noirish Los Angeles

[ethereal_reality]

Thanks for uncovering what happened to the World Transportation Fair Hoss.

It's too bad it didn't happen.
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Now I need you to find out about this....


https://www.theguardian.com/cities/g...en-in-pictures

Tower of Civilization – 1943

"Even at the height of the second world war, the city’s leaders were plotting grandiose schemes for a World Fair. The most impressive was drawn by bridge engineer Donald R Warren. His 1,200ft-high, 150ft-diameter Tower of Civilisation would have been the world’s tallest structure – with a three mile long ramp coiled around the column leading to an observatory. The outer shell would have ‘colours of the spectrum electrically displayed in vertical bands’. Amid the postwar economic slump, the idea of the fair and the tower fizzled."

Any idea where they they planned to hold the Los Angeles Worlds Fair......Long Beach?....San Pedro?....Torrance?.....Pacoima

[HossC]

Thanks to ScottyB for sharing your experiences of the Beckman Auditorium, and to e_r for the aerial view.

The job number and date suggest that this is one of Julius Shulman's earlier photosets. It's "Job 05: Sumner Maurice Spaulding, Pomona Store (Pomona, Calif.), 1945". I've just picked a selection of images.



Looking back through the front window at some of the neighboring shops.



A selection of headwear.



Here's a view from the mezzanine.



The last picture I picked shows the store at night. It also gives us a name in the lower-right corner.



All from Getty Research Institute

There wasn't much to go on when I tried to find the location. I found a 1976 article which mentions that Ora-Addies women’s apparel shop in Pomona was owned by a Mrs Tate for many years, but no address is given. I also found a 1946 advert (below) which shows that Pee Gee Shops (visible through the window in the second Shulman picture) was at 552 Third Street. Maybe the store in the advert wasn't in Pomona, because neither 552 East or West Third street look like the right place.


California Digital Newspaper Collection

[ethereal_reality]

..page ripped from a turn-of-the-century photo album.

'The Tally Ho', Eaton Canyon July 4th, 1907.


ebay

I'm not all that familiar with Eaton Canyon.




Here's a closer look at the people on the Tally Ho. (I wonder if that's a rental cabin in the background)

detail

A couple of the guys are looking back over their shoulders------>


I wonder what they're looking at.


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[HossC]

I haven't found much on the 1943 World's Fair, e_r, but the Unbuilt Los Angeles: the city that might have been article you linked to has some interesting designs which never came to fruition. I don't think we've seen Lloyd Wright's vision for the Civic Center before:

Los Angeles Civic Center – 1925 – Lloyd Wright

Wright’s proposal, submitted to the Los Angeles Times in 1925, consisted of terraced walkways flanked by rows of Mayan Revival government buildings. City Hall would sit at the top of this temple-like complex, while sunken roads, subterranean train tunnels, and rooftop helipads would manage movement in and out of the city. Anaïs Nin, who visited Wright’s studio in the late 1940s, wrote in her diary: ‘I saw [his] plans for LA. It could have been the most beautiful city in the world.’


www.theguardian.com/Metropolis Books

[ethereal_reality]

Isn't that mind-boggling!

I have to say, I really like it.

[ethereal_reality]

Pre-CHPs

This was posted on Pinterest as an actually traffic stop.

"Traffic stop in Los Angeles, 1926. All the officers are real L.A. County Motor Patrol officers.


Sarah Mallory / And History for All https://www.pinterest.com/pin/295548794281495069/


But on closer inspection you can see it's from the silent film "Collegiate". (not to be confused with Buster Keaton's "College", filmed a year later in 1927)

F.B.D. Studio (I'm not sure what the two words are above that)


update:

It says 'Alberta Vaughn (star of the movie), above F.B.D. Studio.

[ethereal_reality]

Also from 1926.....



Roadside traffic court in Inglewood. This photo was published in the Nov. 7, 1926, Los Angeles Times.





Here's an actual photograph.


http://framework.latimes.com/2014/07...traffic-court/

So they had to drag that desk out of the truck at each traffic stop?

I think I'd set it up at the rear of the truck, then the judge would just stay inside the back of the truck. duh

[rbpjr]

[QUOTE=Earl Boebert;7666115]When I was in Sea Scouts in the 1950s our dress uniforms were US Navy enlisted dress blues, surplus from Treasure Island, with the Sea Scout "bug" sown over the stars. The "tan pajamas" (1505s) I wore in the Air Force were a hell of a lot more practical :-)

Earl, I was on active duty in the Navy from 1952-55. We had two sets of "dress blues"...one for on-base inspection...no alterations. The other for off-base "liberty" with lots of alterations without losing that "official look"...slimmer at waist, tight torso and seat...some designs on the inside of the cuff, etc. I thought we looked pretty "snazzy" either way...

[ethereal_reality]

I've come across this photograph several times on the internet. (I believe it might have been taken at Marion Davies' beach house)

Only a few are ever identified (several are pretty obvious, like Clark Gable)



https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...00fdf0afc1.jpg



I'm hoping someone here on NLA can help me out with the unidentified.

Here they are numbered 1 thru 17




1..........
2..........Virginia Bruce ?
3..........
4..........
5..........
6..........
7..........Clark Gable
8..........
9..........
10........
11........Clifton Webb
12........
13........Douglas Fairbanks
14........Marion Davies
15........Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
16........Carole Lombard
17........

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several thoughts

Is #6 really a nun? (I doubt it with all that make-up) -but if she isn't a nun, she's the only person in full-on costume.

#10 (with her arms around Clifton Webb) is very striking!

What's up with all the satin ribbons?

Who's hand, with the pointy finger, is that on Douglas Fairbanks right shoulder? I can't figure out which body it's attached to.

I'm really curious to find out who #9 is. She resembles a dowager, but a younger version.

#5 is quite striking as well.
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update:
OK, I referred back to the larger photograph and the pointy fingered hand on Fairbank's shoulder has to belong to Clifton Webb.

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Pre-CHPs

This was posted on Pinterest as an actually traffic stop.

"Traffic stop in Los Angeles, 1926. All the officers are real L.A. County Motor Patrol officers.


Sarah Mallory / And History for All https://www.pinterest.com/pin/295548794281495069/


But on closer inspection you can see it's from the silent film "Collegiate". (not to be confused with Buster Keaton's "College", filmed a year later in 1927)

F.B.D. Studio (I'm not sure what the two words are about that)


update:

It says 'Alberta Vaughn (star of the movie)

The studio was F.B.O.--Film Booking Office--it was apparently acquired by Joe Kennedy that year--1926; two years later he arranged a merger of FBO with an RCA sound-tech unit resulting in the famous R.K.O. Radio Pictures (you know, of the endangered building at Melrose & Gower with the globe once topped with a radio tower, now part of Paramount)....

As for the 1926 film, that must have been a rich college kid...the car is a Roller-- specifically, it looks to be a circa 1925 (American) Rolls-Royce Phantom I....

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

http://framework.latimes.com/2014/07...traffic-court/

So they had to drag that desk out of the truck at each traffic stop?

I think I'd set it up at the rear of the truck, then the judge would just stay inside the back of the truck. duh

I thought the same thing, ER-- seems having the table high in the back of the truck would have presented an intimidating, magisterial judge's "bench" for the arrestees to have to face. Maybe taking it out was to get it out of the shadows for the photographer, and to make a clearer impression on newspaper readers.... Just a guess.

[odinthor]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

The studio was F.B.O.--Film Booking Office--it was apparently acquired by Joe Kennedy that year--1926; two years later he arranged a merger of FBO with an RCA sound-tech unit resulting in the famous R.K.O. Radio Pictures (you know, of the endangered building at Melrose & Gower with the globe once topped with a radio tower, now part of Paramount)....

As for the 1926 film, that must have been a rich college kid...the car is a Roller-- specifically, it looks to be a circa 1925 (American) Rolls-Royce Phantom I....










I thought the same thing, ER-- seems having the table high in the back of the truck would have presented an intimidating, magisterial judge's "bench" for the arrestees to have to face. Maybe taking it out was to get it out of the shadows for the photographer, and to make a clearer impression on newspaper readers.... Just a guess.

Best of all, and most conducive to His Honor's health, would be the Jacques Tati method:


upper photo from Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_big_day_1952/, lower from Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/douardlouboutin/jacques-tati/ .

It appears normal enough until you realize he's riding a bike and using the tailgate of a truck for his desk...

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by rbpjr

...slimmer at waist, tight torso and seat.

Any personal photographs you'd like to share with us rbpjr?

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[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by HossC

"Job 05: Sumner Maurice Spaulding, Pomona Store (Pomona, Calif.), 1945".

Spaulding, Rex and Deswarte (1940-1953) built Ora-Addies in 1945. It is also listed as the Frederick Wellensick Shop. Still couldn't find the address.

Spaulding & Rex designed Case Study House #2 in 1947 and won awards that same year for the Barret Textile Corporation shop and their Red Cross Chapter House.

Sumner Maurice Spaulding, when part of Webber, Staunton & Spaulding (1923-1928) built 627 S Carondelet (1926), as their offices, for Julia Hayward Thomas. The firm also did Malaga Cove Plaza on Palos Verdes, Harold Lloyd's "Greenacres", the Casino and Theater building at Avalon and many others.

[Andys]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

..page ripped from a turn-of-the-century photo album.

'The Tally Ho', Eaton Canyon July 4th, 1907.


ebay

I'm not all that familiar with Eaton Canyon.( I believe it's due east of Altadena)

Here's a closer look at the people on the Tally Ho. (I wonder if that's a rental cabin in the background)

detail

A couple of the guys are looking back over their shoulders------>


I wonder what they're looking at.


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It could be the start of an excursion up the Mount Wilson Toll road, which started in Eaton Canyon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Wilson_Toll_Road
Andys

[Blaster]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I've come across this photograph several times on the internet. (I believe it might have been taken at Marion Davies' beach house)

Only a few are ever identified (several are pretty obvious, like Clark Gable)



https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...00fdf0afc1.jpg



I'm hoping someone here on NLA can help me out with the unidentified.

Here they are numbered 1 thru 17




1..........
2..........Virginia Bruce ?
3..........
4..........
5..........
6..........
7..........Clark Gable
8..........
9..........
10........
11........Clifton Webb
12........
13........Douglas Fairbanks
14........Marion Davies
15........Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
16........Carole Lombard
17........

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several thoughts

Is #6 really a nun? (I doubt it with all that make-up) -but if she isn't a nun, she's the only person in full-on costume.

#10 (with her arms around Clifton Webb) is very striking!

What's up with all the satin ribbons?

Who's hand, with the pointy finger, is that on Douglas Fairbanks right shoulder? I can't figure out which body it's attached to.

I'm really curious to find out who #9 is. She resembles a dowager, but a younger version.

#5 is quite striking as well.
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update:
OK, I referred back to the larger photograph and the pointy fingered hand on Fairbank's shoulder has to belong to Clifton Webb.

No. 3 just might be movie star turned decorator William Haines. But I wouldn not bet money it.

And No. 4 might be playwright/screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart.

[Blaster]

Once I got Donald Ogden Stewart, I followed a Getty Image trail and cracked the case...


1..........Delmer Daves
2..........Virginia Bruce
3..........Jean Negulesco
4..........Donald Ogden Stewart
5..........Susan Rosenberg
6..........Countess Di Frasso
7..........Clark Gable
8..........Mrs. Dorothy Fell of New York
9..........Mrs. Joan Payson (sister of Jock Whitney)
10........Mrs. Donald Stewart
11........Clifton Webb
12........Mrs. James Bodrero of Santa Barbara
13........Douglas Fairbanks
14........Marion Davies
15........Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
16........Carole Lombard
17........Prince Serge Obelinski

[ethereal_reality]

Excellent sleuthing Blaster!

Did your 'trail' happen to mention where the group photograph was taken?


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[ethereal_reality]

"SteepleJill in Action"

I happened upon this fantastic photograph last night on ebay.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherie-May-w...EAAOSwr~lYnMFi

"Miss Cherie May, the only steeplejack on the west coast, perches on her board atop
the 14 story Hilton hotel in los angeles, and works on an electric sign."


ebay

I'm surprised the building is described as a Hilton hotel. Wouldn't it have been the Mayflower Hotel when this photograph was taken?

Unless I'm mistaken, the Mayflower didn't become part of the Hilton chain until the 1950s.

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Just for fun....SUPER-Sized







I found a Cherie May in the 1956 city directory.


lapl

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[Blaster]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Excellent sleuthing Blaster!

Did your 'trail' happen to mention where the group photograph was taken?


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Sorry, no. The heading was "Hollywood Stars Gather On Stairs" but it wouldn't surprise me if it was Marion Davies' beach house.

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Excellent sleuthing Blaster!

Did your 'trail' happen to mention where the group photograph was taken?


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The Carol & Co website gives a Feb 24, 1936 date for the photo plus bio bits for some of those pictured.

A search of interior pix of Ocean House didn't turn up one of this particular staircase, but there is one of a hallway also w/ scenic wallpaper:


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