Nope, not North Hollywood. That's St. Mary Magdelen in Camarillio. The road the cars are on is US 101.

Solution: Train the Sydney Parrots to prey on Funnel Web Spiders
 

Funnel web spiders are huge and menacing and venomous. The scourge of the Sydney area. But I think a parrot could win in a fight. They just might relish them. Train parrots to eat the nasty spiders. They would be heros in Sydney.

BillinGlendaleCA; That's St. Mary Magdelen in Camarillio. The road the cars are on is US 101.

Dedication of St. Mary Magdalen Church on July 4, 1913... 2532 E. Ventura Blvd....picturesque photo of the faithful gathered at the portal or Porta Sancta of the new House of Worship.

http://media.jrn.com/images/666652_3....0_640_480.jpghttps://i1.wp.com/www.beyondtheacorn...size=600%2C360
http://media.jrn.com/images/666652_3....0_640_480.jpg

:previous:

I thought I'd do a "then and now" aerial comparison of the St. Mary Magdalen Church location. The first, from 1952, seems to match e_r's picture quite well. I've arrowed where I think the photographer was standing.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
mil.library.ucsb.edu
Flight ID: AXI-1952, Frame: 1K-36, Date: December 14, 1952.

The 101, as mentioned by BillinGlendaleCA, really changed the layout.

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

Give me your tired, your psittacine
 

Perhaps there is a problem in Australia with illegal alien bird species, but bear in mind that according to Wikipedia, there are 18 parrot species endemic to Australia, and that is not to mention all the cockatoo, conure and lorikeet species.

I'm still looking for the first building, but the other two are still standing. The one with the thick "stripes" of brick and stone is the USC Fisher Museum of Art. The trees along Exposition Boulevard make it difficult to get a good view, so here's an aerial.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Buildings1.jpg
Google Maps

The other brick/stone building is the Allan Hancock Foundation Building. The Googlemobile can't get close, so I've gone for an aerial again (this time looking east). Older aerial views show a large radio mast on the roof.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Buildings2.jpg
Google Maps

re: Double Indemnity
 

https://imageshack.com/a/img923/1059/L353xk.gif

there's your man...sittin' in the chair.

How about this - the corner of today's Trousdale Parkway and Hellman Way, where VKC Library is now located.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fX...X=w860-h772-no

The building in the center of this 1960 aerial might match. It's two buildings together like the slide (second building of slightly different height at the left edge of the slide). The background building from the perspective of the photo is potentially correct, and the foreground island dividing a street is also a match.

What say you?

A bit more on origins of the Fisher museum is here: 3043 Wilshire Boulevard

A bit more on the origins of the Hancock museum is here: 3189 Wilshire Boulevard

As I go through my recently found cache of photos I took from 1983-1985, I keep an eye out for items which conceivably could be of interest to NLA.

Here, remarkably coincidentally, is a picture of a Conure eating fruit on one of my Catalina Cherry trees. It happens to be widely acknowledged as the world's worst photo of a Conure.

https://s26.postimg.org/qm7pnytdl/Conure_L.jpg
odinthor collection, embarrassment division.

Not to be outdone, about the same time I took the world's worst photo of Burbank Studios:

https://s26.postimg.org/ab7lroyw9/BurbankL.jpg
odinthor collection, embarrassment division.

Diversifying my talents, I then went to Santa Monica and took the world's least interesting picture of the corner of a building:

https://s26.postimg.org/xco6xgtex/StaMon4L.jpg
odinthor collection, embarrassment division.

All of this was very tiring, so I stayed in Santa Monica and took some nicer pix:

https://s26.postimg.org/anyzxwjqx/StaMon1L.jpg
odinthor collection.

https://s26.postimg.org/bq96ggppl/StaMon2L.jpg
odinthor collection.

And I leave you with this kind Santa Monican gastronomic invitation:

https://s26.postimg.org/ith1w3xq1/EatedL.jpg
odinthor collection.

re: Fisher Museum of Art / George Allan Hancock Foundation Building
 

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/2cYv9p.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/ITOBk0.jpg
:previous: Good ol' Hoss comes through :). Thanks buddy.




The photograph below shows the north side of the Hancock Foundation Building facing Childs Way.

"Merrell Gage bas reliefs, photographed in 1958."

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/9FXnyz.jpg
publicartinla

The large bas reliefs depict animal discoveries at the La Brea Tar Pits.




The reliefs are still there, but rather difficult to see because of the trees.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/HfGS8o.jpg
gsv (the google-obile stopped at this point so I couldn't get any closer)


Hancock, an avid naturalist, constructed the building to provide facilities for zoological and botanical research, which included six levels of fireproof storage for specimens.

He also installed a telescope...which I believe is still visible on the roof.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ICmpIp.jpg
gsv




And as a friendly reminder and a f.y.i. to newcomers:

The Hancock Foundation Building also contains four rooms preserved from the Hancock family mansion that was once located on the northeast corner Wilshire & Vermont.

Here's a sampling

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Ihmkg5.jpg
bigorangelandmarks


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/AMfi88.jpg
bigorangelandmarks

always amazed by these rooms!

The rooms are in the southeast wing of the Hancock Foundation Building, which serves as a museum and memorial to Hancock's mother.

(we covered the mansion and the rooms earlier in the thread)

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I just noticed something.

Any idea what the tower was for on the roof of the Hancock Building?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/9FXnyz.jpg




Here's another view that includes the tower.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/y4dHf0.jpg
usc insidesocial


I just rechecked Google Earth...the tower is no longer there.

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:previous: It's the tower for the KUSC radio antenna, built in 1946.

Concerning a book and movie we talk about on NLA from Time to Time:

CBS Orders a Pilot for Its L.A. Confidential TV Series

https://www.avclub.com/cbs-orders-a-...ies-1822686297

mystery building
 

I say....that's a very good possibility ProphetM

but I'm not sure if it has that wedged corner that you see in the 1949 slide.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/sOboqf.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/favqFb.jpg

it could be there in your aerial, but it's just a bit too blurry to be 100% sure.

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Nice pic e_r and good eye ProphetM!

Here, above the lower left corner, is an angled view of the same building. If you zoom in at the link, you can
see the building's wedged corner, plus the window pattern seems to match, as does the building behind:

Thanks for the follow-ups on the mystery pic WS1911....BillinGlendaleCA....and CityBoyDoug.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/O4xKo8.jpg

with your help I now know the photo is an image from a 'book'...you can read the caption below.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/uWXi2n.jpgno mention of Camarillo though
i.pinimg

& for some reason, this large church is called a chapel :shrug:.

The actual St. Mary Magdalene Church is located at 25 N Las Posas Rd, Camarillo.

The large St. Mary Magdalene Chapel was built as a private place of worship for the Camarillo family [1914]. That might be why it's considered a chapel.



Here is a look inside the beautiful chapel.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/r63JwB.jpg
yelp


Thanks for this pic CBD.

Nah, I grew up in Thousand Oaks and my dad worked at Pt. Mugu; so we went by there a lot.

Yep, that's it FW! It even has the rounded side door towards the back.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/n4FmTd.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/CIGXlV.jpg
1949 kodachrome slide

Mission accomplished!

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Helicopter Clips USC Radio Tower, Lands on Campus

A helicopter made a forced landing on the USC campus Saturday morning after the pilot,
blinded by the sun, clipped a radio tower and hit a tree, police said. No one was injured.

The pilot of the Sikorsky chopper suffered only a cut on the nose, and a passenger escaped injury
when the craft came to rest in an intersection on the campus at about 7:30 a.m., Lt. Tom Runyen said.
Neither was immediately identified.

Part of the helicopter's rotor was sheared off when the craft hit KUSC-FM's radio tower, Runyen said.
Metal debris and pieces of a tree hit the walls of a nearby dorm and scattered over several blocks.

May 1, 1987