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:previous: It's like a completely different city isn't it.
I believe things are looking up though. There's a lot of construction and retrofitting going on downtown. __________ Earl, thanks for the screen-grabs from an episode of 'Cannon' (1971). I really liked your tongue-in-cheek commentary. I tried to find the various locations you posted.....but I struck out on all of them. I thought I knew where this was....but I was mistaken. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/0eNu3M.jpg Cannon episode / 1971 I thought it was along a stretch of Riverside Drive. __ |
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:previous: Was it "Make Believe Ballroom" rbpjr?
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Another fine Kodachrome slide from the 1940s.
The Medical Building (?) and a Don Martin School of Radio at 'Crossroads Of The World'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/QswI3Q.jpg eBay :previous: The nice looking lady in the photograph reminded me of Secretary Jane Yaeger (below). posted a few days ago by NoirCityDame http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...910/UQauX1.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29641 |
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A special guest of honor was Army Air Corps ace of aces, war Maj. Richard I. Bong. At the time he'd shot down 27 enemy planes in the Pacific and was doing this war bond tour. He probably could have had a cushy stateside job, but returned to the combat zone to fly more missions. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...bing7-3-44.jpg from LAT, a sponsor of the rally, 7-3-44 Once he got to 40 victories, he was retired from combat whether he liked it or not. Gen MacArthur presented him with the Medal of Honor, and he had the DSC, Silver Star, and at least 20 other decorations. In Feb 1945 he married his sweetheart Marjorie (Marge), who had become almost as famous as he was because of her photo on his P-38, which he named Marge. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...dick_marge.jpg source The newlyweds honeymooned in Hollywood then settled there as Dick's new assignment was being a millitary test pilot at Lockheed. The story ends sadly, though, as he was killed August 6, 1945 while testing a P-80 "shooting star" over N. Hollywood. Witnesses described how he guided the plane away from homes, before trying to eject, too late. Here he is with Beryl Wallace in 1943, from a 1945 Earl Carroll program. It's discussing the Hollywood Guild Canteen-sponsored dances at Earl Carroll's on Sunday afternoons. The photo below shows one of the dances (look at all those sailors!) A great man, who like Audie Murphy, died too young. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/guild.jpg own collection |
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The seed of that unrestrained style evidently started very early. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Clay_Wilson [CBD reply....Ref: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29702 Thanks ER for posting this grand exposition. It gave me some food for thought! Its very easy for me to see why this mural didn't really sit well with the cultural mores of the 1930s. Its the central figure that goes over the edge and sits squarely in the realm of what is called today ...soft core porn. His ''proportions'' are wildly off key and for some reason... just plain kinky. Its one thing to be classically nude and its another to be in your face as this fellow appears to be. It doesn't bother me but I can see why a lot of 1930s people would say..."I don't think so." The various symbolisms scattered throughout the saga are harmless and excruciatingly vague. Even the pendulous breasts eagerly echo the Daliesque women of that era. But its that precursor of a Speedo that leaps at you, as if to assault, and wants to collide with your face. Now, if the artist wanted to achieve the effect I describe above....he achieved it in spades.] |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419028/bio Here's his theme song "Make Believe Ballroom"..by Glenn Miller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67UhyDqvJss Al Jarvis ...1959 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psry82k0hu.jpg http://classicdjradioscrapbook.blogs...rvis-1959.html |
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That lady did a nice job of rock climbing in that coat and those shoes! Based on the address of the hotel, the coach and gondola in the background should be on at the extreme southern end of Southern Pacific's Taylor yard on the east bank of the Los Angeles River, about where today's Metrolink shop facility resides. Present day Google satellite images show an abandoned section of right of way on the very edge of the riverbank and the two visible cars are quite ancient. The hopper appears to be of steel construction mounted on a steel frame flatcar, while the passenger car is of wood wood construction. The letters SP can clearly be discerned while the letters below appear to read MW suggesting railway maintenance of way equipment. Amazingly, equipment of this type survive into the early 1960's! Cheers, Jack |
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LAPL has this shot of NBC under construction, which they date to 1938. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ion%20lapl.jpg http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics06/00012888.jpg It does seem like the construction took a long time, for those days: the groundbreaking took place 1-20-38 and the dedication was held 10-17-38. CBS took even longer with Radio Square: its groundbreaking was 4-27-37 and the dedication on 4-30-38. |
Leo Katz mural "Youth Arisen", Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935
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e_r, I emailed the Living New Deal and the GSA's WPA Art Inventory Project re the mural. I'll let you know if I hear back. Leo Katz mural "Youth Arisen", Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...01301%2BPM.jpg archive.org (<--- zoomable at the link) (per oldstuff) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2...21058%2BAM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...02432%2BPM.jpg ucla/los angeles daily news negatives (per e_r) |
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http://discussions.mnhs.org/collecti...879872383e.jpghttp://discussions.mnhs.org/collecti...879872383e.jpg Epilogue http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-co...e-the-fold.jpghttp://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/...s-last-flight/ |
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More of little Marge: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...32_306x423.jpghttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...32_306x423.jpg http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopo...49/marge1c.jpghttp://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopo...49/marge1c.jpg |
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Regarding this mural, does anyone have a photo of the entire mural? We've been looking at the "middle panel" and I wondered what the other two panels looked like. [And in the "HERE I GO AGAIN" department, the topic of murals of this era leads me to mentioning the NBC Radio City mural and if any color photos of it can be located. Somehow I feel if I keep putting it out there, it will appear somehow. Heh!] ___ NoirCityDame, thanks for that photo of the Hollywood Guild and Canteen dance at Earl Caroll's. I knew donations were taken at Earl Carroll's for the Guild, but I didn't know about the Sunday dances! ___ Earl, I liked the Cannon screengrabs, too, but no luck with locations. The motel certainly looked like a stetch of Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, but I wasn't able to locate anything there. ___ E_R -- another great Kodachrome slide -- drool...:yes: |
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That's a clever slogan, backing the Fifth on the Fourth! ___ Since you liked that photo, here's a slightly different one of the same thing, with a few different people in it. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00091/00091136.jpgLAPL W&P got their info from LAPL so I don't know how LAPL arrived at the June 14th date. It's from the Lucille Stewart Collection, maybe it's her doings, lol! |
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