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How's this for Noirishness? Photo spotted on Tumblr, with no information other than LAPD 10/10/1942. Any sleuths want to take a crack at figuring out what happened, and where?
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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8264614]This next slide is anything but a mystery location.
"1960 GRAUMAN CHINESE THEATRE HOLLYWOOD ON BEACH" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/aTdZkK.jpg EBAY (looks like I cut off the bottom, but I didn't) Wow! ER, I have been looking and looking for a close up view of the two gift shops which are on either side of the entrance to the Chinese Theater and here is one!! My neighbor around the corner, when I was a child, ran one of the gift shops. When the husband died, just a couple of weeks into WW II, she continued to run the shop herself and had a chauffer drive her from Burbank to Hollywood every day. Her house has a little house in the back which was the chauffer's quarters. The main house has a basement, unusual for So Cal, which contained a walk in safe for the jewelry and cash from the day's sales. She would take the jewelry home for safekeeping every day instead of leaving it in a secure area in the store. Both the main house and the chauffer's quarters, built in 1926, are still there. She had retired by the time I was a small child and lived alone in the house until her death in 1974. Apparently she had very bad arthritis and had an in-home diathermy machine to help ease the pain, which when she turned it on, wreaked havoc with our already sketchy TV reception which was provided by the means of a roof antenna. (Diathermy is a process by which high frequency electric current is used to stimulate heat generation within body tissues to increase blood flow, helping to heal damaged tissues and ease pain. This was apparently fairly common in the 50's since I recall there being one in my doctor's office and had treatment from it once when I badly sprained an ankle) |
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Francis lived in SF, and was working as a stenographer where she appears in the 1920 census in San Francisco, living in a boardinghouse. Her father died in 1934 and she may have moved to LA around that time with her mother, who is mentioned in the article. Her mother died the next year in 1936. Her mother's death certificate shows that she had heart disease and high blood pressure. The circumstances surrounding her daughter's death probably contributed to her poor health. The death certificate also gives the mother's address at the time of her death as 4645 Vermont place, Los Angeles, now a warehouse surrounded by homeless camps. |
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"Handy as roller skates and twice the fun." Renault Dauphine television commercial from 1958. https://i.imgur.com/Zv2fXbt.jpg https://i.imgur.com/M1PqFdn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/b8kgAwt.jpg |
French Dauphine
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There were predominant in France by the early 1960s... if I remember well. |
The Old Motor.com focuses, as the name would suggest, on vintage cars, gas stations, auto repair places etc...I searched the site for L.A. postings and came up with a few of interest...a fair number of the site's So. Cal. images are from the USC Library (many are from the Dick Whittington collection, and we've seen a lot of those)...but I don't recall seeing the following...my apologies if any are re-posts...
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psjsjsvdnc.jpg 1238-40 E. 9th St. (now Olympic Blvd.)... http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psgyuqd1jd.png GSV....beneath the awning and rooftop signage, I believe that's the same Continental Auto Works building...you can see the (now reinforced) bricks if you Google tour the exposed side of the bldg...when I cruised the neighborhood, I discovered that this is now designated the "Pinata District"...I didn't know we had a Pinata District... Same building from the interior, looking across Olympic... http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8kwgfqv4.jpg The building with the arched doorway survives...and the used truck lot property appears to never have been developed: http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3u5iyjpp.png http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psxowtf6uh.jpg 1212 W. Slauson Ave. (1932) http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psdhgydl5d.png GSV Another view of 1212 W. Slauson... http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psw8mjx5vv.jpg S.W. corner of Vermont & Melrose: http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psxvn8mqyw.jpg and today: http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pstprhuozq.png GSV Detail of the above... http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psxob5hjl5.jpg http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psh7mp1lbi.jpg Rooftop parking at Sears on Pico Blvd....October, 1939: http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pslgn2rb0h.jpg http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6osumoaf.jpg http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psxqfgonxv.jpg http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psp6odfmas.jpg 1953 http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psydoiziyc.jpg Identified only as So. Cal., but this sure looks like Hollywood or mid-Wilshire...the yellow object on the hood of the blue car is identified as a bug deflector. http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pss7juud1s.jpg http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...shr0jewf2.jpeg Above is credited to the legendary Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1036 N. La Brea, Inglewood...1951: http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psdinadw39.jpg The auto repair was replaced by a laundromat...the La Tijera Theater bldg. survives as a car parts business.... http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psvidnvkjp.png http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psn6xka1dz.jpg Heavyweight champion Max Baer and his manager parked in front of the Manhattan Gym, 534 S. Spring St., 1930....the car is an L29 Cord. The gym was owned by another champ, Jack Dempsey...it was on the 2nd floor of the building: http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0h0vvugq.jpg This one is from the Life Magazine archives: http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3jlg3f8m.jpg |
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:previous: Fredrick's? |
Doesn't seem to phase Superman.
https://i2.wp.com/www.onrembobine.fr...size=500%2C375 https://i2.wp.com/www.onrembobine.fr/wp- |
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but I see someone over at Old Motor already identified it as a bug deflector. It must be similar to the one shown below (except in yellow of course) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/y936Q9.jpg bug deflector/Ebay Oh, and by the way, I think that's a school building in the distance. That might help in identifying the street. __ |
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I found this photograph a few days ago on Ebay.
"LLEWELYN [SIC] Iron Works, Los Angeles California 19th Century" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/BN1HGv.jpg EBAY [unlisted now] Here is what's writtien in pencil on the reverse... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/U952BZ.jpg "J.W. Burlesum(?) Waxahatchie TX fo(?) Llewellyin [sic] Iron Works Los Angeles Cal I can't quite square this photograph with the Llewellyn location in Torrance. (was there an earlier location somewhere else in Los Angeles?) Is it possible this photograph shows a Llewellyn factory in Texas? (even if the location ends up being Texas, you have to admit this is a fantastic old photograph) ________________________________________________________________________________ As a reminder I'll go ahead and add this additional info. [I believe this ad has been posted on nla in the past] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/fUgJ3B.jpg from Southwest Builder & Contractor, Jan 1920 (of course this is 30 or more years after the photograph was taken) |
Diathermy
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re: Grauman's Gift Shop
Close up / detail
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I'm somewhat embarrassed to say, but I pictured a touristy gift shop selling tacky souvenirs and chotchkies. Do you, or anyone else for that matter, remember in detail what the interior of the two gift shops looked like? Oh, and one more thing...do you mind telling us the lady's name who ran the shop? |
since we're on Hollywood Boulevard.
'mystery' location - "Hollywood CA 1930s" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/lWPjCw.jpg link coming I'm almost certain that says 'Hollywood Maryland Grill". Has anyone heard of it before? __ |
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e_r, according to a highly dubious site, the location of the Llewellyn Iron Works was 1200 N. Main in L.A. Here's a pic: https://s26.postimg.cc/tvlvet6vd/Llew_Main_L.jpg http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal1a.html The Los Angeles Times of May 16, 1894, includes the Llewellyn Iron Works in a listing of "New Corporations" for which the articles of incorporation had been filed "yesterday." |
:previous: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I'll try to match the photograph to that location. _______________ That site isn't dubious at all ;) |
'mystery' location
"Hollywood 1930s" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/lWPjCw.jpg hollyhocks and tulips I'm almost certain the sign says 'Hollywood Maryland Grill'. Is anyone familiar with that establishment? p.s. I like how the two girls are dressed. Would this have been a bold statement for the 1930s? ___ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...dMaryland1.jpg www.instagram.com |
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