noirish Los Angeles - Page 1629

ethereal_reality · #**32561** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 3:15 AM**

Here's a very noirish looking Los Angeles bar from the 1940s.

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the same interior today

note the skylights are still in place. (the building was built in 1925)

Jack and Dom's Cafe
15 Cent Hi-Balls
1812 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, California

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below: here's the exterior of 1812 N. Broadway

2015

gsv

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Flyingwedge · #**32562** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 3:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tourmaline

Marilyn nee Norma Jeane was involved in production of radio controlled aircraft similar to the type that landed at the Shrine Auditorium.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/up...gram.html?_r=0

http://www.uasvision.com/wp-content/...roe-_drone.jpg

Marilyn Monroe and attorney Jerry Giesler (holding his hat) surrounded by reporters
in Los Angeles, 1954:

UCLA -- http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ailyNews%3A348

Flyingwedge · #**32563** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 4:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by jumbo0

I'm a huge fan of Laurel and Hardy and therefor on my last visit to L.A. in october I decided to visit some old filming locations from back in the 20's / 30's. At some places I took pictures, but I would like to share those locations with you with both new and then pictures. Hope they contribute

2. From the movie 'Hog Wild'.
Location: 4171 Madison Ave. Culver City
Although the house itself has changed alot (or maybe already another one is built there since I didn't recognize it from the movie), the house next dooe still remains the same.

Thanks very much for your now-and-then L & H photos!

Regarding the Hardy home in Hog Wild, Randy Skretvedt in Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies
(Moonstone Press, 1987) wrote, " . . . the studio rented a lot on Madison Avenue in Culver City and built a
prop house designed specifically for this picture."

tovangar2 · #**32564** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 5:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

This snapshot could very well be a scene out of a silent movie, but I don't believe it is.

old file / originally from ebay

I think it's just a crazy person that decided to scale the outside of the Marsh-Strong building.

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The Marsh-Strong was in a scene in a silent movie, Chaplin's "The New Janitor" (1914), the year after it was built by Frederick Rice Dorn and Loyall Farragut Watson:

silentlocations
<--more info at link

jumbo0 · #**32565** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 5:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

Thanks very much for your now-and-then L & H photos!

Regarding the Hardy home in Hog Wild, Randy Skretvedt in Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies
(Moonstone Press, 1987) wrote, " . . . the studio rented a lot on Madison Avenue in Culver City and built a
prop house designed specifically for this picture."

Wow, so good to know!
Thanks!!

tovangar2 · #**32566** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 9:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

1905, Redondo Beach

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It looks like they're about to be hit by a tsunami.

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Re Redondo moonstones:

redondo reflex, 2/29/1914
(more clippings, pix, etc at the link)

I had a great bag of moonstones as a child, all collected at Hermosa. I'm not sure what happened to it, I think my little sister made away with it.

A friend's aunt made her living polishing beach stones (and also making custom murals from colored electrical wire... how 50s is that?). She sold the stones to local shops.

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ethereal_reality · #**32567** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 4:57 PM**

I looked up vintage moonstones. I didn't realize they were so beautiful.
I think you need to snoop around in your sister's attic for your moonstone collection t2.

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This is interesting.

"Prohibition Era Menu, La Fonda Wayside Inn; 12117 Ventura Blvd. Studio City"

eBay at http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prohibition-...gAAOSwAKxWbbQZ

"No, we do not bootleg, so please do not ask for Hooch."

I have never seen that on a menu before!

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I like the map too.

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jg6544 · #**32568** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 6:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I looked up vintage moonstones. I didn't realize they were so beautiful.
I think you need to snoop around in your sister's attic for your moonstone collection t2.

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This is interesting.

"Prohibition Era Menu, La Fonda Wayside Inn; 12117 Ventura Blvd. Studio City"

eBay at http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prohibition-...gAAOSwAKxWbbQZ

"No, we do not bootleg, so please do not ask for Hooch."

I have never seen that on a menu before!

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I like the map too.

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"Gizzard or liver dinner" was what threw me for a loop.

Beaudry · #**32569** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 7:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's a very noirish looking Los Angeles bar from the 1940s.

eBay

Jack and Dom's Cafe
15 Cent Hi-Balls
1812 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, California

eBay

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LA Times, 19 August 1945

Those writers, I tell ya...

ethereal_reality · #**32570** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 7:37 PM**

Have you ever wondered what the public drinking fountains looked like at Exposition Park in 1926?

eBay at http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1926...YAAOSw5ZBWKDBU

"2-6-26, Miss Ruth Bollenbaugh of Elkhart Ind. at Exposition Park Los Angeles, Cal. visits."

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CityBoyDoug · #**32571** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Have you ever wondered what the public drinking fountains looked like at Exposition Park in 1926?

"2-6-26, Miss Ruth Bollenbaugh of Elkhart Ind. at Exposition Park Los Angeles, Cal. visits."

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I remember those old drinking ''fountains". They gave you a drink and a face-wash at the same time.

HossC · #**32572** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 8:08 PM**

The description for this Julius Shulman photoset says "View of valley from Mulholland, includes background of Universal Studios.". It's "Job 4437: City Views (Los Angeles, Calif.),
1968". The color shots include a couple like this one looking across the Hollywood Freeway.

Then there are wider shots. I've cropped a lot of sky out of this one to present it as a panorama at full-resolution.

One of the two black & white photos in the set is similar to the first image above, but the other looks across Hollywood. In the top-left corner you can just see the Civic Center,
with the mircowave tower on the AT&T building and a couple of DTLA towers to its right. Under them is Capitol Records and the buildings around Hollywood and Vine. It's also
easy to follow the taller buildings along Wilshire.
NB. The clouds in the original image are quite impressive, but I've cropped them again to leave a panorama.

All from Getty Research Institute

ethereal_reality · #**32573** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 9:23 PM**

Hoss, I wonder if Mr. Shulman used this Universal City Overlook area for his 1968 color view?

Mulholland Drive gsv

To be honest, I didn't know about this overlook until 5 minutes ago.
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HossC · #**32574** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 9:51 PM**

Thanks, e_r, I think you're right. I drove the Googlemobile along some of Mulholland, but didn't find the Universal City Overlook. Here's a more recent panorama taken from there.
I found it at americansouthwest.net.

www.americansouthwest.net

tovangar2 · #**32575** Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 10:34 PM**

Another in NLA's ongoing series of images of cops crouching over the recently and violently deceased:

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LAPL caption:
"Photograph article dated November 22, 1947 reads, 'Despondency over a bone affliction which had kept him out of service in World War II was believed the cause of a 10-story plunge yesterday by Goodwin Bertram Aurback, 38, Veterans Administration case-worker, from the roof of a building at 1031 S. Broadway. Aurbach complained to Harold Epstein, 2277 Cove Ave., a co-worker, of feeling ill and depressed after lunch. He left his office on the 11th floor, ostensibly to visit the nurse's office on the 12th floor. A few moments later workers on various floors saw a body hurtling down the well between two wings of the building. The body landed on the third-floor set-back. Aurbach leaves his widow and a child of 2301 Bentley Ave."'

1031 S Broadway is a 1925 Walker and Eisen effort. Also in the shot is Noerenberg & Johnson's 1920 1062 S Broadway (left) and Julia Morgan's 1914 Herald Examiner Building (center distance):

gsv

CityBoyDoug · #**32576** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 3:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by tovangar2

Another in NLA's ongoing series of images of cops crouching over the recently and violently deceased:

lapl

LAPL caption:
"Photograph article dated November 22, 1947 reads, 'Despondency over a bone affliction which had kept him out of service in World War II was believed the cause of a 10-story plunge yesterday by Goodwin Bertram Aurback, 38, Veterans Administration case-worker, from the roof of a building at 1031 S. Broadway. Aurbach complained to Harold Epstein, 2277 Cove Ave., a co-worker, of feeling ill and depressed after lunch. He left his office on the 11th floor, ostensibly to visit the nurse's office on the 12th floor. A few moments later workers on various floors saw a body hurtling down the well between two wings of the building. The body landed on the third-floor set-back. Aurbach leaves his widow and a child of 2301 Bentley Ave."'

1031 S Broadway is a 1925 Walker and Eisen effort. Also in the shot is Noerenberg & Johnson's 1920 1062 S Broadway (left) and Julia Morgan's 1914 Herald Examiner Building (center distance):

gsv

"This is the city, Los Angeles, California, I work here. I'm a cop."....Joe Friday.

Beaudry · #**32577** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 4:12 AM**

A wee bit of 'tis the seasoning for everyone—the Christmas tree hauled into Edison's General Office doorway on Fifth (which remains as the sole piece of the famous retaining wall).

huntington
11 Dec 1957. Note of course the Architect's Bldg and the Monarch in the bg.

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Took some serious scaffolding for these ladies to scale:

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You think they'd wear trousers. No shortage of holiday perverts lurking beneath!

I don't believe this to be the same tree (and the negative is undated) but had to include it because it's in color and I'm in awe of the stupefying use of tinsel.

huntington

God bless us, everyone!

tovangar2 · #**32578** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 4:52 AM**

And yet another in the series of LA random car-on-house accidents:

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LAPL caption:
"Photograph caption dated August 6, 1986 reads, "John Graham Wallace III surveys the damage caused by a car that jumped the curb on the 1100 block of Roscomare Road and plowed into his house at 6:50 a.m. yesterday. Police said Aram Homampour, 18, was distraught over a breakup with this girlfriend and accidentally crashed the car into the Bel-Air home. Homampour received a broken wrist and numerous bruises."

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P.S.

Great angle on the old Bunker Hill Steps Beaudry :-)

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Originally Posted by Beaudry

You think they'd wear trousers.

Trousers? At the office? In 1957?

It's not their problem anyway. How about the perverts wear blindfolds?

ethereal_reality · #**32579** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 2:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Beaudry

huntington

God bless us, everyone.

Oh my, what a gorgeous photograph!
Thanks so much Beaudry.

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Hollywood Graham · #**32580** Posted **Dec 17, 2015, 5:14 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beaudry

A wee bit of 'tis the seasoning for everyone—the Christmas tree hauled into Edison's General Office doorway on Fifth (which remains as the sole piece of the famous retaining wall).

huntington
11 Dec 1957. Note of course the Architect's Bldg and the Monarch in the bg.

huntington

Took some serious scaffolding for these ladies to scale:

huntington

You think they'd wear trousers. No shortage of holiday perverts lurking beneath!

I don't believe this to be the same tree (and the negative is undated) but had to include it because it's in color and I'm in awe of the stupefying use of tinsel.

huntington

God bless us, everyone!

I bet it was lead tinsel too.