Originally Posted by rick m (Post 7680571)

This would be the driveway shared by the cluster of structures that was the successful Charles Beach Art School (had a run of about 20 years- a hub for the Echo Park arts community) and the adjacent 2 story home of the infamous Evelyn Nesbit-NYC sex scandal adolescent in the pre WW1 era-- She was a patroness of Charles and taught there for a period. This school was also a scene for gay creative types--

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7680853)

Thank you for that reminder rick m.

It was actually the Grant Beach School of Arts and Crafts. This LAT article details Evelyn Nesbit's relationship to the school.

There's also an interview w/ Nesbit (byline "Hedda Hopper's staff") in the 6/28/55 Chicago Tribune archive

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ef...Q8o=w1366-h768
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Charles Beach was famously J. C. Leyendecker's life partner and model for many of his illustrations, including the Arrow collar man.
George Lucas has a collection of Leyendecker's work, which will be included in his Exposition Park museum.
Is ''rick" confused on this name?




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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 7680360)

Yeah, I'm not getting anything on any of my maps. I think an unnamed alley. Here's a detail from a much larger image I've posted before...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Za...366-h768-rw-no

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 7671504)

Pretty convenient to both the Shasta and the Norfolk would have been Edie's Bar--or a version of it-- Edie's being owned by a woman who killed her rich twin sister, assuming her identity...figuring into the late-noir film Dead Ringer that we've discussed here before....



https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8m...aog=w1366-h768


Views looking south on Figueroa... the apartment houses would have been a block or so over the hill or under the Temple Street overpass. The arrow in the image below indicates the door bar-owner Edie is about to enter...her sister's chauffeur has just dropped some crucial information.... Cranes for the DWP building, under construction during filming, rise above the driver's head in the shot above. The controversial DaVinci apartments are now on the site of the bar.

Originally Posted by Lorendoc (Post 7680472)

Driving into work today, I encountered the following: Someone's back yard, patio, and retaining wall slid 100 feet down to the roadway. The source of the slide, 8189 Gould Ave., was red-tagged. It was built in 1926/9 says the assessor. (Houses lost to landslides are relatively rare, right?).
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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7680990)

This Julius Shulman set is simply titled "The Penthouse". It's "Job 3648: Kenneth Lind, The Penthouse (Santa Monica, Calif.), 1963". There are two color shots in the set, but I've stuck with the black & white.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7680990)

Rather than posting loads of other pictures, here's a short video.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7680990)

"M.A.M.E. Award for Best High-rise Unit Plans"

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7679899)

When I saw the first thumbnail of this Julius Shulman set, I thought it was the Lytton Savings Bank on Sunset Boulevard. It's actually "Job 3791: William H. Harrison, Monte Vista High School (Whittier, Calif.), 1964".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

This appears to be a different building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Now the black & white images. I've left out a different angle on this corner. The only extra information it gives is that the little object at the front of the roof is a cluster of lights.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

There's only one interior shot.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

As far as I can tell, the Monte Vista High School was only open from 1964 (Wikipedia) or 1965 (article below) until 1979. The following is from a blog post at My Whittier:

Back in 1978 the Whittier Union High School District’s board of trustees met and made a landmark decision that would change the landscape of Whittier forever: the closure of Sierra High School and Monte Vista High School.

This decision completely changed the make-up of the district forever. Sierra High School, located at 9401 Painter Avenue, was only open from 1957 – 1979. It will always be linked forever with Monte Vista High School, located at 11515 S. Colima Road which was open from 1965-1979.

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Monte Vista High School, whose school nickname was the “Mustangs”, was located on the south side of Whittier. It was eventually sold to the Los Angeles County and is the location of the Sherriff’s [sic] academy.

I've compared the current buildings to those that were there in 1973 (the first Historic Aerials image after 1964), and they all seem to be original. The site still appears to be the Explorer Training Academy at the Sheriff’s Training Academy and Regional Services (STARS) Center. Unfortunately, the building with the zig-zag roof is now hard to see from the road. Where's that chainsaw, GW?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7680989)

Artist's model and best friend of J C Leyendecker...Charles Beach died in 1952. I don't believe there was any connection between famous model Beach and Nesbit.

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 6872620)

Ask and ye shall receive!

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7531/...9c87a2a9_h.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7530/...5d2b21fc_h.jpg

(Not that I'm the seller of this eBay item; I just like to keep one on my desk at all times!)

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7681154)

None, but wondering if there was any family connection between Charles and Grant.

Norman Rockwell was obsessed w/ Leyendecker. More here

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7681154)

BTW, it's the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Nesbit's death today. She's buried at Holy Cross in Culver City.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KW...AI4=w1366-h768
heaven...

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7680853)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ef...Q8o=w1366-h768
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7681405)

:previous: Well that's serendipitous! Evelyn Nesbit finally makes her debut on NLA & it's the 50th anniversary of her death.
The noirish Gods are smiling. Glad you noticed the date t2.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7681405)

And sadly, there's this....

"The sparsely attended funeral of Evelyn Nesbit at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Brentwood, Jan. 20, 1967."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/jtW5xa.jpg
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...y-photo-2.html

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7681405)

Here's a second photograph of Evelyn, this time wearing her artist's smock, from around the same time period.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/keBfWX.jpg
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...y-photo-2.html

" Evelyn Nesbit is "shown working over a bust she created. She has a booth at the ceramics show at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, July 30, 1954." -latimes_blog
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Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 7680633)

I can only vouch for the numerous Banana trees (Musa). At this distance, some of the others look kind of Ficus-y--not the usual Ficus nitida or benjamina, but maybe youthful macrophylla or something close. Ficuses of various sorts had a long vogue (I think of the ones in the L.A. Plaza, and at Pt. Fermin Park, some even manage to hang on in the disused portion of PFP); but in the long term they're fairly destructive, and in the short term they're messy. The wispy things feebly trying to cover up the church/auditorium are likely Eucalyptus citriodora.

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7680502)

Does anyone know anything about the Pollyanna Club?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vU...GOs=w1366-h768
Los Angeles Herald, Number 37, 14 December 1920

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7681465)

I was confused by her son's quote from that LAT article:

"She was rediscovered by a Times reporter in 1954 at a Long Beach art show, where she displayed a sculpted nude bust of a young girl.

"My mother hated her nude sculptures and never allowed them in our house," Russell Thaw said."

Do you think he meant his grandmother? Mrs Nesbit was torn between her puritanical disapproval of Evelyn's modeling for artists and her stage appearances and the family's need for the money it brought in. She may have not liked undraped statuary either.