The entire movie "Robot Monster" is available at Youtube.com....and it is...really bad!
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This craftsman masterpiece sitting in the middle of the Inglewood Oil Fields is now my official favorite find of the Noirish thread. I'm looking into a tour tomorrow and hope to post images soon...
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Wow, I wondered about that oilfield house almost my whole conscious life, posted a question about it here, and got an answer the very next day! Is this a great thread or what?
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From LACurbed, " In 1959, they paved the twenties-era celebrity estate-turned-bungalow court Garden of Allah and put up a strip mall (Joni Mitchell may or may not have written a song about it), and only in LA would they display a model of the demolished paradise at the bank that replaced it. The Garden, built by actress Alla Nazimova, was one big Hollywood party through the twenties and thirties, and everyone, from Orson Wellses to Ernest Hemingway, lived there at one time or another. A model of the property was on display for years after its demolition at what is now a Chase Bank at Sunset and Crescent Heights, but at some point the model went missing. Recently, it showed up on eBay, where a second auction ended yesterday with a high bid of $1,225 and the reserve still unmet (the first auction was pulled early). Jo Michaels, who has been handling the sale, tells Curbed that the model is owned by hairdresser and My Haircut Place owner David Meyers. They're selling for $500,000, but according to Michaels, have already turned down a $2.5 million offer because they prefer to sell to someone who will make the model available to the public. He says that while "it doesn't have to go to someone who's not willing to put it on display...we would love [that]." He adds: "We just want to get rid of it." Michaels says Meyers used to own a shop in the Sunset/Crescent Heights strip mall and found the model over a decade ago when he was cleaning the place out. The property manager told him he could keep it. The pair re-found the model recently while cleaning out Meyers' attic." I, personally, have some problems with the particulars of the narrative here but who am I, really? |
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I could see that was a model right away,
What about this one. 1850s Los Angeles. Model or photo? Some captions say it's a model. If so, where is it? Notice the convergence of Main St. Los Angeles St. and San Pedro are exactly as they appear today. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...LosAngeles.jpg |
Ethereal Reality, you did it! Incredible sleuthing, and wonderfully presented! :cheers:
Thank you so much ... and if you or anyone else have any questions about the Oviatt Building (617 S. Olive St., near the corner of Olive and Sixth in downtown L.A.), I'd be more than happy to answer them. Quote:
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I vote for model, with a painted backdrop. My guess of the boundary is in white. Cheers, Earl |
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I see what you're seeing. It buggith me thinking about where that model is now. It's extremely well detailed. Historically exact from all of the maps and photos I've seen. |
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In 1932, the hotel's structure extended further to the right (west) on Hollywood Blvd. than it does today. The Club New Yorker was next to where the hotel's truncated right side is now. Today, the long-gone club's location is an empty walled lot, as can be seen in the photo below. Quote:
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So....is the basement still there, under the parking lot? |
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I live 10 minutes away from there, so I'm going to do my best to find out! Will keep you posted. |
The Box Boy and the Garden of Allah
Since we have been recently talking about the long lost and now
re-discovered scale model of the Garden of Allah... http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7...1d67ed31_z.jpg Picture 9 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7246/7...ea2fa89d_z.jpg Picture 10 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7265/7...1a1efdd5_z.jpg Picture 11 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7266/7...38393300_z.jpg Picture 12 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8141/7...d6a317f0_z.jpg Picture 13 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/7...ebd94333_z.jpg Picture 14 the model cars are distractingly out of scale. screen caps from youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArAs1mFUUg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7...54061513_b.jpg thesunfax LAPL this image was originally posted by GaylordWilshire Isn't this a beautiful building? The Sunfax was one of the four grocery stores my father operated in the late forties through the fifties. It was located at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, just a few blocks east of the Garden of Allah. Unlike our store on Burton Way, the Sunfax did not operate delivery trucks, per se, but we would, on occasion, make deliveries in the immediate neighborhood by simply sending out a box boy or two, on foot. It wasn't unusual to go over to the Garden of Allah. Of course, none of us box boys knew anything about the history of the place, it was just another delivery to us, usually meant a reasonable tip from some slightly eccentric elderly resident. Yeah, to us it was just business as usual. That is until 1959. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7121/7...620bde10_z.jpg Picture 1 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8149/7...d6ba57ff_z.jpg Picture 7 They came in their sun hats and summer dresses, hoping for a bargain, a stick of furniture, a knick-knack, a bit of porcelain but secretly hoping the walls would whisper to them. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8018/7...cfd51206_z.jpg Picture 5 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8017/7...d5883ba5_z.jpg Picture 6 http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7138/7...acb652c2_z.jpg Picture 3 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8167/7...42f7195f_z.jpg Picture 4 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8165/7...14b10711_z.jpg Picture 8 I hope life was kind to these two, they seem to belong on that lovely staircase. garden of allah via yotube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAk5-RTR0w |
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Do you mind? May I? Have you ever been there? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/puebloplaza/ I think they'd like to see it. |
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I haven't found a shot anywhere of the Glidden, and barely a mention other than the one above. Start digging! https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-F...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV I'm curious about the white parts vs the brick parts of the Christie, and the phrasing in the obit--..."the old Glidden...became an annex..." and ..."incorporated the Glidden into the structure...". Was the Christie in a sense built on top of the Glidden? |
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Cheers, Earl |
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