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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/zxiMNa.jpg YOUTUBE I think the person that design the (non-rotating) spiked orb also designed this costume.;) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/dVeCEp.jpg PRETTYCLEVERFILMS from Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan [1930] __ |
Meanwhile....a few hundred feet east on Melrose.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/iHdeAs.jpg IMDB "Clark Gable with William Pearlberg on the Paramount Studios Lot, c.1957." As most of you no doubt know...the caption is incorrect. Clark is signing his autograph on the northwest corner of Melrose and Irving Blvd. __ p.s. Paramount has closed this section of Irving. (so it is part of the studio now...but it wasn't in 1957) The curved building behind Clark is still standing...as is the white bldg with the peaked roof down the street. (it looks like two buildings, but it's actually one) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/jNANsI.jpg GSV The clipper ship = Bank of America __ |
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I was going to sign off for the night but I have one more a question.
Does anyone know what's hidden within this cluster of trees? [southwest corner of Melrose and Irving Blvd.] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/2ZumFb.jpg I've noticed this corner several times before...but can't remember if I ever got around to asking the question. It's directly across the street from the building Clark Gable was standing in front of in the 1957 photograph. (lower right corner in the pic below) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/RkEy5o.jpg My kingdom for an old photograph of this corner before all the trees update: I found a street number...it looks like 5426. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/Hcafng.jpg _ |
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Two can be found on the West side of Highland between West 4th and Wilshire. This one is between West 4th & West 6th. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/981/4...efe91774_c.jpg My photo: January 15, 2018. A few more are scattered along West 3rd Street in Hancock Park. This one is on the North side of West 3rd, between Las Palmas & McCadden. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/971/2...672de40f_c.jpg And the close-up ... https://farm1.staticflickr.com/951/2...3540c651_h.jpg My photos: July 27, 2015 |
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The website Rare Historical Photographs dates the photo as being from 1938, but I have serious doubts about that date - as well as the alleged "troupe" itself. This photo was brought to my attention years ago as being a photo of the Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties. Clearly, they are not the MSBBs, but the photo piqued my interest so I did some research on it (I can't find my research now!). What I found was as follows: due to the popularity of the Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties, other studios tried to copy Sennett's success. Fox created their own “Sunshine Girls”; there were the “Christie Studio’s Bathing Beauties”; Sennett rival Hal Roach created the “Hal Roach Bathing Girls”; even tiny Balshofer Studios had their own troupe of bathing beauties: https://i.imgur.com/5IUwAOn.jpgLINK According to various online sources, the photo was originally captioned "RKO Pictures Chorus Girls". They were alleged to have been RKO's entry into the bathing beauty fray. And that's where things go astray. In short, 1938 seems awfully late for a troupe of studio beauties. After all, the Mack Sennett beauties had taken their final bow in 1928, ten years earlier. In addition, the photo just doesn't look like 1938. Virtually all of the girls are sporting 1920s finger wave hair styles, a decidedly antiquated style for any woman to wear in 1938 - let alone such fashion-conscious professional models as the ladies in the rooftop photo: https://i.imgur.com/FnSxiqa.jpg In addition, virtually all of the girls are wearing Mary Jane style shoes, which saw their heyday in the 1920s: https://i.imgur.com/Xvdqg5j.jpg Lastly, these cars appear to be 1920s vehicles: https://i.imgur.com/LABfeMy.jpg All of these clues lead me to believe that this photo is from the 1920s, not 1938. On the other hand, the girls' outfits are surprisingly short (i.e., high cut) for the 1920s. After all, women were getting arrested for wearing much less-revealing clothing in the 1920s, as a 1922 law mandated that women's clothing could reveal nothing higher than six inches above the knee: https://i.imgur.com/zxQaRfM.gifLINKhttps://i.imgur.com/jLarXMC.jpg These laws prohibiting short skirts/shorts/bathing suits were generally abolished by 1930. Seeing as how the outfits of professional bathing beauties would generally be more risqué than the outfits of the public at large, I would estimate the rooftop photo as being shot circa 1928/1929. https://i.imgur.com/V8WiN5W.jpg But as I said, I have my doubts. RKO Studios was formed in October 1928, at which time they moved into the Robert Brunton studio, which is the same location as the modern day Paramount Studios. This means that the photo could not have been taken before 1928, which is fine. But a Google search for “Radio Pictures Chorus Girls” reveals exactly ZERO results, other than in captions for this photo - and ALL of them appear to be quoting the same source, the “Rare Historical Photographs” website. This leads me to believe that the girls did not constitute a troupe, and were in fact simply what the caption reads: chorus girls who worked for Radio Pictures. |
Paramount before it was Paramount
Paramount before it was Paramount - Brunton Studios, 1918:
https://i.imgur.com/9nbq0uP.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/4373 https://i.imgur.com/F6i1fXX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ckJone8.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/4375 https://i.imgur.com/fzC3KNu.jpg And here is Billy Clune's Studio, the same building the arrow points at in the photo above: https://i.imgur.com/l5AYv7h.jpg http://hollywoodphotographs.com/blog...movie-studios/ Billy Clune is known to LA Noirishers as the namesake of Clune's Auditorium, on the north side of Pershing Square. https://i.imgur.com/LTZV4lH.jpgLINK https://i.imgur.com/K4ApFXK.jpgLINK Billy Clune was the man behind many famous Los Angeles theaters: https://i.imgur.com/UP57il4.jpgLINK More about Billy Clune here: https://sites.google.com/site/downto...theatres/cameo |
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The website homeyou.com says that Rustiques Design And Construction was established in 1983, and implies that they've been in business for 35 years. The company is certainly listed at 5426 Melrose in the 1987 CD. So far, my searches for an exterior shot without trees have come to nothing. |
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We've seen the Arcadia Roller Ride before, but maybe not with such detail. Also do not recall it called the "Thompson Gravity Switchback" or"pleasure coaster". https://78.media.tumblr.com/e2316a8f...muoo1_1280.jpghttps://78.media.tumblr.com/e2316a8f...muoo1_1280.jpg https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...oaster_big.jpghttps://news.nationalgeographic.com/...oaster_big.jpg http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...DMX=0&DMY=0&DMhttp://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...X=512&DMY=0&DM http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...X=0&DMY=512&DMhttp://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...512&DMY=512&DMhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...coll2/id/19483 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...DMX=0&DMY=0&DMhttp://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...X=512&DMY=0&DM http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...X=0&DMY=512&DMhttp://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...512&DMY=512&DMhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...coll2/id/16656 |
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The aerial below is from August 2, 1927, and shows the area just before RKO came into being. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LARKO1927.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu There don't seem to be any UCSB aerials from the 1930s, so here's one from December 22, 1941. The curved building from e_r's Clark Gable photo is already present, but the site of the mystery building opposite looks like a gas station here. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LARKO1941.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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https://i.imgur.com/EXxHaC5.jpg Calisphere Alice Bag on the roof of the Canterbury in 1977 - https://i.imgur.com/MuF7wDn.jpg Red Bull Music Academy Life at The Canterbury - http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com...erbury-feature Built in 1929 and nowadays under the moniker of the Alexa Artiste Apartments - https://i.imgur.com/4iO7Bdh.jpg GSV Pleasant Gehman found her perfect punk flophouse at 1553 Cassil Place. It came to be known as Disgraceland. Quote:
https://i.imgur.com/dWNb3CL.jpg Pleasant Gehman Blog Disgraceland made a brief appearance in the 1988 film The Boost starring James Wood and Sean Young. SCREENSHOT Behind a hedge these days - https://i.imgur.com/vIJlLiZ.jpg GSV Trudie Arguelles and Helen Killer, also in the picture, pitched up at 1053 N La Jolla Ave at the corner with Santa Monica Blvd and close to the Starwood concert venue. Their apartment dubbed the Plunger Pit also became a hangout and party spot for local and visiting bands and fans. John Doe and Exene from the band X also had an apartment in the building. Trudie with The Zeros outside the Plunger Pit in 1978 - https://i.imgur.com/EcwyrFe.jpg Punk Globe - Photobucket Forty years on - https://i.imgur.com/wuEuPkT.jpg GSV Another noted punk rendevous and party place was a then ramshakle 1915 build Craftsman duplex at 1845 N Wilton Place. Soon to be dubbed the Wilton Hilton, it was home to Tomata Du Plenty and Tommy Gear of The Screamers. Another resident for a period was Kid Congo Powers who lived in one of the closets. Pleasant Gehman recalling one of the parties at the Wilton Hilton - Quote:
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Ok, I'm putting out a call for help—
So they're tearing down this 1921 Walker & Eisen at 1303 W 7th today: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/912/2...7ebb27d6_o.png —thus I'm looking for a vintage shot that shows the NW corner of 7th & Witmer. Anybody find one? Thanks in advance! |
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Like these? Here's 7th and Witmer in 1929. Exterior: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7thWitmer1.jpg Interior: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7thWitmer2.jpg Both from USC Digital Library Here's an even earlier shot. It also comes with an interior view similar to the one above. 7th & Witmer branch, Pacific-Southwest Bank, West 7th Street & Witmer Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1926 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7thWitmer3.jpg USC Digital Library |
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I did some snooping at 5426 Melrose Avenue today. There's a very interesting and mysterious building hidden behind those badly overgrown trees.
At the Melrose entrance, the globes of the lamps on either side of the door appear to have been broken for quite a long time. There is no doorknob or handle on the door. https://78.media.tumblr.com/7ede0078...rtso1_1280.jpg Peering upward from the Melrose entrance: https://78.media.tumblr.com/7879eb22...rtso2_1280.jpg There are multiple nails sticking out of some of the boarded-up windows. https://78.media.tumblr.com/89424b22...rtso3_1280.jpg The trees are so overgrown that they're slowly destroying the wall around the property. https://78.media.tumblr.com/bef8dafc...rtso4_1280.jpg The view from Irving Blvd: https://78.media.tumblr.com/e6e84e12...rtso5_1280.jpg The entrance on Irving Blvd is badly rusted. https://78.media.tumblr.com/5e394715...rtso6_1280.jpg Peering upward from the sidewalk on Irving Blvd: https://78.media.tumblr.com/ce6f0091...rtso7_1280.jpg https://78.media.tumblr.com/77368000...rtso8_1280.jpg Toward the rear of the building there's a two-car garage. Could this have been a residence at some point? https://78.media.tumblr.com/a449af73...rtso9_1280.jpg The back of the property as seen from the alleyway. https://78.media.tumblr.com/bc3f3091...tso10_1280.jpg There are no signs anywhere indicating that a business exists inside. No signs of life at all, in fact. "The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis, out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion..." |
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If you use your imagination, part of the building vaguely resembles a green house. (if you squint, real hard) ;) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/btBO3N.jpg google_earth from this angle it's like peering down into a Escher print. :eeekk: __________________________________________ That was some serious SNOOPING Handsome Stranger. I owe you big time. even though it was broad daylight, did you get a little spooked? That place is creepy as hell. |
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