Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 6961782)

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/...697ac6bc_o.pngIntersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932

Interesting series by Dick Whittington concentrating on just the one intersection, here looking east on Temple Street with the Hall of Justice on the left and the County Courthouse on the right just beyond the Owl Drug store. The Acme semaphore sitting over here on the right curb is interesting in it's placement with it and the corresponding painted auto limit line both well short of the intersection allowing for the turning radius of the streetcar tracks. The fact that the Acme is showing neither the 'stop' nor the 'go' arm means either Whittington hit the shutter at exactly the moment they were both folded into the light body or the exposure was taken early enough in the morning (probably by 7 am) before the semaphores were again operating for the day, being turned off around 9 pm when the 'red' and 'green' lights would suffice until being turned off themselves around midnight (or 1 am) when the little light seen at the base of the light body would then be turned on as a flasher. At intersections where both intersecting streets were relatively major roadways the little light would flash red indicating a boulevard stop for all cars. In the case of an Acme controlled intersection of a major roadway being crossed by a secondary road the little button light would show red for the smaller street and simply yellow/amber (or slow-down caution) for the bigger roadway. The Bank of Italy/International Bank Building stands out down the street with the squat old post office just to its left.

USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6961817)

:previous: Toumaline, your bottom photo is missing. _

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6961700)

Interesting. In revisiting some of my missing posts, including one I posted on yellow on blue signage http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24558, I also noticed your prior post with part of an impressive "street" related collection, including many examples of call/signal boxes. Bravo! http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24560

I vaguely recall watching what may have been a rehab of an old E. Hollywood home, the address of which has been long forgotten. Workers were removing all kinds of remnants, including striped posts. In retrospect, I am guessing they may have been once intended/used to support street signs pictured so many times on NLA.


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I alluded to this previously, but the more I think of it, this was where I may have seen one or two porcelain / enameled street signs with yellow lettering (rather than white) on a dark blue field. I mentioned this to someone who has long since passed and he said he remembered the colored signs, because they reminded him of the UMichigan colors (darker than UCLA's). Still, I can't seem to locate any photographic evidence of their existence. In my mind's eye the signs were too solid to have been props and they bore local LA Street names. Do you or anyone else recall (or have examples of) blue shotgun-style street signs bearing yellow (not off-white) lettering?






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Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham (Post 6961882)

i have never seen a blue with yellow lettering street sign in L.A., maybe it was in a bordering city that had it. I have seen street signs as far back as wood ones and they have been blue and white. The stripped post you mention were very common even to the 50's. They were not alone many signal poles had stripes also. I have seen a promotional photo (?) showing a spotted post with a lady in a spotted dress next to it.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6961998)

I've had this photograph in a file of mine for quite some time. Could one of you rail-fans tell me what's going on?
There appears to be a gap between the street-car and the tracks nearer the camera.

Whatever they're doing, I hope they pick up some of that litter. ;)

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6961817)

t2, I had no idea about the loss of A.C. Martin's Oswald Barlett house.
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5569286)

And here's a new (to me) shot of the Eltinge house (the house with a 'little something extra'):

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Books

It was designed by Pierpont with his brother and partner Walter, and we've seen it before... http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1212

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 6961050)

To the right of "Fiesta Nights" is Bob Hope. Just to the right of Bob is one of several photos of Desi Arnaz; I can't tell if that's Lucille Ball next to him, but she's in the photo just to the
right of the lower left corner.

To the right of "Join the Celebrities" is I believe a young Fernando Lamas. Below and to the right from him are Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, perhaps flanking the owner,
who appears in several of these shots. I think Van Heflin is right under Robert Taylor. Carmen Miranda is there, too, just to the right of center, one row up from the bottom.

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I also noticed photos missing from the two posts you mentioned, but now after each post was edited I can see the photos.

However, three photos hotlinked to this post have also gone missing ("one of the attractive servers," "garden," and "flower shop"): http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27090

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 6962400)

Here are several of the posts at NLA about female impersonator Julian Eltinge:

[snip]

Are those lamps on either side of the fireplace?
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original

There are more interior and exterior photos with the article @ HathiTrust: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=102

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6962925)

Here's the amazing scene where Humphrey Bogart first meets 'Carmen Sternwood'.

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It's fairly common knowledge that Martha Vicker's best scenes were left on the cutting room floor.
The studio wanted to promote Lauren Bacall, who was married to Bogart by the time the film was released.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6962925)

...It's fairly common knowledge that Martha Vicker's best scenes were left on the cutting room floor...
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