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1940s Two Glass Negatives - Maytime Motel - 1632 So. La Brea Ave.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/QZx0Ow.jpg
eBay



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/wXXUzj.jpg
eBay

We have seen the Maytime Motel only one other time on NLA in a post by HossC. His post includes a color postcard and a GSV of the motel to show how it looks today as the Royal Hawaiian Motel.

Go HERE to check it out.


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Here's an interesting look inside a Hollywood donut shop at the heights of the depression.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/kyWl5D.jpg
eBay



And the reverse.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/NnEqsp.jpg

For search purposes:...Do-Nut Shop - 1032 No. W. Ave - Hollywood Calif. - 1933-1934 - Sally



I thought the wall was in distress but if you look closely there's some kind of art deco(?) design going on.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/QqWj7v.jpg
detail

I'd love to know what colors were used.





1928 color chart.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/QcDlgv.jpg
eBay

I'm guessing Coral Sand and. .um. .India Ivory.


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sharpened it up a little:

(click for big)

https://i.imgur.com/dT9TkUEh.jpg

Easiest Mystery Location ever:

https://larry.wizegallery.com/VWV/heroes.jpg
(hosted by me)

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OK, I'll take the Lwize challenge: Sunset Plaza (about 8600 W. Sunset Blvd.)

https://i.postimg.cc/4yKNbyZ9/Sunset-Plaza.jpg
gsv

90 songs! Trippy! And from England no less.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...L._SL1200_.jpg

This compilation is an odd mix of a few recognizable hits, a number of well-known artists with songs I've never heard of, and a whole bunch of unknown filler.

Music compilations are a grab bag assortment of odds and ends!
(and since its from the UK, I'm sure some of these LA Soundtrack songs may never have been heard in LA)

;)

For bonus points and not so easy, in what kind of convertible are those groovy kids cruising?

There are a few clues but I am feeling too lazy to research it. I thought possibly a Corvair but there are no cooling vents on the rear deck.

Bonus points for name-dropping Brigette Bardot?

Vintage Los Angeles -Facebook

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The convertible with its hood up appears to be a 1958-60 C1 Corvette, but I still haven't identified the car in the foreground. The wider view in the link posted by Mackerm seems to originate from gettyimages.com. Maybe there are more clues in it.

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Oh yeah, you get lots of stuff if you Google Brigette Bardot Los Angeles. Apparently she didn't spend a lot of time here.


Looks like a Chevrolet Impala. Snazzy!

Trick question. They're not cruising - they're parked.

That settles it. Based on the convertible top latches and the upholstery pattern on the driver's door panel, I had ruled out mid '60s Mustangs, Cadillacs, Falcons, Barracudas, Coronets, Malibus, Ramblers and others but was yet to find a match.

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Rare. Currently on eBay

Here's an astonishing rppc (real picture postcard) of Los Angeles in the 1910s.


Does anyone recognize the location?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/922/teyPJW.jpg
eBay


I'm going to need some help on this one.


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The same eBay seller has a second rppc.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/e3QlAe.jpg
Currently on eBay

Help! :whip:


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Hmmm. That might be the same rather tall palm tree in both pictures. If so, it looks as if the photographer might have been standing in the tower we see hazily in the distance towards the right in the first picture to take the second picture. Not that that helps with anything.

Interesting pics! And I don't think I've ever seen "Los Anglis" before. :)

Here, behind the words DO NOT is the northernmost building of the Bellevue Terrace Hotel at the NWC of 6th and Figueroa. Perhaps
this photo was taken on 6th, looking north from between Figueroa and Flower?

In the second photo, at the left center edge I see the Streicher Apartments at 454 S. Figueroa, so maybe both photos were taken
from the same spot? The building in the lower left corner of the second photo looks like it has the same roof as the building in the
lower right corner of this photo.

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EXCELLENT information! Thanks so much Flyingwedge. ...And thank you too, odinthor. I appreciate all the help I can get (from my minions) ;)
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This looks like an antique manual (versus electric) door bell similar in function to the bell system you see in the British drama "Downton Abbey".

I think there was an exterior bell (now missing) and maybe an interior pull cord connecting to an interior bell. Here's another one similar to yours at a Pinterest page: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fd/f0...666d42e27a.jpg

That's it! Great work. Thank you, Neal! :worship:

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Remember my post a few days ago of the Depression era Do-Nut Shop in Hollywood that no one cared much about.


Before
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/kyWl5D.jpg

There's Sally again with her tousled hair.




The eBay seller now has a couple of photographs of the interior after it was remodeled.

After
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/iS97nd.jpg
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This next photograph has people posing - no doubt the owners.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/IzPkN2.jpg

I spy Sally! ...It appears she had a make-over too.




https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/NnEqsp.jpg

So where is 1032 No. W. Ave? I take it
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Never mind. I found it.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/mBeTmH.jpg
GSV

Have we seen this interesting apartment building before? ...I ask because it has some really nice details -especially around the court yard.

hmm :hmmm: I wonder if Sally lived there?



10 minutes later:

Now that I've looked at it longer it's starting to ring a bell. I think it might be where Ed Ruscha lived at one point. Does anyone know for sure?
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I found a baker named Donald R Owens at 1032 N Western Avenue in the 1935 CD. In the 1934 CD he was a salesman for another baker named Dale M Stewart at 2632 Pasadena Avenue. That's the nearest I got going another year or two either side, and no sign of Sally!

Ed Ruscha owns the courtyard complex. I've been to several art openings there.

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https://i.imgur.com/4pTpaqT.jpg
mcachicago.org



Ed in his Western Avenue studio in the early 1970s.

https://i.imgur.com/KZUR7CU.jpg
brandonmclean.tumblr.com



The courtyard complex wayback when it was Holloway Shopping Court.

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





https://i.imgur.com/9tCtElB.jpg
cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News (Los Angeles), 16 August 1925




Over fifty years later, Charles Holloway's creation made an appearance in a 1977 episode of Charlie's Angels.


https://i.imgur.com/ZHSls8C.jpg
dailymotion.com


Forty five years of tree growth.


https://i.imgur.com/F7kHyXV.jpg
GSV

I'm looking at your original picture and I see something I've not seen since I was 5 years old, a metal coffee funnel. That's it behind the alarm clock near the metal coffee pot. I'm guessing that was the "drip" coffee system of the day. Again, i guess that there's a cotton bag that goes into the funnel to hold the coffee grounds. The funnel sits in the coffee pot and boiling water is poured in from somewhere or something. Then, you would need to deal with this soggy bag of grounds and probably wash the bag. I'd bet many a server was scalded using the coffee funnel.

Aside from that, Sally is cute. Just the kind of person you want to serve you when you are not quite awake and on your way to work.

For commercial purposes, metal may have been more durable. But despite their obvious fragility, some coffee maker funnels may have been made of glass, too.




https://i.etsystatic.com/19725022/r/...79470_m29c.jpghttps://i.etsystatic.com/19725022/r/...79470_m29c.jpg

https://i.etsystatic.com/7735906/r/i...65111_7j6l.jpghttps://i.etsystatic.com/7735906/r/i...65111_7j6l.jpg

Er, those are both vacuum brewers. Heat pressurizes the water in the lower vessel, which then rises to the upper one holding the ground coffee. As the lower cools the coffee is sucked back down into the lower one. Sort of a mix between pour over and a percolator.

https://www.proctorsilex.com/buildin...pper%20chamber.

Cheers,

Earl

1. And, that explains why the funnels have a long bottom "spout" to let water rise into the so called "funnel".
2. Am I right about a cotton bag to keep the grounds from going into the coffee pot?
3. And, it explains the rubber gasket. It adds stablity and maintains the vacuum seal.
4. I looked at the photos and "someone" on etsy has a nice collection of old coffee makers.

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To give credit where credit is do it was Godzille who posted the vacuum brewers. :)


Amazing find. Thanks Noir Noir.


Here are some of the shop/retail spaces that are towards the back of the property....

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/eZhgsJ.jpg

I imagine the average Angeleno doesn't know it exists.



If you look at this GSV aerial you can see where the shops are located.



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Noirish films or books show the world as being unpleasant, strange, or cruel: The book is a noirish teen drama. The film has several plot twists and a dark, noirish look.

All I know is what I read on the web :) I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those things “in action,” as it were.

Cheers,

Earl

I found some YouTube videos of vintage vacuum pots in use. A glass rod keeps the grounds from going into the coffee pot but lets water up into the upper chamber (?). I'd guess you would wipe grounds into the trash with a paper towel following brewing. I wouldn't wash then down the drain.

The brew process is more of a "soak" than a percolator, drip or boil method of making coffee. Fans say it makes great coffee.
Here's a YouTube link to a vacuum pot in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bln62gbDOXM

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DMsP1ASJep...penders+10.jpg

Here's Katharine Hepburn making coffee in one of these pots in 1942's Woman of the Year:

For just the "coffee brewing" parts start at the beginning of this clip (10 seconds in really) and stay until 3 mins. in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ARboCGPyyQ

...and start at 2 mins. 50 secs. in this one for the finale!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhHwIozba0I

I had a roommate around 1983 who had one of these and it was a great novelty for awhile, but became a bit of a chore when you really don't have to make coffee this way any more.

Oh my goodness! Send Ms. Hepburn an "adulting" book, LOL. It's grounds on top (put the glass rod in first) and water on the bottom. And, enough fire on that burner to forge horse shoes. I've not seen a stove like that except in thrift stores and that was years ago.

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I remember this scene from Woman of the Year. It's one of my favorites & there are practically no lines for 7 minutes!

Thanks for digging it up Martin Pal.



I remember my parents having a coffee carafe that looked something like this.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/U7hXke.jpg
PYREX

So. .um. .why this shape? Did it have other duties besides being a carafe?


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Great Anniversery / Wedding gifts of the day.
 

There are many different Pyrex carafe shapes that have survived since the 1960's It looks like they were sold with warming stands to keep served beverages hot. Maybe the warming stand was purchased seperately. The heat source for the warmer was a tea candle. There are mini versions of the carafe for single servings, some of those appear with warming stands too. My guess is that shape looked good and fit nicely in the warming stand.

They look like just the thing to give as a wedding or anniversery gift. My parents had one too. If your parents were like mine, they took gifts they didn't need or want and sold them via The Gift Exchange in West L.A. or the Ad Mart in Tujunga.

I am starting to miss stuff like this even though my wife and I don't entertain that much. There are a lot of classy looking carafes to trot out with company and it looks like they would be fun to use.

I've not mastered the art of posting photos so I will post some links, here:
https://hautejuice.wordpress.com/201...arming-stands/

https://www.ecrater.com/p/25625466/v...rex-brand-mini

https://www.etsy.com/listing/9808294...-carafe-silver

https://www.amazon.com/Stonebriar-Bu...71842064&psc=1

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Do you remember the old postcard of the Sea Specimens inside the Bishop & Co. Store?




Earlier today I happened upon a postcard of two men posing with a Bishop & Co. delivery(?) truck.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/m3VEGR.jpg
eBay


Note the 1911 postmark.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/M8GP3Y.jpg




oooooooor. .maybe it isn't a delivery truck.

What do you think are in these bins?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/pXAiJJ.jpg
detail

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I can't figure it out.
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The seller says it's a crackers truck. I briefly toyed with the idea that they were Christmas crackers, but I think they are the savory food kind. Here's an undated picture I found. The description says "A packaged display rack of Bishop's crackers and cookies.".

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...hopWafers1.jpg
LAPL

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I'm pretty sure we've seen posts regarding Bishop & Company before but more on the company and the family is here.


https://i.postimg.cc/h41MBFhn/bishopfactory-bmp.jpg
LAPL

And if I remember correctly the building is still standing....I'll have to do some googlin'.

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Need help in finding 1188 Lombard Street.



I just ran across this curious newspaper item on eBay

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Qf6dnW.jpg
eBay

Seller's description:..ILLEGAL GAMBLING HOUSE 1188 LOMBARD ST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA POLICE PHOTO





A better look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/aoPKOa.jpg

When I typed the address (1188 Lombard St.) into google maps it takes me to a rather flat area out in Pacific Palisades. I thought this place was located off of Mulholland Drive.
Of course I could be thinking of an entirely different place.

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I think that might be 1188 Lombard Street, San Francisco. The building has changed a bit, but the current one shares several features with the one in the photo. The hill is the same and the fire hydrants match.

www.google.com/maps

Thanks for that link, HossC. I think you are correct! (What made you look there?) I looked at the link to see how far away from there the famous curvy part of Lombard St. was. Far enough!

I thought of it precisely because the name Lombard Street instantly brings the famous curvy street in San Francisco to mind, maybe even more so because I watched the Dirty Harry movies again recently.

For anyone not familiar with the curvy part of Lombard Street, skip to 1:40 in the chase scene from Magnum Force:

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Thanks for the clarification/correction guys.

um. . .sooooo I guess the place I was thinking off of Mulholland was. .
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Sorry. I was sidetracked by this. . .
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/tXawOz.jpg
google-books/66 handbook


Which takes me here. . . . . :shrug:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/3eJnLC.jpg


A lookout.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/wq87eC.jpg

...............................:previous: I love the two curlicue turn-arounds. :eeekk:





You might remember. . . .

Castillo de Lago is the estate most recently owned by Madonna.

"The Longans (Patrick Logan-geologist-Signal Hill oil) enjoyed the solitude and beauty of their $250,000 nine-level home for a few years before Mrs. Longan’s death prompted Mr. Longan to sell it. The next resident of Castillo Del Lago was, according to Crane, the gangster Bugsy Siegel. The mob leader found its wealth of rooms perfect for illicit activities. Gambling and night life followed and so did the police, who staked out the situation from another house on the hill. If you look hard enough, you can see holes in the woodwork of the entry hall which resulted from flying bullets."

from discover-hollywood



But this wasn't the place off of Mulholland I was thinking of so I'm still confused. (it happens)

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Just listed on eBay.

An interesting snapshot of Angels Flights taken in July 0f 1949.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/DwozmJ.jpg
eBay


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/9ytEi8.jpg
eBay

I think the person who wrote the information on the back was a bit confused. The car they're ridingon is coming into the station at the top of the hill. I don't see the other car.

After taking another look at that photo, I wondered if it may have been taken at the Chamber of Commerce -- a place where
Bishop food products and examples of sea creatures might be found together.


The LAPL says this is a photo of the interior of the Chamber of Commerce building at 130 S. Broadway, to which the C of C
moved in 1906. I think the building layout, columns, and handrail spindles shown here compare reasonably well with what
we see in the ebay photo:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...S_Broadway.jpg

00078696 @ LA Public Library


Now let's take a closer look at that big fish in the ebay photo. I think the top line on the plaque says BLACK SEA BASS. The
underlined text looks like two single letters, then more letters together -- perhaps a name. Maybe A. W. and then something
ending in two Ts?:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...rrett_ebay.jpg



This article says Mrs. A. W. Barrett (wife of the President of the Tuna Club) caught a 416-pound (Giant) Black Sea Bass off
Catalina Island and that the fish will be mounted and given to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. So that could be
Mrs. Barrett's mounted fish in the ebay photo:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...s_-_1_of_2.jpg
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...s_-_2_of_2.jpg

July 29, 1901, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com


Here, supposedly, is Mrs. Barrett with that very fish:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._bass_1901.jpg

Reddit

I'd forgotten about that! I wonder if the Bullitt chase scene goes anywhere near there?

I watched the What's Up, Doc? movie recently and the chase scene in that movie also travels down this section of Lombard Street. In this clip at 0:23 secs.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igtTkeUo05U

Wonder what the curviest street in Los Angeles is?

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So...searching "curviest street in Los Angeles" only brings up lots of information on the steepest streets in Los Angeles, with articles like:


LA Has the Most Ridiculously Steep Streets of Any US City
https://la.curbed.com/maps/la-has-th...of-any-us-city

...and...

California Has Seven of the Ten Steepest Streets in America
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dr...ts-in-america/

From that article:

According to fixr.com, here are the ten steepest streets in America:

Waipio Rd. in Honokaa, HI — 45% gradient
Canton Ave. in Pittsburgh, PA — 37% gradient
Eldred St. in Los Angeles, CA — 33.3% gradient
28th St. in Los Angeles, CA — 33% gradient
Baxter St. in Los Angeles, CA — 32% gradient
Fargo St. in Los Angeles, CA — 32% gradient
Maria Ave. in Spring Valley, CA — 32% gradient
Dornbush St. in Pittsburgh, PA — 31.98% gradient
22nd St. in San Francisco, CA — 31.5% gradient
Filbert St. in San Francisco, CA — 31.5% gradient
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ETA: Fixr's list with info:

https://cdn.fixr.com/infographics/to...-streets-1.jpg

The steepest street in Los Angeles is Eldred Street. It was mentioned once on NLA by E_R on Valentine's Day in 2014, HERE, and then others commented on the post a few times. As discussed there, Baxter Street doesn't go anywhere and ends in a wooden staircase at the top end.

https://static.kcet.kcet.production....2Fbaxter_1.jpgKCET


Baxter Street on the list above got lots of attention in the past few years, noted by the article above: In recent years, navigation apps have directed more drivers to Baxter Street to avoid traffic jams along nearby Glendale Boulevard. But the apps don’t tell drivers how treacherous the road can be, especially in rainy weather.

Herman Schultheis took several photos of Baxter Street in 1937.

https://www.motherjones.com/wp-conte...ter_street.jpg

L.A. ALMANAC -- some interesting information:

Longest/Shortest Streets & Steepest Grades in Los Angeles County
https://www.laalmanac.com/transport/tr01r.php

The longest street in Los Angeles County is Sepulveda Boulevard which runs 42.8 miles between Mission Hills in the San Fernando Valley and Long Beach (26.4 miles through the City of Los Angeles).

I found this 1935 map of the entire route, showing some sections where improvements were to be made.

https://i0.wp.com/metroprimaryresour...size=281%2C597

MetroPrimaryResources

The shortest street in Los Angeles is Powers Place, located in downtown Los Angeles. It extends a mere 13 feet between Alvarado Terrace and Bonnie Brae.

Noted at least once on NLA HERE by E_R in 2018 (also with a GSV link).

https://losangelesexplorersguild.fil...lace.jpg?w=800LAEG

The LA Explorers Guild link has some history of the street. THey say it was officially named in 1911 and that: "On the books, Powers Place is only 13 feet long. I’m not quite sure how this 13 feet was measured, but it’s actually a bit longer than that. This is quite apparent when you visit the street in person."

I'm 6'5" and x2 that would be 2 inches more than my height. :shrug: Maybe, this image from Wikimapia shows one side longer than the other:

https://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/01/29/65/02_big.jpg

Well I went off on some tangents. And still no information on L.A.'s curviest street...but that's the long and short of it. :runaway: