That's Jayne Marie Mansfield with her mother. The child was born 8 November 1950 and is the older half-sister of Mariska Magdolna Hargitay.

Mariska, then 49, and Jayne Marie on 8 November 2013, Jayne Marie's 63rd birthday:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Y...0%252520AM.jpg
getty images

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Thx HossC for sorting out Larchmont/Lucerne

I believe those nets are to keep flies off of the horses.

Yes, you're correct M_R.

I had Calvary Cemetery on my mind (now the site of Cathedral High School's football field)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/celLXt.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=76857



originally posted by tovanger2
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/0KBWIB.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12259

:previous: I had forgotten all about that reservoir. Have we discussed it?
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Numerous large photographs of the old Calvary Cemetery here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12214


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Originally posted by BifRayRock

1935 - Standard (Chevron) Station, 3063 Crenshaw. (Still there) R.H. Malone, across the street at 3046 Crenshaw.
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...n.jpg~originalUSCDigital


I found the airline on the boom interesting. I was not aware of such a contraption. In the early '80s I worked at a Chevron Station in El Porto, on the edge of El Segundo. It had a great ocean view.
This is it when it first opened in about 1960

My photo
http://i.imgur.com/Yfl6jId.jpg?1

It is also still there although the prices have gone up a bit
GSV
http://i.imgur.com/KRHnpYT.png?1

:previous: I really like that before & after of the service station Bristolian.



Here's an interesting snapshot.

A wagon/carriage with a giant white pipe advertising John's Pipe Shop, 524 So. Spring Street. (or is it 324?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/PKv2wi.jpg
eBay




reverse
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/eVeb3J.jpg

:previous: I'm unable to read what's written below Los Angeles. (is it Russian?)
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Here's the link to the photograph.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-JOHN...4AAOxy63FS5IMH



detail / carriage driver
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/U1hvYf.jpg


close-up / address
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/zpuZk2.jpg
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:previous:

Here's John's Pipe Shop at 524 S Spring Street in 1939. Scanning the CDs, the first appearance of the store is 1913, and it was still at the same address is 1973. There's also a John's Pipe Shop at 6765 Hollywood Boulevard in the more recent CDs, but I don't know if it's connected.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
Detail of picture in USC Digital Library

This is the full picture.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...ps6hoednjw.jpg

My bad. But the photo is nice. And the joke still works.

Sorry for the confusion.

:previous: It's definitely the best photograph of Jayne Mansfield in my opinion. I'm glad you posted it.
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Hoss, thanks for locating the photograph of John's Pipe Shop. I wonder where he parked his BIG ol' white pipe?

:previous: Very interesting info. oldstuff.

Here's 940 S. Figueroa today.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/guwesY.jpg
gsv



I found this noirish item while searching for old photographs of the place.*

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/8KEzfs.jpg
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/1...216d183a00abde











* Yup...it's fake. (it fooled me too ;))

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By sheer coincidence, I happened across this rare postcard a few days ago on eBay.

I thought Caroline might be one of the women in this hot air balloon.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/VoVwpZ.jpg
eBay



"The Votes for Women Club." Members campaigning at Luna Park, 4th of July, Los Angeles Cali. just before going up in balloon."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/eugY6d.jpg

#1 Mrs. Bryan, Friday Morning Club
#2 Miss Mary Foy
#3 Mrs. Reitz, Political Equality Club
#4 Mrs. Lafferty of Denver(?)
#5 Mrs. Clara Foltz, Pres. Votes for Women
#6 Mrs. Ruddy, Pres. California Press Club

left border: "Organizations of Suffrage Clubs"

right side: "The women of Cali are making a great campaign. I think they will win."
-Alma(?) V. Lafferty.
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Enlarged so you can see the corresponding numbers.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/Q2xckF.jpg
detail


Asking $299.95 on eBay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-SUFFRAG...EAAOSwp5JWXOcL
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Did someone say "Luna Park"?

Luna Park opened in 1911 and closed in 1912.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...4%252520PM.jpg
westland


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The photo is wonderful (and I laughed at the joke), I just wanted Jayne Marie to get credit. I was struck how much the newer photo of Jayne Marie looked like her childhood self.

Thx for the post.

A couple of screenshots from this short film give a sense of the traffic on and demographics of San Pedro Street down toward Imperial Highway in 1938....

• Video Link


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520PM.bmp.jpg


A few of the buildings still stand, if not Roth's Market...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...2520PM.bmp.jpg

El Porto
 

I know that station :-) It's actually in El Segundo on the edge of El Porto.

El Porto (Spanglish or Engliguese for The Port I guess) is just 34 acres and runs N/S between 38th and 45th, with the Pacific and the refinery forming it's other two borders. The streets are numbered, but the alleys have names. Unincorporated county land until 1980 (when it was annexed by Manhattan Beach), it was noir central for the South Bay. The Sheriff's Dept didn't bother patrolling much, b/c who was gonna drive all the way down there for such a tiny patch?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...6%252520PM.jpg
google maps

Anyway, when I was a kid the words "El Porto" could strike terror in a mother's heart. It was supposed to be the vilest den of iniquity ever, where "nice girls" (and boys) never went. I'm told it still has kind of a shady rep.

Billy Haines and Jimmy Shields summered in El Porto for years, a safe place to hold parties and flaunt convention. Safe until 1936 when, it was said, Jimmy got in some trouble that was too much even for El Porto, or maybe it was just used as an excuse to get rid of the Wisecracker.

I learned about prostitution, under-aged drinking, drugs of bewildering variety, gambling, "unnatural behaviors" and even white-slavers from repeated warnings against El Porto. What a bunch of hysteria.

Thanks TOV.....anyone know the address....maybe this Friday? :D:D:

Good stuff Tovanger. I know the gas station is technically in El Segundo, the street address is Vista del Mar, not Highland but it in spirit, it's part of El Porto.
I believe in it's L.A. County days El Porto was home to several strip clubs. The owner of the gas station told me that Charles Manson used to stay in El Porto and stopped in once or twice.

The charming Russian who is looking over my shoulder ATM says it looks like it was written by someone whose Russian is not their first language, but he can make out,

"Pipe - ??? and horse"


Sorry, that wasn't much help was it? I thought maybe it was the launch codes.

Rear view of the Brown Derby on Wilshire.
 

Have we seen this angle of the first Brown Derby restaurant on Wilshire? When I saw this rear view, my first thought was oh-so-typically Angeleno: “They had all this land behind them and they didn’t turn it into a parking lot???” And we can see the Ambassador Hotel peeking out from behind the streets on the right of the photo.

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...shire-Blvd.jpg

While the photo does not say if Mrs. Severance was in attendance for the balloon launch it does have a picture of Miss Mary Foy, # 2 in the picture. She was born in 1882 and died in 1962. She was Los Angeles' first woman librarian, and a suffragist. The home where she was born, grew up and lived throughout her life was Foy House, first at Seventh and Fig, then at 631-633 S. Witmer and finally ending up in Angeleno Heights at 1337 Carroll Avenue, where it stands today. It is the house where "Charmed" was filmed.

Mrs. Severance would have been 91 at the time of the Balloon Event and probably was not there. She did go to the polls to vote in the 1912 election after all her suffragist work in the years before.

In looking at the two pictures, the women in the carriage and the women in the balloon, it appears that the woman who I took to possibly be Mrs. Severance was, in probability, Mary Foy. She was active in various women's activities in Los Angeles and lived to be 99 years old.

Also in the Balloon picture is #5 Clara Foltz (1839-1934) After her husband deserted her and her five children in 1876 she began studying law and became the first woman attorney on the West Coast. When she wanted to take the California Bar exam, the law only allowed white males to take the exam. She authored a bill in the state assembly to change the wording of the law to "Persons", thus allowing women to become attorneys. The current Los Angeles' Criminal Courts building is named for her. She pioneered the idea of public defenders and was also very active in suffrage causes.

The listing also adds "Mrs. Lafferty of Denver". Alma V. Short Lafferty was another woman who was very active in suffrage.

The hot air balloon event took place in 1911, working up to getting the suffrage amendment on the ballot that year. (it was passed in 1911)

:previous: EXCELLENT information oldstuff. I knew you'd come through. :)



Here's the first Friday Morning Club at 940 S. Figueroa, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1900. (perhaps we've seen this before on NLA) -if so, it deserves a second look.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/EWCwbN.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/3029/rec/4