noirish Los Angeles

[Ed Workman]

Then the tire rolls onto a train trestle. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that this is on the way out to Glendale; perhaps someone will recognize it:


Just as Fields is about to get hit head-on by the streetcar, the tire jumps over to the other track and Fields follows it there:


But then a train comes up behind him:


One track has overhead wires, the other does not
So I would put the parallel tracks in the San Fernando Valley, west of Lankershim.
The PE bridge was washed away by flood 1938?? and both RRs used the SP track, with trolley wires added thereafter
The SP line was not the mainline, but a branch line that left the main at Burbank and rejoined it at Chatsworth

[JScott]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Does anyone recognize this apartment building?

The Holton Arms.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26284

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I believe this is the first color image of the French Village on NLA.


eBay

The traffic's pretty heavy heading into Cahuenga Pass.

Another fatastic color photo E_R! I'm going to go through withdrawls when you're out of them!

Looks like something going on at the Hollywood Bowl with all the people coming (or going?) there. Might account for the traffic.

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

There's kind of a fuzzy copy of "Topper" (1937) on YouTube.

Thanks so much for the screengrabs from Topper tovangar2! I believe Topper
was the first feature film they colorized in the '80's. So the color is probably
"fiuzzy", too!

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Originally Posted by Noircitydame

Maybe the sailors were down the block at the 7 Seas?

LOL!

And the "ads" you posted highlight the fact that some businesses are around for a scant amount of time and others move around a time or two. A new restaurant near me opened and closed in 3-4 months recently.

I love the shoe ad with the woman telling her husband: "Tranquilize Horace..." Great!

And thanks for this opposite angle photo of the Goodrich Gym and the bowling alley mentioned recently.

Originally Posted by Noircitydame

Speaking of Leed's, it's out of season, but this shows the 6600 block with Cinema Sports Center bowling alley & gym at 6624 discussed recently, partly blocked by one of the trees. That was Leed's old-old location before moving to 6434.

1948
pintrest

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Interesting and very nostalgic for 1941. We do not see this lineup of food choices these days in restaurants. People's tastes have dramatically changed.

Halibut is not even that available today due to overfishing and environmental problems.

When I was growing up HADDOCK was a fish always in plentiful supply and I've rarely seen it anywhere nowadays.

There's alot of discussion in L.A. about the Googie style restaurants disappearing
or being threatened (like Jan's and Norm's) and whether it's due to developers
wanting the properties (because they're surrounded, usually, by parking lots)
or because people's tastes have changed, as you said, in wanting to eat the
kind of food served by these restaurants.

I happen to love these kinds of restaurants and they're disappearing at a pretty good clip, if you ask me.

Speaking of, here's a photo I don't believe I've seen here before and, at
the moment, I don't feel like searching, heh!


Michael Ochs Archives

The article this photo references has a comment by one person that says:
"I believe that is James Dean and his best friend Maila "Vampira" Nurmi clowning around at Googie's."

There was no date or other info accompanying the photo.

[ethereal_reality]

After all these years on NLA I finally located a good photograph of the interior of La Rue Nightclub on Sunset.


Looks like it had a swinging monkey motif.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-phot...item1a02c0d7b6

There are several movie people in the photo. The first one I picked out was Burgess Meredith....and that famous character actor at far right (I can't think of his name).
I believe the short woman with the black hair near the column is perhaps......Colleen Moore?
And I think I see Walter Huston as well (two people to the right of 'Colleen Moore')


I posted this 1954 La Rue ad several years ago.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/537/d6IwtJ.png[/IMG][/URL]
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=20033


The building still stands.


gsv


Earlier post by HossC with several images of the exterior of La Rue in the 1940s.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20038







this has been posted before but I enlarged it. (that's the world famous Trocadero across the street)

[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

After all these years on NLA I finally located a good photograph of the interior of La Rue Nightclub on Sunset.


Looks like it had a swinging monkey motif.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-phot...item1a02c0d7b6

There are several movie people in the photo. The first one I picked out was Burgess Meredith....and that famous character actor at far right (I can't think of his name).
I believe the short woman with the black hair near the column is perhaps......Colleen Moore?
And I think I see Walter Huston as well (two people to the right of 'Colleen Moore')

Robert Morley on the right. Burgess Meredith looks as though he thinks the evening may turn out to be a success, as was his reputation.

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by Ed Workman

One track has overhead wires, the other does not
So I would put the parallel tracks in the San Fernando Valley, west of Lankershim.
The PE bridge was washed away by flood 1938?? and both RRs used the SP track, with trolley wires added thereafter
The SP line was not the mainline, but a branch line that left the main at Burbank and rejoined it at Chatsworth

Thanks Ed! Now that you mention it, the area certainly looks more like the San Fernando Valley than Glendale.

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I recently came across this snapshot of a train wreck in Pasadena, circa 1905...
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Los Angeles Herald, 4 August 1905




cdnc

Los Angeles Herald, 2 October 1907


cdnc


P.S.

Was the derailment near Library Park?

1903 Pasadena Birdseye:

loc

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Another fatastic color photo E_R! I'm going to go through withdrawls when you're out of them!

Looks like something going on at the Hollywood Bowl with all the people coming (or going?) there. Might account for the traffic.

Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunday?

Also, many restaurants list a certain fish. When its placed on the table, it could be anything. People don't know how to ID many fish species.
Once I ordered Halibut but some mystery white fish arrived. My Mom said to forget it. Oh well.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Oh, please don't say that. I think different view points and perceptions are what makes life interesting. I never meant to imply that yours aren't valid. I was just yakking. I think you have a wonderful eye. You're the best :-)

Sometimes I say strange things.....its nothing personal. We're still meilleurs amis.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Noircitydame

Maybe the sailors were down the block at the 7 Seas?

eBay

By coincidence, I came across this a few weeks ago on eBay NCD.
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[John Maddox Roberts]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

eBay

by coincidence, I came across this a few weeks ago on eBay NCD.
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Ah, those seraphim, the sailors.

[ProphetM]

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson

Robert Morley on the right. Burgess Meredith looks as though he thinks the evening may turn out to be a success, as was his reputation.

Is that Agnes Moorehead attached to his arm? (or am I just out of my depth, being so much younger than most of you folks?)

[ethereal_reality]

I think that woman is .....how do I say this kindly?....a bit prettier than Agnes Moorehead. (not that Agnes Moorehead ever wanted to be considered 'pretty')
now that dashing lad just above her head is kinda' pretty.

That said, how old do you think I am ProphetM?
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Thanks for digging up the information on the 1905 Pasadena train wreck tovanger2. -I appreciate it.

[ProphetM]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Nah, I think this woman is .....how do I say this kindly?....a bit prettier than Agnes Moorehead. (not that Agnes Moorehead ever wanted to be considered 'pretty')

Now that dashing lad just above her head (in the background) is kinda' pretty.
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How old do you think I am ProphetM?

I have never tried to nail down anyone's age here, but there are a lot of comments that allude to childhoods in the 1950s & 60s, and earlier, and/or adulthood in the 70s and earlier. But I did say "most", not all of course.

It's hard to find decent photos that show what I mean, but Agnes Moorehead was pretty pleasant to look at in her youth, when she wasn't busy acting dour. Moreso when her hair was down.
In any case, there is something familiar about her.

[ethereal_reality]

Whoever she is PM, she's having a grand time!! -like most everyone else in the photograph.

[ProphetM]

Hmm, it might be Ethel Merman.


Screen cap (or promo shot?) from Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), via doctormacro.com

[Noircitydame]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

I happen to love these kinds of restaurants and they're disappearing at a pretty good clip, if you ask me.

I do too, and always try to eat at them if I can find them.

Found some sailors- not at the 7 Seas after all, but down the block at Hollywood & Vine.


here

And these buddies:

here

Loitering at this corner some more: all of these pictures were taken on a summer day, August 1944, by Life photographer John Florea and appeared (much cropped) in the Sept 4, 1944 issue. Maybe some have been here before but I like having them all together and seeing the people in the background (women, kids and older men mostly) and little details. All from here


Order Clerk Yvonne French

•Lady with the dog over the news vendor’s shoulder.
•Sign pointing south down Vine to the Hollywood Victory House. Like the Victory House in Pershing Square, a central place to buy & sell war bonds. It opened in the forecourt of Graumann’s Chinese in May 1942, then moved to Hollywood & Vine, not sure where exactly.

Window stylist Cecilia Fiala

Singer Carolyn Grey


Singer Marilyn Hall

•Adorable. Love her slacks and saddle shoes.
•Man in uniform walking by.

Students Joianne Breckenridge and Gloria Jones.

•The stylish man in the 10-gallon hat. Most of the (few) men in these shots are bareheaded, as are a lot of the women- especially the younger ones.
•The news vendor’s hat & coat on the lamp post.

Secretary Jane Yaeger

•Girl in the white snood has serious wedge envy or something.
•The peasant blouse-skirt-wedge look Jane and the girl behind her are sporting, a sort of very toned-down Carmen Miranda influenced style- was ridiculously popular all through the war years for summer casual-when fashion turned to south of the border for inspiration.

CityBoyDoug's mom wears a similar kind of outfit in the darling family photo he posted here: 27172

As seen on some NLA regulars:
Rita Ava

Jinx

Yvonne

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ProphetM

Is that Agnes Moorehead attached to his arm? (or am I just out of my depth, being so much younger than most of you folks?)

Maybe Paulette Goddard? She and Meredith were married from '44 to '49.


silverscreenoasis


ebay (detail) previously posted by e_r

...and Robert Morley was married to Gladys Cooper's daughter, Joan Buckmaster from 1940 to 1992:


(credit as above)

But, if the woman above is Hedda Hopper as Otis Criblecobis relates below, that would at least explain why someone would be wearing a hat in a nightclub!

LOL, I'm terrible at this.