Looking at these old Bunker Hill pics, starting to realize why they leveled the hill in the early 1960s. This was no Nob Hill. The forest of boxy towers that replaced the slum could have been done better, for sure. Some of the Victorian neighborhoods should have been left in place. A city works best when it is a mixture of old & new. This is why L.A. is fortunate to have so many pre-1930 buildings to the east of Hill--on Broadway, Spring & Main. Mix in a few modern towers, and you have a real city with history. A streetscape finally seems to be returning to Bunker Hill as residential towers, Disney hall, museums, etc. proliferate. They carted off some of the old Vics to "Heritage Square" north of DTLA--is that still there? They also should have done a better job of providing housing to the displaced poor. I guess most of them drifted into skid row to the east.

The guy thought he was living in Fez or Tatoine apparently. Didn't we see this house in "Star Wars"?

Pretty convenient to both the Shasta and the Norfolk would have been Edie's Bar--or a version of it-- Edie's being owned by a woman who killed her rich twin sister, assuming her identity...figuring into the late-noir film Dead Ringer that we've discussed here before....



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Views looking south on Figueroa... the apartment houses would have been a block or so over the hill or under the Temple Street overpass. The arrow in the image below indicates the door bar-owner Edie is about to enter...her sister's chauffeur has just dropped some crucial information.... Cranes for the DWP building, under construction during filming, rise above the driver's head in the shot above. The controversial DaVinci apartments are now on the site of the bar.


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The hotel building housing Edie's bar was built in 1924; it was called the Civic Center Hotel when the movie was made; there doesn't seem to have been a real cocktail bar there then. But in addition to the murder of Margaret de Lorca, other noirish things took place in the building:


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LAT Jan 7, 1940


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LAT May 24, 1949

Corinne reminds me of Ione Skye from "Say Anything".

I was under the impressive there wasn't a house on the property, just the ruins of the pool.

I liked the video though. I wonder if what Dave says are remnants of old movie sets on former Universal land, are actually remnants of McDermott's house (which was constructed with movie sets) -just a thought.

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:previous: Several websites say the young lady is Tura Satana. (but I'm not entirely convinced)
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Yes, I saw him! I was mesmerized....like traveling back in time.

Thanks for answering my question about the wooden structure. I really appreciate it.
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I don't know about a cocktail bar, but the hotel was once home to the Montezuma Inn.

Wow....The Spider Pool...!!

Bettie Blue baby!;):D;)

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pinkcollar life

Walt's Park & Valet Company working an event at the Capitol Records Building on April 6, 1956.

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Photograph by Frank J. Thomas / flickr





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Photograph by Frank J. Thomas / flickr




Let's take a closer look shall we- I see Little Lulu is shilling for Kleenex.

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And the couple pulling up in their car forgot to take the bong out of their back window.






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No, seriously...what the hell is that thing? :previous:
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I'm glad you asked that, ER. The car is a '56 Lincoln Premiere (appropriately enough), and that plexiglass tube--
there is another of the driver's side-- is part of the car's factory air conditioning. There were still several makes
using a trunk-mounted evaporator--the tubes brought cold air up into ductwork on the ceiling of the car. Lincoln
would use this setup in 1957 as well, but Cadillac and Buick went to the more modern all-up-front system after '56.

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Walt's staff shoulda swept that gutter

Vavavoom!

Back when topless was exciting. The noir era.

I'm pretty sure we haven't seen this early morning view of the Fort Moore Hill Pioneer Memorial taken from 1963.

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Alberta Mayo / flickr

It gives you an idea of the lighting design.

and I believe the waterfall is running! -Does anyone know...did it run all night?
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At first I thought this was twilight, but with the lack of traffic I've decided it's early morning.
What do you all think?

Andy & Wayne, BFF
 

Andy moved to Wayne's home base of Newport Beach in '57. Before that, Andy was the unofficial "mayor of Van Nuys", and a big property owner in the Valley. When I saw him in the Van Nuys Chris'n'Pitts restaurant in the early '60s digging into an enormous platter of BBQ ribs with a side of cole slaw, baked beans & corn on the cobb slathered in melted butter (and he croaked at me "get lost kid--can't you see I'm eating?") , he must of been back to check out his properties in the Valley, or maybe on a film shoot.

In Newport, Wayne & Devine had houses closeby. Devine went out on fishing trips on Wayne's boat "Pilar", named after Wayne's wife. Both were staunch conservatives, always griping about high taxes and "pinkos" in Hollywood.

Wayne & Devine were in at least 3 films together, the best known being "Stagecoach" in '39 and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" in '62, which also starred arch-conservative and retired Air Force general Jimmy Stewart.

Devine and Wayne both died in the late 1970s, best friends forever apparently, and they now sit at the (extreme) right side of the Lord I'm pretty sure, with Jimmy Stewart and director John Ford right with them.

If you haven't seen it, Wayne's last film "The Shootist" is very good. About the last days of gunman dying of cancer, and his platonic romance with a widow woman that rented a room to him (Lauren Bacall, Ms. Bond). Andy wasn't in it, but it is a good film. Stewart has a bit part in it as Wayne's doctor.

...and while we're in the Fort Moore area.

Have we seen this photograph on NLA?

"Construction of the Hollywood and Harbor freeways required crews to cut an artificial canyons – now known as the Downtown Slot – through Fort Moore Hill."

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https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/t...=0%2C0%2C1%2C1

:previous: lol. I thought the man was standing next to three backyard incinerators that had been dug up!


here's a closer look.
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Come on guys....is this spider girl Tura Satana or not. I feel that NLA should get to the bottom of this mystery.

Does anyone know?

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Yes T2....any guess as to what that is in the gutter? I thought they might be dead balloons...paper from flower bouquets or corsages. What a mess.!!!


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ER

Until the energy crises of the 1970s, the Dept. of Water & Power headquarters across from the Music Center was lit up brightly all night. Could see it a long way. They made the power & they sure did use it.

I think I saw her working in a Hooters.

:previous: OK, let's not over do it with the boobs.