noirish Los Angeles - Page 2448

Barstowboy · #**48941** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 4:41 AM**

Happy 10th!

What amazing information and informed members are here!

Martin Pal · #**48942** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 4:37 PM**

Previous posts concerning the Hollywood Roller Bowl at 5612 Sunset Blvd.:

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=23153
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=23154
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=44528

I saw this screen cap today of a 1961 episode of ROUTE 66. That's George Maharis and Martin Milner in the car at center.

Photo from a post by Randall on the 77 Sunset Strip thread on the Home Theater Forum:
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/com...posts/4655257/

THere are some other interesting related screen caps at the link.

Peeweehal · #**48943** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 7:38 PM**

The home pictured on page 2446 is actually in the Biltmore Estates area of Phoenix, Arizona. I was unable to get a Google street view as it's a gated community these days. It's located on Biltmore Estate Drive just south of E. Thunderbird Trail, backing up to the golf course.

HossC · #**48944** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 8:23 PM**

You must mean GW's house from Perry Mason. It appears to be 36 Biltmore Estates, Phoenix, AZ. The property websites give a build date of 1952 (and one claims there's parking for 37 cars!).

Google Maps

There are 38 interior/exterior photos at www.redfin.com.

Here are the original screengrabs for comparison:

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Wondering if anyone might happen to recognize this house...as seen in an early Perry Mason episode:

CBS

GaylordWilshire · #**48945** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 9:21 PM**

That's great, thanks for finding it Peeweehal and Hoss. Well, so it's only a pretend L.A. house. I wonder how the producers came up with something in Phoenix to use as an establishing shot for an LA location?

PS Does anyone else remember when Google satellite views didn't look like cartoons?

HossC · #**48946** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 9:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

PS Does anyone else remember when Google satellite views didn't look like cartoons?

Like the ones that Bing Maps still uses (below)? I sure do. Google's ability to swing around to virtually any angle in 3D is great, but I wish that the sharp 45 degree photographs were still an option.

Bing Maps

CityBoyDoug · #**48947** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 11:09 PM**

#19 on the menu at Langer's

ethereal_reality · #**48948** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 11:27 PM**

RARE PHOTOGRAPH

MGM basketball team, 1929

ebay

Vic Orsatti, captain. Lou Dorn, MRG.

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ethereal_reality · #**48949** Posted **Sep 22, 2018, 11:40 PM**

Paris Inn....Fall Decorations....Table Leaf Gone Awry....Unknown Date.

I've stared at this photo for quite some time and I still can't figure out what's going on with the back of the table.

ebay Bert Rovere - 210 E. Market Street - Los Angeles, California_

Happy First Day of Fall Noirishers!

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ethereal_reality · #**48950** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 12:04 AM**

'Mystery' Go Kart Track, Burbank California

ebay

"Lona Andre, far right."

I don't know who Lona is... but the lovely lady in the middle certainly looks like Toby Wing.

REVERSE

Does anyone know of a go-kart track located in Burbank? [back in the 1930s]

Let's see those racing starlets up close.

So what do you think the horizontal pipe behind the grill-work is for? If it's for exhaust wouldn't it go right in the driver's face?

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Peeweehal · #**48951** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 3:02 AM**

That house has been used in a couple of movies, and I vaguely remember it being used in an episode of Route 66. It's possible they had access to stock footage from a different production company.

CityBoyDoug · #**48952** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 5:24 AM**

[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8323539]'Mystery' Go Kart Track, Burbank California

So what do you think the horizontal pipe behind the grill-work is for? If it's for exhaust wouldn't it go right in the driver's face?

_exhaust.

Handsome Stranger · #**48953** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 10:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'Mystery' Go Kart Track, Burbank California

"Lona Andre, far right."

I don't know who Lona is...

Lona Andre was one of many who never quite made it past "Featured Player" status in Hollywood.

She had brief appearances in some notable films early in her career, including Paramount's all-star comedy International House (1933), where she actually received on-screen billing in the opening credits. Note the highfalutin accent over the e in her name.

Sadly, the musical number in which she danced, "She Was a China Tea-cup and He Was Just a Mug," is chiefly memorable for her screen partner Sterling Holloway. (He, of course, went on to become the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh many years later.)

Her starring roles were in instantly forgettable movies such as The Timid Young Man (1935), possibly Buster Keaton's worst short film.

There were also starring roles in a few sub-B-movie westerns and melodramas.

Her career really hit the skids in the late thirties when she was the leading lady in exploitation films like Slaves in Bondage (1937) and Race Suicide (1938).

Her post-Hollywood career as a businesswoman was reportedly much more successful. (I haven't been able to discover exactly what business she was in.)

As for the go-kart track...I haven't a clue.

Sorry, this wasn't very helpful. I'll shut up now.

GaylordWilshire · #**48954** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 12:04 PM**

If Lona had a successful career in real estate, no one seems to have been writing about it. In 1942, she was working in an airplane factory, it seems, when she was married for a second time, to a coworker. Anyway, a couple of items about her...it's the second one I was especially interested in since it's about her brush with "the world's richest Indian"--Jackson Barnett--during the "Battle of Wilshire" or, more accurately, getting the door of 644 S Rossmore slammed in her face during a publicity stunt. (Hot dog vendors figured into the scene.) She was in the company of no less than Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and Superior Court Judge Charles S. Crail, who were all spurned by Mr. Barnett's crazy protector and chief leech (his wife Anna) along with club ladies ("a bunch of old hags") while trying to help.

LAT Nov 15, 1932

LAT Oct 29, 1938

I'm sure we've read about Jackson Barnett on NLA before, but I couldn't find anything. Anyway, the full story is here:
https://wilshireboulevardhouses.blog...lease-see.html

HossC · #**48955** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 1:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'Mystery' Go Kart Track, Burbank California

ebay

"Lona Andre, far right."

I don't know who Lona is... but the lovely lady in the middle certainly looks like Toby Wing.

Does anyone know of a go-kart track located in Burbank? [back in the 1930s]

Here's a photo I found at www.vintag.es in an article called 'New Year on the Beach – 12 Interesting Vintage Photos of Women Greeting New Year in Swimsuits in the 1930s'. Other sources caption it "Toby Wing, Frances Drake, Ida Lupino, and Lona Andre, 1934". If the numbering is sequential, then this is only 30 after the Burbank shot above, so we might have a more accurate date.

www.vintag.es (Enlarged slightly)

Tourmaline · #**48956** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 4:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Wondering if anyone might happen to recognize this house...as seen in an early Perry Mason episode:

While clearly not the same structure, can't help but notice some Heinsbergen similarities.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...45#post6989145

LAPL

westcork · #**48957** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 5:27 PM**

Rochester House
I found some un-indexed images of the Rochester House on LAPL

LAPL

CityBoyDoug · #**48958** Posted **Sep 23, 2018, 11:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by westcork

Rochester House
I found some un-indexed images of the Rochester House on LAPL

LAPL

What are those yellow flowers in the photos? Maybe Odin will know. Do you know Odin? Looks like there are thorns on the branches......ouch.!!!

odinthor · #**48959** Posted **Sep 24, 2018, 4:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

What are those yellow flowers in the photos? Maybe Odin will know. Do you know Odin? Looks like there are thorns on the branches......ouch.!!!

Wild sunflowers, thanks, CBD. They add a real artistic touch in the photos they appear in!

ethereal_reality · #**48960** Posted **Sep 24, 2018, 5:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Barstowboy

Happy 10th!

What amazing information and informed members are here!

Thanks Barstowboy.

Just so you know..NLA's 10th anniversary is this coming summer, June 2019. CBD's post confused me as well.
The flashing image definitely makes it look like it was that day. (I've been receiving emails congratulating us)

It would no doubt help if CityBoydoug removed the 'flashing ribbon thingy' and just write "NLA's 10th Anniversary is....".
He already has JUNE 2019 written...so that's a start.

(I tried to send a private message but there's a hic-cup in my stored email file)