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If that picture was taken on a weekday before mid-August in 1979, I probably had already been by there that day! :D |
Old lenses again !
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I was deceived by the old trick : the vintage lenses in black & white. Mateo Street is broadened in the vintage photo and I couldn't picture the cars parked on the right without somewhat obstructing Dall and Cummins on the Google maps photos where the street is tightened. |
The Gun Crazy filming locations blog posted by E_R mentions the Department of Water and Power building - it's on the east side of Mateo, just south of the Santa Monica Freeway. When I saw a frontal view, I thought we'd seen it before.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LADWPMateo.jpg GSV Tell me if it has been posted already, but I think my feeling of déjà vu is down to several features in the central section being similar to the DWP building on Vine that E_R posted back in post #12919. By the date on the front, it was built two years before the one above. http://imageshack.us/a/img11/4717/aa...eatromaine.jpg E_R/GSV |
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Storage Tanks? What exactly was being stored? Liquid or gas? Understandably, different sources use the term "gas" without distinguishing between natural/liquid/compressed gas, e.g., propane and gasoline for auto consumption. I understood that the tanks downtown, and the one pictured above, contained liquid/compressed natural gas. http://americanfilmnoir.com/page21.html Beaudry's post seems to confirm this. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3592 Notice, thank capacities were measured in cu. ft. versus gallons. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009375.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009375.jpg Were these tanks ever used for home heating oil or other fuels? Maybe the answer has some shades of gray? vvvv Per the source, this "1930" image includes another view of "a gasoline storage tank." (Original focus was on storage building's advertising. :shrug: ) http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071649.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071649.jpg Storage - 1025 N. Highland http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073541.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073541.jpg Warm - but not one of these. NRA = '33-'35; RKO = '36-'55 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...NewDealNRA.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...d8/RKOlogo.jpg |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-w...0/DSC03806.JPG It looks the same, except for a bronze plaque on the side. It's a monument to Frank Putnam Flint, US attorney and Senator. |
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Have we seen any photos of the Coca Cola sign illuminated? Undated photo of Wilshire looking toward Beverly Drive. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics01/00020218.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics01/00020218.jpg |
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Mt. Vernon on Sunset? Does not seem like the typical service in or to your car. Looks like orders could have been placed or received under the awning. Early version of take out food? Inside seating? 6429 Sunset Blvd., the long-gone Colonial Drive In, circa '33 http://www.hpoliver.com/FEATURES/LA3...A/LA30S_13.pnghttp://www.hpoliver.com/FEATURES/LA3...A/LA30S_13.png |
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More Wilshire and Vermont area Aug '36 - Wilshire looking west from Vermont. Looks like the moorish Texaco on the north side of Wilshire near New Hampshire. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104334.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104334.jpg '36 (Previously posted on this thread) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104259.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104259.jpg Undated, Wilshire looking east toward Western http://www.ericdatz.com/e34492.jpghttp://www.ericdatz.com/e34492.jpg |
The Little Rascals became Our Gang or vs.
Carl was well known around the movie studios for being difficult to work with. Sadly, his life after the Our Gang series was difficult at best.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psdbd6aeb9.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps919d8d9e.jpg AP wirephoto - MGM Culver City Carl Switzer with Jimmy Stewart in "Its a Wonderful Life" http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps23f9c01a.jpg Carl with Loretta Young http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps269bb045.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Switzer |
Our Gang/Little Rascals was a masters course in old Los Angeles.
Alfalfa's death always bugged me. I had a crush on Darla (who didn't?) |
Gasometers/Gas Holders
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasholder This one has/had style! http://www.palladiumboots.com/blog/gasometer Cheers, Jack |
[B]Welcome, SportBiker[/B]
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Welcome, SportBiker
I loved your comment, "it's such an enjoyable violence!" I guess it doesn't get any more 'noire' than that! Great map, BTW.
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https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i..._4CTx4Tfk7NvIAhttps://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i..._4CTx4Tfk7NvIA http://www.palladiumboots.com/images...gasometer3.jpghttp://www.palladiumboots.com/images...gasometer3.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/4037/rec/19 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 While on the subject of storage tanks, with all of the oil pumped from the downtown area in the early part of the last century, were there collection tanks large enough to have become their own landmarks? I am not aware of any and assumed most oil was transported to refineries via tankers or pipeline. http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1962-giant-Ha...Z5pQ~~60_3.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/t/1962-giant-Ha...Z5pQ~~60_3.JPG http://yesteryearremembered.com/wp-c...in-76-Tank.jpghttp://yesteryearremembered.com/wp-c...in-76-Tank.jpg Undisclosed location and date. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/24418/rec/8 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/15677/rec/7 Venice, 1931 "El Camino Gasoline" http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0 |
I visited the Charnock Block yesterday, 9.29.2013. I found it rather macabre, like seeing a dead body after an autopsy; after its innards have been removed, and its skin partly stitched back together.
1930 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014120.jpg LAPL 1971 http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017099.jpg LAPL Charnock Block, post mortem: http://imageshack.us/a/img820/8472/h4da.jpg Photo by me http://imageshack.us/a/img202/7325/5r9t.jpg Photo by me |
Laurel and Hardy, 1930
I just came across this screen capture from a Laurel and Hardy movie from 1930 and became intrigued about what and where the triangular building in the background might be. The sign on the roof appears to be "LIKE RENT" but that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
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Russel Crowe - Gladiator/Colosseum set location
[QUOTE=Chuckaluck;6285301]Thanks Wig-Wag. I was mostly trying to emphasize the fact that when referring to the pictured storage tanks, some sources use the terms "gas" and "gasoline" interchangeably. I assumed this to be erroneous, but I began to wonder whether there may have been some (unknown-to-me) cross-purpose. Indeed, your last "stylish" link, suggests re-purposing as potential living quarters, which is not exactly what I had in mind. Did Russell Crowe actually film in a Roman Gasometer, or some 'ol gasometer off of Exposition Blvd? :koko:
Chuckaluck, I found your Russel Crow question intriguing, and since I could not recall seeing any Gasometers in LA since the late 1960's I went back on the net in search of an answer. Wikipedia came to the rescue again! "In Malta, a replica of about one-third of Rome's Colosseum was built, to a height of 52 feet (15.8 meters), mostly from plaster and plywood (the other two-thirds and remaining height were added digitally).[24] The replica took several months to build and cost an estimated $1 million.[25] The reverse side of the complex supplied a rich assortment of Ancient Roman street furniture, colonnades, gates, statuary, and marketplaces for other filming requirements. The complex was serviced by tented "costume villages" that had changing rooms, storage, armorers, and other facilities.[22] The rest of the Colosseum was created in computer-generated imagery using set-design blueprints and textures referenced from live action, and rendered in three layers to provide lighting flexibility for compositing in Flame and Inferno." Cheers, Jack |
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In the lobby bar of the Culver Hotel they show L&H silent films on the wall, not infrequently including exterior shops of the hotel itself. |
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Guess it's just gonna become another piece of the "urban Disneyland" experience now being created around Skid Row. :( |
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