noirish Los Angeles

[tovangar2]

Re the Electric Fountain:

We like Merrell Gage :-)

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Cyperus papyrus (papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, Nile grass)
....we used to have this in our backyard in the 1960s.

Thanks CBD!


http://ruthdemonchaux-prints.co.uk/docs/botanic4.html

[ethereal_reality]

Re the Electric Fountain:

Originally Posted by tovangar2

We like Merrell Gage :-)

Thanks t2. I had forgotten about that earlier post.


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=30393

[tovangar2]

A neighbor used to grow this and called it "upside-down plant" b/c if you clip a stem and plant it frond-end down, it takes root. My mother-in-law took a few stems back to London and it did very well.

[ethereal_reality]

Since we had some fun with Atty. Palmer's office....


Here's a look inside the Hall of Justice in 1933.


https://www.pinterest.com/lacountysheriff/

Los Angeles Sheriffs' Department Homicide Detail 1933.

Hall of Justice, 211 W. Temple St, Los Angeles, Calif: Pictured from left to right: Detective William Penprase, Detective Harry Brewster and Detective James Love.




I wonder what this is?


Somebody's lunch brought from home? (Mulligan Stew perhaps)

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[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Los Angeles Sheriffs' Department Homicide Detail 1933.

Hall of Justice, 211 W. Temple St, Los Angeles, Calif: Pictured from left to right: Detective William Penprase, Detective Harry Brewster and Detective James Love.

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"...fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes..."

--Raymond Chandler, "The High Window."

("Fly cop" was 1930s slang for an alert policeman, also a plainclothes officer.)

Cheers,

Earl

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

A neighbor used to grow this and called it "upside-down plant" b/c if you clip a stem and plant it frond-end down, it takes root.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jayjayc/4598587594/

You're right t2. very interesting!
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[odinthor]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Sunset Park up near the Beverly Hills Hotel (that's the hotel behind the trees)


huntington archive

I really like this photograph...it's so lush!



odinthor, we need your expertise...what's the plants at the base of the fountain? (is there such a thing as 'elephant ear' plant/)

and I'm also curious about the tall plants (more like grasses) at the far right-----> what are those?

CBD has already identified the tall plants; but the others are the ever-popular Colocasia esculenta


sabellico greenhouses http://www.sabellico.com/index.php?m...iCategoryId=35

alias Taro. If you get a hankerin' for some poi, this is your go-to plant!

[HossC]

You'll never guess where we're visiting with today's Julius Shulman post. It's "Job 1054: Pereira & Luckman, Beverly Hills Clinic (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1951".



There are four pictures of the front in the set - I though that two was enough.



This looks like a fairly sparse children's play area.



I assume that this is some sort of laboratory.



I've also left out two of the interior images.



All from Getty Research Institute

With such a generic name, this one took a little tracking down, but the CDs came to my rescue. The Beverly Hills Clinic was at 133 S Lasky Drive, on the corner of Durant Drive. That plot is now home to the Peninsula Beverly Hills. I did, however, find the building in this 1968 aerial view. Also, notice the fountain we discussed earlier - it's just below the center of the image.


USC Digital Library

The "W" logo on the far left of the first image was on the back of the Whitman Publishing Co at 9916 Santa Monica Boulevard. I think that building is still standing, but we don't get a clear view. In the background on the left of the second image is John Revash, Coiffure and Cosmetics at 9871 Santa Monica Boulevard. That building is also still standing.


GSV

[ethereal_reality]

Earlier today I posted the Sheriffs' Department Homicide Dept. in the old Hall of Justice,

Now let's take a look at the Coroner's Inquest Room on April 14, 1937.


https://www.pinterest.com/pin/288934132313103528/


Did you notice the lone woman sitting with her back to the camera?

kinda' spooky.

[ethereal_reality]

Just for fun, I have another challenge for you.



Anyone know what we're looking at here?
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[ethereal_reality]

I've been trying to figure out why this small 'cafe' partitioned it's space in this fashion.

It looks like they rented part a ground floor, and then covered the front windows with cheap plywood (ok, maybe they're homemade cabinets)
on the right, there's another partition creating a hall like space behind the grills.


Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum collection via www.boyleheightshistory.com

labeled on the reverse: "Fleishman's Cafe, Brooklyn Ave at Soto, Boyle Heights / Los Angeles".
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"As to the owners, the 1930 census does list a Joe Fleishman as a restaurant owner living at 2727 Winter Street, six blocks north of César Chávez
and one block east of Mott, which is two blocks east of Soto, but the Los Angeles City Directory of that year shows Joseph Fleishman owning
a restaurant at 218 E. 6th Street in downtown east of Los Angeles Street. Perhaps he had two places?"


update:
I just noticed someone peeking between the two partitions.


detail

In-depth description:

"This simple place has about fifteen stools along an L-shaped counter and a very compact cooking space. Three employees, two men and a woman,
are behind the counter, with the young man at the far right appearing to be Latino. A fourth man, wearing glasses, stands behind the glass cabinet
behind the tall employee at the left. A sign hanging over head indicates a "Quality Lunch" or that the restaurant may have been called "Quality Lunch Cafe."

A man and a woman sit on bar stools, as if they were customers, though there don't appear to be any place settings, tableware or glassware set up in the places.
But, the young woman behind the grill and griddle appears to be cooking up a pancake to put on the plate conspicuously raised in her left hand.
The tall man has a pie tin in his left hand and what appears to be a bill-like piece of paper in his left.

As far as equipment, next to the griddle and grill is a warmer. In the back are shelves with stacked saucers and plates and the like, as well as a coffee maker, sink,
cash register and the cabinet with glassware and other items in it.

Signs at the upper part of the back wall include one with dinner items, such as steaks and fried chicken for 25 cents, 40 cents for a small porterhouse steak, and pork chops
for 30 cents--these came with potatoes, roll and butter. The lunch menu included ham or roast beef, with beans or potatoes, for a quarter and three kinds
of sandwiches for ten cents. A slice of pie cost the same. For breakfast, the sign's tough to make out, but pancakes and omelettes were on offer,
the former for 10 cents. A small sign also says meat balls and the price of 30 cents, and it is assumed that meant spaghetti and meat balls.

Behind the cafe set up is an area with a clock and at least two partially hidden signs, with one having a finger pointing down as if to a basement and the words "To" and "Mill"
on it. The other sign has the word "Information" on it."

Thanks to http://boyleheightshistoryblog.blogs...e-heights.html for the above description.



The sign pointing down to the basement / the industrial looking clock / the teeny-weeny lightbulb on the ceiling---->

[Hollywood Graham]

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham

I hate think about what this is....nasty.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Just for fun, I have another challenge for you.



Anyone know what we're looking at here?
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Looking up at the sidewalk with glass in pavement. I used to think these were so cool.

[ethereal_reality]

You're absolutely right CityBoyDoug.

That is the western wall of the Hotel Cecil basement looking up toward the sidewalk.


gsv

The glass 'blocks' are embedded all along the front of the hotel.




gsv



https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...lCecil-UC.html

check out the pdf.....it's chock-full of interesting facts about the Hotel Cecil.


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[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

I hate think about what this is....nasty.

I hope it's a spittoon.







and here I thought it was a pot of Mulligan Stew.

[ethereal_reality]

'mystery' location [two views]

"Los Angeles CA Street Scene DeSoto Plymouth Dealer 1950's Org Photo Negative Lot"

#1

ebay





#2

ebay

I especially like the building on the left.




Here's a closer look.
detail

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[ethereal_reality]

I just found this as well.

"1950's Los Angeles 8th Street Scene Gas Company on Fire Orig vtg Photo Negative"


ebay

The old building is the Hotel Armondale.

note the group of people on the corner looking up at the fire.

[Lorendoc]

These evocative photos from the Daily News don't have a location, but likely were taken in Gardena, Hawthorne, Monterey Park or Long Beach in 1937.








(all from UCLA Special Collections)