Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5585093)

Car accident May 20, 1937.

Sopas_ej (our 'in house' bridge expert) can you tell us which bridge this is? The only clue is that engaged column.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/589...201937ebay.jpg
found on ebay



http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2...01937ebay1.jpg
detail

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Gaylord_Wilshire, the photos of Sophia Loren & Jayne Mansfield are new to me as well.
Even by today's standards the photographs are pretty shocking. Ms. Mansfield might as well have been topless.

I bet Louella Parsons was cross-eyed for a week.

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Originally Posted by PHX31 (Post 5585664)

Thanks for sharing your stories Valda!

You mentioned your neighborhood in Highland Park... my Grandparents lived with my Great Grandmother in Highland Park back in the late 20s and 30s. They lived there for quite a while, my mother even lived there up until the 1st grade. They lived on a house just off of N Avenue 64 (on Planada Ave), shown below:

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i265/phxrep/6318.jpg
Google Street View

Back in those days it was broken into two separate living areas, with my family living upstairs, and the downstairs was rented out as a separate apartment.

Earlier on in this thread I mentioned my Mom's neighborhood and some stories about her childhood in Alhambra (living just below the Phil Spector mansion), but she lived in Highland Park when she was much younger.

Also, YEARS ago (probably 2004) I posted a thread about my Grandmother's stories riding the streetcars from Highland Park to her job at a bank in Downtown Los Angeles. Maybe you guys rode the same streetcar, Valda. Her and my Grandfather kept a Los Angeles street car token for all these years, which she gave to me before she passed (actually, she gave it to me around the time I posted that old thread, I still have it).

Anyway, I just talked to my mom on the phone and she mentioned several interesting historic structures in Highland Park on N Ave 64, just a block or so from their old home. One of them is the Church of the Angeles on 1100 N. Avenue 64. She told me how beautiful the stained glass windows in the church were, as well as mentioned a neat angel statue in front. Here is what the church looks like today:

The stained glass
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...rep/church.jpg
Google Streetview

Side view from Church Street, notice the clock and statue
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ep/church2.jpg

Another really quick search brought up this:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...7B976AC54?v=hr
Courtesy USC Digital Archive Church of the Angels info, USC

Notice the clock... In the archives they describe the history of the late 1800s church, which still stands in mostly the same condition.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5494631)

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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-n...2520AM.bmp.jpgyoutube.com
This location is no mystery

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9...2520AM.bmp.jpgyoutube.com
This appears to have been shot in Fremont Place, though the house seen is not #56, the one
Mary Pickford and her mother rented for a few years in the '20s. According to esteemed blogger
Steve Vaught over at Paradise Leased, Charlotte Pickford apparently owned--she seems to
have had it built--#126 Fremont Place:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B...2520AM.bmp.jpgParadise Leased

#126 now:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle Earth

#56:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...2520AM.bmp.jpgHouses of Hancock Park

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520AM.bmp.jpgyoutube.com
I'm thinking this is a set...can't think of an old L.A. theater that looks like this, can you? The
La Reina Theater on Ventura certainly doesn't....

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5587075)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-t...2520PM.bmp.jpgThe Church of the Angels

Re the Church of the Angels: One of--if not the--most interesting church in L.A.--or is it Pasadena? There seem to be conflicting claims to it. The church website (link above) has the address as "1100 Ave. 64, Pasadena," while the Historic Highland Park website seems to claim it as well. Well, who wouldn't want to claim for themselves? The vintage shots are mesmerizing.

The shot above is the only one I could find of the tower's truncated state that mercifully turned out to be temporary. According to the church's website, "...after the 1971 earthquake, it was necessary to shorten the tower because of structural damage. In celebration of the church's centennial in 1989, the funds were raised to rebuild the bell tower to its original height and to seismically strengthen and structurally reinforce the church. At the same time, many of the original architectural features of the exterior of the church were re-established and restored."

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5585080)

Welcome to the thread Valda!

Thank you so much for sharing your memories of growing up in Los Angeles. I am in awe of your father....you must be very proud of him.

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I tried to come up with some information on your music school in Boyle Heights, but the only information I could find was for a 'Neighborhood Music School' on Boyle Avenue just south of 4th street.

Could this possibly be your music school? Here's a link to it's history.http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/09/local/me-61293

Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 5587158)

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Hi slaverne! The Artist was a great film. I'm interested to see how it'll fare in a few weeks at the Oscars.

So were most of the shooting locations confined to a studio and a few sections of LA?

Originally Posted by 3940dxer (Post 5587182)

e_r, my mother mentioned in an email that this was her music school, so thanks for finding the article!

I did a little more digging and learned that the original address was, appropriately, 2607 Mozart St. This is a couple blocks east of where the 5 freeway is now, and 2 blocks north of Main St. In (I think) the early 30's they expanded and moved to two adjacent houses at 410 and 412 S. Boyle Ave. In 1947 the music program split in two. The Neighborhood Music School moved a block up the street to yet another Victorian house at 358 S. Boyle, the current location. Founder Pearl Odell stayed in the 410/412 homes, running what would become the Los Angeles Music and Art School.

I stopped by 410/412 this morning and took a few photos. Valda, is this where you took violin lessons?

Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 5586606)

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If I may add, the Garvanza name disappeared some time by the mid 20th Century, the area being considered part of Highland Park. It was later revived in the mid or late 90s, I believe. By the time I moved to South Pasadena in 1998, the Garvanza district/neighborhood signs were already in place.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AbImehj4Li...vanza+Sign.jpg
ellenbloom.blogspot.com

"The toll house still exists on the South Pasadena side."

That's news to me! I can't imagine where it would be.