noirish Los Angeles v2.0

[ethereal_reality]

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A mystery location.

Does anyone recognize this unique looking mansion?


Seller's description:..."PHOTOGRAPH MANSION - PALOS VERDES PENINSULA - SAN PEDRO - LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA PHOTO"


Currently on eBay



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[Snix]

Flemish Village dates to 1925! It appears to include the Palomar Hotel on Santa Monica Blvd.


LAT 1.4.25

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Alkapone, believe it or not I had this post ready for Flemish Lane. (I don't believe 'Village' is in the name)


It's the street to the right (east) of the old Palomar Apt/Hotel.







Flemish Lane is quite short. Here's an aerial view.





And here's a street view when the buildings were painted in various colors.



The multi-colors makes it look a bit. . um . . Flemishy.



It has since been repaited.





Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question.

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[Snix]

This 1957 office building with Diamond Jim's steakhouse was intact until the early 2000s. It may have been removed when Frederick's of Hollywood relocated there. Permits show it being designed by George Vernon Russell.

1973 photo by Ed Ruscha/Getty museum
https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/object/100GZG

Originally Posted by odinthor

e_r, Pickwick's Book Store was at 6743 Hollywood Blvd. (I've been there many many a time). It's now a Taco Bell. Be that as it may, here's the above view now:


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[ethereal_reality]

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I hope I haven't asked this before.

"PHOTO NEGATVE: Original Photo Negative LA COLISEUM SOUVENIR SHOP 1950s Los Angeles CA"

Do these mid-century souvenir shops still circle the Coliseum?


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They're pretty nifty looking. I believe Marineland had some designed the same way. (I remember going into it)

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[ethereal_reality]

[ethereal_reality]

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Gas-O-Meters looming over Union Station.


"1956 Los Angeles Union Station Gasometers Cars Original 35mm Slide"



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I took the train once from Union Station to San Diego to catch a boat to Hussong's Cantina in Ensenada, Mexico.... I only remember half the trip.
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[ethereal_reality]

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A rare look at Disney's Tomorrowland in 1956!


"1956 Disneyland Tomorrowland TWA Moonliner Astro Jets Vintage 35mm Slide"



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I always wanted to be the spaceman that walked around but I was no doubt too short.

I believe there were spacegirls too.





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[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Snix

Flemish Village dates to 1925! It appears to include the Palomar Hotel on Santa Monica Blvd.


LAT 1.4.25

EXCELLENT find, Snix. ...Thank you! ..

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[ethereal_reality]

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My guess is this was taken in Griffith Park at . . um . .Travel Town (or whatever it was called)


"Boys on Los Angeles Railway Co Streetcar #51, Eagle Rock: 1970's 35mm Slide"


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[ethereal_reality]

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Mystery location - The Chef's Broiler - somewhere in Pasadena.


"Slide 1969 Rose Parade Grand Marshal Car Los Angeles"




Does anyone know who the Grand Marshall was in 1969?

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[odinthor]

Facebook, quoth Google search (with a link that leads to something else)

[ethereal_reality]

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I should have recognized the nose. (but it's difficult to see)

THANKS, odinthor. ...I appreciate your help.

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[HossC]

Colorado at El Molino Avenue. The foreground buildings have gone, but the large white one in the background on the left is still standing, although now it's difficult to see from this angle.

The brown building on the left is Hoelscher's clothing store. Carl Hoelscher died in 1974 while he was president of the 1975 Tournament of Roses.


www.newspapers.com LAT Mon, 25 Mar 1974

[ethereal_reality]

Too much stress.

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[Lwize]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Too much stress.

Yes. The San Andreas is ready to pop.

[Alkapone]

Originally Posted by odinthor

Facebook, quoth Google search (with a link that leads to something else)

1969 was the year that Jane Wyman and Hope both appeared in their last Hollywood feature roles in “How To Commit Marriage”, essentially a flop with audiences. During filming, the wedding scene was filmed in a church just off Hollywood Boulevard on N. Gramercy…right where the pot bust movie premierce would later be filmed for L.A. Confidential. IMDB has at least one shot of the unnamed church here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064449/?ref_=mv_close

I was the last person to get Hope’s autograph at the end of the work as he was leaving in the limo. He actually had the driver halt the car after I said exactly how much I wanted his signature. There’s another story about Mr. Gleason during the location shoot..a real nice fellow if you ask me but I can’t speak for everybody else out there. Matheson of course went on to fame as one of the leads in Animal House, a comedy way more successful. Reagan, the future you know what, had something to do with that church and Wyman had committed marriage with him in the past. Graham did document that church in her coverage of Hollywood Blvd. eastward of Vine.

[Alkapone]

Here’s where Graham covered the evolution into the Hollywood Christian Church, or aka Hollywood Beverly Christian Church, built at 1717 N. Gramercy Place (originally Morgan) which lasted to about 1988 and was subsequently vacated and set afire in 1989: https://jhgraham.com/2023/08/17/6100-hollywood-boulevard-the-bungalow-church/

It sat on the west side just north of the commercial row facing the main drag.

[Alkapone]

Rare interior view of that church can be found as a postcard listing here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/396858490550

BTW…Reagan was still a registered Dem when he attended services there.

[Alkapone]

Besides Hollywood Christian Church and many other projects including the PE Claremont station, architect Robert Hall Orr is given crediting for the Hollywood (Presb.) Hospital at 1300 N. Vermont Avenue with this image: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/39626

[Alkapone]

A source with two still photos from Hope’s film taken inside the church backward and forward (the pulpit is partially seen and is the one in the postcard): https://www.silverbankspictures.com/2026/01/how-to-commit-marriage-1969-original_52.html

The view toward the rear over the group shows the slotted windows in the doors from where one could see inside during the production without upsetting the filmwork.

That still to the rear…



sourced silverbankpictures.com as above linked.