I DO agree that LA's history is littered with bottom-feeders and scoundrels and quarrels by the bushel. There's no denying that, GW. You are absolutely correct.
But look at it this way - I think you would also agree that an early-20th Century Los Angeles would never have allowed a large parcel adjacent to City Hall to slumber for four decades in a way that a late-20th Century Los Angeles has. Or consider this - I'll bet that in the same time it took the Gold Line to go from draft proposal to actual in-service running (over already-existing R.O.W. I might add), the PE and LARY laid hundreds of miles of track and put dozens of routes in operation from one end of the Basin to the other. It's a problem not restricted to L.A., of course. But they sure seem to have perfected it. Quote:
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Miss Velma's follies & that AMAZING yellow dress.
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:previous: That's a great before/after photo G_W.
_____ Earlier this year I came across this sad story of eminent domain from the LAPL archives. While searching for further details I came across a wonderful blog by Steve Vaught named 'Paradise Leased'. Two clippings and several photos in this post were found on the 'Paradise Leased' blog. All the rest are from the Los Angeles Public Library. Click on the link to read an excellent in-depth story about Steven Anthony by Steve Vaught. http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...nthony-part-i/ http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/6...5d2article.jpg los angeles times via paradiseleased Illustration of the proposed Hollywood Museum of Film and Television. http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/3...forhollywo.jpg William A. Pereria & Associates Sadly, the site chosen for this mega-museum was Alta Loma Terrace....a distinctly beautiful enclave of residences in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the entrance to Cahuenga Pass. Fifteen home owners agreed to a buyout except for one, Steven Anthony of 6655 Alta Loma Terrace. Mr. Anthony's cottage was especially enchanting. It was built in 1923 for cinematographer Gordon Pollock, best known for his work with Erich Von Stroheim and Charlie Chaplin. Many of the home's most endearing details were originally set pieces from Rex Ingram's 1922 production of 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. (these details were found at http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...nthony-part-i/) In the 1930s Bette Davis rented 6655 Alta Vista Terrace from the Pollocks. http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2...erracefrom.jpg from ms. davis 1962 autobiography via http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...nthony-part-i/ below: Ms. Davis posing in the living room at 6655 Alta Loma Terrace. http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/883...erracedavi.jpg from ms. davis 1962 autobiography via http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...nthony-part-i/ http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7...diseleased.jpg Mr. Arnold decides to stand his ground against eminent domain (along with his wife and three children). http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9...unwillfigh.jpg http://www.lapl.org/ Mr. Arnold peering out an upstairs window. I'm guessing that gorgeous window pane is indicative of the rest of the house. Can you imagine what the interior must have looked like? http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/8...erracewith.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=77561 Sheriff's deputies and newsmen mill about following attempts to evict Mr. Anthony. http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1193/6655altapolice.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=77558 Mr. Arnold is arrested on a six year old traffic warrant. In the middle of the night Sheriffs deputies supervise movers as they carry Steven Anthony's possessions from the condemned Hollywood home. http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/6...iction1964.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=77554 Released on bail, Mr. Anthony and his wife return to 6655 Alta Loma Terrace but are not allowed to go up to their home on the hill. http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/1989/6655alta1.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/FullRecord? databaseID=968&record=6&controlNumber=77551 description of the above photo from LAPL: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/599...cantreturn.jpg A wrecking crane begins demolishing the cottage. http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/9...erracedest.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=77547 6655 Alta Loma Terrace is gone. :( http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4007/...erracedes2.jpg LAPL Children play where the cottage once stood. Notice the small sign on the tree above the middle girl. http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6916/...laysignont.jpg LAPL This is that sign. http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6...splaysign2.jpg LAPL Signs and flowers are left at the bottom of the hill next to the sign advertising the new $6.5 million Hollywood Film and Television Museum. http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/1...rotest1964.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=77541 And the museum?...........NEVER BUILT. _____ |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-n...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL And the house today, looking good except for that odd mansardish roof... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...os_Angeles.jpgWikipedia Turns out that 1146 W 27th was also at one time the home of William Dennison Stephens, mayor of Los Angeles for 11 days in March 1909, a U.S. congressman, and governor of California 1917-1923. (Well, in 1915 he was listed at "1108" W 27th, but since so many sources say it was this house... maybe there was a renumbering... and, Frances de Pauw was listed at "1110" in 1899.. history is slippery, isn't it?) Thank you, Don! |
:previous: Such a beautiful house. Hopefully the original blueprints survive and the top portion of the house will eventually be restored.
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Irving Gill's Dodge House
Torn down for an apartment complex. What else! :hell:
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:previous: It's hard to believe it was designed in 1914 and completed in 1916.
Here is a photo of the interior. http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1/dodgeinterior.jpg http://consommacteurs.blogs.com/phot.../012044pv.html ______ ...and to drive the point home. :( http://www.latimes.com/features/home...0,840790.photo http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9...ldodgegone.jpg Soulless investors blinded by dollar signs. _______ |
Pacific Electric Co.
Trips from the 1941 Los Angeles Guide and Apartment House Directory:
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7605/87346616.jpg www.lileks.com http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/6937/83488101.jpg www.lileks.com http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7496/27649063.jpg www.lileks.com |
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Your image of the Earl Carroll Theater... http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/7...roltheater.jpg EBay ...reminded me of this screen grab from the introduction to Farewell My Lovely (1975) http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6900/farewelle.jpg Farewell My Lovely (1975) |
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In the lower right corner is the Melody Lane Cafe. Here is another view of Melody Lane about five years later. The sign above the entrance says 'free parking'.....I wonder where that would be? http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6...lywoodandv.jpg Also found on ebay-April 2010 ______ |
Film Noirs for Christmas
Yes, I got some! :banana: So here we go with a few screen grabs.
Out of the Past (1947) You can't go wrong with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming. Driving down Main Street, going past Our Lady Queen of Angels Church: http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/5...tofthepast.jpg Out of the Past (1947) Today we have: http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/8...ofthepast2.jpg Google Street View Around the corner from the church: http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7931/outofthepast1.jpg Out OF The Past (1947) Gone now. Gun Crazy (1950) Much better than I thought, with Peggy Cummins and John Dall. Here we are driving to the Amour plant in Albuquerque? http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg259...jpg&res=medium Gun Crazy (1950) Wait a minute, I think I see gas holders! The "Albuquerque" plant: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg593...jpg&res=medium Gun Crazy (1950) Actually, the plant was located at 2300 E. Olympic Blvd, in Los Angeles. Today, it looks like this: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg210...jpg&res=medium Google Street View More gas holders: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg708...jpg&res=medium Gun Crazy (1950) This Gun for Hire (1942) The building in the background... http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg848...jpg&res=medium This Gun For Hire (1942) http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg839...jpg&res=medium This Gun for Hire (1942) ...is still there at Broadway and Savoy: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg864...jpg&res=medium Google Street View |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g...ieburke607.jpgSeeing Stars (Today, Google Street View reveals that the house needs some TLC--some shutters are in shards. Billie would never have allowed it.) Receiving her first social security check, 1958: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL |
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...2520AM.bmp.jpgEbay
Looking (to me, at least) as though it might be out in the country instead of in the middle of Los Angeles--then (1920) and even now--is lawyer Leonard B. Slosson's unusual house at 426 S Arden. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View |
I'll give you half a bag of apples and half a bag of oranges, GW......
True, it was a lot easier to lay PE track across a mostly empty San Gabriel Valley in 1910 than it is to construct a Gold Line in an urbanized area. In retrospect, I agree that analogy doesn't hold much water. But I still maintain that empty State Building site is an unintentional monument to LA's general shnide. Quote:
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:skyscraper: So, malumot... I take it that by using that term you might be open to the possibility that at some point L.A. may go off the schine.... I moved to NYC in the '70s, and no one would have ever thought that the city, at the very bottom of a losing streak (but still an incredibly exciting and enriching place to live), would turn into the pulled-together place it is today. Arguably, it's a duller town, but there's no going back to any romanticized era--not '70s NYC, not "golden age" L.A..... Maybe, given that L.A. seems hell-bent on imitating Manhattan, building tall and out to the sidewalks and subwaying underneath, it will rebound the way we did. And as far as I can see, downtown L.A., at least, from the Broad to the many loft conversions, is off to a pretty good start... |
In response to my post about Barney's Beanery and their infamous anti-gay policy, GaylordWilshire wrote
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While looking into the history of Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway yesterday, I came across another sad reminder of our past...not noirish, just dark...as seen near the center of this old map, and the inset on the left. I won't repeat the name in this text, because I don't want search engines to associate it with this thread. But some cartographer, landowner, committee, person, or entity once thought it was a perfectly reasonable name and I guess the L.A. Times and most Americans would have agreed. http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Mulholland/N.Hill.map.jpg L.A. Times June 5, 1927 After scouring my old Santa Monica mountains hiking map, I believe that this area is now Rocky Oaks Park, in Agoura. This was not the only place with that name. Searches for more information turned up absolutely nothing in Southern California but I did find a cemetery in northern California (recently renamed, amid much consternation to those involved) and places with the same name in Boston, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Australia and New Zealand. I guess we should not blindly wax nostalgic about those times. Yes, the architecture was splendid and a bowl of chili may have cost only a nickel. But I doubt that many of us, knowing what we now know do and enjoying more freedom than could have been imagined back then, would be deeply satisfied if transported back to that time. P.S. e_r, I loved your post about the Hollywood Museum that never was. |
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