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Originally Posted by odinthor
OK, architects: What's going on in the upper rear? It looks like the pool hall space is closed off underneath the rear balcony for a shoebox movie theater, the angled part to accommodate the steps up to the balcony.
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Good eye,
odinthor.
... I'm especially intrigued by the curved area that. .um. .slopes downwalk.
... And unless I am mistaken there are thin openings /slats which have me baffled.
*...(to see into the pool room?)
If I remember correctly some of the old Plat Maps show that a few of the old nickelodions & shoebox theaters were
indeed turned into pool rooms.
(but my memory is hazy, at best)
*OOPS I'm wrong about the 'slats'. They're not openings at all. They're beads on a wire -only further away.
I should have noticed them earlier.
They're for counting scores, right?
PART 2
THANKS for pointing out the sign,
stanklem.
..I appreciate it.
detail
Since the 'Sapolio sign says,
"Every dog have his day", -and this being a pool hall- I initially thought 'Sapolio' might have been dog racing track in Tiajuana.
WRONG.
It turns 'Sapolio' was a brand of soap.
ebay
The makers of the soap, Enoch Sons Co., was out of NYC.
wikipedia (I haven't found a West Coast Division)
I found the word 'Sapolio' only once in the city directories. (1887)
LAPL
And it was an advertisement for a store in but in San Francisco. (
not Los Angeles)
PART 3
I had NO clue about Red Raven so I decided to start with the city directories and found this. . . .
LAPL
Intriguing. .but I doubt it has anything to do with the pool room sign.
The sign
probably refer to 'Red Raven Splits', an aperient water. (laxative)
ebay
ebay
. .which was out of Pennsylvania. (see label below)
I could have used some of this last week. : -l
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