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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BI...eUA=w1366-h768

LAT 3-19-56

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Kt...Auw=w1366-h768


Joan also on the floor and in shoes similar to Dorothy Sullivan's, but a little more alive.... I guess the poodle softens the combination of her trademark butch shoes, bushy eyebrows, and hard jaw a little bit.... Apparently taken before L.B. fired her and she made her screen comeback hustling pies and chickens ("everything that smells of grease")....

Joan Crawford
 

This (probably airbrushed but nevertheless glamorous)shot of Joan is from around 1952, probably during filming of "Torch Song," many years after LB Mayer and Mildred Pierce days. Joan returned to MGM for this one picture, and it was pretty successful. That's her poodle "Cliquot."

:previous: Isn't 'Torch Song' the one where she does a musical number in Black Face?

High School kids
 

Hi Ethereal:


LOVE the photos, but they are from the mid 40's, not 50's, I'd guestimate 1944/45. The girl's hairstyles, clothes (short skirts), and shoes (saddle shoes, penny loafers, ankle strap pumps etc.) are all typical of the late WW2 period. No high-school girl of the 50's would've been caught dead at school in high-heeled pumps & shoulder pads. Good-looking kids.

Yep-- not to be believed.


http://moviemorlocks.com/wp-content/...ctorchsong.jpg

:previous: YIKES!


Somewhere along the line I got the impression that Qvale & Associates designed the Norwegian Seamen's Church in San Pedro.
(but now that I'm finally doing a post, I can't find the info. again)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/KOdmA4.jpg
ebay



Looks pretty much the same today.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/lSUPMt.jpg
gsv

Ah humbug, I just noticed the upper 'balcony' has been enclosed :(....................:previous:




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detail





A look inside the sanctuary.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/clDCGU.jpg
https://californiacruizin.wordpress....gian&submit=Go



Hanging from the rafters is this 'votive ship'.( it's in the above photo as well....

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/PXquA0.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater


"A votive ship, sometimes called a church ship, is a ship model displayed in a church. As a rule, votive ships are constructed and given as gifts
to the church by seamen and ship builders. Votive ships are relatively common in churches in the Scandinavian countries." -wiki




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update:

I was wrong about Ragnar Qvale; the Norwegian Seamen's Church was designed by architect Kemper Nomland.

"The Norwegian Seamen's Church (Den norske sjømannskirke) is a Norwegian Church Abroad that doubles as the Church of Sweden Los Angeles
(Svenska kyrkan Los Angeles), also known as the Swedish Seamen's Church. It is located in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles, California and is also part
of the Church of Sweden Abroad (Svenska kyrkan i utlandet). A print on the wall of the lounge area shows an architectural painting indicating Kemper Nomland
as the architect.

The Norwegian church was founded by Elbjørg Amundsen Baardsen and her husband Sig. The church moved to its present location at 1035 South Beacon Street in 1951.
The building cost $80,000 to complete."




Here's a better example of Kemper Nomland's work.

Case Study House #10 in Pasadena, 1947.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/oMBAMU.jpg
https://wikiarquitectura.com/es/imag...2%BA_10_16.jpg



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/aO7kj6.jpg

:previous: I really like this space, especially the fireplace.



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/Vokns5.jpg
https://es.wikiarquitectura.com/imag...2%BA_10_21.jpg


We've seen Kemper Nomland once before on NLA.

HossC's Shulman post on a Kemper Nomland building (Southern California Gas Co. Plant) in Bellflower.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=38257

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CityBoyDoug, do you think the following two photos could be of Mr. Barbuto and his monkey?


"monkey, Los Angeles [no date]"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/iTsIOH.jpg
old file / ebay?

I'm not sure what hotel that is in the background.







"money with children, Los Angeles [no date]"
imageshack problems / I'll upload it again once they're back online
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/ngRjR4.jpg
old file / possibly ebay




Can anyone tell me what's in the boy's hand (is it some sort of 1940s toy?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/sOs3en.jpg
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:previous: The little girl's white watch has peaked my curiosity as well. (it reminds me of a swatch from the 1980s ;))

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I beg pardon- But these more likely to being 3 metal bases of the older style light poles (what I recognize them to be)-- Just saying...

:previous: That's exactly what they are rickm. I was laughing at myself for thinking they were incinerators.

That's why I included the "lol" in my post.

Last night I mentioned not to go overboard with the boobs, and I took some grief for it today.


So as an apology, here's tonight's 'mystery' location.


"Man at bar, Los Angeles [no date]"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/0G25oa.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/nCOZuF.jpg
old file / ebay

Even the overhead lighting fixture looks like a BOOB.
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The only clue to the name of the bar is the calendar on the wall.



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/7BA35D.jpg

I found a Polaco or two listed in the city directories, but no Polaco's Place.

Of course the calendar could be from a different establishment.

:previous: I like that 'avocado' vase.

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Hurray for ER..... puts up 28 nudes boobs today...yeah. Boob are back....!!!!


Tempest Storm played on Main Street Los Angeles in 1954....
is that her real name?

Mystery location....Where did she play? Can you name the theater?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psqas9tzk7.jpg
graphic imageGetty

BTW, in the ER boob photo above, one of those ladies happens to be .......Marilyn Monroe.

Yes ER, I do believe that could be Barbuto.

I still feel sorry for that little monkey. A sad existence.

It's in the shape of an artichoke :-)

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It would be great if we could name them all, plus illustrators/photographer.



Follies, right? We had a lot of fun w/ it back in the thread. Here's one of my posts w/ a list of priors:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31003

Why that's a Georgia peach name of Annie Blanche Banks. She's commonly credited with performing at the Follies (which would connote the Belasco/Follies at 337 S Main), and she may have done so in one of 337's iterations as a strip joint, but after she became Tempest Storm in 1952 she's connected with the New Follies, in the Burbank/Burlesk at 548 S Main, which also became such in 1952.

http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads...03240301AR.jpgrogerebert

https://c5.staticflickr.com/1/384/32...a485d771_o.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/586/31...dd85f609_o.png

Here's a better shot of another performer beneath the marquee, to give a sense of its signage—

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/750/32...0acd44dc_o.pngburleskateer

:previous:

This one?

This is confusing me:

"In Los Angeles circa 1945 at age 17, Storm worked as a carhop waitress at Simon's Drive-In and then as a cocktail waitress, though still underage. A patron suggested she consider striptease as a profession, and arranged an audition with Follies Theater talent manager Lillian Hunt. Three weeks after being hired as a chorus dancer at $40 a week, Storm accepted a promotion to $60 as a stripper"
wiki

Did the Follies talent person hire Storm for the Burbank?

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Yes, the RB Young Burbank!

As to when she did what and where, confuses me too. I think the Wiki is probably correct, as it gives her birth year as 1928. I was going by what I read in the Ebert interview I linked to, which reads

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and in that account, it doesn't say what year she got to Los Angeles, just that she was 17 in 1952. If born in 1928, she was 24. Perhaps she was "selectively remembering" a little to her interviewer to shave a few years off her age?

So I imagine she worked at Simon's for a spell, but for six years till 1951? (Which is when she became active, according to wiki, and she took on her moniker after a week, according to the Ebert piece?) I'm still confused.

Just by way of noir reminder, tip your glass toward the Biltmore Hotel tonight, in remembrance of the final sighting of Elizabeth Short, seventy years ago.

Read today's post in Deranged LA Crimes.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Jw-Tjo-Xgp...bertmanley.jpg
Red Manley