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I like to try and decipher the marquees of theatres and th elike in many NLA photos. It took awhile, but most of the above ABC marquee finally came to me. The top line of the front of it says: "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" (then the next two words I do not know.) The second line reads: Starring Ozzie - Harriet - David & Ricky Nelson |
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Feb. 20, 1949 – David and Ricky Nelson start playing themselves on the radio show. [The original Nelson radio show began in 1944, with actors for the 2 boys.]. It looks like Ricky is in the process of getting his teeth straightened. Its hard to believe they're all deceased. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse202c630.jpg ABC archives |
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In the blue colored square you can see parking spaces there. On the north end you see a wall. This is a cyclorama painted to look like the sky. Paramount occasionally floods this entire parking lot area and uses it to film things in where water and sky is needed. Offhand, I don't know anything that's filmed there except that I read once (if true) that the first Gilligan's Island reunion film used it for some scenes. I was invited by a friend to a film screening on the lot once and this is where we parked. As you might expect, it is recessed. I do not recall that the bottom was painted blue at the time, though. |
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A rare glimpse
"Neighborhood Palm trees destroyed for Figueroa St. exit, circa 1937." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/913/jxLDvy.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Neighborhood...item5415e8af99 I imagine the two people examining the trees live in the houses in the background. Maybe oldstuff can use their last names (shown below) and figure out the addresses. reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/4eYJt0.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/Hy56nP.png So what exit are they talking about? -isn't 1937 too early for highway construction? __ |
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Good job on the 7 million views Hollywood Star CityBoyDoug. __ |
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There was a customer where I worked that I talked to frequently back in the 80's and 90's and one day I was watching this film "Macao" and noticed the costume designer's name was the same name as his, so I asked him if that was him. Sure enough, it was. The same year of 1952 he also did the costumes for the film Clash By Night, which starred Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe. He proceeded to tell me about a party he held at his home that he invited Marilyn to attend. He said she was quite shy and didn't think she'd go...be uncomfortable not knowing anyone etc. (For various reasons I know of, I'm assuming that this party was mostly his gay friends and acquaintances.) She did show up at his door. She wouldn't come in until Michael came to the door and escorted her in. (She felt comfortable with him because she knew him.) He said she was smartly attired in a black and white outfit, complete with a hat featuring a large red feather sticking out of it. He said that the boys were agog. LOL! I wish there were circumstances that I could have talked to him more at length! Much less working with her, but imagine giving a party and having Marilyn Monroe show up! |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ieldFlags1.jpg Detail of picture in Huntington Digital Library An article on ladailymirror.com includes the undated picture below. It clearly shows two flags flying. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ieldFlags2.jpg ladailymirror.com, courtesy of Mary Mallory |
"Car 1405 on Ave. 28 and Figueroa, circa 1955."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/VdHozJ.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOS-ANGELES-...item58ba3880ae The first thing that caught my eye was the large barn-like building down the street. I was surprised to see that it's still there in the current view, as are the two buildings on the corner that once housed a liquor store on the left and an Italian-American Market on the right. (shown below) today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/905/0mE1W3.png GSV Here's a closer look.- It certainly looks like a substation. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/HTHmxb.png GSV detail ...and here's the opposite end on the corner of Avenue 28 and Huron. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/nmrxYx.png GSV detail __ After a couple google searches...this is in fact, the old Los Angeles Railway Huron Substation built in 1906. It is the second oldest surviving substation in the city. It housed equipment to convert high-voltage electricity supplied by the Edison Company to the 600 volts current used by the L.A. Railways "Yellow Cars." Here are some interior photographs. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/QkjSdz.png http://www.huronsubstation.com/Welcome.html http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/913/jmOc9j.png http://www.huronsubstation.com/Welcome.html More photographs here: http://www.huronsubstation.com/Photos_-_Interior.html __ My next mission is to find out what this classical looking building is at the end of the street. (a library? school? civic building?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/904/SPgHYj.jpg eBay today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/mfIvJP.png GSV from a couple of block closer. (what we're looking at is a curved wall at a MTA Maintenance Center) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/GLp302.png |
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Rather than "Figueroa St. exit", I think it may say "Figueroa St. ext" as in "extension". From Wikipedia, "The Figueroa Street Viaduct, connecting the Riverside Drive intersection with North Figueroa Street (then Dayton Avenue) across the Los Angeles River, opened in mid-1937,", so could this be another 1937 extension to Figueroa? I'll have another Google ... |
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Underwater undertakers? 1921 - A wet Hotel Antler http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...2F4GKY1325.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...2F4GKY1325.jpg |
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The following is a transcript from an episode of a 1987 BBC documentary series called The RKO Story: Tales from Hollywood, plus a couple of frame grabs showing BBC's recreation of the scene. The man telling the story is Mario Zamparelli, a painter and graphic artist who worked for Howard Hughes when Hughes was running RKO. Zamparelli relates an incident involving a painting he made to promote the 1951 RKO film His Kind of Woman, starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. "[Hughes] had the painting made. He liked it very very much. And then one day I was told that a brilliant idea had come up, and I asked what was this about. They said, 'Well, we're going to do something very special.' So at the RKO lot...I didn't see this being constructed, but I saw it being moved at two o'clock in the morning. And this was to a site at the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire Boulevard, directly across from The May Company. There was a large parking lot there and a restaurant which no longer exists. And they put on that corner a huge gilded frame, like a masterpiece if you will. This was all framed, gold-leafed, and the center was going to house my painting, twenty, thirty times the size of the original, if not a hundred times the size. It was enormous! The painting was completed. But while that was going on, people were passing by, cars were going by and they were monitoring how many vehicles would pass the corner. Mr. Hughes had an idea that to emphasize the concept of the hottest combination ever to hit the screen, they would have two or three or four large gas jets throw flames up into the air about twenty or thirty feet high."http://40.media.tumblr.com/3b121b876...rtso1_1280.jpg http://40.media.tumblr.com/147c30289...rtso2_1280.jpg [Source: BBC] "Now everybody thought this was marvelous, and that it would certainly be an exciting event to have this happen. And these gas jets would go up, they would be programmed every so many minutes to flame up. And I was there, and I saw all the gas people come and all the pipes were being put up, and the tests were being made with short gas jets, and the publicity people were there. And while all of that was going on, a phone call came: 'Stop everything.' Well it seemed that there was something on the docket that we were not aware of; it came out in the newspapers later. Some kind of dealings with Hughes and the city fathers, well advised that maybe they would have been very irate that this was going on, and the possibility that those jets going up into the air would be prone for accidents from motorists passing by who wouldn't expect that thing to occur. And [Hughes] just said, 'I just wanted you to know, Zampi...' (he used to call me Zampi), he said 'I want you to know Zampi that sometimes things happen where we just have to change plans.' So I guess I had a very sad look on my face, you know. So he made a fist and bumped me on the jaw and said, 'You gotta learn to roll with the punches.' And I said, 'Yes, Mr. Hughes.' "Could it be the same frame? I suspect as much. Could it possibly be the same corner as well? |
:previous: Great find Handsome_Stranger! -very interesting.
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I just found this photograph that shows the Parmount Gate and a Marathon street sign. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/JyjNkA.png from our pal gsjansen at https://www.flickr.com/photos/334551...0375/lightbox/ Here's a great MAP as well. The apartment building I pointed out yesterday is labeled 'Valentino'. -I also see 'B' Tank mentioned earlier today by Martin_Pal. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/n15DaO.jpg http://www.retroweb.com/tv_studios_and_ranches.html below: The large fountain where Bronson and Marathon used to meet. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/tL5JPl.jpg http://www.retroweb.com/tv_studios_and_ranches.html The Paramount Gate under construction in 1925. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/0NG5O7.png http://www.paramountstudios.com/ __ Sooooooo this brings me to my new question. When did the iconic gate lose all that fancy architectural ornament that used to be on top. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/913/Mm8Tf3.jpg http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/523622.html The ornament in question, can be seen in this very noirish photograph of the Paramount Gate. Note the wet streets. All that's missing is someone in the shadows smoking a cigarette, .....or a dead body. ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/913/x2YKrb.jpg http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/523622.html In this exceptional photograph we're looking west down Marathon. (date unknown) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/D3cs7f.png http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/gbjVeZ.png http://toutlecine.challenges.fr/imag...de-cinema.html below: The same gate in 1961 without the ornament. posted yesterday by Handsome_Stranger. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/ZO8OOZ.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25033 Do you think the ornament was lost due to earthquake liability? How else were they able to shave off the top of one of the most famous symbols of Hollywood? __ |
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Santa Fe Avenue Update
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Recently as redevelopment takes hold in the Arts District, the landscape has been dramatically changed by the completion of the multi-residential and commercial building known as One Santa Fe by Michael Maltzan. The view along Santa Fe Avenue today: http://i.imgur.com/2mG0t2B.png Image from: http://onesantafeliving.com The perspective is higher and likely taken from a helicopter a bit east of the 1929 image. The SCI-Arc structure ends just north on East 3rd Street. My office is situated another block north and can be seen in the current photo. |
Revisiting what was La Grande Station on Santa Fe Avenue
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http://i.imgur.com/b2FscFG.png Source: http://www.onesantafeliving.com/los-...t-home/photos/ In the present day photo, First Street is shown along the left border going east over the 1st Street Bridge. Vignes Street intersects 1st at photo's lower left. Following Vignes to the right (south), we see 2nd Street going east to hit Santa Fe Avenue as a T intersection where it meets, not the La Grande Station, but the new One Santa Fe residential/commercial complex. None of the buildings from the 1924 image apparently remain. Although in the modern photo, several buildings, including the Newberry Apartments (the brick structure at the lower left of the photo, on the southeast side of Vignes and 1st Street, are holdovers from as early as 1909. |
:previous: Really interesting 'before and afters' jtown. Good job!
That new project is amazing. It's like a skyscraper lying on it's side. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/sqUg35.png GSV http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/IzYmaH.png GSV __ 2007 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/ikC7Fa.png GSV 2014 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/QzZEee.png GSV |
1960s slide.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/7yTZhv.jpg eBay ...and today. The mid-century awnings are still in place. (but it's one-story neighbor appears to be struggling...somewhat unusual for Wilshire Blvd.) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/Ml9CKK.png GSV __ |
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