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GaylordWilshire Mar 27, 2012 9:20 PM

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Originally Posted by rbpjr (Post 5643391)
You guys DO realize that that photo was taken while the Theme Building was undergoing restoration, right? It now looks like it's always looked on the outside; I was just at LAX last month, incidentally. Its restoration was completed a while ago.

A joke gone awry? In attempt to clear things up...

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-a...2520PM.bmp.jpgKABC-TV
LAX webcam shot taken a few minutes ago...


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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5641933)
I suppose we'll get used to the new Mayan-Igloo design, the four glass-enclosed staircases, and the glass-atrium dome observation deck under the intersection of the arches, but I think the black snakelike sculptures are in questionable taste.

Was this really that convincing?


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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5643487)
I realize that I probably should have waited until Sunday to post that....


ethereal_reality Mar 27, 2012 11:21 PM

The Fuller Paint Warehouse on San Fernando Road in Lincoln Heights.

http://imageshack.us/a/img11/3868/al...ullerpaint.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=50565




below: The Fuller Paint Co. Warehouse by Morgan, Walls & Clements 1925

http://imageshack.us/a/img29/417/alt...ernandoroa.jpg
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/fuller_paint.html






The Fuller Paint Co. Warehouse reinvented as Alta Lofts. My mouth dropped open when I saw this make-over. At first I thought it was photoshopped.. but it isn't.

http://imageshack.us/a/img829/3831/altatryagain.jpg
http://www.livealta.com/blog/tag/alt...s-now-selling/

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ethereal_reality Mar 28, 2012 4:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Mayor Shaw (Post 5641505)
I found an interesting piece of stock footage over on the internet archive website. It is 11 minutes of color film shot at night in 1946 while driving around downtown. I don't know how to post the clip here. but here is the link:
http://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-2_LA_color . I found it fascinating on so many levels. We can see the theaters on Broadway, Cliftons, cops directing traffic, newsboys on the corners, and man those cars! Also interesting to note, we see many of those traffic lights with stop signs attached that were discussed a few posts back. I suggest right clicking on the video and choose to slow the speed to half or even quater, but as I say it's 11 min. long at full speed.


Here is a nice companion piece to the 1946 35mm film of downtown Los Angeles (link above).
It is an amateur video filmed in 1988 with music...so be sure and have your speakers turned up.

http://imageshack.us/a/img545/3598/a...be1988dla1.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img191/6320/aayoutube1988dla.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR03EX20cDw


I wonder if Ridley Scott filmed something akin to this before filming 'Blade Runner'?
Add some mist & rain and people scurrying with neon lit umbrellas and you pretty much come close to his remarkable vision
of Los Angeles in the near future*.

*note at 2:14 Asian music from the street blends in with the jazz...this truly gave me a 'Blade Runner' moment.

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kznyc2k Mar 28, 2012 8:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5643919)
The Fuller Paint Co. Warehouse reinvented as Alta Lofts. My mouth dropped open when I saw this make-over. At first I thought it was photoshopped.. but it isn't.

http://imageshack.us/a/img829/3831/altatryagain.jpg

Symmetry is for pussies!

so-cal-bear Mar 28, 2012 1:40 PM

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GaylordWilshire Mar 28, 2012 10:15 PM

Obscure Paul Revere Williams architecture, part 3
 
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Y...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w...2520PM.bmp.jpg

I just became aware of Paul Revere Williams's design for Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, a four-bedroom, four-bath house at 1196 West 36th Place.


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0...bojangles1.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-g...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520PM.bmp.jpghttp://archiveamericana.com/wp-conte...ngles-1935.jpg

Sadly, Bojangles only got to live in his new house for a short time after he moved in with his wife in 1943--six months later, Mrs. Bojangles kicked him out and kept the house after the divorce. Robinson died broke in 1949. Full story here.


Color: Google Street View; all others except last: Maynard Parker/Paul R. Williams Project; last: Archive Americana

ethereal_reality Mar 28, 2012 10:58 PM

...from paradise to sketchy neighborhood. :(

originally posted by Gaylord_Wilshire
http://imageshack.us/a/img836/3574/bojanglesssp.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img15/9874/bojanglestd.jpg


The anti-theft fence speak volumes about the neighborhood.
I'm actually amazed this home has survived at all...it looks to be surrounded by apartment buildings.

ethereal_reality Mar 29, 2012 12:50 AM

I know we've covered film actress Barbara Payton previously....but here are photos that I've found recently that haven't appear in the noirish Los Angeles thread.



Barbara Payton died in 1967 at age 39 after years of alcoholism, drug abuse and prostitution.


http://imageshack.us/a/img521/6539/b...paytonbea1.jpg
http://lisaburks.typepad.com/home/20...ography_c.html



http://imageshack.us/a/img42/1933/ba...on1480x600.jpg
http://www.nndb.com/people/430/000043301/


I thought I would start off with these dazzling studio portraits. Now for scenes from her real 'noirish' life in Los Angeles.


http://imageshack.us/a/img35/6854/ba...testifylap.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5049680

above: Ms. Payton preparing to testify in the Franchot Tone vs Tom Neal fight affair in 1951.
Franchot was her fiancee at the time and Tom Neal was her lover. This is one of her statements. "It was like this Mr. D.A., I turned around just in time to see Franchot flying through the air." Mr. Tone was in a 18 hour coma.






below: Barbara Payton arrives at the hospital to visit Franchot Tone circa 1951. (this is my favorite photo of the bunch)
I wonder if that's a script in her hand?

http://imageshack.us/a/img11/5760/ba...larrivesat.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/



below: The year is still 1951 and Ms. Payton is now preparing to testify in the murder trial of a narcotics peddler.
She testified about the alibi of the suspected murderer Stanley Adams

http://imageshack.us/a/img402/1806/b...fferenttri.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5049681

Notice the flashbulbs littering the floor.





below: Franchot Tone and Barbara Payton.

http://imageshack.us/a/img577/5088/barbaratone1952.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/




below: Ms. Payton is beginning to look a little 'rough' in 1952. Here she is in divorce court (her marriage to Mr. Tone lasted 53 days...at that point she walked out and took up with Tom Neal again)

http://imageshack.us/a/img9/8422/bar...yroughlook.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/




below: Ms. Payton's hard drinking begins to take a noticeable toll. Here she is with her attorney in 1955.

http://imageshack.us/a/img862/4678/b...thattorney.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/




below: Ms. Payton sans makeup and wearing a fur coat 1955. I'm not sure why she's in court again...the caption at LAPL says something about having her purse stolen.

http://imageshack.us/a/img812/5551/barbarapuffy1955.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5049682




below: Barbara is looking better in 1958. Here she is preparing to testify in divorce court. She is divorcing her fourth husband George aka 'Tony' Provas. I would love to have that map behind her.


http://imageshack.us/a/img338/3904/b...lesfordivo.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/





below: In 1962 Ms. Payton walked into Hollywood Station with bruises and scars.

http://imageshack.us/a/img714/8676/b...laislarger.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/





http://imageshack.us/a/img23/1843/bar1in1962a.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/

Barbara Payton will be dead in five years.



These two photographs are almost always labeled as booking photos. They're not.
So I'm including this excerpt from UCLA.

http://imageshack.us/a/img259/8960/bar1in1962d.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/
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Here is the link to Jon Paul's excellent post on Barbara Payton.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5112

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GaylordWilshire Mar 29, 2012 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5645197)
...from paradise to sketchy neighborhood. :(

originally posted by Gaylord_Wilshire
http://imageshack.us/a/img836/3574/bojanglesssp.jpg


Yes, I was saddened if not surprised by the aesthetic decline of the neighborhood, which includes what you'd see parked on the streets. Not that you would have seen a 1935 chauffeur-driven Duesenberg in the area very often even in its prime.... As it turns out, Bill Robinson's Duesy, seen in front of his house in the vintage shot, still exists. It's a part of the Petersen collection:

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4151/5...7244498b_b.jpgKansas Sebastian

GaylordWilshire Mar 29, 2012 1:23 AM

Wow, Barbara Payton is as noirishly trashy and tragic as they come...


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-w...861/payton.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-K...30/payton2.jpgSilver Screen Oasis

Steve Hoffman Mar 29, 2012 1:24 AM

Just a note, that is not Franchot Tone in those photos.. Just an FYI.

ethereal_reality Mar 29, 2012 1:37 AM

It's Tom Neal...says so in the newspaper headline, but who is the dark hair woman boarding the airplane with him?

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GaylordWilshire Mar 29, 2012 1:53 AM

That is definitely not Mr. Tone... as for the woman on the boarding ramp--well, she's identified in the pic info as Babs, but she doesn't really look like her, I'll agree--

GaylordWilshire Mar 29, 2012 2:00 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5645325)

That dress... I guess I was averting my eyes when I noticed over her right shoulder, through the window...


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6...843a802970d-pi Los Angeles Times

ethereal_reality Mar 29, 2012 2:12 AM

:previous: I caught that too...I was still looking for a Earl Scheib sign to post. You're TOO fast for me G_W. :)

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I searched early photos of Ms. Payton to see if she ever resembled the lady boarding the plane.
I didn't find any that resembled the lady at the airport but I found this great photograph of Ms. Payton in 1949.

http://imageshack.us/a/img513/6282/barbaraonice.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img339/4007/barbaraonice1.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=38442

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ethereal_reality Mar 29, 2012 2:32 AM

http://imageshack.us/a/img818/8744/b...scheibsign.jpg
http://blogs.hotrod.com/earl-scheib-...tions-347.html

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GaylordWilshire Mar 29, 2012 11:57 AM

I can't get enough of Barbara Payton...or is it Tom Neal?

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics32/00035668.jpgLAPL
After the famous fight: I don't think that was Franchot's dumbbell. Speaking of
Franchot...it seems he had a thing for tough Texas babes. Remember Joan?


http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapa...rapayton48.jpghttp://img1.bdbphotos.com/images/ori...skjbt4vrs2.jpgHSBP
Nip slips?


http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapa...rapayton43.jpgHSBP
There's that trampy dress again...

http://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapa...rapayton32.jpghttp://www.hollywoodstarletbarbarapa...rapayton29.jpgHSBP

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e_r: Upon further inspection, I think maybe that is Barbara on the boarding ramp--could that be some sort of odd hat?

midge Mar 29, 2012 3:06 PM

I just wanted to thank everyone for contributing to this beyond-awesome thread. It's been keeping me entertained during my long night shifts for the past few months, and I'm almost sad to finally be caught up!

Although I'm a canuck, I spent some time growing up in the LA area (Sunset Mesa neighbourhood in Malibu, to be exact), and I have many fond memories of it. I'll be returning for the first time in almost 20 years this July for my honeymoon. I can't wait! :)

I got very excited when I saw this poster:

When I was a kid someone gave me this on a t-shirt, and I remember being in love with it. Of course, I had no idea that it was an actual burger place at the time, I just thought it was a really edgy t-shirt. :haha:

RudyJK Mar 29, 2012 5:38 PM

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e_r: Upon further inspection, I think maybe that is Barbara on the boarding ramp--could that be some sort of odd hat?[/QUOTE]

I think that it is her wearing a hat/scarf combo; you can see some blond hair peeking out on the right.

ethereal_reality Mar 29, 2012 10:14 PM

Welcome to the thread midge! It's cool you chose L.A. for your honeymoon.


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