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If not in directories or contemporaneous newspapers, the existence of the Palm Villa might appear on some of the obscure maps of those times. Unfortunately, the low resolution of the supposed 1891 map of the area (below) makes any details difficult to determine. Notice Palms at the bottom center. :shrug: Carry on! http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...7.png~originalLANatHistoryMuseum |
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A few more of the general vicinity when the former Four Star was wearing its United Artist badging. (All from Nat. History Museum) Looking east on Wilshire http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...s.jpg~original Looking west of Wilshire http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...k.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...l.jpg~original This undated image of two girls hanging or dismounting a banner from a Wilshire street light must have a back story. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...w.png~original |
Did Hollywood have a dress code? A montage featuring two young women cavorting in and around a Hollywood Market. Unless this was a fraternity/sorority prank, the pictures of leisure or beach wear seems odd or designed to shock, even for Hollywood Blvd in the late '30s. But maybe not. :shrug: (All from NatHistMus) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...r.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...e.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...c.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.png~original |
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Anyone remember a 60-ton whale at Ninth and Broadway? http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...h.png~original NaturalHistMus |
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Speaking of interiors . . . Here are some unidentified and undated interiors of bars/eateries presumably from the LA area. The caricatures in the first photo are reminiscent of Brown Derby artwork, but the caricatures seem a bit too primitive. The second image looks like it could be in a large nightclub or hotel. :shrug: (From NatHistMus) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...d.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...w.png~original |
Said to be a Santa Monica Saloon, circa 1900. With ample alabaster-like spitoons and cleanup rags, this could be heaven . . . for someone. :rolleyes: http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...9.png~original |
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This similar daylight image of the Strip is said to be from 1951. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.png~original NatHistMuseum |
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Shot reminded me of the potted palms that once dotted Apablaza Street in the original Chinatown. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...y.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psjxawnjb7.png |
6926 Hollywood Blvd., "The Dog House" delivery vehicle. Undated Would have been across from Graumans. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...2.png~original |
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I noticed the Methodist Church/Plaza Community Center starts being addressed as 125 E. Sunset in newspaper references in 1941. That goes along with the city directories, which still have it as Marchessault for 1938 and 1939, but 1942 as you noted it's Sunset. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0directory.jpg 1938 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0directory.jpg 1942. It does look like more of a straight shot in the 1940s aerial http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ial_ca1940.jpg water& power I don't remember seeing this view before, taken across the street from the Plaza Methodist, looking east: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...azamarccsh.jpg Herman J. Schultheis Collection. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101661.jpg |
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Fred H Solomon, born in San Francisco about 1877, had a grim, hardscrabble childhood as a newsie. Instead of it making him bitter, he decided to have fun. He wanted everyone else to have fun too. Fetching up in Los Angeles in ca 1909, he turned the old Grand Avenue Auditorium (a skating rink built in 1906), at 924 S Grand, into "Solomon's Penny Dance Deluxe". B'nai B'rith temple will fall in the 20s when the congregation moved on to Wilshire Boulevard Temple (the site is a parking lot these days). Trinity Church will be replaced by Trinity Auditorium in 1914: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...2%252520PM.jpg bigmapsblog birdseye 1909 "The Largest Manufacturer and Distributor of Pleasure on Earth" (so why does Fred look so glum?): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...4%252520AM.jpg oviatt dl This souvenir, copper-covered-lead "penny" is actually almost 3" in diameter IRL: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...7%252520PM.jpg ebay After sailors and soldiers rioted at the club in early 1918, Fred tried to make military men sign in before entering, but they threatened to riot again, so the cops came. Everyone backed down and fun won: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...4%252520AM.jpg cdnc 8 Feb 1918 Overall however, the hall was a big success. Fred redecorated and had a second Grand Opening in late 1918: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P...7%252520AM.jpg cdnc 2 Dec 1918 :previous: "terpsichorean" adj., in case you didn't know (I didn't), means "pertaining to dancing,", literally "of Terpsichore," from the Latinized form of Greek Terpsikhore, muse of dancing and dramatic chorus. Hence the theatrical slang word "terp" = "stage dancer or chorus girl" Fred did his best to spread the good times around. He had free dance nights and contests. There were all manner of events, a weekly "Amateur Nite", church services Sunday mornings, the minister trying to capture the celebrants from the night before as congregants (dunno if that worked) and the annual Police Relief Association Ball. When one of Fred's instructors (Solomon's also offered dance lessons), Elmay Day, decided to marry her beau, Sergeant Milburne Taylor, Fred offered the dance hall as a venue and provided the minister and the cake. It was the hall's first wedding, but not its last: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...4%252520PM.jpg cdnc 10 July 1919 Were public dance hall weddings a thing back then? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...4%252520PM.jpg cdnc 17 Nov 1921 Even babies were invited to Solomon's: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...6%252520AM.jpg lapl Fred looks delighted with the infant on the floor: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...0%252520AM.jpg lapl :previous: These are the only two pix I could find of Solomon's. I'm hoping someone else has some more. Back in 1909 Fred bought a lovely hillside meadow in Topanga Canyon. He lived there on his 24-acre Solomon Ranch. It had a house (formerly a hunting lodge), an events hall, stables and various outbuildings. He kept horses and swam in the spring-fed pool. One of the outbuildings contained a still to provide Prohibition-era whiskey. Not forgetting his hard boyhood, Fred held a special Newsie's Holiday Dinner at the ranch every year, starting in 1915, for LA newsboys. Besides the Newsie's Dinner, the ranch was the also the venue for Fred's annual Orphan's Picnic, started in 1923: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...3%252520PM.jpg Uncle Fred having fun with the orphans at a Solomon Ranch picnic: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9...6%252520PM.jpg oviatt dl Fred's mother and sister helped with these events. Wu, Fred's majordomo at the ranch, ensured perfection. Much as Fred liked having kids over, it was his weekly adult parties that he really enjoyed. People said the parties were "notorious", but that's probably just a stupid euphemism. Fred and male friends in the "boat" he had built atop his house, the "FHS Penny": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S...6%252520PM.jpg oviatt dl Fred hosts some female friends from an (actual) boat on the pool, helped along by a partially-submerged band: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...6%252520PM.jpg oviatt dl The current owner of the ranch is slowly restoring it. The events hall looks good: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...7%252520AM.jpg the topanga messenger Meanwhile...back at the dance hall (now named Solomon's Dance Pavilion Deluxe), Curtis Mosby’s Dixieland Blue Blowers took up an extended residency starting in 1924 (Mosby later opened oh-so-famous-and-successful Club Alabam). Les Hite and many other artists played too (Solomon's audiences were white-only though). "So Hot That They Use Asbestos Chairs": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...8%252520PM.jpg the78rpmrecordspins About 1930 Solomon's was renamed Vogue Ballroom and big bands played through the early 40s 924 S Grand became a bowling alley later before being demolished in 1966. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco now takes up most of the block. |
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I haven't read it through yet, but I can't help wonder if this is when the last businesses were evicted, including La Esperanza? Does anyone have access to phone books or directories from 1970 to about 1974? It wouldn't surprise me if this was the source document for the informational pamphlets the Park passed out to visitors in the 1970s and 80s. |
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