That Coffee Dan's at 6776! I have seen no good pictures showing the front. Nobody seems to have taken a picture of it on purpose! It was a 2-story building with offices above and retail on the ground floor, Dan's being in the space closest to Highland. It originally had a tile roof, but seems to have gotten a late moderne makeover. There were two fires there while it was Dan's, in April and July 1957 so maybe that had something to do with it. The space became a McDonald's in 1987. We've seen most of the intersection views of it already. I found a couple that may be repeats but I don't remember on NLA before, on that nice LA theater history site, https://sites.google.com/site/hollyw...tres/hollywood:

Color view, day with Dan's hiding next to the brown Bank of America building.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ns50scolor.jpg
(Kenneth McIntyre) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Similar view c. 1943 before Dan's. It's the white building, tile roof.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...highland43.jpg
(Bobby Cole) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Glimpse of its roof sign, and a closer view of the building 1957
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...coffeedans.jpg
http://hollywoodhistoricphotos.ipowe...e.php/pID/1846

I don't have any photos or info about Dan at 6405. All I know is that address housed the Hollywood ticket office for The Pacific Steamship Co., then it was Santa Fe Railroad's ticket office from 1930 until 1949 when they moved to 1551 Vine St (not far from the Vine St. Dan's), the space that once briefly housed La Conga nightblub, 1938-41. So Dan could've gone in to 6405 after that. I'm more or less a bonehead about 50s-60s Hollywood. :P

This is the building, anyway.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ood_02_700.jpg unknown

an earlier view c. 1937.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ahollywood.jpg
Herman Schultheis

I agree! And E-R as well for posting all those wonderful color shots in the first place.

He shared a daytime view of this same intersection back in 2011, when he was still practically a child:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4396

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...tosimonson.jpg

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The man with the glasses in the light-colored shirt at back is Bill Ballance, a man with a noirish history. I started listening to KFWB when I first went to Pasadena in the summer of 1954. Back then there were the "Swingin' 7 DJs of KFWB." I wish I could remember all their names but Bill Ballance and B. Mitchell Reed were two of them. At some time in the later 50s all the neighborhood kids switched allegiance from KFWB to KRLA. I don't know why, but one summer I went there and nobody was listening to KFWB anymore.

Kfwb
 

The biggest DJ for KFWB was Al Jarvis, another was Joe Yoakum and the only other one I remember was Gene Weed. I was in Jr. High at that time. Bill Balance and BMR were my favorites.

Looks like a hassock/ottoman/poof with a backrest (?)



Speaking of odd things to sit on, do you happen to recall "genuine Contour Chairs"?

Made by the Contour Chair Lounge Company of St Louis from the late 1940s until production ended in the 80s.

There was a time when owning one of these (+ maybe an aluminum Christmas tree) firmly announced one's post-war sensibilities:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e...94526%2BAM.jpg
flickr / life magazine 9/25/50

Did the "Tiger" one actually come with a tail? I never saw an example of that version IRL:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c...02654%2BAM.jpg
contour chair madness

50s icons:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L...95806%2BAM.jpg
shorpy

First piece of furniture we bought after we bought our first house. Huge, heavy and ugly (although ours, a Danish Modern model, was less ugly than most). Loved it, it was perfect for holding the babies at bottle time. Always regretted getting rid of it.

Cheers,

Earl

Could the guy at far right be disc jockey/game show host Wink Martindale? I believe he was at KFWB from 1962-67.

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original
Whomever -- http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gsJ4_q7X7PE/hqdefault.jpg

See: http://www.laradio.com/wherem.htm

Contour Chair Lounge Company
 

I owned a Contour Chair for about half an hour in the 80s. I found a almost-pristine example of a 50s "Original" model in chartreuse at a yard sale for ten bucks. I dropped it off with Jim Heimann on my way home b/c I knew he'd love it.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-i...23211%2BPM.jpg
pinterest

They were heaven to sit in. I don't know why we didn't get one back in the day. My sister and I used to make a beeline for them in the furniture stores.

Are they ugly? I can't tell anymore. These days they just look iconic to me:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s...20240%2BPM.jpg
pinterest

http://massagechairplus.com/blogs/wp...oru1006512.jpg

http://massagechairplus.com/blogs/wp...oru1006512.jpg

This is the model we had. Ours was black, with dark gunmetal in the pleated section. The arms folded down.

I think we should quit now, before they throw us off the forum :-)

Cheers,

Earl

:D:cool::D

No, we like your posts Earl and besides that, that chair is so kinky & noir.

I remember attempting certain,---er---, intimacies with a young lady on one of those. It was sadly unsympathetic to our exertions. Sorry, guys, but it seemed sort of noirish at the time.

Countour Chairs on the Sunset Strip?
"The Television Chair" of "Duran (All Plastic) Leather..."


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/12-9-47.jpg LAT 12-9-1947

Marie the "Designer" will appear in person to demo the chair
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/3-11-48.jpg LAT 3-11-1948

Now at 8512 Sunset
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/4-3-49.jpg LAT 4-3-1949

It's hard to find a postwar ad for a household product aimed at men/husbands that doesn't involve a pipe & slippers.

"There's only one Contour Chair..."
Does it move? Yes
Endorsed by Dr. Fink, authority on nervous disorders.
How about one for the pool?
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/2-7-50.jpg LAT 2-7-50

I ordered a documentary from Amazon called Los Angeles Plays Itself, about the film industry vs real life. here's the trailer.
• Video Link

and a six minute clip.
• Video Link

I went to a dentist two weeks ago. I swear to you, he had a dental chair exactly like that one.

Wow, had no idea that there was actually a little cottage sitting between 129 & 135. Figured they were next door neighbors. From the photos I posted, it did seem like 135 had a wider facade, but I figured that was just the extreme perspective of the photos playing tricks on the eyes. Thanks for sharing.

Love that shot of 215 & 217 as well. Guess that must be the Baer residence next door then? I need to quit procrastinating and go through all of those Getty-Nadel shots.

And, happy belated birthday to you, e_r!!! :cheers:

Thx Krell. "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003) is on netflix too. It's made by a Chicagoan who lives here now.

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Ohhh, you had a later restyled electric version. One could order them in two-tone in the 50s too. People got them to match their cars.

The original Seven Swingin' Gentlemen (in order of appearance, beginning with morning drive):Bruce Hayes, Al Jarvis (Your Make-believe Ballroom), Joe Yokum, Elliot Field (and his Cast of Thousands), B. Mitchell Reed, Bill Ballance, and Ted Quillan.

Elliott Field is the last of them remaining with us. You can find his autobiography on Amazon, ditto Chuck Blore's (the Program Director behind the Color Radio format). I'm presently working through Dave Hull's (from rival KRLA).

FWIW, Blore asserts that the AFTRA strike at KFWB in 1962 began the station's terminal decline as a top-40 station.

Wow, thanks for that. The format I used was from a jingle they used between commercials: "It's the swingin' seven DJs of KFWB
Live it up lively round the clock
With these musical MCs"
Yeah, pretty lame, but KFWB was a pioneer in the early days of top 40 radio and they couldn't all be gems.