noirish Los Angeles

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

L.A. Weekly

I was wondering what the interesting shadows on the boulevard were from across the street; what kind of building that might be. Looking at the aerial photograph in the post, it appears it is the light shining sideways through two back to back rooftop billboards on the building opposite the motel.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

I was wondering what the interesting shadows on the boulevard were from across the street; what kind of building that might be. Looking at the aerial photograph in the post, it appears it is the light shining sideways through two back to back rooftop billboards on the building opposite the motel.

Painting living palm trees white? Disgusting and probably illegal.

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Painting living palm trees white? Disgusting and probably illegal.

Yeah, but it looks amazing.


"Projection" sprayed limewash (2015) Vincent Lamouroux

Thx Martin. Great post.


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P.S. This little careworn 1906 cottage is directly behind the Sunset Pacific Motel. It lies within that Loopnet property development area featured in Martin Pal's post. It sold for $850K in 2007 and for $10.5 million on 12/10/13. I think the little cottage will need a home soon if anyone wants to rescue it (It's a remnant. From the nineteen-aughts. Think about it.):

gsv

The cottage, in turn, is directly across Effie Street from the 1916 Mabel Normand / Mack Sennett Studios, at 1215 Bates Ave, that e_r did that terrific post about:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/2mabelsstudio.htm

Hollywood Filmograph, 1932 via e_r

[MartinTurnbull]

I was approached recently via my website by someone looking for any and all available information and photographs of a club called MOON OVER MIAMI which stood at 13333 1/2 Ventura Blvd, which would put it in Sherman Oaks. I'd never heard of it, nor could I find anything about it in any of the online LACDs or in the usual digital photo collections I go to. So I was hoping that someone here might have info and/or photos.

A couple of odd things
- The phone number V.N. 8360 - I've never seen a phone number listed like that.
- The advertisement has it at 1333 1/2 Ventura which (accordingly Google Maps) would put it in Camarillo, which can't be right. I wonder if someone's head rolled after that ad came out.

Any contributions / memories / suggestions / pointers would be appreciated! Thanks much.

[Otis Criblecoblis]

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[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Painting living palm trees white? Disgusting and probably illegal.

It's not really paint, I guess. The artist describes it as "an environmentally safe lime-wash, designed to break down and fade away."

Or wash away...if our 10%-20% chance of a little rain comes in the next few days.
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Any more photos of Guy Madison, CBD?

[HossC]

Streetcar #3149 on the P Line with "Pico to Rimpau" on the front. The seller dates this one at 1959. The long, straight road made me think this was the W Pico part of the route. The building on the right is a Post Office, but the current Post Office on W Pico is a large red brick building.


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A quick check of the 1956 CD told me that the Post Office used to be at 2462 W Pico Boulevard, and the good news is that the building is still there. The blue awning partially hides the stores on the corner of Menlo Avenue, but I think they're also survivors from the picture above.


GSV

Up until recently, the building was painted bright yellow.


GSV

The streetcar picture should squeeze into the right era and location that trbondii was searching for.

[so-cal-bear]

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull

I was approached recently via my website by someone looking for any and all available information and photographs of a club called MOON OVER MIAMI which stood at 13333 1/2 Ventura Blvd, which would put it in Sherman Oaks. I'd never heard of it, nor could I find anything about it in any of the online LACDs or in the usual digital photo collections I go to. So I was hoping that someone here might have info and/or photos.

A couple of odd things
- The phone number V.N. 8360 - I've never seen a phone number listed like that.
- The advertisement has it at 1333 1/2 Ventura which (accordingly Google Maps) would put it in Camarillo, which can't be right. I wonder if someone's head rolled after that ad came out.

Any contributions / memories / suggestions / pointers would be appreciated! Thanks much.

Maybe competitors to this establishment in Van Nuys at that time tried to sabotage the place and send their customers to Camarillo!

[HossC]

These trolley tours through Sunny Southern California sound fun - apparently they were "the ideal, popular, economical way to complete knowledge of the land of wonder." Sadly, I'm just over 100 years too late .

This advert is from the September, 1914 issue of "Sunset" magazine.


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[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

It's not really paint, I guess. The artist describes it as "an environmentally safe lime-wash, designed to break down and fade away."

Or wash away...if our 10%-20% chance of a little rain comes in the next few days.
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Any more photos of Guy Madison, CBD?

Thanks Martin for that update on that white ''paint''. I hope it washes off.

Navy man Guy Madison. He served several years during WW II.


Born ~ Robert Ozell Moseley
January 19, 1922
Pumpkin Center, California, U.S.

In 1944, while visiting Hollywood on leave from the U.S. Navy, Madison's boyish good looks and physique caught the eye of Henry Willson, the head of talent at David O. Selznick's newly formed Vanguard Pictures. Willson was widely known for his stable of good-looking, marginally talented actors with unusual names he bestowed upon them, and he immediately cast the rechristened Madison in a bit part as a sailor in Selznick's Since You Went Away. Following the film's release in 1944, the studio received thousands of letters from fans wanting to know more about him.

His acting? Awkward at first. His agent was Henry Wilson, who specialized in pretty boys. Noirish?...I would say yes.


March 1945. His neckerchief is tied too high...non-regulation. Sorry Guy, you don't pass inspection. Guy with Shirley Temple arriving at the Academy Awards in 1945. He's wearing a custom made gabardine uniform...form fitting.

mattsko

[tovangar2]

Guy Madison's daughter Bridget maintains a tribute website with lots of photos. It's here.

Guy's obit from the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...n-1317901.html

Three minutes on screen in in his debut, "Since You Went Away" (1944), resulted in 43,000 fan letters.

As a teen:


Dreamboat:


And later:


pix: guymadison.com

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Yep, that's the helipad Hoss. Good eye buddy. It appears to be a bit wider than the building.....hence the shadow.

It's also visible in this postcard.



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I wonder how noisy it was if you had a room directly beneath the helipad. I imagine it'd vibrate you right off the bed.

How quickly things change. As so-cal-bear pointed out, the image above must date from at least 1976, because the Bonaventure is visible on the left. The card below is postmarked April 1973.
As well as another good view of the helipad (scroll right ---->), it also shows the Gates Hotel and Rex Arms still standing.


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[ddyment]

Hello, I am researching films and televisions series shot on the Sunset Strip and have found previous posts in this thread to be very helpful to identify locations and provide back story. Thanks.

I'm hoping to appeal to participants here for specific questions regarding locations, but I've just signed up and read the rules regarding photographs. I have many screengrabs that I have taken from youtube clips that I couldn't possibly identify so long after the fact. I am wondering if these would be considered inappropriate to post?

In the meantime, if anyone can think of Sunset Strip buildings that they have seen in a film or television series (particularly obscure titles, as I have exhausted the more obvious ones via IMDB), it would be immensely helpful. Thanks in advance.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Guy Madison's daughter Bridget maintains a tribute website with lots of photos. It's here.

Guy's obit from the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...n-1317901.html

Three minutes on screen in in his debut, "Since You Went Away" (1944), resulted in 43,000 fan letters.

As a teen:

Here is the 3 minute film debut of Guy Madison in Since You Went Away..1944...He was still in the Navy at that time.

I didn't know the studio had received that large number of letters about the mangenue actor.

Is it OK if I describe his acting as ''wooden".

Take a look:

https://youtu.be/doMC0lojsdg

[tovangar2]

LOL, I doubt the 43,000 fans wrote in to express opinions about Guy Madison's acting. The guy was gorgeous (and really, I think, a bit of a natural).

The tie's still knotted too high. Did that mean something?:

"Since You Went Away" (1944)

Quite handsome in later years too:

www.guymadison.com

[Wig-Wag]

[QUOTE=MartinTurnbull;6999451]I was approached recently via my website by someone looking for any and all available information and photographs of a club called MOON OVER MIAMI which stood at 13333 1/2 Ventura Blvd, which would put it in Sherman Oaks. I'd never heard of it, nor could I find anything about it in any of the online LACDs or in the usual digital photo collections I go to. So I was hoping that someone here might have info and/or photos.

A couple of odd things
- The phone number V.N. 8360 - I've never seen a phone number listed like that.
- The advertisement has it at 1333 1/2 Ventura which (accordingly Google Maps) would put it in Camarillo, which can't be right. I wonder if someone's head rolled after that ad came out.

Any contributions / memories / suggestions / pointers would be appreciated! Thanks much.



Martin, I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the VN in the phone number is a Van Nuys prefix At some point the prefixes were changed and Van Nuys received ST (State), but I don't have a date for this; See:

http://www.laalmanac.com/communications/cm01e.htm

Prior to acquiring the Poplar prefix North Hollywood had an NH prefix, as shown on this ad that appears to be from 1933. Do we have any clue as to when the Moon over Miami Club was in business?



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Image from the San Fernando Valley relics website:

https://www.facebook.com/valleyrelics?fref=photo

Cheers,
Jack

[Ed Workman]

[QUOTE=Wig-Wag;7000389][QUOTE=MartinTurnbull;6999451]I was approached recently via my website by someone looking for any and all available information and photographs of a club called MOON OVER MIAMI which stood at 13333 1/2 Ventura Blvd, which would put it in Sherman Oaks. I'd never heard of it, nor could I find anything about it in any of the online LACDs or in the usual digital photo collections I go to. So I was hoping that someone here might have info and/or photos.


- The advertisement has it at 1333 1/2 Ventura which (accordingly Google Maps) would put it in Camarillo, which can't be right. I wonder if someone's head rolled after that ad came out.

SF Valley street numbers increase east to west
Topanga Canyon Blvd [N-S] is roughly at 20000 [E-W]
13333 is substantially east of that
Camarillo is miles west, in Ventura County

[HossC]

Originally Posted by Wig-Wag

Do we have any clue as to when the Moon over Miami Club was in business?

The Don Ameche/Betty Grable movie called 'Moon Over Miami' came out in 1941. I'm guessing that this might have been the inspiration for the club's name. That would at least give us a lower date boundary.


fineartamerica.com

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

LOL, I doubt the 43,000 fans wrote in to express opinions about Guy Madison's acting. The guy was gorgeous (and really, I think, a bit of a natural).

The tie's still knotted too high. Did that mean something?:

It had no meaning that I recall from my Navy days....other than to flout Rules and Regs..

The white hat perched on the back of the head was something the Navy was
trying to discourage after WW II. The Brass called it ''Hollywood" and simply not ''Regulation Uniform''. You don't see it anymore.

Blue Jacket's Manual ....circa 1940. Hat square on head and knot below the ''V'.

US Navy

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Navy man Guy Madison. He served several years during WW II.

Guy with Shirley Temple arriving at the Academy Awards in 1945.

mattsko

Merci, CBD, or should I say mercy!

(At first I was wondering what he was carrying in his hand.)