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With respect to this building, I am at a loss, as to why there are not at least a few old direct images, floating around the internet? You can find both photos and even some postcard images, for most of the Art Deco style buildings throughout the Southland; however, this one is really obscure. I am sure they exist, but are sitting in a file, in a drawer, somewhere--e.g., the building contractor, who go the job for the updated version. |
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In the film it looks like it's sited in the center of Temple. See? Where the heck is Temple? An illusion, I know, but it looks like the Bank of Italy totally fills in the space between City Hall & the Federal Courthouse: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...03957%2BAM.jpg Quote:
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:previous: Thank you e-r. Working neon. What a treat :-)
The "classy" apartment building in The Turning Point is Leland Bryant's "The Colonial House" (1930) 1416 Havenhurst, W Hollywood, just through the block from the Voltaire/Granville on Crescent Heights.(I knew it must be around there somewhere): (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13470) Cary Grant lived in Colonial House and it was Bette Davis' last home. It's on the National Register: http://www.toplacondos.com/condo/bui...det.php?id=397 http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/0...nial_house.php https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...03744%2BAM.jpg Paramount/Youtube https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N...24316%2BPM.jpg gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...25855%2BPM.jpg http://www.toplacondos.com/condo/bui...det.php?id=397 |
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Well, you picked a great day to [drive around] SoCal--mid to upper 70's today, and very clear with bright sun! :) This is a great 'gem' and so symbolic of SoCal in the 20's-30's. And for those who live there today--it has great ratings! There is a village called Ancelle, in the mountains of S/E France; I am sure there must be a nexus, to the person who developed this property, in the Roaring Twenties. |
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Earlier today I came across this photograph of the May Co. at http://www.yellowbullet.com/main/news.php
Traffic has never looked so good. http://imageshack.us/a/img834/8384/a...ycoyellowb.jpg http://www.yellowbullet.com/main/news.php By coincidence, Renzo Piano released his most recent plans for LACMA's Academy Theater today. Piano's 'bubble' theater emerging from the north side of the 1939 May Co. building http://imageshack.us/a/img6/6524/aab...myhugelacu.jpg http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ass_sphere.php cut-away view (smaller 'bubble' theaters inside as well) http://imageshack.us/a/img843/6524/a...myhugelacu.jpg http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ass_sphere.php Model-April 2013 http://imageshack.us/a/img138/6524/a...myhugelacu.jpg http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ass_sphere.php Model showing the May Co.'s iconic 'stacked coins' facade with Renzo Piano's 'bubble' theater in the rear. http://imageshack.us/a/img42/6524/aa...myhugelacu.jpg http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ass_sphere.php noir collides with the future- __ |
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Why do so many contemporary architects go for this "pieces missing" or "incomplete building" look? And why don't the people who commission these architects have the cojones to just say "No!" to bad design? The state of architecture in the 21st century depresses the hell out of me. I'd trade ten thousand of these Frank Gehry-types for just one Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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The Hotel Barbizon at 6th and Westlake. http://imageshack.us/a/img802/3686/a...handwestla.jpg gsv http://imageshack.us/a/img195/7652/a...hwestlakel.jpg gsv very gritty. __ |
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Her heyday has truly passed and now she sits in the hard sunlight looking for all the world like a glass of stale beer and a short, thick Chesterfield. "Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled-down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cokies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them" Raymond Chandler, The High Window |
I came across this interesting building on north Figueroa street.
http://imageshack.us/a/img600/1282/a...ter3236nfi.jpg gsv After a little research I found out this building was the 963 seat Arroyo Theater, 3236 N. Figueroa St. detail http://imageshack.us/a/img687/710/aa...heater3236.jpg gsv There have been some recent improvements (compared to what it looked like several years ago) 2010 http://imageshack.us/a/img811/5257/a...tertodayci.jpg http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3480 2010 http://imageshack.us/a/img705/3875/a...tert2cinem.jpg http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3480 I haven't been able to find a photograph when it was the Arroyo Theater. Even 'Cinema Treasures' lacks one. :( __ |
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126 Garland Avenue, May 29, 1980
http://imageshack.us/a/img15/2261/aa...andavebyjo.jpg John Humble http://library24.library.cornell.edu...~12~12&os=5400 Anyone know this apartment building? __ |
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Downtown Los Angeles from the 600 block of Bixel Street, Feb. 8 1980
http://imageshack.us/a/img580/7093/a...detailhuge.jpg John Humble http://library24.library.cornell.edu...=5409&trs=5525 I wonder what the Jaguar is doing there? (or is it a Rolls?) __ |
The Colonial House, Leland Bryant (1930)
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Paramount/Youtube This part of W Hollywood, like many neighborhoods, has a particular look. The closeness and configuration of the hills in the view above was another clue. I first searched a block down from the Voltaire/Granville and, when it wasn't there, tried a block west, where I found it right away (I wish every mystery building was so easy to find). I should have looked to begin with instead of bugging you guys about it. I'm totally on board with Irving Gill's search for a regional architecture, but Bryant's fantasy-historic buildings are so gracious, generous and beautifully-appointed that I fall for them every time in spite of myself: Condo interior, The Colonial House (1930): https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H...24551%2BPM.jpg http://www.toplacondos.com/condo/bui...det.php?id=397 Quote:
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The extraordinary details of the Temple Block.
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