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Speaking of olde-tymie magazines!
Now normally I wouldn't use this platform for naked self-promotion buuuut...I produced something that readers here might get a kick out of, which is a) about Old LA, including much architecture and b) does after all have noir in the title, just like our beloved thread. Behold, Bunker Noir! A 56-page, full-color magazine, designed in the style of the vintage pulps of yore, specifically about historic crime and weird goings-on atop vanished Bunker Hill. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...91bb7b00_b.jpg Should you be inclined to pick one up, you may do so here. Some representative shots of the interior: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2fd41221_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...cfefe822_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d6cac098_c.jpg |
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Here's another picture of Charles "Dad" Bailey next to his first smaller stand. https://i.imgur.com/wL9sX16.jpg David Wayne Bailey - flickr On the building behind him is an arrow and number pointing to 7115 ½ . https://i.imgur.com/UCZC8de.jpg Pretty much the only 7115 ½, I could find in the CDs. https://i.imgur.com/gU84n1q.jpg rescarta.lapl.org 7115 S. Main Street is still there ... right by Florence Ave. not far from USC. Dad Bailey's would have stood in the red box right by 7115 S. Main Street. https://i.imgur.com/3pt5Vff.jpg Google Maps https://i.imgur.com/1Idt0L8.jpg GSV It may have started out life as a fruit stand until "Dad" Bailey came along. Here's a 1922 permit application for the moving of a fruit stand from 4723 Moneta Ave. to 7115 S. Main Street. https://i.imgur.com/JVJkKu9.jpg ladbsdoc.lacity.org |
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I buy this, same recipe with real sugar in glass bottles, not cheap but only get a few bottles a year. I also drank gallons as a kid and this tastes exactly the same
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One of the best examples of sleuthing to be found anywhere. Fantastic job, Noir Noir. :worship: David Wayne Bailey would love to have this information. |
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This is interesting. I never gave a minute's thought to where offices of a drive-in theater chain might be located. Well here's the answer. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/YVlKh7.jpg eBay Pacific Drive-In Theatres at 141 - 143 South Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles. (1957) The date is interesting as well. The number of drive-ins peaked the next year (1958) at 4,063 theaters. . |
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Well, Prudent, I can't help but notice what appears to be a Model 102 on your desk. Here are my own WE relics, still operational on a copper line: https://i.postimg.cc/DfbGY6gn/Phonec...Mlarge-FNL.jpg As for your BH book and magazine--I'm expecting them under the tree illustrated below, but if I'm disappointed, I'll be back in touch. https://i.postimg.cc/GprzbNXF/spinnerorn.jpg |
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Looks intriguing, but is it all crime focused (as noir usually is) since noir means dark or black? Do you plan to some have stories on "feel good" non-crime stories as well from the "noir" era in L.A., as this very blog by ethereal reality often does? Many people (even during the Depression) lived ordinary and often happy lives back then, as we do now ( at least until the pandemic hit). How much do you plan to charge? Will it be available online as well as paper? Good work! Thanks Beaudry! Hope you do well with this. |
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If you don't use THIS forum for naked self-promotion you'd be insane! I didn't know about this (or the earlier book) until you mentioned them here on NLA, and I thank you for doing so! |
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Well if we're on the subject (and pardon the slovenly housekeeping, we haven't had guests since the Ides of March after all)... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ae8d9b35_z.jpg Here's the 300 set that's in my boy's room. He's 12, so doesn't really get it, but does think it's cool that we can still make phone calls when the electricity goes out. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0b35c743_z.jpg An American Electric Monophone extension line in the wife's dressing room https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c4347b80_z.jpg A Stromberg Carlson, I think https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...42f75316_z.jpg A Kellogg Masterphone in the library https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5358b4f7_z.jpg In the canning room off the furnace room. One of these days I'm going to be hit by a bus and my wife is gonna have a hell of a yard sale. |
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In answer to your question, yes, it is 100% dark and terrible! Though in the opening essay I discuss how it isn't really fair to paint Bunker Hill with such a bleak brush (but for the purposes of this mag, I do it anyway). I absolutely agree, there were a lot of happy people on the Hill—which I discuss at length in my book, and which is why sunshine is part of that book's title. This project though was the result of my publishers looking a the litany of true crime I'd penned into that book and saying "well this is a depressing slog" and cutting it all out. So I had to do SOMETHING with it! Actually, that said, there is a lot of other stuff in Bunker Noir! besides crime and murder. There's a section on crazy car stunts, on wacky architecture, the famed Cooper donut riot, the Lizard People of Fort Moore, the abandoned cemetery, Klansmen, fires—anything I thought kind of mondo and offbeat that you wouldn't find in a traditional, serious city guidebook. And no, definitely not online. I'm a big fan of ink and paper. And its cost is $28; all that info is here. |
After seeing the self-promoting blurb for your book, I ordered one. I already have 'Bunker Hill Los Angeles' - a marvelous work.
I'm looking forward to 'Bunker Noir'. |
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