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Some stuff and some things as well!
I have been watching work being done lately on a couple Broadway buildings...
First off this is one I have been looking forward to for some time now... http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...io-/blegh2.jpg image from google earth This building has had a sheet over it for the past few months now and you could never see what it looked like as the work was being done. All anyone knew was that the mural was being taken off and the building was being restored. This morning, while going to get some breakfast, I saw that the sheet had been removed. Enough blabber. Picture time. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...66853x1280.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...67853x1280.jpg Photos by me As you can see they are still working on it, I dont know when work will be done, but its coming along nicely. Another building seems to be getting some love a bit further down on Broadway... http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...io-/blegh1.jpg Photo from google earth I have been watching them mess around with this one too. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...69853x1280.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...701280x853.jpg Photos by me... Slowly life returns to Broadway. On another completely random note, I was wondering if anyone may be able to help me figure out what these businesses and buildings were at one time. There are these signs on the ground here and there, or designs on the sidewalk indicating that there was at one time an entryway to some building/business. Stationers Corporation? http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...711280x853.jpg This design right next to the stationers corporation. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...72853x1280.jpg Both of those are directly next to the Alexandria in that parking lot. Also there are these two as well. I cant make out what this one is/was. I am guessing perhaps a drug store or something. 4th street between Broadway and Spring. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...731280x853.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...74853x1280.jpg And Glasgow Tailors? Next to the Hotel Barclay on 4th and Main. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...75853x1280.jpg All photos by me. Can anyone shed some light on these? |
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The evolution of the Hal Roach Studio main building, 1920-1963: http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/1...constructi.jpgSony Pictures Museum http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6...aerial1000.jpgLAPL And after a ca. 1934 remodeling: http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/8...5remod1000.jpghollywoodphotographs.com http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/290...sgreen1000.jpgNNNN http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5...mosign1000.jpgThe Foxling http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3...lished1000.jpgLife/The Studio Tour |
Horthos, such a great post! I can't wait until someone (perhaps me :)) finds answers to those wonderful sidewalk fragments you've discovered. Very exciting!
__ Thx for the post on the evolution of the Hal Roach Studios main building GW. I liked it better before they tacked on the faux-colonial facade. I had never seen it in it's original state. I used to get the Hal Roach Studios building confused with the Selznick International building (also in Culver City...and still standing). http://imageshack.us/a/img23/3931/aabselznick.jpg http://caroleandco.wordpress.com/201...s-august-2009/ __ |
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Great post, Horthos--downtown will never be what we imagine it was before the long postwar decline, but it is fantastic to see the demolitions slowing and the historic fabric of the district being restored. Who'd have ever thought? Anyway, let's see.... The Schulte-United store was at 529 S Broadway, built in 1928 as part of a national chain. It didn't last long... http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/9206/horthosads.jpgLAT June 19, 1932/Dec 28, 1934 The sunburst was in front of 523 S Spring, a narrow building between the Stationers Corp and the Alexandria. 523 S Spring had a number of tenants on its ground floor in the 1910s and '20s, among them the Prudential Building-Loan Association ('20s) and before that, the stationery outlet of Stratford & Green Booksellers...not that any of this explains the sunburst.... The Angelus Drug Co was at 214 West 4th St... the blue-and-white tiling seems to be a remnant. I can't find anything about Glasgow Tailors.... |
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I don't know specifically what street the Palms station was located on but you can still see the building. it was moved to Heritage Square in Highland Park and serves for the gift shop-ticket booth now
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I haven't heard of this inn before and certainly don't recognize the building.
http://imageshack.us/a/img163/1720/a...iewinnebay.jpg ebay reverse http://imageshack.us/a/img853/9002/a...ewinnebay1.jpg I found only one other photograph. http://imageshack.us/a/img13/4641/aa...ewwmarkatb.jpg https://www.hollywoodphotographs.com...?c=20&i=1&r=96 Bruce Torrence at Hollywood Photographs locates the inn on Brokaw Place at Hollywood Blvd. http://imageshack.us/a/img805/4020/a...iewinninfo.jpg https://www.hollywoodphotographs.com...?c=20&i=1&r=96 Well, I checked my 1947 street map and there is no Brokaw Place. I also checked Google street views without success. After numerous attempts, I finally found this reference to Brokaw Place. http://imageshack.us/a/img835/3384/a...ewbrokawpl.jpg http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacitycl...number=06-0407 ..but I still can't locate it on Google street views. :( Does anyone have information on Brokaw Place or the Mountain View Inn/Hotel? __ |
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It seems that I may have underestimated Florabel. I was reading an old blog in the L.A. Times called The Daily Mirror by Larry Harnisch. At the end of his column, I found this comment by one of his readers: "Hey Larry: My Old Man broke into newspapers in the mid-1920's. He answered an ad for a 'copy boy' and was interviewed by the editor, Florabel Muir. As it turned out, she wanted a bootlegger/gofer, not a copy boy. The newspaper, in Pasadena is long defunct as are most of the papers that I have worked for. He stuck with papers until he retired in the late 1960's and followed Florabel's career and even sent her a get-well card after she got shot while riding in the back seat of a car with Mickey Cohen during a botched gangland hit. The driver that night, Neddy Herbert was killed and Mickey wasn't even scratched. My dad said that she was quite a 'tough old gal' who once knocked Franchot Tone out with one punch at a night club on Sunset Strip. Speaking of Tone, why don't you do a piece on his ex, the movie starlet Barbara Payton. I met her in the early 1960s when I was working at the old Hollywood Citizen News. She lived across the street at the Wilcox Hotel and by that time had gone from a $10,000 a week starlet to a $5 a trick street hooker. Interesting stuff." Yer pal, Bill Hilser Franchot Tone seems to have lost a lot of bar fights. Remember the one with Tom Neal? http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/87/tonec.jpg Mutiny on the Bounty Trailer http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8476/imagescapnrkhu.jpg www.peoplefamous.why.com |
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The Mountain View sat on the southerly of J. B. Brokaw's two tracts in the block of Prospect Ave/Hollywood Blvd between Bronson and Gower. Brokaw Place ran from H'wood Blvd south a block to Carlton Way, as indicated in gray next to the hotel on the 1921 insurance map below. http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/9...w1921baist.jpgHistoric Map Works A little more history on the Inn: http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1...tartscompl.jpgLAT The hotel was rebuilt after the fire, and continued to advertise into the early '20s. Not sure when it disappeared. Given the buildings and parking lots now there, Brokaw Place appears to have been ignored way before the official "vacation" you cited earlier: Quote:
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:previous: Thank you GaylordWilshire...I knew you would come through.
Brokaw Place http://imageshack.us/a/img152/5171/a...tainvsspgw.jpg and today....so where is this 5 foot wide walkway? -gone forever obviously. http://imageshack.us/a/img594/1063/aabmountainv1.jpg __ |
John B. Brokaw residence at 539 E. Prospect Avenue (now 6029 Hollywood blvd.)
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ahhh...Mimeograph memories.
Canoga Park Prom circa 1944. http://imageshack.us/a/img32/7259/aa...canogapark.jpg http://www.themuseumsfv.org/ http://imageshack.us/a/img59/3047/aa...nogaparkmu.jpg http://www.themuseumsfv.org/ __ |
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