noirish Los Angeles

[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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A mystery location for Tuesday afternoon.


Here are a couple of fun snapshots that show a small group of well dressed ladies in from of a drinking establishment. (afternoon drinking club? )



eBay. .note that it says "shuffleboard" on the window.


I found a Casey's Club but the street number isn't even close to the number on the building. (746)

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[ethereal_reality]

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Harrumph, the seller said it was Los Angeles.


Since there are what seems like a 1,000 branches of B of A I doubt we'll be able to narrow the location down but the fancy car and the tweedy woman intrigued me enough to post the slide.



eBay

The car and the woman look like they should be somewhere in Scotland, not Southern California.

I'll wager a guess that the fancy car is. .um. . a Triumph. (am I close?)
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[Martin Pal]

Is that someone on the roof of the bank!

[ethereal_reality]

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It looks like Romeo Televox.

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[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Harrumph, the seller said it was Los Angeles.


Since there are what seems like a 1,000 branches of B of A I doubt we'll be able to narrow the location down but the fancy car and the tweedy woman intrigued me enough to post the slide.



eBay

The car and the woman look like they should be somewhere in Scotland, not Southern California.

I'll wager a guess that the fancy car is. .um. . a Triumph. (am I close?)
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MG TD. Woman may be a member of the group of Anglophile sports car fans that were prevalent in CA when I was active there. We called them "Teabaggers" because at the time no true Brit would use one. One of them raced his Austin-Healey while wearing a Harris Tweed jacket. When the SF Region of the SCCA imposed a rule mandating fireproof clothing he had his jacket fireproofed.

Cheers,

Earl

[ethereal_reality]

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That's very interesting, Earl. I've never heard of the Anglophile car club.


Today we have an undated mystery negative.


It shows a starlet (dancer?) posing on a roof with a huge metal flue in what looks like downtown Los Angeles. ..(the seller simply says Los Angeles)


eBay

I've often noticed that laundries have this type of infrastructure on their roofs to handle all the steam. Could our young lady be on the roof of a laundry?




Here's an enlargement with a better look at the background. (and a better look of the pretty young lady)



Unfortunately I don't see any signs but I do see a nicely peaked mountain & a rather large apartment(?) building in the middle distance. At first I thought it had a wrap-around porch and bay windows
but now I believe the windows belong to a completely different building that is closer to the viewer.

The only person I can think of that the young lady resembles is Rita Moreno. Does she look familiar to any of you noirishers?


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[Martin Pal]

80 years ago today