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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 7:20 PM
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'mystery' location

Feb. 23, 1940


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Does anyone recognize this street corner?



info. on reverse



for search purposes:
Laraine Day / Mary Howard / MGM players
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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 8:00 PM
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I've got an apartment complex from Julius Shulman today. It's "Job 6126: Kamnitzer and Cotton, mountain shadows (West Covina, Calif.), 1983". Here's a selection.



I assume that this was a community hall.



The upstairs apartments have external stairs.



I'm not sure why the area in the middle was walled off.



An apartment interior.



I couldn't ignore this last image because I played a lot Pac-Man in 1983 - I even had the watch. I'm sure that one of my friends had a Donkey Kong game like the one on the left.



All from Getty Research Institute

The entrance now has higher fences and has lost its lights. Apart from that, the Mountain Shadows Apartments at 2775 Valley Boulevard, West Covina don't seem to have changed much.


GSV
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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 8:50 PM
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FWIW, here are two examples: for I Love Lucy and aerial Santa Monica. I included the latter as an example of images that are easily overlooked for obvious reasosn. But they can be salvaged. Go for it!

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...a8dfbfb13.html

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...fdebff46c.html
For those who haven't checked the link, the Santa Monica aerial is very dark. With a bit of tweaking, it becomes usable (if not perfect).


images.google.com

I tried to match the view with Google Maps.


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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 9:19 PM
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'mystery' location

Feb. 23, 1940


ebay

Does anyone recognize this street corner?
info. on reverse



for search purposes:
Laraine Day / Mary Howard / MGM players



Sunset and Doheny. (?) Each actress has her own Wiki page.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=35807


In the background is the former Doheny Courtyard Apts. previously seen on NLA.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098565.jpg

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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 9:42 PM
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We've seen this place one time before (five yrs. ago), but the pic is missing, so here it is again.


ebay

Did you ever go here oldstuff?



Here it is today, practically untouched.


gsv


Vintage postcard of what stood here before the 'streamline moderne' bldg.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=18028

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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 10:25 PM
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Sunset and Doheny.

Thanks Tourmaline.

I see the map man added a Micky Mouse to the top of sign. (it's missing in my 1940 pic)
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Star Map 'mystery' location #2


https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ollywood#img-3

Anyone recognize this spot?

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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 10:50 PM
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I just happened upon this amazing photograph quite by accident.


https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/king-kong

The only information included with the photograph was "King Kong set, 1933"

I'm guessing this was taken at RKO.

(although they filmed the island scene with the giant wall in Culver City)
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Old Posted Mar 13, 2017, 11:17 PM
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Kamnitzer and Cotton

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"Job 6126: Kamnitzer and Cotton, mountain shadows (West Covina, Calif.), 1983"
Thx Hoss. Kamnitzer and Cotton also did the Promenade Towers at 123 S Fig:

seeing-stars/"fight club" (1999)

The Home Savings Tower (now BofA) at 7th & Fig (across Lebanon St from the Fine Arts Building) together w/ AC Martin & Associates. "A Marriage of Art and Achitecture":

gsv

And, in association with other firms, the unfortunate, to my eyes, California Plaza, Omni Hotel, Museum Tower complex up on Bunker Hill, where the Angels Flight ticket office sits on a little shelf. Shown here during Operation Latte Thunder: "We were supposed ta destroy a piece of corporate art and trash a franchise coffee bar":

seeing-stars.com/"Fight Club" (1999)
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I'm still stuck at W 4th and S Olive:








Beaudry had also pictured the rear view of the buildings that would fall for the Savoy Garage:






And ProphetM has the whole line-up from the front except for the elusive corner building (someone's running a laundry/tailors out of the space under the Mumford's porch):



If anyone has an image of that corner building, I'd love to see it.
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Not exactly what you're after, I'm afraid, but still a bit of the puzzle...


Looking south on Olive Street from the Palace Hotel, ca.1915


Once again shot from the roof of the Palace Hotel (ne Kellogg) at 317 S. Olive, this time looking south over the Ems which is just out of frame at the bottom right. First roof line at the bottom right with the little railing is the Olive Inn and next to it the conical turret of the Hotel Ogden can be seen although the actual building is hidden behind the Olive, then the unadorned Van Winkle. Then the huge Fremont Hotel on the southwest corner of Olive and 4th with the unmatched rooftop turrets on the right edge and beyond it the more modest Hotel Trenton at 427 S. Olive. On the left or east side of the street we can see the rounded roof line of the auditorium and just this side of it is the three story Hotel Munn (with the matching pyramidal turrets) which will be lost with the coming construction of the P&E subway terminal building. Right now the open area just this side of the Munn is the open air subway terminal yard. The 11 story Wright & Callender Building is seen at S. Hill and 4th Street and tucked in beside it (coming up 4th Street) is the roof of the Hotel Sheldon, an unidentified peaked roof building and then the Mumford with its distinctive twin peaks. All three of these are partially hidden behind the Wales (1909 birdseye) or the Bailey (1910 Baist) which sits at 348 S. Olive. If you look very closely at the right edge of the Wales/Bailey you can pick out a couple of little balconies next door. These belong to The Porches (apartment/hotel) at 350 S. Olive.
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I just happened upon this amazing photograph quite by accident.


https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/king-kong

The only information included with the photograph was "King Kong set, 1933"

I'm guessing this was taken at RKO.

(although they filmed the island scene with the giant wall in Culver City)

I was just looking at a similar image.

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The King Kong bust that sat in front of Graumann’s Chinese Theater is pictured during the premiere of the film King Kong (1933). It looks like the director/ producer Merian C. Cooper is the person who is posing for this picture. https://onset.shotonwhat.com/gallery...ong/?tag=1544#
At least one source claims that the Kong-on-Wheels appeared at Graumans.
https://onset.shotonwhat.com/p/pix/m...1900002570.jpg


This pic in front of the Fox Pomona Theater supports the idea that Kong (or his miniature) got around.
http://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-2.jpg http://www.insidesocal.com/davidallen/2013/03/page/2/
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Radium!

Try it "at their risk", huh?

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We've discussed LA's radium quackery before. I don't recall this ad. The item seems to cure just about anything except ingrown toenails.
I think that I would prefer Fizrin.


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Kurt Hutton

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Not exactly what you're after, I'm afraid, but still a bit of the puzzle...
Thank you so much MR. That's exactly what I was after, the little corner house. You've found one showing the front, a nice match with the one FW found.


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I don't know where it is, but is't that a Richfield station design marked "Shell" here? Massive neo-classical building in the background. The photo is a Kurt Hutton (1893-1960). Getty has many of his great images filed under "Hollywood" and "Movie Stars". Worth a look.

Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) being fascinating at Cannes, 1954:

getty/kurt hutton

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Try it "at their risk", huh?

https://marketinginsidergroup.com/st...ing-campaigns/

Try it! You'll like it!
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Free Ice Cream at the Pay'n Takit.

Trying to locate the address of this Pay'n Takit store. Source indicates it dates from '32. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/49642 Many of the kids are without shoes. Could be a sign of the Depression or common to kids everywhere.


There are actually quite a few Pay'n Takit stores. GW mentions it early in this thread as being adjacent to the Western Auto at Hauser and Wilshire http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6844 but I am confident that store is not the same as the one below. It is possible that the pictured store was in Long Beach or per the '36CD, one of three LA locations: 5567 N Figueroa; 4709 S Western Ave or 4953 York Blvd. None of these locations seem to apply. The main office was at 1925 E Vernon Ave.










Discovered this interesting facade at 4959 York Blvd.
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An Arizona Pay'n Takit.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuS9HPw2di...payanttake.jpg




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Tourmaline, I see they left Kong on the truck bed.


Originally posted by Tourmaline

http://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-2.jpg

Is the cab there too?




I ask because it doesn't look like the cab detaches. (it would only have two wheels. )


https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/king-kong
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Tourmaline, I see they left Kong on the truck bed.


Originally posted by Tourmaline

http://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-2.jpg

Is the cab there too?




I ask because it doesn't look like the cab detaches. (it would only have two wheels. )


https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/king-kong


Looking at those hard rubber wheels/tires its a wonder how the prop withstood that long and bumpy trip to Pomona. Although Kong mostly involved models and stop animation, could this prop have actually been used in the original Kong and some of its progeny, e.g., Mighty Joe Young? Curious about it's composition. Some sources mention rabbit fur, others go so far as to mention bear fur. I don't thinks synthetics were available.

I vaguely recall hearing about Willis O'Brien's special effects, some of which were kept from the public as would-be industry secrets, that weren't too secret. http://www.animateclay.com/index.php...o-created-kong



https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...4fa8fbb954.jpg



Torso on blocks?
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...226eba9844.jpg




https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...4afa196873.jpg


http://www.insidesocal.com/davidalle...Kong-Fox-1.jpg



http://ci.i.uol.com.br/cinema/2011/0...6_1024x768.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10191



1961 -
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"King Kong, alias Mighty Joe Young, alias the big ape, is working for Jordan Pools at 14445 Sherman Way.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00127/00127567.jpg




Would have made a nice addition to Monkey Island.
1986 Universal Studios
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077816.jpg
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Thanks Tourmaline.

I see the map man added a Micky Mouse to the top of sign. (it's missing in my 1940 pic)
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Star Map 'mystery' location #2


https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ollywood#img-3

Anyone recognize this spot?


Maybe Mickey post-dated your picture?

A possible clue/clew is the fact that the light colored barn like structure to the right reads "Hollywood La Brea . . ."
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Update on the Guardian Arms Apartments / William Douglas Lee

There's been a successful ground-floor facade restoration to William Douglas Lee's Guardian Arms Hotel and Apartments building at 5217 Hollywood Blvd next to the El Adobe Market and Studio building and just a block south of Laughlin Park. Good news for those of us interested in such things:

omgivning

Built in 1927 for $270K for Guardian Holdings. Two roof signs followed in 1931, but have since vanished. The building has very pretty vertical rows of bowed, casement windows with multi-paned, metal frames. It's built in a "U"-shape with the palm-filled light-well facing east. There's even a pair of cartouches for e_r (as he probably already noticed). A very pretty building.

Lee is best known for El Royale (also 1927) and Chateau Marmont (1929) plus the great cache of DTLA buildings done with Florence Casler.

Sometime back in the 50s or 60s, when the east end of Hollywood was becoming Bukowski country, the then-owners elected to "modernize" the retail level. Starting in 2013, permits for restoration work have been pulled to bring the structure back into line.

What it had become:

gsv

Pulling the stucco off to reveal the seven original arches, incredibly still there:

gsv

Done:

gsv

Unfortunately no one seems to know how to furnish the lobbies of these grand, old buildings (with the exception of me and CBD of course), but otherwise the Guardian Arms is looking good, if not quite what it was when new:

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The Guardian Arms at 5217 Hollywood Boulevard.

LAPL


Omgivning's project page for the Guardian Arms

Guardian Arms website.

I hope someone invests some money in Arthur Kelly's 1928 El Adobe next.

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It's great to see those arches again t2.



Original slide showing a rain soaked, mud filled Hollywood Blvd. in 1962. (does anyone remember a storm around that time?)


ebay

The Pix Theater was built as the 'Music Box' in 1926. It became the 'Fox West Coast' in 1945 after a streamline moderne remodel.




You can see the PIX Theater marquee in action by watching this brief 57 sec.video.

(WARNING: it might induce epileptic seizures)
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I'm not sure who the guy is having car trouble.

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If you liked that video, you'll no doubt like this one as well.

It's 5:24 minutes. (there's a narrator so be sure to have your sound turned up)

Video Link


There's a brief glimpse of a Coffee Dan's and something called the 'Haunted House'. (among others)


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