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[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

Back in 2015 e_r posted a photo of the Russian Eagle after the fire and explosion:

This is 8640-48 Sunset Blvd. that housed the Russian Eagle Cafe, with roof intact, right after it was built in 1924.





It was one of the four original buildings developed by Francis Montgomery that was the initial phase of Sunset Plaza.


The above detail comes from this wider view of that first phase.



hollywoodphotographs.com


Lined up here in a 1927 aerial.



mil.library.ucsb.edu


Did the 1928 fire and blast prompt an immediate reconfiguration of the middle two buildings into a bigger single one?

Or did that came later in the 1930s as seen here in 1938?



hollywoodphotographs.com

[ethereal_reality]

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re: Zulu Hut


Now I remember!

Zulu Hut was located near 'Monkey Island', right?



1,000 monkeys! I forgot there were so many of them.

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[Godzilla]

More details.





https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2019/11...november-1925/

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir

This is 8640-48 Sunset Blvd. that housed the Russian Eagle Cafe, with roof intact, right after it was built in 1924. Did the 1928 fire and blast prompt an immediate reconfiguration of the middle two buildings into a bigger single one?

Or did that come later in the 1930s as seen here in 1938?
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Noir_Noir, especially in less populated times I'm not averse to the idea that addresses of the exact same space can vary over some decades,
but how do we account for the two different addresses for the Russian Eagle?

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

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I saw this ad for the place on a website titled: From Captains to Movie General.
The article on the page is written all in Russian. Link HERE.



The Curbed article has the address as 8648 Sunset Blvd. and the ad has it listed at 8428 Sunset Blvd. The 8428 Sunset Blvd. address is across the street from the Ciro's location, the 8648 address is around the Sunset Plaza area.
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Since it's in an ad and not an article, wouldn't that be assumed to be an accurate address? There isn't any date I can find for this ad, is it possible after the explosion it moved east down the street before moving again to Hollywood?
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I've also now located this ad on J.H. Graham's website.

[ethereal_reality]

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To make all this even more confusing.

Besides the Zulu Hut there was also the Hula Hut located at 8204 Beverly Boulevard during the same time period.


LAPL via jhgraham


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[ethereal_reality]

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AND the Hawaiian Hut at 7210 Beverly Boulevard.


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jhgraham



Meanwhile somewhere in the San Fernando Valley.


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[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Noir_Noir, especially in less populated times I'm not averse to the idea that addresses of the exact same space can vary over some decades,
but how do we account for the two different addresses for the Russian Eagle?


Since it's in an ad and not an article, wouldn't that be assumed to be an accurate address? There isn't any date I can find for this ad, is it possible after the explosion it moved east down the street before moving again to Hollywood?
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I've also now located this ad on J.H. Graham's website.

First mentions of the Russian Eagle Cafe's place it at 8648 Sunset Blvd. I don't know how long it was there before the fire and explosion in June of 1928.


The Russian Eagle apparently became the Double Eagle (and/or the Double-Headed Russian Eagle) for some years after the Big Bang of 28.



archive.org - Motion Picture (Feb-Jul 1929)


archive.org - Screenland (June 1930)


Sunset and Doheny is mentioned as the location for one of these versions.

Also a widening of Sunset would necessitate a move to avoid half the cafe disappearing.


In 1933 the Russian Eagle reappears as an alfresco dining experience in a date palm grove to the rear of the Hollywood Plaza Hotel at 1633–37 N. Vine St.


paradiseleased.wordpress.com



cdnc.ucr.edu - The Jewish News of Northern California, 31 May 1935


On Halloween 1935 the doors were opened on the Russian Eagle Supper Club at the new and final location of 8428 Sunset Blvd.



archive.org - Los Angeles Times 1935-10-31


It's tenure there was brief enough and it was gone sometime in late summer of 1936.

Major General Theodore A. Lodijensky, whose baby it was, had had enough and left Hollywood to head back east.



cdnc.ucr.edu - Daily News (Los Angeles), 7 March 1947

[ethereal_reality]

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About a month or so ago on eBay there were a bunch of snapshots (being sold separately) of famous actors and actresses in various locations around Los Angeles.

I saved some of them to a file.


#1



Lana Turner in front of an abstract mural, somewhere.



#2



Evelyn Keyes, somewhere.






#3



Judy Garland and the photographer. (proto-selfie?)



A few more coming soon.

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[ethereal_reality]

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As promised.


#4



I don't think either of those women are Lupe Velez. Nice of them to trespass on Lupe's lawn.


A closer look.



Nope, not Lupe. . Does anyone know Lupe's address in 1941?






#5



John Wayne driving a car load of men out of a parking lot.(I think)..If we could read that blade sign down the street we might be able to figure out the location.

Just for fun here's a closer look at the blade sign.






#6



Martha Scott (and a mutant dog), somewhere.



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[riichkay]

Re: Lupe Velez home in 1941 was 732 N. Rodeo Dr....1940 census....






Following images/text courtesy of The Huntington Library & The Beverly Hills Historical Society....




This is the final home of actress Lupe Vélez, nicknamed The Mexican Spitfire, and known for a succession of stormy, high-profile romances. She lived in this house with her husband, Tarzan actor and Olympian Johnny Weissmuller. Previously, she lived next door with actor Gary Cooper. When Cooper broke off their tempestuous relationship, it’s said Vélez followed him to the train station and fired a pistol at him. She died in this house by her own hand, pregnant and unmarried, on December 13, 1944.

[GaylordWilshire]

Was it Lupe or Clara who said that Gary was "hung like a horse and can go all night"?