noirish Los Angeles

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

I'd assume Richmond meant for the duration of the marriage.

I agree, it was for the duration of the marriage.

[tovangar2]

This page says the LA Klan's offices were in the Haas Building.

[GaylordWilshire]

Looks like the "Grand Goblin" and his bff's had been kicked out of the Haas Building by 1923...


LAT 5-28-22





The eviction followed this--LAT 4-27-22

[HossC]

My laptop screen is currently being held together with a small woodwork clamp, so if I disappear from NLA over the next few days, you'll know why .

This Julius Shulman photoset is smaller than yesterday's, but I've still cut it down. It's "Job 2242: J. Earl Trudeau, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Downey, Calif.), 1956". The first image was originally portrait, but I felt it looked better cropped to landscape.



Here's the other shot I've chosen. It shows a gym/hall.



Both from Getty Research Institute

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School is still standing at 10441 Downey Avenue, Downey.


GSV

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

This page says the LA Klan's offices were in the Haas Building.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Looks like the "Grand Goblin" and his bff's had been kicked out of the Haas Building by 1923...

LAT 5-28-22

Thanks for the information t2 and GW.



For newcomers to the thread here's the HAAS Bldg.

When this photo was taken the old entrance had just been uncovered.


http://blogdowntown.com/2009/02/4091...es-old-and-new




"The Haas Building opened in 1915 with the Bank of Italy as its ground floor tenant. The structure was built by Abraham Haas, president of Haas, Baruch & Co., with reports
at the time saying that the building was costing roughly $500,000. It was designed by architects Morgan, Walls & Morgan.

During December 1915, the Bank of Italy secured a 25-year lease on the ground floor and the basement of the building. J.H. Skinner, Vice-President, arranged the movement of location and left San Francisco the next day to report the situation to the directorate. 6,550 feet (2,000 m) of space was allocated on the ground floor of the building. Safe deposit and coin vaults were kept in the basement, while further space could be secured by the construction of the mezzanine floor. W J Pearson & Co. occupied a large part of the 3rd floor of The Haas Building. It was an excellent place to diagnose financial conditions in and around Los Angeles because of the great number of meetings there between buyers and sellers of realty, leaser and lessees.

The other 11 stories consisted of 225 offices, each with direct and alternating current attachments- compressed air, gas, water and extra sewer outlet."



http://www.apartmentfinder.com/Calif...ing-Apartments

Other major past occupants of The Haas Building:

Southern California Tourist Bureau
Lee H. Stodder Company – exclusive selling agent for Burkhard Investment Company
Southern California Oil Co.
Chicago Tribune - Opened a branch office, hoping to attract California advertisers to the midwestern paper.
# # #

Today the Haas Bldg. is an apartment community with 68 units.
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I would hate for the new tenants to find out the KKK used to meet in their building.

Oh who am I kidding?




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[ethereal_reality]

I found this interesting.

I had no idea there were so many Tarzans.


www.hiveminer.com

Who's your favorite?

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[GaylordWilshire]

I'm all over this, ER. Hmmm... of these, in descending preference: Henry, Ely, Barker, Crabbe, Scott, Miller, Weismuller.


The winner

Didn't you always wonder? (This does not look comfortable.)



But at least one Tarzan is missing-- NLA's own Bruce Bennett, a.k.a. Herman Brix, a.k.a. Mr. Mildred Pierce, who could arm-wrestle Ely for first-runner-up position:


from post [IMG]3403[/IMG] from 2011

[rmos]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Has anyone heard of this noirish place on E. 5th street, circa 1950 ......Leo's Jolly Club. (to the right is the entrance to the Brownstone Hotel)-beneath the circular light fixture.



gsv

Leo's Jolly Club has been filled in with a new wall & one square window. (the entrance to the Brownstone looks great though)

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Notice the gentleman giving a one-finger salute to the Google-mobile! :-D

[Martin Pal]

Wikipedia has a comprehensive (?) list of people who portrayed Tarzan:

On film (adult):
Elmo Lincoln 1918, 1918, 1921
Gene Pollar 1920
P. Dempsey Tabler 1920
James Pierce 1927
Frank Merrill 1928, 1929
Johnny Weissmuller 1932, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948
Buster Crabbe 1933
Herman Brix later billed as Bruce Bennett 1935, 1938
Glenn Morris 1938
Lex Barker 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
Gordon Scott 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960
Denny Miller 1959
Jock Mahoney 1962, 1963
Mike Henry 1966, 1967, 1968
Ron Ely 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970
Miles O'Keeffe 1981
Christopher Lambert 1984
Casper Van Dien 1998
Tony Goldwyn 1999 (voice of animated Tarzan)
Kellan Lutz 2013 (performance capture)
Alexander Skarsgard 2016

On film (youth):
Gordon Griffith (1918, 1918)
Tali McGregor (1984)
Peter Kyriakous (1984)
Danny Potts (1984)
Eric Langlois (1984)
Alex D. Linz 1999 (voice of young animated Tarzan)
Harrison Chad (2005)
Craig Garner (2013) (voice of 4-year-old CGI/Motion Capture Tarzan film)
Anton Zetterholm (2013) (voice of teen CGI/Motion Capture Tarzan film)
Rory J. Saper (2016)
Christian Stevens (2016)

On stage:
Ronald Adair 1921 (Broadway)
Josh Strickland 2006 (Original Broadway Cast – New York, NY)
Daniel Manche (Tarzan as a youth) 2006 (Original Broadway Cast – New York, NY)
Alex Rutherford (Tarzan as a youth) 2006 (Original Broadway Cast – New York, NY)
Dylan Riley Snyder (Tarzan as a youth) 2006 (Original Broadway Cast – New York, NY)
Anton Zetterholm 2008 (Original German Cast – Hamburg)

On radio:
James Pierce 1932–1934
Carlton KaDell 1934–1936
Lamont Johnson 1951–1953

On television:
Gordon Scott filmed 1958, aired 1966
Ron Ely 1966–1968
Robert Ridgely 1976–1982 (voice, Filmation series)
Joe Lara 1989, 1996
Wolf Larson 1991–1994
Michael T. Weiss 2001 (voice, Disney series)
Travis Fimmel 2003

In video games:
Tony Goldwyn, Kingdom Hearts, 2002
Jūrōta Kosugi, Kingdom Hearts, Japanese

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by HossC

A couple of days ago I promised to try and find the missing images to reconstruct KevinW's post.
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HossC, thanks for restoring the images to KevinW's original Pershing Square post.

HossC's post:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=39274

This made me wonder if anyone other than the original poster (like a moderator) can go back into the original
post and link it to HossC's?

Originally Posted by HossC

In 1918, "in a fit of Armistice Day fever," Central Park's name was changed to Pershing Square, and a statue of a dough boy was added to the corner of the park.
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I wondered why I had never seen this statue before since it's still there. (At least I don't recall seeing it.)






Don't Redesign, Restore Pershing Square!

This was a group who wanted to restore Pershing Square to John Parkinson's original design, but this
wasn't to be. So now, the group called The Pershing Square Restoration Society is lobbying to
restore the park's monuments and plaques.

From their website:

Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles was last redesigned in 1994. That layout has been found to be lacking in various respects, leading to a design competition hosted by Pershing Square Renew under the direction of Councilman Jose Huizar. On May 12, 2016, Agence Ter was selected as the competition winner, with a simple, lawn plan. However, the proposed design leaves unresolved numerous questions about the disposition of the park's existing historic elements, comprised of three statues, metal plaques and spoils of war (cannon).




The site has a "Vintage Scenes" section with vintage postcards and photos of Pershing Square.

Also featured are two videos. The first is "A Walk in Pershing Square" which is a
3-D recreation of the original John Parkinson design, made by a relative of his.

• Video Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_KhdR5E4w


There is also this video featuring that park design in a restored segment from
a 1916 film titled "Shoes" by Lois Weber.

• Video Link

This video was posted by esouteric, who used to frequently post on NLA if I'm not mistaken.


Lastly, shots of the Pershing Square area from last Saturday's Women's March in Los Angeles,
which turned out to be the most heavily attended in the world, with an estimated 750,000 people!

TIME

FoxLA

NBC/Los Angeles


ABC7

MyNewsLA

Union Station was closed and several other stops were jammed past capacity from Union Station to North Hollywood on Saturday.
ABC7



And near City Hall:

Los Angeles Times

[ethereal_reality]

This bit of ephemera is currently on ebay.

"This Week.....Los Angeles"
November 9 - 16, 1951


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1951-This-We...YAAOSwo4pYWLA4

What caught my attention was the lovely lady on the cover.

I couldn't place her, but luckily her name was included on the 1st page.


detail

(note the Calendar Editor is non-other than Lois Lane )

Well her name, Diane Dearborn, didn't ring a bell either.

After a google or two I found this additional photograph.



Selected ‘Miss Christmas Tree of 1951’ by 40 members of the UCLA chapter, Sigma Chi fraternity, is 24-year-old Diane Dearborn. Miss Dearborn,
who arrived in the United States seven weeks ago from Paris, France, is a singer. The collegians saw her picture in a newspaper, reported ‘she seemed
prettier than the rest of them.”

side-note:
I was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and I have never heard of a 'Miss Christmas Tree'.
(this was either the work of Diane's publicist, or the 40 UCLA members made up the title to see Diane up close and personal )


Comments that accompanied the 'Miss Christmas Tree' photograph.


https://bulldogvintage.wordpress.com...1951/#comments

They found their nana!
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[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by HossC

My laptop screen is currently being held together with a small woodwork clamp, so if I disappear from NLA over the next few days, you'll know why .

This Julius Shulman photoset is smaller than yesterday's, but I've still cut it down. It's "Job 2242: J. Earl Trudeau, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Downey, Calif.), 1956". The first image was originally portrait, but I felt it looked better cropped to landscape.

E.M. Smith and his EMSCO financed Downey's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, completed in 1931. Interestingly, it was sliced-and-diced 20 years later to lengthen it. Smith lived at 33 Berkeley Square; more on Smith and his high-living wife here.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

In descending preference: Henry, Ely, Barker, Crabbe, Scott, Miller, Weismuller.

But at least one Tarzan is missing-- NLA's own Bruce Bennett, a.k.a. Herman Brix, a.k.a. Mr. Mildred Pierce.

Now that you mention it GW, here's another Tarzan that's missing.

Elmo Lincoln


posters.net


Lincoln is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918's Tarzan of the Apes as an adult (Gordon Griffith played him as a child
in the same movie). He portrayed the character twice more—in The Romance of Tarzan (also 1918) and in the 1921 serial The Adventures of Tarzan.




http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/elm...apes-1918.html



He looked better without the wig. (smashing blue eyes!)


https://twitter.com/cemeteryguide/st...55965268606977

He died in 1952.

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

This bit of ephemera is currently on ebay.

"This Week.....Los Angeles"
November 9 - 16, 1951


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1951-This-We...YAAOSwo4pYWLA4

What caught my attention was the lovely lady on the cover.

I couldn't place her, but luckily her name was included on the 1st page.


detail

(note the Calendar Editor is non-other than Lois Lane)

Well her name, Diane Dearborn, didn't ring a bell either.

After a google or two I found this additional photograph.

Is this called "equal time," ER?

She's going to need a better bra under that outfit if she's going to compete with Jane Russell. Seriously unflattering in the bust area. (Also, it may just be the photograph, but the runs in her fishnets make her look a little cheap.)

[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's a second image I don't remember seeing before.

"Newspaper boy holding papers" [1947]



I'm not sure which 'Confession' the headline is referring to. There were several & they all proved false.


Go here to see the complete U.K. Black Dahlia post [WARNING: Graphic Content]
http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.co.u...6f56052fb66b70
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Why does it look like this youngster is selling papers in front of a Tiki hut?

[ethereal_reality]

Good question MR. I haven't noticed that.

Maybe the young lad strolled into Clifton's South Seas?



https://www.flickr.com/photos/79761301@N00/16422842551

[HossC]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Lastly, shots of the Pershing Square area from last Saturday's Women's March in Los Angeles,
which turned out to be the most heavily attended in the world, with an estimated 750,000 people!

TIME

Is that Sean Spicer's estimate, or is the figure correct .

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Is this called "equal time," ER?

Yes, I try to please everyone.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

It may just be the photograph, but the runs in her fishnets make her look a little cheap.)

Now GW, what if her grandsons google their Nana again and see your comment.

Perhaps she was a little down on her luck. I wouldn't call her cheap.
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I'm still placing my Tarzans in order of preference.

While I'm at it, here's Johnny in his pre-Tarzan days. (he just move up two spots on my list )


http://cabinetofcurioustreasures.blogspot.com

but that's some nasty mold on the wall.



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[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by HossC

Is that Sean Spicer's estimate, or is the figure correct .

Heh!


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But, for the record, it's actually from these sources:

Women's March by the numbers.

Women's March Worldwide Crowd Estimates
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...588404ed#gid=0

The Official Women’s March Attendance Numbers From Around the World Are In…
(A selective look at various cities, with photos, tweets and video)
http://usuncut.com/news/official-wom...ch-attendance/

Crowd Estimates (in progress/alphabetical)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...lview?sle=true

Women's March Largest in U.S. History
A Comparison
http://usuncut.com/news/womens-march...st-us-history/

Women's March on Washington Goes Worldwide
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...arch/96880344/

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Now GW, what if her grandsons google their Nana again and see your comment.

Perhaps she was a little down on her luck. I wouldn't call her cheap.
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I'm still placing my Tarzans in order of preference.

While I'm at it, here's Johnny in his pre-Tarzan days. (he just move up two spots on my list )

Well, grandsons, my complaint is not with your charming Nana but rather with her stylist--if they had them back then--the choice of foundation garments was a disaster, and a good stylist would never have allowed a photographer to begin shooting with holes in her stockings.


As for Johnny...ah, yes, ER, he has moved up in my estimation as well. Great potential there.