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A mystery location that is definitely Los Angeles. I've had this photograph in my files for quite some time but never got around to posting it. The description is rather vague... "Bridge Const. Los Angeles 1948" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eKiW2O.jpg probably eBay but I can't remember for sure. Do any of you fine noirishers recognize the bridge being constructed? Did anyone notice something odd going on with the house being moved and the truck at lower right. - - - - > The truck appears to be holding up the corner of the building. .but it's no doubt an optical illusion caused by the shadows. Oh, and one more question. Does anyone know where the displaced building(s) were moved to? . |
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Here's another mystery location for this Wednesday afternoon. :) "Vintage Photo Slide 1981 Jesus Saves Church Los Angeles California" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/W3brLR.jpg Currently on eBay Obviously this is a repurposed building which makes the image more interesting (to me anyway). There's a street sign but it's much too small to read. . |
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I believe this is Dewap/Figueroa/Temple in downtown LA. I've seen "Dead Ringer" with Bette Davis too many times, haha. You know the movie where she plays twins, and Bette Davis acts like she's trying to outdo Bette Davis doing Bette Davis. :P https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0601...4!8i8192?hl=en |
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I caught part of a marathon of Highway Patrol episodes on TV recently. Not a great show, but they frequently shot on location and that always interests me. Here's some frame grabs from a 1959 episode with a scene at the Bronsonia Prescription Pharmacy. It sure looks like the interior was not just a set but the actual pharmacy.
https://i.postimg.cc/4d7PkZgW/Bronsonia-1.jpg [source: Decades TV] https://i.postimg.cc/Kz6NmVcx/Bronsonia-2.jpg [source: Decades TV] https://i.postimg.cc/8cLbcHsW-/Bronsonia-3.jpg [source: Decades TV] |
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Handsome Stranger: https://i.postimg.cc/HnxDSpxw/Bronso...1959-11-29.jpg LA Times, 11/29/1959, in ad for "Coty's New 'Exciting Eyes'," location Franklin at N. Bronson. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/GmpKHHfJ/Figueroa.jpg gsv https://i.postimg.cc/RqxrvwdR/Fig-LAT-1948-1-2.jpg LA Times, 1/2/1948 |
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:previous: Figueroa and Temple streets. "All of the structures seen here have since been demolished. Cars are traveling south on Figueroa Street near where it crosses Temple Street (center, right). Boardinghouses and a billboard are seen on the left". https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/XuESDi.jpg calisphere Photograph dated September 12, 1940. I believe this might be the clapboard house that is being moved (or demolished?) in the 1948 photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/NkrZie.jpg The utility 'pole' on the roof would explain the odd wooden structure seen near the roof in the eBay photo, below. This stuff. (it's falling over) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/2aR6Pl.jpg What do you think. . .a possibility? :shrug: . |
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2530 SOUTH FIGUEROA STREET 1892-1929 A friend of my residential-histories effort recently sent me a found postcard depicting a house once at the NEC of Figueroa & Adams--now the site of a Popeyes and a mini-mall. It has provided me with a much better image of the house than I'd been able to find before. Doubly interesting is that the card was written by someone who lived in the house and very likely wrote it there. Full story here. https://i.postimg.cc/J0kfNqNK/WAD2530-SFigpostcard.jpg |
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That's such a fantastic house and postcard, GW. Thanks for sharing it with us. :) You did an excellent job covering it on your blog. Go to 2530 South Figueroa Street . |
Great historical overview of the house and the site, Gaylord. Thank you!
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lists that church at 1431 West Vernon Avenue, which is shown here in August 2022: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...non_-_1024.jpg GSV (NWC of Vernon and Brighton) It was built in 1911 as "store and living rooms above": https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._Ave_-_768.jpg LA Department of Building and Safety |
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I wrote and published a book on the locations used in the Highway Patrol series. There are over 500 pages in the book with most of the 600+ locations used on the series included in the book with then and now photos of each. Each episode was filmed in 2 to 3 days, with the equivalent of 1 day being used for interiors at the studio, and the rest of the time on location or on the studio's small backlot. Jerry |
What is the name of your book?
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Maybe a way to bring automats back would be to purchase an entry card at the door for, say $10 or $20, and you could place the card in a card reader at the windows of the items you want, and you get the items. If you spend less than $10 or $20, you get your money back at a card reader as you exit in one hour or less after arrival. Doing it this way would keep the place for paying customers, not freeloaders and hangers on. This is the way FedEx stores work. You get a card, put money on it at a machine, and you go make your copies or send your faxes with your card. System should work at a new automat. |
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