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[HossC]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

From what I could tell by going through building permits, 7566 Melrose was built in 1929 and torn down except for the south exterior wall and rebuilt in 2011.

The front of 7566 Melrose Avenue had a heavy remodel in 1989.


Online Building Records

When I saw 2011 as the date of the last remodel, I thought I'd take the vintage Googlemobile for a spin. Here's the building in 2007. Drake's is described in a 2008 la.curbed article as a "former Hollywood porn store". The 2009 view shows that the front was repainted white before it was knocked down.


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This shot is from halfway through the remodel in 2011. I can't even see the rear wall being preserved.


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Here's the finished building in 2014.


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[HossC]

I found this USC photoset by chance. There are six pictures in Ramona Boulevard and North Hicks Avenue, Southern California, 1931, but I've just picked two. Dr Louis Greenbaum's drugstore was at 3249 Ramona Boulevard.


USC Digital Library

When I first saw Ramona Boulevard in the description, I thought that the location may now be under the San Bernadino Freeway. Then I checked an old map, and found that Ramona Boulevard once swooped south to join Wabash Avenue. That section is now City Terrace Drive. I think most of the buildings are still standing.


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Here's the house up the hill. A couple of the openings on the tower have been filled in.


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This is the view looking back down the hill. The car in the center has wooden blocks under its back wheels.


USC Digital Library

Some of the empty spaces have filled in, but there's still nothing over two stories in the view.


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[HossC]

The last couple of Julius Shulman posts have left me feeling hungry, so I'll fix that with an insurance company building. This is "Job 2955: Independence Life Building (Pasadena, Calif.), 1960".



All three of the color images show the exterior of the building, and so do two of the black & white ones. Here are the other two. This one shows the mesh shading through the window.



They even had a different style of mesh as partition walls.



All from Getty Research Institute

The building is still standing at 99 S Lake Avenue in Pasadena, although the arches at the top are sadly missing.


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[BDJ100]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'mystery' building.

"Somewhere in Hollywood CA, 1970s or 80s."


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This is the old Alan Gordon Enterprises which sat just south of the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga on the East side. They rented and sold motion picture production equipment during the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's from this location. I'm guessing that they lost their lease and moved to another location near Paramount on Melrose. They are still in business but just a shadow of their former self.

The original building still exists buried under those exterior walls, paint and shrubbery. It has been turned into some type of nightclub or event space. Lot's of high priced cars being valet parked on a Friday and Saturday night.

[John Maddox Roberts]

Thanks and welcome to the forum, BDJ100.

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Northwest Corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga Boulevards at night, 1961.
6413 Hollywood Blvd.: ALDO'S
6405 Hollywood Blvd.: COFFEE DAN'S
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I found a 1979 photo of this stretch of Hollywood Blvd.


Gregory Paul Williams

Aldo's would have been the location above the truck in the center of the photograph
and Coffee Dan's to the right. Where KFWB was is a place called The Research
Experience and then further to the left the Pacific Theatre (Warner Bros.) marquee.

I can't read the names on any of the other places, but I spy the edge of a billboard for
Superman, released in Dec. of 1978.

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

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I noticed this October 1938 ad for a place called The Gay White Way.
L.A.Times

This was from 1938 and I noticed that it was the same address as the Hollywood Canteen.This
is a bit of a discrepancy with the 2012 Mitchell/Torrence book, The Hollywood Canteen, in that
the book says the structure had once been a barn and then had been a series of ill-fated nightclubs,
the last one being The Red Barn, which closed its doors in 1937 and then had been vacant for five
years. So, maybe not?
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In The Story of Hollywood book I stumbled across the other day there was this photo with the caption:

Southwest corner of Sunset and Cahuenga Boulevards had wooden structures from Hollywood's rural past.
Drouet's Harness Shop (left) became a drag club before transforming into the Hollywood Canteen during WWII.





There's a lot of signage in that photo. Except for a few words I can't read any of it, unfortunately. Too bad it's not a better source.
There was no date associated with the photo, but there was this in the text: By 1933, police began to stage haphazard raids across
the city to crack down on the nighttime revelry. [...] The relic barn of Drouet's Harness Shop at Sunset and Cahuenga Boulevards
opened that year with a drag show called Barnyard Frolics Revue. The police raided it as well.


There was also this photo showing the exterior of the canteen and a rare south facing shot of Cahuenga Blvd. at that time.




Servicemen waiting to enter Canteen, 1944.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

In The Story of Hollywood book I stumbled across the other day there was this photo with the caption:




There was also this photo showing the exterior of the canteen and a rare south facing shot of Cahuenga Blvd. at that time.




Servicemen waiting to enter Canteen, 1944.

Great photo Martin. Not seen before. Trucks at the left for transportation from local military bases.
This was the year my mother, brother and I arrived in Hollywood. Of course I was just a baby then....but I still had to have a War Ration Book.

My brother's Ration book....that's my mom's handwriting.
At the right it says ''South Gate" ... where we moved to after staying at her father's apartment in Hollywood.

[Its a long drama story but both my brother and I had to have our last name changed in the 1960s. My first 5 years of life were a noir spectacle of suicide by pistol, assault, blood, warrants for arrest and moving every month or two to save our lives. My bio father was deranged and psycho.]


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[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

The Hawaiian Paradise was at 7566 Melrose from 1937 to about 1940.

From what I could tell by going through building permits, 7566 Melrose was built in 1929 and torn down except for the
south exterior wall and rebuilt in 2011.

Nice find. Strange mixture of bamboo on mission architecture.

AFIK, the pictured structure started out as a single story "cafe," aka "The Clover Leaf Cafe." The new construction permit issued on 9-6-29 for owner "Frank Root" at 708 N Fairfax, and the 11-16-29 sign permit for "Clover Leaf Cafe Co." bear this out. Some confusion may lie in the fact that the property location has also been described as "7564-6 Melrose Ave. ('29 Clover Leaf Cafe Inc listings at 1308 S. Western, 2625 W. Eighth and 1311 S Vermont. '27 listing for 991 S Vermont.)

Given prohibition, it is unclear whether "cafe" meant more than an informal eatery. Notable in the photo is what appears to be upper windows that have been bricked in and what might be a round exhaust duct. A simple cosmetic facelift, an attempt to obtain structural integrity (post '33 temblor) or a move for more privacy?


http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...coll2/id/18780


FWIW, there are several contemporaneous listings for Clover Leaf Productions, which evidently had something to do with the following "dry" product and various confections. No obvious evidence that the two businesses were related other than name similarity.

Catalina Dry Ginger Ale - 1936 1848 E Vernon Ave (?)
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/85512

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Great photo Martin. Not seen before. Trucks at the left for transportation from local military bases.

This was the year my mother, brother and I arrived in Hollywood. Of course I was just a baby then....but I still had to have a War Ration Book.
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That's interesting, CBD.

I don't know if I was aware that children needed to have ration books, also, but I guess they would as children eat, too.
Maybe I was guessing they factored children into the adults books or something.

I like that photo, too, because I've never seen the street (Cahuenga) in the opposite direction. South of the Canteen are two
structures, one of which looks like a it has a roof that could use some repairs. Then there is a hotel which must have seen its
share of things during the war!

[Martin Pal]

FlyingWedge, thanks for the glimpse of the Hawaiian Paradise nightclub!

Originally Posted by HossC

The front of 7566 Melrose Avenue had a heavy remodel in 1989.
Drake's is described in a 2008 la.curbed article as a "former Hollywood porn store".

Who knew it morphed into Drake's at one point! Drake's was quite a well-known place when home video was booming in the 90's. I think I bought something there once.

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Googlemobile question: Has anyone ever taken the googlemobile out spinning and ended up inside a building? I did today.
I was on Vine Street and suddenly veered into the "Cleo" restaurant located inside the Redbury. How is that possible?

Has anyone ever seen the googlemobile in person?

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by HossC

The last couple of Julius Shulman posts have left me feeling hungry, so I'll fix that with an insurance company building. This is "Job 2955: Independence Life Building (Pasadena, Calif.), 1960".



The building is still standing at 99 S Lake Avenue in Pasadena, although the arches at the top are sadly missing.


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Also sadly missing is the side of the building. (?)

[HossC]

I tried to adjust the perspective of the GSV image to make it more upright, but as a consequence it made the side wall hard to see. Other years and angles were either distorted of blocked by trees. If you take the Googlemobile down S Lake Avenue, I'm sure you'll see the wall is still there.

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Googlemobile question: Has anyone ever taken the googlemobile out spinning and ended up inside a building? I did today.
I was on Vine Street and suddenly veered into the "Cleo" restaurant located inside the Redbury. How is that possible?

Has anyone ever seen the googlemobile in person?

There was a time a few months ago when I kept accidentally entering buildings while using Streetview. I've even posted several pictures using these inside views. You can walk round quite a lot of the Petersen Automotive Museum (see post #25095).

I did see a couple of Googlemobiles a few years ago, but the drivers had stopped for coffee and I didn't get my picture taken .

[Martin Pal]

Maybe they get discounts on food or lodging if they go in places for awhile!

[HossC]

I'm sticking with the financial theme for today's Julius Shulman post. This is "Job 3385: Pacific Western Mortgage Office Building, 1962".



There are three color office photos, but they all show women at desks filled with 1960s office equipment, so I just picked one.



From the chair spacing (and the cups in the lower-left corner), I'm guessing that this was the cafeteria.



The three black & white shots all show the exterior. This is to the left of the building seen in the first picture. I'm including it because of the tower in the background.



All from Getty Research Institute

The street number 10639 is just visible on the front of the building. A bit of Googling led me to 10639 Santa Monica Boulevard. This is what you'll find there today. It seems to have replaced the building in the Shulman photos between 1989 and 1994. On the left is the Los Angeles California Temple, which is where the tower in the last Shulman picture comes from. It was only six years old when Julius Shulman visited its neighbor.


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[UphillDonkey]

Originally Posted by HossC

I'm sticking with the financial theme for today's Julius Shulman post. This is "Job 3385: Pacific Western Mortgage Office Building, 1962".



There are three color office photos, but they all show women at desks filled with 1960s office equipment, so I just picked one.



From the chair spacing (and the cups in the lower-left corner), I'm guessing that this was the cafeteria.



The three black & white shots all show the exterior. This is to the left of the building seen in the first picture. I'm including it because of the tower in the background.



All from Getty Research Institute

The street number 10639 is just visible on the front of the building. A bit of Googling led me to 10639 Santa Monica Boulevard. This is what you'll find there today. It seems to have replaced the building in the Shulman photos between 1989 and 1994. On the left is the Los Angeles California Temple, which is where the tower in the last Shulman picture comes from. It was only six years old when Julius Shulman visited its neighbor.


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Replaced by a Frank Gehry designed office complex.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

FlyingWedge, thanks for the glimpse of the Hawaiian Paradise nightclub!




Who knew it morphed into Drake's at one point! Drake's was quite a well-known place when home video was booming in the 90's. I think I bought something there once.

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Googlemobile question: Has anyone ever taken the googlemobile out spinning and ended up inside a building? I did today.
I was on Vine Street and suddenly veered into the "Cleo" restaurant located inside the Redbury. How is that possible?

Has anyone ever seen the googlemobile in person?

The Google cameras can be used as a backpack on a walking man, also on a motorcycle and wheeled push cart.

[John Maddox Roberts]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

The Google cameras can be used as a backpack on a walking man, also on a motorcycle and wheeled push cart.

I once saw a convoy of 5 or 6 Goolgemobiles coming out of Albuquerque on I-40.
And I Googlemobiled on Hotel Street in Honolulu, tried to get a closeup on a historic bar and found myself inside looking out.

[odinthor]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

FlyingWedge, thanks for the glimpse of the Hawaiian Paradise nightclub!




Who knew it morphed into Drake's at one point! Drake's was quite a well-known place when home video was booming in the 90's. I think I bought something there once.

___________________________________________


Googlemobile question: Has anyone ever taken the googlemobile out spinning and ended up inside a building? I did today.
I was on Vine Street and suddenly veered into the "Cleo" restaurant located inside the Redbury. How is that possible?

Has anyone ever seen the googlemobile in person?

Twice I happened to be toiling away at yard work in my front yard when the Googlemobile went by. One of the times I had a bag of mulch next to me such that it looked as if I were burying someone's torso. It would I think be a major bummer to be burying one's murder victim and have the Googlemobile meantime take your picture.

[ethereal_reality]

What block do you live on odinthor? I want to see you burying that body.

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Thanks for posting your photographs of the Wilmington area (Avalon Blvd. & Ave. D) unihikid.

It's always good to have feet on the ground.



I thought this clipper ship was made out of colored tile, but after seeing your pic I think it's probably a stained glass window.


unihikid / detail

So maybe this isn't a Bank of America ship after all.

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