Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7772816)

And then there's Sean Flynn, Errol Flynn's son with French actress Lili Damita.And a few years later with his father.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/zgRU34.jpg


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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7772864)

Here's one example dated June 4, 1953:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/4fxoMO.jpg

t2, this view appears to have been taken fairly close to the 'mystery' location.

I'm almost certain the two men are standing on the soon-to-be Harbor Freeway.

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7772873)

I understand there's a new ''lady in black". Is that you T2?

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7772933)

absolutely not. I may be a pib, but not that one.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7771570)

I know that we've seen numerous 'atomic blast' photographs on NLA, but I'm pretty sure we haven't seen this one.

Here's the rather vague description. ;)

"An uncredited, undated photo of an 'atomic dawn' taken from an unknown location."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/NMiX13.jpg
amusingplanet.com

I'm pretty sure that's the tower of the Richfield Building.

So where the heck was the photographer standing? It looks like an empty lot with overgrowth, dirt mounds and some litter. (not unlike a body dump)

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7772592)

Does anyone have an opinion about exactly where e_r's photo was taken? We're on land cleared for the Harbor, looking NE. I'd be interested to know the
location of the foreground buildings on the right. I'm guessing Byram and W 11th (now LA Live Way & Chick Hearn CT), but I'm not sure.

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Thx (I'll never get this straight)

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7772927)

Florida and Lincoln obliterated. Someone should tell google maps (see below).
This bit of real estate is now under construction:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cg...A=w763-h563-no
google maps

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 7772723)

Veronica

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id481634117http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id481634117

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Originally Posted by Jungmann (Post 7772866)

The distant crossing street in the '50s pix is Marathon (I was born on it a few blocks east, beyond Vermont) and the restaurant is Oblaths. You can see the blade sign in the picture below. Pretty much the unofficial Paramount commissary from the 40s through the 60's which is when I worked at the studio. I think it went away in the 70's. Pretty decent Mexican food for an anglo operation

Here's Army Archerd reminiscing about the Paramount gate and things around it:

I can well remember going through the historic Paramount gates off Marathon Street for the first time to start working in that pair of small rooms where we’d sort mail to then deliver to the stars who had their permanent dressing rooms on the lot. Often, there were hundreds of extras waiting outside the gate for a possible call to work that day. A casting window handled the calls as well as the jobs for day players. You could often see male stars in the studio’s barber shop or at the bootblack’s stand … The men’s wardrobe department was alongside the mailroom, and it seemed like entire armies could have been uniformed there. And above, the famed women’s wardrobe department, headed by the incomparable Edith Head. Across the street, on the south side of Marathon, was the famed Oblath’s restaurant where those who took a break from the commissary could be waited upon by ladies who looked like they stepped out of a sitcom — only there weren’t any sitcoms then

http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...tream/JPG/view

LA Daily News negative
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7773387)

Jungmann, did you mean you worked at Paramount from "the 40's through the 60's," or just the 1960's?

I like that photo you posted, I don't think that's been posted before! Over the door there's a sign that says "Mixed" something... Do you recall what that word is?

In my post, I (and E_R), were actually trying to find out what the restaurant (next to Geller's) was on the corner on the right side of this photograph:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/nFiSZO.jpg
ebay

Do you remember what that was?

I do see the blade sign (CAFE) of Oblath's in the distance at Marathon on the left side of the photo.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7773387)

In my post, I (and E_R), were actually trying to find out what the restaurant (next to Geller's) was on the corner on the right side of this photograph:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/nFiSZO.jpg
ebay

Do you remember what that was?

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7773130)

Here's a (large) 1952 aerial view. I've marked some of the key buidings, and labeled the streets with their current names.

The star marks where I think the photographer was standing. It's pretty close to t2's guess.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
Historic Aerials

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7773387)

Jungmann, did you mean you worked at Paramount from "the 40's through the 60's," or just the 1960's?

I like that photo you posted, I don't think that's been posted before! Over the door there's a sign that says "Mixed" something... Do you recall what that word is?

In my post, I (and E_R), were actually trying to find out what the restaurant (next to Geller's) was on the corner on the right side of this photograph:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/nFiSZO.jpg
ebay

Do you remember what that was?

I do see the blade sign (CAFE) of Oblath's in the distance at Marathon on the left side of the photo.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7773504)

'mystery' location, Los Angeles


So where in the heck is this guy standing?
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Originally Posted by Jungmann (Post 7773548)

Oblath's was useful for lunch-time shop talk between Paramount employees who were saying things they didn't want the studio execs to overhear,
which might happen at the commissary on the lot.