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Noir Noir, thanks for posting the 1982 Los Angeles Times article on Carrie Janes Collier and her caretaker, Guy Miller. Unbeknownst to me, a photograph that I once considered for my avatar shows two of Guy Miller's skyscraper creations! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/AD3j6n.jpg gettyimages "A young visitor at Guy Miller's Miniature City display in Coney Island. On the left is the Chrysler Building, and the right the Empire State Building. circa 1955." The caption is incorrect. The building model on the right is a building in downtown Manhattan. ..........................This one in the middle. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/vanStv.jpg I used to know all the building's names - but not anymore. . |
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When he was in Los Angeles he made latex molds of a few of the buildings and then made plaster casts for sale. When he lived in Hollywood he mainly worked at a local printing company as a typesetter. |
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That's the Cities Service Building--70 Pine Street. Apartments now. |
:previous: That's it! Thanks GW. :)
Now back to Los Angeles. Here's a slide - taken in Nov. 1974 - of 'Don the Beachcomber' in Hollywood. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Mcv9Ug.jpg recently found on eBay / no longer listed If you look beneath all the flora I believe you would find an apartment building. I know that we have discussed this D of B location on NLA and if I'm not mistaken one of the posts included a black n white photograph. (but I wasn't able to find it. :( In this view we're looking at the northwest corner of Mc Cadden Place and. . .! need to check google-earth / be right back! If you look in the distance you can see the tower of the Methodist Church on Highland Ave. I decided to add this. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/LMpfE9.jpg LAPL . |
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:previous: Yep, that's it. (but it looks waaay different than how I remembered it) Thanks Hoss.
I happened upon this amazing photograph of Joan Blondell in her Hollywood home yesterday on eBay. (although I can't find it again) I was particularly struck by her enormous picture window! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Uuv4Y8.png eBay I see she's about to play Twister. Here's the information on the reverse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8VwNcn.jpg Does anyone know Ms. Blondell's address in 1932? I'd like to check out the home on Google-Earth and see if I can spot the huge picture window. :) joshing about twister |
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:previous: Excellent Hoss. (and FlyingWedge)
Let's briefly return to Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters' redoubt in La Canada. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LUhd3g.jpg Quote:
The building without Golden West Broadcasters' bold colors now looks strickly utilitarian.....It's amazing what a little color can do. & the supports to carry the weight of, what must be, a large antenna tower barely left enough room to allow the building to stay in place. ( i.e.. not torn down) . |
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Try here. :) https://i.imgur.com/YcJmswL.jpg rescarta.lapl.org https://i.imgur.com/0O5st4D.jpg Google Maps |
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Thanks for the address Noir Noir! If you look at the 1932 photograph again you will see that there is also a large window behind Ms. Blondell and, judging by the natural light on the right side of the photograph, there is also a large window directly across from her. So I'd say Ms. Blondell is sitting in the smallish 'room' that projects out from the house which would give us the three windows. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ius4x8.jpg What do'ya think? :shrug: It's also facing south and I'm pretty sure I see the Baldwin Hills in the 1932 photograph. (unless that dark area on the horizon is smog) EDIT: I've already changed my mind. What I circled above is an awning leading leading out to a deck. Now I believe Joan's 'studio' with the large window(s) is to the right of the awning. . .ummm This room https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/w2S8fm.jpg ............:runaway: . |
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A bungalow section of the property is listed on airbnb. You should book and check out all the windows you can. :D They have these old pictures of the house in the listing gallery. Construction in 1925. https://i.imgur.com/EYObEnQ.jpg airbnb.com And sometime later. https://i.imgur.com/0Mn4fS7.jpg airbnb.com |
:previous: Oh man, those are beautiful photographs. You always know where to look, Noir Noir....Thanks
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Add re: Joan Blondell, she wasn't up on Appian Way very long...in '36 she married Dick Powell, and moved in with his brood at 7919 Selma Ave....1940 census...
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds other side of the census ledger.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds Presumably this was the Selma Ave. house.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds |
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Here's a similar b&w view dated 1976. https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...gr4Bv0bGQ4.jpg Dated 1971: The Villa Capri at the end of the street. https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...Wqc63s5s14.jpg Dated 1955: https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...lEIXPQ.4L0.jpg Dated 1943: https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...HxLqCEVMgU.jpg Two interiors dated 1957: https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...qUGpEw9h4w.jpg https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...KBfB9WEpCk.jpg |
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Guy Miller, Jan. 1955 Here is the model of NYC, set up in a New Jersey park, 1956. I believe this was the day that LIFE magazine came to take photos. In the upper left we can see the many boxes where they were stored [long time storage was in a garage.] For many years it was on display in a NYC Port building. From what I remember he lost track of it in his later life. https://cms.prod.nypr.digital/images/257109/width-1200/ NYC views |
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Not so fast, e_r. Thanks to Wikipedia, we learn that the entrances to 70 Pine St. on Pine and Cedar incorporate 14-foot limestone models of the building itself. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rvicemodel.jpg Wikipedia (hotlinked) |
Parking Lot Next To Don's
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Some may recall that Carlotta wrote a memoir of her time with Fields, and a film ("W.C. Fields and Me") was made starring Valerie Perrine as Carlotta and Rod Steiger as W.C. back in the 1970s or early '80s. One touching scene I remember from the film--when he lived in L.A., Fields missed the sound of rain on the roof at night that helped him get to sleep. Carlotta went out one night when W.C. was dying and sprinkled the roof with a garden hose to help Fields get to sleep. Ah yess...Carlotta had a sweet heart. |
W. C. Fields is one of my favorite comedians. However I was somewhat disappointed in the movie W. C. Fields and Me because it was almost nothing like her book.
From what I've read he used to be something of a regular at Boardner's in Hollywood, had an office near by in the old Warner Theater building, and for a time lived in a house in Whitley Heights. Finally I grew up about a mile from the "sanitarium" where he spent his final days. |
One of several places around Los Angeles where Fields lived. I've heard he never actually owned a home, preferring to rent instead. I don't know the address of this house and I wonder if it's still standing.
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