(Colorado Blvd. was Route 66, right?)[/QUOTE]

Correct.

http://atombobs.com/wp-content/uploa...02/fizzies.jpg

Fizzies fizzled in the 1970's, had a very short revival in the 1990's and then again in the 2000's and, to my surprise, were available until about a year ago when they were discontinued again, though some online retailers are still selling them!

I remember these things. It seemed to me us kids were more interested in playing with them than in drinking what I remember as having a pretty nasty taste.

Fans of the Hotel Antlers--and, deep inside, who isn't a fan of the Hotel Antlers?--will be interested in this bit of ephemera I picked up. Front, and the back with its jottings.

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psa9danrys.jpg
odinthor collection

This poor suffering man woke up at 4 a.m. to tell us of another fizzy product of the era, this one on the medical side of things.

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psz1tqrkrg.jpg
http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/medicine-ads-1950s/13

Fizrin was a familiar sight in my parental household. I well remember the feeling of tearing open the metallic packets; and the product actually had a rather refreshing taste.

The LA Radium Craze
 

We've discussed LA's radium quackery before. I don't recall this ad. The item seems to cure just about anything except ingrown toenails.
I think that I would prefer Fizrin.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psvylkyif2.jpg
file CD

Fizzies fizzled....lol. I see what you did there.

Yes, this is what I was thinking of Martin Pal.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/wuHqid.jpg
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/newsad99.jpg



Here's a short Fizzies commercial.

• Video Link

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While I was looking for more information for odinthor's 'Fizzrin', I came across the Sputnik themed Fizz-Nik'.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/9mRJvB.jpg
fizznikrick / pinterest

"Fizz Niks, popular in the early 1960s, were plastic orbs made with a short straw-like opening on each end.
They screwed open to hold a scoop of ice cream, and when closed back up one end went into a glass soda pop bottle.
You'd then sip through the straw on top for an "'instant' ice cream float."

"The name and shape were inspired by the Soviet "Sputnik" satellite." (I thought so! :))

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I was somewhat confused by this product.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...924/KRk8WX.jpg
detail

I hope to God that's a mirror.:previous:





These aren't radioactive, but they look like they could be.

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ebay


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ebay


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That illustration on the side looks like a stick of dynamite.

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Now for something a bit noirish.

Arrested, October 15, 1948

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ebay



below: I'm hoping someone can help decipher was this says.

Something about...Earl Carroll...vagrancy....marijuana.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/WgasYe.jpg
reverse

I believe it mentions that one of the girls (Vicki Evans on the right) was involved in the notorious drug arrest with Robert Mitchum a month earlier. (see below)





http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/04SDXm.jpg
http://framework.latimes.com/2014/10...na-charges/#/0

Sept. 1, 1948: Scene after police took four people into custody on charges of marijuana use. From left: policeman, actress Lila Leeds,
real estate agent Robin Ford, actor Robert Mitchum and dancer Vickie Evans with her back to the camera.

This photo was published in the Sept. 2, 1948, Los Angeles Times.
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From the Times article:

Sept. 1, 1948: Actor Robert Mitchum, age 31, and starlet Lila Leeds were reportedly caught smoking marijuana
during a police raid at the actress’ Hollywood Hills home. Two others were also arrested.

Mitchum told police that he and another friend were in the neighborhood looking to buy a house when they stopped
to visit Leeds and her roommate, dancer Vickie Evans.

The actor said he had trouble finding the home on Ridpath Drive, which one narcotics agent described
as “ideally situated to be a ‘reefer resort.’ It is perched on a hillside, with no near neighbors, and well-screened by shrubbery.”

Mitchum said: “The girls let us in and five minutes later Vickie went to answer the door and the police entered.”

Following his arrest, the actor “was by turns as full of remorse as one would expect from a top-bracket star,” the newspaper said.
“At other times he was full of philosophy as one might expect from an up-from-the-ranks player who once said he arrived in California
by bus with his wife and only $26.”
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:previous: Does anyone know the address of the house on Ridpath Drive? (the one the police referred to as a "reefer resort")

Ridpath Drive in Red
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/agAqIA.jpg
Google_Earth

I realize we've covered bit and pieces of this ordeal earlier in NLA, but it's been years ago.



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http://www.historic66.com/california/ca32.gifHistoric66.com

I don't remember seeing this sign downtown before...?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarki...774dc6b0_d.jpg
Waymark

A long shot view of where the sign is located:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-waymarki...52d7500b4b.jpgWaymark

Apparently Route 66 has altered it's route in a fashion here and there over the decades.

http://www.historic66.com/california/ca33.gifHistoric66.com

Satellite view: The red line is Route 66. I believe the caption indicated the purple line was just the shortest route from downtown to Santa Monica. I don't know about the yellow line.

https://664me.files.wordpress.com/20...nica.png?w=940Glalagi Driving Simulator

I was wondering if other parts of Los Angeles commemorate Route 66 and its history? I know of three "Historic Route 66" markers in West Hollywood.

In 2010, in conjunction with the Museum of Neon Art, the city had an exhibition placed along the median on Santa Monica Blvd. of some neon road signs, originally fond along Route 66. There were also color brochures distributed with locations of current neon signs along the route still in existence.

I wish the neon exhibition was still here. A few photos:

http://www.route66world.com/wp-conte...66-lights3.jpgRoute66World

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GIchwvJ-aN...ghts+night.jpgJason in Hollywood

Day to night shots of the swimmer. Afterwards, this was relocated to the pool in West Hollywood Park. That area is going through a remodel so it may not be there right now.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GIchwvJ-aN...mmer+light.jpg

http://laist.com/assets_c/2010/08/IM...uto-536154.jpgLAist

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GIchwvJ-aN...ghts+night.jpgJason in Hollywood

This was my favorite:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GIchwvJ-aN...esta+night.jpgJason in Hollywood

Yes - plenty to digest. Chew slowly.




Hofbrau Garden - Parking across from Muller Bros.
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1540 Vine - Sam Luger's Used Cars - was of passing interest to Al Eisenstaedt's Life Lens in '36 or later.

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1560 Vine - Otto K Olesen Illumination (Arc Lights)
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6465 Sunset Charles Rickerhauser
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5816 Hollywood Blvd - Repossessed Furniture
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Cahuenga and Hollywood Blvd. looking west.
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Hollywood Maryland Grill
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Cahuenga and Hollywood Blvd. looking west. Bette Davis - in a Warner production at a Warner house ( 6425 Hollywood Blvd.)
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1720 Taft Ave. - Hallsworth Apts
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Broadway Hollywood
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Left turn ok!
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Iv[ar] Market
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1717 Ivar Hartford Rentacar (note windmill :previous: in background)
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Macmillan Gas had listed stations at 8118 Beverly Blvd and 9601 Wilshire in 1936, but they were clearly supplying other stations, near Hollywood and Vine.
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NoirCityDame's gaze toward those who fail to attribute. ;) http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=33723
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I'm bushed.
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Me too.

Exact location unk
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Notre Dame mock up on the RKO Encino Lot
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This is Sunset, looking east...the street at right is Mariposa. While it looks much different now...that old house at the sec of Sunset & Mariposa is still there... built in 1916....


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Gq...w=w987-h648-no


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/e-...=w1364-h540-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TQ...=w1078-h696-no

Some of the newspapers at the time quoted the caption almost verbatim, so I believe it says:

HOLLYWOOD, CAL.: Deputy sheriffs of the anti-vice squad swooped down on the Vet's Club, an "after hours" nightspot, at four a.m. this morning(10/1), nabbing 27 men and 9 women who were taken to the county jail for booking on either gambling or vagrancy charges. Among those taken were Earl Carroll Show Girl Marie L'Angelle (L) and Dancer Vicki Evans (R). Ms Evans was one of four arrested a month ago in a marijuana raid involving actor Robert Mitchum. The girls are shown as they awaited booking in the county jail.

Reminds me of an old post of mine--the right image is a special favorite:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ms...=w1159-h477-no


From post 6897 (2012)

I'm wondering about the above photo; I would assume this was in Hollywood, but the telephone exchange would tell me otherwise. I thought HE was HEmlock, one of the exchanges for Long Beach or the Long Beach area? I could be wrong...

Here's another of Julius Shulman photosets from Beverly Hills. It's "Job 1924: Anderton Court Center (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1955". The full set includes more photos of the front from different angles.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

A view from the roof showing the balconies. In the background, there's a Richfield gas station.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

This is the only interior shot in the set.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

I'll finish with this rear view of the spike.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

The description tells us two details which aren't in the title: the building is at 332 North Rodeo Drive, and it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The spike has lost its tip, but the rest of the building has only been slightly modified.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
GSV

An article at dangerousminds.net names the address as 8443 Ridpath Drive. The current view below shows a house set on the hillside above the roadway. There's a 1948 view at Historic Aerials (the same year as the arrest), but it's too blurry to make out much other than that there weren't many other houses on the north side of Ridpath Drive.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
Google Maps

I could also be wrong. "HE" was also an abbreviation for HEmpstead and other possible exchange nicknames.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names Per relevant CDs, The Hollywood Furniture Co. was located at the printed address from at least '29 through the '39 and maybe longer. :shrug:















Although I vaguely remember Fizzies, I remember thinking they were not much more than Bromo-Seltzer or Alka Seltzer (without the bromine or sodium bicarbonate) for kids. Of course the name, Bromo-Seltzer, was a staple for virtually every early drug store pictured on NLA.

Bromo Seltzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlU_Ij51_Is

Buster Keaton pushes Alka Seltzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTT1TSdWjkQ



Lik-M-Aid
https://www.oldtimecandy.com/walk-th...-m-aid-fun-dip