MichaelRyerson - It is wonderful that you were able to recover a couple of the bricks from Mignonette and Fremont. I have always felt that historic
artifacts should belong to someone who appreciates them. The bricks have found a good home.

A couple of the Noirish guys have been out to Fremont Ave. in the past and took some photos before construction began. I was always hoping that
someone would salvage some of the bricks, and now you have. Congratulations!

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Photo by Westcork

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Thanks Fred, I appreciate it. I couldn't agree more. They should find their way into the hands of people who get a little flush of pleasure every time they look at them. The smaller Bruno stone is my favorite but I have to admit every time I touch one of the Mignonette bricks I think of Anna May Wong as a child and that goofy laundry cart.

By the way, look at your third picture here and this one of mine. I'm sure they're the same curb and gutter.

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detail #1 (Melody Lane)
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detail #2
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detail #3
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That hazy silhouette is what gave the location away (oops, and the fact that the billboard says Long Beach...duh)
I'm pretty sure it's the facade of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium.
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If it turns out that I have posted it before, it's certainly worth a second look. ;) -don't ya think?

Good information, as always. I originally typed UCLA, but deferred to HDL even though I couldn't place any of the outlying landmarks.


Speaking of landmarks, how about "City on the Mount?"

1895 - Mt. Lowe
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Venice Post Card - Undated
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Eighth and Broadway - Undated
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More of Great Republic - Undated
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City Hall - undated
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1948 Looking for Cheesecake from on high?
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Good advice! I'm going to add to that though, find a long standing clone shop and have them build the computer to best meet your needs/wants verses grabbing the sounds good, low price computer from a big box store or one of the online sellers. If ones old computer's hard drive is and IDE drive you may want to have them use a Mother Board that supports both IDE and SATA hard drives. That will provide the option of simply adding the old drive to the new computer to have easy access to all your data files. The alternative to the latter is to network the old computer with the new and do a lot of copying. Of course a new computer means the pain of re-installing all your software which can be a really bad experience if you have downloaded any of it and your only licensing info is in E-mail on the old hard drive. Print out those E-Mails before moving anything or before assuming you can transfer them to the new drive.

Lastly have a case of your favorite beer or a couple of bottles of Jack Daniels immediately available before you start.:)

I'm surprised it could even reach highway speeds!
 

Good set of peepers, Earl Boebert! I also thought it was the rare Hotshot, but I didn't post it because I thought no one would have a clue what I was talking about!
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Nothing even slightly noir about this car. Paint it green and call it Kermit.

He has a well-stamped passport!
 

Originally posted by ER

Holy crap, Jack! Not only do I see the face, but I know exactly who it is.

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He spends every Easter in the Islands. Nice guy, but a bit hard-headed.

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Movie companies were terrified of TV...
 

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At the end of WW II, there were only 44,000 TV sets in the entire US.

Don Lee was the LA pioneer in TV. He was a wealthy Cadillac dealer and had interests in other wacky things like radio.

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TV Museum
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TV Museum

Wow! You may be right. For some reason, I was thinking it was THIS guy.

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:D
By golly, Albany NY, I think you're right! Great stuff! :D

Cheers,
Jack

Ah, but under that plain Jane exterior, what there was of it anyway, the Hotshot sported (sorry!) the world's first automotive application (in more than one sense) of caliper disc brakes. So the Crosley was a prototype in that sense for all contemporary cars.

The Crosley isn't completely without connections to this thread. A New York Times article titled Frugal, Before Americans Cared names a few well-known Crosley owners, including Frank Lloyd Wright. From the article:

"In the mid-1930s Wright established a second location for his Taliesin design and architecture school, near Scottsdale, Ariz. After the war, he became fond of taking road trips from the original Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wis., to Taliesin West. Wright would generally make the trip in a Bentley, Lincoln, Cadillac or Mercedes. His followers weren’t so lucky. They were banished to his fleet of Crosley Hotshots, painted his signature shade of Cherokee Red, a trip about as comfortable as crossing the country in a golf cart."

The car below is one of those Crosleys. It's part of a slideshow in another NY Times article: The Auto as Architect's Inspiration.

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The New York Times/Matt Short/Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum

Another of the celebrity owners named in the first article is Gloria Swanson. Maybe it was a case of "I am big. It's the cars that got small." :)

This looks like an interesting place.

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That was really interesting to see the boulevard dressed in period cars and clothes...assuming you can look past the tires on the red cars which I assume would've been CGI'd out.

Was the movie accurate? No, unfortunately not. But strictly as a movie, I quite enjoyed it. More than I was expecting to.

And in related news...my novels set in and around the Garden of Allah in the 20s, 30s, and 40s have just been optioned by a film & TV producer. His latest project is "100 Foot Journey" starring Helen Mirren which was produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. At any rate, he's very into the whole old Hollywood era and wants to use my books as the basis for a film or (preferably) TV show. Part of our deal is to bring me on as an historical consultant, so should it get green lit, then--fingers crossed--we could see faithful recreations of places like the Garden of Allah, Ciro's, Cocoanut Grove, Hollywood Blvd, Don the Beachcomber, Schwab's, the Tick Tock, Bullocks Wilshire, the Sunset Strip.


For those who are interested here is some more information on my website:
http://bit.ly/1muu67L

The official announcement in the Hollywood Reporter (which is ironic, because one of my characters works at THR)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...r-snaps-726721

Here's a handsome member of the LASD.

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The building behind his right shoulder looks like it might be an adobe.
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The crime scene was released in 2000 it's graphic to say the least

I don't think adobe. The large building is the Post Office at Temple and Main Streets. Our handsome law enforcement officer is standing
between a couple of formidable Buick pursuit cars parked (I think) in the parking area to the immediate east of the Hall of Justice.
Recently extended Spring Street (1931) is behind him and the lower buildings are on New High Street. The building with the two roof
vents is actually a police garage and has been there for a long time. The tall building on the left edge is the Murrietta Building
(327 New High Street) which housed, for many years, on its second floor Madame Van's house of ill fame. Handy for the local government
functionaries.

By the way, great picture. (the license plates tell us 1935)

The snippet below is from an issue of 'The Billboard' dated 15 May 1943. I'm guessing that the Bal-Tabarin took its name from a cabaret in Paris which operated between 1904 and 1953.

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Here's a souvenir menu which the seller dates at 1946.

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eBay

And a 1940s souvenir photograph.

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eBay

I also found information about clubs/restaurants with the same name and from the same era in New York and San Francisco. I don't know if there was any connection between them.

15513 South Western Avenue, Gardena now appears to be the parking lot/forecourt of a Honda dealership.

I thought so, too!

Congratulations on this news MT! Keep us posted. Coincidentally, I just saw that film last night.