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Note that "McDonnel's" is spelled with a double "L" on the vertical signage and seemingly most of the other images. https://playingintheworldgame.files....atdo1_1280.jpghttps://playingintheworldgame.files....atdo1_1280.jpg https://playingintheworldgame.files....12/o9v5vts.jpghttps://playingintheworldgame.files....12/o9v5vts.jpg |
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I am curious about the usage of the word "original" signifies in your comment above? Original what? This place appears to be a different snack shop than the famous McDonald's we all know. :???: |
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Here's an interesting slide listed on eBay. "Original 35mm Slide - Antique Car Lot Burbank CA 1950s" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/oa7mQ7.jpg Link I did a google & found this. . ."The Mayfield Car Co. was on Hollywood Way and Riverside Drive in Burbank, and it specialized in classics and oddballs, ca. 1950." Which led me to this. . . . . https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VxdBtM.jpg The three-wheeler in the foreground is a Davis Divan. (I had to look it up) "The Davis Motorcar Company was an automobile manufacturer based in Van Nuys, which produced three-wheeled automobiles from 1947 to 1948. In total the company produced 13 vehicles. Soon after the Davis plant shut down, Gary Davis, the owner, was convicted on 20 of 28 counts of theft and was sentenced to 8 months to two years in jail." (the theft was not paying his employees) . |
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Bandleaders Tiny Hill and Freddie Martin at the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xU5VDl.jpg eBay hmm. . .has anyone ever seen Minnesota Fats and Tiny Hill in the same room? I just have to point out the very cool tropical panels. detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/j4v4V7.jpg I wonder if miscellaneous items like this panel were saved when the Cocoanut Grove closed? If it was saved it's probably in someone's garage somewhere. :( reverse https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/WZCX86.jpg |
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McDonnell's was a chain of drive-in restaurants run by "Rusty" McDonnell in the 1930s and 40s. There's a menu on eBay right now with locations on the back. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...dd819258_b.jpg Ebay The chain had a wide variety of sizes and styles, some cooked up by architect Wayne McAllister. https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d7c57fa...mb9o1_1280.jpg LAPL Menu Collection McDonald's (no relation) was founded 60 miles east of Los Angeles in San Bernardino. Dick and Mac McDonald opened there in 1940 as a drive-in, and then reinvented the operation in 1948 as a self-service stand. |
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The intersection is 7100 Beverly Blvd. There's a gas station there now. https://waterandpower.org/8%20Histor..._in_ca1937.jpgCalisphere It's dated circa 1937. Note the advertisement for Eastside Ale, and in the distance, the sign for Waikiki restaurant, at 335 N. La Brea Avenue, is visible. The Waikiki restaurant was only open for 7 months, at the most, having opened October 8, 1937. This NoirCityDame post HERE, covers ten establishments at this location over a twenty year period, including a photo for the Waikiki. (Or one without a watermark in this post HERE.) |
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DWP also has this photo with a palm tree in it of the Sunset/La Brea McDonnell's c. 1930's. https://waterandpower.org/Historical...McDonnalds.jpgDWP So this COLOR! photo must also be the same location: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G_QfKfAyVG...15ce751c82.jpg |
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I didn't see your question earlier. Sorry for the delay, CBD. . |
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The inventor Liz Carmichael (Jerry Dean Michael 1927-2004 ) was actually a man. She would fit in perfectly in the current transsexual world. She ended up in prison for misusing customer's down payment deposit money. https://drivetribe.imgix.net/J95PHVD...dpr=2&q=50jpeg Image is from Drivetribe...historical only. |
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There is an amazing documentary about Carmichael — THE LADY AND THE DALE
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:previous: ...Say Whaaaaaaat! 'Liz' was quite imposing. . . "Elizabeth “Liz” Carmichael. Liz was not your typical California girl. Standing at over 6 feet tall and weighing around 200 pounds." Here's an earlier mugshot. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/dyIFLF.jpg Although it doesn't have much of a Los Angeles connection (that I could find) it's an amazing story. You can read about it Here. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/zAN4Wf.jpg or here. . |
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Here are several tourist snapshots taken in my old neck of the woods. They are all dated 1973 (I arrived 10 years later). . . and they were all recently found on eBay. Looking west on Sunset near Larrabee Street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/krd2t6.jpg I spy Filthy McNasty's. ...& I'm trying to figure out - what looks like - an upside-down a Currie's Ice Cream Parlor (when they were shaped like giant ice-cream cones) to the right of the Shell sign. The famous Tower Videos on the northwest corner of Sunset and Horn Ave. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/mgDeMr.jpg I'm completely stumped by the. . .um. . .what looks like. . .a smokestack with a top hat on top. sidenote: A friend of mine in college drove a Pinto. .but not just an ordinary pinto. .it was a Bicentennial Edition Pinto. :slob: This one needs no explanation. (but here's one anyway)... It's the iconic Whiskey-A-Go-Go (formerly a Bank of America) on the northwest corner of Sunset and N. Clark Street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/YfacoU.jpg I love this one....It appears to be a psychedelic head-shop named. .um. .Conspiracy(?). https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/5rk05O.jpg And there is a pool room next door that, if I'm reading it correctly, is named the Corner Pocket. hmm. . .I think I see the street number, 3300 (?) I hope we can figure out the location (other than on Sunset Blvd.) _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lastly, let's return to the Tower Records photograph Here's a closer look at the mystery thingy on the roof. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/G0gXze.jpg detail As you can see there's writing but I can't quite make it out. :shrug: . |
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Psychedelic Conspiracy. This is how it looked in 1969. |
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