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[HossC]

You get two for one with today's Julius Shulman post. The picture numbering suggests there may have been even more photos in the set. It's "Job 5932: Gin Wong Associates, miscellaneous projects, 1981". The first two images show the California Federal building on Magnolia Boulevard.



This is the view from Magnolia Boulevard looking towards Glenoaks Boulevard.



The other location has less clues, but there is a "Restaurant Row" sign near the traffic signal.



All from Getty Research Institute

The building at Magnolia and Glenoaks Boulevards in Burbank is now Citibank. It was a brownish color a couple of years ago, but has now been brightened up with a fresh coat of paint.


GSV

The Restaurant Row building was on Wilshire Boulevard at La Cienega Boulevard. It also became a Citibank, and was looking well cared for until recently. The image below is from December 2014. The June 2016 image shows the building hidden behind fencing, and the January 2017 shot shows an empty lot. In the background, Midas is still in business at the same location across the intersection.


GSV

[Cyndihdz]

Originally Posted by ProphetM

Cyndihdz, your abundance of ellipses instead of spaces are breaking your links. When you paste an address, put a space in afterwards. When you paste a web address the forum creates the link automatically, but it can only discern the end of a web address by the presence of a space, since URLs never have spaces. So in the quote above, the forum thinks "........If" is part of the web address and creates the link that way.

Apologies for the late entrance; I've been quite sick and have been catching up with the thread several pages at a time!

So that is what i have been doing wrong, thank you so much.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

An astonishing photo of the Los Altos Apartment garage located at 626 S. Bronson Avenue, circa 1978.


marlene laskey collection

A treasure trove of abandoned automobiles. Are these remnants of long dead residents?

below: The garage is still there.


google street views

below: Another photo from 1978.


marlene laskey collection at lapl

Originally Posted by Paul C. Koehler

All of the vehicles located in this garage were movie prop rentals. One of the more enique ones was the three axel German staff car used in the opening seine of "Hogan's Heros". I got a tour sometime in the late 1970's, I don't know if they are still there.

By a weird coincidence, I was discussing Hogan's Heroes on another forum just yesterday. I'm trying to work out which car is the 3-axle German staff car from the credits. Although the opening scene is a night shot, I believe that this is the car they used.


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The ambulance behind the shopping cart in the first picture looks like a Dodge WC 27 that appeared in M*A*S*H.

[tovangar2]

It looks as if the vintage cars are gone:

gsv


gsv

[Blaster]

I have a good friend who lives in Los Altos.

The building is beautifully preserved - the courtyard and lobby look like 1925 and there's a fireplace in the lobby that is in operation all year long, even when it's 100 outside.

Oh, yeah, and there are ghosts...

[HenryHuntington]

Originally Posted by Blaster

I have a good friend who lives in Los Altos.

The building is beautifully preserved - the courtyard and lobby look like 1925 and there's a fireplace in the lobby that is in operation all year long, even when it's 100 outside.

Oh, yeah, and there are ghosts...

Anyone we know?

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Blaster

Oh, yeah, and there are ghosts...

Do tell.



Here are several Kodachrome slides from the 1950s. The first one shows the 'Little Country Church of Hollywood'.

#1

ebay

As most of you know, the little church burnt down in 1997.





The second slide shows a parking lot adjacent to the church. (and the Capitol Records Building of course)

The mature trees you see on the right are remnants of the old A.G. Bartlett Estate.

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The third slide is a mystery.


ebay

more roses odinthor.

[Flyingwedge]

Could that be oleander?

[ethereal_reality]

I think you're probably right FW. thanks for the correction.




While searching for past posts on the 'Country Church of Hollywood' I came across three photographs from a Mr. Bakunis dated 1943.


http://cbakunasart.blogspot.com/2014...e-country.html




http://cbakunasart.blogspot.com/2014...e-country.html




I really like this last one. You get a glimpse of the surrounding structures as they appeared in the early 1940s.


http://cbakunasart.blogspot.com/2014...e-country.html

Anyone have an idea about the tent? (I'm thinking a church revival perhaps)




p.s. For some reason I wasn't able find any of the old posts concerning the 'Country Church" and it's famous radio program.
We did cover it, right?

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

Could that be oleander?

Yes it is. Highly toxic

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Have we seen the interior of the Little Country Church of Hollywood?

thompsonian


Not forgetting Mr Bartlett:

calisphere

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Yes it is. Highly toxic

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Have we seen the interior of the Little Country Church of Hollywood?

thompsonian

As we know...Hollywood was founded in 1887 as a city of holiness and churches. All things good and pure were to reside in Hollywood.

One Hollywood rooming house circa 1920 had a sign on the door..."No Actors".
Harvey Wilcox, one of the original founders of Hollywood, greatly feared that ungodliness would be the ruination of the city. This mood existed until at least the 1960s. Hollywood was generally one of the most straight laced cities of the United States during the day. But after dark....that was another story.

With that in mind....Cary Grant and Randolph Scott lived as a couple in Malibu for ten years until 1940. That's when nervous movie studio execs told the guys to knock-it-off. They lived separately after that.


google

[ethereal_reality]

I don't believe we have seen his photo on NLA.

"Merle Norman with two Santa Monica Motor Officers"


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Merle's sentiment at upper left says:

"It was nice to have you attend my opening." Merle Norman

This would be her first store opening at 2525 Main Street in Santa Monica.


You can see a photograph of the Main Street location here (as well as a Merle Norman Laboratory Facility)
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=4703

[Blaster]

My friend Cindy who has lived in Los Altos for a number of years responded to my enquiry about ghosts...

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I mean..... Where do I begin?

There have been so many sightings. And often by our managers.

One manager turned down the hallway on the 3rd floor and saw someone in an ascot and she gasped and he turned and walked right into the wall disappearing.

Others have seen ghostly people walk into the wall by the elevator. I never have.

My daughter Annie always gets weird feelings on the 3rd floor west hallway.

A neighbor of ours was sitting in his apartment and his guitar on top of an armoir flew across the room and smashed. He freaked and ran out of the room.

Our current manager was in the basement ( supposedly there are a few down there and a tunnel that ran from Perinos!!) and she saw a Puerto Rican man in a military suit clear as day turn and walk into the wall. She won't go downstairs any more.

The vibe of the ghosts is kinda of fun. They seem to be partiers who mean no harm.

I mean they wear ascots for goodness sake! Haha

The Hearst suit is def haunted. I am not sure of all the stories there though. I will ask around for more stories!!

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[Flyingwedge]

It rained in LA today, so that's an excuse to post these photos from Wilshire and Mariposa. This first one looks north at Wilshire,
with 647 S. Mariposa at left (on the NW corner of Wilshire), and in the background at center-right is the Chapman Park Hotel:



uclamss_1429_2393 at UCLA


This photo looks west on Wilshire from about where the previous photo was taken. In the upper right corner is a bit of the
Wilshire Christian Church:



uclamss_1429_2398 at UCLA

[tovangar2]

Flyingwedge, you always come up with the best Mariposa flood pix!



That landscaped billboard in the second photo is elaborate. Do you suppose the globe above the figure's head lit up?

detail via FW


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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

All things good and pure were to reside in Hollywood.

Edendale loved the movie people, but Hollywood, not so much. The following quote is from an article, written by G. P. von Harleman, which originally appeared in the March 10, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World:

"Biggest Industry of Southern California.
The motion picture business is the largest single industry in Southern California. It is conservatively estimated that the motion picture companies in and around Los Angeles spend more than $30,000,000 a year. Probably more than 20,000 people are more or less permanently employed by these companies. It is said the city of Los Angeles does not fully appreciate the motion picture people. About a year ago the producers were so dissatisfied with conditions here that many of the studios were contemplating a move to more congenial surroundings. The matter of censorship was then one of the burning topics, and the film producers objected most strenuously to having the one city in the United States which benefits most from the motion picture industry mutilate their productions and thereby set a bad example for other communities.

It has been recorded in this paper at length how the producers formed the Producers' Association and in conjunction with the exhibitors, headed by J. A. Quinn, completely annihilated the censor board and abolished censorship in Los Angeles.

The producers have been annoyed in many other ways by red tape regulations and by unfriendly newspaper criticism. When many of the film companies threatened to leave conditions became better and things were running satisfactorily for many months. Now trouble seems to have started again. Local merchants, it is stated, are holding up the picture companies for exorbitant prices on props and furniture, so the producers are now contemplating building a factory and manufacturing their own stuff.

The little city of Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles, where most of the studios are located, has also shown a peculiarly unfriendly attitude of late. The non-film residents of the burg have gone on record as making a petition to the city council that motion picture studios are more or less of a nuisance and should be restricted in a zone by themselves. This attitude is unexplainable and different from that of other communities in California and elsewhere who even offer large bonuses for picture companies to locate with them.

It is a well known fact, however, that nobody is a prophet in his own country, but who will be so foolish as to kill the goose that laid the golden egg?"

- movie locations plus

[Rustifer]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

It's strange to me that this area wasn't photographed a bit more. Across the street from the 8535 Sunset Blvd. address where Chez Paulette was located from the late fifties until 1964 was the recently mentioned and short lived My Own Place (Larry Finley) which was followed by the Jordanell Cocktail Lounge in that location, which was there for at least 4-5 years (since it's listed in the 1956 and 1960 CD's). It was later followed by the Sea Witch which there are very few photos of, either.

The closest I've come to that time frame and area at all are these two photos from Hollywood Photographs dated 1948.

This is looking west on Sunset Blvd. from La Cienega.






This one is angled toward the north side of Sunset. The road on the right is Miller Drive.
I don't know what kind of an establishment Pioneertown is, but they have a nice Gruen watch clock on the corner.
(The blade sign near the lamp post says "Records". You can see it better in the first photograph.)




Then there's this photo dated 1950: "Sunset Blvd at 8600 block" (Facing north.)



Seen in photo:
8609 address
The Clearing House of Information on Public Figures
Norman Willson
Little something (Folks, perhaps, followed by the first letter of another word)
Interesting house up on the hill.

This pic on Sunset from La Cienega fascinates me. If you look closely, it shows the building which housed Bailey & Spenser (which was really a modeling agency). Note that this was before the front awning and Dino's being erected.

[odinthor]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

[...]

The third slide is a mystery.


ebay

more roses odinthor.

I had to look twice, for leaves, as there are a couple of (rare) roses they could have been (anyone for a 'Pink Grootendorst'*?); but right, as others noticed, they're oleanders. Be sure to give our So Cal oleanders all your affection, because they're under siege from a couple of things, especially Oleander Leaf Scorch**).


*sounds like a drink.

**sounds like a fusion cuisine salad.

[Rustifer]

Thought it would be fun to repost Dino's menu. It first appeared here back on page 303. I wonder if any of these entrees were Dean Martin's creations? Probably not.
I also always wondered about the coats of arms that dot the walls of the restaurant. It looks like a unicorn crest. I searched EBay to see if anything from this restaurant still exists. Outside of some ash trays and matchbooks, nada.

Originally Posted by 3940dxer

GREAT photo, sopas_ej. I had to stare at it for a few minutes before the recognition locked in, but...fascinating. Too bad we can't read the billboards.

How about Dino's? Of course, that was Dean Martin's bar-restaurant on the strip, just a few blocks away at 8524 Sunset. They had a cozy fireplace, a good bar, and superb views. It was actually a pretty great little spot, within walking distance of my WeHo digs back then, and even a nobody like me was made to feel welcome. Man, I'd love to go back there one more time. Good memories. (The menu is dated 1959, well before my time there. )







http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec...=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0





http://martinostimemachine.blogspot....nos-lodge.html

[MatthewMcKinley]

"Does anyone here have a better/larger picture of this house? I'd guess the most likely candidate for this would be GaylordWilshire!"

I am assuming you mean 310. I probably do somewhere... and my father's name was never Maytor John.

[ethereal_reality]

Mrs. Maytor McKinley wearing a wishing well hat at an undisclosed location. (the McKinley mansion perhaps?)

April 13, 1951


usc http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/2691/rec/2

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from a post by Los Angeles Past http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10686

and this is interesting (from GW)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10691

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