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1199 Pasadena Ave.
A craftsman house built in 1911. The house has been boarded up and vacant for 35 years. It was one of Julia Child's homes while growing up and is mentioned fondly in the chef’s biography, Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Oi4D...38.07_AM.0.pngGoogle Street View Child’s family home and several other historic houses lining Pasadena Avenue are owned by Caltrans. The agency bought the houses over 50 years ago in anticipation of a never-built extension of the 710 Freeway through Pasadena. It’s unlikely that the freeway project will ever get built. Metro voted last May not to build a tunnel that would extend the 710 freeway up to the 210, instead opting for smaller-scale improvements in the area. Caltrans still owns hundreds of houses that were expected to be demolished for the freeway extension project, and began selling some of them off in late 2016. The Tribune says none of the historic houses on Pasadena Avenue have been put up for sale. https://la.curbed.com/2018/3/12/1710...-710-expansion A less flattering shot, taken last Friday. https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/wp-...0311.jpg?w=620 https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/201...g-in-pasadena/ |
And now for something completely different...
I searched and couldn't find anything so I believe this photo is new to NLA. This photo was taken in 1964 and and shows the completed 11' original Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise and three of the four men who built it.
I'm assuming this photo was taken somewhere around L.A. because of the obvious TV and movie connection plus the background looks like LA/SFV/Burbank to me and the license plates look to be black and gold California types. https://i.imgur.com/h0kek6d.jpg?1 https://geektyrant.com/news/photo-of...n-who-built-it A little more information is available by clicking on the link. I haven't bothered to try to identify the exact location but if anybody knows or feels like taking a shot, have at it. |
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I found it online a few years ago, and had to track down its location. It looked like Burbank to me, and it didn't take too long to find: https://i.imgur.com/TMMW9Va.jpg East Providentia Ave, between South First Street (now called South Ikea Way) and San Fernando Blvd. The Media Center Church can be seen in the background. Here is the location on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1761...2!8i6656?hl=en |
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Scott, that didn't take long, nicely done! I'm not a Trekkie at all but I do model making and fabrication so I'm interested from that angle. I'm curious about how it was made and what materials were used. Also, those builders remind me of some of the old timers I used to work with when I was younger. |
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That said, I appreciate your two follow-up posts very much. Quote:
https://i.imgur.com/osfo980.gif At first glance, I thought two bathing beauties had been killed hitting the deck before Elva's successful dive. I was quite relieved to find out that wasn't the case. [your gif's message is clear. I have a tendency to jump the gun more times than not] (by the way, all your creative gifs are exceptional) Now we need to figure out the name of the 'ship' movie. __ Quote:
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In case anyone is nerdy enough to care (like I am), all of the walls on the right side of the Enterprise photo are still standing. The ship model is parked exactly in the driveway shown in the Google view. https://i.imgur.com/2PCkMlY.jpgGSV It's hard to get everything in one Google shot, so I had to swing the Google cam to the right. So what kind of model making do you do, Bristolian? I did my share of Star Trek and Star Wars models, but mostly I liked making aircraft of World War II. I took it pretty seriously, I puttied all my seams with Squadron Green Putty, painted my models with a Paasche airbrush, etc, etc. |
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Scott, I do it for a living. When I started I worked at a place that built prototypes for all kinds of consumer products and we worked on mostly toys. Now I work almost exclusively on toys doing prototyping and development. I've never worked on television or movie props. It's kind of a parallel industry to what I do. A lot of the techniques and methods are the same though. That's what makes me curious about how the Enterprise was built. It's obvious from your posts that you pay a lot of attention to detail. Like others have stated, your maps of the downtown hills were quite impressive. |
mystery movie prop.
Calgrove Kennels, Newhall CA
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/oPZnka.jpg KIMBERLEY RENEE / FLICKR "These two....[ I only see one :shrug:] art deco-like columns are props from a movie set and flank the entrance to Calgrove Kennels. You can view them as you drive the 5 Freeway in Newhall, CA." Needless to say I found this quite intriguing. I drove the google-mobile out to the location but wasn't able to find these 'art deco' columns at the entrance. GSV VIEW https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/g9sYzA.jpg GSV. To the right of the gate there appears to be some kind of stone marker (or a fancy shmancy mailbox)....and on the left, what looks like.. a FOR SALE SIGN. the GSV view above is from 'THE OLD ROAD' that runs parallel to the 5 Freeway https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/egvceb.jpg google_earth Then I came across this headline: After more than 40 years of service, Newhall's Calgrove Kennels is closing. DAILY NEWS So now I am afraid the art deco 'mystery' props might have been sold off. The DAILY NEWS article mentions the kennel property was full of "A motley collection of Hollywood props and amusement park cast-offs." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/CdPNFj.jpg FLICKR I think the missing columns were far and away the most tasteful items in the collection. (unless you have a thing for the HAMBURGLER :love:) Does anyone who visits NLA know about this strange place? I'd really like to know where the two deco columns ended up. __ |
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While the Elva-dives-from-crow's-nest story may seem to resemble a tall tale, I must say that I do believe it entirely. My family had plenty of chances and dozens of years to come up with tall tales, yet this is the only hard-to-believe story they ever told, and there are no similarly "fantastic" stories for either grandpa Charlie or great-uncle Hubert. Speaking of great-uncle Hubert, here he is selling an ice cream cone to Shemp Howard... https://i.imgur.com/4hXs9Im.gif ... and here he is chasing Stan Laurel and getting whacked over the head by Oliver Hardy: https://i.imgur.com/qR7yck0.gif By the way, here's an old family photo: great-uncle Hubert is on the top left; grandpa Charlie is on the top right. Great-grandfather Budge is on the bottom left; and great-grandmother Emma is on the bottom right. https://i.imgur.com/aaFIVzs.jpg Great-grandmother Emma was the owner of the previously mentioned Auto Wheel Cafe. https://i.imgur.com/hR22Gbb.jpg |
The 1947 Joan Crawford movie Possessed has previously been mentioned in these pages to spotlight the downtown locations that appear at the beginning of the movie.
Last night I watched a 1931 movie also called Possessed, also starring Crawford, and which also begins with scenes shot in downtown LA. https://78.media.tumblr.com/f0f19b21...rtso1_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/4cad6bf1...rtso2_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/66de4244...rtso3_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/087eac72...rtso4_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/dc8977e1...rtso5_1280.jpg [image source: Warner Bros Archive Collection] In a lengthy tracking shot Joan first walks away from the huge tanks at the Gas Works. A cut or two later she suddenly turns right and is walking toward the tanks. That's Hollywood geography for you! Can any of you sleuths tell me whether there actually were ramshackle houses this close to the gas works in 1931, or did MGM put them up just for a couple of shots? All the period photos I've seen near the Gas Works show a distinctly industrial neighborhood. |
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Cadillac Le Mans Number I show car at the Los Angeles custom car studio of George Barris.
Barris, performed a makeover of the original Le Mans for his client, Harry Karl, owner of Karl's Shoes. [the photo above shows some of the unfortunate modification of the original Le Mans Cadillac]. The Barris changes turned a beautiful 1953 GM show car into an ugly duckling. Le Mans number one, the GM Motorama show car, is the car that went to shoe store mogul, Harry Karl. Paperwork in the archives of the GM Heritage Center says that Le Mans number one was shipped to the Los Angeles Branch for the account of Clarence Dixon Cadillac, Inc. in Hollywood, California on July 7, 1954. The paperwork noted, “For H. Earl” though whether or not this car had its title actually transferred to Harley Earl is not known. Probably, the car was sold to the owner of Clarence Dixon Cadillac and then Harry Karl bought it or perhaps it was transferred to Mr. Karl via the dealership. Either way it became his in 1954. More information on this one of a kind car and its rather torturous career of only 8,000 odometer miles. http://dwtauthor.blogspot.com/2011/0...and-their.html |
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I think this is the back of the same 1953 Cadillac Le Mans, parked outside the Pan Pacific Auditorium. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...sCadillac1.jpg www.customcarchronicle.com To really appreciate the strange customizations (Kustomizations?), here's the car in color! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...sCadillac2.jpg www.facebook.com |
The perfect word Hoss:....Strange indeed. The redo of this car is almost repellent or nauseating...or even kinky..
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But let’s go back a little further: “In the month of June, 1841, two vaqueros (herdsmen) of a neighboring ranch, while riding over the ranch of San Francisquito, dismounted from their horses by the side of a rivulet to give them a breathing spell, and seeing a bed of wild onions they engaged in gathering some of them. While so doing, one of them, by name Francisco Lopez, who had been present and saw the pebbles which Castillero had said was an indication of gold placers, noticed some of them here and said to his companion: ‘Look at this; there is gold here, for I heard Don Andrés Castillero say that there was gold to be found wherever these little stones exist’; and immediately scooping up a handful of the sand and gravel which had been loosened by pulling up the onions, he rubbed it with his other hand, and sure enough he found in his handful a grain of gold. On their return to Santa Barbara these men took with them a few dollars worth of gold which they had obtained from the gravel” (from A History of the Precious Metals, by Alexander Del Mar, 1902, p. 413). But, no, we have to go back further. What’s this about one Andrés Castillero saying something? “1841. In the early part of this year Don Andres Castillero, a native of Mexico, a man of scientific attainments and mineralogical knowledge, travelling from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, saw and gathered up, near the rancho of Las Virgenes, some mineral specimens, which he exhibited in Santa Barbara, and said that generally, if not invariably, placer gold existed wherever this class of pebbles were found” (Del Mar, op. cit., p. 413). No, no—can’t stop there. Who is this Andrés Castillero? Well—Castillero actually lies behind several interesting and significant developments in California history, which I have cleverly hidden amidst the dross in the following notes: April, 1836, Capt. Castillero arrived in California with the choleric Governor Mariano Chico (memorable as the governor who wore green spectacles); 1836, in Alta California with Governors Chico and Gutierrez, not only a military man but also with some knowledge of medicine; November 23, 1836, landed at Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, with the rest of the exiled Gutierrez party; early 1837, secretary to Jose Caballero, comandante general of Baja California; May, 1837, directed to take a force north by the authorities in Baja California in order to dampen the spirit of insurrection in Alta California; June 12, 1837, at the Baja/Alta California frontier; June 14-15, 1837, at Mission San Luis Rey with his army; June 15, 1837, at San Luis Rey, attaching himself and his army to the San Diego Revolt army led by Portilla; June 19, 1837, arriving in L.A. with the joint army; June 22, 1837, to Mission San Fernando Rey with the army; June 27-July 2, 1837, mediating between the Norteño Alvarado/Castro interests and the Sureño Carrillo/Bandini interests, the final result being that, since both sides agreed to accept the new Mexican constitution, the revolt became a non-entity (only to be replaced by the Carrillo Revolt); July 17, 1837, at San Gabriel, leaving, perhaps the 18th, for San Diego with his army; after several weeks of campaigning on the frontier, to Santa Barbara; August 15, 1837, boarding the California at Santa Barbara, sailing for Acapulco with Nicanor Estrada, on a commission from Gov. Alvarado, arriving at the destination September 15; 1838, brought documents from the Mexican government granting amnesty to recent rebels, recognizing Alvarado as governor, and bringing a number of people appointments to various official positions, detractors calling these people Oficiales del Catarrillo (“catarrillo” playing on the name of Castillero, and referring to the catarrh), not much to the liking of said people; 1839, granted Santa Cruz Island (in 1837, he had proposed to the government that the island be used as a penal colony); 1845, fomenting dissension between Jose Castro and Pio Pico; in the Yankee era, Castillero had legal wrangles involving the famous New Almaden mine up in the Bay area; “He was an adventurer, who had come to the country with Governor Chico. Having a little smattering of medical knowledge, he found employment as an army physician; but without confining himself to regular business, he held himself ready for any new enterprise, and mixed in all the political agitations that were going on” (from “Juan Bautista Alvarado, Governor of California,”, in Overland Monthly, Vol. VI, p. 346, October 1885, by Theodore H. Hittell). Anyone still awake? No? Mission accomplished! |
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Dagmar, 'Ballin' the Jack', 1951
Dagmar....bumpers....I'm lost. :shrug: __ update: You mean these things? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/3NuBcP.jpg ;) |
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This is no USS Enterprise (that photograph was great! Bristolian), but, whatever it is, it somehow found it's way up to Calgrove Kennels in Newhall. (the place I spoke about last night...with the 'motley' collection of studio prop & what-not) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/EUuHC1.jpg Delenakatherine / flickr Any sci-fi buffs recognize this thing? __________ Come to think of it...it kind of reminds me of some of the vehicles that sat outside of a place on Cahuenga Blvd West in the 1980s. (I forget the name of the business) |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...veKennels1.jpg GSV |
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