noirish Los Angeles - Page 3070

ethereal_reality · #**61381** Posted **Mar 7, 2024, 5:12 PM**

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Wow! There has been some incredible sleuthing going on concerning the faux-oil well(?) and Desmond's photograph.

I'm so proud of ya'll

I can't stand it.

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ethereal_reality · #**61382** Posted **Mar 8, 2024, 2:56 AM**

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I happened upon this snapshot earlier today on eBay.

Seller's description:.. "STREET SCENE MALTED MILK MAYFAIR THEATRE LOS ANGELES"

But I'm not so sure this is Los Angeles.

update:

I just found this photograph on the losangelestheatres blog.

Note the Malted Milk sign.

"Majestic / Mayfair Theatre, 214 Santa Monica, CA."

So maybe the seller is correct about the location. ..Do you think this is the theater in question?

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ethereal_reality · #**61383** Posted **Mar 8, 2024, 3:18 AM**

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This snapshot of a GIANT ROCK caught my eye as well.

"Vintage Photograph - Feb. 1968 - Giant Rock - Landers, California"

eBay

I'm completely intrigued by it.

It turns out Landers is quite some distance from Los Angeles. (it's just north of Joshua Tree)

Here's a closer look at Landers.

I looked all over for the GIANT ROCK but I don't see it... I can't imagine something that LARGE just up and disappeared.

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ethereal_reality · #**61384** Posted **Mar 8, 2024, 3:27 AM**

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Last, but not least, here's a mystery vantage point.

eBay

Does anyone recognize this view? - or where the photographer was standing when he (or she) took the snapshot?

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ethereal_reality · #**61385** Posted **Mar 8, 2024, 3:37 AM**

A few minutes later.

I just realized the seller has this second photograph listed on eBay with a similiar view.

eBay

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unihikid · #**61386** Posted **Mar 8, 2024, 3:58 PM**

I came across this huge booklet at work a few months ago. Our council has parcels of land in Brea and received this before the development of the city of Diamond Bar. It was found in the back of a 4 tier file cabinet, which explains the edges. Thought you guys might be interested.

Look how green and open it was

A nice few of the roads of greater LA

And last, one of the fold out sections.

A close up.

Mackerm · #**61387** Posted **Mar 8, 2024, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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This snapshot of a GIANT ROCK caught my eye as well.

"Vintage Photograph - Feb. 1968 - Giant Rock - Landers, California"

eBay

I'm completely intrigued by it.
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Visit Joshua Tree

Move along. Nothing to see here

Huell did a segment on Giant Rock. Certainly his most laid-back piece.

Engineeral · #**61388** Posted **Mar 9, 2024, 4:28 PM**

Try Google Maps at:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1KrYp3Cg4yfcTuF78

Bristolian · #**61389** Posted **Mar 10, 2024, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by unihikid

I came across this huge booklet at work a few months ago. Our council has parcels of land in Brea and received this before the development of the city of Diamond Bar. It was found in the back of a 4 tier file cabinet, which explains the edges. Thought you guys might be interested.

One of the number of useless facts I have learned over the years is that the origin of the name of the city of Diamond Bar comes from the cattle brand of the ranch that once occupied the land. The brand was diamond over a bar.

sadykadie2 · #**61390** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 4:51 AM**

I had wondered where the name came from for years, thanks!

Lorendoc · #**61391** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 5:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I happened upon this snapshot earlier today on eBay.

Seller's description:.. "STREET SCENE MALTED MILK MAYFAIR THEATRE LOS ANGELES"

But I'm not so sure this is Los Angeles.

update:

I just found this photograph on the losangelestheatres blog.

Note the Malted Milk sign.

"Majestic / Mayfair Theatre, 214 Santa Monica, CA."

So maybe the seller is correct about the location. ..Do you think this is the theater in question?

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Those people look a bit too wamly dressed for Los Angeles? Doubt this is Santa Monica, the builings seem too tall.

...the sign in the middle says [VE]RNAL HOURS AHEAD - nope, Mackerm corrects me: JOURNAL HOURS AHEAD. This is an ad for the Oregon Journal, which was Portland's daily afternoon newspaper from 1902 to 1982. They were "hours ahead" of the competition, one presumes.

The lower picture doesn't look like it's in the same neighborhood as the upper one. It can be dated to 1929, as the theater is showing The Sacred Flame, starring Pauline Frederick, Conrad Nagel, "and a Big Cast" per the marquee. The pre-code plot, says Wiki, involves a mother euthanizing her wheelchair-bound son, so he won't find out his wife has been cheating on him with his own brother. Whew.

MikeyTikey · #**61392** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 6:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Last, but not least, here's a mystery vantage point.

eBay

Does anyone recognize this view? - or where the photographer was standing when he (or she) took the snapshot?

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This was taken from the rooftop of 167 South Normandie Avenue at Normandie and 2nd (looking southeast).

Mackerm · #**61393** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 9:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I happened upon this snapshot earlier today on eBay.

Seller's description:.. "STREET SCENE MALTED MILK MAYFAIR THEATRE LOS ANGELES"

But I'm not so sure this is Los Angeles.

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eBay

The photo of the Mayfair Theater is in Portland, Oregon. The other sign says Journal Hours.

GaylordWilshire · #**61394** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 1:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by MikeyTikey

This was taken from the rooftop of 167 South Normandie Avenue at Normandie and 2nd (looking southeast).

MikeyTikey beat me to it--kudos, MT--but here's some more on the pics taken from the roof of what started out being known as the Del-Har Manor apartments, built in 1928.
(The Del-Har, built by a Delta B. West--not sure where the "Har" came from--replaced a 1914 house that was moved to 1483 W 35th St, where it survived until 2021.)

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Last, but not least, here's a mystery vantage point.

eBay

Does anyone recognize this view? - or where the photographer was standing when he (or she) took the snapshot?

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ER's image above, as MT says, was taken toward the southeast. Among the little that seems to be left is the fourplex at 200-206 S Normandie, seen center-slightly-right.

ER's second view, below, is also from the top of the Del-Har, now looking northeast. The low-slung house and two small apartments to its north still stand....

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

A few minutes later.

eBay

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Gotta love the "LA" inside a bear on the vintage shots....

Snix · #**61395** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 5:23 PM**

The Giant Rock broke in 2000.

https://www.facebook.com/MojaveDeser...083497/?type=3
It has a fascinating 20th century history
https://www.desertsun.com/story/dese...rock/76675798/

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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This snapshot of a GIANT ROCK caught my eye as well.

"Vintage Photograph - Feb. 1968 - Giant Rock - Landers, California"

eBay

I'm completely intrigued by it.

It turns out Landers is quite some distance from Los Angeles. (it's just north of Joshua Tree)

Here's a closer look at Landers.

I looked all over for the GIANT ROCK but I don't see it... I can't imagine something that LARGE just up and disappeared.

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Snix · #**61396** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 5:35 PM**

That Diamond Bar brochure is a great artifact. I hope it finds its way to a permanent collection. Thurl Ravenscroft (of Tony the Tiger and Grinch fame) recorded a promotional record called "The Legend of Diamond Bar" back when it was being developed. Then about 20 years ago Renegade Animation in Glendale created this short film to accompany it.

https://vimeo.com/178673441

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Originally Posted by unihikid

I came across this huge booklet at work a few months ago. Our council has parcels of land in Brea and received this before the development of the city of Diamond Bar. It was found in the back of a 4 tier file cabinet, which explains the edges. Thought you guys might be interested.

Look how green and open it was

A nice few of the roads of greater LA

And last, one of the fold out sections.

A close up.

ethereal_reality · #**61397** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 3:23 AM**

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Excellent deductions on the two photographs with the borders, Mikey Tikey and GaylordWilshire.

The seller now has a third 'border' photograph listed on eBay.

Is this from the same location as the other two?

Here are the first two again for comparison..

Link to the third photograph.
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GaylordWilshire · #**61398** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 11:30 AM**

ER: This was taken from the same rooftop, just more north-northeasterly than the second of your shots. The building at left is 147 S Normandie, built in 1926 as the Los Palmas Apartments.

Interesting to note that the Los Palmas as well as the Del-Har Manor (from the top of which these images were taken) replaced single-family residences in much the way many old bungalows (on the east side in particular) are being replaced with full-lot multi-unit housing today. Housing pressures in Los Angeles were at least as intense during the '20s as they are today.

ethereal_reality · #**61399** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 2:28 PM**

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Thanks, GW....I just realized that you can faintly see Griffith Observatory in the most recent photograph.

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ethereal_reality · #**61400** Posted **Mar 13, 2024, 8:30 PM**

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Thanks for all the follow-ups on the 'Giant Rock' out in. . .googles. . .Ann Landers. ..As soon as Mackerm posted the UFO photograph I realized that I had heard of it before.

"Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, that covers 5,800 square feet of ground and is seven stories high. Giant Rock is purported to be the largest free standing boulder in the world."

"A single large room, which was subsequently filled in, was dug beneath the rock and resided in by a prospector named Frank Critzer during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Critzer perished in a self-detonated dynamite explosion in this room on July 24, 1942, while being investigated by local police.

newspapers.com

In the 1950s it was a gathering point for UFO believers. It is located on land which was at that time leased by George Van Tassel, a friend of Critzer's, a flying-saucer contactee
and organizer of UFO conventions. Van Tassel also built the nearby Integratron."

palmspringslife

The Integratron is still there!

Here's George in his room beneath the rock sometime between 1953 and 1957.

Cozy.

Learn more

[/url="https://www.integratron.com/timeline/"]HERE[/url]. It's very interesting!
oop, shit

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