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[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

An added bonus.

Who is this lovely trio?


ABC

Originally Posted by nealberke

First on the left is Linda Evans with her trademark sweatband as seen on the Crystal Light TV commercials. It was the sweatband era. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002067/
Ann Jillian is in the center. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422713/bio/
Last on the right I am less sure about but I'll say is Jenilee Harrison. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365649/

Alamy confirms all three of your identifications.

[Scott Charles]

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir

And the winner of this "who is that celebrity battle" is ......... Erik Estrada!

The picture is from the lesser known international celebrity sport series US Against The World.

It ran for two editions in 1977 and 1978. The second edition is not listed on IMDB but Erik did take part in that second show.

He can be seen here with Dan Haggerty during the event. Scott Baio sports his US Against The World shirt with badge.



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Well done, Noir_Noir!

[Scott Charles]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Hows' about another Battle of the Network Stars CHALLANGE-




CBS


Good luck!

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Valerie Bertinelli • ???? • ???? • Jan Smithers
Gregory Harrison • ???? • Ed Asner • Howard Hesseman

[Lwize]

Clue: CBS shows

<3<3<3 Jan Smithers<3<3<3

[ethereal_reality]

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I believe the young lady on Lou Grant's Ed Asner's shoulders is Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton).


or Kristy McNichol (I'm hedging my bet)
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[Tehmeh]

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

Valerie Bertinelli • ???? • ???? • Jan Smithers
Gregory Harrison • ???? • Ed Asner • Howard Hesseman

The woman second from left is Kathryn Leigh Scott. I'm not sure what series she was on at this time, but she is best known from several roles (Maggie Evans, Josette, etc) from the 60s daytime series "Dark Shadows." I've met her at a few events and she is still a lovely lady.

[HossC]

Alamy also has a color version of this image with all the stars named.

[fullpower]

Originally Posted by HossC

Another John Margolies Roadside America photograph. The alternate view below is dated 1977. The title is given as "Mattoon Service Station (pre-fabricated), angle view, National & Washington Boulevards, Culver City". The number 8801 is visible over the door. In the photo above, Benhar Products is visible on the right with the number 8825. I found sources placing this at both 8825 National Boulevard and 8825 W Washington Boulevard.


www.loc.gov - larger image available at link

I grew up just a few blocks from there and when i was a small child that was a dirt lot with a texaco station and my dad would get gas there. there was a guy like Goober on Andy Griffith show that worked there. This photo brings back so many memories of my childhood and my dad. the building in the background is the old Mike Miller Toyota car lot and that area was once the Cotton Club nightclub back in the 1920s.

[fullpower]

Originally Posted by HossC

It's close to the intersection of Fox Hills Drive, so I'm guessing the cafe took its name from that.

Growing up in the area of Culver City, I heard that Fox Hills got its name from the Red-tailed foxes that were common in the area.

The Fox Hills Drive off of Pico most likely was named after Fox Studios founder William Fox as it went directly along the side of the studio property.

[ethereal_reality]

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mystery buildings and mystery vantage point.



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mystery building


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mystery building.



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I can't place it.

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[ethereal_reality]

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mystery vantage point.




Somewhere above old Chinatown.


We might have seen this one earlier in the thread.
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[odinthor]

e_r, your first of the just-posted series shows the intersection of Spring and Temple, with the old Post Office . . .


odinthor collection

. . . and across the street the International Savings and Exchange Bank Building, which stayed in place as the present City Hall was being built, in order to supply offices for the architects etc.


odinthor collection

Your photo was doubtless taken from the under-construction City Hall. It's especially interesting because we don't often see that stretch of the street behind the Post Office.

[ethereal_reality]

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Thanks, odinthor....I appreciate your help.

Am I correct to say the International Exchange was originally the Bank of Italy? (sounds weird, I know)

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[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Am I correct to say the International Exchange was originally the Bank of Italy? (sounds weird, I know)

Yes it was.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

mystery building.


eBay

I can't place it.

This is the Melrose Hotel located at 138 S Grand Avenue.

[ethereal_reality]

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Ah yes, we've seen it many times before. I should have recognized it.

Thanks for your help, Hoss.

[riichkay]

Here's an amatuer slide looking south down Vine St. from Franklin Ave., August 1953....photo is courtesy the poster ElectroSpark at Flickr.....








Feb. 2021 GSV


Of course, I had to examine the 1950 census for the Vine Manor Hotel to determine if any lodgers were showbiz types, either on the way up or on the way down....I found one name that required investigation....





Betty Jane Pettit has an IMDB page with a handful of credits....she appeared (and apparently performed a song) in a 1946 short featuring the bandleader Lawrence Welk....her "big" year was 1952 with 4 film appearances, all minor roles....she did a Three Stooges short called "Listen, Judge" that year, uncredited she played an "Attractive Blond Party Guest"....



....there's only one party scene in the film, and one young "attractive blond", so I am fairly certain that's Pettit to the left (screen grab from YouTube).


Also in '52 she appeared as a chorus girl in "Singin" in the Rain"....



....that might be her in the forefront, to the right of Debbie Reynolds.


Betty J. Pettit was born Betty Jane Sharp on Nov. 25 1922, at 808 N. Bonnie Beach Pl. in City Terrace (note that she informed the census enumerator she was 24 in 1950)....




....in '43 she was going by Betty Jane Reed (the name change was apparently not via a marriage), and she wed Herbert Beal Steadman Jr., a merchant mariner....





....in his 1940 draft registration card we find Steadman was a strapping 6 ft 183 lbs....




...I can't find the divorce from Steadman, but in '51 Pettitt remarried....note she claims no previous marriages, was the '43 union possibly annulled?...she also says she's still 24....




....at some point the Richard Lazar marriage dissolved, and in '57 Betty Jane Sharp/Reed/Steadman/Pettit/Lazar wed Bernard (born Goldstein) Girard....



She claims age 27 here....so she was 21 in '43, 24 in the '50 census, 24 in the '51 marriage, and 27 in '57.




Bernard Girard in an undated photo


Girard was a television and film director of little note, perhaps his only "major" film was the 1966 caper flick "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round", starring James Coburn, Camilla Sparv and Aldo Ray....it's maybe best remembered for the first on-screen appearance of Harrison Ford, he had a bit part as a bellhop.


The marriage to Girard ended in 1967...




Apparently she never married after the split with Girard, and I can't find a record of any children.....Betty Jane Sharp died in 1996 at age 74 (her birth year is misstated in this entry).....