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ethereal_reality

Nov 12, 2018 6:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido (Post 8376609)

Grateful tribute from France to Mr Lawrence Barr !

Thank you AlvaroLegido. I really appreciate that.

ethereal_reality

Nov 12, 2018 7:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 8376625)

Also, thank you for posting that photo of your Grandfather from WWI, celebrating the end of WWI 100 years ago yesterday!

Your family called him Poppy and poppies were also used as a symbol for the end of the war.

https://imageshack.com/a/img924/4646/iqpfSI.gif
THANK YOU MARTIN PAL

ethereal_reality

Nov 12, 2018 7:05 PM

Here's a 'mystery' building I rediscovered last night in an old file of mine.

Does anyone recognize it?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SOFGPU.jpg
could be from ebay...lapl...usc...ucla...?

I had it labeled "Earthquake damage, possibly Santa Monica Blvd."

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ovens

Nov 13, 2018 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8376643)

Here's a 'mystery' building I found last night in an old file of mine.

Does anyone recognize it?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SOFGPU.jpg
could be from ebay...lapl...usc...ucla...?

I had it labeled "Earthquake damage, possibly Santa Monica Blvd."

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Richard Thomas Production Studios

I was cruising TESSA this afternoon, and saw the building -- and I remembered it from your post!

Feels good haha

ethereal_reality

Nov 13, 2018 12:32 AM

Thank you ovens!

Quote:

Originally Posted by TESSA

The building was demolished in March 1994 after it was damaged by the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Description Exterior view of the Richard Thomas Production Studios, located at 5823 Santa Monica Blvd.

John Boy...that Richard Thomas?

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ethereal_reality

Nov 13, 2018 1:11 AM

Last week when I was on my quixotic quest to find Amelia's stupid ol' carob tree

I happened upon this interesting photograph in the USC Digital Archives

The USC label is a bit confusing. (the question mark is theirs)

Toluca Lake community (?) in North Hollywood, once Lankershim, San Fernando Valley 1894

possibly a repeat for nla.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/U69DxX.jpg
USC [the site is really slow tonight] I'll post the direct link later.

USC goes on to say "with the mountains visible in the background"...which isn't much help. So my question is: Is that the back of Mt. Lee on the left?
(in other words, are we looking southish?)

USC also says the building in the distance [with the bell tower] is the old Lankershim School. (I thought it was a church)

I guess that's a weather vane on top and not a cross.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/9vMxMh.jpg
DETAIL

SOOOOO....where was the old Lankershim school located? :shrug:

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And finally...I'd like to point out something peculiar that caught my eye.

Take a look at the vines hanging from the awnings.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/qDbWC3.jpg
DETAIL

GOOD for privacy / BAD if you want to see out your window.
I believe I pointed out something similar a few months ago..at a different location.

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BillinGlendaleCA

Nov 13, 2018 3:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8376989)

Yes the photo is looking south, but Mt. Lee is actually out of the frame to the left. The mountains you do see is Caheunga Peak on the left and Burbank Peak(it's the one with the "Tree of Life" or "Wisdom Tree" on it's summit) further right before the drop off to Caheunga Pass.

ScottyB

Nov 13, 2018 7:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8376989)

Here is a link to Nathan Masters' post about the area.

Tikiman

Nov 13, 2018 8:30 AM

Odd Hollywood Architecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=uuCjQrGKPpU I came across this post by Scott Rosenberg on Youtube that shows some great shots of 1920s Hollywood and thought I would share. I don't recall seeing this on NLA before so forgive me if it had.

Martin Pal

Nov 13, 2018 6:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tikiman (Post 8377289)

• Video Link

I came across this post by Scott Rosenberg on Youtube that shows some great shots of 1920s Hollywood and thought I would share. I don't recall seeing this on NLA before so forgive me if it had.

This is great, Tikiman! I don't recall seeing it before. Thanks for posting it!

It's called "Hollywood the Unusual." One title card says Grauman's Chinese Theatre has just opened so it's c. 1927.

It features lots of mimetic architecture, restaurants, apartment buildings, theatres, houses, gas stations, etc. Many things we've seen in photos and some we have not. There also seems to have been a conscious decision to have at least one person shown in every location which adds a nice touch to the film.

ethereal_reality

Nov 13, 2018 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillinGlendaleCA (Post 8377149)

Thank you BillinGlendaleCA. I appreciate the help.

ethereal_reality

Nov 13, 2018 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riichkay

Back at the canyon house, the staging of a tableau vivant in the front window:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/JzkVQp.jpg
LIFE / detail

Several Things:

A. Where is the front window? It's missing.

B. Are they frozen in place just to freak people out?

C. Are they hopped up on goofballs? ;)

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ethereal_reality

Nov 14, 2018 1:08 AM

I thought I had posted about this old Marcell Inn sign but all my searches come up empty.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/kCj7ko.jpg
OLD FILE / Ebay?

Is anyone familiar with the Marcell Inn?

UPDATE:

I found just some information [and a couple postcards] on the Avenue of The Sky blog.

"The Marcell Inn - Altadena's Famous Speakeasy Club, 2900 Lincoln Avenue"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/4ue3SF.jpg
avenueofthesky blog.

The Marcell Inn opened in 1922 on Lincoln Avenue and was very popular with the Hollywood crowd, bootleg alcohol
being served along with fine French food, and all that was necessary to find the out-of-the-way location was to look
for the searchlight beacon mounted on a tower on the roof of the Inn.

A beacon.....at a speakeasy? :shrug:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/Hctwep.jpg
avenueofthesky blog.

The address lands you HERE, in a clump of trees.

EAST in at the top
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/F4QEDQ.jpg
GSV

Do you think it's possible some remnants of the Old Marcell Inn are hidden within those trees?

Someone needs to get their butt over there pronto and snoop around.

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;)

ethereal_reality

Nov 14, 2018 1:10 AM

Marcell Inn continued:

This newspaper article says it was located "above Piedmont". (no mention of 2900)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/VvW3y5.jpg
It's fucking difficult to read.

Marcell Inn,
Lincoln Ave. Above Piedmont Blvd.
Altadena, Calif.

but the only 'Piedmont' that Google Earth takes me to is in Highland Park. :shrug:

HELP!

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Lomara

Nov 14, 2018 3:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8378423)

According to: http://altadenatowncouncil.org/history/

Piedmont Drive (not Boulevard(?)) is now named Altadena Drive

Quote:

https://i1.wp.com/altadenatowncounci...size=450%2C202
The streets are marked: east to west: orange, Piedmont Dr., present-day Altadena Drive; light blue, Mariposa St.; light green, Mendocino St.; pink, Calaveras St.; north to south: violet, Lincoln Avenue coming up from Pasadena; and red, Santa Margarita, now Fair Oaks.

ETA: I found the answer to its location in this article: http://www.altadenahistoricalsociety...014-spring.pdf

Quote:

For whatever reason, the Marcell Inn closed in
1937, and was sold to Major John H. Dargin, who
opened a boys’ military academy there. Mt. Lowe
Military Academy used the former restaurant as its
administration building, with the addition of
dormitory wings on the east and west ends.

Quote:

Today, the former location of the Marcell Inn
and Mt. Lowe Military Academy is the site of
community garden plots and the adjoining Loma
Alta county park.

Loma Alta Park https://goo.gl/maps/CbiXG9742c22

Altadena Community Garden: https://goo.gl/maps/Ja5QkPFVNrm

Scott Charles

Nov 14, 2018 4:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tikiman (Post 8377289)

Thanks for the link, that's truly a fantastic film!

ovens

Nov 14, 2018 6:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8378422)

I’m finding the glory days of Marcell Inn were in Alta Dena... the Hollywood Filmograph was like US WEEKLY in the 30s, and they imply that the Marcell was one of the most aristocratic haunts in town.

link here because I can’t seem to embed an image using my phone:
https://imgur.com/gallery/wXtFF7T

Lomara

Nov 14, 2018 7:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7683940)

:previous: I had no idea t2. Seems so silly now.

"Case of the Missing Playhouse"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/o6XMYS.jpg
old file

"Mrs. Leonard Horwin, wife of former Beverly Hills mayor, stands outside the children's playhouse at Greystone Estate.
Note the roofing design and a birdhouse at the top right, on the roof. Photo dated: May 14, 1965."-caption from the L.A. Times.[

I’m watching this very weird movie right now on TCM called “The Loved One”, and early in the film, the character played by Sir John Gielgud is shown to live in the playhouse. We get to see interiors of it as well as the grounds around Greystone.

They also used many Los Angeles locations so it is a 1965 time capsule.

I couldn’t find any video of the scenes inside the playhouse. If you have TCM the film is available to watch in the WatchTCM app.

• Video Link

HossC

Nov 14, 2018 3:54 PM

:previous:

I watched "The Loved One" back in May when CaliNative brought it to our attention. I posted a couple of screengrabs of Aimee Thanatogenous' condemned house and a "now" shot in post #46812. Here's one of the screengrabs as a reminder. I'll have to rewatch it to check out the playhouse.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8181823)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ALovedOne2.jpg
MGM

CityBoyDoug

Nov 14, 2018 4:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8373831)

Here's one more photograph for this evening.

Depression Era:

"Hundreds of the unemployed gather outside the Biltmore Hotel while the California Relief Commission was meeting inside."

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/0Hdugm.jpg
EBAY

"Police were summoned as the marchers attempted to enter the hotel." [1935]

info / It's difficult to read.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/kuA37p.jpg

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I notice on the left side of this photo that a woman is laughing. Why is she laughing? Lots different expressions on people's faces.

For the Depression the people seem to be well dressed.

HossC

Nov 14, 2018 4:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lomara (Post 8378592)

Quote:

Today, the former location of the Marcell Inn
and Mt. Lowe Military Academy is the site of
community garden plots and the adjoining Loma
Alta county park.

Loma Alta Park https://goo.gl/maps/CbiXG9742c22

Altadena Community Garden: https://goo.gl/maps/Ja5QkPFVNrm

Could this be the Marcell Inn (arrowed) on a 1935 aerial view? It's where the community gardens are today.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...arcellInn1.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

There were definitely a few additions by 1944.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...arcellInn2.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

The arrowed building seems to disappear between 1972 and 1977 (going from the images at Historic Aerials).

HossC

Nov 14, 2018 5:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8379099)

I notice on the left side of this photo that a woman is laughing. Why is she laughing? Lots different expressions on people's faces.

For the Depression the people seem to be well dressed.

The hidden guy in the light-colored hat (arrowed) seems to be the focus of several people's attention. I think he has his hand raised, possibly greeting the man in the center who has his hand raised. At least three people behind the laughing woman also look amused. Both the woman at the front and the man at the right have their heads turned to see what's going on. Could the arrowed man be famous? If we could only see his face...

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...moreCrowd1.jpg
ebay

CityBoyDoug

Nov 14, 2018 6:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8379270)

Thanks Hoss. Its very hard to read the reverse side of the photo. It seems that the crowd works for the hotel in question. Maybe they're outside because of a fire drill....or maybe they're just goofing off.

Lomara

Nov 14, 2018 6:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8379158)

From the article at: http://www.altadenahistoricalsociety...014-spring.pdf

Quote:

But for financial reasons that the alumni
wonder about, property taxes weren’t paid and Mt.
Lowe Military Academy closed and the property was
assumed by Los Angeles County in 1973.

So it was torn down by the county sometime between 73-77.

All that remains is stone pillars with a memorial plaque at the entrance to the community gardens.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4897/...713aec57_c.jpg
Mt. Lowe Military Academy plaque by Kimberly, on Flickr

odinthor

Nov 14, 2018 7:29 PM

Just in time for Thanksgiving!

https://i.postimg.cc/wvFB80Zm/marcell11-18-25.jpg
Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1925, via ProQuest via CSULB Library

Soon after, the Marcell Inn was peripherally involved in:

https://i.postimg.cc/R0LSKgMD/MarcellKerck.jpg
Los Angeles Times, December 15, 1925, via ProQuest via CSULB Library.

But soon there was a metamorphosis to the story:

https://i.postimg.cc/zv688MjV/MarcellKerck2.jpg
Los Angeles Times, December 16, 1925, via ProQuest via CSULB Library.

But all good things, and bad, must come to an end, often in the courts:

https://i.postimg.cc/7PWx3Gkw/MarcellKerckh3.jpg
Los Angeles Times, November 12, 1926, via ProQuest via CSULB Library.

More on Kerckhoff at https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blo...ease-also.html

As lagniappe, I include in the above the item on old Californio Yorba. From my notes: Teodosio Geronimo Yorba; September 29 (or 30), 1849, born at L.A.; parents, Bernardo Antonio Yorba and Felipa Dominguez; 1850, present in what is now western Orange County; 1860, present in Santa Ana district; September 3, 1864, published (Los Angeles Star): house being used as polling place for Santa Ana; 1870, present in El Monte in the Maria Leonor Yorba Rowland household; wife, Francisca Juana Coronel; November 12, 1926, obsequies.

Lastly, I see nothing further anywhere on the "famous" Igeneff Russian dancers...

GaylordWilshire

Nov 14, 2018 8:54 PM

:previous:

The Kerckhoffs were just the sort of family the writers of Perry Mason seemed to love to feature--spoiled heirs and heiresses etc.

One of their tv-world cohorts lived in a house at 4th and June, where Perry asked Paul to meet him while working on a case.... The house wasn't actually at that corner, but rather at 1st and Hudson (101 N Hudson). A then (1961) and now...

https://i.postimg.cc/NMBnb1jf/pmtorr...and1st-bmp.jpgCBS

https://i.postimg.cc/Nf6pCKZK/pmhudson1stgsv-bmp.jpgGSV

And a vintage view from another angle:

https://i.postimg.cc/jjL6T23Q/pmhuds...age20s-bmp.jpg
Hollywood Historic Photos

Built in 1928 by Gerald C. Young; architect Roland Coate; the original BP indicates that it was built with 32 rooms

PS I was just doing a little more poking around, and by total coincidence, Mrs. Gerald C. Young--Gertrude to her friends--turns out to have been a first cousin of Stephens Kerckhoff....

...and it turns out that marital woes ran in the family:

https://i.postimg.cc/FzJBDmLN/pmgertkerk1-bmp.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/2SmCb9sV/pmgertkerk2-bmp.jpg
LAT Oct 31, 1937/Apr 25, 1941

Handsome Stranger

Nov 14, 2018 9:23 PM

:previous:

I walk by this house quite frequently in the early evening hours. It's rather spooky in person. There are rarely any lights on except in one of the upstairs bedrooms at the rear of the house, next to 1st Street. It's easy to imagine Charles Foster Kane isolated up there, about to drop his snow globe.

ethereal_reality

Nov 14, 2018 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

This is great, Tikiman! I don't recall seeing it before. Thanks for posting it!

We discussed the film back in 2012.

Handsome_Stranger's screengrabs are definitely worth a second look. Thank for reminding us of the film tikiman. It was fun watching it again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 5849442)

OK, experts, gather round and help me out! One evening this past week I watched a silent film called The Garden of Eden. Included on the DVD was a fascinating 1927 short called Hollywood the Unusual that showcased several examples of the kind of exotic and wacky architecture (residences, apartment buildings, and businesses) to be found in and around Hollywood in the late 1920s. A few were familiar, but most I had never seen before.

I made almost 40 frame grabs but will post just a small handful here. If anyone can offer information on any of these buildings, including locations, I'd greatly appreciate it!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8040/8...116b0b92_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8449/8...ca9da8cd_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8172/8...643d2079_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8037/8...4f686e4b_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8179/8...f6d22c93_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8180/8...f0dee20a_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8031/8...cd75ccda_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8172/8...be8b58d3_c.jpg
[source: DVD issued by Flicker Alley]

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5849519)

:previous:I recognize two of the apt buildings --the Andalusia is still at 1471 N. Havenhurst and the Patio del Moro is still at 8225 Fountain Ave.

GaylordWilshire

Nov 14, 2018 11:47 PM

:previous:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8179/8...f6d22c93_c.jpg

We first saw the Caplet station at Wilshire and New Hampshire here courtesy of ER over eight years ago...also worth a revisit:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1687

Calpet sits on the site of the bombed Lawler house...
https://i.postimg.cc/CKP6jJKG/WB646-...FB-bmp-003.jpg
Read about that event here: here

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8172/8...be8b58d3_c.jpg

And a few priors on The Freezer:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9537

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3185

ethereal_reality

Nov 15, 2018 12:31 AM

I just saw this photograph on EBAY. The bidding stops in 40 min. [four people have bid..it's up to $23.50]

Orig 1950s 35mm Kodachrome slide - Los Angeles Forest Lawn Memorial Park scene

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

"You are looking at an original red border Kodachrome slide which shows a tourist examining celebrity graves at the Forest Lawn Memorial
Park cemetery in Los Angeles, CA in the 1950s."

The winner of the bid is going to be in for a big surprise.

Can anyone tell me why? ;)

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Scott Charles

Nov 15, 2018 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8379832)

The winner of the bid is going to be in for a big surprise.

Can anyone tell me why? ;)

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That's the Earl Carroll Theatre, not Forest Lawn.

https://i.imgur.com/GJ073Ss.jpg

It's kind of ludicrous that anyone would think that's a cemetery - it looks nothing of the sort.

Sidewalks? Crypts with giant signatures and no dates? Chain link fence? :rolleyes:

BillinGlendaleCA

Nov 15, 2018 12:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott Charles (Post 8379852)

...and I think I see some names of folk who were not quite dead in the 1950's.

ethereal_reality

Nov 15, 2018 1:13 AM

Exactly :haha:

BillinGlendaleCA

Nov 15, 2018 1:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8379886)

Exactly :haha:

Thought there is this nice photo of the bridge in the Japanese Garden at the Huntington when it was painted...

https://i.postimg.cc/sXZBmV8J/Huntin...den-Bridge.pngEbay

ethereal_reality

Nov 15, 2018 5:08 AM

This is fantastic information Lomara

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lomara (Post 8378592)

"For whatever reason, the Marcell Inn closed in
1937, and was sold to Major John H. Dargin, who
opened a boys’ military academy there. Mt. Lowe
Military Academy used the former restaurant as its
administration building, with the addition of
dormitory wings on the east and west ends."

"Today, the former location of the Marcell Inn
and Mt. Lowe Military Academy is the site of
community garden plots and the adjoining Loma
Alta county park."

From speak-easy to administration building at a military academy. That's quite a journey.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8379158)

Could this be the Marcell Inn (arrowed) on a 1935 aerial view? It's where the community gardens are today.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...arcellInn1.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

Thanks Hoss. Now I can visualize where everything goes.

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Tourmaline

Nov 15, 2018 1:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 8379568)

The Kerckhoffs were just the sort of family the writers of Perry Mason seemed to love to feature--spoiled heirs and heiresses etc.

One of their tv-world cohorts lived in a house at 4th and June, where Perry asked Paul to meet him while working on a case.... The house wasn't actually at that corner, but rather at 1st and Hudson (101 N Hudson). A then (1961) and now...

https://i.postimg.cc/NMBnb1jf/pmtorr...and1st-bmp.jpgCBS

Built in 1928 by Gerald C. Young; architect Roland Coate; the original BP indicates that it was built with 32 rooms

Part of the legacy:

Kerckhoff Hall, circa 1931, the original UCLA student union building.

Quote:

William Kerckhoff Hall, designed by Allison & Allison, is home to various student media, clubs, and organizations on the UCLA campus. It was the result of a US$815,000 ($100,000 for furnishing) donation from his widow Louisa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Kerckhoff

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1294/1...ee85db8c_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1294/1...ee85db8c_b.jpg

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7263/7...63b4697f_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7263/7...63b4697f_b.jpg

JimCraig

Nov 15, 2018 5:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8379832)

Isn't it great that in Hollywood they inter all the stars in crypts right next to each other?

GaylordWilshire

Nov 15, 2018 5:36 PM

:previous:

Maybe the ebay seller thought it was something like Marilyn's wall at Westwood Cemetery...

https://i.postimg.cc/x8GwKZ95/marilyngrave-bmp.jpg

Supposedly Hugh Hefner is next to her; Joe D sold the drawer on top of her when they divorced...and an urban myth has it that the man who bought it is buried face down....

SHERIFFPAUL

Nov 15, 2018 6:28 PM

Earl Carroll Theatre

Earl Carroll Theatre was the name of two important theaters owned by Broadway impresario and showman Earl Carroll. One was located in the Broadway Theater District in New York City and the other on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

http://laindependent.com/wp-content/...ll-Theater.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8379832)

ethereal_reality

Nov 15, 2018 8:05 PM

The Ebay seller [with the mislabeled Forest Lawn/Earl Carroll's slide] also has/had this slide listed at the same time.
As most everyone knows, this slide was taken just a block to the east on the opposite side of Vine St.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/6MOimo.jpg
EBAY / (sold)

ethereal_reality

Nov 15, 2018 8:34 PM

odinthor, what that article on Mrs. Kerckhoff failed to mention was her fondness for Cubism.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/n5lQwb.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/W7sP5j.jpg
Los Angeles Times, December 15, 1925, via ProQuest via CSULB Library.

As you can see, Mrs. Kerckhoff is sporting the very lastest in Cubistic Coiffures.

ethereal_reality

Nov 15, 2018 9:04 PM

More on Marcell.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/kCj7ko.jpg

It turns out, the Marcell Inn sign was found....
"under wood siding, sheathing the back wall of a garage behind a Victorian Cottage in north-central Pasadena."

You can read all about the discovery below.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Ug73tr.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/aMNRsn.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/GC8XXl.jpg

The only thing missing in this article is the street address of the "Victorian cottage" :( (the one with the garage behind it)

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Found at altadenahistoricalsociety

odinthor

Nov 15, 2018 9:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8380753)

Right you are, e_r!

It's said that she was deeply influenced by T. Roosevelt's Square Deal...

Martin Pal

Nov 15, 2018 10:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8379720)

We discussed the film back in 2012.

Handsome_Stranger's screengrabs are definitely worth a second look. Thank for reminding us of the film tikiman. It was fun watching it again.

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I'm just being nit-picky...the "Hollywood the Unusual" film was discussed being on DVD, which I did not remember, but it wasn't yet on youtube then, so I hadn't seen it! (And was glad to do so.)

At first I thought the director (William Taylor) might have been the infamous William "Desmond" Taylor, but the film was made several years after his notoriety. Did I ever mention I saw his signature in a Hotel del Coronado guest book that was in their lobby museum space?

GaylordWilshire

Nov 15, 2018 11:18 PM

Another Perry Mason house...this one a mystery

The elaborate gates to it seem to be at the end of a straight street with comparatively ordinary though not humble houses lining it...

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CBS

ChelseaFC

Nov 15, 2018 11:33 PM

That one is pretty easy. That's 1847 Camino Palmero Street adjacent to Runyon Canyon. Also used as the guys' mansion in Season 1/2 of the HBO show Entourage.

Here's the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.E._Toberman_Estate

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ethereal_reality

Nov 16, 2018 12:36 AM

Snappy Entertainment

I don't believe we have seen this matchbook on NLA.

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EBAY

I wondered why the address was missing the street number, then realized it's hidden in the dominoes.

sooo.... the number ..is...65043(?)....or..is it....1107(?) :shrug:

What do you guys think?

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Earlier on NLA we spied a "Lucky Spot" in this mystery photograph. (from 2016)

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

But as Hoss showed us below, this isn't N. Western.

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7594912)

This is W Temple Street looking towards the Harbor Freeway from near Figueroa. Across the freeway is the Rochester.

for search purposes: Paul Alex Lucky Spot Cafe N. Western Ave. Hollywood, Calif. Phone HEmpstead 5611

CityBoyDoug

Nov 16, 2018 3:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8380753)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/341710690447934632/

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hairtoday

A once popular wackadoodle style.

ProphetM

Nov 16, 2018 8:46 AM

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8381201)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/341710690447934632/

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/8b...90d7678663.jpg
hairtoday

A once popular wackadoodle style.

I'm going to have to dispute the idea that this was ever popular, even once. :haha:

HossC

Nov 16, 2018 9:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8381088)

I didn't find a Lucky Spot Cafe on N Western, but the CDs from 1960-64 list Lucky Spot Sales Wholesale & Retail at 1107 N Western Avenue.

Here are the other Lucky Spot entries from 1960:

The Lucky Spot 9720 S Vermont Avenue
Lucky Spot Cafe 1105½ E Vernon Avenue
Lucky Spot Cafe 1506 E Washington Boulevard
Lucky Spot Cafe 2213 E 38th Ver

None of the phone numbers are the same as the matchbook. I'll have another look later when I have more time.

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