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Thanks for bringing Bill Buerge to my attention GW and odinthor.

I thought I had discovered the mountain mermaid website but now I see that Martin had included the link in his earlier.

I decided to go ahead and post some of the things I found on the site and a few other sites. (mainly the topanga messenger)



This pre-renovation photograph is undated, but it shows. . .umm. . .a dump the property in disuse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/HqkFvj.jpg
Courtesy of Dede Warpole via mountain mermaid







. . .before the decline.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/OlGBFU.jpg
mountain mermaid






This next photograph was taken in 1934 when the building was the Sylvia Park Country Club.

The occasion was the 50th anniversary of Columbus & Lucy Cheney. (whoever they are) .... . perhaps someone can dig up some information on them.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/lTl1Dp.jpg
mountain mermaid

. .looks like a real shindig....zzzz





And LOOK AT THIS!

A very rare membership token for the Sylvia Park Country Club. (150.00 dollars a year) found on worthpoint


Front
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VYuNFz.jpg

Back
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/rhGrQ5.jpg
worthpoint


P.S. I just noticed the token on worthpoint is different. Instead of saying "Sylvia Park Country Club" it, instead, says "Sylvia Park Development Company".
soooo. . .umm. . .worthpoint must have more than one token for sale. :shrug:

P.S.S. The token (shown above) is for $150.00 Club Membership and the other coin (also on worthpoint) is for $150.00 LOTS!...(I wonder what the size of the lots were) preposition, sorry






Lastly, take a look at this remnant of an old wrought-iron gate at the entrance of the property.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/4pL1Zw.jpg
google earth

I want this for our clubhouse.




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e_r, I think this is our man . . . much younger . . . at an 1888 Agricultural Fair taking place in Downey:

https://i.postimg.cc/bYnPS8ms/Cheney-LAT-1888-9-3.jpg
LA Times, 9/3/1888.

This is probably Charles C[olumbus?] Cheney, born ca. 1853 in Arkansas, newly in the L.A. area (Nietos) by 1870, and son of William W. Cheney, farmer of Downey (Nietos), about whom "His first purchase of real estate in this county was eight acres near Downey" (Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, 1889).

I wonder who Sylvia was?


https://i.postimg.cc/XJFpSV83/sylvia...72x705-bmp.jpg
LAT May 25, 1930

8 minutes of 1940s street film
 

https://youtu.be/97KArvBoONo


Much of this old film appears to be Terminal Island.

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Thanks for the information on Columbus Cheney, odinthor.


Good question, GW.





mystery location.


Calco Tile Mtg. Corporation, Los Angeles... - Feb. 1929 -

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/FdlzUQ.jpg
eBay








Let's take a closer look at some of the employees.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/XXHwTN.jpg
detail

That's one bad ass lookin' dude wearing the leather jacket and gloves.








https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/9cVfQW.jpg

The guy wearing the sweater with the vertical striped looks like he stepped off a cover of GQ.








https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/cFBHxM.jpg

A show of affection is always nice to see.

















https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ocvLv5.jpg
detail

The young man on the right appears to be the youngest of the group. (and the most determined)






The photographer was. . . .

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/T8gYRX.jpg

O'Dell of Hollywood.




Does anyone know where this manufacturing company was located?

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Inside Surfridge
 

Just spent the day inside the fence at Surfridge. I'm doing a documentary about the place and am looking for anyone who lived there or spent any time there. Here's a little taste of the place today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb0CPnjw57A&t=186s

If anyone does know anyone who lived there, please contact me at kevin_w@fourkproductions.com

https://i.imgur.com/nmM1wSd.jpg
topangamessenger.com


https://i.imgur.com/3NFZkUP.jpg
ancestry.com

Surfridge appears to be a nowhere zone thanks to the existence of LAX.

The guy with his friend's hands on his shoulders is wearing a jughead cap! We saw one of those a few years back.

e_r, Calco was, methinks, the Southern California Clay Products Company (or its successor) of Vernon/South Gate:

https://i.postimg.cc/3xPS6L4N/Calco.jpg
A Review of Mining in California During 1919 [...], p. 60.

:previous:


https://i.postimg.cc/FKcTP3QF/calcotile-885x187-bmp.jpg





Thanks Noir_Noir

A little nocturnal digging: Before 1119 Hi Point in Carthay Circle, the Goldmans lived at 1152 Hi Point (1930)--I don't see that Irving & Charles had a hand in the development of these duplexes, but maybe.

The Goldman Bros were advertising $100 cabin sites at Sylvia Park--"$1 down, $1 weekly"-- as early as May 1924.

By late 1931, Earl W Chester (the contractor on the clubhouse job) was suing the Goldman Bros.

Irving Goldman ran as a Dem for assemblyman for the 59th district in 1932. The LAT endorsed his opponent, who was elected.

In 1944 Sylvia Edith Goldman married a Mr. Patterson of Minneapolis--which is where the Goldmans lived before coming to the Southland.

2 mn at BH!!!
 

Thanks a lot CBD for this reel. The sequence between 2:11 and 4:10 resumes the last part of the same route in the famous « A Drive through Bunker Hill ». It starts at the Sunkist (which was not seen in « A Drive ») and ends a street further. I guess it is at Bunker Hill avenue at First street. We see interesting shops between Hope and BH Avenue. This time the camera shoots oblique on Flower and First, then we see beautiful or interesting porchs. Great !

The Calco Tile Manufacturing Co appears in the CDs between 1931 and 1934. Three editions only mention an address at 134 S La Brea Avenue. The current building there dates back to 1929, and going by its size I'm guessing that it was showroom. The 1933 CD has a longer entry. It describes the La Brea location as the "Los Angeles Branch", but gives a main address of 4240 Santa Ana Street, South Gate.

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I found the same thing, HossC.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/aORB6s.jpg
LAPL



I also found this. . .

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/nDSPxW.jpg
LAPL

I'm a bit confused. This seems to imply that CCCC is making Calco products . . .or are they selling Calco products?




409 Leroy Street
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/eGlX6S.jpg



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I think he was Columbus Callan Cheney (wife Lucy Jane) born in August of 1851 in Arkansas and died in Santa Monica in 1937. They had two sons, Thomas and George. He and his wife Lucy were married in 1886. He is listed in several censuses as farming in Calabasas. He was the son of William Wallace Cheney and Martha Meek. William did die in Downey.
The date of the anniversary celebration would be 1936.

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Thanks for the extra information, oldstuff.

Here's a snapshot currently on eBay that has me stumped.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/vKy50M.jpg
eBay

As you can see there are a chock-full of tantalizing clues.

Going left to right:

RY FAIRBANKS....I know Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks were married and that they were both founding members of United Artists. . .but Mary Fairbanks? .I don't think so.

IFIC FIMS, INC.....I'd say this is. . .Pacific Films, Inc. ...(Terrific Film, Inc?) ...not

aking of Animals"....Breaking of Animals(?). . .Speaking of Animals(?)

"Unusual Occupations"....

Institutional Films

Printing - Ver Halen Publications - Publishing

HOLLYWOOD FILM ENTERPRISES



The one thing I don't see is Disney, yet the seller mentions "Disney" in the description. Perhaps he/she knows something we I don't know. :shrug:


Happy Fourth of July noirishers!
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:previous:

https://i.postimg.cc/N09H3hCX/6060-S...-1932-5-18.jpg
LA Times, 5/18/1932.

e_r, we have a survivor:

https://i.postimg.cc/qR2C7sTM/6060-Sunset-GSV.jpg
GSV

https://bcdbimages.s3.amazonaws.com/...ak_animals.jpg

Created by celebrated cartoon animator Tex Avery and independent Hollywood film producer Jerry Fairbanks, this series was distributed theatrically by Paramount Pictures from 1941 through 1949. To combine live-action animals with their animated mouths, Fairbanks used a modified rear-screen projection process along with a rotoscope system. "Rotoscoping is a method by which the mouths of the animals were replaced by semi-animated human mouths," he recalled. "We would film live actors such as Mel Blanc and Sterling Holloway in black face with their lips painted white. That way, we could have just their lip movements visible on film. The images were then traced frame by frame, reshot as animation that in turn was matted into the actual animal footage. --BCDB

I recall that when I worked at Video West we had a couple VHS volumes of these "Speaking of Animals" shorts. Here's a favorite example: Cows singing "Cow Cow Boogie", from the 1944 short, Who's Who in Animal Land. (A youtube search says that this clip was also featured once on an episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse.)

• Video Link


Here's a link to a playlist of 33 of these shorts, although they all have a time stamp in a prominent position. One of them, Speaking of Animals: Going Hollywood, features clips of Hollywood locations.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...CQQdrsxB6NsDTf

Hollywood Film Enterprises must have distributed the early Disney home movies.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TzoAA...Ts/s-l1600.jpg
(also on eBay)