noirish Los Angeles - Page 15

sopas ej · #**281** Posted **Sep 15, 2009, 6:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

noir......sweet....noir.
I'd love to be in that airplane.

Like Howard Hughes and Kate Hepburn?

Thanks for posting the Ralphs locations, I totally creamed my pants when I saw that. Now I know that the building at 3rd Street Promenade and Wilshire in Santa Monica was once a Ralphs! It's now a Barnes & Noble, with the interior totally gutted of course, and that tower outside modified. I thought maybe it was originally a Woolworth's or Penney's or something.

Chicago3rd · #**282** Posted **Sep 15, 2009, 12:46 PM**

This is by far one of the most spectacular threads I have seen on ssp. Thanks for all the work!!!!

ethereal_reality · #**283** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 11:12 PM**

The City of Los Angeles' float in the 1946 Rose Parade.

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SLO · #**284** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 4:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Wow, that is really cool. They really took pride in their buildings. I wonder how many are still standing....

sopas ej · #**285** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 7:48 AM**

Is this the tunnel to Toontown? Naah, it goes clear to Pasadena.
Figueroa Street Tunnels, 1938 (pre-Pasadena Freeway)

From USC archive

Fair Oaks and Colorado, 1954, Pasadena. I see the 35er existed even back then.

From lapl.org

ethereal_reality · #**286** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 9:55 PM**

^^^I've always loved the Figueroa Tunnels.

I had to google 35er to see what you were talking about sopas_ej.
I see it's a bar still in business after all those years.

Why is it called 35er I wonder?

PHX31 · #**287** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 10:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by SLO

Wow, that is really cool. They really took pride in their buildings. I wonder how many are still standing....

I did a spot check of about 10 of those Ralph's buildings via google earth street view, and unfortunately only one of them I looked for was the building remotely distinguishable.... the one at 2601 Pasadena Ave Los Angeles, Ca. (the middle-right side of that huge Ralph's picture with all of the store buildings.)

kznyc2k · #**288** Posted **Sep 18, 2009, 12:19 AM**

I said it a month ago and I'll say it again: this thread is awesome. I've got Chinatown playing and some bourbon on the rocks within fingers' reach.... the noirish mood is intoxicating

ethereal_reality · #**289** Posted **Sep 18, 2009, 3:33 AM**

.......your post is intoxicating kznyc2k.

ethereal_reality · #**290** Posted **Sep 18, 2009, 3:36 AM**

COLD WAR NOIR.

below: City Hall tower February 6th, 1951.

l.a. times

l.a. times

How cool is this....an atomic flash from 300 miles away.

ethereal_reality · #**291** Posted **Sep 18, 2009, 4:16 AM**

COLD WAR NOIR continued

Scenes from 'Kiss Me Deadly' 1955.

mgm

below: Opening a pandora's box of RADIUM at a beach house in Malibu.

mgm

below: A radiation facial.

mgm

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Escaping the beach house........or did they?

sopas ej · #**292** Posted **Sep 18, 2009, 7:10 AM**

^^^
Funny, when I saw the pics your posted of the Atomic Blast, I thought of "Kiss Me Deadly," and sure enough, your next post was just that.

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Here's the Ralphs on 3rd Street and Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica; it was designed by Stiles O. Clements, and built in 1939-1940.

From lapl.org

Here it is now, courtesy of Google Earth. It's now a Barnes & Noble bookstore, and 3rd Street is now the Third Street Promenade. It's all gutted, and they added an upper story.

sopas ej · #**293** Posted **Sep 18, 2009, 8:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

^^^I've always loved the Figueroa Tunnels.

I had to google 35er to see what you were talking about sopas_ej.
I see it's a bar still in business after all those years.

Why is it called 35er I wonder?

I don't know why it's called the 35er. I've walked by it many times but have never gone in.

Here's a contemporary shot of it courtesy Google Earth. I couldn't get the same angle/perspective from the 1954 photo, though.

ethereal_reality · #**294** Posted **Sep 19, 2009, 1:51 PM**

^^^The comparison shots of the Ralphs are too cool. THX for posting them PHX31 and sopas_ej.

I don't know what it is about comparison shots that I find so fascinating.