noirish Los Angeles

[ethereal_reality]

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Here's the other side I was talking about. (facing the Third Street Promenade)



Oh my. Where to begin.

Notice how he decided to add ONE balcony.

[ethereal_reality]

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OK, I'm done being cruel.

Let's look waaaaaay in the past, shall we.

And it's a mystery location!


eBay..Cala-Myrna Rug Works, Los Angeles

The address appears to be on the truck but it's difficult to read.


Here's a acloser look.



hmmm. .maybe the second part is a phone number

oops, I just noticed the 653 on the little shack - so that is a phone number on the truck.




Sally forth my noirish steeds! ..
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[HossC]

Cala-Myrna Rug Works, Robt Elliott prop, 653 Santa Fe av

From the 1915 CD

It looks like there are members of the Elliot family in the photo.

[JimCraig]

3100 pages as of today - congratulations!

[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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And it's a mystery location!


eBay..Cala-Myrna Rug Works, Los Angeles


oops, I just noticed the 653 on the little shack - so that is a phone number on the truck.

Here's those phone numbers from the side of the truck you were looking for e_r.



cdnc.ucr.edu - Los Angeles Herald, 31 March 1914



Anyone spot the Guilty Man, I mean the Not Guilty Man ... I mean the Guilty Man in the picture who would burglarize the premises in 1919?




Mr. Loman Elliott -






archive.org - Los Angeles Times 1919-09-18

[AlvaroLegido]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Oh my. Where to begin.
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I had never thought of that : too many shapes in a building create unease. Even if they are not bad like on this one. Thanks E-R for your remark.

[riichkay]

Norwalk Blvd. and Telegraph Rd., 1957....photos courtesy Santa Fe Springs City Library.






Same intersection, this one is dated 1960.

[Martin Pal]

I'm glad we don't see oil wells around like back in the day. When I see pictures like these I feel grimy. I can't recall the film title right now, but it was made in 1962. There's a scene of a husband and wife, Glynis Johns I think, having marital issues and they're on a sandy beach with dozens of oil wells behind them. Who'd want to go to a beach like that? So picturesque.

[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.

[odinthor]

I vote Huntington Beach. The curve of the beach is right (looking towards Seal Beach and Long Beach), and I well remember the oil derricks there.

[ethereal_reality]

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This just showed up on eBay

Whomever wrote the description had a flair for writing...I like that 'skyscrapers' are mentioned.


eBay
LAFD - Truck Co. No. 7 - May 29, 1915

[sadykadie2]

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir

The Centrum Building at 3575 Cahuenga Blvd.

Designed by Johannes Van Tilburg of Santa Monica, built in 1983.

Description in the L.A. Times in 1993:

"Looking as if it's going to topple right onto the Hollywood Freeway, this office complex (formerly the Valley State Bank) was awarded a lemon in 1991 for worst architecture by the American Planning Assn. and the American Institute of Architects. The only other lemon awarded in the Valley was to the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum.

This long, red-bricked building is the length of a football field, and most of its five stories seem to lean precariously toward the road. A wall of black glass juts out over the trendy L'Express restaurant on the first floor, and the upper floors have balconies."
flickr.com - jann_on



Google Street View

Most would call it "Brutalist". I'd call it ugly

[Mackerm]

I'm so excited. Today I found one of these babies in the wild!

Mackerm's own photo.

Originally Posted by Mackerm

I was always fascinated by these two apartment buildings.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1270...7i13312!8i6656
See those hubcap sized circles beside the chimneys? Those were Gold Medallion plaques which indicated the buildings were electric only - none of that relic of the 19th century, natural gas.

Then one day the plaques were gone.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1269...7i13312!8i6656

I always wondered if somebody swiped them or if the owner made the unpardonable sin of providing cheaper utilities for the tenants. Also, I don't think I've ever seen giant medallions like these anywhere else. From what I've read, the all-electric gold medallions were small medals or decals or special doorbells. Has anybody else seen one of the giant plaques attached to a building?

Here's what they looked like:

Huntington
Ribbon cutting and presentation of Medallion Home award. 4/1/1963

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Can anyone tell me what these places where - or who they belonged to?



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I didn't have much luck with numbers 2-4, which don't seem to have survived until the 1888 Sanborn map was published. However,
I believe number 1 is actually 47 and 51 (after 1890, 361 and 367) Buena Vista.

Here's a wider shot c. 1875 looking west at Buena Vista, with the homes' pre-1890 addresses above. In the center foreground is the
Congregational Church on New High Street, with the 2-story Kimball Mansion behind and to the right. To the right of the Kimball's
second story, at the image's right edge, is a bit of house #2 from e_r's photo:



487383 @ HDL


This is the 1888 Sanborn, with the same homes marked. The old Bilderrain adobe at the NW corner of BV and Temple is at upper left.
Not to digress, but the Kimball Mansion must have been turned around because its address changed from 131 New High in 1887 to
34 Buena Vista (across from 35) in 1888:



ProQuest via LAPL

Anyway, figuring out who built 47 and 51 Buena Vista led me to the builders of 35, 39, and 43 as well. As far as I can tell, they were:

35: J. S. Crawford, Dentist
39: Henry Starr
43: Dr. Newton P. Richardson (returned to Texas in 1882)
47: Dr. Joseph Kurtz
51: Jacob Phillips aka J. Philippi (they appear to be the same person)


43 (or, after 1890, 355) Buena Vista is Lot 3 in Block C, Fort Hill Tract, as shown on the 1910 Baist Map:



February 1, 1874, Los Angeles Daily Star @ Newspapers.com


51 (or, after 1890, 367) Buena Vista is Lot 5 in Block C, Fort Hill Tract, as shown on the 1910 Baist Map:



June 7, 1874, Los Angeles Herald @ Newspapers.com




March 8, 1874, Los Angeles Evening Express @ Newspapers.com




November 30, 1874, Los Angeles Evening Express @ Newspapers.com




March 3, 1878, Los Angeles Daily Star @ Newspapers.com


These are all from the 1883-84 Atwood LA City Directory:



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[ethereal_reality]

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F A N T A S T I C ..P O S T,... Flyingwedge!

I was thinking about this very image last night when I was looking through my recent posts. Impressive research.




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[ethereal_reality]

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Good news, noirishers...I have a mystery location.


SIP - N - BITE,... Los Angeles County.


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And the cozy interior.












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[ethereal_reality]

oops. I forgot this.


eBay

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[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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SIP - N - BITE,... Los Angeles County.


eBay

This picture is also included in that ebay auction.




It shows more clearly the SIP-N-BITE next door to a Abe's Liquor Store.

That particular Abe's is still selling liquor at 122 Sumner Avenue in Avalon, Catalina Island.


To the right in this 2016 street view.


Google Street View

[ethereal_reality]

By jove I think you got it, Noir Noir.


Is this supposed to be a cork popping out of the liquor bottle?




I just rechecked eBay and there is also a double exposure included with the Sip - N - Bite snapshots.


eBay

So I take it Peggy's Sweet Shop is also somewhere in Avalon?

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[Martin Pal]

Something I did not know or ponder before is that Catalina is part of Los Angeles County.