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Fascinating clip. But I find the colorization grotesque and off-putting. The footage would have a much greater impact without it, in my opinion. |
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Thank you Flyingwedge. Looks like they didn't have any kids. Amazing how little info there is on him.
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The great and powerful Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives took this photo of Tiny Naylor's drive-in at Sunset and La Brea in 1984 and captured the short-lived Tiny Naylor's steak house (under the Don Rickles billboard) shorn of its googie I-beam and encrusted with some artificial stone in the background at 7127 Sunset Boulevard. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6988bf18_b.jpg It lasted for about one year in 1954 before becoming Art Williams' Eldorado Club. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6c40a67acf.jpg LATimes 6/15/57 Then it becomes The Purple Lion https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...db123b0fd6.jpg LATimes 6/28/72 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...041ff451_z.jpg 8/3/73 Van Nuys News shows it as Ali Baba's, which it remained until demolition in 1984. https://wonderland1981.files.wordpre...llah-henri.jpg Performer Kamala Almanzar at Ali Baba's https://wonderland1981.com/2015/11/0...lub-ali-babas/ when it was owned by...(back to noir) Eddie Nash. "Former Hollywood nightclub owner Eddie Nash pleaded guilty Monday to federal racketeering charges, abruptly ending his 20-year cat-and-mouse game with authorities who have long believed he played the lead role in one of Southern California’s more lurid murder mysteries...." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...553-story.html Quote:
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Peters family photos of the Getty mansion used during the filming of "Sunset Blvd"
I was recently contacted by a woman whose grandparents were the caretakers of the Getty mansion used as exteriors for Norma Desmond’s home in “Sunset Boulevard” and asked me if would I like to see some family photos of their time there. I was expecting a 3 or 4 shots, but she sent me 25, all of which appear to have been taken when “Sunset Boulevard” was being filmed. You can see the rest of them on my website: https://wp.me/p5XK3w-5H5
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Interesting photos! Thanks! |
AMPAS has announced the Oscars are going to be held at Union Station!
https://www.greatamericanstations.co...Moser-2018.jpg According to Metro, the April 25 Oscars will be held in the building’s Historic Ticketing Hall, the Grand Waiting Room, the main entrance along Alameda Street and on the north and south patios. Should be interesting! |
Mystery location
Here is a c. 1910 photo from Calisphere with no location specified beyond DTLA:
https://i.imgur.com/Y6ELJOt.jpg calisphere.org At first glance I thought the large building in the background was the Continental Building at 408 S Spring but looking closely at it, the windows don't quite match. But still, this is a really substantial building for 1910 so maybe remodeled? https://i.imgur.com/Q9GOJTD.jpg Google Earth Pro There are some partial clues: https://i.imgur.com/06FQx2c.jpg Stephenson Avenue east of the LA River was renamed Whittier Boulevard in 1921. The Baist atlases show that the name also existed west of the river, roughly along what today is Traction Avenue and 2nd St. Since the placard says "cemeteries" it looks like the car is outbound. There are some business names visible in this enlargement: https://i.imgur.com/rkxrVvZ.jpg T. Coblentz ran a grocery store at 727 S Grand in 1910; Thos. Varney was a signmaker; idk if the Coblentz sign here was the store itself or just some randomnly placed billboard. I suspect some here will identify the tall buildings in the background, which would help locating this intersection: https://i.imgur.com/ZiGU8Qy.jpg |
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Lorendoc, dunno if this will help, but this stretcar line had the following outbound routing in that era: From 7th & Hope Sts. via 7th, Boyle Ave. and Stephenson Ave. to Cemeteries. Total distance was 5.41 miles. Stephenson Ave. was renamed Whittier Blvd. after 1919. Consulting LARy track maps (albeit from the 1930s), the only intersection I can find with that precise arrangement (a double-track junction diverging from westboud to southbound) is at W. 7th St. and Grand Ave. Beginning in 1915, the corner of interest in your photo was occupied by Robinson's Department Store. At that time, Robinson's was using the entire frontage along 7th from Grand to Hope St. and widened out into a fat L-shape along Hope. If its predecessor was a one-story structure, the building shown in your first photo would appear to match that footprint as far as we can tell. Good luck with your search. |
Hmmm...
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I'm actually more interested in that square tower or turret. I thought for a moment that it looked kind of like the one on the 3rd L.A. Times building, but it doesn't match. It also bares a passing resemblance to the old clock tower on the old courthouse, but again, too different. I tried looking up schools and churches, and was still unable to find an exact match. The tall square building looks a lot like the Barclay Hotel. But I see some differences that make me doubt that's what it is. It also looks a lot like the Cahuenga Building (Hollywood Blvd. and Cahuenga). :shrug: |
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Not to argue, but....
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The top windows are not the same. On this building, it looks like the top two floor's windows are set into recessed arches. With a wider set in the middle. It looks a lot like a John Parkinson building to me. The arches on the P.E. building are only 1 floor, and don't have sets. Not to mention the number of windows. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...T_p9U7WYFiiVmF |
Thanks Sakhal Nakhash, rick_m, and HenryHuntington for your ideas. HH's comment about the route of the Stephenson Ave. line led me to look at the Sanborn of 7th/Grand and vicinity. There was an oddly shaped building which got my curiousity (circled). It is labelled "Simpson's Auditorium":
https://i.imgur.com/YDcHgr0.jpg lapl.org The LAPL has a picture of this: https://i.imgur.com/zCbTGL9.jpg lapl.org ...so yay the turret matches. The tallest finial is at the NW corner of the turret, so it appears that the original photo was taken from a vantage point NE of the Auditorium. And so the Coblentz sign probably represented the actual grocery store and not just a billboard. Also the tall windowed building is not the Continental Bldg. because it would be out of frame of the original picture. |
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So, our mystery building with the arches is the YMCA building at 715 S Hope Street. It was demolished around 1970. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds LAPL |
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Yes, it's 7th and Grand. The building in the foreground was a post office: Photograph of an exterior view of the Los Angeles Post office on the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, 1910-1920. The single-story post office is at center and is made of brick with stone trim. Several pedestrians can be seen on the sidewalk around the building, while bicycles and vendor carts are parked in the unpaved street. Several sets of tracks are visible in the road, and a line of utility poles runs parallel to them on the curb. The post office moved to this location in November 1904 and moved away in September 1910 to Main and Winston Streets. This was the site of a former cable house, and later the site of J. W. Robinson Company Department Store. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...A7thGrand3.jpg USC Digital Library |
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That structure was originally built as a cable railroad powerhouse. There is a photo of the building, decorated for opening day, in the March 1890 edition of The Street Railway Journal. According to an article in the January 23, 1939, Los Angeles Times, the old cable powerhouse was the main LA post office for a few years just before the 1910 Federal Building/Post Office opened at the NW corner of Temple and Main. |
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lapl.org What a gorgeous building. I wouldn't have guessed based on it's appearance alone that it was an auditorium. It looks more like a church to me. :stunned: |
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