Jack Dempsey in Laughlin Park
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When Jack and Estelle split, there was an auction... (btw, neither the Rolls-Royce or the Chrysler Imperial listed is the one in the pictures we've seen below; it looks to me like he's posing with a ca. 1929 DuPont). It seems that Dempsey later moved to New York with next wife Hannah, but kept the house until 1948, renting it for a time to Diana Barrymore... http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1...psey2compl.jpgLAT In the '50s, Union Pacific executive Lawrence Courtney was living at 5254, dying in the house in 1956. |
Diana Barrymore rents Dempsey's House
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The postcard depiction of the Gables Beach Club (810 Palisades Beach Rd ) may be more wishful thinking than an accurate rendition of the complex. The Towers would have made the Gables a landmark that would have appeared in other area photos. Most sources suggest the building was erected in the early '20s and destroyed shortly thereafter. However, another source provides a different story:
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I remember underground tunnels being covered here before, but I don't recall seeing these photos, some old, some new.
http://www.gelatobaby.com/2012/05/11...iginal-subway/ Link found on the city-data forum |
Originally Posted by tovangar2
Circa 1932 - "Coolest spot in the Valley" - Fox Theater, located at 114 W. Third Street in Pomona, Dempsey making personal appearance. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00080/00080182.jpg Fox Theater - Still looking pretty cool http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2873/capturelmo.jpg Google Street View "Respect in the Cage" - They are still doing fights! |
I live 5 minutes from that theater! I can tell you, they have definitely brought that theater back to life. Local high schools play their concerts and choir there along with other actual concerts with minor bands. Nightclubs are right down the street so it's alive at night. That picture is a little dated. I'll see if I can get a good picture tomorrow =]
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Kitchen Instructions or Approval?
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Lolita's Classics/LAT It appears that another legendary acting name was connected to 5254 Los Feliz Boulevard. According to Lolita's Classics, "In 1935 Basil and Ouida moved to Hollywood. For the first three years they lived at the address 5254 Los Feliz Blvd., a time that Basil later recalled as 'the happiest three years of my life'.... The house was small but extremely comfortable. It had a large and lovely garden and a kidney-shaped swimming pool. Over the four-car garage there was a spacious studio. This studio was occupied by dear Jack Miltern, who had come to live with us." More drama during Rathbone's tenure in the Dempsey house... http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5219/rath2ndset.jpgLAT |
Can't vouch for accuracy, but fans of the Manassas Mauler's Angelino connections may find this of interest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLdceViqQD0 http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/pics/18412_01_lg.jpghttp://www.americanmemorabilia.com/A...1919&offset=50 http://www.academystamp.com/media/pr...can_17_1_5.jpggoogle _____________________________ 1928 - 15 acre Wallace Neff-designed residence of silent film actor Fred Thomson and wife Frances Marion. Thomson was best of friends with Dempsey rival and nemesis, long count - Gene Tunney. Don't believe Gene Tunney's connections with LA were as strong as Jack Dempsey's. Mr. Tunney's son served as a California US Senator and he was a classmate of another future senator, Ted Kennedy. Of course, Ted Kennedy's father, Joseph P. had numerous LA-connections. To get the ball rolling here's a quote from the notes accompanying the ornate ceiling (bottom): Quote:
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The Enchanted Hill - Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills
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It's gardens were by Paul J. Howard ("Flowerland") Lost Hollywood – The Enchanted Hill of Fred Thomson and Frances Marion http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...rances-marion/ http://paradiseleased.files.wordpres...0005.jpg?w=640 norman kennedy And thank you again GW for the pix and clips. Everything's been passed on. Basil Rathbone managed to take down the license plate number of the car that killed Miltern. The next day the LA police charged stockbroker Logan Metcalf, ex-husband of silent screen actress Madge Bellamy (she demanded a divorce after 4 days of marriage, still pining for Howard Hughes who had jilted her for Constance Bennett), with negligent homicide and hit and run driving. In 1943 Bellamy shot her lover, millionaire A. Stanford Murphy, after he jilted her to marry another woman. He lived. She got 5 days plus probation. Dunno what happened to Metcalf. John Miltern in On With the Dance, 1920 https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v...806%2520PM.jpg eBay |
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From: http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/112898.html Caption: "Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, on a lilo in a swimming pool decorated for Christmas, Hollywood, 1954." Geolocation whizzes ought to be able to locate the pool based on the Hollywood sign :-) Thought this was a cool Holiday picture; Best Wishes of the Season to all. Cheers, Earl |
Slim Aarons
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Will the glamorous historical detail of 5254 Los Feliz Blvd/2047 Laughlin Park Drive ever cease? While stumbling around for information on the property earlier, I ran across a connection to native Hollywoodite Harley J. Earl, perhaps the most famous automotive designer of all time. Conflicting information in Los Angeles Times articles and in other sources at first had me discounting an actual connection to the Dempsey/Rathbone/Barrymore house. At least three different Los Feliz blvd addresses were in the mix: 5240 and 5242, as well as 5254. Earl's father-in-law, Hugh M. Carpenter, was living at 5242 when his grandson died in 1927 and when he died himself in 1947. It was that address that threw me off initial indications of an Earl connection to 5254... (is anyone still awake?). But then I discovered a reference of always-on-it Steve Vaught of Paradise Leased to an Earl provenance of 5254... indeed it turns out that Harley Earl built it (with the help of architect Frank Rasche) in 1923. Two years later (or four, depending on the source), apparently around the time Earl moved to Detroit to work at GM, the house was sold to Dempsey. Mrs. Earl and son Billy had stayed in L.A. and, it seems, moved to 5242 with her parents. It was on a return visit to L.A. to see his family (and to show off his trendsetting new LaSalle, seen below on that trip) that tragedy struck. http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/260...asalle1244.jpgMotorcities http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5...lbillyobit.jpgLos Angeles Times May 20, 1927 |
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I had planned to thank you in a personal message for this extremely kind post, but I had to leave town unexpectedly and it slipped my mind. :( It wasn't a slight, especially since your post touched me very much. Happy Holidays-Bruce __ |
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A Moment For Basil
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Lolita's Classics/LAT Wow. Thanks, GaylordWilshire for finding this article. Basil Rathbone is my all-time favorite actor. I found out a few years ago that he and his wife are interred at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, about a one hour drive from me. I went to the cemetery one extremely foggy day (just like in a Sherlock Holmes movie). His final resting place is a beautifully serene and dignified place. Nothing "noir" about this, but it is a peaceful period at the end of a sentence. http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/430/mrrathbone.jpg |
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