noirish Los Angeles

[ethereal_reality]

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I've been meaning to post this rppc ever since I happened upon it a few weeks ago on eBay.

Now seems an appropriate time to do so.



I didn't realize it started out so small.



5 minutes later.

. . .or maybe that isn't the hotel on Ivar. ... I see in the 1940 city directory there was also a Knickerbocker downtown on Olive St.



. . .but it says "bldg." not hotel.




10 min. later

I just found another one. This Knickerbocker is listed as a hotel and it was on Fremont. (in 1937)





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[HossC]

That's the Hotel Knickerbocker at 551 S Fremont.

Originally Posted by HossC

We've seen the Knickerbocker in Hollywood several times over the years, and I'm sure that's where the Gray Line bus was going. Many years earlier, however, there was a Hotel Knickerbocker at 551 S Fremont Avenue. It's seen here circa 1929. The site is now almost dead center under the Harbor Freeway.


USC Digital Library

Here's a reminder of the extant Knickerbocker Building at 643 S Olive.

Originally Posted by HossC

The detail below highlights the area around 7th and Grand where the "Little Giant" Garage and Casa Grande stood only a decade or so earlier. The
Wilhelm Apartments has become the Woman's Hotel, and the "Little Giant" Garage and Casa Grande have been replaced by the Security Trust &
Savings Bank. I wonder if the residents knew that Orange Street (Wilshire Boulevard) would be extended through to Grand Avenue (splitting the
blocks at the bottom of the image) the following year.


Detail of picture above.

For search purposes, the picture also shows the Knickerbocker Building, the Bank of Italy Building, the Brack Shops, the Quinby Building, the Brockman
Building, the Union Oil Building, the Criterion Theatre and the Univeristy Club.

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by BDiH

The excavation for the Red Line would have stumbled across a tunnel.
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That occured to me, but thought it possible I wouldn't have heard or read about it. One thing for sure is there's a Red Line tunnel down Hollywood Blvd. now!

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

.The only tunnel I've heard about that is in the immediate area is/was between the Knickerbocker Hotel and the El Capitan Theater on Vine Street.
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That would make more sense. It would also make more sense if the tunnel was from the Broadway to the EL Capitan. Maybe there were two?!

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

.P.S. I'm not really in a tunnel.
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I thought you meant a metaphorical one.

[AlvaroLegido]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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The only tunnel I've heard about that is in the immediately area is/was between the Knickbocker Hotel and the El Capitan Theater on Vine Street.

I remember the (early) posts on the tunnel which was between the two buildings of the Rosslyn Hotel at Main and Five.

[Martin Pal]

^^^

That was a different tunnel than the Hollywood & Vine inquiry.

[riichkay]

Back in Sept. 2018 a gentleman who goes by Mr. Rollers responded to our post of his flickr.com photos re: the ruins of the old Griffith Park zoo....https://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum...lers&page=2441

In addition to the zoo pictures on his flickr page are photos primarily of Hollywood/Silverlake circa mid-'70's.....https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr-rol...h/50739027531/

With the hope Mr. Rollers would have no objection I culled out a few....





Sunset Blvd. at Lucille Ave., 1976






I believe this is adjacent to the Go-Lo station as a portion of the station canopy is visible.






Location not specified....a reminder that the scourge of graffiti was well established by the '70's.






Sunset Dr. at Hoover St., 1975






Echo Park, 1975






1974....this would be the east side of Western Ave. just past Hollywood Blvd., looking north.






"View from dorm", undated






"Piano Pete", atop the Jensen Piano Co. store at 13325 Victory Blvd., Van Nuys


Pete has left the building....









Jensen Piano grand opening on June 6, 1956....owner Johnny Jensen and wife at photo center.




The Physical Way, 3229 Sunset Blvd....






....a permit dated Oct. 6 1970....





Hmmm...."partitions" and "sound proofing"....and bookshelves, perhaps displaying the collected works of the Marquis de Sade?



This colorful den of iniquity is now, of course, a hookah lounge....






I well recall the tawdry East Hollywood/Silverlake of the mid-'70's, suffice to say there were far more hookers than hookahs in those years....


....but something has been lost here, in my view a red-light district is essential to every great city.