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

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

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I'd love to know what colors were used.





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

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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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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
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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: