Peter Stackpole (1913-1997) was one of four staff photographers hired on at Life Magazine when publication began in 1936...based in Los Angeles, he was responsible for 26 Life covers, most of these were of film stars....a representative sampling of his L.A. work....
Rita Hayworth and friends at her home, 201 Veteran Ave. in Westwood....1940.
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Alfred Hitchcock in his rooms at the Wilshire Palms Apts., 10331 Wilshire Blvd., 1940....Hitch is facing east here, the cross street is Comstock Ave....the tall trees are obscuring the north course at Los Angeles Country Club.
"There is a man, a certain man....What is his name?....it's Charlie Kane!"....Welles rehearsing his dance number at RKO Studios, 1940.
Dona (pronounced "dough-nuh") Drake, an actress, at her home in 1942...I'd never heard of her, turns out '42 was her big year as she appeared in the Hope/Crosby vehicle "Road to Morroco" (apparently, she hooked up with Bob during the shoot)...she had to hide her African-American heritage to preserve her viability in the industry.
Swim team at UCLA, 1940's.
For a 1946 feature on the post-war housing shortage Stackpole photographed this improvised home site above P.C.H.
Stackpole was apparently taken with the colorful real estate sales offices springing up in the Valley, 1946....
One of the blackboard listings refers to a lot in a "restricted" tract, this was a reference to the so-called "race restrictions", common to subdivisions of the time, which limited sales to Caucasians...such restrictions where found to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948.
Macconnell House, La Jolla, 1947....designed by William P. Kesling, who claimed to have briefly worked as Rudolf Schindler's draftsman before opening his own office at 1639 Silverlake Blvd. in 1935....Kesling designed numerous L.A. commercial buildings and residences (including the Wallace Beery house on Martel Ave. and the Beery duplex on Waring Ave.) before relocating to San Diego.
From an article on the training of female deputies at the L.A. County Sheriff's Office....November 1950.
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