Thanks for finding this great photograph CityBoyDoug.:previous:





It reminds me of the 'Diving Bell' ride at Pacific Ocean Park.

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Slide 1960s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0WS96YcGVs&t=138s

I don't know why it says 'Bells' (plural). I believe there was only one.

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I asked Jack Feldman over at the Water & Power site. They're Edison poles, not DWP. They carry Edison sub-transmission lines. They are no longer used, but still exist in spots.

IIRC, a large percentage of Jurgensen's business was via delivery. I'd actually go in it though. They had unusual items, like crystallized violets. There were once 22 locations. The Pasadena one was the last one to close.

:previous: What pray-tell are crystallized violets?

I meant this style of pole is no longer installed. The old ones are still carrying lines in the locations where they haven't been changed out yet.

LOL. I told you they had unusual items.

Violet flowers (I think they also had pansies) are preserved in confectioners sugar. One uses them to decorate cakes. They basically look like dried flowers, only a little sparkly (and edible).

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you can see the complete list of edible flowers here:
https://whatscookingamerica.net/Edib...lowersMain.htm

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I experienced the diving bell at least twice. Imagine being in an elevator in free fall, except you're falling up rather than down. That's how it was coming back to the surface. You'd have to hold on tight not to get jumbled up with all of the other "passengers" as the bell popped up to the surface. While I have affection for everything Catalina, the diving bell was not my cup of tea at all. The diving bell was taken down and sent to . . . hmmm, was it Florida? . . . within a year of my taking this picture of it. And I still have the sailor hat!

Jurgensen's was an interesting establishment. I knew the Pasadena location well. It was just a few blocks from my aunt's house. It was on Linda Vista Drive and it was the only retail establishment in the Linda Vista neighborhood, very popular with celebrities because it delivered to their houses. It was the only place I ever saw canned kangaroo meat.

JMR, have you discovered any images of Linda Vista without all of its seemingly unending vegetation?


For the most part, Jurgensen's catered to an elite. This may be a repost here. I know the image is.

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Several LA Observed regulars knew right away that the mystery Jurgensen's Grocery sign I posted last week can be found on Glendon Avenue in Westwood Village. It's on the north-facing wall of the 1929 building that now houses the Glendon Grill — one of a dozen original Westwood Village buildings that are still around. According to village historian Steve Sann, the spot originally was the home of Westwood Village Market. Jurgensen's came in during the mid-1930s as an upscale, gourmet market that purveyed "foods of the world," as you see in the sign. As several readers remember, there's nothing in LA today that is quite like Jurgensen's. Harold S. Jurgensen opened the first store in Pasadena, and the luxury chain grew to 22 stores. Jurgensen's thrived on offering quality and hard-to-find imported foods with premium service (and charged premium prices.) In Westwood a staff driver would deliver phoned-in orders to homes in Bel-Air, Westwood and Holmy Hills. The last Jurgensen's closed in Pasadena, at Lake and California, in 1993. The Glendon building housed Jurgensen's until the late 1970s, Sann says. After that the space was split between the Moustache Cafe and Westwood Village Florist, which is still around on Gayley Avenue. Glendon Grill came in a few years ago. The sign itself was exposed several years ago when the adjoining movie theater building was torn down.http://www.laobserved.com/archive/20...ens_sign_1.php

Since the above discussion mentions Westwood, here's a companion shot, probably from '36 or later. When Westwood was a relatively uncrowded village.
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A decade or so ago I saw a screening of In Old Arizona at the Goldwyn Theatre (AMPAS). The film was considered for five awards at the 2nd Oscars: Picture, Director, Actor, Writing and Cinematography. The host said that the only reason this film still exists is because Warner Baxter, who won the award for Best Actor, wanted a copy of it and, I believe at some point, donated it to AMPAS. They gave it a full restoration in 2004.

The only Best Picture nominated film that is considered a LOST film is from this same year, a film titled THE PATRIOT. Although there is a three minute trailer for it at the UCLA archives and a single reel survives in the Portuguese Film Archive and has been preserved.

JMR, have you discovered any images of Linda Vista without all of its seemingly unending vegetation?



BRR, somewhere around here I have a book called "Linda Vista: portrait of a neighborhood, that has pictures dating from the 1890s when it was typical bare, dusty SoCal hill country, and up through the 90s. I bought it at the old Linda Vista Elementary School, which is now a Children's Center but I see that Amazon has it, and not very expensive if you don't mind buying used. In the Bryant-Ontario section, my aunt's house and one owned by Frank Dorn, Councilman Warren Dorn's brother, were old farm houses dating from that early era. By the '50s it had been developed and most of the houses were owned by ex-servicemen and their wives, raising little Boomers like me. By then it was as overgrown as you see it now. One of my chores was watering the iceplant, a rather extravagant use of water these days.







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cute sailor. ;)

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I didn't realize the exciting part of the ride was the ascent back to the surface.

You can witness the moment the Pacific Ocean Park Diving Bell burst to the surface at the 1:24 mark in the short video below.

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Inside the bell, a recorded message declared "Surface! Surface!" before it popped out of the water.
[this information is from one of the comments on youtube]

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Thanks for looking into the car wash and neighboring buildings on W Slauson, tovangar2.

We haven't had a church from Julius Shulman for a while. This one is "Job 3230: Flewelling and Moody, Glendale Methodist Church (Glendale, Calif.), 1961". Believe it or not, there are 40 images in this set, mostly showing slightly different angles of the exterior. I've picked seven.

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The undulating wall design is simple but effective.

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An end view.

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I love the way the angles stick into the sky.

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There are a couple of ornamental pools outside.

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The interior is huge, with no obstructions.

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I left out the color images, but they show most of the glass to be shades of blue and red.

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All from Getty Research Institute

The First United Methodist Church can still be found at 134 N Kenwood Street, Glendale. As the exterior still looks quite similar to the Shulman photos (I think the pools have gone), I thought I'd post an aerial "now" shot.

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I was unfamiliar with the tragic story of Susan Peters until stumbling upon this photo/caption:

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American actress Susan Peters. Discovered by Hollywood when she was 18, paralyzed after a hunting accident at 24, and dead by 31 from pneumonia complicated by anorexia. 1943 photo.

Wiki adds this:

"Injury and later career[edit]

Peters married actor and film director Richard Quine on November 7, 1943. On January 1, 1945, Peters and Quine were duck hunting when a rifle accidentally discharged and she was injured; the bullet lodged in her spinal cord.[5] The accident left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down, which required her to use a wheelchair.[6] Her mother, who had maintained a bedside vigil during her stay in the hospital, died in December 1945.

MGM continued to pay her salary, but, unable to find suitable projects, Peters subsequently left the studio. She returned to the screen in the lead role in Columbia's The Sign of the Ram (1948), but the film failed to win an audience.

She toured in stage productions of The Glass Menagerie and The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and her performances were highly regarded[by whom?], but her disability made her a difficult actress to cast.[1] Peters' final role was as the title character in the live television drama Miss Susan. The show was canceled after Peters' health began to decline.[4]

Later years and death[edit]

Peters and her husband Richard Quine adopted a son, Timothy Richard, in 1946. They separated in March 1947 with Peters claiming that Quine was cruel and would not speak to her for days at a time. They were divorced in September 1948.[7] Following her divorce and the end of her career, Peters suffered from depression.[citation needed]

On October 23, 1952, Peters died at Memorial Hospital in Visalia, California at the age of 31. Peters' doctor attributed her death to a chronic kidney infection, a complication caused by her paralysis, and bronchial pneumonia. He also noted that her death was hastened by dehydration and starvation because, in the last few weeks of her life, Peters had "lost interest" in eating and drinking and had lost the will to live.[6] Her funeral was held on October 27 in Glendale, California, after which she was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park next to her mother.[8][9]"


The photo location is not specified but clearly this is Palisades Park in Santa Monica. The concrete railing at this portion of the park is identical today.

:previous: That's such a beautiful photograph of Jean Peters riichkay.


Here is Ms. Peters after her accident, along with Judy Garland. [c.1950]

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http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/ne...re-id500762369


The small girl is Liza Minnelli.

I don't believe we have seen this early stereo-view.

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Taken Dec. 25th, 1878. View on No. 4 Vine St. Los Angeles

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So where would #4 Vine St. be today? When I type the address in google maps it sends me to 1400 Vine Street.






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An abundance of beautiful plants for Christmas Day.

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