noirish Los Angeles

[BDiH]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Here's another mystery location I happened upon this afternoon on eBay.

"Vtg 1970s B&W Photo Hardware Store Fire Hollywood Los Angeles CA Fire Truck 8x10"


eBay

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Hollywood Central Hardware, 1636 N. Cherokee Avenue, a few doors down from Steve Boardner's. Wally White was the long time manager until the fire destroyed the store. It was a first class, customer friendly hardware store and a fixture in Hollywood for decades.

[KevinW]

This was shot just north of Dockweiler Beach. I had it in my Surfridge Documentary but it's just a few shots where you see the Playa Del Rey bluffs with the houses in the background. The oil wells you see are the ones furthest south in Venice on what's now the Marina peninsula. Here's a link to the scene I uploaded to Youtube.

https://youtu.be/KYC1bNn9QmU?si=MOotFkKBXwo5BK-S

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

OK, I found it from looking up Glynis Johns on IMDB. It's called The Chapman Report. This is Glynis above with, I believe Ty Hardin. IMDB doesn't name a specific filming location for the beach scenes, but they list all of the filming locations to be in Southern California, though the film takes place outside of San Francisco. So I wonder where this beach was.



The film's largely forgotten, though there's a lot of pedigree behind it. It's based on an Irving Wallace novel, inspired by The Kinsey Report, and it's detailing of the sex lives of 4 women. It was directed by George Cukor, Leonard Rosenman the score, Orry-Kelly the costumes and was produced by Richard F. and Darryl D. Zanuck.

And it has a lot of well-known people in the cast -- Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Glynis Johns (these 4 women each have a sexual hangup in the film ranging from frigidity to nymphomania). There's also Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ray Danton, Ty Hardin, Andrew Duggan, John Dehner, Chad Everett, Cloris Leachman, Lesley Anne Warren (a young child) and Roy Roberts. Harold J. Stone is also in the film, a character actor you'd definitely recognize from dozens of movies and TV series. He got a Supporting Actor Golden Globe nomination for this movie. So did George Cukor (Director) and Glynis Johns (Best Actress). The film also did for Best Film - Drama.

The film is also in color, by the way.

[Lwize]

Sometimes I hate this place.

Now I'm craving an Orange Julius!

Seems all the Orange Julius's (and Dairy Queen / Orange Julius locations) in the LA area are permanently closed.

I know the "secret recipe" but don't have the ingredients to make my own.

Grrrrrrr.

[Scott Charles]

Originally Posted by Lwize

Sometimes I hate this place.

Now I'm craving an Orange Julius!

Seems all the Orange Julius's (and Dairy Queen / Orange Julius locations) in the LA area are permanently closed.

I know the "secret recipe" but don't have the ingredients to make my own.

Grrrrrrr.

Lwize, how similar to Orange Julius is Orange Bang?

I loved Orange Julius as a kid, but haven't had one in many, many years, maybe decades. My mom used to take me to the Orange Julius that shared a parking lot with the Sears store at Laurel Canyon and Victory.

It was somewhere in this group of stores on the right side of this Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1881...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

All these years later, I can't recall how similar Orange Julius is to Orange Bang. I've read that Orange Julius is frothier, and has more of a vanilla flavor.

FWIW, Orange Bang can be found at various family-owned restaurants (typically, Greek-owned “Tommy's” knockoffs), and many 7/11s (where I buy one every few days).

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by KevinW

This was shot just north of Dockweiler Beach. I had it in my Surfridge Documentary but it's just a few shots where you see the Playa Del Rey bluffs with the houses in the background. The oil wells you see are the ones furthest south in Venice on what's now the Marina peninsula. Here's a link to the scene I uploaded to Youtube.

https://youtu.be/KYC1bNn9QmU?si=MOotFkKBXwo5BK-S

Thanks for that, KevinW!

[ScottyB]

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

Lwize, how similar to Orange Julius is Orange Bang?

I loved Orange Julius as a kid, but haven't had one in many, many years, maybe decades. My mom used to take me to the Orange Julius that shared a parking lot with the Sears store at Laurel Canyon and Victory.

It was somewhere in this group of stores on the right side of this Google Street View:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1881...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

All these years later, I can't recall how similar Orange Julius is to Orange Bang. I've read that Orange Julius is frothier, and has more of a vanilla flavor.

FWIW, Orange Bang can be found at various family-owned restaurants (typically, Greek-owned “Tommy's” knockoffs), and many 7/11s (where I buy one every few days).

As a teen I would go to the Orange Julius in the car wash lot at California and Arroyo Pky in Pasadena (sorry, couldn't find a pic). We were under the impression that a real Orange Julius contained raw egg. Seems sketchy now, but those were different times.

[Snix]

Originally Posted by Lwize

Sometimes I hate this place.

Now I'm craving an Orange Julius!

Seems all the Orange Julius's (and Dairy Queen / Orange Julius locations) in the LA area are permanently closed.

I know the "secret recipe" but don't have the ingredients to make my own.

Grrrrrrr.

Me too! Maybe I'll hit one of the FOUR remaining L.A. locations this week.


https://orangejulius.com/en-us/locations/

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by BDiH

Hollywood Central Hardware, 1636 N. Cherokee Avenue, a few doors down from Steve Boardner's. Wally White was the long time manager until the fire destroyed the store.
It was a first class, customer friendly hardware store and a fixture in Hollywood for decades.

Thanks for your help, BDiH....As always I appreciate it.


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[ethereal_reality]

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SUNSET BLVD. 1977


nick faitos / flickr

"This is looking west on Sunset from Queens Road, near La Cienega Boulevard. Most everything here is intact except the prominent building at left, the 192 Peterson Publishing HQs
that demolished in early 2014."

I'm surprised such a large mid-century building was torn down. So what -pray tell- took its place? I drove around in the area (via the google-mobile) and I wasn't able to figure out the right spot.

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