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Old Posted Nov 10, 2022, 8:19 PM
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mystery location.

Here's a slide that I've had on hand for a couple of weeks.

Hollywood, California 1960s


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my uneducated guess is Franklin ave approaching Cahuenga blvd
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That's what I was thinking it was, too, fullpower. I traveled through there on Monday afternoon.
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The street on the right connecting to Franklin is Ivar Ave. and the small box shaped building is still there at present.

The next intersection is Cahuenga followed by Wilcox, where the strip mall looking location is. Going north for a short bit, Wilcox and Cahuenga are side by side, quite close to each other. In E_R's photo at center you see the sign for a Richfield station. At present there is a Chevron station located there.

The building you see in the upper left corner is the Hollywood Ardmore at Whitley Avenue.

Currently, some of the smaller dwellings on Franklin are being torn down and larger establishments going up.

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Old Posted Nov 10, 2022, 10:37 PM
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No mention of Television on the furniture store sign, so 1940s?
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Old Posted Nov 11, 2022, 12:18 AM
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No mention of Television on the furniture store sign, so 1940s?
Billboard featuring Bob Abernathy anchoring the KNBC 4 Nightly News places this photo between August 1966 and sometine in 1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Abernethy
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Old Posted Nov 11, 2022, 1:58 PM
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No mention of Television on the furniture store sign, so 1940s?
I presume you are referring to the parade picture. If the first Burbank squadron of the Civil Air Patrol was formed in 1945 that would be a good guess for the earliest date of the picture and 1948 or so for the latest. That would be consistent with the uniforms.

Billie Bock sounds like an interesting lady. I wonder what 1542 N. Evergreen St. in Burbank looked like back then.

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Here's a rather grand theater that was converted to porn.

5th Avenue Theater, 2541 W. Manchester Blvd. Inglewood, CA


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The only time I saw a porn in a theater was a double bill at the Nuart Theater in East L.A. The two films were a 3-D xxx porn and John Water's Pink Flamingos (as the main feature). The highlight of the porn, and the only scene that I remember, involved a giant dildo that 'floated' out over the audience until it was directly over heads. haha ...A Cinematic Masterpiece!


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By the 70s/80s, that was a Pussycat theatre (no, I never saw a flick there ) To the right, the shop that has the sign that says "Hair..." was Marionello's Beauty and Barber College. I went there for haircuts from around 1983 until I departed Southern California in 1998. The barbers were students, but I think they were pretty much done and were getting in hours before being licensed
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Oops, the Pussycat Theater and Marionello's was on Market St, south of Manchester. Please disregard
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Old Posted Nov 11, 2022, 5:30 PM
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.The only time I saw a porn in a theater was a double bill at the Nuart Theater in East L.A. The two films were a 3-D xxx porn and John Water's Pink Flamingos (as the main feature). The highlight of the porn, and the only scene that I remember, involved a giant dildo that 'floated' out over the audience until it was directly over heads. haha ...A Cinematic Masterpiece!
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You can't fool me! The Nuart Theater is in West L.A.!

Currently showing: Five-time Academy Award®-winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu brings us BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. 2 hrs. 39 minutes. It's an epic, visually stunning and immersive experience. (Sounds like the porn you saw, E_R!)
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Hello NLA! I just finished going through all of the pages and am now all caught up and ready to get involved. I grew up in Laurel Canyon and live and breathe LA. I look forward to sharing and learning with you all!

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Welcome to the noirish Los Angeles, CanyonKid. ..Don't be a stranger.
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Old Posted Nov 11, 2022, 8:01 PM
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Some Mystery Locations








Here are a some mystery locations... I think the image with the bridge in the distance is near the Arroyo Seco.

Great to finally meet you E_R!
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Old Posted Nov 11, 2022, 8:06 PM
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Dunno where the dealership was, but the car in the top picture is a 1951 Nash-Healey.

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That's the Burbank Theatre at 548 S Main Street. You can see more pictures at cinematreasures.org.
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Amazing! Thanks, HossC.
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You can't fool me! The Nuart Theater is in West L.A.!
I saw dozens of movies at the Nuart in the 1980s, as well as at the Fox Venice Theater which featured similar fare. At one point there was a tiny storefront business right next to the Nuart that fascinated me; it had a very small sign in the window that read SPASTIC MUSCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Dr. Smilax Sandau."

Smilax? That's a name?
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She was/is president of Spastic Muscle Research Bureau, incorporated 1956, no longer active. https://www.corporationwiki.com/Cali.../39553026.aspx

She has a relative named Smilax Runyan.

She's still alive! And so I'm uncomfortable posting more information about her . . .


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Maybe one discreetly posited picture would be ok?




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Old Posted Nov 12, 2022, 8:00 AM
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Hello NLA! I just finished going through all of the pages and am now all caught up and ready to get involved. I grew up in Laurel Canyon and live and breathe LA. I look forward to sharing and learning with you all!
That is dedication, to go through the hundreds or thousands of pages going back over 10 years before you felt ready to enter the present specialized world of noirishers. I went through perhaps the first 50 pages before I started posting once in a while, maybe 5 years ago. I noticed quite a few of the posts and photos were about or from the1920s and 1930s, my specialty, so I was hooked. Welcome Canyon Kid to noirish land.

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I saw dozens of movies at the Nuart in the 1980s, as well as at the Fox Venice Theater which featured similar fare. At one point there was a tiny storefront business right next to the Nuart that fascinated me; it had a very small sign in the window that read SPASTIC MUSCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Dr. Smilax Sandau."

Smilax? That's a name?
There is a street at the boundary between San Marcos and Vista, where I now live, that is called Smilax St. So I guess there are Smilaxes out there, but it does sound like a made up name.
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Here's a rather grand theater that was converted to porn.

5th Avenue Theater, 2541 W. Manchester Blvd. Inglewood, CA


eBay via LIBRARY OF CONGRESS


The only time I saw a porn in a theater was a double bill at the Nuart Theater in West L.A. The two films were a 3-D xxx porn and John Water's Pink Flamingos (as the main feature). The highlight of the porn, and the only scene that I remember, involved a giant dildo that 'floated' out over the audience until it was directly over heads. haha ...A Cinematic Masterpiece!


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I went once or twice after I turned 18, when they'd let you in. The places were dirty and depressing. I saw "Deep Throat" with Linda Lovelace, a porn "classic" from the early 1970s. After a while porn becomes boring. So I decided human companionship was better. The floors were often sticky. The patrons must have spilled their soft drinks.

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Delete, duplicate post.

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