noirish Los Angeles - Page 275

ethereal_reality · #**5481** Posted **Dec 12, 2011, 11:48 PM**

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The first bar to open after the repeal of prohibition.

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Does anyone know where in L.A. this was located?

below: I finally found a couple interior photographs of the Malamute Saloon. Still no address.

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The girl with the dated hairdo could be an extra from a nearby movie studio. (just trying to find clues to its location)

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ethereal_reality · #**5482** Posted **Dec 13, 2011, 12:40 AM**

The elegant Century Plaza Hotel before its grand opening in 1966.

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Minoru Yamasaki also designed the World Trade Center in New York City.

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3940dxer · #**5483** Posted **Dec 13, 2011, 7:41 AM**

Seeing these old signs while hiking yesterday, I thought of this thread. They mark two fire roads in the Verdugo hills, between Glendale and Burbank.

I wonder if at one time Mr. Beaudry owned or hoped to develop this land.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dropdeadsuit/3320650445/

GaylordWilshire · #**5484** Posted **Dec 13, 2011, 11:59 AM**

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Fab Fifties Fan · #**5485** Posted **Dec 13, 2011, 8:53 PM**

Back in April of this year, GaylordWilshire posted about the Gates of Berkley Square and other structures designed by famed architect Alfred Rosenheim.

While perusing AOL Real Estate today I came across this interesting post about the Rosenheim mansion, at 1120 Westchester Place in Country Club/Hancock Park, having been listed for sale at $4.5 million. I recognized the structure immediately as being the creepy mansion in American Horror Story! Fun stuff!!!

From the AOL Real Estate article, "The six-bedroom, five-bathroom property was designed by celebrated architect Alfred Rosenheim (designer of iconic Los Angeles monuments such as the Hellman Building, the Hamburger Department Store, and the Eugene W. Britt House) and has hit the market for $4.5 million...Details such as stained-glass windows, silver and gold leaf hand-painted ceilings, Tiffany stained glass windows, rich wood paneling and six stunning vintage fireplaces make it not-your-average L.A. mansion. So unique, in fact, that it's been declared a Los Angeles Cultural Monument"

A contemporary photograph of the mansion from the listing.

AOL Real Estate

An undated noirish photo

Jim Lewis photographer

A great screen shot from AHS, with inset, showing how it was "creeped out" for filming.

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

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The gates of Berkeley Square were designed by Alfred Rosenheim, who also gave us the Hellman Building, Hamburger's Department Store, and Clune's Broadway Theater downtown as well as the Doheny conservatory and natatorium in Chester Place and the Britt house and the Second Church of Christ Scientist, both still on Adams.

Here is an interesting shot of the church under construction, and one of it finished:

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The AOL article is here: http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/...-horror-story/

~Jon Paul

GaylordWilshire · #**5486** Posted **Dec 13, 2011, 11:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Fab Fifties Fan

Back in April of this year, GaylordWilshire posted about the Gates of Berkley Square and other structures designed by famed architect Alfred Rosenheim.

While perusing AOL Real Estate today I came across this interesting post about the Rosenheim mansion, at 1120 Westchester Place in Country Club/Hancock Park, having been listed for sale at $4.5 million.
~Jon Paul

Oh the lengths to which real estate brokers will go to co-opt a better (much, in this case) neighborhood! Hancock Park? I don't think so....

This house was a nunnery once and has been on the market forever--literally years and years--for something like $7M at one time I think (totally insane). Even though it's probably a maintenance nightmare, it would be worth that or more if it actually was in Hancock Park--as it is, I can't see who in their right mind wouldn't take $4.5M and spend it on a better neighborhood. Sacrifice, say, a couple thousand square feet for a house in a district with less of a fear factor... and I'm not referring to the "American Horror Story" aspect of fear.

Which is not to say that I didn't enjoy your post, FFF. And which is not to say that I don't hope someone will step up to the plate and buy the Rosenheim house and love it.

ethereal_reality · #**5487** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 12:34 AM**

One of the more intriguing houses I have come across using Google Street View is down the street at 1255.
I've always liked its slightly 'haunted' look....very noirish.

google street view

below: Click on the link to see this house in its prime.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3725

FredH · #**5488** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 1:44 AM**

Ethereal_Reality:

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I looked everywhere for this place and found very little. According to LAPL, the addresses over the doors are 1916-1918 at an unknown street. From the look of the buildings, it appears to be some type of tourist area. The street out front seems to be some sort of unpaved walking area. Could it be at the beach, or somewhere?

ethereal_reality · #**5489** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 1:46 AM**

After the recent posts on the 'White Spot' (be it Magnolia Park or a bar on Wilshire) I was reminded of a White Spot Garage.

Well, I FINALLY found the photo I was thinking of, and I was wrong.....it is simply White Garage. No 'Spot' to it at all.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...15304/CHS-2078

above: Notice the Hotel Woodward center left, it would eventually become the Bristol Hotel (covered earlier in this thread).

Recently I found this great matchbook of a nightclub called "The Village'. It turns out it was located in the Woodward/Bristol Hotel building.

found on ebay

below: The inside of the matchbook is what makes it so great.

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below: A wonderful photo of the Bristol Hotel courtesy of the USC Digital Archives.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...OS-ANG-MIS-004

below: The Bristol today...'The Village' nightclub was located in the area left of the main entrance.

google street view

below: Sadly, the area around the Bristol Hotel still seems somewhat dicey. Yes, the Golden Gopher is next door, but look at that other building.

google street view

below: And across the street you are greeted by this.

It is the 8th Street side of the once respectable Commercial Exchange Building.

google street view

Oh....and the fate of the White Garage? The site is now a four story public parking garage.

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ethereal_reality · #**5490** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 1:57 AM**

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ethereal_reality · #**5491** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 2:21 AM**

Another glimpse of the Hotel Woodward. This was posted way back on page 60....but it's so great I thought it wouldn't hurt to post it anew.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1323829282878

ethereal_reality · #**5492** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 3:29 AM**

Found on ebay.

An unfinished 'Castle-in-the Sky' overlooking Cahuenga Pass.

Has anyone heard of this place before?

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GaylordWilshire · #**5493** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 3:35 AM**

Estately

Yet another interesting Westchester Place house is #1130... the Judson Rives house at the ne corner of 12th Street. It is not only next door to Rosenheim's house--it was designed by him. Sam Watters's book Houses of Los Angeles 1885-1919 has some great early shots unobstructed by vegetation. The nuns who once occupied Rosenheim's house also owned this one.... The shot above is not clear, though interesting in that it almost looks like a painting--anyway, it's the best shot I could find. Current Google views reveal almost nothing of the house behind the jungle.

FredH · #**5494** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 4:41 AM**

Los Angeles Times

Now:

Google Street View

FredH · #**5495** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 5:06 AM**

Early 1980's I believe

Earl Witscher, Modernage Photo Service

(sorry about the photo quality, its a photo of a photo mural)

Hey! What is this?

If you look real close between the Security Pacific Building and the new Crocker Plaza...

...its the pedestrian bridge over Taylor Yard. Still there!

jg6544 · #**5496** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 6:19 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fab Fifties Fan

Back in April of this year, GaylordWilshire posted about the Gates of Berkley Square and other structures designed by famed architect Alfred Rosenheim.

While perusing AOL Real Estate today I came across this interesting post about the Rosenheim mansion, at 1120 Westchester Place in Country Club/Hancock Park, having been listed for sale at $4.5 million. I recognized the structure immediately as being the creepy mansion in American Horror Story! Fun stuff!!!

From the AOL Real Estate article, "The six-bedroom, five-bathroom property was designed by celebrated architect Alfred Rosenheim (designer of iconic Los Angeles monuments such as the Hellman Building, the Hamburger Department Store, and the Eugene W. Britt House) and has hit the market for $4.5 million...Details such as stained-glass windows, silver and gold leaf hand-painted ceilings, Tiffany stained glass windows, rich wood paneling and six stunning vintage fireplaces make it not-your-average L.A. mansion. So unique, in fact, that it's been declared a Los Angeles Cultural Monument"

The AOL article is here: http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/...-horror-story/

~Jon Paul

Nice building, but in that neighborhood, it's probably not worth more than $2 mil., if that.

FredH · #**5497** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 6:27 AM**

There is no sound with this, but its kind of interesting (and a little strange)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ekGp...eature=related
YouTube

The salesman is showing a tract map to a customer:

Footage Farm

Came out like this:

Google Earth

Looks like the guy's house turned into a warehouse

I kept waiting for the Stooges to show up:

The Three Stooges, Columbia Pictures

GaylordWilshire · #**5498** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 1:20 PM**

USCDL

Kansas Sebastian

This was the end for the Thomas E. Gibbon house once on the big lot at 2272 S. Harvard, across from the still-extant Rindge house at 2263 (and at the opposite end of the block from Hattie McDaniel's at 2203 (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4650). Other neighbors still standing on the street include the Washburn house at 2200 (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4630), the Beckett house at 2218 (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1849), and the Cochran house (2249). Btw, don't miss the Robert Plant/Alison Krause video in the third link above.

Still surviving from the Gibbon house is this long arroyo-stone wall along LaSalle Street:

Google Street View

When I look at Kansas Sebastian's photostream of these great houses--of all the big houses from Pico-Union out toward the west--I am still amazed that Los Angeles has let so much architectural magnificence go to seed. It would be the equivalent of New Orleans (where I grew up) letting go of the Garden District and the entire length of St. Charles Avenue--but being bigger, L.A. has lost even more. Not that I don't understand the economics, demographics, and geographics behind the abandonment, but I'm still staggered. Windsor Hills, Hancock Park, Bel-Air and even Beverly Hills have their charms, but one can only imagine the mature magnificence of these old Los Angeles neighborhoods were they as intact as they were in their heydays.

jhny12 · #**5499** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 1:32 PM**

I believe the movie "Running With Scissors" was also filmed at the Beckett House. It was painted Pink.

GaylordWilshire · #**5500** Posted **Dec 14, 2011, 2:32 PM**

Kansas Sebastian

Google Street View

The George I Cochran house mentioned in the previous post... 2249 S. Harvard.

And the only other extant house on the block between 22nd Street and the circle in front of the Rindge house is that of Thomas W. Phillips at 2215:

Wikipedia

Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs was filmed here, and it was used in the poster (photoshopped with other non-Harvard Blvd houses):

IMDB