Egad. Not to mention gadzooks and zounds!! Do I or do I not spy a Bell system sign for a public telephone, over on the left?

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics24/00046690.jpgLAPL

Squirm... I think what you might be seeing on that round sign is the Anheuser "A" also seen on the building... and on the bridle and harness parts of the horses hauling suds in the picture above. Sad to say that Bob Yeakel's Wilshire Oldsmobile has been replaced by the blank side wall of a Ralphs.

A marble subway (i.e. tunnel) between the two Rosslyn Hotel buildings?
VERY intriguing!

I just found this slight reference to the mystery tunnel.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/672/rosslyntunnel.jpg
http://bgfa.blogspot.com/2007/09/his...f-rosslyn.html

I found these two photos of early Hollywood residences on e-Bay. I am curious as to whether I can garner some more information on them from my fellow sleuths on this thread.

I would estimate that these were taken in the 20's or maybe very early thirties.

Can anyone read the signs? I don't have that good of a monitor or eyesight.
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/715...galowcourt.jpg
I really love these bungalows and hope they still exist!

Can anyone pinpoint this area?
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/9...ywoodhomes.jpg
e-Bay images

~Jon Paul

Jon Paul, at first I thought this might be the Grauman Bungalow Court Apartments on Melrose Avenue between Alexandria and Kenmore.

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5...galowcourt.jpg
LAPL

.....small differences and the sidewalks don't match :(

Many people are unaware that Sid Grauman built this bungalow court in 1922.

Here is another photograph.

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/416...owcourtoff.jpg
LAPL


Further information from LAPL

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/1...owcourt1de.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=73941

I need to research those 7 shops at the corner of Melrose and Kenmore. I had no idea they even existed.

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...back to Restaurant Row for a bit.

Does anyone remember this mid-century building on La Cienega just south of 3rd Street.

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/8...b1963wmark.jpg
unknown





below: It was used in 1978 for the disco movie 'Thank God It's Friday'. Notice the iconic slanted pillars.

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4346/fitgif1978.jpg
columbia pictures






below: Today, the site is a Loehmann's Store. The Beverly Center can be seen in the right background.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9...skosloehma.jpg
google street view

:previous:

and I love the juxtaposition of the bug-eyed Sprite and the '61 Coupe de Ville...

At one time, the restaurant next to the 'Gay 90s' was the 'Roaring 20s'.


http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8610/firestrow1.jpg
postcard/ebay




below: Interior of 'The Roaring 20s'. Shown is singer Sheri Steiger fronting a dixieland band.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2...tiesnightc.jpg
http://www.synthetrix.com/huddle/20sc.htm


http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8017/firoaringpc1b.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/563/firoaringpc1.jpg

above: Cutie Chuties!?! Who wrote this stuff?


http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4...oaringpc1a.jpg

A shooting gallery would mean something entirely different today. Kinda sad


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Before becoming 'The Roaring 20s', the restaurant was briefly 'The Sports Page', a short lived restaurant/nightclub for sports writers and professional athletes. The photograph below is from 1959.

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7...ecameroari.jpg
http://www.synthetrix.com/huddle/SP.htm

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2535/...2358c67ccd.jpg
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/chr...gs/restaurant/

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1009/4...5b55ace77b.jpg
The Captain's Table, La Cienega at Third, Los Angeles, Calif. by zilf, on Flickr

The 1962 Restaurant and Entertainment Guide
 

Since we are on restaurants:

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/8310/11070886.jpg
Lileks.com

The guide is here:

http://lileks.com/misc/key62/index.html

(scroll to the bottom of each page and click next)

Yes! In the 70's and 80's it was a big, popular multi-room disco called Osko's. 333 South La Cienega.

Very Cool :tup:

That's a dicey neighborhood at times. I can imagine the headline...

http://dkse.net/david/headline2.jpg

Actually, I happened to walk past the Rosslyn just last night when I was at Art Walk L.A. with some friends. I hadn't seen your post and wasn't snooping around for hidden tunnels, but it sounds like a worthwhile mission and I'll give it a shot.

Dinner on restaurant row? Hmm, give me a week or two, and I'll let you know what I find!

Restaurant Row
 

Ah, but BEFORE that...the building was known as the Millionaire's Club in the mid-to-late '60s, one of those butter-and-egg man on an expense account joints. As far as I can remember, no local would be caught dead in the place.

:previous: That is so great. For a half second I believed it....I even gasped.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B...2520AM.bmp.jpgIMDB

Here is 333 S La Cienega as "Zoo" in Thank God It's Friday. I thought its incarnation as the "Millionaire's Club" might explain what I saw as "Board Room" to the left of the spider, but on closer inspection it appears to be "Scand Room".... Is this a hint of its original incarnation?

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-L...309/scans2.jpg
unknown

:previous: Earlier in the thread I posted the above photos of the garage for the Los Altos Apartments.

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I recently came across photographs of the Bryson Apartments garage. I don't know if they're new to the LAPL archive or if I simply missed them the first time around.

below: In this aerial you can see the Bryson garage directly to to the right (north) of its namesake apartment building.
The park you see is Lafayette Park.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5...nerwilshir.jpg
LAPL


The following three color photographs were taken in 1978 by Marlene Laskey and her daughter Anne.


http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/3...978annelas.jpg
LAPL





They even had their own gas pumps.

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2...ngarage623.jpg
LAPL









http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/9...23rampartb.jpg
LAPL







below: The garage site is now The Tides Apartments (on the right).


http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4...esitetoday.jpg
google street view

That rather beautiful entrance is a side entrance to The Bryson Apartment Bldg.



below: Just to refresh memories...I'll repost this vintage photo of the 'The Bryson'.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/960...ntbuilding.jpg
LAPL




below: The Bryson still stands in all its glory.

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8...ntoday2011.jpg
google street view

The large apartment building on the right has survived as well.

http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/5...nerwilshir.jpg
LAPL detail



The Rampart Arms at 603 Rampart & 6th Street.

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1...ronrampart.jpg
google street view



below: Sadly, there is some cheesiness going on along 6th Street....

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1...rton6thsho.jpg
google street view



.....and on Rampart as well. The main entrance is on the left.

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2...parto1shop.jpg
google street view