Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8351869)

To drop names. I sort of met Peggy Lee one time. We were standing next to each other in the Lobby of the Religious Science Church waiting for Dr. Holmes to emerge from his office. This was 1959. She had arrived alone. It was just her and me.

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 8352257)

Looking from Wall Street between 8th and 9th Streets, early 1930s

https://i.postimg.cc/bwkVgD83/Lookin...th-Streets.jpg
[source: California Historical Society]

Some of you may already be aware if this...but if you're not, let me share:

The California Historical Society's Digital Library has a superb collection of photographs showing Los Angeles (and some nearby cities) in 1932-1933. All are from one photographer, Anton Wagner.

There are 439 (!!) photos in the collection. Here's a link. Clicking on "Clip Image" at the top of any image will reveal a link to let you freely download a relatively high resolution jpg copy.

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 8352257)

Looking from Wall Street between 8th and 9th Streets, early 1930s

https://i.postimg.cc/bwkVgD83/Lookin...th-Streets.jpg
[source: California Historical Society]

Some of you may already be aware if this...but if you're not, let me share:

The California Historical Society's Digital Library has a superb collection of photographs showing Los Angeles (and some nearby cities) in 1932-1933. All are from one photographer, Anton Wagner.

There are 439 (!!) photos in the collection. Here's a link. Clicking on "Clip Image" at the top of any image will reveal a link to let you freely download a relatively high resolution jpg copy.

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8352149)

And??? :whisper:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8352538)

I have a two questions concerning this postcard.

#2 Can a lily pad really float with two kids on it? (or have they been superimposed into the pic)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/1CukHf.jpg
originally from ebay Giant Lily in Johnson Garden, Hollywood Cal

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8352538)

Where the heck is/was Johnson Garden? :shrug:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/1CukHf.jpg
originally from ebay Giant Lily in Johnson Garden, Hollywood Cal

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8352538)

#2 Can a lily pad really float with two kids on it?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6130885)

Have we discussed this tunnel-like entrance below the Los Angeles County Courthouse? (circled in red)

http://imageshack.us/a/img834/1913/a...nnellikeen.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...oll65/id/20104




Was this the entrance used to transport prisoners into the courthouse? (or perhaps for coal trucks and other maintenance vehicles)




the complete photograph from ebay
http://imageshack.us/a/img541/9382/a...in1928ebay.jpg

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 4974649)

http://a.imageshack.us/img291/7433/l...ionbroacas.jpg
j_journal


Above: The Cadillac dealership at 7th and Bixel where on December 23, 1931, Don Lee's W6XAO launched
one of the country's first regular television broadcasts.





Below: The 1939 plan for the Don Lee studio/transmitter atop Mt. Lee.

http://a.imageshack.us/img153/1124/11donlee.jpg
http://a.imageshack.us/img291/3852/11donlee2.jpg
earlytelevision.org

A less grandiose studio/transmitter was eventually built.


below: A 1941 postcard of the Mt. Lee broadcasting station.

http://a.imageshack.us/img153/1880/1...41postcard.jpg
earlytelevision.org



Below: Much to my surprise, there was actually a pool up on Mt. Lee.

http://a.imageshack.us/img225/1571/1...eepool1939.jpg
earlytelevision.org

Above: A 1939 telecast from the swimming pool located at the new W6XAO studios/transmitter situated on Mt. Lee atop the Hollywood Hills


Here is the very interesting link.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/w6xao.html

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8351805)

anyone familiar with Russian?


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/SlrZYd.jpg


What the heck is going on outside of Ciro's in this photograph?

The site where I found the image was translating, but by the time I got to this Peggy Lee pic the translation-machine was kaput.

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 8350690)

Perry Mason Friday: Residential mysteries

https://i.postimg.cc/PxkSWKrv/pmmysteryhouse11-bmp.jpg
Mystery house 2

All cbs.com

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 7738259)

Noirishers will like to linger on the thought that there was another branch of Clifton's Cafeteria at Lakewood Center. That place was very dear to me; and I was literally stunned when one day, after it chanced I hadn't been there for about a year, I parked to eat there and the familiar Clifton's sign wasn't where it should have been!!! Bah. The location had a somewhat dim basement "lounge"--basically a restroom foyer with pay phones and plastic plants. Probably the idea was to get people who wanted to have a phone conversation away from the clatter of the plates and glassware in the dining area (as well as to get the sound of flushing away from the diners). The wooden stairs would squeak as you trod on them; and, in the close atmosphere in the foyer, there was always a smell of vinyl from the upholstery of the couches along the wall. Upstairs, in the dining area, for a long time they'd have a live organist playing off and on to entertain the customers. My earliest memory of the place--when I was quite young indeed--was that my family brought me there on my birthday, for which such occasions they'd provide a free cake with the celebrant's name on it. They brought the cake, and . . . it had the name of some unknown girl on it. There's a good side to that incident, though, as my therapists have benefited from it for decades. :koko: