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Originally Posted by BifRayRock
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On a related subject, perhaps someone can ID the exact location of this Sam Seelig store also clearly marked " Culver City Public Market." Seelig's stores became Safeways in or around 1925 as mentioned elsewhere on NLA. The image is from another Our Gang series, "Sundown Ltd." (1924) where the gang develops their own version of the Miniature Venice Rail Road, except with what appears to be Model T running gear with one dog power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zjuLlF1Go The comparisons seem hard to ignore. See FW's post>> http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21682 including the video of the Venice RR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uArLF-B8pgE
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1925 Santa Monica CD Seelig Listings
Also from "Sundown Ltd": (Yes the same trackless train as seen in front of Seeligs.)
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1917 Listings
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I may have already mentioned it somewhere on here, but there is also this Youtube video which tells us it was at
9412 Washington, and it seems the building still exists, vacant, today. 9412 is across Washington and a little east of the Culver Hotel, which itself is 9400 Culver. This immediate section of Washington has become part of the pedestrian mall surrounding the Culver Hotel and the movie theater, so it's no longer possible to post a good Street View image; but here's an overhead shot courtesy of Bing Maps. I believe
the blue dot is misplaced, and 9412 Washington should be the single story building next to it.
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Does anyone know where the big hill is, where the train runs out of control? It looks like Overland Avenue, but I'm not sure.
In his
book on the history of Palms, George Garrigues relates the tale of the Lowes, S. J. and Annie, who established a ranch in the area prior to 1900, and
"lived on Overland Hill for six decades", which presumably meant they were there at least until the 1940s if not later. I wonder if that massive pile of
a house seen in the film, towards the right as we look up from the bottom of the hill, could have been theirs?
(ETA: I see now that in the Google Books preview of the Garrigues book, this hill--assuming it is the one in the film--was also known as Lowe's Hill,
making it more than likely that this was, indeed their house.)
I see that Frank Seeman taught at my alma mater, WGHHS, soon to be renamed University HS.