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Is it just me, or do these girls looked "tired"?
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Originally Posted by HossC
It took me a while to find it (the image rotation appears to be random), but here's the photo of the Roberts Brothers drive-in on Sunset. NB. I've enlarged the original.
forum.theblackdahliainhollywood.com
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Thanks for finding this Robert's Drive-In photo
HossC and
BDiH!
(By the way, it doesn't really match the image of the menu drawing, IMO, but it is definitely the right location.)
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NoirCityDame posted a history of the corner:
Roberts leased this property in 1939, demolishing an existing building that had been something called the Hollywood Mercantile in the 1890's; since 1917 it had housed the Frank Meline-owned Hollywood Laundry. When Roberts came along, HL moved to the north, taking its roof-sign with it. Between 1952 and Nov. 1956 became “Scrivner’s.” And some time in or around 1958 it became a gas station. Jack in the Box now occupies this property. Its Sunset address is 6407.
• 1890's Hollywood Mercantile
• 1917 Hollywood Laundry (owned by Frank Meline) buys this lot.
• 1939 Roberts Bros. lease the corner; builds its drive-in. Hollywood Laundry moves to the north
• 1952 The drive-in becomes Scrivner’s
• 1960 Drive-in is demolished for a service station (per building records)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=42366
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The "Dear Old Hollywood" Blogger was researching filming locations and wrote this:
"I found a great photo of the Hollywood location of Robert's Drive-In, in a book: Car Hops and Curb Service: A History of American Drive-In Restaurants 1920-1960." [By Jim Heimann.]
She did not post the photo of it, though.
http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com/20103
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When I posted the above, I was going to include this photo from the Dear Old Hollywood link. It is Judy Garland working at Robert's Drive-In, in A Star is Born which started filming in the summer of 1953. Location filming had been noted as taking place at Sunset and Cahuenga. I didn't post it then because it was noted by
NoirCityDame that it became Srivner's in 1952. But I re-read the paragraph above it which said "Between 1952 and Nov. 1956 became “Scrivner’s.” So it's likely that this was filmed in that location.
Dear Old Hollywood
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SIDEBAR: Just yesterday I found out they have remade A Star is Born again! It is coming out October 8 and is directed by and stars Bradley Cooper alongside Lady Gaga as a country singer. (Some of it was filmed in Coachella.) Talk of a remake has been going on for a decade. Beyonce was most often attached to the project and last I heard it was to be with Russell Crowe. OPINION: My personal idea that if there's to be a remake of any film there should be
at least ONE good reason. I cannot think of a good
reason this is being remade again. Why not explore the idea a bit differently...reverse the rising star, falling idol format, and have the man rise and woman fall? Why not a two men or two women relationship? This will be the third time that it's the "music" that's at the career center. Why not change the career out of the entertainment industry. How about the fashion world? Why not politics?
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Now back to the Robert's Drive-In location.
It's been noted that currently a Jack in the Box restaurant is on this site. In 2015, an article on
Curbed Los Angeles headlined: "19-Story Hotel Planned for Hollywood Jack in the Box Site." There's little else to be found out about this online, but the Curbed article does say,
"No timeline has been announced, but until 2019 Jack in the Box has a lease on the property."
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• 1917 Hollywood Laundry (owned by Frank Meline) buys this lot.
• 1939 Roberts Bros. lease the corner; builds its drive-in. Hollywood Laundry moves to the north
The above two items are of interest because I found these photos taken across the street from the Robert's location and you can clearly see Hollywood Laundry at that address.
First, I happened to notice this photo that was captioned: Outdoor bowling in Los Angeles in 1929.
Then in the second photo I noticed the Muller Bros. sign in the background, which would make this bowling location between Ivar and Cahuenga.
(The two photos were found on the
Ellen Bloom blog, by way of LAPL.)
So, I went to LAPL and found these three additional photos which show the Hollywood Laundry Service Co. which
NoirCityDame noted.
The first is looking north and you can also see the Knickerbocker Hotel and Hollywood Plaza along the skyline.
LAPL
The next two pictures are basically the same. The second one is clearer, but the first has more of the building across the street.
LAPL
LAPL
The name of the bowling place, unless it's part of another business around there, wasn't mentioned.
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I'm looking at the photograph with the bowling pins front and center and the Muller sign in the distance and
wondering if I might have my sense of direction in the other photos out of whack?