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The two following snapshots appear to have been taken in the 1970s or 80s.

They both show a band playing at a benifit to "Protect the Santa Monica Mountains". (per the sign)

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I was busting my brain trying to figure out where this park was located, that is until. . .


I happened upon a this second snapshot.

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Then it dawned on me that the band might be performing in a burnt out house and the structure behind them is a large fireplace.



BUT THEN. . .I noticed the steps.

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I have no idea where they are.


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I was thinking it could be someone’s garden but then I noticed the uniformed officer in attendance.

My shot in the dark. Kind of funky, Topanga-ish. Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum?

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
 

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Nice shot!


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A few more pics at Lucy Pollack Public Relations

Also, those converging trails behind the stage in e_r's photos match those you can see here.

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Here's a snapshop of a nicely dressed young man standing proudly by his (new?) car in front of the Palladium in Hollywood.

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How do I know this is his car?




. . .because he's standing next to it in other photographs as well.

Here he is in an undisclosed location.

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The young man is traveling with a male friend. (he's the person taking the photographs) ....I have a photo of his friend but that pic. is in Indiana. (I'm currently in Illinois)





This next snap is rather remarkable in that it shows the young man and his car on the horseshoe pier in Long Beach.

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This is a nifty view.


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I believe that's Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach. :shrug::shrug: Many of those buildings are still there.
[I'm currently in California.]

Interesting. Never heard of this place before!
1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga 90290.

Looks like a very active place.

From the website:
https://theatricum.com

[In the 1950's]...for Geer and his young family, the McCarthy Era had arrived. Relocating to an acreage in Topanga, California, Mr. Geer established a theatre for similarly blacklisted actors and folk singers on the property. Because he held a degree in botany (one of his life long interests) the theater was named for a landmark botany text book, Theatricum Botanicum, which means, quite literally, “a garden theatre.”

There's quite a lengthy Will Geer Road, also in Topanga. ER, the website notes Will Geer was an Indiana native. Did you know that?

I hope he didn't buy tickets to Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music.

I would hope he was more cutting-edge. :D

My son, the actor (until he came to his senses) did a few plays there in the 90's. How I know about it.

The Harvard Apartments were at 645 E Ocean Boulevard. The two buildings on the right of e_r's picture were both still standing in 2008 (below), but the one on the right had gone 2011, and the one on the left by 2014.

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The man's car is parked at the curb in front of the site which would later host the familiar cylindrical International Tower.

If the car's headlights were eyes, it would be looking at the even more familiar Villa Riviera.

https://i.postimg.cc/43fbzq1f/Intl-Tower.jpg
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Hey Hoss, that street corner in your photo is the eastern edge of the Long Beach Grand Prix

Hollywood Bowl season canceled for the first time in 98 years.
So long, L.A. summer...

For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, the Hollywood Bowl is canceling its entire season — a loss that amounts to far more than opening night with Brandi Carlile, the film screenings and sing-alongs, the concerts starring Diana Ross, Yuja Wang and Janelle Monáe that were to have followed.

The Hollywood Bowl is summer in Los Angeles. It is running, dizzy, down Highland Avenue with friends after a drink at the Frolic Room or a chilled martini at Musso & Frank. It is barefoot and tanned just outside the gate, wearing a favorite cotton skirt, the scent of sizzling bacon-wrapped hot dogs and street corn slathered in mayonnaise blending with shouts of “tacos, tortas, aguas frescas!”

It is laughing in the $1 seats at the very top of the amphitheater, the sun melting like deep-yellow butter over the hills, stars blinking awake in the darkening dome of the sky.

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A nice article about a sad thing...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...er-coronavirus

Literally 100s of YT vids @ Slab City. Part Artist/Burning Man, but overwhelmingly Skid Row in the desert.

Slab City is hardly an upscale mobile home park.

My impression was, it's the Ozarks meeting the California desert.

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"Boys in Car"

a mystery street corner. [c.1940s]

Here's a funny snapshot that someone doctored up with a ball point pen.

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.................................................................................................................."Hi Gramma. Where'd you come from?" ....lol

If I'm not mistakened there is a grill, no doubt a student hangout, on the corner.
To the left of the grill there appears to be a book store.



Here's an aerial of L.A.C.C. in 1938. ....I can guess where the photograph was taken. . .but I'll wait for more proof.

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The back of the photograph simply says, "Boys in Car".

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Here's a closer look.

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I believe there is a second "boys in car" on the other side of the large car.



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Thanks for answering my question, Jungmann. I appreciate it, buddy.

It's quite interesting that Grandpa Walton was a bit of a hippy.

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Earlier in his career he had been blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. :(

In the hills near Hollywood during the TV season he lives in a sort of bohemian cottage, complete with a garden filled with the 400 plants mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays. Geer was subpoenaed to testify before the House Commitee on Un-American Activities during Senator Joe McCarthy's reign of terror and intimidation in the 1950s, But Geer is not a man easily scared - he appeared in a bright red shirt and a purple plaid tie and good-humoredly called the questions "hysterical." Nevertheless, he was blacklisted by Hollywood for years."



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It's the corner of Vermont and Normal.
https://i.postimg.cc/JnNYHVV9/Annota...-14-093941.jpgvia GSV

ETA: It's kind of sad that there are no buildings left from the time when that was the Southern Branch of the University of California.

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Our correspondent (and a personal friend of many years) Alison Martino of Vintage L.A. sadly reports that Mike Gotovac, bartender at Dan Tana's for 50 years, lost his battle with the Covid virus today.....here's Mike and Alison....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ5IR2qrh78&t=34s  

I knew Mike for maybe 30 years....closed the place on countless occasions, sat with him on the benches out front as he enjoyed his post-work smoke, and I nursed the nightcap I had walked outside....chatted about the evening and the characters we raised a glass with....

Mike saw everyone in Hollywood walk into Tana's over that half century, he told great stories but would always protect the confidentiality of the celebrities....

A wonderful guy, I never had a cross word with him over all those years....rest in peace my friend....