24th and Juliet
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ODINTHOR Collection

Great looking group. (& your Mom is cute as a button)

Is that a thin wire running up that short 'pillar' (for lack of a better word) over on the right----->
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OK, I just zoomed in....I think it's a crack.

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detail / (crack is whack);)
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Oh, and here's the neighboring house across 24th St. facing Juliet.

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GSV

Note the interesting corner bay-windows on the second floor :previous:

You can see them in this odinthor pic as well.

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ODINTHOR Collection

It's too bad that massive palm is gone. :(

(and remind me again, who's the good looking dude in the glasses?)

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I'll end tonight's blogging with an ugly 'mystery' location.

This is another slide taken in Santa Monica in the 1980s.

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EBAY

Any guesses?

(oh..and thanks for locating the mystery street-corner FROM last night Hoss.
Do you think that clock on the roof was an original feature that they reproduced...
or just something they added out of the blue? :shrug:

So many mysteries so little time.

Goodnight noirishers

More Downtown Westchester
 

Rolling Hills Herald, October 22, 1948:

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CDNC


May 2017, SE corner of 87th Street and Sepulveda Eastway; the Mademoiselle building is now the Triangle Cleaners:

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GSV

The dude? Who's that babe in the stylish hat?

What a great callout graphic you made!

Your 1926 article mentions "the coming breakwater project." The only breakwater for yachts around that area and
time that I can think of was on the north side of the Santa Monica Pier, and from what I've read it was built in 1934.
Did the Crescent Bay YC exist until then? Was there another breakwater used by yachts that I've forgotten about?
Maybe the name of the club was changed before 1934 because the members had no place to anchor their yachts?

Thanks! That would have gotten an appreciative smile from her... :tup:

Either that, or the electrician had had a few too many for lunch that day (hic) . . .

Absolutely. It was a pretty good size for that kind of palm (Phoenix canariensis) in the 1930s. They're slow-growing, and if memory serves, they were introduced into California in the 1870s (I wasn't actually there in the 1870s. I was visiting a friend overseas). So either it managed to get planted there quite early after introduction (why there?), or someone paid a lot of denaro to have an old one moved, or for some reason the tree was very happy and grew unusually quickly.

Well done, e_r--you're thinking Acacia. Dagnabit, though, I can't get a good enough look at its leaves etc. to give a more specific answer.[/quote]

:cheers: You're making my family very happy: That's my Uncle Lloyd. So you see three of five siblings: My mother, aunt, and uncle. My other two uncles were too young to be traveling out to wicked So Cal, and were back on the farm in Nebraska. Likely further pix from this trip sent back home are scattered among all my cousins.

:) The touch of vanity that runs in my family is having a good day today... My mother enjoyed turning heads. And so do I. :runaway:

I agree, e_r: Yes, very cool, and I think they'd look contemporary and "in" these days. I'm sure I've seen that pattern before...so it must be good . . . ;) If they're based on anything real, it might be tobacco leaves.

My husband was a lineman and says they are telegraph poles

Glad you like the graphic, Flyingwedge! :P

Sadly, I know nothing about the breakwater situation, but the latest reference to the Crescent Bay Yacht Club that I could find appears in the Evening Outlook newspaper dated March 23, 1931. LINK

There may be later references, but heck if I can be sure - that Santa Monica Public Library archive is an absolute nightmare to navigate through!

(Only un-hide this next section if you want to see me ranting like a madman about how crummy the SMPL website is!)



Interesting, sadykadie2! Your husband my well be right - a telegraph would certainly seem to be more likely to appear in 1882 than a telephone line.

[QUOTE=Scott Charles;8093063]Thanks, ER - I’m really glad you like the photo!

I’m no expert sleuth like the rest of you folks here, but after I posted that photo the other day, I decided to try my best to find out ANYTHING about the Crescent Bay Yacht Club (I mean, Google literally has NOTHING on it).

While you were working on the yacht club, I saw a small column at the top of the page which mentioned an aviator, Leo Nomis, who had been found wandering in Death Valley. Since backstories on people is what I do, I checked on him and found that he was born in Iowa in 1889, served as a pilot in WWI and then stayed in the Los Angeles area after the war. His obituary lists him as a movie stunt pilot and in a 1921 directory he is listed as a "photoplayer". There is a fairly impressive list of movies he worked on.

More research shows that he was a flying instructor for Pancho Barnes among others. He was a charter member of Barnes' Stunt Pilots Union.

He is found at Clover Field (Santa Monica) in 1928 and a residence listed for him in 1930 is 6213 Airy Way. This is in the Hollywood Hills. That house appears to be still there, although large amounts of shrubbery conceal it from the street.

Coincidentally, as I work on a project that, um, I'm working on, I just ran across in my notes the following description of an 1855 property on Calle de los Negros, and thought it might be of interest to NLA:

July 7, 1855, published (Los Angeles Star): “A Desirable House for sale. The undersigned offers for sale his large and commodious House situated on the Calle de los Negros. Fronting on the street is a large saloon with a good bar and an excellent Billiard Table, and is considered one of the best stands in this city; adjoining is another large room furnished with counter, shelves and other fixtures, proper or convenient for a Store or Tavern all in good condition, and in good repair. In the interior is three sleeping rooms and a saloon, all floored with lumber; also a kitchen and a cellar and a fine corridor on the inside. The lot extends to Alameda street and has a zanja of water constantly running through the premises. Purchasers wishing to make a bargain will please call on the undersigned, where they can see the premises and learn its price. The sale to be in all cases for cash. Jose Vicente Guerrero.”

If it's the same lot which he had three years later, and which was to be auctioned by the Sheriff or non-payment of taxes, the starting bid for it for the auction was to be $2500 (Los Angeles Star, March 6, 1858). I should add that many of these to-be-auctioned properties were redeemed by their owners before they went under the hammer.

I don't remember finding any color Shulman images of Milliron's. If there are color images, and I leave them out, I normally mention it.

I've looked through dozens of aerial photos of the area around 101 Broadway to try and figure out the provenance of the clock. I think I can see the building on a 1928 aerial at UCSB, and there's no sign of the clock. As far as I can tell, the clock was added sometime in the '90s as a new feature.

So far, I've had no luck finding last night's mystery location :(.

Vehicle license plates, Santa Monica?
 

E R - Just an observation, the vehicle license plates in the above mystery photo appear to have a light green background with white letters & numbers. Plates are possibly Baja California border zone issue, circa 1984-1985.

Plate reference source: www.worldlicenseplates.com >>> Mexico, Baja California, Border Zone Passenger/Private

'Mystery' Photo
 

E R - Forgive me if this was answered earlier, the 'mystery' photo you posted January 31, 2018 is the Malaga Cove Library at 2400 Via Campesina, Palos Verdes Estates, CA. The stone work and terraced fountain at this location is worth seeing in person.

:previous: Thanks so much August-Marathon. We didn't have an answer....until now!

If you don't mind, I'd like to briefly return to Jack Dempsey's house at 2415 S. Western Ave.

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PARADISE LEASED


Lo and behold, Mr. Vaught was correct. [as shown below in the city directory]
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There is almost no information on the Paradise Sanitarium. I only found one reference.....

and that was Alice Lake
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pinterest / page wouldn't link


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Mack Sennett Fun Factory

The Sanitarium was torn down the next year. (1968)
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sidenote:

This is the photograph on Alice Lake's WIKIPEDIA

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I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure this is a different Alice. I believe this is Alice Terry.
Alice Lake was a brunette. (of course she could be wearing a wig in the photo) but I don't think so.

'mystery' photo.

Is this really Los Angeles?

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FUCKYEAHVINTAGE

"A woman standing by malt shop. Los Angeles, 1967 © William G. Gedney"

To me, it feels like a different city. (I'm not quite sure why :shrug:)

'mystery' location #2,

Roscoe Arbuckle, Alice Lake and Buster Keaton, candid photo [ca.1918]

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valentinovamp

I was going to say Bernheimer Japanese Gardens, but the building on the right doesn't fit the scene.

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I was thinking it might be the Keaton Studios, as Buster shot so many of his films there. I did some Googling, and came across this quote:

Though I have been unable to find where Mr. Bengston made this statement, it would seem correct to me. The pyramid-shaped roof in the Buster photo seems very similar to the pyramid-shaped roof of the Metro Pictures Studios:

https://i.imgur.com/2zgXadm.jpg
http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...+)_Page_1.html

In the following photograph, the Buster Keaton Studio is in blue and the Metro Pictures Studio is in red.
https://i.imgur.com/MK2fjJD.jpg
Link to full-sized original on silentlocations.com

Since the roof in the Buster photo seems to come to an end in the middle of the photo (as opposed to turning into an L shaped corner), that would seem to mean that the photo could only have been taken at the far right side of the Metro Studio building.

https://i.imgur.com/x9ORA6v.jpg

I wish I were 100% sure, but it all seems to fit reasonably well…