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I'm pretty sure the other house in the ebay photo is still standing as well. This one. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/pQXyBN.jpg ebay https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/8hpq4r.jpg GSV 508 Belmont Ave. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/UyCn4w.jpg . |
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Has anyone heard of Rembrandt Studios at 312 S. Main Street, Los Angeles? I ask because of this amazing (original!) photograph of a bevy of ingenues in a large faux-room.....(or maybe it's a real room) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/BtbFR1.jpg ebay Link Here's the writing on the back.....If you ask me it's rather intriguing. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/RTEOLl.jpg Do you think the photograph was taken upstairs at 312 S. Main? :shrug: . |
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Not sure I can be anything like complete, e_r, but here's a start about photography at 312 S. Main. As we see, nothing doing until 1915. (Spellings vary as in particular years' CD): 1911 CD: Henry Argue, Fruits, at 312 S. Main; Crescent Creamery Co. at 312 ½ S. Main 1912 CD: Chris J. Rapp, shoes, at 312 S. Main. 1913 CD: Lavin & Tuck, fruit, at 312 S. Main. 1914 CD: Trunk Factory, and Fruiters, are at 312 S. Main. 1915 CD: Barzillai [sic] S. Ansley, photo[grapher] is at 312 S. Main (as is Enterprise Trunk Factory). Some 1915 ads: https://i.postimg.cc/Z5b1XPgr/312-SMain-Her-3-25-15.jpg LA Herald, 3/25/1915 https://i.postimg.cc/9fzsQmc0/312-SMain-Her-8-3-15.jpg LA Herald, 8/3/1915 https://i.postimg.cc/pd749wdZ/312-SM...11-19-1915.jpg LA Herald, 11/19/1915 1916 CD: Barzillia [sic] S. Ansley, photo, at 312 S. Main. As is Harry Simon, tailor. 1917 CD: Barzillia S. Ansley (Sheffield Cain & Asnley [sic] at 312 S. Main. 1918 CD: Barzillai S. Ansley at 312 S. Main; Mrs. Lena Swayze, soft drinks, at 312 ½ S. Main. (evidently no 1919 CD) 1920 CD: Ansley Commercial Photos at 312 S. Main, Rembrandt Studio at 312 S. Main; Raymond B. Swayve [sic], soft drinks, at 312 ½ S. Main. 1921 CD: Ansley still there; Swayze still there. 1922 CD: Ansley still there; Samuel Goldman, soft drinks, at 312 ½. (I didn't trace it further . . . ) Edit Add:The photo has a definite "Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties" vibe to it for me... Later Edit Add: Ah, here we are. A Social Cub of 1916 from Sennett, with Bobby Vernon and the well-known comedienne Gloria Swanson: https://i.postimg.cc/qvgNcFrY/Social-Cub.jpg IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007364...wer/rm64948480 |
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Everyone is familiar with the classic 'Mildred Pierce'. Does anyone even remember the remake? Would anyone even attempt to remake 'Gone with the Wind'? (Not today, that's for sure!) Hollywood's excuse is that they have "run out of stories." I don't think that's even possible. Hopefully this current Perry Mason remake will just fade away and be forgotten. |
They made a standard Noir film and just tacked the names from Perry Mason onto the characters. Nothing to do with Mason or Erle Stanley Gardner. They could have used Nick Carter, Nick Charles, Lieutenant Columbo's father Giuseppe, or Shell Scott. Heck, they could have said Father Brown was defrocked and emigrated to LA.
The Perry Mason books and shows have a specific aura dealing with right, wrong, the legal system and rational thought. Leave that out and you have nothing. |
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To the left of the "Mission Apts" sign are the Blackstone Apartments at 238 S Olive. You can see the side of them on the right of this circa 1955 image. "Looking southeast across S. Olive Street showing a glimpse of a small apartment house at 228-234 (far left), the Firmanal [sic] Apartments, a Queen Anne revival apartment house at 238 (center), and a glimpse of The Blackstone Apartments at 242-246." The 1942 CD lists them as the (less risqué) Fermanal Apartments. Before 1942, they were the shorter-named Ferman Apartments for a few years, and before that they were the Gillis Apartments. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...manalApts1.jpg LAPL The 1956 and 1960 CDs show the Steffy Therese Apartments at 238 S Olive, although the 1961 color image I found below has a sign by the door which still reads "Fermanal Rooms-Apts". The demo permit was issued in 1963. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...manalApts2.jpg Huntington Digital Library |
Perry Mason (2020) premise: In 1932, the Great Depression grips the United States but Los Angeles is prospering thanks to an oil boom, the film industry, the summer's Olympic Games, and a massive evangelical Christian revival. Down-and-out private investigator Perry Mason is retained for a sensational child kidnapping trial and his investigation portends major consequences for Mason, his client, and the city itself.
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So, not your father's Perry Mason, as the saying goes... In the following responses there's a lot of information from an article in the NYT that I decided to include because people often have to have a subscription to read articles online from there, or you only get a few free articles a month and for some that could be over by now this month. But here's the link to that article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/a...n-history.html Quote:
As for Perry Mason being so well done the first time... The first time: --Between 1934 and 1937, Warner Bros. released six Perry Mason movies, the first four of which had Warren William playing the charming, crusading attorney. In one of those Della Street and Perry Mason got married. --From 1943 to 1955, five times a week, CBS Radio aired a 15-minute serial version of Perry Mason. Stanley Erle Gardner wasn't happy with the radio series and when CBS wanted to move the show to television in 1956, Gardner balked. So the producers tweaked the names and locations and turned radio’s “Perry Mason” into TV’s daytime drama “The Edge of Night,” which ran for 28 years. --Before the character’s nighttime TV debut, the best Perry Mason adaptation was a newspaper comic strip, which ran from 1950 to 1952. Gardner was the credited writer. --The Raymond Burr Perry Mason was more to Gardner's liking, a properly formulaic version, comforting in its familiar arcs. The unsung hero of this Perry Mason is its producer Gail Patrick, who in the mid-1950's was a retired actress married to Gardner’s literary agent, Thomas Cornwell Jackson. She won over Gardner, who was so impressed with her that he put her in charge of a series truer to his ideals. But wait--THERE WAS MORE? --In 1973, CBS debuted “The New Perry Mason” with a fresh cast, but the show’s overall squareness didn’t fit with the era, and it was canceled. It stared Monte Markham, Sharon Acker, Albert Stratton and Dane Clark and many well-known TV actors in guest roles. And... --In 1985, Burr returned to the role (while Barbara Hale reprised her role as Della Street) for a popular string of NBC movies. But these stories and the style were more like "Matlock" than his earlier Perry Mason series. --Now here’s HBO’s “Perry Mason,” decidedly different from what’s come before — like a cross between Gardener’s pre-Perry pulp mysteries and the seedy Los Angeles noirs “Chinatown” and “L.A. Confidential.” Would the author have approved? Probably not — if only because this new show has a long, winding narrative, not a punchy one. But the new “Perry Mason” does have a Della Street (Juliet Rylance) and a Paul Drake (Chris Chalk). And this Perry is still pushing against the powerful, using every resource he has to make sure the system works for those who need it most. I agree that it's maybe hard to overcome people who are familiar with a 9 year Perry Mason series that was also in syndication after that for years and then became available on DVD and then streaming markets. But, as with anything that is rebooted, none of us have to watch it if we don't want to. I'm more interested in the time period and location it's set in than the fact it's Perry Mason, which is why I'm going to watch it. P.S.: The only COLOR episode of the Raymond Burr Perry Mason series starts out with Perry and Della riding Angels Flight and Angels Flight is where this new Perry Mason series starts as well. Has anyone watched PENNY DREADFUL-CITY OF ANGELS, which takes place in 1930's Los Angeles? I'm wondering about giving that one a go. |
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The biggest FAUX-PAS of all with that is that they didn't film it in Los Angeles. It was filmed around NYC and environs. WTF? Some scenes had palm trees in front of houses that were in large pots. And it was decidedly moist all the time. Etc. If they ever make the Sunset Blvd. musical into a movie, it'll be doomed from the start if they don't film it in Los Angeles. I mean, it's ABOUT Hollywood and movie making. I've read three James M. Cain novels, and he's a noted noirish author of the period, but all the movies made from those three I've read are way better than his novels. I think he's a hack pulp writer. I could barely get through Mildred Pierce. I'm currently reading a noir novel by David Goodis, whose mostly forgotten now, and I wonder if he'd be better remembered, like Cain, if the movies made from his novels were better, though one of them, Dark Passage, is a personal favorite of mine. _______ Perry Mason's just gotten attention on NLA, I don't recall anyone talking about Ryan Murphy's HOLLYWOOD series on Netflix. ??? |
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Do they mean 'flip' photographs like the kind used in Mutoscopes? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/710/1Zvser.gif That might explain the large number of photographs for sale. ("hundreds and thousands") https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/XsYrBI.jpg written on the back of the Rembrandt Studio pic. postscript: Barzillai Ansley (owner of Rembrandt Studio?) has been mentioned in a back and forth conversation stemming from this intriguing faux 'sailor' photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xeqN7f.jpg mystery 'sailor', los angeles cal You can check out the conversation Here. (by Noir Noir and HossC) . |
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I tuned out when they had a naked fat man running in the street and a dead baby wrapped in a blanket on Angel's Flight. As far as L.A. being fairly prosperous in the depression, my grandad and mom can say not true. It may have been less grim than northern cities (could always hang out on the beach) but it was pretty grim. The Olympics had little imapct on unemployment, and oil prices were very low so a lot of wells were shut in. The film industry continued, but many films didn't do very well. Peg Entwhistle can tell you about the futility of breaking into films. I may give Perry a second chance. L.A. in the 1930s is a draw. The 1950s/60s Perry Mason with Burr never did it for me. The way he always had the zinger at the end that solved the case and got a confession was so unbelievable. Burr as reporter "Steve Martin (!)" in Godzilla, now we're talking. Or the scary killer in "Rear Window". "Ironsides", sometimes. |
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We have seen this amazing photograph on NLA but it is so phenomenal I thought it wouldn't hurt to see it again. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/gx8Omu.jpg eBay Los Angeles, 2nd Street from the hill........... January 1887.......... For sale. Link |
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Filming Locations - "Love My Dog" (1927) - Our Gang (The Little Rascals)
I just came across this silent "Our Gang" short which has been edited to specifically point out various locations used during filming. I haven't seen anything quite like it before and think it'll appeal to the guys and gals who linger around these here parts.
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A mystery location. "Vtg 1964 Golden Chicken Resturant Take Out Los Angeles Hills" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/UrvD4K.jpg eBay I hope we will eventually find more information on that partially hidden mansion up on the hill. If you look closely there appears to be a Mobilgas Gas Station across the street. (behind the photographer) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/rhgWsW.jpg detail I believe the chicken logo in the window is advertising Broasted Chicken....I love Broasted Chicken!...:yes: Link . |
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