noirish Los Angeles

[HossC]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

I didn't include a shot from it in my post because I sometimes feel that my LA filming locations obsession isn't universally shared here and didn't want to overdo it.

It was trying to track down filming locations that first led me to NLA all those years ago!

Movies and TV shows often capture both obscure and mundane locations that stills photographers might ignore. They also show us angles from raised platforms, moving vehicles and even helicopters that give us a different perspective on familiar places. Please keep posting the filming locations, t2.

[Handsome Stranger]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

More on the "Wizard of Bras" (now that is kind of clever...)

Paulette wasn't the first to use it. Here's a 1955 print ad from The Hollywood-Maxwell Brassiere Company.


[source: Pinterest...ICK!]

"Meet the Wizard at 216 Main Street, Disneyland!"


[source: Yesterland.com]

This wizard is slightly terrifying, no? The "Intimate Apparel" shop at Disneyland was one of the original Main Street stores but closed by the end of 1955.

[Scott Charles]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Oh, I love Replacement Killers. I have watched it more times than I can remember (or want to admit). I didn't include a shot from it in my post because I sometimes feel that my LA filming locations obsession isn't universally shared here and didn't want to overdo it.

TRK is a great LA locations movie, and is actually set in LA, unlike "Se7ven". In TRK, Union Station plays LAX :-)

I just watched The Replacement Killers again, and really enjoyed it. The locations are great, I love Chow Yun Fat (I'm a big fan of Hong Kong movies), and Mira Sorvino was excellent in her role. It might not be a critics' favorite, but I'll watch it any time!

PS: One of the main reasons that I first got into LA's architecture was from watching Blade Runner in 1982. I wanted to see all of the places that appeared in that movie (Bradbury Building, Union Station, the Lloyd Wright house on Franklin, even the Pan-American building, etc) - so I say GO AHEAD and share your obsessions with LA filming locations. After all, I'm the guy who made two giant posts about the filming locations of Barfly! And I just made a post about Falling Down!

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger

"Meet the Wizard at 216 Main Street, Disneyland!"


[source: Yesterland.com]

This wizard is slightly terrifying, no? The "Intimate Apparel" shop at Disneyland was one of the original Main Street stores but closed by the end of 1955.

Brassieres at Disneyland? I thought Walt's idea was of a fantasy Main Street where there was only vanilla ice cream and white people, certainly no sex. Maybe gate receipts had slowed and he was trying to excite the dads into bringing the family, who'd ride the rides while he got off on the Wizard's exhibit.

[BillinGlendaleCA]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Brassieres at Disneyland? I thought Walt's idea was of a fantasy Main Street where there was only vanilla ice cream and white people, certainly no sex. Maybe gate receipts had slowed and he was trying to excite the dads into bringing the family, who'd ride the rides while he got off on the Wizard's exhibit.

It was part of the original Main Street when the park opened in July of 1955 and closed at the end of the year, so it wasn't brought in to goose the gate.

[Handsome Stranger]

Someone needs to help me find the original 1955 Disneyland tape of the Wizard of Bras narrating the history of saucy undergarments. Then we'll sneak into Disneyland late at night when no one is looking and swap it with the audio tape from Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

[BillinGlendaleCA]

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger

Someone needs to help me find the original 1955 Disneyland tape of the Wizard of Bras narrating the history of saucy undergarments. Then we'll sneak into Disneyland late at night when no one is looking and swap it with the audio tape from Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

You keep on talking like that and you'll have to watch out for this guy:
_8050085.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

He takes no prisoners.

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

While trying to find the locations of Lorendoc's gambling establishments, I happened upon this fantastically noirish photograph.


https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/21198/zz0027z9j5/

Does anyone recognize this?

Looking over my old posts, and trying to see if I could correct wrong stuff, I found that Martin Turnbull has the same photo at his web site. He states it was taken in 1937 at the Ocean Park Pier at Santa Monica. The 1936 SM CD shows the Ocean Park Bowling & Billiard Co at 1 Ocean Park Pier. I'd feel a lot better about the identification if I could read the name of the hotel. Any guesses?

(Here is an enlargement of Martin Turnbull's photo

[Noir_Noir]

The Wizard of Bras endures - the "powers" must have been passed on in a secret ceremony in 1975. Now living at 1530 S Myrtle Ave in Monrovia.



GSV

[BillinGlendaleCA]

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir

The Wizard of Bras endures - the "powers" must have been passed on in a secret ceremony in 1975. Now living at 1530 S Myrtle Ave in Monrovia.

"We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Bras..."

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by Lorendoc

Looking over my old posts, and trying to see if I could correct wrong stuff, I found that Martin Turnbull has the same photo at his web site. He states it was taken in 1937 at the Ocean Park Pier at Santa Monica. The 1936 SM CD shows the Ocean Park Bowling & Billiard Co at 1 Ocean Park Pier. I'd feel a lot better about the identification if I could read the name of the hotel. Any guesses?

(Here is an enlargement of Martin Turnbull's photo

It's the Dome Hotel--we were seeing images of Ocean Park well before 2017, as far back as post 6529 in 2012, if not further. Seems to me we've discussed the Dome Hotel, but I couldn't find posts about it with the less-than-friendly search box here...maybe someone else can....

[Andys]

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir

The Wizard of Bras endures - the "powers" must have been passed on in a secret ceremony in 1975. Now living at 1530 S Myrtle Ave in Monrovia.



GSV

The Myrtle St./California Ave. off ramp from the 210 Fwy East, places you almost directly across the street from "The Wizard of Bras" at the first signal light. I recall noticing it a few times when exiting the freeway over the years; apparently it's still there.
Andys

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

[...] - so I say GO AHEAD and share your obsessions with LA filming locations.
After all, I'm the guy who made [...] posts about the filming locations of Barfly!
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Yes...we still need to find info about this location:

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

[...]


...mystery location. Click on the image below to see it full-sized.



The signs say "Catalina", "COCKTAILS", and "Yoshiko's Catalina". The smaller signs, with white letters on a dark red background, say "BIKINI DANCERS". I can't see an address, or any other identifying features. "Yoshiko" is a Japanese name, perhaps this was in or around Little Tokyo?

Photo credit: American Zoetrope

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Yes...we still need to find info about this location:

(Yoshiko's Catalina Bikini Dancers)

Maybe it was solved already? like others, I'm not having much luck with search function.


GSV


5-1-78 LAT via newspapers.com

[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

It's the Dome Hotel--we were seeing images of Ocean Park well before 2017, as far back as post 6529 in 2012, if not further. Seems to me we've discussed the Dome Hotel, but I couldn't find posts about it with the less-than-friendly search box here...maybe someone else can....

Seems familiar. Dome Hotel, 3000 Ocean Front Promenade, Ocean Park. '25 SM, CD.

Could be discussion of "the" Dome. e.g., http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=47492

[BillinGlendaleCA]

Originally Posted by Lorendoc

Maybe it was solved already? like others, I'm not having much luck with search function.


GSV


5-1-78 LAT via newspapers.com

The Google Street view from 2012 of that location makes a really strong case for that being the location. Looks the same with a different paint job and neon removal. I was pretty sure I'd seen it in Koreatown.

[HossC]

BillinGlendaleCA beat me to it!

3608 W 3rd still looked like this until late 2014. The December 2014 GSV image shows the front covered with scaffolding, and the March 2015 image shows it stripped down.


GSV (August 2014)

I checked the address in the 1973 CD, and found the Catalina Fireside Room. Googling this gave me a single hit on USC's ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, but provided no further information.

Here's the original image to save scrolling.

[Scott Charles]

Originally Posted by Lorendoc

Maybe it was solved already? like others, I'm not having much luck with search function.


GSV


5-1-78 LAT via newspapers.com

Holy Cow, you actually found it, Lorendoc!!

It may not look much like the same place today, but if you go back in time in Google street view...



... it's a PERFECT match!

Thanks so much for finding this place, Lorendoc - it was literally the last single location from Barfly I could not find, and it was driving me crazy! I have updated my original post to included the location of Yoshiko's (with credit to Lorendoc, of course!). And thanks to Martin Pal for bringing the subject up again, prompting Lorendoc's response!

The location makes sense, too - it is exactly across the street from this scene:



... and just four doors further west than this liquor store:



Thanks, Lorendoc, for scratching an itch I couldn't scratch for over 30 years!

[Lorendoc]

^^^

glad this itch is scratched. there are others...

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

Thanks so much for finding this place, Lorendoc - it was literally the last single location from Barfly I could not find, and it was driving me crazy! I have updated my original post to included the location of Yoshiko's (with credit to Lorendoc, of course!). And thanks to Martin Pal for bringing the subject up again, prompting Lorendoc's response!
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You're welcome Scott Charles and that's exactly why I did it! Sometimes fresh eyes pick up something from earlier posts that may have been missed or just overlooked!

Just now when I read Lorendoc's "Maybe it was solved already?" above I thought perhaps I hadn't searched long enough and overlooked that it had been found earlier. And I came across your post which you had just updated, but I didn't know that and thought I may have been wrong, but then I noticed the update date!

I didn't want the following to be the case:

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

Going by all of this, I would have to conclude that the Catalina from Barfly is not the same as the Catalina at 1640 Cahuenga. I don't know if I'll ever find out where the Catalina was located.
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By the way, has this ever happened on Noirish LA before? That a business, clearly photographed, existing until at least 1987, with name clearly visible, simply cannot be located?
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Yay!

Originally Posted by Scott Charles

Thanks, Lorendoc, for scratching an itch I couldn't scratch for over 30 years!

I feel a sense of relief, too, and it's only been approximately 4 months for me!

Originally Posted by Lorendoc

glad this itch is scratched. there are others...
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Maybe someone sometime will be able to find a color photo of the lobby mural in the NBC Radio City Building
or we can finally discover what the heck it is on top of this building:



Cheers!