http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/9CiHjY.jpg

:previous: Good eye Hoss. The Full Moon Inn sign hides the most significant architectural detail.

'mystery' location.


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The white building on the left might be an elementary school. Could the three streetcars be lined up for a field trip excursion?

but I'm mostly curious about the older brick building down the street.

The apartment bldg. at 1515 N Silver Lake Blvd. was reportedly built in 1929 and retains many of the stream line and zig-zag features that took it from being a box to being a box with nice wrapping. ;) Although the photo below doesn't show it, and depending on your viewpoint, some of those features are partially obscured by foliage and neighboring structures.



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:hi:

On the subject of reposts, it is good to know that posters make an effort to determine if an image or subject has received prior exposure on NLA. Realistically, even if the poster has followed this thread from its inception, this is not an easy task, and not just because of the labeling, or lack thereof. It is also good manners and in some instances, the secondary post improves upon the original. In that regard, I would like to commend NLA'ers for the courtesy and respect shown toward the labors of other posters and their sources - even when there is slight disagreement about the topic or an occasional oversight.

One other thing, a special thanks to our friends at the Historic Los Angeles Theaters site who obviously visit this thread. ( https://sites.google.com/site/downto...stheatres/Home ) Not only is the site informative, but they also acknowledge indirect contributions from NLA'ers. Until recently, I was unaware of this. This is a good practice that other sites should follow.

Mr. California - 1947
 

How could this happen? Healthy appearing young man caught up in local chicanery. This was in 1947 at almost the height of the noir era...so I guess this was not all that surprising.
He also uses at least two names whilst doing his business about town.


Gym bunny gives his address as a local bowling alley.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psqw5hel2s.jpg
LAExaminer

More 1946 Hollywood bowling alley badness. "Hey, where's my Coke?" "It's coming dear, just let me step over the dead body."

In Hollywood's La Cienega bowling alley a familiar story reached its climax on Aug. 7, 1946. A professional bowler named Marvin Ashley, who liked one of the waitresses, saw her being escorted home in early morning by Joseph Smith, who worked at a pool hall down the block. He knocked Smith down and blackened his eye. That night, while Ashley sat at the bar, Smith walked in. A moment later Ashley lay dead on the floor, shot in the heart. The 200 customers gathered around, more in curiousity than in fright. The body was covered with a blanket and police were called. Soon the customers went back to their bowling or their drinks. The juke box played on without losing a nickel. Waitresses, passing from bar to tables, walked right past the body -- enabling a Los Angeles Times photographer to take this great picture of a routine 1946 event.

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Those bowlers are tough cookies.:previous:

Found this on eBay the other day.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/467/18...e801c2de_c.jpg

I am quite enamored of the forceful, flowery prose (to Mother Lewis back in Salt Springs, Arkansas):

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Dear Mother,
This Building is the successful result of years of toil and close application and mental (—?). Excepting public buildings and skyscrapers, it is one of the largest and handsomest in this great metropolis and a striking and useful monument to the name of Lewis.


Said name of Lewis now removed from the top story (along, that is, with the top story)—but does "Lewiston Apts" still lurk beneath that awning?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/433/18...83fac90c_c.jpg

Normally I'd think the third story was lost after Sylmar, or maybe Whittier...but the permit to demolish the third story is stamped June of '59. How do I know this? Because I went to THIS AMAZING NEW SITE. Total game changer, this great gift to the historian-at-large.

That's an excellent find Beaudry. The sentiment on the reverse is priceless.

Here's 'Mr. Grand Theft Auto' in a more serious pose CBD.

Eric Pederson, Mr. California 1947. (real name Charles E. Putnam)
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http://www.vintagebodybuilding.com/

...and that photograph of the dead guy at the bowling alley was pretty surreal.
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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;7067579]"This remarkable photograph from a Keystone Cops silent film made around 1918 shows Los Angeles Railway "Maggies" nos. 1 and 7." -Ralph Cantos


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/N89Juk.jpg
http://www.pacificelectric.org/los-a...y-nos-1-and-7/



Looking south on Douglas Street from just above Ridge Way.


If one could find a copy of the Kops and Maggies movie, finding that scene is highly unlikely.
Because it's too sharp to be from a movie frame.
'Stills" of movie scenes were made for tacking in the window boxes at theatres to promote Now Playing and Coming Attractions. They were made on a set, with all the players neatly combed, brushed etc, posed VERY STILL onnacounta the shots were made on 8x10 [black&white, slow] film, at small apertures for maximum sharpness. Once a successful negative [s] was selected it could be rapidly contact printed for distribution. At some point I don't know in time, negatives could be duplicated and each contact printed rapidly.
I wonder if there are still bookstores in Hollywood that sell old stills- it's been decades since I looked

And why Maggies? . Those folks that have kept up with LARy streetcar pictures will note the classic 'five window front' exhibited by hundreds of Mr. Huntington's cars.
The Maggies were substantially shorter however, small in number and are most remembered, or photographed on, the Bonnie Brae line, which was rather steep. Some of the cars were fitted with magnetic track brakes for maximum stopping power in addition to shoes on the wheel treads.
The number of such cars varied with the times. They were rebuilt from older 'odd' cars and in turn were 'rebuilt' into other types, a stretch of the word as lengths did change greatly- as in 'jack up the trolley pole and roll a new car under it'.

We are once again at the corner of Monroe St. and New Hampshire Ave. If we were to do a right-face, we'd be enjoying the same view as in that "mystery pic" of a week or so back, ER.

Instead, we're looking east on Monroe St. toward Vermont Ave. The building to our left is on the LACC campus. The streetcars are laying over at the northern terminus of the V line.

This time, the building that's attracted your attention is at 800-816 N. Vermont Ave.

Yeah, but that's one great-looking waitress!

Eric Petersen has a FaceBook page....https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eric-...36866119662279

Thanks ER for the added info...most interesting. He went on to being a pro circuit wrestler. The FB page has a lot of photos but not much on his personal life which evidently included a wife and a couple kids.

I always thought that bowling alleys were kinda sleazy places but others will differ on that.
I once took all of my employees to a pool hall for some recreation.:D


Backstage at the 1947 contest...Long Beach, CA auditorium. It was hard to beat Steve Reeves in 1947.
Petersen ..3rd from left. He scored 2nd Place.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps7w4rprjn.jpg
FBpage.

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Gimage

The Mr. America for 1947 was destined to eclipse all the others in fame and fortune. Steve Reeves used his victory in America's most renowned physique contest as a catapult to stardom. Reeves was a California bodybuilder with the face of a matinee idol and the body of Hercules. It was his resemblance to the Greek hero that allowed the young man to branch out into the movies. Thanks to his contest win, he was soon whisked off to Italy where he appeared in a series of Italian gladiator movies. By the end of his cinematic career, Reeves had become the most famous star to come out of the physique world until Schwarzenegger overtook him.

below: A 'before & after' based on your information HH.

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gsv

:previous: They've buried the utilities.







Here's an impressive look at the building on Vermont.

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gsv

Thanks so much for your help HenryHuntington.


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A block to the left, or north, would have been the Junior College Pharmacy at 850 N Vermont.

That Nathan Masters guy is a fine writer.

This is the greatest gift I can think of since the LA Times was digitized!!!


Normally I'd think the third story was lost after Sylmar, or maybe Whittier...but the permit to demolish the third story is stamped June of '59. How do I know this? Because I went to THIS AMAZING NEW SITE. Total game changer, this great gift to the historian-at-large.[/QUOTE]

He is! (To be clear, though, don't confuse him with that Nathan Marsak guy. Don't get me started on him.)

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I couldn't agree more! For years I've wanted to know who the architect was for the SoR—and it's Dodd & Richards! Who I also found out did the Clark Hotel Garage. In this shot, the Lux Theatre is by Train & Williams, the Hotel Jonathon by C C Rittenhouse! The Alto is by L A Smith, the Briggs by Frank H Peters...ad infinitum. Plus the demo permits, so we know exactly when things came down (putting to rest the age-old questions of "how long, exactly, did the Engstrum hang around [all the way to 1988; at least that's when its demo permit was granted, along with the demos for the Grand Central/Biltmore Garage at 5th and Grand, and the Central Garage at 4th and Olive]). I've just scratched the tip of the iceberg and I've already become a wan hunchback...

I've heard that 'Marsak guy' is quite a dapper fellow. ;)

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http://media.lamag.com/fashionfeatur...riteyear/#1920

Has anyone heard of a 'Sphynx Rock' out in Chatsworth?

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An old, old pre-neon bulb sign still clinging to life in downtown Los Angeles.

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http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/itsasign,la/Interesting



It's hiding in plain sight on the back of a building that faces Broadway. You can see it here from Spring Street.

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gsv



a bit closer
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http://vintagesignsusa.blogspot.com/...itting-co.html



Here's the front of the building on Broadway (the shorter one of the two)

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circa. 1950, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater



and today.
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gsv



further information
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/IQGaMl.jpg
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=40...08100&z=12&m=b

"Brown-Israel Outfitting Co. Clothes on Credit" bulb sign

F.W. Braun Building, 1913. W.J. Sauder, architect

Brown-Israel Outfitting Company. -enlarged to six stories in 1922.

architect: Benjamin Bloser

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Mini-Ferris Wheel, Chinatown, Los Angeles (no date)

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Rinzi Ruiz at https://www.flickr.com/photos/48029767@N08/8279990353

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aerial view of the pool at the Hotel Figueroa.

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/michae...n/photostream/

I don't believe I've ever seen a coffin-shaped pool before.


We visited the pool area back in April.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27871

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'mystery' location.

Hollywood Calif. 1922
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eBay

I'm guessing that this small lunch counter might have been located on Highland Avenue since the sign says...Hi-Land.
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Hoping the BRS (building records system) could provide more information about the long forgotten Kodak Building at 643 S Hill, but there is evidently "no matching record." The 643 address is listed in the '29 -'42 CDs. The trail goes cold after that. No luck with 645 either. :shrug:

Love the electric sign E-R. (That kind of stuff is why I always go ' round the back of the building- the front gets a facelift, the back is left alone)

All I have in my notes is that Los Angeles Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. bought the building in September 1953 (they'd been tenants since 1941) and altered it beyond recognition by June 1954 with the help of architects Douglas Honnold and John Rex & Associates

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...man9-20-53.jpg LAT 9-20-53

"We consider downtown Los Angeles one of the nation's bright spots"

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...man6-27-54.jpg LAT 6-27-54

I don't know when the remuddled building was demolished; the bank was there through 1966 for sure, but after that all I could find was this saying the existing 1-story jewlery store at 645 S. Hill was under construction in November 1983:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...2011-20-83.jpg LAT 11-20-83

The old Kodak Building is visible on the 1964 aerial image below, but it appears to be a parking lot by 1972.

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Historic Aerials

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...0gas.jpg?gl=USLinda Hammonds


I'm not sure what's going on with the "watery" top of this image, but the information provided says this unusual gas station was at 830 S La Brea in Inglewood. I don't remember seeing this on NLA before...as for repeats in general-- no reason to delete newer posts just because someone else has come across the subject before (no contest here for being first, is there?). If I remember having seen something before and can find it, I sometimes will re-post a link to the prior post so all that's been dug up on a subject can be looked at together. As for the Perelson murder house, I was hoping someone could find the additional pages after ER's initial post that when searched for resulted in a phishing-scam alert on my particular computer.

I found Kwik Lunch in the CDs between 1926 and 1929, including two addresses on N Highland. I couldn't match any of the present-day locations to the photo above.

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LAPL

nice to have that date pinned down better.

This site has a loop of a 2-3 second color film of Bob's with the props going: http://twostriptechnicolor.tumblr.co...s-angeles-june

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I had this photo in my files, unattributed (I've spent an hour trying to figure out my source for it without success, LAPL I thought) c. 1939- before about April 1940 anyway as the White Spot is still The White Spot at 5467. It looks like some sort of wall or foundation going up there that I don't remember seeing when Bob's was there.

Mobile Gas sign, no wall (c. 1938)
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Love that airplane gas station. What could be more cool. We need more of those today.!!!:tup::D;) It looks like at one point in time they elevated the tail to make the
plane sit more level.

No lunch served today
 

I think HossC found the right location. The photo below is from 1714 Highland. The entry has changed position, but it looks like the same building. The footprint looks right, and the boarded-up area above the door looks the same. I'm guessing that the building on the far right is also the same.

http://imageshack.com/a/img537/4539/lPz5Zg.jpg

This guy is 18?

I haven't been able to find evidence yet of a bowling alley on Hollywood Blvd. at the address given--6624 Hollywood Blvd.

I did, though, find a couple sources that another bodybuilder had one of his gym locations at that address: Bert Goodrich.

http://static.flickr.com/37/78711109_59df5e9740_o.jpg1947 Project

The Kress Department Store is at 6608 Hollywood Blvd. and you can see down the street a ways it looks like a sign for "Goodrich Gyms."

An interesting (!) Steve Reeves story and about this gym:
http://www.pcdon.com/_20_Bert_Goodrich.html


I'm guessing this bowling alley they are talking about is the LA CIENEGA LANES Bowling Alley on La Cienega and Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8295/7...46bbd21421.jpgFlickr

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7276/7...149979fd_h.jpgFlickr

I did a post titled "100 Years of 1 Corner of the City" found HERE, in which I showed what was located there for the last 100 years.

I recently found this photo of the La Cienega Lanes. The caption was only "La Cienega Lanes" and wasn't dated. It opened with that name in the 40's, subsequently became Art Linkletter's La Cienega Lanes and returned to La Cienega Lanes before it closed down around 1976-77. I'm dating this photo c.1975.

I had no idea of this noir past, CBD.

http://www.michaelvarhol.com/wordpre...ga-Lanes_W.jpgMichael V. Gallery

Thanks for the Kwik Lunch follow-up, Albany NY.


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These two are taken from a 1946 color film at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-2_LA_color
NB. archive.org have updated their site, so just click to continue to the new site if prompted and the video will appear.

I've previously linked to it in post #24381 and post #24774.

Thanks, CityBoyDoug. That explains a line in the 'Sweet Transvestite' song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show:

Let me show you around,
Maybe play you a sound.
You look like you're both pretty groovy.
Or if you want something visual,
That's not too abysmal,
We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie.

I'm obviously not the only one who wasn't aware of his work, because some of the audience participation scripts follow the last line with a shout of "Who the f*** is Steve Reeves?". :)

Undated, Sphinx Rock at what used to be called Iverson Ranch.

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Much more on the Sphinx and its cinematic history here: http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.co...n-of-gods.html


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Thanks for clearing that up about the photos BifRayRock, I was going crazy trying to find it again and it's right under my nose. :koko:

I could watch those little film loops all day.

I have some info on 6624. It was the Cinema Sports Center, opened Nov 1940 and was operating through 1954 at least.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...sports6624.jpg
LAT 11-14-40

It featured a cafe, a gift shop, the Pacific Health Club (baths, sunlamps, massage, body building), and of course bowling (open all night). It had one of those Gruen neon clocks out front.

Before Cinema took over it was retail space, housing Leed's Shoes among others.

Woman walking just past Leeds c. 1937

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...37%20leeds.jpg
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00007/00007797.jpg


There's a great color photo of it in Jim Heinmann's 2009 hardcover book Los Angeles: Portrait of a City (a lot of NLAers probably own this one)
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...inmannbook.jpg (In this case you can judge a book by its cover)


Finally, I doubt he spend as much time in a gym as Mr. California, but how about an unheradled great physique of Hollywood?

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e_edited-1.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm17506365...f_=nm_phs_md_4

Joe E. Brown (here with his wife c. 1951, so he was 59-ish here). Plus by anything I’ve read, a genuinely nice guy.

Jerry/Daphne could do worse. :)

Gas without propellers? or Do toads have wings?



For some strange reason, Bob's Air Mail reminds me of Santa Monica's Toed In Sandwich shop. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11746 http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=25356


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On the subject of novelty architecture, I don't recall seeing this Burbank pumpkin on NLA. 3611 Magnolia Blvd. Read more about it here >>> http://wesclark.com/burbank/pumpkin.html



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The chic costume, i.e., slacks, seems possibly more significant than the interesting location or the sidewalk, etc. Could the image have been staged or happenstance? I am guessing that in some circles, this may have still raised a few eyebrows. Evidently, Levi's first marketed its pants specifically for women in 1934.



1936, So. Cal Assistance League debutantes, in season's latest sports clothes.
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1937 - Woman at LA County Fairgrounds
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Much more on the Sphinx and its cinematic history here: http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.co...n-of-gods.html


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IF I have snipped the quote down properly
The postcard and B&W view look south on the SP.
If that is the Sphinx rock, the movie stills are not.
Those movie rocks are north and east , behind and to the left of the camera position.
Yes they appear in MANY westerns, and they can be seen from the 118 freeway, south side, between the summit and Topanga Cyn Blvd
Unfortunately they have been surrounded by condos for longer than I care to consider- probly more than 25 years.
For movie views of the trackage in that area I recommend the opening credit scenes of "White Heat" with Cagney, Mayo et al. Later scenes of the train robbery were shot at the west portal of the long tunnel, the second beyond the postcard view, to the right/west in the Simi Valley. The siding was named Hasson and after years of removal , is named for a new siding slightly farther west, used for Metrolink
That area was also the site of a gazillion movies and was later made a tourist attraction by, and named for, Ray 'Crash' Corrigan .
He was one of many who played a 'Three Mesquiteer"
In the 50s Corrigan made the LA Times for being busted in a motel by his wife's snooper. Can't remember the term used for it, but it was illegal until Willy Brown got a law passed, years later, making the term 'consenting adults' familiar, and legal.

She’s pretty unusual and chic even for slacks-loving Hollywood. It’s one of a series in LAPL’s collection of Herman Schultheis on what looks like the same day, and apparently random. Several women he captured were in slacks.

In front of The Broadway Hollywood at Vine:
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/00011291.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics03/00011291.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/00011290.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics03/00011290.jpg

This gal is my favorite:
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(reflection of Bradley's 5 & 10 in the windows)

It was the other way around: In early June 1954 Crash crashed his wife’s apartment-motel with three detectives. It’s a sad story, especially on Father’s Day. They were in the middle of a nasty divorce that involved custody of their 3 children and the kids were made wards of the court after this incident. She’d filed for divorce on grounds of cruelty; he could countersue or be in a better position to get custody, which didn't tend to favor fathers, if he found her in an adultery situation. Mrs. Corrigan was there with Moses (Bud) Stiltz, the ex-foreman of Crash’s Corriganville ranch; she said she’d asked him there for protection against her husband.

A couple days later Crash and Stiltz were involved in a strange high speed chase through Reseda and Tarzana that ended with each threatening to charge the other with assault with a deadly weapon. Rita Corrigan got her divorce in November 1954 but in December the judge refused to grant custody of the kids to either parent.

Stiltz was the person who, 5 years after this, in Jan 1959- shot “Alfalfa” Switzer at the home of the ex-Mrs. Rita Corrigan in what was ruled a justifiable homicide. (LAT 6-3-1954, 6-5-54, 6-6-54, 11-30-54, 12-21-54, 1-27-59)

:previous:

The story of the death of “Alfalfa” Switzer was covered by gsjansen in post #2425.

Moon auto's were mentioned here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=22553 Yet I don't believe we noticed Clara straddling a 1919 Moon. Disney was a reputed Moon fan, could this be one of the reasons?




1926
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By 1931, Clara was taking a more conservative approach to life and offering words to drive by.

1931
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This synopsis paints Clara's life as incredibly tough and unflattering. http://www.jeanknowscars.com/you-aut...men-clara-bow/




1926 CA license plates
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Thanks for the info NCD.

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In the photo here, I am guessing now that the blade sign next to Goodrich Gyms,
the first three letters of which are in the light, says "BOWLING."

P.S.:

"Zowie!"

I've been discovering the television series COMBAT lately and several of the
actors, directors and writers who have done commentary for various episodes
have mentioned filming many scenes and entire episodes at the Iverson Ranch.

Several have even mentioned what Ed Workman noted:

I found a blog devoted to the Iverson Ranch and all topics concerning it.
It even has a section to look up specific rock features!

http://iversonmovieranch.blogspot.co...son-movie.html

From the blog:

Caption:
This notated shot shows where the Iverson Movie Ranch, divided into its upper and lower halves, fits into the landscape. The photo is not clear enough to provide a meaningful look at the Iverson Ranch itself, but it helps put the nearby hills, roads and other features in perspective. The photo is not dated, but appears to be from sometime in the 1920s.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S3nstjJM0r...ye-noted+1.png


Ed, the Iverson Ranch Blog I discovered identifies the rock (on the right) in the movie stills also as Sphinx. I do agree that the postcard (spelled Sphynx) and the b&w photo don't seem to resemble that particular rock, though.

According to the blog, the rocks names are often confused because over the years they were called different things in different films. Many of the rocks were called Indian Head.

In the photo below (all photos from the blog), a screen still from the film Stagecoach, the rock on the left is noted as Indian Rock, but is also known as Tower Rock and is how the Iverson's identified it. The right rock is Eagle Beak, and is how it's mostly identified at this site, but noted that it's also known as Sphinx.

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Here's a recent shot of these two rocks and, it's noted, they've been incorporated presently into a park area.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_...le+Beak-IH.jpg

To make matters more confusing, here's a screen still from a Monogram western titled Overland Trails where the Eagle Beak/Sphinx rock is called "Indian Head."

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...ils-sphinx.jpg

Oddly, though, I find this particular photo shows exactly how one could refer
to it as either Eagle Beak or Sphinx. The left side does look like an Eagle Beak
to me whereas the right side looks like the Sphinx. Opinions?