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[ethereal_reality]

'Mystery' location.



"Original Slide, LAMTA Los Angeles Interurban #1538 (ex Pacific Electric), 1961"


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I believe that's the United Artist building in the distance, but as you can see the street gradually veers to the right.

...and it isn't every day that you see an International Harvester dealer in Los Angeles.
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a bit of trivia:

Did you know the I and H in the logo is a highly stylized man driving a tractor?




Raymond Loewy: The International Harvester "IH" "Man on a tractor" logo, 1952.


My uncle uses International Harvesters on his farm in Illinois, so I'm a bit of a fan.

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[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'Mystery' location.


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a bit of trivia:

Did you know the I and H in the logo is a highly stylized man driving a tractor?




Raymond Loewy: The International Harvester "IH" "Man on a tractor" logo, 1952.


My uncle uses International Harvesters on his farm in Illinois, so I'm a bit of a fan.

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I didn't know that ER. I'm just a city boy, I guess..

[HenryHuntington]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'Mystery' location.



"Original Slide, LAMTA Los Angeles Interurban #1538 (ex Pacific Electric), 1961"


eBay

I believe that's the United Artist building in the distance, but as you can see the street gradually veers to the right.

...and it isn't every day that you see an International Harvester dealer in Los Angeles.
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LAMTA 1538 is eastbound on E. 9th St. at Ceres Ave.

[HenryHuntington]

Originally Posted by HossC

Thanks for finding the picture of Walmart's plans for the old Sears store in Compton, e_r. I skimmed through a couple of the articles on the subject, but wasn't sure whether Walmart were using the building or just the site. Maybe they'll even keep the flagpole.


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Here are some Julius Shulman photos of the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. The hospital is still there, but I couldn't match this exterior shot with Google's aerial views. It may well still be standing, but difficult to spot from the air. This is "Job 3747: Huntington Memorial Hospital (Pasadena, Calif.), 1964". NB. I've omitted the last image which just showed a ceiling with some lights.



This looks like a waiting area.




Both from Getty Research Institute

Thanks for posting these photos, Hoss. I just can't seem to avert my eyes from that handsome portrait of Yrs. Trly. on the opposite wall!

[JeffDiego]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

We go off course every day on this thread....and love it.

Yes, this may be beating a dead horse, but I wanted to chime in again and say that MrCory is right, the man with the extremely prominent nose is indeed Gilbert Adrian, who in this photo does have a striking profile resemblance to Oleg Cassini. It does make sense that Adrian is at the table with his wife, Janet Gaynor -- and Gaynor looks like Gaynor here to me. My opinion. As for the Jeffrey Lynn-looking man, Richard Ney...NOT! Ditto for the lady with hand to chin being Greer Garson.
I fully appreciate that some here don't find identifying old Hollywood personalities particularly interesting - and that the focus at NLA is LA history, architecture, and the general landscape, but it seems agreed here that those things are closely tied up with the movie industry and old Hollywood.

65.media.tumbir.com
Janet Gaynor and Gilbert Adrian



Jeffrey Lynn and wife Robin Chandler Duke 1946/47
newyorksocialdiary.com/legacy/./partypictures/02_08_16/cha
Is this the couple at the table with Adrian and Gaynor? You decide.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'Mystery' location.

"Original Slide, LAMTA Los Angeles Interurban #1538 (ex Pacific Electric), 1961"


eBay

I believe that's the United Artist building in the distance, but as you can see the street gradually veers to the right.

...and it isn't every day that you see an International Harvester dealer in Los Angeles.

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington

LAMTA 1538 is eastbound on E. 9th St. at Ceres Ave.

Just to add to HenryHuntington's location information, the piece of road nearest the camera (east of Gladys Avenue) is actually E Olympic Boulevard. The City Crate Co on the left was at 1000 E Olympic Boulevard, while International Harvester was at 1001 E Olympic Boulevard. Here's roughly the same view today. Up until around 2012, there were big trees along the left side of the street. They've now been replaced by saplings.


GSV

[odinthor]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'Mystery' location.



"Original Slide, LAMTA Los Angeles Interurban #1538 (ex Pacific Electric), 1961"


eBay

I believe that's the United Artist building in the distance, but as you can see the street gradually veers to the right.

...and it isn't every day that you see an International Harvester dealer in Los Angeles.
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a bit of trivia:

Did you know the I and H in the logo is a highly stylized man driving a tractor?




Raymond Loewy: The International Harvester "IH" "Man on a tractor" logo, 1952.


My uncle uses International Harvesters on his farm in Illinois, so I'm a bit of a fan.

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Ah, memories! My first vehicle was an International Harvester Scout, very much like this:


Wikipedia, under International Harvester Scout

You could practically live in the very welcome wide open spaces under the hood.

[JeffDiego]

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Earl Carroll Girls leaving from the Employee Entrance, about 1946.

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by riichkay

gettyimages
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Since I've seen this photo several times recently, in the interest of veering even more off course and assuming that everyone in a vague picture must (but just might) be an identifiable celebrity, , does anyone think the woman above the man's head identified as Don Defore (right of Judy Garland and left of Kay Thompson's hands) might be Rose Marie or possibly June Allyson?

[HossC]

Here's a small specialist retail store in Pasadena. Julius Shulman took these pictures in 1949. This is "Job 545: Love Shop (Pasadena, Calif.), 1949".



A different angle on the window display.



It looks like the interior mainly consisted of fitting booths.



Here's a peek inside one of the booths.



The final shot looks back out through the front window. I'm guessing that that's a passing streetcar blocking our view of the stores across the street.



All from Getty Research Institute

I found a couple of mentions of Lov-e in old newspapers. Apparently, they had "brassieres available in AA through GG cups . . . and all the in-between sizes. Never sold over the counter, but custom-shaped to fit you and you alone by our trained figure experts." What I didn't find was an address. Maybe this mirrored reflection from the second picture can help. I think the blade sign on the left says "Euclid Bldg", and there's a sign for "Dr Cowen Dentists" on the right. I found some later (1962) adverts for Dr Cowen at 18 N Euclid Avenue, but that area is now full of more recent buildings.


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[JeffDiego]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Since I've seen this photo several times recently, in the interest of veering even more off course and assuming that everyone in a vague picture must (but just might) be an identifiable celebrity, , does anyone think the woman above the man's head identified as Don Defore (right of Judy Garland and left of Kay Thompson's hands) might be Rose Marie or possibly June Allyson?

Definitely not June Allyson.

MIGHT be Rose Marie, but 40's photos I've seen of her show blonde hair, not light brown, but who knows? Probably a woman who resembles Rose Marie.

Here is the introductory "Hello Hello" number which is probably what Kay and the Boys are performing here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvOiSXYabY

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by odinthor

Ah, memories! My first vehicle was an International Harvester Scout, very much like this:


Wikipedia, under International Harvester Scout

That's a great first vehicle odinthor. My father drove International Scouts for many years on his rural mail route.

My cousin Bryan refurbished this one (it looks better now than when my dad drove it.


My photo


One more bit trivia:

From 1947 to the mid-50s the International Harvester Company produced refrigerators & freezers....and get this, you could chose a 'designer' cover for it!

ad from 1953.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/218495019393064092/



http://www.collectorsweekly.com/arti...tart-freezing/



"To further feminize its “femineered” refrigerators and freezers, IH offered “Color-Keyed” door handles and provided
instructions to help users match the doors of their refrigerators to, say, their drapes."


Just look at all the fabulous choices!


http://www.madmenart.com/vintage-adv...nal-harvester/
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I'm not sure what was being sold at the I.H. that appears in the 1961 slide. (1001 E. Olympic Blvd.....thanks for the address Hoss & HH!)
The only thing I was able find out is that it was at the Olympic location for just a short time....from 1958 to 1962. (so it closed a year after the slide was taken)

detail from the slide.




Here's the building in 2009


gsv

Since then the building has been painted over with various blues and advertisements for clothing.
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[ethereal_reality]

'mystery' location

(the same year as last night's 'mystery' slide) 1961



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"Original Slide, LAMTA Los Angeles Interurban #1525 (ex Pacific Electric), 1961"

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[ethereal_reality]

Original Negative for sale on eBay, 9/3/50

"Orig. 1950 2 3/8" x 4" Negative - Pacific Electric Cars on Storage Tracks"


http://www.ebay.com/itm/orig-1950-2-...QAAOSw-itXsNxG

I count seven side tracks!


info. written on the neg. sleeve



P.E. cars on storage tracks, front on street, Ocean Park car barn.
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[John Maddox Roberts]

Originally Posted by HossC

Here's a small specialist retail store in Pasadena. Julius Shulman took these pictures in 1949. This is "Job 545: Love Shop (Pasadena, Calif.), 1949".



A different angle on the window display.



It looks like the interior mainly consisted of fitting booths.



Here's a peek inside one of the booths.



The final shot looks back out through the front window. I'm guessing that that's a passing streetcar blocking our view of the stores across the street.



All from Getty Research Institute

I found a couple of mentions of Lov-e in old newspapers. Apparently, they had "brassieres available in AA through GG cups . . . and all the in-between sizes. Never sold over the counter, but custom-shaped to fit you and you alone by our trained figure experts." What I didn't find was an address. Maybe this mirrored reflection from the second picture can help. I think the blade sign on the left says "Euclid Bldg", and there's a sign for "Dr Cowen Dentists" on the right. I found some later (1962) adverts for Dr Cowen at 18 N Euclid Avenue, but that area is now full of more recent buildings.


Detail

I remember this place in Pasadena in the '50s. As kids we giggled every time we drove past it and even my mother thought an entire shop devoted to nothing but custom bras was pretty strange.

[GatoVerde]

I remember Rafu TV from the late 60s and early 70s. "Rafu" was a local Japanese term for "Los Angeles." I remember the black and white TVs at Rafu on day and night as a form of advertisement. From the register listed I also remember Escalante who ran the barber shop across the street in a brick building that also housed the Lorena Street Pharmacy on the corner of Whittier Blvd.

I don't know about addresses not conforming to the odd even rule for street sides so my guess is that the Blow-Inn may have been across the street, either in the aforementioned brick residential building, or perhaps just to the south of the alley where there still exists a small stand-alone building, previously Simons Shoe Repair. However, it gets complicated because the register also lists Rafu TV at 910, which could mean Rafu TV was originally across the street, perhaps in the same brick building.

I don't understand why addresses are enumerated inconsistently with the street number names. One would expect the 900 block of South Lorena to be somewhere around Ninth Street, but that would place the it somewhere near Olympic where addresses there are in the 1300-1400 range.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I don't believe we've seen the likes of the 'Blow Inn' on NLA.


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I believe the 'Blow Inn' might have been located in this rather interesting building with rounded corners and windows. (there's a small balcony hidden by the tree)




I didn't find the Blow Inn, but I found RAFU TV & Repairs (the sign is still on the building), at 910 S. Lorena.

1963 city directory






So I'm thinking 912 would have been in the smaller space beneath the balcony.


gsv



I have no explanation why the building is now numbered 913 . Do even and odd numbers ever switch sides of the street?
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[HenryHuntington]

Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts

I remember this place in Pasadena in the '50s. As kids we giggled every time we drove past it and even my mother thought an entire shop devoted to nothing but custom bras was pretty strange.

Thanks, JMR. That narrows the search to E. Colorado Blvd. between Fair Oaks and Lake Aves., S. Lake Ave. between Colorado and California Blvd., or Fair Oaks south of Colorado. Those are the only places where PE ran after 1941, and that appears to be a PE 1100 class car reflected in the store window.

[HenryHuntington]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'mystery' location

(the same year as last night's 'mystery' slide) 1961



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"Original Slide, LAMTA Los Angeles Interurban #1525 (ex Pacific Electric), 1961"

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LAMTA 1525 is eastbound on Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach. If someone can nail the location of the theater or identify the shop front of the car (Vinson's?), we'll know exactly where. The street sign looks to me like "Collins", but that area is completely unrecognizable today.

[odinthor]

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington

LAMTA 1525 is eastbound on Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach. If someone can nail the location of the theater or identify the shop front of the car (Vinson's?), we'll know exactly where. The street sign looks to me like "Collins", but that area is completely unrecognizable today.

We're on Ocean between Pine and Locust, looking north-ish (more like northwest). The tall brick building in the background is still there, "there" being the northeast corner of Pine and 1st. One can't get the same angle as in the vintage pic, due to new construction; so here for your delectation is the corner of Pine and 1st.


gsv

[ProphetM]

Originally Posted by HossC

Here's a small specialist retail store in Pasadena. Julius Shulman took these pictures in 1949. This is "Job 545: Love Shop (Pasadena, Calif.), 1949".

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I found a couple of mentions of Lov-e in old newspapers. Apparently, they had "brassieres available in AA through GG cups . . . and all the in-between sizes. Never sold over the counter, but custom-shaped to fit you and you alone by our trained figure experts." What I didn't find was an address. Maybe this mirrored reflection from the second picture can help. I think the blade sign on the left says "Euclid Bldg", and there's a sign for "Dr Cowen Dentists" on the right. I found some later (1962) adverts for Dr Cowen at 18 N Euclid Avenue, but that area is now full of more recent buildings.


Detail

Isn't that one of the corner towers of Pasadena City Hall reflected in the window? And two of the other towers as well. So, our view in the reflection is indeed looking up Euclid - apologies for the darn stoplight blocking the tower!


GSV

So, that puts Lov-E at what is now 372 or 374 E. Colorado, those being storefronts in the large Paseo Colorado shopping center building.