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Old Posted Feb 24, 2018, 7:12 PM
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Los Feliz and Griffith Park Blvds., circa 1928



http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...coll59/id/1009
Wow.

I’ve driven through this intersection ten thousand times (most recently last night) and I’d have never recognized it had the photo not been captioned.

I wouldn’t even know if we were looking east or west, but your second photo clearly shows we’re pointing east.

EDIT: I just went back a page and found your image of Los Feliz and Riverside Drive. Just amazing.

I like this sign:


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Old Posted Feb 24, 2018, 7:28 PM
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Wow, just Wow Scott Charles!!! I believe you found the spot.

I just found a couple more items:

The japanese garden is mentioned in this article.

November 15, 1919

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Amazing! I don’t know how you guys find this stuff!
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Los Feliz Blvd. and Gardena Ave. looking south toward the Southern Pacific Crossing. (My compass may be stuck, but I would assume we are looking toward San Fernando Rd., and that RR crossing is now elevated.

1927 - Los Feliz Blvd from Gardena Ave.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...9coll59/id/772
Here's how that scene looked from above.


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Flight ID: C-113, Frame: 262, Date: August 2, 1927

The GSV images aren't quite up to date, but this building should be nearly complete by now. It's The Griffith at 435 W Lost Feliz Road, which now occupies the area on the right of Godzilla's photo.


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Old Posted Feb 24, 2018, 9:48 PM
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Thanks HossC. I would imagine that a NLA favorite, the Tam O'Shanter (Est. 1922 - 2980 Los Feliz Blvd. btwn. Royce and Revere) would show up on a wider version of your aerial. I had been hoping to find it from the early street shots.

More Tam 'O:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=18804

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29583
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Here is perfect example of modern architecture: Facadism....an exercise in the banal.

The only thing the architect needed to do was make sure the bathrooms are properly plumbed.
The actual building might have been designed by the architect's son....he's in high school...9th grade.
Bottom line.....this architecture style is extremely anti-human.

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Old Posted Feb 25, 2018, 3:55 AM
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I’ve always told my friends that one of my favorite things about LA is that no matter how long I’ve lived here, I STILL keep finding out new and interesting things about the city. You’ve just given me another example of one of those things, Godzilla!

How have I never heard of this before?? Thanks so much for the fascinating info - or should I say…

FVNEM?
SVFM
FVNEX?
SVFX
OICVFMNX!

I’ll definitely have to go check the club out as soon as I get the chance.
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Jack Dempsey in Hollywood

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Jack Dempsey, of Los Feliz fame (and tom Lipton), at Breakfast Club, date unk.
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This is a fun pic. thanks for finding it Godzilla.


A few more from his time in Hollywood.

"Jack Dempsey teaching Rudolph Valentino a few boxing moves on the set of 'The Eagle'."


EBAY


I believe the ebay description is incorrect....it's actually a set for 'Gentleman Gene'. [see below]


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All dressed up. (no details)


boxing-ring.blogspot

Now that's a fine looking couple.




Clowning around with Charlie Chaplin. BAM! POW! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!


boxing-ring.blogspot

This photo was taken at the Charlie Chaplin Studios on La Brea Ave. in Hollywood.




and with his beautiful wife, actress Estelle Taylor.




Now that's a fine looking couple.

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image coming soon


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Here's how that scene looked from above.


mil.library.ucsb.edu
Flight ID: C-113, Frame: 262, Date: August 2, 1927
The Griffith is to the right of the tracks and they are elevated now(actually the road dips under the tracks). The aerial above seems to be missing a street that is a continuation of Gardena north. San Fernando is at the right of the picture. On the left side of the track(west) is now a Costco(the reason I know this area pretty well). The Griffith is almost complete, though the road to it's east is still partially blocked. Having seen the building in it's almost complete state I agree with CBD that it's fugly and unimaginative.
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The aerial above seems to be missing a street that is a continuation of Gardena north.
The continuation of Gardena appears between 1952 (below, left) and 1964 (below, right). Godzilla showed us that the grade separation of the railroad and Los Feliz happened in 1957, so maybe Gardena was extended at the same time.


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Thanks HossC. I would imagine that a NLA favorite, the Tam O'Shanter (Est. 1922 - 2980 Los Feliz Blvd. btwn. Royce and Revere) would show up on a wider version of your aerial. I had been hoping to find it from the early street shots.
I was going to upload a wider view, but I think that the Tam O'Shanter appears in the bottom left corner of the aerial I posted.
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Further exploration of the Los Feliz environs.

The Los Feliz Motel at 3101 Los Feliz Blvd.
https://fedora.digitalcommonwealth.o...ess800/content





Try the copper room
https://fedora.digitalcommonwealth.o...ess800/content

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Peacock Lane, 5505 Hollywood Blvd. (If you can't reservations at the Copper Room.)
https://fedora.digitalcommonwealth.o...ess800/content



Wonder if any of the Eagles were familiar with this motel at 5764 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, while "running down the road"?
https://fedora.digitalcommonwealth.o...ess800/content
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All dressed up. (no details)


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Some more info here --> http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery...m/5296259.html






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Old Posted Feb 25, 2018, 10:27 PM
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Here's the answer to my challange that stirred up no interest what-so-ever. (is it because I posted it before without remembering? )
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Even though I read the caption I can't figure out what I'm looking at.


read caption
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"Jack Dempsey teaching Rudolph Valentino a few boxing moves on the set of 'The Eagle'."


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I believe the ebay description is incorrect....it's actually a set for 'Gentleman Gene'. [see below]


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The description of the picture being from the set of The Eagle is likely correct. Boxer "Gentleman" Gene Delmont is Rudolph's sparring partner in the second picture. He had his final fight in 1925, the year these pictures were taken, at the Hollywood Legion Stadium. He went on to have parts, mostly uncredited, in a number of films over the years. Here he is, second from right, with Bing Crosby on the set of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1949.

Actors Fred Sweeney, Bing Crosby, Gene Delmont and John 'Skins' Miller drink tea on the set of director Tay Garnett's film, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'. Crosby laughs while stirring Delmont's tea bag


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Even though I read the caption (i.e. location)…I still can’t figure it out.



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I believe(?) that we are looking at the Hollenbeck Home for the Aged (demolished 1985 and replaced with a similar looking set of buildings). This would mean the photo was taken from the far-east end of the Sixth Street Bridge.



- GSV

View from Sixth Street Bridge, Google Street View. Note the similar grouping of palm trees as in the vintage photo:
- GSV

I wish I could find a pre-1985 photo of the Home, taken from the south, so that I could compare the buildings to the one in the old photo. I like to be more certain when I guess at a location. Having said that, I’m unaware of anywhere else one could see palm trees when looking north off of the (former) Sixth Street Bridge.

Here is a photo from the front of the building (looking west):


Photo credit: Boyle Heights History Blog
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Although Los Angeles' Wrigley Field has been mentioned several times, and Wrigley's mansion on Catalina, I found no mention of the Cubs connection to Los Angeles. (Although I thought maybe it had been.)

The Chicago Cubs regularly held spring training on Catalina Island from 1921 to 1951.

Baseball Hall of Fame



Chicago Cubs at the Hamilton Cove Airport, Santa Catalina Island, c. 1931.
(The airplane is referred to as a Douglas Dolphin Model 1.)

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Chicago Cubs and mascots on Catalina Island for spring training, February, 1939.

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A 1930's aerial of Avalon, you can see the Cubs Spring Training baseball field in the foreground.

Catalina Island Scrapbook: voncoelln.com via DWP

Other wild sports were tried on Catalina besides baseball players cavorting with bears, including motorcycle racing from 1950 through 1958. https://vimeo.com/112249802

https://silodrome.com/wp-content/upl...cycle-Race.jpg

https://silodrome.com/wp-content/upl...cle-Race-3.jpg



And there were evidently other "organized" sports at the Waikiki club at the Waikiki Hotel. (See image above)
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Even though I read the caption (i.e. location)...I still can't figure it out. (there's a second photograph I'll post a bit later, but it's just as confusing) -to me anyway




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Here's the direct link to the photo and accompanying article in the March-April 1946 issue of California Highways and Public Works.

I believe the "Sixth Street" bridge is now the Whittier Blvd. bridge.

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