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:previous: That is a fantastic article, Lwize.
This is a cool little auto shop specializing in CAR RADIOS. ....I especially like the large antenna on top of the building. Seller's description:...."1930's 4 x 5" Negative...CHIP'S Auto Radio Shop, Los Angeles, California" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/FPH825.jpg eBay The seller gives a more precise location. . . "B/W film photo negative showing Chip's Auto Radio, Overland at Venice in L.A." The building doesn't appear to be on a corner so maybe it was in the vicinity of Overland & Venice Blvd. :shrug: There are still small buildings in the area that might be Chip's old building. note - Ernest 'someone' had a plumbing store next door.....Aso note the Coca-Cola machine just inside the garage door. . |
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The Chips Auto Radio van in the picture says 3775 Overland at Venice. https://i.imgur.com/1cg0Rvk.jpg GSV Chips is gone and Ernest I. Newton was the plumber next door in the picture. It was still under the Newton name on GSV in 2011 but has changed since then. https://i.imgur.com/SObxDYI.jpg The 1930's dating on the picture is likely off the mark as Ernest Newton set up his business in 1946. |
Thanks Noir Noir! :)
I just found another negative that the same seller just placed on eBay. I wonder if this could be the interior of Chip's Auto Radio Shop? SELLER'S VAGUE DESCRIPTION:...."NEGATIVE...SHOP INTERIOR, RADIO SERVICE, DIFFERENT RADIOS, PARTS." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/1TOT3R.jpg The young man has his name on his white shirt. . . .but I can't tell if it says Chip. Here's the LINK . |
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Paul Chiappinelli was the owner of the business and the building went up in 1951. A two story extension was added in 1965. It all came down in 2002. |
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Here's a good link to filming locations throughout the film and it has "now" companion photos. Interestingly, none of the several filming location sites show the Beverly Hills Post Office, right next to the Beverly Hills City Hall, which had both an interior and an exterior scene. The post office is now the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com...locations.html |
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https://live.staticflickr.com/8142/2...10f5f8db_b.jpg_8160009-1 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr Main Lobby of the former Post Office: https://live.staticflickr.com/8268/2...cc786116_b.jpg_8160011-1 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr |
Here are a couple more photographs from 1957 1956.
"Vintage Photo 3x5 - Los Angeles Hollywood Restaurant Street Scene 1956." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/4k08np.jpg eBay If I remember correctly, this restaurant was across the street (on SUNSET BLVD.) from the Hollywood Athletic Club. Here's a closer view of the arched entrance. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/PNZHCY.jpg As you can see, this was obviously taken on the same day. (same parked car) Was the name really just 'Gourmet Restaurant'? :shrug: That seems awfully generic. . |
Here's a rare postcard found on eBay a couple weeks ago.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/w2yNRb.jpg eBay As most everyone knows, Wallace Neff is a very important architect, especially in the Los Angeles area. But this rppc must be an advertisement for Barber Over-Head-Garage Doors. search purposes: ...928 Alden Drive, Beverly Hills Cal. |
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Pulvio (Paul) Chippanelli was born in 1927 in Connecticut. There is a high school yearbook photo of him from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1943 who looks like the radio guy. He was married in Los Angeles in 1953 to a Clelia B Mangiameli. Maybe that is his wife in the photo |
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It had vacuum windshield wipers I liked to operate at high-speed until one of the blades flew off and disappeared....we never found it. |
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The Pekin Cafe of L.A. (a Pekin Cafe in Long Beach has been mentioned previously on the thread):
https://i.postimg.cc/jqMSS815/Pekin-Recto001.jpg odinthor collection https://i.postimg.cc/cLnxTdLg/Pekin-Verso001.jpg odinthor collection More on the Pekin Cafe and 419 S. Main in due course . . . |
More on 419 S. Main and the Pekin Cafe:
https://i.postimg.cc/Z5xTXV64/Pekin-Her3-1-99c.jpg LA Herald, 3/1/1899 https://i.postimg.cc/2jLCCznH/Pekin-LAT2-28-00.jpg LA Times, 2/28/1900 https://i.postimg.cc/X7cSvXqg/Pekin-LAT11-1-02.jpg LA Times, 11/1/1902 https://i.postimg.cc/6qrST1WQ/Pekin-Her2-22-09.jpg LA Herald, 2/22/1909 https://i.postimg.cc/cJzPznkd/Pekin-Her9-9-09.jpg LA Herland, 9/9/1909 https://i.postimg.cc/02vFhxnK/Pekin-LAT3-22-11.jpg LA Times, 3/22/1911 I leave out the various burglaries, thefts, suicides and so on which happened in the rooming house upstairs; but let's include: https://i.postimg.cc/cL4j4mVs/Pekin-LAT7-4-12.jpg LA Times, 7/4/1912 https://i.postimg.cc/XYHPZ5b9/Pekin-LAT11-4-13.jpg LA Times, 11/4/1913 https://i.postimg.cc/Qt5YnnWq/Pekin-LAT7-20-15.jpg LA Times, 7/20/1915 And so the Pekin Cafe--the name of which seems to have started off as a feeble pun ("Pek-In," which is to say "Peek-In," vs. the city Pekin)--ran from 1909-1915. |
Once in a while, a little Raymond Chandler...
“I used to like this town. A long time ago. There were trees along Wilshire Boulevard. Beverly Hills was a country town. Westwood was bare hills and lots offering at eleven hundred dollars and no takers. Hollywood was a bunch of frame houses on the interurban line. Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style, but goodhearted and peaceful. It had the climate they just yap about now. People used to sleep out on porches. Little groups who thought they were intellectual used to call it the Athens of America. It wasn’t that, but it wasn’t a neon-lighted slum, either.” |
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Fallen Angel...
https://laistassets.scprdev.org/i/4b...415f-eight.jpgGordon Dean/LAPL Well, not fallen, but awaiting to be put up on Van Nuys Blvd., November 24, 1962. You can see one across the street as well. (Yes, there was a time the holiday decorations were not put up so early.) They were 13 feet tall and over 50 of them were put up along Van Nuys Blvd. from Vanowen to Bessemer Street. December 17, 1962 in Van Nuys. https://laistassets.scprdev.org/i/1c...416f-eight.jpgLAPL |
:previous: I see a Dr. Scholl's sign. They treat fallen arches.
Goin' to church in Hollywood. .....At least, I think it's Hollywood. . . , https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/nWbco7.jpg eBay For search purposes:..Richfield Service Station. because. . .unless I'm mistaken, the tall building with the mansard roof is the Fontleroy Apts. update: I was incorrect about the name of the apartment. It's the Fontenoy. . not Fontleroy. Located at 1811 Whitley Avenue. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/zS0Dgp.jpg GSV . |
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Watching the Bradbury Building segment reminded me...I've been watching the CSI:NY series this year, I hadn't while it aired. I knew that with a few exceptions, all of the CSI series episodes were shot in Los Angeles. I remember Gary Sinise on David Letterman one time and he asked Gary how he liked working in New York. Letterman seemed shocked when he told him that they did it in Los Angeles. Sinise said, "Well that's what we do in Hollywood." So watching the series I always wondered if I could spot anything that I knew was L.A. Not really...they did a great job. I'd have a feeling about some streets that they were L.A., but nothing specific. Only by slow motion did I once see a palm tree that whizzed by. However, one episode in the 6th season there was no question about it. The entire opening chase scene was in the Bradbury Building. A little exterior scene followed after the credits. The episode title is Point of View. Later in the same episode they used the Biltmore Hotel, both interiors and exteriors, the roof, although the roof may have been a different building, can you see the Eastern building from the Biltmore roof? |
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