'mystery' location

Feb. 23, 1940

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Does anyone recognize this street corner?



info. on reverse

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for search purposes:
Laraine Day / Mary Howard / MGM players

I've got an apartment complex from Julius Shulman today. It's "Job 6126: Kamnitzer and Cotton, mountain shadows (West Covina, Calif.), 1983". Here's a selection.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

I assume that this was a community hall.

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

The upstairs apartments have external stairs.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

I'm not sure why the area in the middle was walled off.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

An apartment interior.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

I couldn't ignore this last image because I played a lot Pac-Man in 1983 - I even had the watch. I'm sure that one of my friends had a Donkey Kong game like the one on the left.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

The entrance now has higher fences and has lost its lights. Apart from that, the Mountain Shadows Apartments at 2775 Valley Boulevard, West Covina don't seem to have changed much.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
GSV

For those who haven't checked the link, the Santa Monica aerial is very dark. With a bit of tweaking, it becomes usable (if not perfect).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
images.google.com

I tried to match the view with Google Maps.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
Google Maps

:)

Sunset and Doheny. (?) Each actress has her own Wiki page.

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/5bd74aea7a59562d_large http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=35807


In the background is the former Doheny Courtyard Apts. previously seen on NLA.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098565.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098565.jpg

Never went there. Too fancy for me and probably gone by the time I was old enough to wear their clothes

Thanks Tourmaline.

I see the map man added a Micky Mouse to the top of sign. (it's missing in my 1940 pic)
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Star Map 'mystery' location #2

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/CrDf6e.jpg
https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ollywood#img-3

Anyone recognize this spot?

I just happened upon this amazing photograph quite by accident.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/wKrOve.jpg
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/king-kong

The only information included with the photograph was "King Kong set, 1933"

I'm guessing this was taken at RKO.

(although they filmed the island scene with the giant wall in Culver City)

Kamnitzer and Cotton
 

Thx Hoss. Kamnitzer and Cotton also did the Promenade Towers at 123 S Fig:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/x_...g=w797-h338-no
seeing-stars/"fight club" (1999)

The Home Savings Tower (now BofA) at 7th & Fig (across Lebanon St from the Fine Arts Building) together w/ AC Martin & Associates. "A Marriage of Art and Achitecture":
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7w...w=w532-h580-no
gsv

And, in association with other firms, the unfortunate, to my eyes, California Plaza, Omni Hotel, Museum Tower complex up on Bunker Hill, where the Angels Flight ticket office sits on a little shelf. Shown here during Operation Latte Thunder: "We were supposed ta destroy a piece of corporate art and trash a franchise coffee bar":
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Yl...Q=w902-h383-no
seeing-stars.com/"Fight Club" (1999)

Not exactly what you're after, I'm afraid, but still a bit of the puzzle...


https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2828/1...dc0c11bc_o.jpgLooking south on Olive Street from the Palace Hotel, ca.1915


Once again shot from the roof of the Palace Hotel (ne Kellogg) at 317 S. Olive, this time looking south over the Ems which is just out of frame at the bottom right. First roof line at the bottom right with the little railing is the Olive Inn and next to it the conical turret of the Hotel Ogden can be seen although the actual building is hidden behind the Olive, then the unadorned Van Winkle. Then the huge Fremont Hotel on the southwest corner of Olive and 4th with the unmatched rooftop turrets on the right edge and beyond it the more modest Hotel Trenton at 427 S. Olive. On the left or east side of the street we can see the rounded roof line of the auditorium and just this side of it is the three story Hotel Munn (with the matching pyramidal turrets) which will be lost with the coming construction of the P&E subway terminal building. Right now the open area just this side of the Munn is the open air subway terminal yard. The 11 story Wright & Callender Building is seen at S. Hill and 4th Street and tucked in beside it (coming up 4th Street) is the roof of the Hotel Sheldon, an unidentified peaked roof building and then the Mumford with its distinctive twin peaks. All three of these are partially hidden behind the Wales (1909 birdseye) or the Bailey (1910 Baist) which sits at 348 S. Olive. If you look very closely at the right edge of the Wales/Bailey you can pick out a couple of little balconies next door. These belong to The Porches (apartment/hotel) at 350 S. Olive.

I was just looking at a similar image.:)

At least one source claims that the Kong-on-Wheels appeared at Graumans.
https://onset.shotonwhat.com/p/pix/m...1900002570.jpghttps://onset.shotonwhat.com/p/pix/m...1900002570.jpg


This pic in front of the Fox Pomona Theater supports the idea that Kong (or his miniature) got around.
http://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-2.jpghttp://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-2.jpg http://www.insidesocal.com/davidallen/2013/03/page/2/

Radium!
 

Try it "at their risk", huh?

Kurt Hutton
 

Thank you so much MR. That's exactly what I was after, the little corner house. You've found one showing the front, a nice match with the one FW found.


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I don't know where it is, but is't that a Richfield station design marked "Shell" here? Massive neo-classical building in the background. The photo is a Kurt Hutton (1893-1960). Getty has many of his great images filed under "Hollywood" and "Movie Stars". Worth a look.

Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) being fascinating at Cannes, 1954:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YY...w=w814-h416-no
getty/kurt hutton

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psbc2gbyxc.jpg
https://marketinginsidergroup.com/st...ing-campaigns/

Try it! You'll like it!

Tourmaline, I see they left Kong on the truck bed.


Originally posted by Tourmaline
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/RBOgfV.jpg
http://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-2.jpg

Is the cab there too?




I ask because it doesn't look like the cab detaches. (it would only have two wheels. :))

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/wKrOve.jpg
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/king-kong

:shrug:

Looking at those hard rubber wheels/tires its a wonder how the prop withstood that long and bumpy trip to Pomona. Although Kong mostly involved models and stop animation, could this prop have actually been used in the original Kong and some of its progeny, e.g., Mighty Joe Young? Curious about it's composition. Some sources mention rabbit fur, others go so far as to mention bear fur. I don't thinks synthetics were available.

I vaguely recall hearing about Willis O'Brien's special effects, some of which were kept from the public as would-be industry secrets, that weren't too secret. :shrug: http://www.animateclay.com/index.php...o-created-kong



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Torso on blocks?
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...226eba9844.jpghttp://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...226eba9844.jpg




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http://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-1.jpghttp://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-1.jpg



http://ci.i.uol.com.br/cinema/2011/0...6_1024x768.jpghttp://ci.i.uol.com.br/cinema/2011/0...6_1024x768.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10191



1961 - http://jpg1.lapl.org/00127/00127567.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00127/00127567.jpg




Would have made a nice addition to Monkey Island.
1986 Universal Studios
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077816.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077816.jpg

Maybe Mickey post-dated your picture?

A possible clue/clew is the fact that the light colored barn like structure to the right reads "Hollywood La Brea . . ."

Update on the Guardian Arms Apartments / William Douglas Lee
 

There's been a successful ground-floor facade restoration to William Douglas Lee's Guardian Arms Hotel and Apartments building at 5217 Hollywood Blvd next to the El Adobe Market and Studio building and just a block south of Laughlin Park. Good news for those of us interested in such things:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/M_...A=w812-h485-no
omgivning

Built in 1927 for $270K for Guardian Holdings. Two roof signs followed in 1931, but have since vanished. The building has very pretty vertical rows of bowed, casement windows with multi-paned, metal frames. It's built in a "U"-shape with the palm-filled light-well facing east. There's even a pair of cartouches for e_r (as he probably already noticed). A very pretty building.

Lee is best known for El Royale (also 1927) and Chateau Marmont (1929) plus the great cache of DTLA buildings done with Florence Casler.

Sometime back in the 50s or 60s, when the east end of Hollywood was becoming Bukowski country, the then-owners elected to "modernize" the retail level. Starting in 2013, permits for restoration work have been pulled to bring the structure back into line.

What it had become:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pD...=w1006-h467-no
gsv

Pulling the stucco off to reveal the seven original arches, incredibly still there:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4b...Q=w986-h520-no
gsv

Done:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Mn...g=w773-h561-no
gsv

Unfortunately no one seems to know how to furnish the lobbies of these grand, old buildings (with the exception of me and CBD of course), but otherwise the Guardian Arms is looking good, if not quite what it was when new:



Omgivning's project page for the Guardian Arms

Guardian Arms website.

I hope someone invests some money in Arthur Kelly's 1928 El Adobe next.

:previous: It's great to see those arches again t2.



Original slide showing a rain soaked, mud filled Hollywood Blvd. in 1962. (does anyone remember a storm around that time?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/oMqZej.jpg
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The Pix Theater was built as the 'Music Box' in 1926. It became the 'Fox West Coast' in 1945 after a streamline moderne remodel.




You can see the PIX Theater marquee in action by watching this brief 57 sec.video.

(WARNING: it might induce epileptic seizures)
• Video Link

I'm not sure who the guy is having car trouble.

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If you liked that video, you'll no doubt like this one as well.

It's 5:24 minutes. (there's a narrator so be sure to have your sound turned up)

• Video Link

There's a brief glimpse of a Coffee Dan's and something called the 'Haunted House'. (among others)


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