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From a 1956 crime/noir film, "The Price of Fear", starring Merle Oberon and Lex Barker....Bill Storey's Restaurant was located at 4100 Cahuenga Blvd., North Hollywood....the picture was shot at Universal, this is only a few blocks away from the studio. 4100 Cahuenga Bl. is now the Ca Del Sole restaurant...The motorcycle officer is coming around a curve, if I have this lined up correctly he would have been about here.... https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps8tnxqwtt.png gsv In the screenshot, signage in the distance seems to say DeSoto Plymouth, so there was a dealership at the site opposite Bill Storey's in '56...North Hollywood Toyota pre-owned is there now...the 76 station went out at some point and became part of the car lot. |
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syndicatefile People complain that NLA has gone soft....need more NOIR photos. As you know, this is Bugsy Siegel. I imagine that Virginia had to replace the couch. |
In the 1950's someone thought it would be a good idea to build an escape route from Los Angeles in case of a nuclear attack. Building the Shoemaker Canyon road was supposed to be the solution. Two tunnels were dug and the road ends abruptly, going no where.https://www.alltrails.com/api/alltra...1j3w7y5c3m4t8i
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:previous: That's an amazing photograph. I've never seen the tunnel up close. The interior reminds me of a quonset hut.
Additional information on this intriguing subject, rcarlton. (I'm still looking for the first Cold War Project post. This appears to be the 2nd. Quote:
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CBD requested some noir pics, as always the L.A. Examiner archive provides.
This is textbook tabloid crime stuff, Weegee would approve....images of utter urban desolation... https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psgcuhefgl.jpg Dead woman at 411 East 4th Street, 24 January 1952. Daisy Lorene Johnson; https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psgxdf41gp.jpg Found dead on a fire escape over a grimy alley on a chilly January morning....covered in a (likely) imitation fur, and some flop-house bedding. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pswbqobozw.jpg The homicide guy won't relinquish his stogie as he examines the body. https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...ps8m5aarda.jpg There's weak grey light in the sky, my guess is it's morning....a gentlemen's shoe on the floor.... Was she a hophead o.d., fixing with her companion who then dragged her to the fire escape?....or was it murder? https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...psbvtwfi9i.png 411 E. 4th St., Chetwood Hotel |
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An article that cites a consistently controversial architect, Mr. Gehry:
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Mystery street corner in Hollywood CA.
Seller's description:...."1970's Original Slide Parade Hollywood Los Angeles California Street Scene" The building on the corner would be easier to recognize if the bank hadn't tacked on the unattractive 'facade' in a lame attempt to make the building appear modern. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Vhd0r6.jpg eBay Hopefully it has been removed. (the fake facade, NOT the building) ;) This second slide shows an impressive, vintage building down the street that's pretty much intact. (no cheesy make-over) . . .but I don't recognize it. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/QoVyuY.jpg eBay I thought, at this point, I would be able to recognize at least 90% of the major building on Hollywood Blvd. yet this one has me stumped. . |
Now let's take the Way-Back-Machine to June of 1922 and travel to downtown Los Angeles with Jeanette Jouanneau and Anna Green.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/1T65qi.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/kJUxBJ.jpg eBay LEFT Fri. June 16, 1922 Jeannette J. RIGHT Jeannette Jouanneau Anna Green Fri. June 16, 1922 The seller adds that Ms. Jouanneau was born in 1906. (only 16 years old when the photographs were taken) As always I'm curious about something. :) What rooftop are the young women posing on? . |
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Here's the Italian Kitchen when the building was looking much better in 1947. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...anKitchen1.jpg USC Digital Library |
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You see the same thing in places such as Russia where consumerism is not constrained by laws and city ordinances. Facadism allows buildings to become grotesque versions of their former self. |
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The Pantages. *slaps forehead* I thought I was looking at the main entrance of a smaller building. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Owm9o4.jpg Nope. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/5x8JPe.jpg GSV Thanks for your help HossC. :) . |
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I'm wondering what kind of parade this is? The boy above the "l" in vinyl looks like he's carrying a pizza. :) Don't recall ever seeing a star painted on the street before, either. |
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This explains the furs the young women are wearing. Jeannette's father was a furrier, or whatever "ctr" means. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/fc6hqc.jpg I wonder if the fur shop was in the building where the young ladies are posing. . |
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Jeannette Rose Jouanneau married a man named Martin Guthrie in 1924. He was a clerk in a gas plant. She died in Sacramento, CA in 1984. |
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