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[ethereal_reality]

'mystery' location

"Two negatives, Wedding in Los Angeles."


ebay

not sure if this is in front of the church or an apartment.....someone's hanging their laundry out to dry.....cars sure leaked oil back then.




And the second one is inside the church.


ebay

I'm surprised by the complete lack of religious iconography.

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[ethereal_reality]

Here's one more 'mystery' wedding photograph for tonight.

"Wedding, Los Angeles 1940s"


ebay

Best hint: There appears to be a park across the street.

[CityBoyDoug]

This is near Lankershim and Ventura Blvds. in 1910. It looks like he's pouring the milk into the girl's glass pitcher.

On a side note, most people in 1910 Los Angeles had ice delivered to keep their food cool.


CD file

[ethereal_reality]

That's a great photograph CBD. I'm trying to figure out the girl's hair situation.




"Original 35mm Slide-1959 Hollywood Blvd. California Street Scene - Dodge Royal"


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-Hollywo...UAAOSwo4pYYCPY

I tried (without success) to find a vintage advertisement for Mannis Furs. (visible on the right-->



but I did find this tag at least.

etsy



The tag is from this 1950s 'bolero' mink fur.


etsy


https://www.etsy.com/listing/2161931...hollywood-mink

I don't know furs, but I like this shawl-like 'bolero' design.

[unihikid]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

unihikid, thanks for sharing your photographs.

So is this your cousin Erin Blunt?


http://dickallenhof.blogspot.com/201...-team-set.html

When Blunt's mother raced him to the set of Paramount one day, Blunt says he was less than thrilled to learn there were auditions for a baseball flick.

"I'm like, 'Aw, man,' because at that time, I hated baseball. My mom says, 'Just go for the experience.' On the way there, she says, 'We need to buy you a baseball uniform?' I said, 'No.'
We get to Paramount. There's about 20 million and one kids, all wearing baseball uniforms," says Blunt. "Here comes this kid with jeans and a T-shirt, a hat on backwards, sitting in a corner.
I stood out obviously because Michael Ritchie came up to me and said, 'What's your name?' I said, 'Erin.' He said, 'You act like you don't want to be here.' I said, 'I don't. I hate baseball.'
He said, 'Good. I'm the director, and you just got the part.'"

http://interactive.nydailynews.com/2...rsary-article/

cute story.
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that is very much my cousin..the mother is my aunt delores (shes really not a nice person)..Erin is a super nice guy and he did hate acting, aunt delores was/is a stage mother..she wanted to be a singer and had a group called "A Taste of Honey" as soon as she left they made it big...but yes thats the Sheen side of the family.

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'mystery' location

"Two negatives, Wedding in Los Angeles."


ebay

not sure if this is in front of the church or an apartment.....someone's hanging their laundry out to dry.....cars sure leaked oil back then.




And the second one is inside the church.


ebay

I'm surprised by the complete lack of religious iconography.

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The top photo looks like the area just north or northeast of DTLA--maybe Highland Park, El Serreno, Atwater, Eagle Rock, even east Glendale or east L.A. area (hills just south of Cal. St. L.A.). The hill in backround looks like those areas. That narrows it down to maybe 50 sq. miles. Time period probably after 1959. VWs didn't become common in U.S. until the early '60s.

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

and I just found this...

Betty Hickman in court waiting to serve as a witness in the manslaughter trial of Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles, 1935


http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ilyNews%3A5585

It doesn't say, but I believe Ms. Hickman was a passenger in Busby's car.
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A little more on Betty.

"Tom Healy and his first wife, dancer Betty Healy."


http://www.nj.com/entertainment/inde...ted_healy.html



clipping

http://bookstevebijou.blogspot.com/2...ted-healy.html

Ted Healy managed the 3 Stooges, until they left him for greener pastures, kind of like Michael Jackson leaving the Jackson 5 when the kid realized he had most of the talent. The act was billed as "Ted Healy & his stooges". Who honeymoons in Yuma? They have one attraction I wouldn't miss--Lute's casino. A great dive with stuff on the ceiling and odd food choices. And don't ever pass Wall S.D. without checking out Wall Drugstore (walmart sized) or Mitchell S.D. without gaping at the Corn Palace.

[CaliNative]

The blue Eastern Columbia Bldg. Too bad they tore down the Richfield Tower, that was even better. But we did get the ARCO twins. Is the clock building that Harold Lloyd dangled from still around?

[HossC]

The clock in 'Safety Last' was a set built on the roof of 908 S Broadway, very close to the Eastern Columbia building. You can see that and several more Harold Lloyd locations in the video below which was originally posted by GW in post #1294. The clock location comes at around the 6:30 mark.

• Video Link

There's a fuller explanation of the filming tricks used on silentlocations.wordpress.com.

[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by CaliNative

The top photo looks like the area just north or northeast of DTLA--maybe Highland Park, El Serreno, Atwater, Eagle Rock, even east Glendale or east L.A. area (hills just south of Cal. St. L.A.). The hill in backround looks like those areas. That narrows it down to maybe 50 sq. miles. Time period probably after 1959. VWs didn't become common in U.S. until the early '60s.

Reinforcing that, the taillights on the VW indicate its a 1958-1960 model. (I had a '54). There were 150,000 VWs in the US in 1959:

http://www.plosin.com/beatbegins/projects/haine/50.htm

Cheers,

Earl

[Blaster]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'mystery' location



And the second one is inside the church.


ebay

I'm surprised by the complete lack of religious iconography.

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It almost looks like a courtroom. The two flags seem unusual for a church sanctuary as do the substitution of fold-down chairs for pews. Maybe it was some kind of hall you could rent for weddings and other ceremonies and events.

[Slauson Slim]

These posts over the last few days are crisscrossing my life in LA and environs.

We went to the show at the 5th Avenue and Academy Theaters on Manchester Blvd. in Inglewood.

I used to go to the YMCA at 7th and Hope in downtown LA for day camp during Summer and Christmas school vacations for number of years as a child - mom got me out of the house. We swam, shot pool, boxed, wrestled, did crafts - a key lanyard anyone?, played dodge ball, went on field trips, did calisthenics, etc. I took the bus.

The Barker Brothers store behind the Y was where mom and dad furnished the house they bought in the late '40s.

I took a music class from Phil Spector in 1971, and a couple of sessions were taught at Village Recorders.

Very cool unihikid that your dad worked with Phil.

[unihikid]

Originally Posted by Slauson Slim

These posts over the last few days are crisscrossing my life in LA and environs.

We went to the show at the 5th Avenue and Academy Theaters on Manchester Blvd. in Inglewood.

I used to go to the YMCA at 7th and Hope in downtown LA for day camp during Summer and Christmas school vacations for number of years as a child - mom got me out of the house. We swam, shot pool, boxed, wrestled, did crafts - a key lanyard anyone?, played dodge ball, went on field trips, did calisthenics, etc. I took the bus.

The Barker Brothers store behind the Y was where mom and dad furnished the house they bought in the late '40s.

I took a music class from Phil Spector in 1971, and a couple of sessions were taught at Village Recorders.

Very cool unihikid that your dad worked with Phil.

Thanks SS, Dad was one of Phils first artist. They met in the late 50's when dad was still with The Robins. Up until the early 90's Phil would call the house.

[oldstuff]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Does anyone remember when Griffith Park had bridges like the one below?


ebay




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I don't remember the auto bridges but there are several pedestrian bridges and path railings that still look similar in Fern Dell

[oldstuff]

Originally Posted by Blaster

It almost looks like a courtroom. The two flags seem unusual for a church sanctuary as do the substitution of fold-down chairs for pews. Maybe it was some kind of hall you could rent for weddings and other ceremonies and events.

It is a Protestant Church, possibly Baptist or Disciples of Christ. In configuration it is very like our "old building", built in 1927. The choir loft is in the back, the organ in front of that and the communion table in the center in front of that. There is a simple metal cross on the communion table. There may be a pipe organ since the arched area in the back of the chancel looks like it is fitted for sound to come from there, but it is also possible that it is an electronic organ and there are speakers there.

We even still have those adjustable candle holders like those in the pictures and still use them for weddings. We had the flags on both sides as well. The one on the right is the "Christian Flag". While we did not have the wooden individual seats in the main sanctuary, we did have ones just like them in the room where the older members had a Sunday School class.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Blaster

It almost looks like a courtroom. The two flags seem unusual for a church sanctuary as do the substitution of fold-down chairs for pews.
Maybe it was some kind of hall you could rent for weddings and other ceremonies and events.

I agree, the wedding space could very well be a secular hall of some sort.

That said, our church sanctuary in my small hometown had flags. The United States flag on one end and if I remember correctly
a white flag with a red(?) cross on a blue square on the other side. It was a Methodist church.

*I just noticed oldstuff's post.

[Lorendoc]

To go along with my previous post, here is another parade from the Daily News photo archive at UCLA. It is captioned "California citizens carrying a huge state flag in the Admission Day parade, Santa Monica, September 9, 1937". Note the boy scouts holding one edge; they seem to have stopped the parade just to take this picture.


UCLA Special Collections

Looking at the current view, the 1937 picture was taken looking north on Ocean Ave. just below Broadway. The Clock Tower Building is just barely visible (lightning bolt); also the Castle Hotel and the beveled building at the NE corner of Ocean and Broadway are still standing.


GSV

[Blaster]

The above photo jogged a memory...

In the late 70's back when Santa Monica was still a sleepy, down at its heels seaside town and Third Street consisted mostly of used bookshops and yarn stores, there was a bar called (I believe) the Wind and Sea. It was located on Ocean and either Arizona, Santa Monica or Broadway. It was a real dive bar like something out of O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" and the patrons were real down and outers.

For years, I've been looking for photographs or other evidence of its existence but never found anything. Ring a bell with anyone?

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by CaliNative

original posted by ethereal_reality


Who honeymoons in Yuma?

It's not that they were honeymooning in Yuma...they tied the knot in Yuma.

Due to the lack of marriage laws (no three day waiting period..no blood tests...) Yuma, Arizona was the marriage haven of the Southwest back in
the early 1930’s-1950’s. Lovebirds flocked in by plane, train or automobile for a quickie elopement.


below: Rev. Gillis' "Mecca of Romance"


http://oncestarted.blogspot.com/2006...a-arizona.html

This was written on the back:

"This is a town where one can secure a marriage license immediately and they have several places like this where couples from all over the Southwest get married.
Many movie stars come here to marry. They have very large signs along the highway coming from Calif and just inside the city of Yuma to advertise the ease with which once can get married."



Backlog at a Yuma wedding chapel-

LOOK_magazine




Here's Rev. Coleman's money-maker.


http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/azroute80pc11.html

Rev. Coleman married 18,000 and buried 805 people, as he was also a local coroner.


...and the famous Gretna Green.



Robert Florczak at http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/wor.../gretna-35.jpg

Errol Flynn and Lili Damita were married here in 1935.



But in this view of Gretna Green the building looks entirely different! (yet the trellis looks the same)


ebay

above: This building looks like Gillis' place (in the first photograph above) so I'm confused.

Originally Posted by CaliNative

Yuma has one attraction I wouldn't miss--Lute's casino.

CaliNative, you'll be happy to know R.H. Lutes was the most prolific 'marrying judge'.


http://anselmarshall.blogspot.com/20...nd-40s_02.html

"R.H. Lutes presided at some 60,000 weddings at Lutes’ Gretna Wedding Chapel and was consummating about 150 weddings a week in those times.
He reportedly slept on the couch in his bathrobe and learned to sleep about 15 minutes at a time. Not only did the people flock in consistently but Lutes also
had his sons running to the railroad or bus station to pick up those eager to wed. The rush was constant as Gretna was open 24 hours a day during the war years."


http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/azroute80pc11.html

R.H. Lutes served as Justice of the Peace for 14 years. Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Bette Davis, Loretta Young, John Barrymore, Franchot Tone, and Victor Mature
were among some of the celebrities to elope at the Lutes family’s chapel. besides the speedier process, another reason to come to Yuma was to escape publicity.


ebay

"In 1956 the law passed in Arizona demanding a blood test in order to legally constitute a marriage. Many competitors stood no chance against this law.
However, Lutes saw this as an asset to his business as his son Bill studied biological sciences at the University of Arizona, and thus opened a serology lab.
With the help of Dr. Roy R. Knotts, a former physician at the Yuma Prison, Lutes chapel was a success. If by any chance the test came back positive for disease,
Knotts would simply give them a shot and send them on their way to the altar. The law stated that as long as you were receiving treatments you could get married."

lol..can you imagine!





sources:
http://yumanews.net/2014/05/19/lutes...tory-unveiled/

http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/201...a-az-then-now/



There's still some confusion though. I'm not 100% convinced Lutes chapel was ever called Gretna Green.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Slauson Slim

I took a music class from Phil Spector in 1971, and a couple of sessions were taught at Village Recorders.

Slim, did you get to peek into the auditorium or the Masonic meeting room at Village Recorders?
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