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:previous: Welcome to 'noirish Los Angeles' Matt! -your SMOKETOWN project sounds very interesting.
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Street view along Vernon Avenue in 1954.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/M64X5U.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1954-NOSTALG...item3f4ad10e3c I've tried to find the church for a comparison photo of the street corner, but I haven't had much luck yet in locating it. I just spotted another clue. While trying to figure out the image on top of the Chop Suey sign (I thought it was a bee with huge eyes. lol), I see at the bottom of the sign it says Owl Café. __ |
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eBay and today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/2ZBy0E.jpg gsv Hmmmm...or maybe she was on the other side of P.C.H. __ |
Hullo folks,
Perhaps you remember my recent shout out to the Central Library's ongoing exhibition about noirish mainstay Bunker Hill. There, I mentioned that at the upcoming opening shindig on the 13th, you could buy the accompanying book— —well, just a quick note to let you know, the book is available on Amazon now, for those of you so inclined. (If you like that sort of thing, it's the sort of thing you'll like!) https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8877/...778667c3_o.png |
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...or dressed to the nines.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/BbSnU8.jpg eBay Los Angeles 1960s, Kodachrome slide. __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAOwlCafe1.jpg LAPL If I sound a little unsure about the location, it's just that E Vernon now looks like this, and I can't match a single building. Looking at Historic Aerials, the stores on the left, and the church on the right, seem to disappear between 1964 and 1972, but the earlier images are too blurry to be certain. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAOwlCafe2.jpg GSV |
Ennis House
Not noir at this point, but more a crumbling reminder. Shameful that Frank Lloyd Wright's work would be allowed into this kind of disrepair:
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Stop shuddering... https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8835/...bca959a3_h.jpgEnnis House restoration Wikimedia.org still an ugly 'house' |
1956 city directory
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...901/DoPMMg.jpg :previous: I see that it says the Owl Cafe' on Vernon is No.#1, so I take it there were numerous Owl Cafes. I was thinking something noirish had happened at one of the locations, but then realized I was thinking about the fictional Nite Owl Café in L.A. Confidential. The Nite Owl Café was filmed at 119 E. 6th Street, downtown. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/EMA3zV.jpg http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2010/0...-confidential/ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/5eLJ5S.jpg http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2010/0...-confidential/ J & J Sandwich Shop, 119 E. 6th Street http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/kLMOi6.jpg gsv It's directly across the street from Coles. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/DKtCk6.jpg gsv __ |
Thanks for the Ennis House update! I'll have to stop by again for some before and after action.
Also, Cole's is pretty good if you want a French Dip (specially after shopping at the Last Bookstore) but I really dig Phillippe's more when I'm in the neighborhood. Miss living close to LA. I really do. |
Chateau Du-Val
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The Chateau Du-Val was built in 1929 and I'm suspecting both it and the 1930 La Fontaine of being built of used brick, maybe City Hall's. The buildings are certainly the right era for it and there was plenty of brick to go around. The softly-worn bricks are a lovely rosy color. The entrance has a terrific pair of lanterns and what looks like excellent stained glass in the transom and the windows either side of the door: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2...44325%2BAM.jpg laurban Flipping retro-fitting bolts. Now it says, "Chateau Du-Va": https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-E...91756%2BAM.jpg The NE corner: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...21021%2BAM.jpg gsv The west wall: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-A...20914%2BAM.jpg gsv West wall detail: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...22053%2BAM.jpg gsv The SW corner: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Z...20733%2BAM.jpg gsv The north front. There's three brick chimneys across the roof and a very picturesque vent coming out of the tower: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S...21138%2BAM.jpg gsv The upper facade. The basement is all yours e_r, I'd love to know what goes on in the attic. It's got operable windows: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w...21951%2BAM.jpg gsv Like the La Fountaine, the Chateau Du-Val's back faces south. They're missing a great opportunity not opening the back of the attic up for a penthouse with terrace as was done at the La Fountaine in the 60s: Quote:
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:previous: Excellent post on the Chateau Du-Val tovanger2.
The worn bricks certainly have a lot of character -so perhaps you're right about the 'used' bricks. (and I still want to go down in the basement ;)) |
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Pretty much everyone knows the house was used, most famously, in 'Blade Runner' (1982), and as the exterior façade of the 'House On Haunted Hill' (1959), among others, but I had no idea it was used years before, in a Ruth Chatterton movie called 'Female' (1933). 'Female' (1933), Warner Bros. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/pCRLmS.jpg warner bros. a car zooms in. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/L9thC4.jpg warner bros. After the above scenes it's a bit difficult to tell the real Ennis house from the Ennis inspired movie sets. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/nIf8Yx.jpg warner bros. this definitely looks like a set. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/8yFvfB.jpg warner bros. One extravagant scene takes places around the pool. (the Ennis-Brown house does have a pool, but I'm pretty sure this is a movie set) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/sH9T4d.jpg warner bros. swan dive! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/B4FHdx.jpg warner bros. Joe Roig? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/MumMgy.jpg warner bros. close-up of the edge of the pool. (note the art deco sculpture) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/CqhefT.jpg warner bros. here's a better look. pretty impressive isn't it. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/O0tILh.jpg warner bros. There's no trace of the Ennis house in the striking art deco interiors. Ennis is all blocks, squares and right-angles, so I doubt there would have been a curved staircase. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/TlKAv0.jpg warner bros. What's this? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/J9pQyj.jpg warner bros. A later scene shows a man sitting up there. It's a pipe-organ! Only in the movies! ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/EuPYbE.jpg warner bros. :previous: How do you suppose the organist got up there? -a step-ladder? lol. _____________ Here's an aerial of FLW's Ennis-Brown House showing the pool. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/bFisSS.jpg google_earth http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/n2UHix.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennis_House |
re: The Wild Party (1956)
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Here's the 'Near 'N Far' in 2014.:( I meant to post this earlier. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/KR8tvy.jpg gsv __ |
Chateau Du-Val
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a...71247%2BPM.jpg google maps The furnishings sound incredible. I wonder what happened to all that. "The large rear yard will provide a 9-hole putting green and a beautifully landscaped and furnished garden for tea and bridge parties" A pity that's no longer in place (if it ever actually happened): https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5...44216%2BPM.jpg "Sanitas walls" |
There may have been excellent Owl Cafe's in LA, but those in the know, there is only one transcendental establishment by that name: The Owl Cafe in San Antonio, New Mexico, inventor of the green chile cheeseburger.
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Chateau Du-Val, La Fountaine and the Heinsbergen Studio
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The La Fountaine https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j...35017%2BPM.jpg lafontainewesthollywood.com The Chateau Du-Val https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-K...34645%2BPM.jpg gsv The beautifully laid bricks of the Heinsbergen Studio. The faces of the bricks stand proud of the mortar which gives texture and visual interest https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-D...33013%2BPM.jpg gsv Thx e_r for your post on Ennis House and Female (1933) |
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