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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I finally found a matchbook from the ' often talked about' Waldorf Cellar. *
ebay
I'm surprised they used military imagery.....wasn't it eventually put on the 'OUT OF BOUNDS' list?
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I would've thought so, too, though some souvenir photos of this place show military men and their dates in them and the advertising of "big bands" which would mean alot of dancing. (The place doesn't look "that" big from the street, though!)
A poster recently said they had a list of the places that were considered off limits and was going to post that list. I wonder if there's an online source for that?
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Love this matchbook find
E_R. I'm going to look at the others on your link later on.
Since you brought up the Waldorf Cellar, has anyone heard of this book or the author before?
Los Angeles 1939 . . . Street People And Friend
by William Carroll
I happened to see this listed on both Amazon, which has one copy for sale, and Barnes and Noble, which
lists it, but says it's not available to buy on their site. I cannot find anything else about it, or the author,
online, yet. A search of NLA doesn't bring up William Carroll, either.
The book description:
People and places of Los Angeles are shown at their best in this pictorial retrospective from historic files of photographer William Carroll.
The street preacher precedes a Salvation Army band playing on Spring Street and the slightly mad street musician shows his five-gallon tin drum, a wonderful hermit strides past and a lucky pedestrian reaches for a sidewalk cigarette near the horse and buggy parked on Main Street, job hunters inspect $20 a week wage offerings, new shoes sell for 57 cents a pair, caged kids are on the second floor, there's wine bar life and the famous
Waldorf Cellar, inside an all-nite theatre and outside the "A R Hotel Beds 15 Cents", Pershing Square society, backstage of the Paramount Theatre, stag party nudes, Palomar Gardens for dancing, a beauty contest not to be missed, exercising by the roller coaster and a seaside day . . . from family to friend.
Publisher: Coda Publications
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Pages: 116
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Sounds like some intriguing pictures in this book--
caged kids are on the second floor--?
There is one comment on the book on the Amazon site. He wasn't too thrilled with the quality
of the photos in it and apparent lack of identification of many of them.