Mini-Ferris Wheel, Chinatown, Los Angeles (no date)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/htcOIv.jpg
Rinzi Ruiz at https://www.flickr.com/photos/48029767@N08/8279990353

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aerial view of the pool at the Hotel Figueroa.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/m1hAfg.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/okRFP2.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/michae...n/photostream/

I don't believe I've ever seen a coffin-shaped pool before.


We visited the pool area back in April.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27871

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'mystery' location.

Hollywood Calif. 1922
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/MqDVho.png
eBay

I'm guessing that this small lunch counter might have been located on Highland Avenue since the sign says...Hi-Land.
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Hoping the BRS (building records system) could provide more information about the long forgotten Kodak Building at 643 S Hill, but there is evidently "no matching record." The 643 address is listed in the '29 -'42 CDs. The trail goes cold after that. No luck with 645 either. :shrug:

Love the electric sign E-R. (That kind of stuff is why I always go ' round the back of the building- the front gets a facelift, the back is left alone)

All I have in my notes is that Los Angeles Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. bought the building in September 1953 (they'd been tenants since 1941) and altered it beyond recognition by June 1954 with the help of architects Douglas Honnold and John Rex & Associates

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...man9-20-53.jpg LAT 9-20-53

"We consider downtown Los Angeles one of the nation's bright spots"

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...man6-27-54.jpg LAT 6-27-54

I don't know when the remuddled building was demolished; the bank was there through 1966 for sure, but after that all I could find was this saying the existing 1-story jewlery store at 645 S. Hill was under construction in November 1983:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...2011-20-83.jpg LAT 11-20-83

The old Kodak Building is visible on the 1964 aerial image below, but it appears to be a parking lot by 1972.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...s.jpg~original
Historic Aerials

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...0gas.jpg?gl=USLinda Hammonds


I'm not sure what's going on with the "watery" top of this image, but the information provided says this unusual gas station was at 830 S La Brea in Inglewood. I don't remember seeing this on NLA before...as for repeats in general-- no reason to delete newer posts just because someone else has come across the subject before (no contest here for being first, is there?). If I remember having seen something before and can find it, I sometimes will re-post a link to the prior post so all that's been dug up on a subject can be looked at together. As for the Perelson murder house, I was hoping someone could find the additional pages after ER's initial post that when searched for resulted in a phishing-scam alert on my particular computer.

I found Kwik Lunch in the CDs between 1926 and 1929, including two addresses on N Highland. I couldn't match any of the present-day locations to the photo above.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AKwikLunch.jpg
LAPL

nice to have that date pinned down better.

This site has a loop of a 2-3 second color film of Bob's with the props going: http://twostriptechnicolor.tumblr.co...s-angeles-june

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../wilsire39.jpg
I had this photo in my files, unattributed (I've spent an hour trying to figure out my source for it without success, LAPL I thought) c. 1939- before about April 1940 anyway as the White Spot is still The White Spot at 5467. It looks like some sort of wall or foundation going up there that I don't remember seeing when Bob's was there.

Mobile Gas sign, no wall (c. 1938)
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-cocktails.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00007/00007141.jpg

Love that airplane gas station. What could be more cool. We need more of those today.!!!:tup::D;) It looks like at one point in time they elevated the tail to make the
plane sit more level.

No lunch served today
 

I think HossC found the right location. The photo below is from 1714 Highland. The entry has changed position, but it looks like the same building. The footprint looks right, and the boarded-up area above the door looks the same. I'm guessing that the building on the far right is also the same.

http://imageshack.com/a/img537/4539/lPz5Zg.jpg

This guy is 18?

I haven't been able to find evidence yet of a bowling alley on Hollywood Blvd. at the address given--6624 Hollywood Blvd.

I did, though, find a couple sources that another bodybuilder had one of his gym locations at that address: Bert Goodrich.

http://static.flickr.com/37/78711109_59df5e9740_o.jpg1947 Project

The Kress Department Store is at 6608 Hollywood Blvd. and you can see down the street a ways it looks like a sign for "Goodrich Gyms."

An interesting (!) Steve Reeves story and about this gym:
http://www.pcdon.com/_20_Bert_Goodrich.html


I'm guessing this bowling alley they are talking about is the LA CIENEGA LANES Bowling Alley on La Cienega and Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood?

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8295/7...46bbd21421.jpgFlickr

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7276/7...149979fd_h.jpgFlickr

I did a post titled "100 Years of 1 Corner of the City" found HERE, in which I showed what was located there for the last 100 years.

I recently found this photo of the La Cienega Lanes. The caption was only "La Cienega Lanes" and wasn't dated. It opened with that name in the 40's, subsequently became Art Linkletter's La Cienega Lanes and returned to La Cienega Lanes before it closed down around 1976-77. I'm dating this photo c.1975.

I had no idea of this noir past, CBD.

http://www.michaelvarhol.com/wordpre...ga-Lanes_W.jpgMichael V. Gallery

Thanks for the Kwik Lunch follow-up, Albany NY.


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These two are taken from a 1946 color film at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-2_LA_color
NB. archive.org have updated their site, so just click to continue to the new site if prompted and the video will appear.

I've previously linked to it in post #24381 and post #24774.

Thanks, CityBoyDoug. That explains a line in the 'Sweet Transvestite' song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show:

Let me show you around,
Maybe play you a sound.
You look like you're both pretty groovy.
Or if you want something visual,
That's not too abysmal,
We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie.

I'm obviously not the only one who wasn't aware of his work, because some of the audience participation scripts follow the last line with a shout of "Who the f*** is Steve Reeves?". :)

Undated, Sphinx Rock at what used to be called Iverson Ranch.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0
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http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/4916



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Much more on the Sphinx and its cinematic history here: http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.co...n-of-gods.html


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5a4oXRi6q...m+Colorado.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5a4oXRi6q...m+Colorado.jpg


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E5CnrEGnzV...os+Angeles.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E5CnrEGnzV...os+Angeles.jpg

Thanks for clearing that up about the photos BifRayRock, I was going crazy trying to find it again and it's right under my nose. :koko:

I could watch those little film loops all day.

I have some info on 6624. It was the Cinema Sports Center, opened Nov 1940 and was operating through 1954 at least.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...sports6624.jpg
LAT 11-14-40

It featured a cafe, a gift shop, the Pacific Health Club (baths, sunlamps, massage, body building), and of course bowling (open all night). It had one of those Gruen neon clocks out front.

Before Cinema took over it was retail space, housing Leed's Shoes among others.

Woman walking just past Leeds c. 1937

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...37%20leeds.jpg
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00007/00007797.jpg


There's a great color photo of it in Jim Heinmann's 2009 hardcover book Los Angeles: Portrait of a City (a lot of NLAers probably own this one)
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...inmannbook.jpg (In this case you can judge a book by its cover)


Finally, I doubt he spend as much time in a gym as Mr. California, but how about an unheradled great physique of Hollywood?

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e_edited-1.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm17506365...f_=nm_phs_md_4

Joe E. Brown (here with his wife c. 1951, so he was 59-ish here). Plus by anything I’ve read, a genuinely nice guy.

Jerry/Daphne could do worse. :)