle-eyed redditor said that you can see the Eastern Columbia building under construction, and dated it to March-June 1930
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Screen grabs from "Motor Patrol", a low-budget 1950 release focusing on the motorcycle officers of the LAPD Traffic Division.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyM...CinemaClassics....
Early in the picture there's a brief shot of the recently covered Hangman's Tree Inn, the noose remains but the corpse of Reseda Red has been removed.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds Most of the exteriors are in mid-Wilshire, this garage is central to the plot.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds The picture ends, of course, with a chase sequence....here the pursuit turns left from the 800 block of N. Figueroa St., and onto an overpass crossing the 110 Freeway..... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds Then a right turn onto what was then a continuation of Figueroa St., this street is now known as Figueroa Terrace.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds The pole sign for the Mayo Motel is visible on the left, the motel was located at 840 N. Figueroa. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds An apartment building now occupies the Mayo Motel site. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...370&fit=bounds |
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Removed. Maybe kidnapped more like. I wonder if the scene was shot while this sorry affair was happening? And seemingly the corpse was a lady to boot. :stunned: https://i.imgur.com/iZv2UaL.jpg archive.org - Hollywood Studio Magazine, June 1972 |
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Excellent 'Motor Patrol' post, riichkay. . .thoroughly interesting 'now & thens' screengrabs. Good job! Let me check to see if I have any mystery slides that I've come across recently. I found four. :) I'm almost certain this first slide was taken somewhere on Sunset Blvd. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/crhStw.jpg eBay Judging by the cars (reflections in the window) I'd say it was taken in the. .um. .late 1960s. . .or early 1970s? #2 Sunset Blvd. again? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/YzV4SB.jpg eBay Sunset Plaza, perhaps? A mystery mansion with a VW Bug. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Xl2j2n.jpg eBay Your guess is as good as mine. :shrug: The Patio Hamburger's (note the apostrophe) MISSING WORD (1980s?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dozcxx.jpg The half-faced dude behind the post looks like me in the 1980s. .I'm trying to remember if I was ever there. (if we figure out the location maybe it will ring a bell) Closer look https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/muZExS.jpg Me, or doppelganger? . |
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La Rue was at 8631 Sunset https://i.postimg.cc/wjPQmM4n/larue-bmp.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W3j8N34r/laruemenufull-bmp.jpg I'm sure we must have had posts about La Rue efore.... Quote:
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https://i.postimg.cc/SNwkpyqZ/Patio-LAT-1976-10-19.jpg LA Times, 10/19/1976 The seating shown in the photo is not arguably "in the parking lot"; but it could be that what is shown did not comprise the full complement of tables available. :shrug: According to a note in the LA Times of August 2, 1977, it was by that date under new management, and so in due course might have dropped the "Cassell's." |
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Collection agency J.P Butler, Long Beach (or Signal Hill?), ca. 1959.
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This is the listed address for J. P. Butler Collections from 1953 to 1960. https://i.imgur.com/B9e2mkY.jpg lbpl.contentdm.oclc.org I think this is the building on a 1960 aerial. https://i.imgur.com/pMDrKSa.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu J. P. Butler got into bad trouble for a collector around this time. https://i.imgur.com/hkLCWEN.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - San Bernardino Sun,30 January 1960 3139 Atlantic Ave. is listed as vacant in the 1961 directory. The building fell prey to Interstate 405 a year or two later. https://i.imgur.com/TN9GPsw.jpg Google Maps |
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LAPL The Stephen M. White statue has been discussed extensively, but what about its amazing pedestal? What happened to it? The statue was relocated twice, each time with a less impressive perch. But the original pedestal was enormous, and enormously expensive. The project had of budget of $25,000 dollars in 1906. A series of granite steps held its base - a six-foot cube of white California granite. Not quite as large as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (a 56 ton block of marble). One has to wonder what Mr. White did to inspire such a tribute. Healdsburg Tribune The contract for the pedestal itself went to the Raymond Granite Co. of Raymond, California for $8,975. Monumental News. Google Books The Raymond Granite Quarry produces a product called Sierra White. Visit to the Raymond/Knowles Granite Quarries Red Sandstone Courthouse Ruins https://i.postimg.cc/9M2ZBd7x/Civic-Center.jpg LAPL In this 1958 photo, the statue is still in its original location on its pedistal, barely visible at the bottom center. https://i.postimg.cc/QHLHdDg6/002-la...da-3645-oi.jpg Orlando Informer A Noble Spirit Embiggens the Smallest Man. |
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me in Los Angeles, 1984. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...922/3bA6GO.jpg A photographer friend took this at the Patio del Moro apartments on Fountain Ave. Patio Hamburgers location possibility. Quote:
GaylordWilshire, thanks for locating the two Sunset Blvd. mystery slides. :) I really appreciate it. I should have recognized La Rue. *shakes head* . |
lol. I just noticed there's a photobomb in the Patio Hamburgers slide too.
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I happened upon this slide yesterday but I believe it has already sold.
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"The Patio" in the picture was pinpointed by riichkay at 2736 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica. The two ebay slides possibly from the same batch and feature the same "The Patio". :shrug: |
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Toddle House, Culver City
Toddling back to this and follow up posts in 2014 -
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And picked up again HERE in 2016 - A haven for loose ladies and thugs. :) Is that an essential lookout tower? https://i.imgur.com/kprhjar.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News, 7 August 1953 A Billboard review from 1948 was generally positive on the entertainment but had a downer on poor ol' Ginger O' Dare. :( :D https://i.imgur.com/OF0s29Q.jpg archive.org - Billboard 1948-03-27 https://i.imgur.com/Poi3sxT.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News, 3 March 1952 A badly worked up Daily News was on the warpath in 1953 to get the "cesspool" shut down. https://i.imgur.com/ZGpYseM.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News, 7 August 1953 For some balance, the entertainer Slick Slavin thought the Toddle House was a great place and that Johnny Toscano was a wonderful man. https://i.imgur.com/XuLpcwa.jpg classicshowbiz.blogspot.com In the end it took two fires, and a suspicious character hanging about, for the Toddle House to be destroyed two days before 1954 dawned. https://i.imgur.com/O5ubgH0.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News, 31 December 1953 |
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The New Yorker has posted an interesting piece re Dennis Hopper's iconic "Double Standard" photo.... https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...ht-los-angeles The article re-dates the image to '63/'64, replacing Hopper's recollection of 1961. |
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