noirish Los Angeles - Page 496

Los Angeles Past · #**9901** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 4:29 PM**

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GaylordWilshire · #**9902** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 4:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by rcarlton

Used the search function to see if anyone had posted much on the Los Angeles Herald Examiner building, came up with nothing.

Here are a few related posts found using the search engine here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=877

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=791

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4084

rcarlton · #**9903** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 5:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by ThreeHundred

I live on this block! A little further up the hill (433 Union Drive) I walk past this building every day.

Is it a nice place? Any noirish stories?

rcarlton · #**9904** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 5:13 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Here are a few related posts found using the search engine here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=877

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=791

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4084

I found those links with search but was hoping for more regarding construction, how it looks today and plans for the building.

GaylordWilshire · #**9905** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 5:41 PM**

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may...level-20120523

GaylordWilshire · #**9906** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 6:27 PM**

Opening night, 1915

Under construction, 1913

A Sanborn of the plot:

All http://cityplanning.lacity.org

Morgan usually gets all the credit for the building, but J. Martyn Haenke's and William Dodd's probable contributions should be considered.

ethereal_reality · #**9907** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 6:35 PM**

Nice posts guys, the Los Angeles Examiner building is one of my favorites.
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Jan. 1, 1972 downtown Los Angeles.

ebay

I've never heard of this tradition.
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ProphetM · #**9908** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 7:11 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

A Sanborn of the plot:

All http://cityplanning.lacity.org

For a good view of what's left today on the top half of that Sanborn map, check out season 6, episode 20 of NCIS, "Dead Reckoning". The press building (built in the late 1940s) was torn down in anticipation of residential towers that were never built, and the construction site scenes early in the episode were shot there. At the end of the ep, the final shootout scene was filmed in the alley/driveway between the Herald-Examiner building and the office building next door - marked Wiggins St. on the Sanborn map.

There's also a totally awesome scene where Ziva shoots two intruders coming in through two different doors at the same time.

ethereal_reality · #**9909** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 7:30 PM**

A couple of weeks ago there was an interesting article on the somewhat obscure leading man Lyle Talbot
in the New Yorker Magazine (Oct. 1, 2012).

Pickwick Book Store is mentioned in the article as one of Mr. Talbot's favorite hangouts in Hollywood.
I was able to find a few photos on an old cd of mine.

ebay

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I love this sign

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http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...?c=25&i=1&r=96

The old Pickwick Book Store building at 6743 Hollywood Blvd.

google street view

below: Now & then.

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GaylordWilshire · #**9910** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 7:46 PM**

Never knew that was once the Pickwick.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7017

Chuckaluck · #**9911** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 7:54 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

A couple of weeks ago there was an interesting article on the somewhat obscure leading man Lyle Talbot
in the New Yorker Magazine (Oct. 1, 2012).

Lyle Talbot had a lengthy film and tv career.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847939/ A few years ago, "BC" (before cable) LT was well known as a familiar face on the Ozzie and Harriet Show, aka "Joe Randolph."

ethereal_reality · #**9912** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 10:10 PM**

Just when I think I've seen the worst of the facade cover-ups, I find this example at 811 S. Los Angeles Street.
It looks like giant tongue depressors were used.

google street view

Does anyone have a photo of this small classical building before this extremely weak attempt at modernization.
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ethereal_reality · #**9913** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 10:32 PM**

Los Angeles mystery photo. no location/no date

unknown/possibly ebay

I've checked the photos at LAPL of the Olympic Trailer Court at 2121 Bundy Drive in Santa Monica and this isn't one of them.
This court appears to be in more rugged/hilly terrain.

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The Olympic Trailer Court was covered here by rcarlton
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6498

and here by GW.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6507

ethereal_reality · #**9914** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 10:51 PM**

This fine postcard is slightly different (the beautiful lettering is in red) than one posted earlier by rcarlton.

ebay/google street view

If you missed rcarlton's earlier post here is the link. He includes many interesting facts.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6683

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ethereal_reality · #**9915** Posted **Oct 21, 2012, 11:14 PM**

Figueroa Street lantern slide 1900.

ebay

I wonder if that's a For Sale sign?
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kanhawk · #**9916** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 12:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by rcarlton

LAPL

I noticed that Chamber of Commerce building next door appears to have some pretty serious fire damage right by the fire escape no less.

ethereal_reality · #**9917** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 12:30 AM**

Another murderess in Los Angeles 1955.

ebay

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ethereal_reality · #**9918** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 12:40 AM**

Antics with some sewer pipes on Christmas Day 1925.

ebay

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ethereal_reality · #**9919** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 1:15 AM**

I've never heard of this tunnel.

ebay

below: After a quick google search I was able to find this. I believe it's the same tunnel.

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8199p3f4/

I am now trying to pinpoint it on Google Earth. Does anyone know where this was/is located?
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ProphetM · #**9920** Posted **Oct 22, 2012, 2:32 AM**

ethereal, I can see in Google Maps a really long railroad tunnel that begins at the intersection of I-5 and CA-14.

Check out this Google Street View link:

http://goo.gl/maps/C0pjA

Amid the maze of freeway ramps and pillars you can spot the tiniest glimpse of what appears to be a tunnel entrance, at a lower level than all of the surrounding roadways and pillars. If you switch to map view and zoom back out, you can follow the path of the rail line tunnel over a mile northward. There is a 45-degree aerial of the other end, but no street view. Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line runs through this tunnel toward Lancaster.