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Here's a fun find.
Original 35mm film slide. Subject: Scene in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Date: early 1940s Mount/Film Type: Kodachrome film, remounted from glass mount to plastic mount. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/xpzl74.jpg ebay It's none other than the Lugo House! _ |
This is pretty cool too.
ca. 1920's original small antique glass slide stereoview (positive photo on glass plate) by photographer Walter S. Cotton. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/BDXZxV.jpg ebay View of Main Street taken from the Los Angeles Plaza across the street showing vintage automobiles, the Old Plaza Church & the Azteca Jewelery Store. The glass stereoview is hand written; "By W.S. Cotton" with some photographic information as well. a closer look. Busy place! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/InDCd4.jpg Walter S. Cotton was a member of the International Photograph Association and was also the Secretary of the American Branch of the Stereoscopic Society. |
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...we've all seen it, but I cannot resist linking Julius Schulman's iconic photo of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22, as it does't seem to have come up in all the great photos posted. |
Not Wanted (1949)
Actress Ida Lupino co-wrote and co-produced Not Wanted. She also directed most of the picture
after its credited director, Elmer Clifton, had a heart attack shortly after filming began. Several of the film's scenes were shot in locations that will be familiar to many NLA readers. Other locations, some shown below, might be recognized by a smaller circle of noirishers. The film, about "the woeful problems of a young unwed mother," stars Sally Forrest (in her debut), Keefe Brasselle, and Leo Penn (Sean and Chris's dad). Here's Sally Kelton (Forrest) at the end of the opening credits, walking up the north side of 2nd Street toward Olive, with Hill Street below in the background: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original All screencaps by me Sally notices an unattended baby in a stroller at the bottom of The Argyle. She picks up the baby and starts to walk off with it, which causes the baby's mother to shriek with fright: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original This is an undated but late photo of The Argyle at 2nd and Olive. I think the pole with the red and white parking sign at the bottom center of the photo is the same one that is to Sally's right where she's holding the baby in the screencap above: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original 411241 at Huntington Digital Library Anyway, the mother's shriek gets the attention of a cop across the street in front of the Hotel Northern: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original Quote:
Sally is arrested for kidnapping the baby. As she sits in a holding cell, the film flashes back to what brought her to the cell. At age 18 or 19, Sally is tired of living with her bickering parents. She meets lounge piano player Steve Ryan (Penn). After spending some time together they go to what I'm pretty sure is Fern Dell in Griffith Park (there is a lot of day-for-night shooting in this film): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original They kiss, and he flicks away his cigarette, which flows down the creek. This is followed by a shot of Sally's mother, lying on her tear-stained pillow at 4:43 a.m. After Steve leaves town for a gig in Capital City, Sally surprises him by following him there. On the bus to Capital City she meets Drew Baxter (Brasselle), who works at a Capital City "gaseteria" on a street that has lamps just like those on Wilshire Boulevard: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original Drew helps Sally get a room in a rooming house and a job at the gaseteria. Sally keeps pursuing Steve, who finally tells her in no uncertain terms that they have no future together. Drew, however, very much wants to have a future with Sally, and she soon feels the same way about Drew. But right after their first kiss, she passes out. When the doctor examines her, she finds out she is pregnant with Steve's baby. Scared and confused and without telling Drew, she leaves her Capital City boarding house, which looks like it may have been on Bunker Hill somewhere: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original Sally takes a bus to Watertown. Here she's sitting in Watertown, above 1st and Hill and with the LA Times building in the background: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original While wandering around tired and weak, Sally sees a church across the street . . . http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original . . . and collapses in front of it: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original Sally next goes to the hospital for unwed mothers. While there, Sally writes to her Capital City landlady, who passes along Sally's address to Drew. He travels to Watertown, finds the address, learns the truth about Sally, and leaves broken-hearted. Sally has her baby and gives it up for adoption, but she soon regrets her decision. In her heartache, she picks up the baby out of the stroller at the bottom of The Argyle, and we return to the present. Sally meets with the Assistant District Attorney and the mother of the baby Sally was accused of kidnapping. Sally says she just wanted to hold the baby because it looked like the one she gave up. The baby's mother declines to press charges, and Sally goes free. As she walks out of the building after the meeting, who do you think is waiting for her? Yes, it's Drew! http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original But Sally feels shame and runs from Drew. Here she's running east down 1st Street toward Hill, with The Gladden at upper right: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original This is May 1955, about six years after Not Wanted was filmed: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original 408184 at Huntington Digital Library She eyes the stairs next to the Hill Street tunnels north of 1st Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original This looks south from the stairs. Sally has crossed 1st Street, and Drew has just stepped off the far curb. Because Drew lost a leg to a mortar shell in WWII, he has a hard time keeping up: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original Nonetheless, Drew is able to prevent Sally from throwing herself over the railing: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original But she gets away, and the chase continues up the rest of the stairs. That's the old 1st Street Police Station in back: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original The chase continues here, wherever this was: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original But we end up at the Cornfield Pedestrian Bridge (not the Taylor Yard -- Thanks Ed Workman): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original On account of his leg, Drew can't go much farther: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original So how does the movie end? A) Sally keeps running, again leaving broken-hearted Drew to return to the gaseteria. B) Drew tries to save Sally from jumping, but in the struggle they both fall from the bridge. C) Drew's bad leg causes him to lose balance and fall from the bridge. D) Sally comes to her senses, goes to Drew and embraces him. E) None of the above. See for yourself at YouTube! |
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Not Tayor Yard which is a mile or two north and east Paul Koehler told us the yards , now Cornfield Park, were, from the west Cornfield, The Links, Bullring - oops I think I forgot one, and just around the corner, Midway, now a Gold Line facility |
Cutting off the top: Don't do this to palm trees (unless you mean to cut down the rest in short order).
https://s26.postimg.org/n0zkg3um1/Arg_Palm.jpg detail from pic 3 in Flyingwedge's message 43665 |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TT...M=w420-h529-no gsv, 603 gillette Not all palms live forever (as Krell58 just pointed out): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/P6...Q=w552-h519-no gsv |
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"Not Wanted"
Absolutely bravura collection of screencaps & photos, Flyingwedge. Thanks.
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grocery store owner Michi Nishiyama [late 1940s?]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/yq6XIH.jpg 501 N. Mednik She is standing in front of her El Cento Grocery store. (everyone in the neighborhood called it Michi's :)) Behind her you can see a portion of the Maravilla Handball Court. The handball court was built brick-by-brick by East L.A. residents and completed in 1928. (with the El Centro Grocery attached in 1946) Starting in 1928 , the court was home to the men's-only Maravilla Handball Club. In the late 1940s, Michi and Tommy Nishiyama began operating the property following Michi's internment at a Japanese relocation camp. (Michi died in 2006) It is the oldest remaining handball court in the Los Angeles region. ____ 1970s? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/LwP2xy.jpg today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/lMFpN8.jpg gsv #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/uzX8dS.jpg The all brick handball court is locate on N. Mednik Ave. (at E. Hammel Street) ___ 'mystery' location. This pic is how I found out about the Maraville Handball Court in the first place. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/Rk9gE8.jpg amoeba blog Eric Brightwell at the amoeblog has it labeled "Maravilla Handball Court" with this brief description... "In 1923, East Los Angeles neighborhood started the Maravilla Handball club." So my question is- where was this photograph taken? re: buildings in the background :previous: The only building(s) that come close is the Maier & Zobelein Brewery but it wasn't anywhere near the Maravilla area. (I guess the pic could be the Maravilla handball team at an away game) as a reminder...here's the brewery http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/20n38O.jpg Does anyone know what was across the street from the brewery? _ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...raigOilCo1.jpg The filling-station scenes in Not Wanted were filmed at the rather spectacular Craig Oil Company at the NWC of Wilshire and Highland (5001 Highland). It was built in 1946...our own HossC found this great place only a few months ago when he was doing his Julius Shulman series: Quote:
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Early Motion Picture Industry Souvenir
I recently found the program for the Picture Player Camera Men's Ball, which was held on January 16, 1914. The location
was Rutherford's Hall, but I couldn't determine where that was (probably downtown LA somewhere): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original HathiTrust At this time, the word cinematography had not yet come into widespread use. This is page 3 of the program: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original Hathitrust The advertisements are an interesting look at the early film industry in LA, like this one that shows the Bradbury Mansion at Hill and Court Streets: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original Hathitrust We also see state-of-the-art equipment: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original Hathitrust I know Thomas Ince and Mack Sennett weren't Nazis: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original Hathitrust Several stars took out ads, including Mary Pickford, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling, Sessue Hayakawa, Mabel Normand . . . and Charlie Chaplin: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original Hathitrust Have you ever heard of Harold Lockwood? He died of the Spanish Influenza at age 31 in 1918: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original Hathitrust Has anyone seen a film with Edna Maison? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original Hathitrust You may remember Hobart Bosworth as the Governor in Frank Capra's Lady for a Day (1933): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original Hathitrust In The Name Above the Title, Capra tells an anecdote about Bosworth during the filming of 1931's Dirigible. Supposedly at the South Pole, the actors' breath would not show. Capra got the idea to put dry ice in little wire cages and glue them to the roof of the actors' mouths. The actors' breath showed, but their words were unintelligible. Frustrated, Bosworth put the cube of dry ice directly on his tongue . . . and fell to the ground "groveling and screaming." Bosworth lost "three lower back teeth, two uppers, part of his jawbone, and much dead tissue." But his tongue was OK, and he resumed his acting career. There are also photos of members of Bosworth, Inc.'s staff. Among them is Elmer Clifton Harris, who, as Elmer Clifton, is credited as the Director of Not Wanted, the subject of my previous post (thanks Jeff and t2 -- and GW for IDing the gaseteria and Ed Workman for correcting the location of the bridge!): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original Hathitrust |
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