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tovangar2 -- Unfortunately, this is the only capture I could get from the video. It's pretty much a static shot, the camera remaining in this exact position for about four seconds. The only things moving are a few cars driving by. Only that establishing clip remained in the final cut of the episode, which is why posting a video won't help -- but thanks anyway. I know from the script they had written a scene with three characters arriving in front of the building, but that segment was edited in post-production so it is not part of the final episode. I am sure the edited material would help identify the street, but we can't get access to the original cut. |
Paul Whiteman, "King of Jazz", arrives in Los Angeles, 1926.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/Ni6z8a.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/71cuZ3.jpg Excellent research on the Dreamland Roller Rink Flyingwedge! -very interesting post. __ |
Looks like the family's woody ran out of gas just before reaching Disneyland.
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A Pico/La Cienega Follow up to the follow up
August 13, 1933 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/4286/rec/2 Wow what a difference 13 years makes. Virtually the same angle but you can barely make out the Fox Carthay Theater tower now that it's all filled in. Poor golfers... 1946 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/fullbr...gleitem/rec/42 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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Martin, the only hotel in Hollywood that I could think of with a courtyard like the one in your friend's photograph is the Vine Manor Hotel on Vine. Here is a slide showing the courtyard in 1953. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/Ml0lUg.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/electr...n/photostream/ below: The Vine Manor Hotel on the east side of Vine St. at Yucca St. (that's Hollywood & Vine in the distance), 1953. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/wpCoEX.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/electr...n/photostream/ The hotel is visible in this screengrab from the film noir "City of Fear", 1959. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/qJzi0G.jpg http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com...1_archive.html The Vine Manor Lodge has been replaced by a modern office building. __ |
Thanks for the excellent follow-up about Dreamland, Flyingwedge. What a transient life the roller rink had. :(
------------- Another motel postcard that I found on eBay. The seller dates it vaguely at pre-1980, but the Moytel Motel at 946 Yale Street appears as far back as the 1961 CD. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ytelMotel1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ytelMotel2.jpg eBay Here's the motel today. I don't know if the roof details ever matched the postcard, but the upper floor and tall sign seem pretty close. I found a picture of the sign on jericl cat's Flickr account which includes the comment that it's not lit at night. The caption also says that the motel "has turned to long-term occupancy". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ytelMotel3.jpg GSV There were also a couple of references to the motel appearing in an episode of 'The A-Team' called 'The Maltese Cow' (season 2, episode 13). It's only seen in the background as these cars crash into some garbage cans. From what I can see, it hasn't changed much since 1984. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ytelMotel4.jpg Universal TV/Stephen J. Cannell Productions Various other locations in or near Chinatown can also be seen in this episode. The bad guys' headquarters in the Wan Chu Laundry (below) is actually 905 Yale Street. The building still stands. I also spotted N Hill Street, N Broadway and Mei Ling Way. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...YaleStreet.jpg Universal TV/Stephen J. Cannell Productions The building they used for the police station is the 1929 former Hills Bros Coffee Building on Mateo Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...treetATeam.jpg Universal TV/Stephen J. Cannell Productions BifRayRock posted some great construction pictures of this building in post #13969, including the one below. The building in the background is the old Metropolitan Warehouse building on E 6th Street which also appeared in the background of a picture posted recently by e_r. I posted a current GSV image in post #26175. It look like the tower never contained a clock! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Warehouse2.jpg California State Library Finally, another screengrab from the A-Team episode. This is just a static camera shot with cars passing to establish a location, although I'm pretty sure the following scenes aren't filmed here. It's not the Tiki Bahia Motel in Anaheim that I posted about recently, and I don't think it's the Bahia Motel of Hollywood at 5265 Sunset Boulevard either, so does anyone recognize it? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...MotelATeam.jpg Universal TV/Stephen J. Cannell Productions |
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There was also a Bahia in Montebello Hoss.....maybe that's the place. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/4qthHB.jpg ebay |
"Redondo Junction, south of the station about 3 miles. That's the LA river bed, the scene of illegal street racing thru the 1950s."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/dfz8Zv.jpg http://www.jalopyjournal.com This slide was posted (at jalopyjournal) with the above aerial, but is this the same roundhouse? (the gas-meters seems awfully close) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/4dN7Qa.jpg http://www.jalopyjournal.com/historyoflosangeles/page56 __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...iaBurbank1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...iaBurbank2.jpg sanfernandovalleyblog.blogspot.com Here's a daytime shot. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...iaBurbank3.jpg www.tikiroom.com Its proximity to the studios probably explains why it was used as an establishing shot. Looking at Historic Aerials, it looks like the building, just north of the Ventura Freeway, lasted into the '90s. |
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"Edgeware shuttle, 1946"
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/q5gZ1Z.jpg Ralph Cantos collection at www.pacificelectric.org Here is the same view today. (the apartment bldg. is on the northwest corner of Douglas St. and Kensington Road in Echo Park) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/DpTFRS.jpg GSV The apartment building is actually quite nice. Here is a much better view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/DRTxIM.jpg GSV What the 1946 slide doesn't show is this nice Victorian on the southwest corner of Douglas & Kensington. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/n6YGY0.jpg GSV __ |
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That may be the same roundhouse Mrs. Leonard took our second grade class on a field trip to during school year 1961-1962. I remember our guide there told us that the roundhouse was soon to be torn down. (That field trip was also the first time I got to ride on the just-opened East LA Interchange section of the new Santa Monica Freeway. I think it only went as far as Alameda at that time.) Our class's next stop that day was Angels Flight. I'd been there with my mother only a few months before, earlier in 1961, on the day she took me on one of the last Red Car trips down to Long Beach. I think at the time of my second visit to Angels Flight, some of the buildings around the old funicular that were still standing during my first visit had been razed in the meantime. What remained of old Bunker Hill would soon follow suit, as well. |
:previous: Thanks for sharing your memories JScott. -remembrances are a treasure.
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....another 'mystery' location.
The best clue here is that "Trailer Inn" sign facing the tracks. (is there a stop nearby?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/FFTgi0.jpg old file / possibly ebay __ |
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"Update" on El Aliso
Nathan Masters sent me this photo of El Aliso today, which he just found at the Seaver Center. It's the first picture I've seen of the Maier & Zobelien Brewery with the tree in place. Mayer and Zobelien took over the property in 1882. This view was taken between when the larger buildings went up in 1889 and when Maier had all El Aliso's branches cut off in 1892, over Zobelien's strong objections. The tree looks ethereal:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...32515%2BPM.jpg seaver center To give some indication of how El Aliso was diminished over the years there are four pix below. Going backwards in time: The Philadelphia Brewery was in business from 1875 until 1882 when Maier and Zoebelein took it over (they were already shareholders). The tree looks like it's been trimmed back on its south side in this ca 1880 photo, but El Aliso's northern branches reach out to shade Aliso St: http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e2...72817%2BPM.jpg militant angeleno Jean-Louis Vignes got control of the property in 1837 and became wildly successful with the El Aliso Winery. By 1849 he was producing 150,000 bottles per year in what was California's largest vineyard, from vines he imported from Bordeaux, making the name "El Aliso" famous throughout the state. In about 1855, the then-elderly Vignes sold the business to his nephews, Pierre and Jean-Louis Sainsevain. However, the brothers expanded the business too rapidly and got into financial difficulties. The photo shows the tree in ca 1873. It looks a bit skimpy (it may have been a drought year): http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/00067251.jpg lapl JScott previously posted this 1870 view of El Aliso in the distance, beyond the Macy St covered bridge, from the NE. The tree looks lush and healthy: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-t...34658%2BPM.jpg boyle heights history blog That takes us back to the first photo of Los Angeles ca 1867. El Aliso's great, round, dome-shaped crown reaches down to the ground. Someone had a theory that the church was built to face the tree, ignoring the Laws of the Indies. Whatever the case, El Aliso made a lofty and reassuring landmark in our tiny city: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P...74128%2BPM.jpg lapl |
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Thank you, e_r, for posting those photos. It was nice to see the place again, and they proved my recollections of that day were not quite right. All these years, I thought the roundhouse we visited was south of the Santa Monica Freeway, but now I see plainly it wasn't, after all. |
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The hill in back of the color picture at the bottom is what was formerly part of the backlot of Warner Brothers. I remember as a child, driving on Barham Blvd and seeing them filming cowboys and Indians or stagecoaches on roads at the base of that hill. Now there is a huge apartment complex (Oakwood) on that land. The assessor's office has the current building on the lot as being built in 1973-1977. That seems to be about right since the motel was there when I was in high school and not there after. |
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Are you ready for another mystery location? :)
In the view below, I believe we're looking northeast toward Beverly Hills City Hall (the white tower in the distance) from an unnamed rooftop café. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/jkAGy2.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/7n6cUZ.jpg old file of mine / ebay possibly I thought it would be interesting to try and find out where the photographer was positioned. I am curious about the name of the rooftop café obviously, but also the street that's less than a block away, with the various interesting building. I'd like to see if they're still there. __ |
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