Thanks so much for fixing your broken links Scott.

Come back and visit us more often (we're still having fun :))

:previous:

I agree and second the sentiment!

I think this is where the marker used to be. Right next to the Freeway on-ramp.

https://s6.postimg.org/xhbm0arz5/Scr...4.44.27_PM.png

Google Street View https://www.google.com/maps/@35.2591...7i13312!8i6656

:previous: thanks ScottyB and UpHillDonkey! (just curious, what makes you think it was there Scotty?)




I don't believe we have seen this fantastic snapshot of Wrigley Field, Los Angeles.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/p9FhXr.jpg
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The press are out on the field taking photographs of someone. (I'm guessing the first pitch)

whoever it is- they appear to be extraordinarily tall. (a politician?)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/o5NleE.jpgdetail

I thought that guy on the far right was a matador but this being a baseball stadium and all...... ;)



the seller says it's opening day--but doesn't give a specific date.

Type of photo: Original Snapshot
Small 21/2 x 31/2"
Date of Creation: 1930s
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I realize that we've seen many photographs of the miniature train at Venice but this is a one-of-kind amateur snapshot [taken in 1923]

I wonder if that's the photographer's wife and kids?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/HnyiD8.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/9l7Agq.jpg
-just found on ebay

Date of Creation: 1923
Photo Type: Snapshot
Original/Reprint: Original Print
Dimension: 2-1/" x 4-1/4"

Now for something a little more modern.

"VINTAGE 1970 PHOTO Department Of Health Building Los Angeles"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/YYyDXF.jpg
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Photo Type: Snapshot
Original/Reprint: Original Print
Date of Creation: 1970
Dimension: 3.5 x 5 inches

I just received a PM from a person asking for help.
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"Hello I've been following your page on skyscraperpage for some years. Your historical insight and research on Los Angeles architecture/history is awesome!
...whenever I've searched for some obscure LA building on google images, your page comes up. I was wondering if you could help me out with a local church
which is currently condemned/abandoned. From the very few articles I could manage to find...all I know is that it suffered structural damage during an earthquake
& that Motown founder Berry Gordy held a fundraiser to help pay for the churches restoration seismic retrofitting...but that's it!..nothing else comes up
the last name the church went by was the Community Presbyterian Church...but the original church congregation was called Vermont Ave Presbyterian Church
The original Caucasian congregation moved to another location in the 50s....well Long story short ...
I've been inside & I wonder if you've ever found any photographs of the original interior..all I could find was an exterior shot from the 30s."
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[A photograph from usc was included but it didn't show up] I thought I'd go find it myself but the usc website is down. :( (is it currently down for anyone else?)

Any-Hoo...Does anyone have an interior photograph of this church....or know where to find one?
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e_r,
Not to rub it in or anything but today on the outskirts of a very unnoirish L.A. I went for a run on the beach and jumped in the ocean to cool off.

We had a warm spell today. It got up to 15.

Thanks partner! :cowboy:


Here's another, odinthor.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/cFD181.jpg

It looks like the Space Shuttle to me.

ARTIST: Mark Swope
TITLE: Los Angeles, CA
DATE: 2002
MEDIUM: archival pigment print
SIZE: h: 24 x w: 20 in
craig krull gallery

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This one is more enigmatic.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/YlQ3hJ.jpg

It has a certain noirish quality.
p.s. I'd really like to know where this one was taken. As you see on the right- downtown isn't all that far away. (any ideas?)

ARTIST: Mark Swope
TITLE: Structures, Los Angeles
DATE: 2008
MEDIUM: archival pigment print
SIZE: h: 13 x w: 19 in
EDITION: 20
craig krull gallery

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She's doing fine CBD, so kind of you to ask. :)

I like this photograph of you in Champaign IL

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/T4HYQV.jpg

I have an idea..everyone post some personal photos!! for the new year.

:crickets:

Ah, yes: To botany, that's Shuttleus flashgordonalus ssp. foliosus.


We had this almost exactly a year ago; but when the 'Bucket got kicked, so did it . . . Happy New Year!

https://s26.postimg.org/jd8u4mzvd/BCDPian1_L.jpg

Imagine me playing Auld Lang Syne for this year's NLA New Year's Eve Bash...

Is this the ''Odinthor"? Ahhhh...nice....even the bow tie.

Thanks! You could take the same picture today, and only the lamp would be different. :whistle:

This picture is so cute, my eyelashes have become singed

Yes, that is a great snapshot! The place looks full, apparently with spectators even out on the field along the outfield wall. The
ceremonial pitcher is standing on the mound, which was five inches higher back then, so he might have been normal-sized. I
guess all the photographers are hiding the catcher? I tried to figure out what game this might have been, but I came up empty.

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There are no pix of me at the apartment building on St. Andrews, e_r, but thanks for asking. :)

I'm assuming that this is the church we're talking about.

Exterior view of the Vermont Avenue Presbyterian Church, showing gas station, ca.1925

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

The church is on the corner of W 53rd Street, and the address appears to be 5300 S Vermont Avenue. Early CDs list it as the Vermont Avenue Presbyterian Church, but the 1960 CD calls it the United Presbyterian Church. The listings after that just say Presbyterian Church. I didn't find much in the building permits, although the later ones name Brotherhood Crusade Inc as owners.

The picture below was uploaded in 2009, but the church still looks pretty much the same.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
Laurie Avocado on Flickr

One of the comments with the picture above says, "My father L. David Cowie was Pastor of this church from about 1937 to 1942." Rev L D Cowie of 1371 Laveta Terrace is listed as pastor in the CDs between 1938 and 1942.

I haven't found any interior pictures yet.

Nice enough building in its day but in 2017 its nothing but attractive nuisance and an eyesore in the neighbor.

This is part of a post from 1/2 dozen years ago.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3615


This is the only known mention on NLA I've located concerning The Losers on La Cienega Blvd.

Apparently this place/location has a little history.

According to the Felix in Hollywood blogspot, Marie Rose Antoinette Catherine de Robert d'Aqueria de Rochegude of Le Havre married in Paris and became the Baroness Catherine d'Erlanger. She was mostly known by the nickname "Flame: because of her hair color. In the late 30's, when things were heading toward war in Europe, she packed some things and ended up in Hollywood. In 1939 she opened up the Cafe Gala, catering mostly to gay clientele, on Horn Ave. above Sunset Blvd.

More about the Baroness here:
http://felixinhollywood.blogspot.com...some-dame.html

CAFE GALA post:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=37551

After a decade the club closed and Baroness d'Erlanger opened "881". An ad for this club:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D39Xu4oaQK...81+CLUB+AD.jpgFelix in Hollywood

Scotty Bowers mentions this club in his 2012 book Full Service as he was the bartender who opened the place.

In the Full Service book, Scotty Bowers says that John Walsh was a singer who managed the Cafe Gala and the Plymouth House and "Johnny" called him to join him in starting the new upscale club, owned by the above mentioned Countess. "It was to be a chic, expensive establishment with a fully equipped kitchen specializing in French cuisine."

https://books.google.com/books?id=7H4dQO-g8BwC&pg=PT146&lpg=PT146&dq=John+Walsh

By 1958, at least, the location was called Regency. This was an advertisement in Daily Variety, Thursday, December 4, 1958, p. 8.

Regency, formerly John Walsh's 881
https://www.joecastrojazz.com/images...r5-Photo8b.jpgJoe Castro Jazz


Still the Regency in 1960:
Advertisement in Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 8, 1960, p. 9, Sec. 2.

https://www.joecastrojazz.com/images...r5-Photo22.jpg
Joe Castro Jazz


By 1962 it was The Losers:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i4spEpfEL...600/losers.jpgGreg Dziawer on Joe Bevins blog

As you can see, they had two marquees out front, one highlighting people as "Losers of the Week," the other for the performers playing there.

Advertisement in Daily Variety, Los Angeles, California, Thursday, November 14, 1963, p. 9.

https://www.joecastrojazz.com/images...r6-Photo5b.jpgJoe Castro Jazz

By the way, during this time, Joe Castro was involved with heiress Doris Duke.

Here's a record album recorded at the club:

https://img.discogs.com/FSaXvlIvDpjk...17145.jpeg.jpgDiscogs

It was released in 1963. One of the songs on the album, E_R, is "Back Home Again in Indiana."

The first image in this post, from the TV series The Outsider, is from around 1969. The marquees can't be read in that photo, but it appears that sometime after these people were playing jazz and singing in this establishment, that it became one of the first topless strip clubs to open in the area.

Match cover: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/193725221452035934
"Smut film aficionados will likely recognize The Losers as breeding ground for Russ Meyer talent. Erica Gavin, Kitten Natividad, Haji and Tura Satana all danced there."

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d9/d7/ea/d...trip-clubs.jpgPinterest/GetMatches

In this clip of marquee drive-by footage, you can see the club was still The Losers in 1970 (at the 0:18 mark). Very brief clip.

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A website was delving into a later adult film directed by Ed Wood, titled The Young Marrieds and discovered that some of it was shot on La Cienega at this location, c. 1971.

The information is presented as though the name of the place is the Nude-A- Go-Go, not that it was only that name in the film, so I'm not sure if it was still The Losers in 1971 or had changed it's name to the Nude-A-Go-Go.

The following photo is a screencap from the film showing our hero Ben coming out of the place. The blog author has photoshopped the title of his article onto the left marquee, however. We can see that it says, most likely Nude A Go Go on the right marquee.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bb8cSxAzy...s1600/eww2.pngEd Wood Wednesdays

The author does say that what was on that left marquee was this: LOSER OF THE WEEK / STU NAHAN / AND HIS COMPUTER.

What this was after 1971 I don't know, but the building, at La Cienega and Willoughby, is now gone. So is the 881 address.

Many thanks! :bowtie: (You make me blush...)

For you non-Angelenos, Stu Nahan was a sports reporter on local Los Angeles television for many, many years. I suspect the claim of him appearing as a nightclub act is in jest. But thanks, Martin Pal, for a very interesting read on The Losers!