|
|
Is there an official or unofficial registry of Noirishers past and present? Just in case the Noirish Los Angeles Clubhouse/Soda Fountain/Dance Hall/Turkish Bath/Polo Grounds ever becomes manifest and a roll call is taken.
|
Quote:
https://i.postimg.cc/jqZfJgn5/6531_Monterey_Rd..png UCSB Here, the house at 6531 Monterey Rd, is just west of the border with South Pasadena, where the pavement changes. It's below the Santa Fe tracks, which are also visible in the flood photo. (George Hodel's house was nearby, so get on it, Black Dahlia scholars.) |
Bullock's department store, Los Angeles in 1925 (Downtown)
https://blogger.googleusercontent.co.../s16000/a1.jpg |
Quote:
I wrote the following post once; June, 2019. No one responded with any thoughts on this idea. Quote:
|
Unofficial registry
Quote:
|
:previous:
If you go to the Found City Photos index page and click on the number in the "Replies" column on the right of the NLA row, you'll get a complete list of all the contributors to the thread - there are currently 629. Here's the current first 30 with their post counts: User Name - Posts ethereal_reality - 14,358 HossC - 4,090 GaylordWilshire - 3,617 CityBoyDoug - 2,868 tovangar2 - 2,619 Martin Pal - 2,190 BifRayRock - 1,366 MichaelRyerson - 1,139 odinthor - 1,118 Flyingwedge - 1,066 Tourmaline - 996 sopas ej - 836 Godzilla - 701 gsjansen - 681 Beaudry - 681 FredH - 676 Chuckaluck - 649 oldstuff - 623 Earl Boebert - 592 CaliNative - 566 BillinGlendaleCA - 508 Scott Charles - 481 ProphetM - 433 Lorendoc - 409 Noir_Noir - 406 Lwize - 398 Los Angeles Past - 387 Handsome Stranger - 380 Those Who Squirm! - 361 Bristolian - 348 (AlvaroLegido, you're 34th) |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Bullock's Downtown
Thank you, Harrys for posting the picture of Bullock's downtown. My father worked at Bullock's for more than 40 years. It's wonderful to see the building when new.
|
Quote:
I first visited LA in the mid 90's as an employee of Warner Brothers Retail division - the fabled (now defunct) WB Studio Stores that flourished for a decade or so. I was hooked on LA the moment I rented a car after our convention weekend shindig at the WB lot in Burbank for a couple of days, and toured the LA landmarks with a fellow voyeur. We did it all in a day or two, Hollyhock House, Griffith Observatory, Downtown LA, Rodeo Drive, UCLA, on and on... I won't mention what happened in the parking lot of Rose Tarlow in West Hollywood after a night at Rage (? - I think. But I hope a gorgeous Canadian remembers.) The highlight of our touring days: our ride through the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. We saw a man on a bicycle paying homage to a particular headstone by one of the Park roadways. We kept a respectable distance and when he left, we inched closer. It was Mel Blanc's grave complete with Bugs Bunny stuffed toy! The voice that ostensibly led us to that great city from the deep south was saying 'Hello wascal!". Amazing. A real Twilight Zone moment. I have appreciated all donors to this site, through whatever moods they have been in. I'm a deep believer in letting people speak their minds, through whatever emotions they are feeling at the time. Knowledge is in short supply, memory is shrouded in context, I love good stories about interesting places and people. And I have thick skin. |
Quote:
Well, I could have found the answer to this three years ago! I guess I should just have looked up NoirCityDame's "Profile" on her NLA page. That gives the answer: J.H. Graham she is! About Noircitydame Country: United States Location: Outskirts of Noir City, California Biography: I'm a historian working in the historic preservation field. I also write detective mysteries set in old Los Angeles based on my own, original research and trying to straighten out the dark & twisted threads of LA gangsterdom history. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
Took me long enough! |
.
Mystery location. I'm pretty sure this eBay photograph was taken by the same photographer that took the recently solved DEE mystery photo. "Orig c.1950 Los Angeles, Bus Depot? LA CA California 2.5" Photo Negative" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/II7wYI.jpg eBay A little help please. :whip: . |
Quote:
You rang? The photograph looks NE from Soto St. near Wabash Ave. across the Ramona Fwy. and the PE right-of-way and its Macy St. repair shop toward General Hospital. The pedestrian bridge that arches across Ramona Fwy. extended from the foot of Pomeroy Ave. to reach the former PE passenger stop across the tracks. The repair shop appears to be closed, and PE busses - built by GM and painted in the "teardrop" livery - being parked alone in the yard date this photo to c.1952. |
Quote:
When was the current big General Hospital building built, the one almost 20 stories tall? Wasn't it built before this photo was taken (ca. 1952)? If so, is it out of the picture view in this photo? I wonder what the multifloor buildings are in the distance, maybe 5 or 6 stories tall? Could they be the older General Hospital that predate the current taller one and surrounding complex? If I ever make it back to CSULA one day to look the campus over, I'm going to GorofaIo's for one more pizza and beer. Is the place still open? If so, popular with students and still good? It wasn't much to look at, but the pizza was good. Hope it is still there. |
:previous:
I'm going to disagree with HenryHuntington, and say that the photographer was actually about 3/4 mile west of Pomeroy Avenue on Enchandia Street, just northeast of Prospect Park. The main image below shows the line-of-sight on a 1952 aerial, while the inset shows a clearer view of the bridge and the house on the corner in 1941. The taller buildings just right of center in the middle distance were near the LA Coroner's Office at Mission and Marengo. The hospital would've been just out of shot to the right. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...chandiaSt1.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu/mil.library.ucsb.edu |
Quote:
|
This has been discussed be4 I'm sure, but does anybody remember "Drysdale's Dugout" in Van Nuys on Oxnard St.? I was a kid when he built it in the early or mid 1960s, but I knew adults who went there at the time. It was a small place, probably just a bar at first, later an added dining area They said Don was often there in the first few years to greet people. I was a Drysdale fan at the time. Don was a very good pitcher, not as overpowering as Koufax usually, but he made the Hall of Fame. He set the scoreless innings record that lasted for many years. He was big and intimidating on the mound, not afraid to throw brush back pitches. Also a good hitter that usually hit a few home runs each year. He grew up in Van Nuys and went to VNHS. He and Koufax held out for bigger paychecks in 1966, finally getting the Dodgers to pay them over $100k, A big sum at the time before the reserve clause ended. I'm sorry I was just a kid and never got to share a drink with big Don and tell him what a fan I was. Any noirishers actually go there or remember it, or meet Don? He died quite young of a heart attack.
|
| All times are GMT. The time now is 11:16 AM. |
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2023, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Prev