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Old Posted Aug 28, 2020, 10:37 PM
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It sure does. The 1973 CD has the American Massage College at 5504 Hollywood Boulevard. Discount Wigs was at 5500.
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Dead center of this crop:



That's not a movie theater marquee, is it? I don't recall a movie theater ever being there...
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This photo (early 40's?) has the notation: Note "Black-Out Switch" sign attached to the post.
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There was a story in the Los Angeles Times recently about the former home of bandleader Ray Anthony coming up for sale.

https://www.latimes.com/business/rea...house-for-sale

The photos did not look like the house I remember from the coverage of his big party in 1952 when Marilyn Monroe famously arrived via helicopter so I became curious about the cute little modern house built by engineer Fred O. Reyenga in 1947 for Capitol records executive William Fowler. Upon closer inspection, the original appears to still be there, but swallowed up by a much newer and larger Mission-style house.


(LAT 8/17/20)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOGVkWRUfWI

It is located at 14527 Valley Vista Blvd. Here's Marilyn helpfully posing near the mailbox.


It was quite the party. In the video these next two shots came from, Anthony says 500 members of the press attended. I love the idea that 98-year-old Ray Anthony is still blowing his horn in the hills above L.A.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3niaYXs2M

Here is the real estate listing: https://sallyforsterjones.com/listin...-sherman-oaks/
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That's not a movie theater marquee, is it? I don't recall a movie theater ever being there...

The Star Theatre at 5546 Hollywood Blvd.



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Destroyed by fire in December 1976.


losangelestheatres.blogspot.com
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I sure looked at a lot of Richfield stations the other day. Here's one I liked for no obvious reason. Even with the cataloging info, it would probably be impossible to place:

CSUN

But the Photographer is given as Quality Photo Shop, and the library had two others from the same source:

CSUN

CSUN

The bottom photo is identified as Glendale Avenue, the other two just Glendale, but the middle photo has a Piggly Wiggly, which is exotic (for me anyway. I know it mostly from Driving Miss Daisy). It might be possible to deduce the locations of these three photos as a group.
The theme seems to be street paving.

The middle picture is looking west on East Colorado towards the intersection of South Adams. The 1930 Glendale CD has:


ancestry.com

There is a roof sign:



...which when reversed says:



And the CD has:


ancestry.com

Here is a Sanborn which shows the location of the intersection of S Adams and E Colorado:


lapl.org


It also shows a drug store at 1024-8 E Colorado (sw corner of Adams/Colorado) seen in the photo, which is confirmed by the CD:


ancestry.com

The CD has a Pepper Tree Inn restaurant at 1114 E Colorado at the same place as the Driftwood. I bet if one slogged through the CDs, we might find a name change.

In 1930 there were some photographers on E Colorado, but none with "Quality" in their name.

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Oh, my. I'd been going crazy searching for Barus. I did find a "Quality Photo Shop" in the directory for 1948 at 133 N Glendale Ave. And I think it that actually IS a photo of Glendale Ave. (third photo) because it has a single set of tracks, unlike Brand which has two sets. The buildings didn't look right, though. I'll have to take another look.

Looks like the house at 215 N. Everett st. matches one in the upper-right of the third photo.

CSUN (modified)

Google Earth

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Destroyed by fire in December 1976.


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Thank goodness that sweet structure next door at address 5540 didn't burn:


gsv

From mid-1940s to mid-1950s, it was the location of the studio of Harry Lester, the ventriloquist-teacher of Edgar Bergen.
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The Star Theatre at 5546 Hollywood Blvd.



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Formally The Apollo Theatre
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The theme seems to be street paving.

The middle picture is looking west on East Colorado towards the intersection of South Adams. The 1930 Glendale CD has:


Here is a Sanborn which shows the location of the intersection of S Adams and E Colorado:


lapl.org


It also shows a drug store at 1024-8 E Colorado (sw corner of Adams/Colorado) seen in the photo, which is confirmed by the CD:


ancestry.com

The CD has a Pepper Tree Inn restaurant at 1114 E Colorado at the same place as the Driftwood. I bet if one slogged through the CDs, we might find a name change.

In 1930 there were some photographers on E Colorado, but none with "Quality" in their name.
I think all of those buildings are still there, except the Driftwood/Pepper Tree. The Bard Theater is now a banquet hall/restaurant club. One thing that throws me off the trail is that couldn't have been taken in the early 20's, Pigley Wigley wasn't there until 1928. There were two gas stations, one a Richfield on the north corners of Colorado and Chevy Chase. That might be the first photo.
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Thank goodness that sweet structure next door at address 5540 didn't burn:


gsv

From mid-1940s to mid-1950s, it was the location of the studio of Harry Lester, the ventriloquist-teacher of Edgar Bergen.

It was later occupied by Rompage Hardware, as seen in post 17377

From the 2013 post 17218

LAT 7-10-1927
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Old Posted Aug 29, 2020, 4:32 PM
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5540 Hollywood Boulevard, built as I take it in 1921, has had some interesting tenants. Here are a few:


LA Times, 2/19/1929

Searching on the Le Roy Bagley name will yield an interesting though very uncheerful collection of suicides and other deaths.



LA Times, 3/24/1932



LA Times, 5/8/1932



LA Times, 8/23/1953

The Timothy just mentioned was Timothy Getty, one of J. Paul Getty's children.
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The Star Theatre at 5546 Hollywood Blvd.



hollywoodphotographs.com


Destroyed by fire in December 1976.


losangelestheatres.blogspot.com
Thanks, Noir_Noir!

Guess it was gone by the time I turned 11. I was pretty familiar with Hollywood at a young age, but I guess that location slipped by me...
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Old Posted Aug 29, 2020, 11:29 PM
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Did anybody else see this fascinating post on Twitter yesterday?



https://twitter.com/alisonmartino/st...11614152749057

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Oh, my. I'd been going crazy searching for Barus. I did find a "Quality Photo Shop" in the directory for 1948 at 133 N Glendale Ave. And I think it that actually IS a photo of Glendale Ave. (third photo) because it has a single set of tracks, unlike Brand which has two sets. The buildings didn't look right, though. I'll have to take another look.

Looks like the house at 215 N. Everett st. matches one in the upper-right of the third photo.

CSUN (modified)

Google Earth
This third picture is looking north towards the intersection of Glendale and Wilson. The Glendale CDs have a photographer at 133 N Glendale back into the thirties.


google earth
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Yeah, that makes it much more clear.

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There were two gas stations, one a Richfield on the north corners of Colorado and Chevy Chase. That might be the first photo.
Tbanks. There some mountains in that photo, but very faint, so I guess I'll try to enhance it and match them up
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The Star Theatre at 5546 Hollywood Blvd.


hollywoodphotographs.com
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I like the Star Theatre's sense of humor, with the movie titles condensed to...

HAMMERSMITH
WHERE IT HURTS



For the record, those movies were released in 1972 and the full titles are:

Hammersmith is Out
Where Does It Hurt?
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Old Posted Aug 30, 2020, 6:17 AM
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Glendale gas stations

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Yeah, that makes it much more clear.



Tbanks. There some mountains in that photo, but very faint, so I guess I'll try to enhance it and match them up
Agree with BillinGlendaleCAThe 1936 Glendale CD has a Richfield station at 1145 E Colorado and Eastman's Service Center at 1201 E Colorado. The Richfield station was at the nw corner of E Colorado and S Chevy Chase and Eastman's at the ne corner of the same streets.
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Formally The Apollo Theatre
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This is a 1945 photo of the Apollo.
On the Los Angeles Theatres website it says the Apollo closed in 1971.

LAPL

I happen to have seen Guest Wife earlier this year. It was très amusant.
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This is a 1945 photo of the Apollo.
On the Los Angeles Theatres website it says the Apollo closed in 1971.

LAPL

I happen to have seen Guest Wife earlier this year. It was très amusant.
Was this associated or owned with the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC?
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