noirish Los Angeles - Page 1279

CityBoyDoug · #**25561** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 7:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I've certainly never heard of this café before.

St. Bernard Café, 4057 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles

-quite bizarre. So is Pascha one of the stuffed dogs above the St. Bernard Café sign? (behind the glass) -kind of creepy.

"Yes, Mable, let's have lunch today at that cafe with the stuffed dog in the window...you know, the one that was poisoned."

Yes creepy and not very appetizing.

ethereal_reality · #**25562** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 8:27 PM**

mystery location.

slide 1960

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LAMTA-Los-An...item3f44ecdd1d

-the biggest clue is the Cummings street sign....and that impressive building down at the end of the street....and the theater.
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ethereal_reality · #**25563** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 9:14 PM**

ok. this is pretty cool.

An ashtray shaped like the Los Angeles Coliseum.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-meta...item2c9531676a

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-meta...item2c9531676a

2 days left. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-meta...item2c9531676a
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CityBoyDoug · #**25564** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 9:21 PM**

One of the final scenes from the noir film "Sunset Boulevard".

Paramount pictures

Directed by Billy Wilder
Produced by Charles Brackett
Written by
Charles Brackett
Billy Wilder
D. M. Marshman, Jr.
Starring
William Holden
Gloria Swanson
Erich von Stroheim
Nancy Olson
Fred Clark
Lloyd Gough
Jack Webb
Cecil B. DeMille
Hedda Hopper
Buster Keaton
Anna Q. Nilsson
H. B. Warner
Franklyn Farnum
Music by Franz Waxman
Cinematography John F. Seitz
Edited by
Doane Harrison
Arthur Schmidt
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
August 10, 1950[1]
Running time
110 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1.75 million
Box office $5 million

Martin Pal · #**25565** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 9:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by HossC

It's beginning to look as if Nancy's started out at 6366 (as seen in 'Big City'), and then expanded to the old I Magnin building at 6340. The City Directories suggest that by 1960, Nancy's had moved back to 6366.

Nancy was sure getting around! Thanks HossC and C. King.

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Originally Posted by HossC

Another vintage {streetcar} picture from eBay.

And who would've thought eBay would become a historical research tool? And yet,
E_R and others keep finding a lot of gems on there that keep us fascinated.

Thank you all.

C. King · #**25566** Posted **Jan 16, 2015, 11:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

mystery location.

slide 1960

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LAMTA-Los-An...item3f44ecdd1d

-the biggest clue is the Cummings street sign....and that impressive building down at the end of the street....and the theater.
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I believe we would be standing on the sidewalk along 1st St looking east across Cummings. Today, we would be on the sidewalk under the 5 freeway along 1st. At this point, Cummings has become a frontage road on the east side of the freeway.

Corrections welcome.

HossC · #**25567** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 12:34 AM**

No corrections from me, C. King. That's where I thought it was too. I can't get far enough left with the Googlemobile, so here's the nearest I could get to a current view.

GSV

As far as I can tell, the "theater" mentioned by e_r was actually the Eastside Arena at 2016 E 1st. It looks like it held boxing matches while the Olympic Auditorium was remodeled. The clipping below is from the January 4, 1955 edition of The Bakersfield Californian.

www.newspapers.com

There is a theater in the picture, but the marquee is barely visible under the "Cummings" sign. It was the Meralta Theatre at 2035 E 1st. From what I can find, it opened as the New Lyceum Theatre around 1914. It now survives as a church. More info about the theater can be found here and here.

GSV

I think the building at the far end of the street was a previous incarnation of the Benjamin Franklin Branch of the Los Angeles City Library. The current building still goes by that name, but it's not the one from the 1960 picture.

fhammon · #**25568** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 1:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by HossC

eBay

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Makes me want to eat at that little greasy spoon.
1/2 chicken with French fries .88 cent, pastrami dip .35 cents.
If the street-car had moved a little further along we would have seen the name of the place.
Sad to see the building on the left is gone. It gave the area a sense of place.

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I see the .35 cent pastrami dip but where's the .88 cent chicken and fries?

Edit:
Nevermind. I didn't scroll over far enough.
OK I'm hungry....

ethereal_reality · #**25569** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 2:00 AM**

fhammon, the chicken sign is on the roof, above Hot Tamale...you need to scroll to the right a little further---->

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ethereal_reality · #**25570** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 2:54 AM**

1960 'mystery' slide

ebay

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Originally Posted by HossC

First Street and Cummings.

GSV

Good detective work C King and HossC! (I certainly didn't realize my 1960 slide was 1st & Cummings)

Here is a view of the building on the left in 1958! (note the writing beneath the roof line)

old file of mine

...a contemporary close-up.

I hope we can dig up some history on the building now that we have a name.
(I believe it might have been a small hotel considering the extant canopy-marquee above the door)
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One other thing:

Behind the furniture building (on the right in the 1960 slide and HossC's GSV view) there is a very interesting old brick building. (facing Cummings Street)

GSV

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ethereal_reality · #**25571** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 3:40 AM**

ok, we solved that one....now how about this?

ebay
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ethereal_reality · #**25572** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 3:59 AM**

-movie star handsome father with three daughters (and grandpa) in front of 'Casa Del Mar' in Santa Monica, ca. 1930.

ebay

http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_s...ve_Nights.html
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C. King · #**25573** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 4:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

ok, we solved that one....now how about this?

ebay
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Trying to make sense of the name of the Electric Company in the background, does that say "1520 Legrand Electric Co."??? The closest "Hernandez Hideaway Cafe", behind the Red Car I found in a quick googling, was a place in the San Diego area. That's definitely not it.

ethereal_reality · #**25574** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 5:46 PM**

That's a good start C. King. I tried looking up "Hernandez" in a San Pedro directory but there were just too many to research individually.
I also tried "Hernandez Hideaway" to no avail.
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Here's a nice looking early business card.

J.T. Sheward
13 & 15 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, Cal.

ebay

I'm not sure what going on, on the reverse. It appears someone is trying to return something ad infinitum.

ethereal_reality · #**25575** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 5:53 PM**

I don't recall seeing this place before on NLA. I wonder if it had any connection to restaurateur Fred Harvey. (never mind, I see the owner's first name is Harvey)

ebay

ethereal_reality · #**25576** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 6:09 PM**

Los Angeles High School Football Team, ca. 1908.

ebay

Nice looking group of young men, but my eye kept wandering over to that church in the background.
-Does anyone recognize that church?

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ethereal_reality · #**25577** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 6:23 PM**

Here are a couple interesting snapshots from 1938.

"S.P.R.R. Bridge over L.A. River."

ebay

"S.P.R.R. Bridge over L.A. River."

ebay

-note the tunnel. (and the tiny people looking at the damage from the side of the roadway)

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ethereal_reality · #**25578** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 7:06 PM**

I've got to go out of town for a few days, so I thought I'd post one more 'mystery' photograph.

ebay

Have a great weekend everyone!
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AlvaroLegido · #**25579** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 9:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Los Angeles High School Football Team, ca. 1908.

ebay
Nice looking group of young men, but my eye kept wandering over to that church in the background.
-Does anyone recognize that church?

Something didn't look quite right about 1908. I looked at it close and thought : the haircut of every player and the trousers of the first guy at the left (standing). It could be late 1920s to 1940s. The '08' on the photo might mean something different.

fhammon · #**25580** Posted **Jan 17, 2015, 10:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido

Something didn't look quite right about 1908. I looked at it close and thought : the haircut of every player and the trousers of the first guy at the left (standing). It could be late 1920s to 1940s. The '08' on the photo might mean something different.

I got the same impression too at first but it is the 1908 team.
Most of them strike me as looking too old to be in high school in the first photo.
Here's another photo of them. Louis Cass (#9) appears in both.
Bottom row center?

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Los Angeles High School Blue and White yearbook, 1908:
Los Angeles High School football team includes Louis Cass

http://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org/...-temecula-ca/#

There's some interesting reading and photos here but none show ER's interesting building.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_High_School