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[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

This 1930s Los Angeles[?] restaurant was formerly an ice cream parlor. That's the owner showing us the new sign...."Free donuts"

Does part of the sign say " 2625 Colorado Blvd"?...this might be Pasadena-Eagle Rock


waterandpower

CityBoyDoug, here it is in it's pre-Feed Rack days.(1920s)

"Home of The Cone"


http://waterandpower.org/museum/Prog...hitecture.html

"Home of The Cone, an ice cream parlor with an oversized ice cream cone at each corner, located at 2626 Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock.
A house can be seen behind the parlor, on the right side." (c.1920s)

CBD, you were correct about the address. (well almost....one number off is all)
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[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

We've seen many examples of 'mimetic' architecture on NLA, but I don't believe we have seen "Betsy Ann".


http://futurestudio.typepad.com/phot...betsy-ann.html

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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25624

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25626

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25649


None of us said "Betsy Ann" in the posts above.
She's pictured in Jim Heimann's book "California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture" on pg 19 and identified in the index:


jim heimann (amazon/look inside)

[ethereal_reality]

Meet 35 year-old John W. Hunt aka "John the Revelator" of the 'Father Divine Cult'. [c.1937]


ebay



"Buy yourself a soda pop."




ebay



I'd slap his spectator shoes off that desk that's for sure.


detail

"Solid Comfort Trumbo, Keep Off".........."Parking 15 Minutes, Order of Trumbo."

I take it Trumbo works for the police department, right?







below: I've been trying to figure out where this photo with the typewriter was taken.

At first I thought the police station, but the pin-ups on the wall seem out of place and inappropriate for a police station.
(and I don't think he would have pin-ups like that in his 'religious' office)


ebay



Lunch at the 'Feed Rack' for anyone who can dig up the address of the 'Cult' mansion in Bev. Hills.




One last look at his ugly mug.



& here's the info for this particular photograph

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1937-John-W-...gAAOSwj85YOs9Z





And finally, here is 17 year-old Delight Jewitt.

"Cult victim Delight Jewett peering through blinds in U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer's office, Los Angeles, 1937."


http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ilyNews%3A5969

Text from original nitrate sleeve:

Jewett, Delight; Jewett, Norman; Palmer, Fleet -- US Atty., Delight Jewett peering through blinds in U.S. Attorney Fleet Palmer's office.
The seventeen-year-old Delight Jewett, a follower of cult leader Father Divine, was to be a witness in the case against fellow Divine follower
John Wuest Hunt, who had molested Jewett under the pretense of immaculate conception.

"under the pretense of immaculate conception." Yeech!
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*"Prophet, seer, and revelator is an ecclesiastical title used in the Latter Day Saint movement."

[ethereal_reality]

I found a second photo of 'John the Revelator' in front of the girlie pin-ups.





So what do you guys (and gals) think.........is this the police station?
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[tovangar2]

Huh. In the Father Divine Story, it says the cult purchased the Dunbar Hotel.
Is this the same Father Divine?

[ethereal_reality]

The plot thickens. :rubs hands in glee:

Could there have been two Father Divine Cults?

It wouldn't come as a total surprise since this is Los Angeles we're talking about.

[RudyJK]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Human antenna?

[RudyJK]

Originally Posted by Earl Boebert

That tower is a real puzzler. It appears to be an open framework with an opaque rod or tube running up the middle:



THere's also some kind of object visible in line with it between the levels:



Cheers,

Earl

And house antenna?

[ScottyB]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

CityBoyDoug, here it is in it's pre-Feed Rack days.(1920s)

"Home of The Cone"


http://waterandpower.org/museum/Prog...hitecture.html

"Home of The Cone, an ice cream parlor with an oversized ice cream cone at each corner, located at 2626 Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock.
A house can be seen behind the parlor, on the right side." (c.1920s)

CBD, you were correct about the address. (well almost....one number off is all)
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As fate would have it I was looking at this photo just last night that I had saved some years back. Apparently a converted "Home of the Cone"? Bet the neighborhood kids were disappointed! Address is easy to spot.......York and Ave 49, Highland Park.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00100/00100767.jpg
GSV shows us the carrots are gone, but the house behind Shy-Der's is still there- actually both houses.

4854 YorkGSV

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by "ScottyB'

Bet the neighborhood kids were disappointed!

lol. Your post made me laugh Scotty.



I'm watching Perry Mason and they just showed a Medical Arts Building with an impressive sculpture of a woman holding a child.


screen_shot

Have we seen this building on NLA?

I'm wondering if anyone recognized it. I'm really hoping the sculpture hasn't been removed.

The episode is "The Case of the Sun Bather's Diary" [c.1958]


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673405/...r/rm4234558976


You can watch the episode here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58fb8e

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I'm watching Perry Mason and they just showed a Medical Arts Building with an impressive sculpture of a woman holding a child.


screen_shot

Have we seen this building on NLA?

I'm wondering if anyone recognized it. I'm really hoping the sculpture hasn't been removed.

The building survived but not the sculpture


GSV

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Looks like the Tar Baby and the Briar Patch, unless Guy Fawkes brought his own bonfire




ETA. Oh, wait, I just remembered that guy. I ain't gonna spoil it.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by odinthor

Auditioning for Papageno in a postmodernist production of The Magic Flute?

Originally Posted by RudyJK

Human antenna?

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Looks like the Tar Baby and the Briar Patch

Nope. Mudman.


Kim Jones, Wilshire Blvd. Walk, 1976.

Kim Jones introduced Mudman in a performance sponsored by Carp between sunrise and sunset Jan. 26, 1976,
amid his walk from east to west along Wilshire Boulevard spanning across a significant portion of the City of Los Angeles.

The exhibition included a second installment Feb. 4, 1976, while Mudman completed a round trip. Countless people observed Mudman's debut.


Used on the cover of a CARP brochure.

http://futurestudio.typepad.com/.a/6...5959624970c-pi

"Carp was an alternative arts program formed in Venice, CA in the 1970s for the exhibition of experimental artworks
in various public and private spaces, mass media, and other venues."


This rare color image pre-dates the Mudman's "Wilshire Walks, 1976"


http://www.theweeklings.com/jkabat/2...he-met/mudman/

Kim Jones as “Mudman,” October 1975, October Fest, Mt. Pinos, CA


Here's that program I mentioned earlier.


http://www.gangofcarp.com/archive

"Carp was an alternative arts program formed in Venice, CA in the 1970s for the exhibition of experimental artworks
in various public and private spaces, mass media, and other venues."




In the link below, Mudman looks like he's been run over by a Wilshire Express bus.
https://www.specificobject.com/objec...3#.WJF05RsrJPY

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[ethereal_reality]

21st and Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica

Originally Posted by Lorendoc

The building survived but not the sculpture

Oh man, it's gone.

Thanks for locating the building Lorendoc. I appreciate it.

(I have my fingers crossed that it was moved inside...into the lobby perhaps?)

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Oh, wait, I just remembered that guy. I ain't gonna spoil it.

Were you thinking of the Mudman t2?

(I believe you have some artists in your family, right?)

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Could there have been two Father Divine Cults?

It wouldn't come as a total surprise since this is Los Angeles we're talking about.

Nah, it's all the same one. Here's a write-up on the John Wuest Hunt trouble in LIFE magazine May 3, 1937

And a little more from the Father Divine Story:



Here's a timeline of the Father Divine Peace Mission.

Rev Jim Jones tried to take it over




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[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Were you thinking of the Mudman t2?

(I believe you have some artists in your family, right?)

I once ran into some of the "Mudmen" on Sunset near Dodger Stadium in the mid '80s. I told them to "get a job", and they threw mud at me. It turns out they had received some lucrative grants from the government, and their mudmen performance art was their job.

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Were you thinking of the Mudman t2?

Yes, late 70s, Venice. I lived in an old frame house at 49 Brooks Ave. Lotta stuff was going on back then.

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Meet 35 year-old John W. Hunt aka "John the Revelator" of the 'Father Divine Cult'. [c.1937]

Lunch at the 'Feed Rack' for anyone who can dig up the address of the 'Cult' mansion in Bev. Hills.

Doesn't seem like there'd be much privacy:


Bing maps

Details:

LAT 3/31/37

There was only one Father Divine (George Baker). John the Revelator's attorney was Hugh McBeth, an African-American lawyer who was very active in various civil liberty and civil rights causes in the 30s and 40s.

[ethereal_reality]

Excellent sleuthing Lorendoc!


It seems odd the google-mobile travels down all these streets except for that short stretch in front of the old 'cult' mansion.



Why do you suppose that is?
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