A noirish interlude from this theater's long life is the Ginevra Knight case, in which the 18-year-old assistant manager shot dead an attempted carjacker, coming home late one night from work. It was 1947, just months after the Black Dahlia murder. Folks were jumpy.
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Ginger's house at 1515 Courtney Avenue, then and now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...2520PM.bmp.jpg1947project https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View ...and, across the street, 1524 Courtney: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s...2520AM.bmp.jpg1947project https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View (This Ginger Knight was an interesting character... and a second cousin of Winston Churchill??) |
Up until the Depression, American restaurant menus in larger cities were fairly daring - lots of French preparations and terms. Then everything went bland. I don't know whether it was the economy or the coming of age of the "home ec" state of mind that held that food should be nourishing, not good to eat. From then until the 1960s, menus were dull as dishwater everywhere but in a few restaurants in some of the largest cities. Once people began to be interested in cooking again (God bless Julia Child!), it began to be more interesting to go out to eat. Nowadays, there's at least one decent restaurant in every town of any size at all in the country.
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Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel opens - 1930
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Los Angeles Times Now: http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8791/sepulveda.jpg Google Street View L.A. Times story here: http://framework.latimes.com/2012/01...-tunnel-opens/ http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/205...lopens1600.jpg Los Angeles Times Looks like the light fixtures (above) have disappeared http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg213...jpg&res=medium Google Street View http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg692...jpg&res=medium LAPL http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg190...jpg&res=medium Google Street View Wow! What did they do before this when the 405 backed up? :whatthefuck: |
Barker Brothers Warehouses and Factories
Built in 1906:
Located on Palmetto Street http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2492/barkerbros.jpg Google Street View A little more noirish photo from a few years ago: http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/884/warehouses.jpg http://you-are-here.com/downtown/warehouses.html |
Don't know when it happened, but congratulations on the thread going over 1 million views.:cheers:
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Since the old menus I posted were well received, here's another one from place that interests me greatly these days, and has been covered in several older posts here -- Mount Lowe, high above Pasadena. In preparation for a planned hike to Mount Lowe I've been researching like mad and have found a lot of neat stuff.
The more I study Mt. Lowe and Echo Mountain, the more I'm amazed by the ruggedness of the terrain, the technical challenges that were overcome, and all the things that one could see and do up there, both then and now. There are a number of web sites that nicely document the place. I hope to get some "Now" photos of whatever remains when I go up there in a couple of weeks. The menu is from 1896, other items are from the early 1900's. http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/albu...untainMenu.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/alb...ainMenu?full=1 http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/albu...inHouseMen.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/alb...ouseMen?full=1 http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/albu...inHouseMen.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/alb...ouseMen?full=1 http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/album02/postcard_A.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/alb...tcard_A?full=1 http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/albu...stcard_BBB.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/alb...ard_BBB?full=1 http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/album02/postcard_BB.jpg The Rubio Pavillion, at the base of the cable car incline below Echo Mountain http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/alb...card_BB?full=1 http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/Adve..._Pacific_E.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/Adv...cific_E?full=1 http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/Adve...on_Mt_Lowe.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/Adv...cific_E?full=1 |
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And then, Fred H, there are your shots of the Sepulveda tunnel and of the Barker Bros warehouse-- what's better than finding ghost signs? https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-a...barkerfull.jpgLAPL 1923 |
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The pitched roof building beneath was a dining room and dance hall. At the top of the incline, besides the wheelhouse, was the Echo Mountain House, a Victorian 70 room hotel. This was the place where you boarded a trolley car for the incredible 4 or 4 mile journey to Mt. Lowe. The attractions up there included four hotels, a petting zoo, miniature golf, a bowling alley, billiards, tennis courts, the world's biggest searchlight, an observatory, and horseback riding. |
Imagine how hard it was to build all of those places up the mountain? It's amazing. Not much to see up there now though. I've hiked around there (during my "looking for stuff from the movie "The Body Snatchers" phase).
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The Two Jakes...
A pretty dull sequel to Chinatown, unless, I suppose, you're into the L.A. scenery as we are. Aside from Jack Nicholson, Eli Wallach and maybe Harvey Keitel, the acting is atrocious. Meg Tilly and Madeleine Stowe couldn't act their ways out of shoeboxes--aside from neither being anywhere near the actor or having anywhere near the beauty or charisma of Faye Dunaway in her heyday, they give truly terrible performances... (or was Nicholson's direction not so hot?) Anyway, the storyline itself is pretty good, with ties to the Mulwrays... and there are some visual treats. One is Jake Gittes's office, part of the well-known streamline Winne & Sutch complex on South Soto Street:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-m...4%252520PM.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...4%252520PM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N...4%252520PM.jpg The lobby of the Gittes Investigations building appears to be the actual original lobby of 5608 S Soto...the camera tracks right behind Nicholson as he enters. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View The "G.I. Building" today at left, with the main Winne & Sutch building to the right. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View Looking north on Soto: The oil derrick in the first screenshot may have been real, or may have been a prop....anyway, it's gone now. Note the border between Huntington Park and Vernon, as indicated in paint at the change in surface of the street. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...2520PM.bmp.jpg Easy: Dinner on me at Leon & Freddie's if you can identify this floor. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...5%252520PM.jpgGoogle Street View A good exterior of Max Factor, and excellent shots of the interior. Has the Hollywood Museum now there preserved the individual Blonde, Brunette, and Redhead treatment rooms? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520PM.bmp.jpg Actor Allan Warnick reprises his roll as dyspeptic city beaureaucrat Mulford P. Rippey.... (The IMDB has his character as Manfred P. Rippey, but his desk plaque clearly says Mulford...as you can see, I'm going for the anality award today....) Pics beside Google Street Views from Paramount Pictures Edit... it's written everywhere as "Winnie & Sutch"-- I've discovered that it's WINNE & Sutch, which was a wholesale dry-goods concern. |
chinatown floor question
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(originally posted by 3940dxer) http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/albu...inHouseMen.jpg http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/alb...ouseMen?full=1 These old menus are so interesting. This one is about 116 years old and it has the same type of descriptions of the dishes that you would see in a good restaurant today (or so I am told). There is a real art to making ordinary food sound extraordinary. However, you can put any glace you want on a beef tongue and its still going out to the dogs. Sorry. :slob: |
Hild's Cafe, 5515 Hollywood Blvd. (just west of Western), 1920
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