Bullocks Wilshire
Thank you so much ProphetM. Your photographs are gorgeous.
What a revelation to see many of the spaces all-but-empty and the Sportswear Room set up as office space. My all-time favorite store. Thanks again. |
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The first, second and fifth floors were the most original portions of the building and the self-guided tour focused on those. The third and fourth floors house mostly administrative offices and as these floors had long since lost their 1929 accoutrements, they had a greater opportunity to remodel, and they did a wonderful job creating modern yet harmonious throwback-style designs. I have gone back and updated my post with captions - apologies for my glaring oversight! The full set of photos I took last year is available beginning here: https://picasaweb.google.com/1045306...65241832055122 There are 200+ photos, all fully captioned. Just use the right-arrow to go forward. Feel free to post any to the thread that you would like. You should be able to right-click and select 'Copy image URL' or similar depending on your browser, and post it directly here with the normal IMG tags. The full album overview is here: https://picasaweb.google.com/1045306.../2014SonyPart4 Bullocks Wilshire takes up the final 1/3 of the album; the rest contains photos from an LA Conservancy walking tour in downtown LA, Victorian homes on Carroll Ave., and a few from other areas such as Little Tokyo, Chinatown, the Farmer's Market area, Wilshire Blvd., Colorado Blvd. near Pasadena City College, and a bit more. Again, feel free to post here any pics you find interesting. :) |
Southwestern Law School used to have two tour dates a year where the tours of
Bullocks Wilshire were guided and afterwards you would have a luncheon in the Tea Room and the last tour of the day was a High Tea, both taken from the original Bullocks Wilshire menu. Well, they still do this, but to attend you have to be one of the "Friends of Bullocks Wilshire" members, meaning you contribute a certain amount that helps continued restoration projects and educational programs. You need to be a member to be inivted to those, and also pay the fee to attend. I attended one of those about ten years ago before they started the benefactor system and had lunch in the tearoom, with white tablecloths and the works, etc. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4...2/DSC02186.JPG ProphetM ProphetM, did you happen to take a photo of the beautifully colored/tiled water fountain that was restored, just outside the tearoom above? That's something I particularly remember. Thanks for posting these beautiful photos. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...2/DSC02074.JPG ProphetM I got to see this mural again last year when I was in the neighborhood and snuck through the electric gate as it was closing. It's one of my favorite things in the city to look at! This back entrance of Bullocks Wilshire was used in the film Topper as the entrance for the Sea Breeze Hotel. I've been trying to locate a sceengrab of it, but as yet have not. Guided or self-guided, it's worth it if one has the inclination. Looks like they're having a special evening tour of the place for members this year with a cocktail reception held in Mr. Bullocks former suite with exclusive access to the tower. A friend of mine told me that Angela Lansbury used to work in this store when she was first in Hollywood and years later requested an episode of her TV series be filmed in there, too. |
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I have that other At Ease book, too. It’s just as nice as the first one. Maybe the sailors were down the block at the 7 Seas? That 1939 photo above shows the remodel of 6336 underway for Chandler's. They opened there by May 1939. Before 1934 that had been a separate building, with a branch of Whetheryby-Kayser shoes then I. Magnin leased it and remodeled it as part of their larger store alteration. So, then it went back to being a seperate space. This shot from the early '30s shows 6336 when it was still Whetherby-Kayser http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/00039153.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics39/00039153.jpg Nancy’s: after Magnin's moved out, the rest of the space got a moderne remodel in Sept. 1939. It was there until at least Sept 1954 when the founder, Betty Blanc, died. Her daughters were Nancy and Mimi (the former Nancy's space in the Palmer Building became Mimi's). I have the impression B.B. owned this piece of property all along and had leased it to Magnin’s. Next to Chandler's, that little French style building at 6324-6332 was built or totally remodeled in late 1931 by Morgan & Clements. There were 4, later 5 storefronts. Albert Sheetz's candy shop & restaurant at 6324 was the longest tenant, from 1932 to 1957. Columbia (the apparel half of Eastern Columbia) had been in 6328 but moved out around 1940. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...sheets6324.jpg c. 1934-35. CSL http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...eetz1-9-41.jpg LAT 1-9-41 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...eetz1-6-57.jpg LAT 1-6-57 Then 6320, the little Deco Roos Brothers. It was there by 1929 until they closed and auctioned everything off in Feb 1946. It was totally remodeled and had become a Lerner’s Shop by 1958. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...oos2-10-46.jpg LAT 2-10-46 Back to corner of Ivar: The Thrifty Drug, designed by S Charles Lee- opened Nov 22, 1935. If you didn't feel like moseying all that way down to Sheetz's you could eat pretty well in their Fount N' Grill. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ill1-17-43.jpg 1-17-43 It was remodeled and became a Leed’s Shoes in Dec 1957. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/12-2-57.png LAT 12-2-57 They moved there from 6434, which had been the old Chandler's, from 1936 to 1939. Chandler's over at 6336 did a remodel in Feb-March 1958- no coincidence I'm sure. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lerremodel.jpg 3-2-58 Speaking of Leed's, it's out of season, but shows the 6600 block with Cinema Sports Center bowling alley & gym at 6624 discussed recently, partly blocked by one of the trees. That was Leed's old-old location before moving to 6434. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...belle/6624.jpg 1948 pintrest ** yes, the sign E-R pointed out next door does say Lutheran Services Center. It was at 6356 as of a 1943 and I think gone by 1945 (It was in the building that housed the Schwab’s menswear shop).** |
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We posted about the same time above and, after I did, I saw your link to all the other Bullocks Wilshire photos, so I went on the tour. So many great ones! I was just coming back to post this one, LOL! Thank you, I love it! :yes: |
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The Motor Court: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-N...23022%2BAM.jpg Roland Young chauffeuring an invisible Constance Bennett: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...23047%2BAM.jpg Roland Young and Irving Bacon with the "Seabreeze Hotel" signage: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...23238%2BAM.jpg Three wonderful character actors: Frank O'Connor, Eugene Pallette, Irving Bacon interact in the Motor Court: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-W...23926%2BAM.jpg YouTube Wasn't the Motor Court designed so one could drive into it and leave one's car with the valet? If that's the case, when did that end? The old usage configuration was, at some point, somewhat awkwardly blocked with planters, etc.: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...13757%2BAM.jpg gsv Form(?) function(?) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...20757%2BAM.jpg Thank you ProphetM for all the gorgeous detail shots. I see now there was more activity there that day than I realized. fifth-floor elevator lobby: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S...14632%2BAM.jpg dining room: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...14658%2BAM.jpg clock, Sportswear: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...14840%2BAM.jpg vent: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-T...14855%2BAM.jpg last 5 pix: ProphetM |
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Re: Bullocks Wilshire store. Sorry, it appears that everyone disagrees with me. Evidently my assessment was way off the mark. Doug: ''You need to look at things more closely.''http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psaghqa6dc.jpg |
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Halibut is not even that available today due to overfishing and environmental problems. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...eetz1-9-41.jpg previously posted |
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Locomotive Art
[QUOTE=ProphetM;7090339]For those of you interested, I just received a mailer from the Southwestern Law School announcing this year's open house of Bullocks Wilshire. It will be happening on Sunday, August 2. Start times begin at 10:30am in half-hour increments to 1pm. The cost is $25.
The required reservations will be taken beginning on July 15 at 10am, by calling 213-738-6814. Reservations close at 6pm on July 30. Free parking on-site. I went to the open house last year with my daughter and it is really an amazing place. The start times are mainly just a way of keeping a handle on the number of visitors; you are free to roam about the place after checking in. Here are a few pics I took last year... ProphetM, I thoroughly enjoyed your photo tour of Bullock's Wilshire. When I was last there it was still operating as a department store and what I found fascinating in your photos is how much of the original details remain and the level of restoration. When I came across your photo below, I thought you might enjoy a bit of trivia. The seam locomotive entering the photo from the left is an extremely accurate rendering of a Northern Pacific Railway Z-5 Yellowstone. Talk about a state of the art mural for the time, this was it! "The Z-5 Yellowstones were two locomotives under one boiler, these were the largest locomotives in the world when delivered in 1928. They eliminated the use of two locomotives on the head-end of freight trains on the Yellowstone Division in eastern Montana and western North Dakota. The 2-8-8-4 was first built for the Northern Pacific Railway in 1928." (Wikipedia) http://www.american-rails.com/yellowstone.html http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psnz6agyku.jpg Photo by ProphetM. Cheers, Jack |
I recently came across this snapshot of a train wreck in Pasadena, circa 1905.
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Pasadena train wreck 1905
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:previous: Good find t2. your photo includes buildings. (buildings = clues) :)
I believe this is the first color image of the French Village on NLA. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/DG09Za.jpg eBay The traffic's pretty heavy heading into Cahuenga Pass. detail / slightly larger http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/XLGTZq.jpg from an earlier post by Martin_Turnbull. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/TT24tv.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24515 :previous: That's just an amazing photograph isn't it. wow! |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original It's hard to tell from this blurry copy, but it appears to actually be Fields, not a double, driving the car as the cop pulls him over. After this the film cuts to Fields making a left turn; the curb he pulls up to is at the studio, not on Vine: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original Here's that block today: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original GSV After acquiring several tickets, Fields is again on his way but then gets a flat and loses his spare tire down a steep hill. I have no idea which one: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original Then the tire rolls onto a train trestle. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that this is on the way out to Glendale; perhaps someone will recognize it: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original Just as Fields is about to get hit head-on by the streetcar, the tire jumps over to the other track and Fields follows it there: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original But then a train comes up behind him: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original Just before Fields is run down from behind by the rear-projected train, the tire jumps back to the other track and finally rolls off the bridge: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original Screen caps by me from DVD. |
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eBay Whitney Heights? -note the Hollywood sign stills spells out Hollywoodland. |
"1924 Original LOS ANGELES Photo WEST ADAMS STREET Palm Trees California."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/LAY2nC.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1924-Origina...item35ed552aaf Does anyone recognize this apartment building? |
Then the tire rolls onto a train trestle. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that this is on the way out to Glendale; perhaps someone will recognize it:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original Just as Fields is about to get hit head-on by the streetcar, the tire jumps over to the other track and Fields follows it there: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original But then a train comes up behind him: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original One track has overhead wires, the other does not So I would put the parallel tracks in the San Fernando Valley, west of Lankershim. The PE bridge was washed away by flood 1938?? and both RRs used the SP track, with trolley wires added thereafter The SP line was not the mainline, but a branch line that left the main at Burbank and rejoined it at Chatsworth |
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The Holton Arms. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26284 |
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Looks like something going on at the Hollywood Bowl with all the people coming (or going?) there. Might account for the traffic. |
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was the first feature film they colorized in the '80's. So the color is probably "fiuzzy", too! ___ Quote:
And the "ads" you posted highlight the fact that some businesses are around for a scant amount of time and others move around a time or two. A new restaurant near me opened and closed in 3-4 months recently. I love the shoe ad with the woman telling her husband: "Tranquilize Horace..." Great! And thanks for this opposite angle photo of the Goodrich Gym and the bowling alley mentioned recently. Quote:
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Googie's and Schwab's
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There's alot of discussion in L.A. about the Googie style restaurants disappearing or being threatened (like Jan's and Norm's) and whether it's due to developers wanting the properties (because they're surrounded, usually, by parking lots) or because people's tastes have changed, as you said, in wanting to eat the kind of food served by these restaurants. I happen to love these kinds of restaurants and they're disappearing at a pretty good clip, if you ask me. Speaking of, here's a photo I don't believe I've seen here before and, at the moment, I don't feel like searching, heh! https://images.fineartamerica.com/im...s-archives.jpgMichael Ochs Archives The article this photo references has a comment by one person that says: "I believe that is James Dean and his best friend Maila "Vampira" Nurmi clowning around at Googie's." There was no date or other info accompanying the photo. |
After all these years on NLA I finally located a good photograph of the interior of La Rue Nightclub on Sunset.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/GHLHVq.jpg Looks like it had a swinging monkey motif. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...540/9CSdPP.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-phot...item1a02c0d7b6 There are several movie people in the photo. The first one I picked out was Burgess Meredith....and that famous character actor at far right (I can't think of his name). I believe the short woman with the black hair near the column is perhaps......Colleen Moore? And I think I see Walter Huston as well (two people to the right of 'Colleen Moore') I posted this 1954 La Rue ad several years ago. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/d6IwtJ.png http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/537/d6IwtJ.png[/IMG][/URL] http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=20033 The building still stands. :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/ghYiCI.jpg gsv Earlier post by HossC with several images of the exterior of La Rue in the 1940s. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20038 this has been posted before but I enlarged it. (that's the world famous Trocadero across the street) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/EQ51wU.jpg |
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Pasadena train derailment 1905
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-V...31835%2BPM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...31715%2BPM.jpg cdnc Los Angeles Herald, 2 October 1907 https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...31025%2BPM.jpg cdnc P.S. Was the derailment near Library Park? 1903 Pasadena Birdseye: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-d...62332%2BPM.jpg loc |
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Also, many restaurants list a certain fish. When its placed on the table, it could be anything. People don't know how to ID many fish species. Once I ordered Halibut but some mystery white fish arrived. My Mom said to forget it. Oh well. |
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eBay By coincidence, I came across this a few weeks ago on eBay NCD. __ |
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:previous: I think that woman is .....how do I say this kindly?....a bit prettier than Agnes Moorehead. (not that Agnes Moorehead ever wanted to be considered 'pretty')
now that dashing lad just above her head is kinda' pretty. ;) That said, how old do you think I am ProphetM? _______________ Thanks for digging up the information on the 1905 Pasadena train wreck tovanger2. -I appreciate it. |
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It's hard to find decent photos that show what I mean, but Agnes Moorehead was pretty pleasant to look at in her youth, when she wasn't busy acting dour. Moreso when her hair was down. In any case, there is something familiar about her. |
:previous: Whoever she is PM, she's having a grand time!! -like most everyone else in the photograph.
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Hmm, it might be Ethel Merman.
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Hollywood & Vine
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Found some sailors- not at the 7 Seas after all, but down the block at Hollywood & Vine. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...2997e5245c.jpg here And these buddies: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...vy-buddies.jpg here Loitering at this corner some more: all of these pictures were taken on a summer day, August 1944, by Life photographer John Florea and appeared (much cropped) in the Sept 4, 1944 issue. Maybe some have been here before but I like having them all together and seeing the people in the background (women, kids and older men mostly) and little details. All from here http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...cc_landing.jpg Order Clerk Yvonne French •Lady with the dog over the news vendor’s shoulder. •Sign pointing south down Vine to the Hollywood Victory House. Like the Victory House in Pershing Square, a central place to buy & sell war bonds. It opened in the forecourt of Graumann’s Chinese in May 1942, then moved to Hollywood & Vine, not sure where exactly. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...36_landing.jpg Window stylist Cecilia Fiala http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...b1_landing.jpg Singer Carolyn Grey http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...f0_landing.jpg Singer Marilyn Hall •Adorable. Love her slacks and saddle shoes. •Man in uniform walking by. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...36_landing.jpg Students Joianne Breckenridge and Gloria Jones. •The stylish man in the 10-gallon hat. Most of the (few) men in these shots are bareheaded, as are a lot of the women- especially the younger ones. •The news vendor’s hat & coat on the lamp post. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0b_landing.jpg Secretary Jane Yaeger •Girl in the white snood has serious wedge envy or something. •The peasant blouse-skirt-wedge look Jane and the girl behind her are sporting, a sort of very toned-down Carmen Miranda influenced style- was ridiculously popular all through the war years for summer casual-when fashion turned to south of the border for inspiration. CityBoyDoug's mom wears a similar kind of outfit in the darling family photo he posted here: 27172 As seen on some NLA regulars: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ayworth-42.jpg Rita http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...obelle/ava.jpg Ava http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...belle/jinx.jpg Jinx http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0Yvonne_01.jpg Yvonne |
La Rue
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...82526%2BPM.jpg silverscreenoasis https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...83509%2BPM.jpg ebay (detail) previously posted by e_r ...and Robert Morley was married to Gladys Cooper's daughter, Joan Buckmaster from 1940 to 1992: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-y...85220%2BPM.jpg (credit as above) But, if the woman above is Hedda Hopper as Otis Criblecobis relates below, that would at least explain why someone would be wearing a hat in a nightclub! LOL, I'm terrible at this. |
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My wife says the man to the possible Miss Hopper's right is Douglas Fairbanks Sr, and she further maintains that the couple sitting at the table with backs to the camera is Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck. |
Does anybody know why Google Maps doesn't show "Street View" anymore? Does anybody know how to get a street view anymore?
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I guess this is what progress is, but I sure don't like it. |
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Mike Bray, who played Mike Hammer in the film, had a career that lasted from the post-war years to the late 60s. From 1964 until 1968 he had a part on the "Lassie" TV series which made him relatively well-known. Prior to "MGIQ", he did a memorable turn as the bus driver in "Bus Stop" in 1956. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote:
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detail / La Rue Nightclub
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Kodachrome slide, Stan Kenton playing the Palladium 1941.
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The Hollywood Palladium can be a very festive room. Here during the war years: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...20225%2BPM.jpg LAT on the first WWII blackout (12/10/41) in LA |
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