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Ornate Victorian Needs ID
I don't recall seeing this c. 1890s photo before. Does anyone recognize the house? It's supposed to be somewhere in LA.
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psh6hwvhkb.jpg 486795 @ Huntington Digital Library, Ernest Marquez Collection |
:previous: Oh my FW, what a find! I've never seen anything quite like it.
What would you call that....-jigsaw-gingerbread? ;) __ |
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The Cinerama sign shown above was at the Warner Theatre (later the Pacific) at Wilcox. It was the home of all the original Cinerama movies, which originally were travelogues introduced by Lowell Thomas. It wasn't until How the West Was Won opened at the Cinerama Theatre in 1962 that a full length Cinerama feature film was released. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and other Cinerama movies followed. The theater was unique in Hollywood because it had two balconies, topping the other great first run houses, Grauman's Chinese, the Egyptian and the Pantages. The Warner Theatre building housed not only the Cinerama Theatre, but the radio station KFWB- WB for Warner Brothers, and William Stromberg Jewelers (with the historic clock in front near the curb), Mitchell's Menswear and Ben's Smoke Shop. The Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard was across the street from Norm's Restaurant and Wallich's Music City, which were separated by Morningside Court. The Cinerama Dome opened in 1963 and was the first major theater built in Hollywood in 33 years. The Hollywood Boulevard theater stopped featuring Cinerama productions after the Dome opened.. |
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The hotels, the Roosevelt, the Plaza and the Knickerbocker, all classy places back in the day, had coffee shops. The best, cheap places to eat were the cafeterias- the Ontra on Vine or Manning's near J. J. Newberry. Of course, Newberry's and Woolworth's had lunch counters where you could get a grilled cheese sandwich for fifty cents. *Footnote: Biff is still around. He is Tiny Naylor's son and owns Du-Pars in Hollywood and in the San Fernando Valley. |
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As little Cub Scout I saw Cinerama at the theater seen here. Everyone was so excited to see this new process and it's theatrical presentation. It opened with just a small center screen. After the Intro the curtains opened up wide and the three screen show began ...it was spectacular is inadequate to describe the view. The projection booth, stage, curtains and the screens had to be rebuilt to accommodate this new process. Being premiered in Hollywood Movie City many people were wondering...'will this work or be a flop'. The roller coaster ride scene was...unforgettable to put it mildly.. Of course a Cadillac... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps9vdnocwo.jpg...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps11urgjav.jpg How it worked [right]. Here's a Preview. The entire film can be seen on YouTube. https://youtu.be/fOFIEtmc86w |
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THE INCLINE IS NOW OPEN! https://tribktla.files.wordpress.com...&w=1370&h=1204KTLA Check out this youtube of the California Incline Replacement Time-Lapse made by The City of Santa Monica and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) partnered with Work Zone Cam. ...and notice there was NO RAIN during all that time! . |
All hands on deck.
. Los Angeles is having it's first ever official FLEET WEEK!http://www.lafleetweek.com/ https://www.portoflosangeles.org/img...k-logo-web.jpg What is Fleet Week? Sept. 2nd – 5th, 2016 LA Fleet Week™ 2016 is a celebration of our U.S. armed forces at our nation’s #1 port, the Port of Los Angeles. The four-day festival will host active military ships along the LA Waterfront and feature public ship tours, military equipment demos, live entertainment, educational activities and more. http://www.lafleetweek.com/wp-conten...dy-image-3.jpg This next photo is on the L.A. Fleet Week website. There is no caption or anything to note the historic background of when or why it was taken. http://www.lafleetweek.com/wp-conten...dy-image-4.jpg |
While looking for photos of the Herald-Express building yesterday, I came across this picture. The caption is "Powerhouse and main offices of the L.A. Traction Company building on the southwest corner of Twelfth and Georgia Bell Streets, 1897". I'm assuming that Georgia Bell Street became Georgia Street.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library The 1897 CD lists the Los Angeles Traction Co at the northwest corner of Georgia and Girard. That must be the car barn. Here's the area on the 1910 Baist map. Note that the tracks ran vertically between Girard and Pico, whereas later photographs we've seen show them running horizontally. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ractionCo2.jpg www.historicmapworks.com |
While we're on Georgia Street, I think this building is new to NLA. According to the description, it's "The Plan Room Library for Builders, 1417 Georgia St., Los Angeles, 1958".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library The 1960 CD lists all of these businesses at 1417 Georgia Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original LAPL The new building permit is dated 1925. It shows that it was built as a store, office, residence and club rooms by the Musicians Club Inc. The building extended back to Delong Street. The second page mentions that the building was set back 20 feet to allow for a future traffic project. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Online Building Records 1417 Georgia Street only just survived the construction of the nearby freeway ramps (below), but couldn't hold out when the Convention Center was extended. The demo and grading permits were issued in 1989. The building with the conical roof detail on the right is the Otsego Apartments which I covered in post #18664. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Detail of picture in USC Digital Library |
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By the time i visited the Pacific Theatre, those balconies had been transformed into Theatre 2 & Theatre 3. I never liked them because the seating was all angled to the left or right depending on the one you were in, but the screen was not. Was very strange. And thanks for the other info! Quote:
CBD, in the last few years, the Cinerama Dome has played several of the Cinerama films on occasion. I saw the THIS IS CINERAMA film there, that you wrote about, and it was still impressive by today's standards. I have a book that says THIS IS CINERAMA was the highest grossing film of 1952. |
I remember as a kid visiting Angelus Furniture somewhere in DTLA or East LA, in a big old spooky building.
Does anyone have pictures and the location of the old Angelus Furniture. It existed into the 1970's at least. |
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BifRayRock posted this image back in 2013, but it's showing up like a sliding block puzzle for me, so I went back to the original. "Angelus Furniture Manufacturing Co., The May Company, Los Angeles, CA, 1931." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library It originally had the address 3650 E 9th Street, but that's now 3650 E Olympic Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
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I posted Julius Shulman's 1959 photoset of Lawry's in post #35915. Still at the location on the west side of N La Cienega, here's how it looked 23 years later. This is "Job 6118: Lawry's Prime Rib (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1982".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original The 1959 pictures only showed us as far as the waiting area. This time we get to see the interior. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original The color photos above are closely duplicated in two of the black & white images. Here are the other two. I wish these had been in color too. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original I wonder how this differed from the 1959 décor. The exterior shows more modern signage, so the interior paintings and shields came as quite a surprise. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute |
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Today its Black Angus Steaks, etc.....I go there wearing t-shirt, shorts and my flip flops....times truly have changed. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pstuyxtjab.jpg...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps28gs2nd8.jpg Lawry's inc. |
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http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psdypt4nrl.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...pslaftjkgs.jpg [URL=http://s292.photobucket.com/user/unihikid/media/7BC0CA2C-2C35-4554-947F-983E1DD3948B_zpsrxotwvfv.jpg.html]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psrxotwvfv.jpg[/URL http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psskk29vhh.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...pst3rhopgg.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...pswcrdn8te.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psesthp38c.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps6srmak4n.jpg I tried to take this at the right angle..im standing on the old PE line http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...pss3v0su01.jpg This would of been the station. I also spent some time at Bekins...I dont want to post all of the photos but here is one. Im not sure if this was a PE spur but id love to think that it is. http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psh3y96rwh.jpg Sorry for all of the photos i just thought it was funny that i was in the area. |
Thanks for the pics, unihikid!
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Hawaiian Paradise nightclub, 7566 Melrose
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The Hawaiian Paradise was at 7566 Melrose from 1937 to about 1940. Here it is in the 1939 LACD. Sopas ej posted this photo of the interior of 7566 Melrose, then called the 7566 Club, over six years ago! The bamboo poles and matting overhead are left over from the Hawaiian Paradise. Go to the LAPL photo collection and search for "7566" to see other photos of people caught in the raid. Quote:
to create a "Hawaiian Hut effect": http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original LADBS The BP for the Hawaiian Paradise's roof sign had been secured on June 18, 1937 (there is a May 3, 1941, permit for a new roof sign at 7566 Melrose): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original LADBS The Hawaiian Paradise nightclub, c. 1937. Over the three arched windows is a small neon sign with the address, I'm pretty sure. But I don't know what that guy is reaching for on the sidewalk: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original 488909 @ Huntington Digital Library, Ernest Marquez Collection Here's a closer view of the roof sign. That looks like a pretty generic volcano: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original From what I could tell by going through building permits, 7566 Melrose was built in 1929 and torn down except for the south exterior wall and rebuilt in 2011. |
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