noirish Los Angeles

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger

Here's another view from the movie:

Just before this shot we see the man who is bumping that 1948 Chrysler Town and Country woody out of the way. Must have been a retake shot on another day because we're at a different location.

This was filmed across the street from the 1930 Zigzag building at the swc of Beverly Boulevard and Fuller Avenue (just west of El Coyote)--
the International Fluorescent Co was at 7358 Beverly. Until recently details of the façade were enhanced with gray paint.

[ethereal_reality]

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'World Miniature Golf Day' was July 11 so
I did some googlin' and happened upon this illus. from the Los Angeles Evening Express (1930)



I'm trying to figure out the location.



Here's a map of Angeles Mesa from back in the day. (Baldwin Hills is on the left)


Los Angeles Times, August 20, 1916



. .BUT. .and it's a big BUT, there were three(?) different annexations. (see below)



"Three annexations of Angeles Mesa areas to Los Angeles are noted, at top, as is the small annexation of the View Park residential tract.
The city of Hyde Park, which was consolidated with Los Angeles, is at the bottom of this City of Los Angeles map." ... wiki





Also too. . . . .

I thought this was interesting.


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Huh In Angeles Mesa?



It's from this Angeles Mesa ad. (shown below)


Los Angeles Evening Herald of March 22, 1913




To see a color postcard of that same view go Here


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[Snix]

The Hollywood Greyhound station at 1629 Greyhound was built in 1913 as a combination fire house and police station.
Los Angeles Fire Department Engine 27 and Los Angeles Police Department Police Station 6
The firehouse relocated in 1930 to 1355 N. Cahuenga per lafire.com

Security Pacific National Bank Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

Captain Duane Warth Collection/lafire.com
Many more great photos here: https://lafire.com/stations/FS027/FS027_1913-1930.htm

Conversion permit 7/8/30
Here it is in the 1925 film "The Last Edition"

https://thelasteditionfilm.com/los-angeles-exteriors/

..and three years later (note the bus)

"A Hollywood police officer poses with fashionable women outside of the Hollywood police station, Division 6, located at 1629 Cahuenga Avenue. These women have arrived into town via a Pickwick Stages bus, partially visible on the right, and are promoting Pickwick Stages as a travel option."
Security Pacific National Bank Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
The building later housed the Small Word Importium.
(Here's a great 1978 photo on hollywoodphotographs.com that I don't want to copy)
https://hollywoodphotographs.photosh...OZ2XQ--&GI_ID=


https://vintagemenumania.com/product...31137299497029
It was destroyed by fire on December 17, 1979

lafire.com

LATimes 12/18/79

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I happened upon this lobby card a few weeks ago on eBay.


'Bodyguard' ..1948


eBay (no longer listed)

Lawrence Tierney's woody is impressive.

Anyhoo. . .I'm not sure where this Greyhound Bus Depot/Terminal is located.
At first I thought it was the bus depot on N. Cahuenga but it doesn't seem to match up correctly. Then I thought it was the downtown terminal but I don't remember the A.W. Larson store being in the same building.

I looked up Larson in several of the 1940s city directories & discovered that there is a shitload plethora of Larsons in the Los Angeles area.








Just for fun, here's the title card for "Bodyguard".



I love when film noirs start out like this. -with the city lurking in the background.





AND. . .take a look at the multitude of locations used in the filming (courtesy of IMDB


note that the bus terminal isn't listed.


I've never seen this film. I'm going to put it at the top of my list!



There is an image of Lawrence Tierney in the "Bodyguard" with the Hollywood Casket Company visible behind in Phil-AFN's post, Here.
GW, followed up with a contemporary view of the building that once housed the Hollywood Casket Company, Here.


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[Snix]

Hollywood Ranch Market, 1956
Photo by Robert Frank (1924-2019)

“Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that grey little camera he raises with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.” -Jack Kerouac


https://www.latimes.com/california/s...ank-california

[riichkay]

I'm not sure if we have seen this one, a search turned up nothing, but it looks vaguely familiar....in any case this posting is in high-res, if you go to the link you can enlarge with remarkable clarity...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/...fourth_street/


Nov. 15, 1908....




Flames broke out in the basement of the Los Angeles Pacific building at 314 W. Fourth St., adjoining the Broadway Department Store, at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon and threatened serious loss. The fire is believed to have had its origin in the rear of the basement, under the Sunset Bakery, at 320 W. 4th Street.

Fourth Street from Broadway to Hill was speedily roped off to keep the crowds back, and Broadway became a mass of humanity within a few minutes. Great volumes of smoke could be seen rolling up over the Broadway Department Store, creating the impression that it was that great store which was burning.

So quickly did the flames spread in the lower portions of the Los Angeles Pacific Building that the clerks and stenographers of the railway company in the offices on the second floor could not reach safety by the stairway or elevator. Fifteen girls and women were taken from the windows of the second floor with ladders. The clouds of smoke that rolled from the building did not begin to compare in size with the cloud of spectators which sought to reach the scene of the fire.






















Additional photos of the action from the LAFD archives....

http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/p...e-11151908.htm

[Lwize]

Originally Posted by riichkay

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So many women wearing the same clothes. Strange.

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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'World Miniature Golf Day' was July 11 so
I did some googlin' and happened upon this illus. from the Los Angeles Evening Express (1930)



I'm trying to figure out the location.


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It looks like that course was at 3870 Angeles Mesa Drive (now Crenshaw Blvd.):




There was another course just a few blocks south, the View Park Miniature Golf Course at Angeles Mesa and Vernon:



July 5, 1930, Los Angeles Evening Express at Newspapers.com (both)


BTW, on page 19 of the above-referenced newspaper there is an ad that lists 30 miniature golf courses in the city.

[CaliNative]

Pic posted by snix:


"A Hollywood police officer poses with fashionable women outside of the Hollywood police station, Division 6, located at 1629 Cahuenga Avenue. These women have arrived into town via a Pickwick Stages bus, partially visible on the right, and are promoting Pickwick Stages as a travel option."

^^^
Is it too much to ask for flappers to reappear? It is the '20s after all. After this miserable pandemic we deserve flappers.

[John Maddox Roberts]

Originally Posted by CaliNative

Pic posted by snix:


"A Hollywood police officer poses with fashionable women outside of the Hollywood police station, Division 6, located at 1629 Cahuenga Avenue. These women have arrived into town via a Pickwick Stages bus, partially visible on the right, and are promoting Pickwick Stages as a travel option."

^^^
Is it too much to ask for flappers to reappear? It is the '20s after all. After this miserable pandemic we deserve flappers.

As I recall we've seen this pic before and one of the ladies is Sally Rand.

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by CaliNative

^^^
Is it too much to ask for flappers to reappear? It is the '20s after all. After this miserable pandemic we deserve flappers.

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[HossC]

Originally Posted by Snix

"A Hollywood police officer poses with fashionable women outside of the Hollywood police station, Division 6, located at 1629 Cahuenga Avenue. These women have arrived into town via a Pickwick Stages bus, partially visible on the right, and are promoting Pickwick Stages as a travel option."
Security Pacific National Bank Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
The building later housed the Small Word Importium.
(Here's a great 1978 photo on hollywoodphotographs.com that I don't want to copy)
https://hollywoodphotographs.photosh...OZ2XQ--&GI_ID=

Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts

As I recall we've seen this pic before and one of the ladies is Sally Rand.

An image search and a text search didn't find any previous occurrences for me, but the picture below, which e_r posted last December, is not dissimilar. It include Sally Rand amongst the Wampus Baby Stars of 1927 posing with Babe Ruth.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Babe Ruth arrives on the Los Angeles Limited and is welcomed by the Wampus Baby Stars of 1927.


eBay (from quite some time ago / perhaps a year)

[ethereal_reality]

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Mystery location

Seller's description..1933 Earthquake Los Angeles Warehouse Photo Lot of 6






Written on the reverse.


I'm surprised the seller didn't mention Coca Cola. (that's usually a selling point)




The following sepia images are included in the lot.














Photograph of the warehouse(s).






I think MGM Studios might be in the center in the distance.







Thanks for figuring out the location of the Angeles Mesa Miniature Golf Course, Flyingwedge....I appreciate it.



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[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by HossC

An image search and a text search didn't find any previous occurrences for me, but the picture below, which e_r posted last December, is not dissimilar. It include Sally Rand amongst the Wampus Baby Stars of 1927 posing with Babe Ruth.

Well, a Ruthian pitcher/slugger has appeared among us with the name of Ohtani, so maybe flappers will magically reappear as well. It is the '20s again. Of course as Twain supposedly said, history rhymes but doesn't repeat, and Ohtani is slimmer and more well behaved than the Babe...so far.

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

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Thanks Martin. Debbie Reynolds at her best doing the Charleston. That R & M show was closer to the 1920s in time than it was to today. Probably filmed over 50 years ago, but even then the 1920s had an allure. Even farther back, in 1952's "Singing in the Rain" about the dawn of "talkies" (also with a young Debbie) the 1920s had an allure. Great film, everyone should see it. The 1920s were far from perfect (racism, gangsterism, corruption, etc.) but people did apparently have a good time. They were ready to party after the horrors of WWI and the "Spanish" Flu pandemic, and a wild party it was. "The Era of Wonderful Nonsense". But under the surface fascism was spreading and the seeds of the Great Depression were taking root. But most people didn't notice as the party roared on and the economy and Wall Street boomed.

[Slauson Slim]

I used to go the the Mesa Theatre at 58th and Crenshaw. A lovely movie house, long gone.

[ethereal_reality]

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Here's another mystery location.

This photograph, dated April 1896, appeared on eBay a few days ago.

It shows a group of men posing in front of the Los Angeles Mining Stock Exchange. Curiously, there are furnished rooms to rent in the same building.


eBay (no longer listed)

If you look closely there are tall potted palms inside the entrance vestibule.


My question is:... Was the Los Angeles Mining Stock Exchange at a different location than the Los Angeles Stock Exchange?



Here's what was written on the back.




Any help would be appreciated.

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[ethereal_reality]

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Here's a closer look at those potted palms I mentioned in my previous post....(as most of you know potted palms were de rigueur in the 1890s)


detail

It looks like there are small recessed lights in the ceiling but they're no doubt spots on the negative.


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[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by HossC

An image search and a text search didn't find any previous occurrences for me, but the picture below, which e_r posted last December, is not dissimilar. It include Sally Rand amongst the Wampus Baby Stars of 1927 posing with Babe Ruth.

The picture of the girls and the policeman outside the Hollywood station (re)posted by Snix was posted three years ago by GW here.

[Mstimc]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Mystery location

Seller's description..1933 Earthquake Los Angeles Warehouse Photo Lot of 6






Written on the reverse.


I'm surprised the seller didn't mention Coca Cola. (that's usually a selling point)




The following sepia images are included in the lot.














Photograph of the warehouse(s).






I think MGM Studios might be in the center in the distance.







Thanks for figuring out the location of the Angeles Mesa Miniature Golf Course, Flyingwedge....I appreciate it.



Link

My mother was 12 and living on the West Side when the earthquake hit. My grandparents were separated at the time and she wrote her father in Chicago about all the damage she saw there and in DTLA. Its quite a remarkable document and I preserved it. If I can find it in storage, I'll scan an image and post it.

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Here's another mystery location.

This photograph, dated April 1896, appeared on eBay a few days ago.

It shows a group of men posing in front of the Los Angeles Mining Stock Exchange. Curiously, there are furnished rooms to rent in the same building.


eBay (no longer listed)

The Los Angeles Mining & Stock Exchange was listed at 318 W 2nd St in the 1896 CD...it looks like a Mrs. I E Robinson, and then others, rented furnished rooms at the same address during the late '90s.


The officers of the LAM&SE listed in the '96 CD were A H Judson pres, J A Fairchild vp, HM Russell treas, FJ Cooper secy--but Judson was apparently succeeded as prexy by G. W. Parsons, whose initials seem to be the ones on the back of the photo. The third man from the left appears to me to be Major Horace M. Russell, a romantic figure of the West and a big LA muckety-muck. He was a charter member of both the California and Jonathan clubs and lived in big West Adams houses including 24 St James Park and 718 West Adams. His colorful bio is here.





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