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Snix · #**61161** Posted **Jan 8, 2024, 6:52 PM**

Ed "Strangler" Lewis Monterey Cafe
709 S. Brand in Glendale
I love celebrity restaurants and have never heard of this one connected to the professional wrestler. Assessor says the building there dates to 1936, so it's still hiding under this wreck.

eBay

GSV

HossC · #**61162** Posted **Jan 8, 2024, 7:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's a somewhat mystery slide being sold seperately.

...I'm hoping one of you clever people can explain the oddly configured exit and entrance in the distance?

eBay / Color Slide / May 1969

It looks like they changed the northbound on/off-ramp configuration of the 405 at Century Boulevard in the late '80s. The aerial on the left is from 1972 and the one on the right is from 1991. The military aerials site has loads of images from around 1969, but they all cost money!

Historic Aerials

Mackerm · #**61163** Posted **Jan 9, 2024, 10:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Snix

Ed "Strangler" Lewis Monterey Cafe
709 S. Brand in Glendale
I love celebrity restaurants and have never heard of this one connected to the professional wrestler. Assessor says the building there dates to 1936, so it's still hiding under this wreck.

Unlike his pumpkin-themed dance 'n' dine.

Martin Turnbull

Martin Pal · #**61164** Posted **Jan 9, 2024, 6:54 PM**

Does that sign say E & E Studio Club?
(E & E for Earl & Ed, of course.)
Wonder if it was a seedy joint? Heh!

ethereal_reality · #**61165** Posted **Jan 9, 2024, 10:45 PM**

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Here's another interesting color slide that recently popped up on eBay.

Seller's description:.."Los Angeles Mansion Houses Car California Kodachrome 35mm Slide 1950s"

BUT if you look closer that isn't a mansion. I'm pretty sure it's an apartment building.

Do any of you fine sleuths recognize it?

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ethereal_reality · #**61166** Posted **Jan 9, 2024, 10:58 PM**

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Now let's travel back to Los Angeles's agrarian past.

"Orange groves near Los Angeles."

eBay

What caught my eye was the extraordinary 'cupola' on the barn.

detail

I've never seen one quite so fancy..& I grew up in rural Illinois!

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John Maddox Roberts · #**61167** Posted **Jan 10, 2024, 6:13 PM**

The 'cupola' might be a dovecote.

BDiH · #**61168** Posted **Jan 11, 2024, 12:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mackerm

Unlike his pumpkin-themed dance 'n' dine.

Martin Turnbull

We used to shop there in the late 1940s and early 1950s when The Pumpkin was a hardware store.

Godzilla · #**61169** Posted **Jan 11, 2024, 1:01 AM**

The pumpkin was previously discussed on NLA. Perhaps, WesClark of Burbankia deserves to be credited. http://wesclark.com/burbank/pumpkin.html

http://wesclark.com/burbank/pumpkin_...ware_store.jpg

riichkay · #**61170** Posted **Jan 11, 2024, 8:06 AM**

Looking north over the parking lot at Gilmore Field during a baseball game, undated but likely early '40's....photo from the Life Magazine archives......

....detail....

....the Brea-Fax Market was located at 7711 Beverly Blvd. as per the '45 phone book....

.....the building survives....the east portion (7709) was converted to a synagogue in the 1950's, that usage endures....

gsv

ethereal_reality · #**61171** Posted **Jan 11, 2024, 7:14 PM**

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Amazing stuff, riichkay. Thank you.
We might have seen the old photograph years ago on NLA (I coukd be wrong of course) but I don't believe anyone took the time to see if the former Brea-Fax building is still there.

re: The old orange grove BARN

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Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts

The 'cupola' might be a dovecote.

Good eye, JMR, I believe you're right. ... So the farm had oranges and pigeons. ..*spits out feather*

This old stereoview is also available on eBay.

I want an orange.

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JeffDiego · #**61172** Posted **Jan 11, 2024, 11:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Here's another interesting color slide that recently popped up on eBay.

Seller's description:.."Los Angeles Mansion Houses Car California Kodachrome 35mm Slide 1950s"

BUT if you look closer that isn't a mansion. I'm pretty sure it's an apartment building.

Do any of you fine sleuths recognize it?

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Around 1974, I was drawing pen & ink illustrations of interesting old Los Angeles architecture for a weekly West Hollywood-area newspaper called The Canyon Crier. I well-remember coming across some fascinating old houses that looked exactly (if memory serves) like those in this Kodachrome. They really made an impression on me, especially because of the startling contrast in architectural styles. They were on a street behind Lafayette Park (slightly north of the Park, going towards Third Street)....I want to say Lafayette Park Place, but I can't be sure. I particularly remember the Southern Colonial house with tall pillars (may have been an apartment house, as you say) between two grand old houses of a Craftsman or Foursquare style They were looking run down then, but you could certainly see that the neighborhood had once been fashionable. I assume they are long-gone, probably replaced by dingbats.
I'll look and see if I can find that drawing. It'd be wonderful if you - or someone - could find other vintage photos of that area's side streets...the old Wilshire District.

ethereal_reality · #**61173** Posted **Jan 12, 2024, 5:53 PM**

Excellent theories and deductions, JeffDiego. ..Thanks for your help.

If I recall there is an old wooden survivor with similar columns on one of the east-west streets south of downtown (perhaps W. Washington Blvd. - Venice Blvd. - ) but I haven't been able to locate it again.
But there's another problem:..The apartment building I'm thinking of was on a corner.

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ethereal_reality · #**61174** Posted **Jan 12, 2024, 7:27 PM**

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Here's an interesting slide dated July 1963 that appears to have been taken out the back window of a van!

As you can see it shows the recently demolished

mid-century LYTTON SAVINGS building with its unique zig-zag roof.

eBay

Note for noirish newbies: ....

The LYTTON SAVINGS building was built on the former site of the Garden of Allah....(Thanks Martin Turnbull)

The large white building in the distance. and on the right, is the world famous Chateau Marmont...(still there!)

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Snix · #**61175** Posted **Jan 12, 2024, 7:51 PM**

This 1937 grand opening photo for Buckley's Good Food Drive-In is currently on eBay. I don't see it in the CD or in the Times. The photographer was in L.A. Does anyone know where this was located?

Mackerm · #**61176** Posted **Jan 13, 2024, 9:23 AM**

Library of Congress

1938 Yellow Pages

Buckley's Drive-In. 5101 S. Figueroa

Then again, there seems to be a giant building in the background of the photo, or maybe it's a reflection, so who knows?

eBay listing of photo. The close-up is very nice.

Martin Pal · #**61177** Posted **Jan 13, 2024, 6:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mackerm

eBay listing of photo. The close-up is very nice.
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I went to look at that; it got sold yesterday!

Martin Pal · #**61178** Posted **Jan 13, 2024, 6:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

,[...]
As you can see it shows the recently demolished

mid-century LYTTON SAVINGS building with its unique zig-zag roof.
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The large white building in the distance. and on the right, is the world famous Chateau Marmont...(still there!)
[...].
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The bank and everything else there got demolished for nothing, apparently. Whatever was finally going to be built there is no longer and it's been a vacant lot for two years. In January 2023, owner/developer Townscape Partners (who demolished Lytton Savings) announced they would not be following through with their approved plan to build at this site. Instead, the site is marked for sale.

The only good thing about this vacant space now is that when you drive north up Crescent Heights you have an unobstructed view of the Chateau Marmont in the Hollywood Hills; a really great view. Without all the buildings, the signage and the palm trees they should be taking postcard photos of it now.