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ucla View from the West Ocean Boulevard bridge over the end of the Los Angeles River towards the Venetian Square apartments and bungalows on Shoreline Drive. A small trolley full of people is on the bridge....1929. |
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Note the Villa Riviera in the distant fog at the right side. |
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We have seen this image of Seventh Street in downtown Los Angeles decorated for the 1932 Olympic Games. . . .but I don't believe we have seen this one of Los Angeles St. that turned up on eBay a month or so ago. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/EXtxH5.jpg August 1932 the reverse https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/lKsCUP.jpg I made it a bit larger. (and blurrier) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/uuKD34.jpg We have seen the gabled building on the corner at right numerous times but I can't remember the name. . |
Here's that same building, some forty yrs. earlier, in a photograph that was also recently on eBay.
La Fiesta celebration, 1895. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/yqFWgT.jpg eBay hmmm. . . .or is it the same building? I just looked at two images side-by-side. . .and now I have my doubts. . |
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Before we get too far removed from our Century City exploits I want to point you toward this 13 minute video from the 1970s. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/d4bBYr.jpg .................................................................................Go Here (reddit) Here's a sampling of my screenshots. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/fyzZtw.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ytedJ7.jpg The video has pretty much something for everyone including some very attractive ladies in mini-skirts walking around. My favorite is the time lapse photography of the Century Plaza Hotel being built. (column four, above) Disappointingly, the International House Restaurant isn't mentioned (but we see two glimpses of the exterior) Two nightclubs that I haven't heard of are mentioned (and shown) One is the The Westside Room and the other is the subterranean (I think) Hong Kong Bar. Here's a direct link to YouTube . |
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Hedda Hopper mentioned the Frank Sinatra party in her column.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...72eaebf7_b.jpg Tucson Daily Citizen June 17, 1959, page 42 Quote:
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I found this article from 1895, but referring back much further, to be of interest.
J.W. Potts is James Wesley Potts, alias "Little Potts" (evidently to distinguish him from his contemporary Andrew Wilson Potts), arriving in L.A. in September, 1852. The top half of the first line is cut off in the original; but I think it's "Apropos of the adversity which is ex-". https://i.postimg.cc/ZRXxxL2n/Old-Im...T-95-10-25.jpg LA Times, October 25, 1895. |
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And, speaking of J.W. Potts, here's where he lived in 1895 (according to the 1895 CD), 816 Waterloo (he died in 1896): https://i.postimg.cc/rscKT0tg/816-Waterloo.jpg gsv Seeing the height of those palm trees, I suspect they were there when Potts lived there. |
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With 1970's (and today's) smog, that extra two miles makes a difference in visibility! ;) |
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:) :) |
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Snix, thanks for finding this! Love it! Quote:
Hedda--showing off her familiarity calling Edward G. Robinson...Eddie Robinson, heh! Florabell Muir? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1j...ndjGX_NuiQ=s85Calisphere (Hedda's column has an extra "l" in her name.) Florabel Muir was an American reporter, newspaper columnist and author. She became known for covering both Hollywood celebrities and underworld gangsters from the 1920's through the 1960's. This Hopper column seems to make it clear that in the Scott Charles invitation, when Sinatra mentions that "we're all going to flee to the Garden of Eden," he's talking about them all going to the preview of "A Hole in the Head" (wherever that was) when they left Puccini. |
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Re: e_r's post of downtown decorated for the '32 games, here's a shot of 7th and Hill that I don't think we have seen....from the Adelbert Bartlett papers at UCLA.....
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Love Like He Fights & Boy, Can He Fight That Red-Head Wonder Boy James Cagney Puts Sock Appeal In "Winner Take All" |
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:previous: Amazing photographs, riichkay. Thanks for posting them! and for deciphering what's on the marquee. . . .that couldn't have been easy. |
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