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Back in the mid 80's, Mom tasked me with picking up my brother from the Greyehound bus station on Alameda. I didn't know where it was at the time, and the only Alameda I was familiar with was in Burbank. I kept asking her for specific directions (which she was horrible at), and she said "Take the Golden State, exit Alameda, it's right there (it isn't right there). I spent an hour on the 5 in the wrong part of town, even stopped at an AAA office in Burbank, got angry and came home and told her she can go get him, I don't have the $$$ for more gas in the car. (Gas $$ came out of my small allowance). And now I'm annoyed just remembering that day! |
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ETA: ER, you're right about the quality of their window coverup; I think I could make out only one or two of the windows on the old streetview. |
Happy Anniversary to the City of Los Angeles, officially founded September 4, 1781, by a group of 11 men, 11 women, 22 children, and 4 soldiers. (None of whom have a freeway named for them.)
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PHIL La Toska
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-usually his last name is spelled with a k ...'La Toska' There were some hand drawn postcards up for auction at barneby's uk https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/9b6Wx8.jpg barnebys_uk but since the auction is over the image(s) won't expand :( so we only see a glimpse. Here's the description/info. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/pKd5f7.jpg barnebys_uk |
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Here's the full image. https://i.imgur.com/TsddM5p.jpg www.barnebys.co.uk And another from his early vaudeville days. https://i.imgur.com/nCpCmfu.jpg worthpoint.com Phil in the movie Way Down East from 1935. https://i.imgur.com/ab7uYEo.jpg Youtube - Way Down East |
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Looks like the building was the 1926 raising and expansion of a one-story duplex built four years before... https://s22.postimg.cc/oceiox61d/120...dobp26.bmp.jpg |
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Another LAX frame from an early Perry Mason.... |
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I happened upon this photograph while trying to establish a connection between Phil LaToska and the vaudeville scene in downtown Los Angeles. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/xubrKJ.jpg Vili Flik As you can see, the theater is advertised as "The Only Theatre in Los Angeles KO(?) Vaudeville." #1 Does anyone know what theater this is? (the best clue is probably the Corinthian column on the left) #2 Is the little girl, third from the left, a very young Judy Garland? She kind of looks like a miniature Judy. (I ask because the sign says "Garland") photo found HERE _ |
Warehouse at 115-117 N. Grand, April 1947
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psrkxfbuwj.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pse63thdpn.jpg ProQuest via LAPL Even with the beam removed it looks like the car's occupants just missed sudden death from all the bricks: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psq1immw0m.jpg Islandora/UCLA/LA Daily News Negatives Here's a wider view of the scene after the car was pulled out of the wrecked warehouse, built as an auto garage in 1922. There's a May 14, 1947, building permit to repair the damage caused by the auto accident. The poster in the window in the lower right corner is for the Cole Brothers Circus, which performed at Washington and Hill from September 27 to October 6, 1946: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original Islandora/UCLA/LA Daily News Negatives I think this is a 1946 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible. Mr. Sarthou must have been driving too fast. The 1950 Sanborn Map shows a warehouse at 115-117 N. Grand, so the numbers 117 may have been a casualty of the crash: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original Islandora/UCLA/LA Daily News Negatives In this photo of the police investigating the accident, we see the St. Omer at 123 N. Grand on the north side of the warehouse: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psrutubhvm.jpg Islandora/UCLA/LA Daily News Negatives |
Four, count'em four, 'mystery' slides from the 1970s.
#1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/ofnkiq.jpg EBAY #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/qhhVJm.jpg EBAY #3 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LIsopS.jpg EBAY #4 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/uyALw7.jpg EBAY I believe the tall sign on top of the hill is for a Standard Station. [see detail below] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/n3UeSn.jpg DETAIL INFO: 35 mm date note on frame processed by #1) Jan 72 WH 15 Color transparency #2) Dec 74 ** Color Slide Film #3) Jun 72 topo Wabash Vacant land Color Transparency #4) Feb 72 ** Color transparency __________________________________________________________ |
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Seems like the theatre would be the RKO Hillstreet--gone now from the swc of Hill & 8th (there's a Shake Shack there now)...although I can't find a corresponding Corinthian column in any views online. The movie advertised at left appears to be "Ladies Must Play" with Dorothy Sebastian, released August 1, 1930...which would be before the Gumm sisters became the Garland sisters ca 1935 (and then broke up). |
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With regard to Phil Latoska, I do find him listed in the 1910 census in Walla Walla, Washington as Phillp LaFoska. The handwritten entry looks like LaTosca. He is listed as a Theater actor. The entry shows him as French-Canadian, born in Canada in 1891. He was a lodger in a rooming house in that census.
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Sisters, Gumm. Unk dates. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tQnIZcKHV...a4iko1_500.jpghttps://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tQnIZcKHV...a4iko1_500.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RTGPKo28k...mm_Sisters.jpghttps://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RTGPKo28k...mm_Sisters.jpg https://greatentertainersarchives.bl...m-sisters.html |
Chestmere Apartments
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