I went to a vintage car show last month at Greystone. Besides the fabulous cars, the mansion was open for touring top to bottom. I got scolded for taking photos inside, tho everybody else was too.
This spiral staircase leads down from the children’s wing to the adult playroom...
It has a bar- a wooden panel pulls down to hide it- with it closed it looks just like the other paneling in the room.
The bowling alley
The billiard table
A section of the kitchen. There’s a complete second smaller kitchen upstairs, above it, near the children’s rooms. I guess Nanny could make them snacks up there without having to troop all the way downstairs. They’re connected by a dumbwaiter.
The police spotlight on one of Greystone’s chimneys. Apparently before radios in cars, HQ could signal red or green to patrolmen in the vicinity and they’d know to report in. The upstairs windows are for Ned Doheny’s room. The lower ones are for the murder room (where, the day I was there a vendow was selling really nice motorcycle clothing).
From a distance. It's the nearer one. The larger chimney group is the living room.
The greenhouse
A 1926 Rolls Royce Lady and a 1931 Cadillac lady.
Earlier that morning I photographed some buildings on Sunset near Doheny Rd. I hadn’t meant to do a then-and-now, it just worked out that way. Here's looking up Sunset toward the white moderne building at 9169.
Similar view c. 1949
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Looking the other way. The building on the left used to be where the Cock n' Bull was.
how it looked in 1930s with the bare poinsettia field.
I can't find the link. I'm sure this is an LAPL collection.
9100 block now.
c. 1938
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The Crosby Building, 9028, and a glimpse of the 1957 soon-to-be-demolished building built for Scandia restaurant at 9040.
A close up
Same, c. 1938
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The noirish back of the building
Then it was off to Dupar's before heading to the show.