Thank you
odinthor!! So this is the last of the four? They should be recreated (and the remaining one repaired).
Maybe things looked more massive in 1911 (?)
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Today's view. (it's as close to the same angle as I could get) using the google-mobile)
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The Ocean Center Building was built right on the sand, but then this happened:
"Though originally built next to the shoreline, a number of geological and engineering changes have made it so today there is a long walk to seawater from the Ocean Center Building. When the Long Beach Harbor and breakwater were developed, and the Los Angeles River straightened and levied by the United States
Army Corps of Engineers, the Pacific Ocean no longer swept the alluvial granite sand away and the deposits of sandy beach continued to widen. By the 1950s the sand of the beach had grown so wide that the space between the shoreline and the Ocean Center Building was paved as a parking lot and is now Seaside Way. Coastal landfill continued, the beach filled in, then Shoreline Drive and Shoreline Village were built upon the fill."
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If you happen to have cable, the original of "A Star is Born",
"What Price Hollywood?" (1932), directed by Cukor, produced by Selsnick, airs
Thursday, March 2 at 10:30PM on TCM
Constance Bennett (1904-1965) plays a wise-cracking Brown Derby waitress before she hits the big time:
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Also stars Lowell Sherman (1888-1934) as the drunken director, a part the actor/director unfortunately also played in real life. He helmed "She Done Him Wrong"
the year after he played in "What Price Hollywood?" and then died the year after that. He was just 46. A real loss.
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1905-1977) makes a
very memorable, but uncredited, screen debut and Louise Beavers (1902-1962) is on hand too.
Features a premiere at Grauman's Chinese, a society wedding at Hollywood United Methodist right there at Highland and Franklin and the honest-to-gosh Brown Derby exterior
(the interior is a
set) before it was bumped across the street for the Chapman Park Hotel. Good fun.
Based on a story (supposedly inspired by the marriage of Colleen Moore and John McCormick) by Adele Rogers St John
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TCM has
three short clips too.
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