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The 1962 CD has a business called "Joe the Train Doctor" at 1485 Vine Street (I was looking for a train connection). A Google search led me to a German model railroad forum, so it looks like Joe was a model train doctor with a store on Vine. Nothing to do with our mystery building. |
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I don't believe we will ever be able to figure out where this one room school house was located but it's a great old cabinet card so I decided to post it. "1912 one-room schoolhouse Los Angeles, California; real photo postcard RPPC"........ https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ErFUI7.jpg ebay Does this one-room schoolhouse look familiar to anyone? Here's the reverse with the Los Angeles postmark [1912] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/t3bUoS.jpg ebay It's Ray writing his uncle (Peter Lind) in Michigan. ....March 27, 1912. . |
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mystery location Here's another wonderful old photograph and this one has numerous clues. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/tIneIy.jpg eBay Magnificent pic! On the left, if you look closely, there appears to be a sign on the roof of a building in the distance. Through the ropes tethered to the balloon you can see a name(s) on the Coca - Cola billboard. The sign on the basket appears to be advertising a 5 & 10, although I don't see the 10 (I think the sign might be folded over or it's billowing out from the wind) The location is on Towne Avenue. Below that is the altitude the balloon will attempt. Let's take a closer look. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/R3cLBJ.jpg eBay The reverse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DLvpor.jpg Aug. 16, 1910....Los Angeles, California Here's that roof-top sign, I mentioned. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/0wyR9P.jpg detail ....................................................................Good luck deciphering that! And here are the letters as seen through the ropes. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/tbbneW.jpg hmmm. . .is that a young Stan Laurel over there on the right - - - - > And, finally, a super-close up of the sign on the basket. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/T1syv4.jpg There also appears to be something written beneath the altitude. eBay Link . |
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If I were to wager a guess that this was building a little real estate office. Why was/is one area of the club named 'The Belly Room'? "The Comedy Store has multiple showrooms, including the main stage and a space known as the Belly Room. Though nothing online explains the name for the upstairs area, general manager Jody Barton said it may have something to do with the back-alley abortions performed on pregnant prostitutes during the building’s time as a club." If the white building were in Vegas I'd guess wedding chapel but in L.A. probably real estate office. As far as the belly room goes, belly laughs or belly dancing???? |
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"Hot air balloon rides at the corner of 5th Street and Towne Avenue for prospective real estate investors. Photo, circa 1911.". https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...neBalloon1.jpg Bizarre Los Angeles at Facebook.com USC has five aerial pictures taken from a balloon and dated circa 1910. Here's one of them - I wonder if they used the same balloon: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...neBalloon2.jpg USC Digital Library |
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I was looking at the LAPL site at the other photos of the construction of the Cinerama Dome in 1963. HERE. The site also has 4 color aerial photos of the area from 1965 and, for what it's worth, ALL of the buildings on that corner block (the block with red circle) are gone in the 1965 aerials. (Except one in the corner blocked by the Sunset Vine Tower in the above photo.) Quote:
I found this May 25, 1963, Los Angeles Times ad for the 1451 Cahuenga Blvd. address (where the Hollywood Canteen was) as Le Grand Comedy Theatre with Lenny Bruce: Lenny Bruce was nominated for an Emmy yesterday. Rather, the actor playing Lenny Bruce in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?i...767a61fecffd99Newspapers.com This is the only photo, dated 1966, I've ever seen of the Le Grand Comedy Theatre and there's no awning. It was demolished in 1966. (Missing photo in previous NLA post.) https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-g...uzA.OGd8KY.jpgHistoricHollywoodPhotographs The second ad from above is for the Ivar Theatre playing Under the Yum-Yum Tree...I didn't find the marquee, but I found a Playbill for the production. It starred Bill Bixby. The link says "This play was the Ivar’s longest running show, May 1962 to March 1964." https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/a...3702/ivar7.jpgThisStage And a flyer:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....OWhuL._AC_.jpgAmazon Third ad: Les Poupées de Paris at P.J.'s, Crescent Heights and Santa Monica Blvd.: (I thought this was previously mentioned on NLA, but didn't find it.) https://waterandpower.org/B%20Histor...s%20B/PJ_s.jpgDWPviaFacebook |
On a TV themed thread on HTF (Home Theater Forum) someone recently posted this blurb from a 9/26/59 edition of TV Guide on page 31:
FRANK SINATRA and PETER LAWFORD will appear briefly, and for union scale wages, in a 77 SUNSET STRIP episode in return for a plug for their restaurant. Say what? That appearance never happened, but I've never heard about a restaurant either of these two owned. I found out some information about it, but not a photo: Puccini's 224 S. Beverly Dr. Beverly Hills, California It appeared in the late 50's. This link has an old column about it: Confidential File Birth Travails of a Spaghetti Salon by Paul Coates -- April 2, 1959 https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the...il-2-1959.html At the end of this reprint from the L.A. Times blog it said: (Puccini's, 220 S. Beverly Blvd., had previously been the Harlequin Club and by 1962 was the Tender Loin.) But...the correct address was 224 S. Beverly Dr. (not Blvd.) so is the other info correct? This link has a contract concerning the restaurant: Hakes.Com In the info for it the site seems to think it's a contract to open the place and pay rent of $115 a month, but it clearly states it's an amendment to the lease and this is an additional amount. I did locate a souvenir menu that folded out and could be mailed like a postcard. Below...Top: Outside, Bottom: Inside. https://64.media.tumblr.com/a34e061e...3g9o1_1280.jpg https://64.media.tumblr.com/62e6c078...3g9o2_1280.jpg FranciAlbertSinatraTumblr |
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I wanted to see what could be learned about the "railroad station" e_r posted recently. It had an odd location, isolated from streets by other buildings. It turns out there is a small bit of noirish history associated with this place. The first step was to find out the address of the building. Here is a Sanborn from the 50s: https://i.imgur.com/XSooFq6.jpg lapl.org So the address seems to have been 1453 N. Vine street. With that information, I looked at the LADBS records. These were difficult to parse, but it seems that the first appearance of something at this address was in 1914, when a "one-story, 18' x 24' tea room in gardens surrounded and enclosed, somewhat, by enclosure fence & pergola" was added to an already-existing dwelling owned by a William F. Markham (see below). The Sanborn from 1919 shows the dwelling was pretty close to Vine Street: https://i.imgur.com/Bo1eQoQ.jpg lapl.org Comparing its location to the later Sanborn, it clearly has moved a bit to the southwest. I found a 1927 permit for this relocation: https://i.imgur.com/YV5jlzs.jpg ladbs The city directories and the newspapers have a few mentions of the address: 1914-1917 William Markham residence 1927 Feb 12 LAT want ads: https://i.imgur.com/dizudS1.jpg newspapers.com 1932 Ann Pengre was conducting a dancing school 1933 the "Commonwealth House," evidently some sort of community center 1937 George Moore's Mutual Theatrical Institute https://i.imgur.com/nk7pEQ1.jpg newspapers.com 1940 Jack Holden's "automobile top manufacturing" shop 1956 "Hollywood 16mm Industries Inc." (One can only imagine what sort of films were being made there.) Most of the structures around here were demolished in 1965. Now for the noirish part: William Markham was known as the "air rifle king." From the Glendale News Press: "William F. Markham made his fortune with the 1886 invention of the air rifle and manufactured thousands of them in his Plymouth, Mich., plant. In 1911, he disposed of his holdings and came to California, building a house at Hollywood and Vine, then far out in the country and just a short walk from the home of artist Paul de Longpre." Markham died a very wealthy man in 1930. Fast forward six years and the notoriously corrupt Buron Fitts was running for another term as LA district attorney. He drew a crusading reform attorney as his opponent: Harlan Palmer, publisher of the Hollywood Citizen-News. Just before the 1936 election, Fitts arranged an "October surprise" for Palmer: https://i.imgur.com/P2ChS9Q.jpg LAT 10-2-1936 via newspapers.com Palmer lost by less than 2% of the votes. Litigation regarding the estate went on for years. |
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Back in the day 1453 Vine Street was known to some as Commonwealth House. Hollywood creative types were apparently hanging around 1453 Vine Street ... and there were other types hanging about snooping on them. :sly: https://i.imgur.com/3Y7MZqk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/giLWv8J.jpg archive.org - FBI Files on Communist Infiltration- Motion Picture Industry |
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Back in Plymouth, Michigan, purported air rifle inventor William F. Markham was separated from his wife, who would not grant him a divorce. So he built a home in Plymouth for himself and his secretary/mistress. Markham's wife died in 1910, but after he married his mistress they were shunned by local society so Markham and his new wife moved away. (See here and here). The 1911 LACD shows Markham at 149 N Ivar, then he's at 315 S Vine in 1912 and 1453 Vine in 1914 (perhaps the same renumbered residence). I don't know why the 1919 map shows a different address for Markham's house. There's a January 12, 1914, building permit for a pergola and tea room at 1467 Vine, with the owner listed as W. F. Markham at 1453 Vine (address issues again, I guess). Here's another building permit for 1453 Vine Street: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds November 8, 1914, Los Angeles Times at ProQuest via LA Public Library Anyway, Markham also built the Markham Building at the SWC of Hollywood Blvd. and Cosmo St., which is mentioned in this December 6, 1925, Los Angeles Times article. At the end of the article his Vine St. home is called "Morning Gate Villa": https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds ProQuest via LA Public Library This Morning Gate Villa? (the sign is over the entry drive). It kind of matches the 1919 Sanborn, it has the right type of roof, and minus the 3-story addition (?) on the south side seen in the later color photo, the shape of the home seems the same. This has to be an early view of the Markham home: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds ebay Although a poor-quality photo, this definitely is Morning Gate Villa (perhaps looking south?) and a partial description of the home from The Plymouth [MI] Mail of June 20, 1919 (see page 6): https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds From: file:///C:/Users/User/Pictures/History%20Pics/Hollywood/SW%20cor%20Sunset%20and%20Vine/1919%20Jun%2020%20Plymouth%20Mail%20on%20Markham.pdf at PlymouthLibrary.org Markham moved to 1405 E. Mountain St. in Glendale in 1926. He died April 30, 1930, his wife in 1937: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds May 3, 1930, Los Angeles Times at ProQuest via LA Public Library And, yes, he did leave some estate issues to be settled. |
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https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V_sEVOit7...52835%2529.jpg And this looking west on 5th from Towne: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uPObjn53Z...52839%2529.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uPObjn53Z...52839%2529.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uPObjn53Z...52839%2529.jpg |
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