Wow, thanks, HossC! It's great to see that angle of the area... I don't think I've ever seen such a view before!

Do you know what building this one on Main is?

https://i.imgur.com/6QgnsPV.jpg

According to the 1921 Baist map (which, of course, was before Spring was straightened out), it looks like it should be the Lanfranco Building...

https://i.imgur.com/W1rlEta.jpg

... but this image of the Lanfranco Building doesn't seem to match at all:

https://i.imgur.com/LN6EPHn.jpglink

PS: THANK YOU for the information regarding Macy Street and Maxime's!

Thanks for the info, BillinGlendale! It's funny, I used to visit that building all the time (there used to be a photo lab there, right about where the red car is parked) but I didn't even notice it in the clip!

Here are the two clips from the movie that remain unidentified. Anyone else know where they are (or were)..?

I'm interested in Clip #4, but I am really curious about Clip #6 - where in LA can you cross a railroad track like that and end up headed towards City Hall?

No need to bother Mr. Hill, it's 3538 Multiview Dr., there's a tree blocking the view now for a good shot from the Google Street View:
https://i.postimg.cc/Bb21CCMg/ER-Mys...0181024-03.jpgGoogle Street View

The Google 3D view has a better look:
https://i.postimg.cc/3wg5Y4Sq/ER-Mys...0181024-01.jpgGoogle Maps-3D view

Phillippe's.

I color corrected this but I can't figure out how to post the photo here from my desk top.

This is in response to the fruit basket house. I also can't figure out how to delete my messages. What a learning curve!

Sorry - never mind. I will study the FAQ

'mystery' location.

My first thought was...bowling in a church?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/9J5fV1.jpg
EBAY



There is information written [in pencil] on the back...but the names are rather difficult to read.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/d8vU9r.jpg

...but it clearly says Hollenbeck Center 1922.

Does anyone know where this social center and church was located? (obviously, somewhere near Hollenbeck Park)

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Boyle Heights.....Los Angeles vicinity. After finessing a state law that restricted charitable gifts to one third of a person's net worth, Elizabeth Hollenbeck established a trust to build and maintain a home for the elderly on land contiguous to her Boyle Heights garden. In 1892, with former Los Angeles Mayor William Workman, she created Hollenbeck Park across the street from where Morgan and Walls began construction three years later.

https://www.latimes.com/resizer/7Jrj...LEAVOZE3P4.jpgfile old

I seem to remember that good pictures of the building were hard to find. In post #26820, I noted that "the 1927 CD also lists the Bank of Italy (International Branch) at 220 N Main Street." Here's some images from early 2016 (the first two show the building with a later façade):

NB. The full-size version of the first image isn't currently showing in my original post. It's likely to be another Photobucket issue which I'll try to fix later today!

Here's a frame from near the start.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...acyStClip1.jpg

We're starting at Alameda and heading down Macy Street. The image above shows the "BER" of "LUMBER" on the Kerckhoff building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...acyStClip2.jpg
USC Digital Library

It's right on the edge of two Baist plates, which I've merged below. This section of (what was) Macy Street now goes under the tracks coming out of Union Station.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...acyStClip3.jpg
www.historicmapworks.com/www.historicmapworks.com

I arrowed the "elevated booth" in the USC detail. It may have the same purpose as the one posted by MichaelRyerson, which was identified by Wig-Wag as a "switchtender's box for controlling the turning of streetcars".

This is coming from a very non-spiritual person but I would say The Coliseum. It has undergone some changes but I still sense some of the energy from so many big events that elevated L.A.'s status on both the national and world stages.

And the beach, I grew up there and still go several times a week. Change is inevitable and I accept that buildings and businesses come and go. The character of neighborhoods change but one thing that does not is the beach itself. The sand, the water, the waves remain constant. The water, like the air, is actually cleaner than when I was a kid and that's definitely a good thing.

I invited Mr. Hill to join this thread. He said he will check it out. I also ask him about the locations in question.

Hollywood Blvd.
 

I worked in parking lots in Hollywood 50 years ago and it was a cess pool then. It was nice when LAPD would send "Metro" coppers in to clean it up every once in awhile . I could always tell when they were there for the week end, there would be numerous cars on the lots Monday morning that did not belong there normally, the owners were in jail.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...acyStClip3.jpg
Hoss.PBucket

The Alameda St. S.P.R.R. Co. siding is where long trains from Washington State full of Christmas trees were unloaded. One could drive right up to the boxcars full of the freshly cut trees. The most sought after tree was the Silver Tip.

The Methodist Episcopal Church was at 200 N. St. Louis Street.


The Hollenbeck Social Center at 200½ N. St. Louis Street.


https://i.imgur.com/qp3tJht.jpg
rescarta.lapl.org


The buildings were demolished in 1978 for parking space.

Christmas at Macy
 

Not exactly noirish but very fresh and poetical fact. Thanks a lot CityBoy !

Mr. Hill said this was in Silver Lake but doesn't remember the exact location.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/sjWTUS.jpg

Believe it or not, I think this clip starts in the same place as clip #4, but facing in the opposite direction. That would be about where the "M" of "Macy" is marked. The camera car then heads west and turns south onto Main.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AMacyMain1.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

The view above is from November 29, 1933, and I initially discounted this as the correct location because there are buildings dead ahead as the car turns onto Main. Then I checked earlier images which showed the area before Macy was extended to Spring. I've marked the extension on the January 1, 1929 view below. It's a shame the picture doesn't extend slightly north.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AMacyMain2.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

Here's a re-positioned detail of the USC image I posted earlier. I think the tower on the Baker Block (lower-right, below) is visible near the end of the video clip.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AMacyMain3.jpg
USC Digital Library

For anyone who's interested, I posted later pictures of the building on the northeast corner of Macy and Main in post #22221.

And yet your screen name is "Hollywood" Graham...:shrug:


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Yesterday when I was looking up contemporary Hollywood Blvd., I saw a very good video (HD from 35mm) posted this year that I hadn't seen before. It's footage of Hollywood Blvd. from N. Orange Dr., just west of the Chinese Theatre, traveling east to just before the Warner (Pacific) Theatre at Stromberg Jewelers.

Movies on several marquees date the footage to 1966 and two clocks, one digital (First Federal Bldg.) and the other (Stromberg's sidewalk clock), place the time at 10:11 a.m. and it's either 75° or 79°.

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