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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 12:38 AM
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Another interesting bit about this photo is that across the street from the Canteen is the aforementioned Alan Gordon Enterprises building
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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 3:32 AM
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Alan Gordon Enterprises which sat just south of the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga on the East side.

It has been turned into some type of nightclub or event space. Lot's of high priced cars being valet parked on a Friday and Saturday night.
BDJ100. I looked and currently there is restaurant there called LE JARDIN at 1430 Cahuenga Blvd. High Priced indeed, from their website:

"LE JARDIN; AN EXCLUSIVE DESTINATION FOR HOLLYWOOD’S CRÈME DE LA CRÈME. THE NEW OUTDOOR LOUNGE WILL TRANSPORT THE CHARM AND ROMANTICISM OF SOUTHERN FRANCE TO LOS ANGELES SERVING AS AN UNFORGETTABLE HIDEAWAY FOR A-LIST CELEBRITIES, SOCIALITES AND TASTEMAKERS."

Well!
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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 3:34 AM
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...and have the Googlemobile meantime take your picture.
I remember clicking on a link sometime ago that was called "disturbing images caught on the Googlemobile" or something like that.
Would make a good plot complication in a movie or television program!
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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 4:36 AM
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What block do you live on odinthor? I want to see you burying that body.


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The Sweet Peas grew well that next Spring . . .


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I posted Julius Shulman's 1959 photoset of Lawry's in post #35915. Still at the location on the west side of N La Cienega, here's how it looked 23 years later. This is "Job 6118: Lawry's Prime Rib (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1982".


Here is the heated food cart at Lawry's. All of the recipes for their side dishes are available online. The creamed corn, spinach, etc.

Lawry's Inc.
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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 1:46 PM
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Al Levy's Cafe, Hollywood Blvd???

I just came across this photo of Sardi's on Hollywood Blvd and yet we can see "AL LEVY'S CAFE" and "AL LEVY TAVERN" written in neon in what looks like the refection of a window.

Al Levy? on Hollywood Blvd? I nevuh hoid o' such a ting! Was Levy ever on Hollywood Blvd? Or was Sardi's on Vine St? Oh...wait a minute...maybe it was just a neon sign advertising the tavern around the corner? Looks like I need a stiff cocktail at the Blue Room.

(BTW, I did find this interesting article about Al Levy. He had a longer history than I ever knew: http://www.jmaw.org/al-levy-jewish-los-angeles/)

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'mystery' location

Two images from the same unknown block.


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In this slide you get a better view of the distinctive building in the background. (but the sign at top is still indecipherable) ....I think it's marred by graffiti.


eBay

I believe the building behind the bus is having it's windows blocked over. (they have one row of blocks along the top left to go)


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I don't know about the location but the year is about 1983 since that was the year that the TV program "Reading Rainbow" with Le Var Burton as host debuted.
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Today its Black Angus Steaks, etc.....I go there wearing t-shirt, shorts and my flip flops....times truly have changed.[/SIZE]

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Lawry's inc.[/QUOTE]


That huge stainless steel carving station on wheels was called "The Zeppelin" for obvious reasons.
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I don't recall seeing this c. 1890s photo before. Does anyone recognize the house? It's supposed to be somewhere in LA.



486795 @ Huntington Digital Library, Ernest Marquez Collection

The house/set that was used for the Munsters TV show was a variation of this particular style. It is a collection of various Victorian Styles. I believe that I have seen this particular one but cannot recall where. It is on a fairly flat area since the house behind it can be seen.
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'mystery' location

I don't believe we've seen this transit image on NLA. (I found it earlier this morning on eBay)


http://www.ebay.com/itm/5F343-RP-194...3D351805322823

I believe this is in the Little Tokyo or Chinatown area.

besides a sign for a market, I see signs for a laundry and hotel through the windows of the streetcar (see below)




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And Portland is playing Los Angeles in a baseball game.

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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 5:13 PM
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'mystery' location #2 (I just found this on eBay too)



http://www.ebay.com/itm/5F339-RP-194...YAAOSw~gRV6Nl7

maintenance car #9310.

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http://www.oldpostcards.com/t/try001085.html

I believe this is the same car.

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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 5:40 PM
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The Sweet Peas grew well that next Spring . . .


gsv

I couldn't help but think of this scene from Rear Window where the dog goes digging in the flower bed.

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It even has some of the same right angles as odinthor's gsv image.

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FlyingWedge, thanks for the glimpse of the Hawaiian Paradise nightclub!




Who knew it morphed into Drake's at one point! Drake's was quite a well-known place when home video was booming in the 90's. I think I bought something there once.

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Googlemobile question: Has anyone ever taken the googlemobile out spinning and ended up inside a building? I did today.
I was on Vine Street and suddenly veered into the "Cleo" restaurant located inside the Redbury. How is that possible?

Has anyone ever seen the googlemobile in person?
I have seen a googlemobile. It was a mid sized compact car with a lot of cameras mounted on the roof
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'mystery' location

I don't believe we've seen this transit image on NLA. (I found it earlier this morning on eBay)


http://www.ebay.com/itm/5F343-RP-194...3D351805322823

I believe this is in the Little Tokyo or Chinatown area.

besides a sign for a market, I see signs for a laundry and hotel through the windows of the streetcar (see below)
I think the streetcar is on New High Street near Sunset. You can see the O Sole Mio Restaurant on the left.


LAPL

Here's a view of the Bellevue side of O Sole Mio. This image is dated circa 1945, while the one above is from 1949.


LAPL

This is how the building looked in 1932. We're looking at the Sunset side here, which is the one in e_r's picture.


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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 7:06 PM
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Thanks for figuring out the location Hoss.

I especially like that last photograph from 1932. I know locally brewed Eastside Beer, but "Eastside Lime Rickey"?

-and I bet that pendulum on the billboard clock really swung back 'n forth.

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-and the photograph where the two men are talking...that's one of my favorites (I remember discussing this one years ago on nla)

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I just came across this photo of Sardi's on Hollywood Blvd and yet we can see "AL LEVY'S CAFE" and "AL LEVY TAVERN" written in neon in what looks like the refection of a window.

Al Levy? on Hollywood Blvd? I nevuh hoid o' such a ting! Was Levy ever on Hollywood Blvd? Or was Sardi's on Vine St? Oh...wait a minute...maybe it was just a neon sign advertising the tavern around the corner? Looks like I need a stiff cocktail at the Blue Room.

Sardi's is definitely on Hollywood Boulevard as its neighbor, Horton & Converse, appears on several other pictures I found. Rather than a reflection, I think we're looking at a double exposure.
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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 7:12 PM
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I found a third photo of the Warner Bros., KFWB, Aldo's, Coffee Dan's location on Hollywood Blvd. This one is dated 1956. It was mis-marked as taken west on Hollywood Blvd. from Vine Street instead of Cahuenga, which might be why I overlooked it before.

A. Ellis Smith

A closer look:



The CD for 1956 lists these businesses in that strip, from right to left:

6405 Hollywood Blvd.: Coffee Dan's
6407 Hollywood Blvd.: Karp's Men's Wear
6409 Hollywood Blvd.: Foundation Health Foods
6411 Hollywood Blvd. (Levinson Bldg.) the second floor offices were occupied
............................. by the Jack Linder Agency, Cunocar Accounting Services,
............................. A1 Music Arrangers and Velasco's Talent Workshop
6413 Hollywood Blvd.: Aldo's
6415 Hollywood Blvd.: Thom McAnn Shoe Store
6417 Hollywood Blvd.: My Desire Cocktail Lounge (Larry Potter)
6419 Hollywood Blvd.: KFWB Broadcasting Corporation

To the right of Coffee Dan's at 6401 Hollywood Blvd. is Florsheim Shoe Shops
which probably accounts for the FLO on the billboard at top right (and see below).


Other timeline photos of this location, including two previously posted pictures (Post #36707):

1961



also 1961


[The above two are dated 1961 in the sources, but there's no "Cinerama" sign at the theatre in the second one.]


1971
(Coffee Dan's is now the "Hamburger Palace.")



1979

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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 7:31 PM
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I think the streetcar is on New High Street near Sunset. You can see the O Sole Mio Restaurant on the left.


LAPL
And the BAMBA CLUB in the distance, mentioned here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1347
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13734

...among other posts.
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221 S. Olive Street

This is 221 S. Olive on July 27, 1961:



408064 @ Huntington Digital Library


Here is another late view, but earlier than the above photo:

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EDIT: this is the Herman Baer house at 221 South Olive

And here it is, second from right, c. 1895. At the right edge of the photo is 217 S. Olive (with a caged bird hanging
from the right side of the porch). To the left of 221 is 227, and at the left edge of the photo is 235 S. Olive:



486791 @ Huntington Digital Library, Ernest Marquez Collection


We see the same four houses in this close-up from a photo taken from City Hall around the same time as the previous photo:



CHS-2090 @ USCDL

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Old Posted Sep 6, 2016, 9:35 PM
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Thanks for your Lawry's follow-ups, CityBoyDoug. That food cart seems to have everything.


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Today's Julius Shulman post shows the modestly-named Miracle Center. This is "Job 1317: Miracle Center, 1952". The large sign in the distance belonged to the Circle Market.



The center had a coffee shop, drugstore, 5-10-25 Store, liquor store etc.



This shot shows the walkway through to the parking lot. I initially thought the sign on the left said "Juvenile Butchery", but, after a closer look, I was relieved to see that it said "Juvenile Bootery".



Here's the aforementioned parking lot. The walkway is by the cyclist.



A better look at the end sign.



Ora's Beauty Salon, combined with the street number, turned out to be key to locating the Mircale Center.



I've left out three images which just showed the shop fronts from different angles, but I couldn't ignore the only interior view. I believe this is the coffee shop.



All from Getty Research Institute

I found a single reference to Ora's Beauty Salon in a 1958 edition of 'Valley News from Van Nuys'. It gives the address as 12835 Victory Boulelvard, a number that matches the picture. The Miracle Center is just visible on the 1952 aerial view (below, left), on the northeast corner of Victory Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Avenue. A year later, the neighboring vacant lots had filled in. As far as I can tell, the store buildings disappeared during the '70s. Part of the block is still there in the late-70s, but all the original buildings of the Miracle Center are gone by 1980.


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