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Have we seen Hung Far Chin on NLA?


eBay / business card

It doesn't sound familiar. I'm pretty sure I would remember the name.



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Old Posted Mar 14, 2024, 5:33 PM
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Here's another establishment that doesn't ring any bells.



eBay

For search purposes:...Kunming Inn, 4331 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles 37, California.

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Old Posted Mar 14, 2024, 5:47 PM
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The Lane Wells Company.


eBay



There's faint writing on the back.




The building is still there!



4439 Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles....(but it looks sad and lonely)

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Old Posted Mar 15, 2024, 6:19 AM
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Swedish actress Lili Kardell poses with her '56 Pontiac in front of her apartment in the 8900 block of Harratt St., West Hollywood....photo is undated but '56 or '57 is likely....



....at the time Kardell was living at 8909 Harratt, a unit in the 4-plex which runs 8907 to 8913....San Vicente Blvd. is the cross street, just below the Strip...







....the car was moved to the south side of Harratt for this one....






Oh my....






Lili Kardell was born in Sweden in 1931 (she later shaved 5 years off her age, so some sites show her born 1936) and arrived in Hollywood about 1953....she caught the eye of Billy Wilder who referred her to an agent, and she was put under contract to Universal....a minor career followed, mostly small TV roles.....Kardell and James Dean were an item in the months immediately preceding his death....






She married Peter V. Paxton, an insurance broker, in July '58....the couple lost a premature infant on May 9, 1959....







Kardell and Paxton separated May 20 1959 and a divorce was granted 8/4/59....







By 1960 Kardell had a new flame, Troy Donahue....








Spoiler alert: Donahue and Kardell never married.....during their courtship she appeared unannounced at his home and found him with another woman, and that was that....in '62 she sued Donahue for $60,000 alleging domestic abuse, the matter was settled out-of-court.....Donahue eventually married Suzanne Pleshette, a union that lasted all of 5 months, as Pleshette quickly bowed out on "mental cruelty" grounds....



Kardell's last screen credit was in 1965, shortly thereafter she moved to N.Y.C., where she worked in interior decorating and later fashion design....she died in Manhattan on 4/8/87, at age 55....


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Old Posted Mar 15, 2024, 4:14 PM
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When I read Lili Kardell was 5'4½", I looked up Dean.
James Dean 5'7". I never thought about how tall he was before.
That seems rather on the short side, no?
Troy Donahue 6'3".
Suzanne Pleshette 5'4".
No wonder he and Rock Hudson 6'5" didn't get along very well.
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You railroad fans will enjoy this.


originally found on eBay.

I don't recall it in any of the Elk's Parade photos posted over the years.


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Here's a mystery location.


Oddly labeled:..."Suburban Houses of Los Angeles."


Currently on eBay

There is one particularly good clue.


This hotel that seems fairly out of place.



Does anyone recognize this it?



Back of the pic.





Go forth minions.
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Old Posted Mar 16, 2024, 5:28 PM
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A Partial Survivor

I was watching a show on Motor Trend Network and it showed the warehouse of a company that supplies cars and other period pieces to the film industry. They showed them moving this around. It needs no explanation and it was cool to see that it has survived in what looks to be very good condition.





Screenshots from Motor Trend Network "Full Custom Garage" episode "Funky Junk"
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Here's a mystery location.


Oddly labeled:..."Suburban Houses of Los Angeles."


Currently on eBay

There is one particularly good clue.


This hotel that seems fairly out of place.



Does anyone recognize this it?


Looking over Franklin Avenue in the bottom foreground towards Dix Street and Holly Drive in the lower, right middle
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BDiH beat me to it.

I don't know when the picture above was taken, but in 1960, the building was the Hotel Padre at 1961 N Cahuenga Boulevard. It's still there, but I can't see a name anymore. I took this GSV image from outside the Chateau Alto Nido on Ivar.


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Old Posted Mar 16, 2024, 11:30 PM
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Thanks BDiH and HossC!

I was way off the mark - I was thinking Silver Lake or Highland Park

. .so I was completely surprised to find out it was the old Padre Hotel on Cahuenga.

Here it is back in the day.


usc-digital-archive

And today.


GSV



And here it is in a mystery photograph posted back in 2018.



SOLVED by Scott Charles, HERE

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I took this GSV image from outside the Chateau Alto Nido on Ivar.
Where Joe Gillis lived in Sunset Blvd.



Some more screencaps HERE!
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The former Padre Hotel is now apartments known as The Whitley House.

http://www.whitleyhousela.com/
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Here's a look inside from 1928!


Lobby.

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Suite(?)


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Room, Double Beds.


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Nothing too flashy - but comfortable.


Padre Hotel, 1961 N. Cahuenga Boulevard, Hollywood CA


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.. It looks like the perfect place to house the Rotary Convention.


. . . . .speaking of conventions. (see what I did there?)



Tom LaBonge at LAPL..no date.

I'm more interested in what we see around the convention center than the center itself.

Take for instance that Victorian house. I'm not sure I ever noticed it before.

Does anyone know who built it / or owned it?

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I wrote about it in 2014:

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There have been several posts over the last couple of days about all the buildings that have been demolished to make way for something "newer" and "better". I thought that might be the cue for this story with a surprise happy ending (sorry for the spoiler!).

The first picture below is from a season 4 episode of CHiPs called 'Karate', which originally aired in 1981. Ponch and Jon are pursuing a suspect in Ponch's own car when they're pulled over by an LAPD motorcycle cop outside this faded gem of a building.


Rosner Television/MGM Television

Using background buildings and the route they took, I managed to work out that it once stood on West 15th, just west of Figueroa, but the area was subsequently cleared to make way for the Convention Center Annex. Checking the City Directories, I found a listing in the 1969 edition which named it as the Otsego Apartments at 633 W 15th. That led me to a 1967 William Reagh picture on the LAPL website. Then, when I saw that the California State Library also has some William Reagh photos, I was able to find a larger version of the same picture. The cars outside appear to be an Avanti and a Peugeot 404 convertible.


California State Library

There was also a side view that LAPL don't seem to have.


California State Library

The LAPL's caption describes it as "A Victorian residence on 12th St. near Figueroa, now an apartment building, the Otsego Apartments." If anyone's in the business of emailing corrections to the right places, maybe you could tell the LAPL it was on West 15th (their reference is LAPL00017612).

My post was originally going to end here, because I assumed the building was demolished to make way for the Convention Center. Then I spotted the picture below while I was looking for info on the John Parkinson house moving that GW mentioned recently. The caption names the building as the Edward Strong mansion.


LA Times/Larry Davis

The LA Times article below, dated May 12, 1989, says: "After nearly 11 months of frantic efforts, the once-stately Edward Strong mansion, a reminder of downtown Los Angeles' Victorian past, was towed away from its site of 102 years on West 15th Street, where it stood in the way of a $390-million expansion of the Convention Center." They add that it "was declared a landmark in 1976 because of its unique Queen Anne architecture in the Caribbean style."

Mansion Moves Out Ahead of Wrecker's Ball

Best of all, the article names its destination as the 800 block of South Coronado Street, near MacArthur Park. That means we have a happy ending, because the house is still standing there today.


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EXCELLENT Hoss!..You answered all my questions nine years ago!

(I'm sorry I forgot about your earlier post) my memory sucks.


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Here's another photograph taken by Tom laBonge.


"Heavy traffic on Wilshire Blvd. and Cloverdale Ave."


eBay

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Here's an interesting snapshot I came across on eBay a few weeks ago. It shows three female workers smiling at the camera at a camouflaged plant in Los Angeles.





It's difficult to tell if this is the Douglas Aircraft Factory in Santa Monica or the Lockheed Aircraft Plant in Burbank.




Lastly, here's a closer look at the happy trio.


detail

They appear to be showing off the 'safety' braids of the middle woman.


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