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:previous: Impressive post tovanger2.
To be honest, I thought the LA City Water Co scene looked like a backdrop. (but why go to the trouble of painting LA City Water Co?) I thought this because of the odd raised area (see below). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/v81ndn.jpg detail / youtube And then there's the case of the missing chimney. real life http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...901/E4DQvw.jpg film http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/5YN97u.jpg Even if you account for the slight difference in the camera angle, the chimney is obviously missing. All that said t2, I think the left foreground could very well be the porch of the Olvera Adobe, but with a painted background......maybe. ;) __ |
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:previous: Thanks for the clarification Rick_M.
God I'd love to go down in that basement and snoop around. _ |
"Easy Street" (1917)
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The water company building itself seems problematic. I actually think the chimneys are there, just kinda ghostly-looking. But the signage now seems to be over the two northern-most windows and the windows have frames (plus the building, but not the chimneys, looks awfully dark, like it's been painted) unlike what we saw in 1888: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...8%252520PM.jpg USC Digital Library"] (detail of image previously posted by HossC) I guess this could be set-dressing, but why? In this aerial detail from 1924 the signage matches the 1888 shot (and the 3 chimneys are still there too): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g...7%252520PM.jpg MR (detail) |
:previous: You've made some excellent points tovanger2.
-now that you pointed it out, it's plain as day that the LA City Water Co. sign is above two different arched windows. (of course this could have happened when the sign was repainted sometime between 1888 and 1917) I don't think we'll ever know for sure; but you have to admit, this mixture of fantasy & reality is what makes Los Angeles (and Hollywood) so interesting. You could even say that Los Angeles exists within it's own ethereal reality. ;) __ |
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So, yeah, we can't know. If only those historic google street views went back a couple of hundred years instead of only starting in 2007 :-) |
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died in an auto accident, but I never knew it was at Wilshire and Vermont: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original December 21, 1917 Los Angeles Times @ LAPL If he was eastbound on Wilshire in the westbound lanes, and the other car was going north on Vermont, the accident must have happened right in front of this house: Quote:
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Eric Campbell, Baron Long and the Vernon Country Club
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...5%252520AM.jpg findagrave I wasn't surprised that Campbell got roaring drunk at Baron Long's Vernon Country Club (Santa Fe and 49th) because everybody did: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...7%252520AM.jpg boryanabooks LA Herald, 24 Jan 1917: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C...7%252520AM.jpg Vernon, “Exclusively Industrial” (well, obviously not quite). A river runs through it: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...9%252520AM.jpg google maps We've been down that way before: Quote:
Baron Long had previously gone in with Jim Jefferies (also discussed on the thread) on the boxer's Athletic Club in Vernon. Another colleague was fight-promoter Jack Doyle who built the Central Saloon in Vernon (at Santa Fe and Joy) in 1910. It had a 100-foot bar and 37 bartenders. All three seem to have gone in together to build the famous Vernon Arena, run by Doyle. Even Dempsey fought there: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...6%252520AM.jpg boryanabooks Prohibition didn't really slow Baron Long down, but, in 1929, the Vernon Country Club burned to the ground. Baron Long didn't seem to mind that much. He bought the Biltmore Hotel in 1933 (he'd run a speakeasy there during Prohibition). Baron Long: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...6%252520AM.jpg boryanabooks A fascinating bio of Baron Long is here. Baron Long sounds like a noirisher at heart (only it was San Diego's past he was passionate about). His friend Damon Runyon recalled, "If Baron Long has any hobby other than breeding and racing horses, it is San Diego. He will walk the innocent wayfarer quite bowlegged about the streets of the city, showing him the visible marks of the city’s growth, and he likes to direct the walking along about 3 o’clock in the morning, so that traffic will not impede his progress. He has a mania for old types of architecture. I suppose I gazed upon fifty ancient structures in the old part of the beautiful town one early morning while Baron Long expatiated on their unique attractions, and sleepy cops viewed us with some suspicion." boryanabooks |
:previous: Ha! I was working on my own Vernon Country Club / Baron Long post.
You beat me to it t2! :) One curious item I came across was that the interior of the country club was used in some early silent films, and that Anna May Wong's first acting gig was filmed there. I don't know if this is true or not. At that point in time I was under the impression that almost all the interiors shots were filmed on sets at the studio. __ Ok, I just found where I read it. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...905/1gwvjd.jpg http://boryanabooks.com/?p=1526 Vernon Country Club Dice* http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/CmgYae.jpg eBay / SOLD *I'm not 100% sure these are from the Vernon Country Club in Vernon CA. The seller included a biography of Baron Long, but then states the dice are from Chicago. |
Here are a couple photographs of silent film "villain" Eric Campbell I came across during my research.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/eOmSko.jpg https://alfredeaker.wordpress.com/20...mmigrant-1917/ https://davidnessle.wordpress.com/20...-forenen-eder/ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...631/WeKXrt.jpg :previous: I love this caption. lol -it was 'translated' into English from this: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...911/18ak7j.jpg Thanks for bringing this actor to our attention Flyingwedge. __ |
Today's post is considerably shorter than yesterday's! It's another 1960s Bank of America with an external steel frame. Julius Shulman had to go all the way to the East Coast Highway in Newport Beach to photograph this one. It's "Job 3456: Blurock and Ellerbroek, Bank of America (Newport Beach, Calif.), 1962".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The index numbers of the photos suggest that Julius Shulman took at least five pictures of this location, but the Getty Collection only has two. The second photo shows these adjoining stores which were set at an angle. They included Neal's Sporting Goods and Virginia's "Snip 'n' Stitch" Fabrics. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute In contrast to the Diamond Bar branch, this Bank of America is very much still there. I think only the paint scheme, signage and street furniture have changed. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV The newer signage hides a little of the design of the neighboring stores, but, apart from the little brick wall, they're also relatively unaltered. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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So the action of the short takes place in a London/L.A. composite. The same for example in « City Lights » where we see the Beverly-Wilshire and Pershing Square but the grid of the parc before which the blind girl sells flowers is typically of London... |
:previous: Thanks for the clarification AlvaroLegido.
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Anna May Wong/the Vernon Country Club
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...4%252520PM.jpg wiki (Also, re those "Vernon CC" dice, there was a Mob-run Vernon Country Club outside Chicago in Lake County, so the dice may have been from there.) |
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The look and feel of Easy Street evoke the South London of [Chaplin's] childhood (the name “Easy Street” suggests “East Street,” the street of Chaplin’s birthplace). From Wikipedia: There is no official record of his birth, although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street, Walworth, in South London. I've just taken the Googlemobile for a spin down East Street, and although several sections have been replaced by apartments of varying sizes, there are still plenty of buildings similar to those in 'Easy Street'. |
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Was it a luxury hotel or a quickie motel? It is presently unclear exactly what eventually occurred to the swimming pool and other areas that were evidently determined to have been unpermitted or wrongly permitted and/or illegal. Aerial views might be helpful. There are construction permits for most of the structure and a few of the 1949 permits and plans reference a pool. (Drawings are not particularly legible on my viewer and therefore not reproduced here.) Construction of the pool, was seemingly contemporaneous to the entire structure, and probably not seen as out of the ordinary. :shrug: Per the images below, the structure seems to have gone through name changes, i.e., Country Club Hotel and Hotel Casa Blanca. The '56CD has a listing for the Casa Blanca Hotel at 115 S Beaudry. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/90832/rec/1 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...k.jpg~original https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ia_(80612).jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ia_(80612).jpg http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psbe9crkq2.jpg CardCow Hotel Casa Blanca http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps4mpggplp.jpghttp://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps4mpggplp.jpg |
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1948 - I can see the footprint of the hotel, although it looks like construction has only just started. 1952 - The hotel looks complete (it matches GW's LAPL image above), but the pool area appears larger than later images. 1980 - Not much change. I included it because it's the clearest view. The swimming pool looks like the color postcards above. 1994 - The last image showing the original hotel structure. 2003 - The current building under construction. 2004 - The current building complete. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...e.jpg~original Historic Aerials |
Here's the hotel marquee just a couple weeks ago. Definitely 'Olive' though I don't know any of it's in working order right now.
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Just-digitized by LA City Archives, and posted on YT in glorious 1080p HD for your enjoyment, the Goofus and Gallant of LAPD traffic officers, 1946: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rooQKAUP3YE
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5789/...01762c91_b.jpgup Hill from 5th https://farm1.staticflickr.com/563/2...83496260_b.jpg https://farm1.staticflickr.com/755/2...d6499b57_b.jpgup Grand from Wilshire Dig Tommy at 3:08—"On every corner, there are some things that bear watching." |
"world's largest" -seating capacity 600!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/Xh7NJk.jpg http://www.lamag.com/longform/behold...-new-cliftons/ I knew Clifton's Brookdale had taxidermied mountain lions and faux redwood forests, but I didn't know it had 'Limeade Springs'! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/7zAoYY.jpg Limeade flowing from the rocks! Kids must have loved this! _ As most of you know, Clifton's had it's grand-reopening earlier this week. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/PHKcmj.jpg http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydis...001-story.html I just noticed it doesn't say "Brookdale" above the marquee any longer. I definitely like the addition of "Cabinet of Curiosities". I've read that the renovated interior is amazing. __ |
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