noirish Los Angeles

[ethereal_reality]

I recently came across a curious little tidbit. It was a small blurb in a tourist book from the 1980s.



Harold Lloyd's carriage house......on Melrose!?!? I've never heard this before.


8474 Melrose is now a restaurant named Lucques.


gsv

from their webpage

http://www.lucques.com/index.html



Here's an aerial


google_earth

It isn't obvious which part of the restaurant is the old carriage house.



There are images on the Lucques website that show a few architectural details.

A fireplace in the main dining room.

http://www.lucques.com/index.html

wooden ceiling rafters / exposed bricks

http://www.lucques.com/private_dining.html
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*Just as I was finishing my post, I found yet another mention of Harold Lloyd's carriage house.

Los Angeles Times article from 1998.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug...nment/ca-10460

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[tovangar2]

This site claims to have all the Harold Lloyd addresses and includes the carriage house on Melrose, but no info about the residence that went with it.

[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by BifRayRock

'49
http://www.cardcow.com/images/set58/card00303_fr.jpg






http://jpg1.lapl.org/00008/00008774.jpg

Originally Posted by Lwize

The Willard's site became the 13 story Beverly Hillcrest Hotel in the mid 1960's (now called Mr. C Beverly Hills) on the NE corner of Pico and Beverwil Drive.

"Top O' The Hill" meant what it says. 9625 Pico, since 1928




1940 - Easterly view of ~9000 Block area, West Pico Blvd. FWIW, Westwood Nursery was located at 9786 West Pico
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../87093/rec/290



1940 - West Pico 1






1940 - West Pico 2






1940 - West Pico 3









1940 - West Pico 4







1940 - West Pico 5







1940 - West Pico 6








Beautiful Roxbury Manor









1940 - West Pico 7







Hee Haw 1940 - West Pico 8

[BifRayRock]

Once upon a time . . . (1931) Country Club Drive and Crenshaw Boulevard looked like this.

[ethereal_reality]

Has anyone heard of the M.G.M. Barkies?



Hollywood Filmograph 1929 / https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr91holl
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[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Among Paul Williams's 3000 works:



you-are-here.com
Golden State Mutual Life Building (1948), 1999 West Adams Boulevard

And just slightly north of Golden State MLB's location on Western Ave. was the Lynx Golf Course. Archery too!


Curious about the large multi-story structure in background.





1931 - Lynx Golf Course, 2530 South Western Avenue
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1362/rec/171

[Beaudry]

Originally Posted by HossC

I have the DVD of the original (1960) version of 'Little Shop of Horrors', but the picture quality isn't great. I can't make out the Tanner Gray Line neon, but here are some other screengrabs.

The top station of Angel's Flight makes a brief appearance. For comparison, e_r posted a 1960 picture of the station in post 1327. Post 1326 by GW has a link to a site which has collected appearances of Angel's Flight in movies, including a color still of the scene below.


RSS Pictures

Great run-down on the 5th St locations!

The top of AF sequence has some other Third & Olive sites. When Seymour crosses the street after walking past her, it's toward 500 W Third, which we've seen before in Cry Danger.

Then Seymour fumbles past a bunch of glass brick and stumbles over the trashcan and that's in front of one of the great treats of the Hill, the Angels Flight Cafe. I mean, when you think of Bunker Hill, you rarely think of Art Deco neon, and curved aluminum, and glass brick.

LABH-Dawson

Lost souls patronized the Cafe in the 1965 picture Angel's Flight—here's the boozy view from Ben's room in the kitty-corner Elks/Moose/Royal Club:



Here's an image from the Nadel collection at the Getty shot in 1955:

(cra/Bunker Hill Renewal/West 2nd area)

The Cafe gets it demo permit granted in March of '63. Note here, in this grab from Angel's Flight, the La Loma (L. A. Smith, 1923) is still standing (it is demolished late '63) but the Cumberland (1904, architect unknown) is gone—demolished in spring of '62.



Another Cafe shot from the Getty—


—and a piece of ephemera (though it's Angels Flight on the sign, it's Angel's Flight on the matchbook; who's right? Who knows?):



This is also the corner Mike Hammer drives through in 1957's My Gun is Quick:

[ethereal_reality]

Excellent post Beaudry!
In your fifth photo the front doors of Angels Flight Café look like they're padded Naugahyde (see below).


detail

Are there any color photographs of the Angels Flight Café? I'd like to know the color of these padded doors. (I'm secretly hoping they were RED )

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Originally Posted by BifRayRock

Curious about the large multi-story structure in background.

The building you're curious about BRR is still standing tall.

It was built in 1910!



gsv



In this side view (from Western Avenue) you can see where it's been modernized.


gsv


It's now named The Fame Renaissance Center.


gsv

"A community partner and leader in addressing social and economic inequalities affecting low-income, underserved communities in Los Angeles"
http://www.famecorporations.org/about/

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[Lwize]

Originally Posted by BifRayRock

1940 - West Pico 3

Westwood Nursery (where I used to buy plants) gave way to the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance (Corner of Pico & Roxbury).

The golf clubhouse on top of the hill is still there - it's a private office building (9700 Pico Blvd, SW corner of Pico & Beverwil).

The area filled in a few years later - the tracts were built in the late 1940's, including my parent's home (1946). My brother owns it now.

[BifRayRock]

Thanks ER



Duke Kahanamoku was born this day, 124 years ago. A five-time Olympic swimming medalist, he is probably better known for promoting surfing. Huntington Beach honors him with a statue.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4044/4...10e6a619_z.jpg




There are three CD listings for him ('25, '27 and '30) all some distance from the beach, 824 S. Rimpau Blvd. Perhaps an inside surfing joke, in '25, he is listed as a "drftsmn." The '30 CD lists him as an actor. Once source claims this 824 Rimpau home belonged to banker, Les Henry, who took the Duke in as a family member. (If this be the case, it seems strange that Kahanamoku had any listing.) https://books.google.com/books?id=3S...20blvd&f=false


His Wiki writeup >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Kahanamoku And a timely LA Times article about the Duke's 1925-lifesaving exploit. >> http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...824-story.html


Here he is in '25 shooting golf at an unknown So Cal water hazard, possibly Huntington Beach. Wonder if he brought his board to the golf course.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics33/00051393.jpg



Potential 1924 olympic rivals, the Duke and Johnny Tarzan Weismuller
http://blogs.diariovasco.com/deporte...eissmuller.jpg



Duke and glassless Harold Lloyd
https://41.media.tumblr.com/a93f46fd...ko2_r1_500.jpg




Duke, Buster Crabbe, J Weismuller et. al. after training at the El Segundo Plunge in '32
http://www.swimboat.com/images/DukeJ...erTraining.jpg http://www.swimboat.com/DukeAndElSegundo.htm

[sopas ej]

^^^
When the Duke was in town, he would stay with a friend at 824 South Rimpau in Hancock Park.


Photo source and article:
https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com...-hancock-park/

...

LA is a great big freeway! Put a hundred down and buy a car...

USC Archive


USC Archive

Both images, the 4-level and the Sunset Boulevard overpass over the Harbor Freeway, July 23, 1953.

My apologies if I've posted these photos before. I was just in a Burt Bacharach kind of mood.

[sopas ej]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Built in 1925...probably for around $10K. Sold in 1997 for $340K....sold in 2015 $2.2 million. Today in 2015, most of the homes in San Marino are owned by immigrants from Hong Kong, mainland China and other Asian locations. They often pay for the home in gold bullion.


GSV

Ah yes, and there are the "parachute kids." Those are the wealthy kids from Taiwan and Hong Kong and mainland China whose parents have sent them here to go to public school in the supposedly good school districts (San Marino having a very good school district). Many of them live in Temple City and Arcadia and drive flashy cars, and the locals feel (probably for good reason) that they've driven up the prices of homes in those otherwise very ordinary, almost non-descript (particularly Temple City) suburbs.

San Marino has a law that no head of household can be under 21 years of age, to discourage the parachute kids from living there. People under 21 have to live with older adults, presumably parents.

[CityBoyDoug]

I know this was filmed in Hawaii but I post it so you can hear his voice.
The short interview was done by the famous Bruce Brown 77, who I met in 1965 when he was narrating his surfing epic...The Endless Summer.

https://youtu.be/lk_5GLAEqIQ
YouTube

[ethereal_reality]

"A long line of people waiting to obtain meat during the first day of war rationing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1943."


www.jalopyjournal.com

Does anyone know where the 'United Market Company' was located? (note the mountain in the background)









http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g04430/

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[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by Beaudry

—and a piece of ephemera (though it's Angels Flight on the sign, it's Angel's Flight on the matchbook; who's right? Who knows?):

Why is it never "Angels' Flight"?

Three more from "Cry Danger" (1951):

Originally Posted by tovangar2

3rd & Olive at night:


Thugs arriving at 3rd & Olive:


Oh no, here come the cops:


All above, RKO Radio Pictures / netflix

[unihikid]

Originally Posted by BifRayRock

Thanks ER




Duke, Buster Crabbe, J Weismuller et. al. after training at the El Segundo Plunge in '32
http://www.swimboat.com/images/DukeJ...erTraining.jpg http://www.swimboat.com/DukeAndElSegundo.htm

You guys may not know but the two young kids are wearing Boy Scout Uniforms. My last job was working at the National Boy Scout Shop, adjacent to the National Scout Museum...I can spot a uniform a mile away.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

"A long line of people waiting to obtain meat during the first day of war rationing in Los Angeles, Calif., 1943."



I found this as well.


http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g04430/

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It appears that you could have all the liver, brains, and kidneys you could stomach [or was available that day]? I guess brains and sweetbreads weren't a high priority on GI Joe's wartime menu.
Ah, so yummy!!! Bon appetite.

Just remember... and he doesn't like kidney and brains for dinner.!

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[ethereal_reality]

I didn't notice the fine print about the brains and sweetbreads CBD. yeech!

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Has anyone heard of the M.G.M. Barkies?


Hollywood Filmograph 1929 / https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr91holl
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It turns out "Barkies" was a play on the word "Talkies".


IN 1929, MGM hired two second-string directors, Jules White and Zion Myers to turn this oddball conception, "Barkies", into a reality.
White and Myers shared directorial credits and provided voices for the canine stars.


http://cinemamisfits.com/2010/08/10/...ts-plus-clips/

This must have been very frustrating. (have you ever tried to put a three piece suit on a dog?)





More stars than there are in heaven


http://cinemamisfits.com/2010/08/10/...ts-plus-clips/

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[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

I know this was filmed in Hawaii but I post it so you can hear his voice.
The short interview was done by the famous Bruce Brown 77, who I met in 1965 when he was narrating his surfing epic...The Endless Summer.

https://youtu.be/lk_5GLAEqIQ
YouTube

Thanks for that link. I found another video link equally interesting as it includes "Jungle Jim" Weismuller and Duke's second family, the Henrys, with whom he stayed in Los Angeles. Two of the Henrys, "William" and "Thomas Browne," were a longtime character actors that many will recognize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvq39-E7aME



Actor, William Henry, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378026/


William "Bill" Henry
http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/...1408224713.jpg



Actor Thomas Browne Henry, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378015/


http://i1.wp.com/www.horrorsociety.c...size=519%2C389

[Beaudry]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Excellent post Beaudry!
In your fifth photo the front doors of Angels Flight Café look like they're padded Naugahyde (see below).


detail

Are there any color photographs of the Angels Flight Café? I'd like to know the color of these padded doors. (I'm secretly hoping they were RED )

Well of course! I wish Palmer Conner had shot some of the café, those slides would have been something to behold, all that aluminum and glass glinting in the sunlight.

I have seen one bit of color, which I'm attaching here. Just about a year ago someone put up for auction on eBay a roll of film, which I only discovered later as a "sold" while doing an Angels Flight search. Normally I'm not too hip to posting other people's eBay wins because Lord knows I spend tons of cash on slides that end up on NLA or Facebook "old LA" sites—but I guess that's part of the game, you run the risk of losing control of your image when it's already been "part of the internet." That said, here's a small bit of a roll of amateur '50s 8 or 16mm, mostly shots of folks indoors whooping it up, but with the attached film of the outside as an establishing shot. (Perhaps it was shot by A. F. Peters, prop., as mentioned on the matchbook I posted?) My message to whomever now owns this film: I will pay you Very Good Money for it! Heck, I'll pay you money to license it. Plus I'd just like to see it!

Aaaaanyway so a couple stitched-together shots from the eBay auction, and a close-up of the door—looks red to me! Well, sort of, that call box looks red, the doors look on the red side of brown...so, maroon? Chestnut?





The blue of the neon can always gets me. Note of course the Lovejoy, Nugent, and Alta Vista down Third.

So apparently the story from what I can muster, you've got the large house that is 257 S Olive. In 1911, the Estate of Sarah F. Morse hires architect Alfred F. Priest to build the wrap-around store (257-63 S Olive, 501-513 W 3rd) at which point the house has its address changed to 255. Let's check it out—the 1910 and 1914 Baist maps, top, and below, the 1906 and 1951 Sanborns give you an idea as to how the wrap-around store went.



Unfortunately, all the searching in the DBS records doesn't tell us when they put in all that cool glass brick! I've been searching in vain, mostly in panoramas, for an image of the stores in their pre-glassbrick version, or of the house on its own, to no avail.*

There's an interesting historical tidbit on the matchbook, though. Note that it's Angel's Flight Cafe "since 1933." In 1933, the cafe was run by one Robert Allen. Whose buddy T. Bruce Moore was in love with his wife. So Moore showed up at Allen's pad at the Alta Vista one night in 1933 and blew her brains out, then did himself. So with that kind of bad juju on the Hill, no wonder Allen got out of the business. Read about it here.

*Another shot of a bit of the La Loma & Cumberland, tho, here.