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ethereal_reality · #**27181** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 4:18 PM**

Attractive combo Martin_Pal.

MichaelRyerson, I had no idea Martha Vickers died at the early age of 46! (such a sad photo of her and Mickey Rooney in court.)

Thanks for the information on the Zeigler Estate ProphetM and tovanger2. It's much appreciated!
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Dorothy Gish in 'The Man' at the Huntington Hartford Theater on Vine Street. (date unknown)

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The same view in 2014.

GSV

The Mike Lyman's building succumbed to a parking garage.

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Just for Fun:

Here is a much earlier photograph of the two buildings (and the surrounding area).

KNX

This photograph was first posted way back on page 259 by Ken! And it came with an amazing story.

The photo shows Ken's father walking with his Mother (Ken's grandmother) down the street toward Selma.

You can read it here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5166

This is one of my favorite revelations on NLA.

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ethereal_reality · #**27182** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 4:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

per.album file

Your Mom was so beautiful CBD.

I first noticed how attractive she was in this earlier photograph you posted.

Chinatown

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26787

And you're a darn cute kid.

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ethereal_reality · #**27183** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 5:10 PM**

Scary job, acrophobics need not apply.

http://hdl.huntington.org/

"Avenue 19 looking southwest, showing temporary transmission lines due to a storm on February 20th, 1914."

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ethereal_reality · #**27184** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 5:16 PM**

...and speaking of utility poles.

I didn't realize the nails used by Southern California Edison on utility poles had the year date on them.

"Southern California Edison Co. Pole Date Nails Steel tie nail"

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CityBoyDoug · #**27185** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 5:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Your Mom was so beautiful CBD.
And you're a darn cute kid.

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Oh my, thank you for kind words ER. I received a note from Paris, France this week saying that they enjoy personal photos and the stories that surround them here on NLA.

The photos and memories of your 1969 trip to Disneyland were a treasure.

Martin Pal · #**27186** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 6:01 PM**

8588 Sunset Blvd.

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

In 1956 Jo-Ann Cox of Ballwin, Missouri, won a Screen Album magazine contest.
The prize was ''A visit to Hollywood and a date with teenage heartthrob...Tab Hunter''. Yes, Tab Hunter.
Her mom also came along on the trip.

Here's Tab and Jo-Ann at the very adult Mocambo on the Sunset Strip.

reminisce.com

The search function shows the Mocambo mentioned several times on NLA, but I only saw one post with the exterior pictured, a color slide posted by E_R here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24718

When I first saw the above photo I was wondering about the Mocambo's decor. It looks like a barber's pole behind Tab Hunter. Apparently the interiors were designed by William Haines and Brazilian themed and the "special decorations" were supplied by designer Tony Duquette.

A couple black & white photos of the interiors:

Tony Duquette

Tony Duquette

The Mocambo was one of the premier nightclubs on the Sunset Strip, but those b&w photographs make it seem kinda tacky to me, what's your opinion?

In any case, maybe, I thought it would look different in color and I managed to find a couple photos taken from a 1949 article titled The Mocambo Affairs, in Modern Screen Magazine.

Modern Screen Magazine

This is Peter Lawford, buying cigarettes. (I'm assuming that's him dancing in the above photo, as well.)

Modern Screen Magazine

Burt Lancaster and his wife, Norma Anderson.

Modern Screen Magazine

ethereal_reality · #**27187** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 6:16 PM**

What a great glimpse inside the Mocambo Martin_Pal!

The interior looks more Jean Cocteau than William Haines. Some of it is truly baffling.

Tony_Duquette

Is this a six-legged sheep?

http://tonyduquette.com/mocambo/

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Martin Pal · #**27188** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 6:29 PM**

LOL!

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

The Mike Lyman's building succumbed to a parking garage.

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That parking garage is relatively new. I don't know when Lyman's was torn down, but I believe it was a parking lot area as long as I can remember. (Lots of building on Vine Street lately.)

Here's a 1964 photograph of the theatre advertising The Best Man, by Gore Vidal, I believe.
(I don't think the Lyman building is to the right of the theatre here...)

Bill Gabel

Also showing The Curb Charbroiler restaurant stand.

ethereal_reality · #**27189** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 6:50 PM**

I'm not sure what this guy is doing.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/30993133@N04/

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HossC · #**27190** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 6:50 PM**

A quick Google found no previous mentions of the Pacific Hospital. It first appears in the 1900/01 CD at 1319 South Grand Avenue, and stays in the listings until 1929 (although the address changes to 1329 S Grand between 1911 and 1915). Did the coming of the much larger California Medical Building/California Hospital on the Hope Street side of the same block spell the end for the Pacific Hospital? I don't know what happened in the 1930s, but 1329 S Grand is listed under 'Automobile Parking' in the 1942 CD. The postmark dates this postcard at 1911.

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Here's an article about the hospital's opening from the December 22, 1899 edition of the Los Angeles Herald. I love the line about how it's "so nearly perfect in all its appointments and so attractive in finish and finishings, it almost robs surgical operations of their terror and makes illness attractive."

California Digital Newspaper Collection

Martin Pal · #**27191** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 7:01 PM**

A 1930's aerial of West Hollywood:

Can you locate Hancock Ave. E_R?

The large facility in the lower portion of the photo is the Los Angeles Riding Academy, which fronted what is now Beverly Boulevard on property now occupied by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Here's a closer look at the center of the photograph:

1. Victor Ponet estate (an early major landowner in the area)
2. back of a north-facing building in Sunset Plaza
3. steeple of St. Victor’s Catholic Church on Holloway Drive (Ponet donated the land and funds to build it. The original church was rebuilt in the 1960's.)
4. Hancock Avenue
5. Palm Avenue
6. Horn Avenue and Shoreham Heights
7. Sherman Trolley Yards

Other information and details HERE.

ethereal_reality · #**27192** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 7:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Can you locate Hancock Ave. E_R?

Not only can I locate Hancock Ave. I can see my bungalow!

http://www.playgroundtothestars.com/...est-hollywood/

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austlar1 · #**27193** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 7:32 PM**

Where is Sunset Blvd. in the above picture? It seems like the only east/west street above Santa Monica is Holloway. Surely Sunset was built by the time this picture was taken. Can somebody point it out for me.

AlvaroLegido · #**27194** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by tovangar2

BTW Geiger's neighborhood is one of my all-time favorite sets:

screenshots: Warner Bros

Captivating movie set but... it doesn't look Laurel Canyon at all (that's where Geiger's house is fictionnaly located) ! It looks european (England, Switzerland...). Many european plastic artists were working in Hollywood by the 1940s. That may explain.

Later, in the movie, there's a small frame house behind a garage ("hot-car drop likely") lost in the middle of nowhere in the country along the foothills : the inside is decorated like if we were within a classy 1940s mansion in Hollywood ! These nonsenses are not without charm : they show the fancies of a period.

CityBoyDoug · #**27195** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 8:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by austlar1

Where is Sunset Blvd. in the above picture? It seems like the only east/west street above Santa Monica is Holloway. Surely Sunset was built by the time this picture was taken. Can somebody point it out for me.

The yellow line is Sunset and the blue line is Santa Monica....roughly.

The red circle is ER's home when he was in show business in Hollywood. I believe his bungalow is posted somewhere on NLA.

previously posted

Martin Pal · #**27196** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 8:40 PM**

Austlar1, also check out these two photos from this post:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...87#post6316787

The first one was from the early 20's and the second from 1931. Sunset Blvd. is winding it's way along the bottom of the hills and easier to see in the 20's photo with far less
building on it. It's narrower than Santa Monica, which also had P.E. car lines in the middle of it and, on Sunset, structures are built close to the road because of the topography,
making the road seem less obvious in the aerials.

HossC · #**27197** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 8:51 PM**

You beat me to it, Martin Pal. Anyway, here's the larger version of the 1922 image that I was about to post. The lack of housing, including e_r's bungalow, means that the streets are easier to make out.

USC Digital Library

GaylordWilshire · #**27198** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 8:58 PM**

http://www.decopix.com/streamline-moderne-shangri-la/

More here

I've come across some more great on-campus shots of the old Pepperdine in South LA, which reminded me an old post:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2049

tovangar2 · #**27199** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 9:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido

Captivating movie set but... it doesn't look Laurel Canyon at all (that's where Geiger's house is fictionally located) ! It looks european (England, Switzerland...).

LOL, our reality is full of fanciful architectural nonsense too, so a half-timbered English cottage sits next to a bougainvillea-draped hacienda, cheek-by-jowl with a Moorish or Tyrolean fantasy. So why shouldn't a small, stone, Irish crofter's cottage (with a somewhat incongruous and flimsy Georgian-style colonnade) open to a mysterious and exotic Asian interior? My own neighborhood was legally restricted to "English or Mediterranean" styles (those, of course, weren't the only restrictions). The "rain"-drenched "Big Sleep" set looked wonderfully familiar to me and delightfully artificial at the same time.

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I think Tony Duquette was responsible for the contact-high-inducing figures at the Mocambo e-r. In Martin Pal's large color photo, the draperies, colors, stripes and the outstanding "fringe" hanging from the ceiling (it looks like little lamps, maybe it was little lamps) are all classic Haines.

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Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Tony Duquette

Notice the ringmaster is a wolf (or a crocodile?). All the more reason for the little lambs to stay aloft. The tableau is mirror-backed. The lambs do not have more legs than normal, the effect is caused by reflections.

Tony Duquette had a nice sense of play, but I think his creations had to be carefully lit so as not to appear "tacky". Some of Duquette's work seems closer to temporary window displays or stage sets, maybe less well-suited to a permanent installation, in contrast to the Wisecracker's smoothly finished work.

Godzilla · #**27200** Posted **Mar 25, 2015, 9:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Austlar1, also check out these two photos from this post:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...87#post6316787

The first one was from the early 20's and the second from 1931. Sunset Blvd. is winding it's way along the bottom of the hills and easier to see in the 20's photo with far less
building on it. It's narrower than Santa Monica, which also had P.E. car lines in the middle of it and, on Sunset, structures are built close to the road because of the topography,
making the road seem less obvious in the aerials.

Since you mentioned it, here is an interesting group of Sunset Strip photos including the Westside Market, aka Roxy http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=917. And a film clip that has been around for a while and probably mentioned on NLA, of the same area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyADsPMN76Y At ~02' 12" you may note a sign for the construction of Cafe Lamaze which opened in 1935, the "Key Club." "Bit of Sweden" is hidden in the mix too. A little later in time, April '68, another group of Strip photos might even include some NLA'ers https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/s...7622915978386/.

Still looking for official signage that uses the words "Sunset Strip."

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5269/5...28d18a75_b.jpg

Look here for more> http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=966

http://www.cafelamaze.com/history.html