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[GaylordWilshire]

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LAT Sept 3, 1926

[stanklem]

Originally Posted by Snix

Hollywood Film Enterprises must have distributed the early Disney home movies.


(also on eBay)

Ver Halen Publications was located at 6060 Sunset Blvd. The Peterson Auto Museum is now at their address.
They published Home Movies magazine. Home Movies catered to the home movie industry.

Hollywood Film enterprises was in the same building.
See:
https://archive.org/details/homemovies194613verh/page/n7/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/homemovies194209verh/page/n27/mode/2up

The second link is from 1942. Makes me wonder how producers of home movie equipment skirted wartime production limitations/requirements.

[ethereal_reality]

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Interesting information everyone. I'm glad the building survived, odinthor.


Martin Pal, thanks for solving the 'Speaking of Animals' mystery. I would have never figured that one out.

snix, I actually have one of the Mickey Mouse Cine Art Film home movie and I never noticed the 'Hollywood Film Enterprises' on the box.
I think it's because 'Hollywood Film Enterprises' sounds so generic.


One minor correction, stanklem
The Petersen Auto Museum is at 6060 Wilshire Blvd. not Sunset.

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[ethereal_reality]

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Negative for sale, Los Angeles, large Chevron sign / mystery location.



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This is the full neg/photo.



If the bright lights on the right were at a higher elevation I'd say it might be Dodger Stadium. (but the negative probably predates Dodger Stadium)




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[stanklem]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Interesting information everyone. I'm glad the building survived, odinthor.


Martin Pal, thanks for solving the 'Speaking of Animals' mystery. I would have never figured that one out.

snix, I actually have one of the Mickey Mouse Cine Art Film home movie and I never noticed the 'Hollywood Film Enterprises' on the box.
I think it's because 'Hollywood Film Enterprises' sounds so generic.


One minor correction, stanklem
The Petersen Auto Museum is at 6060 Wilshire Blvd. not Sunset.

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Ooops!

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

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LAT Sept 3, 1926
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Hmmm...one possibility is that Mr. Murphy was at the southwest corner of Hollywood and Las Palmas next door to the Paulais Cafe at a fur shop, the name of which I cannot decipher here.*** Perhaps a wax figure in a mink drew Murphy's attention?

Hollywood Blvd. and Las Palmas in 1925.

USCLibraries

*** HossC has identified the shop HERE as the Maison Marcell Fur Shop, 6700 Hollywood Blvd.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Negative for sale, Los Angeles, large Chevron sign / mystery location.


eBay

This is the full neg/photo.



If the bright lights on the right were at a higher elevation I'd say it might be Dodger Stadium. (but the negative probably predates Dodger Stadium)

I think we're looking at DTLA from near the Spring Street Bridge. That would mean that the building with the neon Chevron sign is the extant 1727 North Spring Street and the bright lights are likely to be from the Cornfield.


Google Maps

[ethereal_reality]

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Thanks Hoss. That explains the huge Chevron sign on the roof because 1727 N. Spring is the old Standard Oil Company Sales Office. (built in 1914)


gsv ... (as most of you know, we have visited this building in the past)





SOC (Standard Oil Company) is engraved in the attractive ornament above the front entrance. (circled below)


laconservancy

I just read that the building used to have marble on the exterior but I haven't been able to locate a photograph of the building when it was the Standard Oil Company Sales Office.







Here is a close-up. (someone has tried to patch it up a bit)



GW first pointed out the SOC in 2012.






And if you go around to the back of the building (on Aurora Street) you can see the faded remnants (ghost sign) of the Standard Oil Company.


gsv

It's interesting to me that the right (north) side of the building is at an odd angle to the rest of the building as if it were built on.




And lastly, I checked the roof to see if there were any braces or markings to show where the huge Chevron was anchored to the building.


google_earth

There's nothing -sign related- visible.




And here's one last look at the 1940s negative with the marvelous roof-top sign.


ebay / detail


An earlier post on 1727 N. Spring Street by 3940dxr, here
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[ethereal_reality]

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This slide of Lyon's Housekeeping Apartments (1974) is currently on eBay



eBay

I checked old posts to see if we have seen this slide on NLA but nothing pertaining to this apartment building came up. I searched using "Lyon's" and "Lyons". Perhaps we have seen it under another name.


Here's a closer look at the sign.




Lyon's Housekeeping Apartments was located at 928 S. Hope Street.


LAPL


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[HossC]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Hmmm...one possibility is that Mr. Murphy was at the southwest corner of Hollywood and Las Palmas next door to the Paulais Cafe at a fur shop, the name of which I cannot decipher here. Perhaps a wax figure in a mink drew Murphy's attention?

Hollywood Blvd. and Las Palmas in 1925.

USCLibraries

As far as I can tell, the fur store sign says Maison Marcell. I checked the CDs, but only found a restaurant with that name listed at 217 W 4th Street in 1912.

[odinthor]

Good eye, Hoss! I couldn't read that, not fer nuthin'!

Here's something on fur shop Maison Marcell, entirely appropriate to NLA:


LA Times, February 22, 1926.

[Martin Pal]

Yes, thanks, HossC.

And Odinthor!

Even though they were stolen, the ladies in Chicago may have had more use for those fur coats than the ladies in Los Angeles.

[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by odinthor

Here's something on fur shop Maison Marcell, entirely appropriate to NLA:


LA Times, February 22, 1926.

Here's Martin Durkin's sweetheart Betty Werner on the left in January of 1926.

Possibly wearing the Maison Marcell raid fur coat she had to give back the next month.



cdnc.ucr.edu - Healdsburg Tribune, 30 January 1926


Durkin's other sweetheart Irma Sullivan who he married while on the run is on the right.

I guess she's wearing an innocent fur coat - she's not mentioned as one of the women who had to surrender the furry loot.

[ethereal_reality]

The stolen Maison Marcell furs show up at Durkin's trial in Chicago (1926) .. worn by his relatives!


galleriestribune


"Martin Durkin's cousin Harriet Galow, left, his mother Hattie Durkin, his new bride Mrs. Irma Sullivan Durkin (looking up), friend Miss Wanda Worthington and Johnny Nughton, circa March 6, 1926. Martin Durkin had given fur coats to his mother, wife, cousin and girlfriend which later turned out to be stolen and had to be returned." — Chicago Tribune historical photo




Irma Durkin at Durkin's trial in Chicago. (July 1926)


galleriestribune

"Irma Sullivan Durkin, wife of convicted killer Martin Durkin, circa July 7, 1926. Irma, who was from Cornell, Ill., was described in the Tribune as someone who "(Durkin) wooed hurriedly, wed hastily, and promised, at the time of his arrest, to love long." Martin and Irma had married on Dec. 4, 1926. Also present at the trial was Betty Andrews Werner, the "sweetheart (Durkin) loved and scorned and seems to love again." Both women wrote letters of support for Durkin." — Chicago Tribune historical photo.



Snazzy shoes!



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[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by HossC

As far as I can tell, the fur store sign says Maison Marcell. I checked the CDs, but only found a restaurant with that name listed at 217 W 4th Street in 1912.

I don't know if there was a connection to this Maison Marcell to furs in Hollywood, but here is info on the Maison Marcell restaurant built to succeed the one at 214 W 4th St...


The first rendering:


LAT Sept 23, 1917



What got built:


LAT Nov 11, 1917



An item in the the LA Record on April 25, 1922, noted the sale of the restaurant to an Eddie Brandstratter, who would be renovating.



Then:


LA Record Aug 15, 1923



Then at some point the building became a theater, most recently the Olympic. The marquee seen here disappeared in 2017 but the building remains.

[odinthor]

Thanks, GaylordWilshire. According to various ads placed in late December, the grand opening of this location occurred on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1917. Same as you, I don't find that this restaurateur Marcell had anything to do with Furs Marcell of Hollywood.

To feed our NLA dossier on Joseph ("Joe") Marcell Annechini, stitching together some images with facts gleaned from CDs and ads/references in various issues of the LA Times:

1912:


LA Times, 10/24/1912

1913:

According to 1913 CD, restaurant at 215 1/2 W. 4th (the Angelus Hotel area).

1917:


LA Times, 10/18/1917

1924:


LA Times, 4/2/1924

[ethereal_reality]

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I happened upon this lobby card a few weeks ago on eBay.


'Bodyguard' ..1948


eBay (no longer listed)

Lawrence Tierney's woody is impressive.

Anyhoo. . .I'm not sure where this Greyhound Bus Depot/Terminal is located.
At first I thought it was the bus depot on N. Cahuenga but it doesn't seem to match up correctly. Then I thought it was the downtown terminal but I don't remember the A.W. Larson store being in the same building.

I looked up Larson in several of the 1940s city directories & discovered that there is a shitload plethora of Larsons in the Los Angeles area.








Just for fun, here's the title card for "Bodyguard".



I love when film noirs start out like this. -with the city lurking in the background.





AND. . .take a look at the multitude of locations used in the filming (courtesy of IMDB


note that the bus terminal isn't listed.


I've never seen this film. I'm going to put it at the top of my list!



There is an image of Lawrence Tierney in the "Bodyguard" with the Hollywood Casket Company visible behind in Phil-AFN's post, Here.
GW, followed up with a contemporary view of the building that once housed the Hollywood Casket Company, Here.


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[HossC]

I found a version of 'Bodyguard' online, but it's dubbed in Polish. However, I flicked through it and got a few screengrabs. Various businesses such as Zinke's and the Hollywood Pipe Shop, as well as the Security Pacific Building in the background, would seem to confirm that this is Cahuenga.


RKO Radio Pictures

BTW Although it's brief, I liked the shot of the squad car passing the Savoy Garage (mentioned in e_r's filming locations). No I just need to track down a copy in English!

[Handsome Stranger]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I happened upon this lobby card a few weeks ago on eBay.


'Bodyguard' ..1948


eBay (no longer listed)

Lawrence Tierney's woody is impressive.

Anyhoo. . .I'm not sure where this Greyhound Bus Depot/Terminal is located.
At first I thought it was the bus depot on N. Cahuenga but it doesn't seem to match up correctly. Then I thought it was the downtown terminal but I don't remember the A.W. Larson store being in the same building.

Here's another view from the movie:



Just before this shot we see the man who is bumping that 1948 Chrysler Town and Country woody out of the way. Must have been a retake shot on another day because we're at a different location.

[rick m]

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger

Here's another view from the movie:



Just before this shot we see the man who is bumping that 1948 Chrysler Town and Country woody out of the way. Must have been a retake shot on another day because we're at a different location.

Zinkes was a well known shoe business on Colorado in Pasadena---- see it on left side of top photo