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This is fun.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/DIWzkE.jpg ebay In the photograph is the Cameo Theater (opened as Clune's Broadway in 1910) at 528 So. Broadway. __ |
Now this was an amazing billboard.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/A1vXlQ.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/2MbeMP.jpg ebay further reading........... When the City of Angels had it's own Wrigley Field http://www.lamag.com/citythink/cityd...wrigley-field/ Sorry, Chicago-Los Angeles Was Home To The First Wrigley Field. http://southland.gizmodo.com/sorry-c...gle-1566651692 __ |
I just found three more slides from that first group of four. (1953)
Wilshire http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/2l6tfv.jpg ebay Union Station http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/BOyHHn.jpg ebay Civic Center (I still haven't figured out how to straighten photographs on my new computer) :( http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/ZMtchw.jpg ebay I know they're pretty pedestrian, but I thought someone might find something interesting in them. |
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Now I see why the Plunge was advertised so prominently on the Nu-Pike sign next to the Hotel Stillman. As you can see in this impressive aerial, the plunge was located directly behind the Hotel Stillman. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/Dq58YM.jpg ebay also -note the oil well in the upper left hand corner. (at first I thought it was a ride) Here's a stereo-photo of another Nu-Pike sign. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/LgBn5C.png https://www.flickr.com/photos/curiou...ream/lightbox/ __ |
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I found a site with loads of pictures and history from the Pike - you can find it here. There's even a whole page on the Plunge. Here's the interior.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAPlunge1.jpg www.millikanalumni.com The pool was apparently vacuum cleaned to keep it free of dust! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAPlunge2.jpg www.millikanalumni.com A couple of sources I found mentioned that the Plunge was used for a scene in 'I Wake Up Screaming', a 1941 movie starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Carole Landis. It's only a short scene, but here are some screengrabs. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Screaming1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Screaming2.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Screaming3.jpg Twentieth Century Fox |
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For a more encouraging example, check out Gypsy Boots, who opened what was probably L.A.'s first health food store around the turn of the 1960s. eden abhez, an associate of his, wrote "Nature Boy", a remarkable jazz-pop hit reminiscent of Bacharach, and covered by a host of music luminaries including Nat Cole, Sinatra, Grace Slick, Miles Davis, and Lady Gaga to name just a few. |
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In a regrettable demonstration of good intentions and bad results, I consider a contributing factor to have been the establishment of El Pueblo State Historic Park in 1953, as it resulted in many old buildings being removed from productive use and padlocked. |
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Gypsy....Robert Bootzin born 1914 ~2004 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps54947091.jpg GB |
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8777 Lookout Mountain Avenue http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/9CHri6.png GSV Thanks for information old_stuff. I can totally see Heinlein living here. __ |
Giant head on the Long Beach Pike ca 1940s.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/RNLH1G.jpg old file of mine / possibly ebay I believe it's supposed too be Joe E. Brown. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/913/e83Enm.png http://peerie.com/Acting/4628/Joe-E.-Brown/ __ |
....and closer to home.
I don't recall seeing this wading pool for children in Echo Park before. 1920s? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/xNKRPs.jpg ebay __ |
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:previous: I noticed that too jg6544.
Here's an interesting slide. Joanne Gilbert at the Mocambo. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/Tnu2O0.jpg slide / ebay -but I had no idea who Joanne Gilbert was. Here she is...a very pretty Joanne Gilbert http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/aBJrdZ.png http://fanpix.famousfix.com/gallery/...t-pictures.htm Joanne Gilbert timeline here: http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilversc...8/register.php __ |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/904/7mjq0C.png GSV You can see it a little better in this view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/hUlYgi.png GSV and next door is the Casa Italiana (a banquet hall I presume) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/zoEy0m.png GSV __ Italian Hall at 622 N. Main was built in 1907 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/745/6h5Nt5.png http://italianhall.org/ below: 1919 banquet held in the Italian Hall. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/1Cryi7.png http://italianhall.org/ Here is the Italian Hall today, on the northeast corner of N. Main & E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/rzq8IQ.png GSV / Olvera Street runs directly behind it on the left. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/j5fefW.png GSV http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...910/mn5Dlg.png http://italianhall.org/ "By the late 1800s, Italians owned over one third of all the businesses that made up the Olvera Street area. By 1900. there were 3,000 Italians living in Los Angeles. At that time, the Italian Quarter or Little Italy, was made up of the Plaza, the area that would become New Chinatown, the foothills of Elysian Park and Lincoln Heights. By the 1930s there were an estimated 30,000 Italians living in Los Angeles." __ "In the Plaza area alone, there were five Italian owned wineries. One of the wineries was owned by Secondo Guasti who ran a restaurant and boarding house in the Avila Adobe, which still stands today. Another wine maker, Antonio Pelanconi, purchased from another Italian, what would become the Pelanconi House, the first and oldest brick building still standing in Los Angeles. It is now the site of the La Golondrina Restaurant, an Olvera Street landmark. __ Those_Who_Squirm also mentions Little Joe's. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/743/7FHchD.png http://kim-reynolds.blogspot.com/201...estaurant.html I know we've seen Little Joe's on NLA (and the Italian Hall for that matter). I only get "sorry-no matches" while searching for "Little Joe's" __ |
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Vimo has the full version of it: http://vimeo.com/69975085 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4te9Pgd3rM...0/111slick.jpghttp://tropicaljon.blogspot.com/2012...lution-of.html |
I just found this great photograph of Selma Avenue looking northeast toward Hollywood & Vine a few minutes ago on ebay.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/9YtxGE.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1930S-8-X-...item2ed9c6f747 the traffic pattern is interesting... -that's an aggressive driver trying to exit the service station. -midway down the block a car is entering a building on one side, while across the street a car is coming out of a building. One car is trying to park (I think)....or he's cheating by passing on the right. __ |
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