Thank you for exploring this.





Speaking of Hollywood Blvd. icons hiding in the shadows http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show....php?p=6356619


More suspect dates?

Depending upon source, this beautiful image is from 1930 or the 1940's. I lean toward '30 for a number of reasons.


The better image ~"194_"
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...SGMI4BKKTD.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...SGMI4BKKTD.jpg


The bigger image ~ 1930
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/21827/rec/1

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And another version? (bottom left)
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0779r61f/FID3http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0779r61f/FID3

:)

Don't recall seeing this view of AngelsF. (Squint to the far right) The Merry Widow's exhibition suggests this image is twenty years younger than ER's image, or approximately 1925-6. The long exposure-superimposition of car and street car gives this an eerie quality.

http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...VUIYCAJAKN.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...VUIYCAJAKN.jpg


References to radium tunnel illumination conjured another recent image. The smoke trailing a horseless carriage makes even radium an imperfect lighting solution - without a monster exhaust fan.

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Judging from the neon tubing in the top photo, when the Texaco station displayed its fire chief helmet, things got even more colorful (or gaudy) than the color photo!
;)

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4274/08n7.jpgGSV

Northwest corner of W Santa Anita Ave and S Mission Drive, San Gabriel...

Thank you for locating the former art gallery! :previous:






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Another Wilshire Blvd. looking-east post card. Eastern sky color suggests morning (take warning) or secret testing in Nevada or New Mexico. Either way, it is quiet nice.

One might expect that Wilshire Blvd. received street markings, e.g., lane dividers, soon after it was paved. Or maybe the markings were omitted because they detracted from the sky. :uhh: :shrug:


Guessing the "new skyline" indicates early-mid 1930s.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JGtOGuV5J7...ds+Western.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JGtOGuV5J7...ds+Western.jpg




Off the "beaten" Wilshire path, perhaps this circa 1940-image from the other end of town, with an equally interesting pallor, will make up for the diminished quality of the last one.


http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/cd...e/id/573/rec/1


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Thanks for the reminder of the color picture of the Wilshire Texaco station :).

April 12, 1915 as marked. (10 - or maybe 5 - years after the Tally's photo :previous:) (Three years after the Titanic sank?)

http://31.media.tumblr.com/4db8d30a9...atdo1_1280.jpg http://31.media.tumblr.com/4db8d30a9...atdo1_1280.jpg




Roosevelt in Africa (1909) at Tally's suggests the Tally's image is from 1909 or 1910. You can wait for it (Tally's) to return or view its main attraction here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_QeeHHEZw

http://content.artofmanliness.com/up...2012/12/tr.jpghttp://content.artofmanliness.com/up...2012/12/tr.jpg
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/im...fricamain2.jpghttp://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/im...fricamain2.jpg


Looks like Silverwoods was next to Tally's and then expanded and annexed Tally's space.


Undated 6th and Broadway
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067408.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067408.jpg


June '28 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../1807/rec/1266

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1937(?) (Eldon and Painless Parker?)
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101676.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101676.jpg

:previous: You're finding some great night photographs BRR. They're electrifying. ;)
I thoroughly enjoyed your post on the Aliso Street viaduct HossC.
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Hit by train, circa 1936.
http://imageshack.us/a/img441/7576/sgvf.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img10/4996/idwy.jpgebay






Grand Canyon Limited? Here's some info.
http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4691/g2ws.jpg
wikipedia.com



Lower Lounge in the Dome car 'Plaza Santa Fe' -Grand Canyon Limited. (decor 1940s?)
http://imageshack.us/a/img4/7766/4pbp.jpg
http://northamericabyrail.info/usa-w...anyon-limited/




1950 menu, Grand Canyon Limited
http://imageshack.us/a/img69/450/dl5u.jpg
http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=3597

http://imageshack.us/a/img546/6903/zdl0.jpg
http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=3597

http://imageshack.us/a/img4/2357/8qd1.jpg
http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=3597



-don't skip...this is pretty interesting.
http://imageshack.us/a/img14/9224/wodq.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img546/8137/61bt.jpg
http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=3597

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/2981/n9p7.jpg
http://cable-car-guy.com/

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fun souvenir folder
http://imageshack.us/a/img849/357/1ul7.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img844/5271/tobw.jpg

-odd photo/why is the sailor's date excluded?
-perhaps this was the photographer's first day on the job. :)
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Here's a very interesting place I've never heard of before.
http://imageshack.us/a/img560/8109/dgs5.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Los-Angeles-...16.m2518.l4276

http://imageshack.us/a/img209/3265/rxuo.jpg
reverse
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Here's another one...Godfrey's
http://imageshack.us/a/img42/9243/ux4l.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1900s-Los-An...16.m2518.l4276



The name reminded me of one of my favorite screwball comedies 'My Man Godfrey' (1936).
http://imageshack.us/a/img9/6205/wb0l.jpg
http://leagueofdeadfilms.com/2011/07...y-man-godfrey/

Is this lobby card a tongue-in-cheek reference to 'The Bride of Frankenstein' released a year earlier in 1935?
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OMG I had to drop in to once again acknowledge how much I love this thread. Keep up the great work fellas and fellarettes.

The thought occurred to me that it might be six monkey stories; for a typical monkey hanging by its tail at the zoo say three feet? Yes, I think so. Baboons get to be a lot bigger than that, and they're definitely monkeys taxonomically speaking; yet in everyday usage people usually don't mean baboons when they say monkeys; least of all the webmaster of anything that calls itself Circus Anonymous. I mean to say, I didn't see a single baboon in a circus even once, for the past twenty years running. Not even in the audience.

Now, marmosets, again, would have been a completely different situation...

Perhaps they served food for monkeys?

It is a nice restoration, but it's also sad that the rear annex is gone as are most other structures that once stood in this immediate vicinity. The first part of New High starting northward directly behind the Brunswig, has been lost to parking lot expansions and upgrades. Republic Street still appears on Google Maps but it is clearly not long for this world.

Mob City on TNT
 

Wow - an hour and a half into Mob City on TNT tonight and I'm pretty sure it's the best noir I've seen since LA Confidential. I kind of live under a rock when it comes to TV and I'm glad I saw the NY Times ad this morning.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...psf40a7a8e.jpg

Some pretty excellent locations and a much more serious tone and rhythm than that pretty but totally empty Gangster Squad. Looks equally expensive. The Times said "Mr. Darabont (Shawshank Redemption), rather than fiddling with the noir formula as that movie did, settles for executing it expertly." I like the casting too, some familiar faces but lots of generally noirish characters. Ed Burns is on all the ads but I like the other guy better, Jon Bernthal - a bit like a young Fred Ward, maybe?

Anyway, it's three parts, 2 hours each I think - the next three Wednesdays at 9.

Edit: Okay, after the first night, I still say better than Gangster Squad but that isn't saying much. I'll just modify my judgement to say the "...the best noir I've seen on TV since Twin Peaks."

I just love that they got a Mickey who looks like Mickey, unlike the psycho genius played by Sean Penn.

Awesome story.

I made a somewhat similar discovery in my old neighborhood, near the Nuart Theatre in West L.A. In the very center of the small block bounded by Sawtelle, Corinth, Santa Monica, and Idaho there is apparently a 1906 house which I can't seem to find in Bing Maps or Google Earth. I'll have to drive over there one of these days to see if I can at least identify the building, although I don't expect it to be be a pure vintage Edwardian bungalow necessarily. After all, old buildings do get enlarged, refinished, stuccoed over, and so on.

Another odd thing about this is that in this case there are two parcels with the same Santa Monica Boulevard address; the other one being a typical storefront that faces the boulevard. Outside of condominium units, I've never seen multiple parcels sharing a common street address.