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Nov. 10, 1907: Story of L.A. Real Estate Is Dislocation, Dislocation,...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Nov. 10, 1907 South Pasadena What sort of monument do we leave for real estate developers? For John B. Althouse, who built hundreds of homes in the Wilshire...
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‘Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood’| One-Page...
The one-page fact check of Karina Longworth’s “Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood” was even more successful than I expected. Well done, Brain Trust. Grade: Fail. Ready?...
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Black L.A. 1947: Little Miss Cornshucks; St. Paul Baptist Church Plans a New...
Nov. 13, 1947: Little Miss Cornshucks is at the Last Word, 4206 Central Ave. The Last Word opened in July 1947 and seems to have closed in 1951. Or at least it was no longer advertising in the...
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Nov. 18, 1907: Historic Pasadena Presbyterian Church Moved to South Pasadena
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Nov. 18, 1907 South Pasadena Calvary Presbyterian Church at Center (now El Centro) and Fremont was dedicated in a service featuring prominent local religious...
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Nov. 24, 1907: Roving to Monrovia
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Nov. 24, 1907 Monrovia The Times real estate section takes a look at what was then the distant suburb of Monrovia, 22 miles from downtown Los Angeles. The...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Actor Jack Donovan Designs Bungalow Courts...
Jack Donovan on the porch of his home, “Picture-Play Magazine,” April 1923.. From its beginnings, the Hollywood film industry has constructed elaborate sets and facades before demolishing them to...
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Nov. 30, 2006: Architectural Rambling
Here’s the former Calvary Presbyterian Church in South Pasadena, now the Grace Brethren church. Note: This is an encore post. Nov. 30, 2006 Los Angeles I don’t think anyone who knows both of us will...
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Dec. 2, 1907: Glendale Homes Built on Site of Glassell’s Vineyards
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Dec. 2, 1907 Los Angeles The Times real estate section features an apartment building at 2nd Street and Figueroa—no point in even going to look for it. But...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Sign Built and Illuminated...
The Hollywoodland Sign, in a photo published in the Los Angeles Evening Herald, Dec. 8, 1923. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Originally constructed as a publicity gimmick and branding symbol...
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Dec. 12, 1907: Recreation Center to Be Built in Heart of Industrial District
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Dec.12, 1907 Los Angeles In the gritty, industrial heart of the 8th Ward at Holly Street and St. John, officials are planning a large recreation facility “as an...
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Dec. 15, 1907: Architectural Rambling to South Pasadena
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Dec. 15, 1907 Los Angeles Anybody who sets out to study the development of the city’s neighborhoods can expect to do lots of driving. My recent travels have...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cafe Montmartre Ushers in Hollywood Nightlife
6757 Hollywood Blvd., former location of the Cafe Montmartre, via Google Street View. Constructed in 1922 as part of the expanding restaurant empire of impresario Adolph “Eddie” Brandstatter, the...
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Architectural Ramblings
Dec. 28, 2006 Los Angeles As promised, here are some photos of a few neighborhoods I visited recently. Views of South Pasadena First, a few shots of South Pasadena taken along Mission and El Centro...
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Dec. 29, 1907: The City Grows
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Dec. 29, 1907 Los Angeles The Times real estate pages feature homes under construction around Washington Boulevard west of Hobart Boulevard. “This section is...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Olvera Street, Salute to Los Angeles’...
A postcard of the Avila Adobe, listed on EBay for $1.89. “A people that has lost touch with its historical past, forgotten its traditions and wasted its heritage is as unfortunate as a man who has...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Clarence Brown Provides Quick Shave to King...
King Camp Gillette dies at the age of 77 in 1932. He gave architect Wallace Neff free rein to built an expansive ranch in Calabasas, but only lived there for a few years before his death. Tennessean...
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Gentlemen, Your Wedding Photos Are Ready After 62 Years, Part 5
This is the last interior shot accompanying the photos of the 1957 wedding of two men in Philadelphia. Let’s see if we can detect anything that may shed some light on our mystery guests. Previously:...
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Long Beach: Cyclone Racer in ‘Half Angel,’ Part 1
Here’s the Cyclone Racer sequence in “Half Angel,” last week’s mystery movie, that begins about the 32-minute mark. Joseph Cotten and Loretta Young are promenading along what is probably a Twentieth...
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Long Beach: Cyclone Racer in ‘Half Angel,’ Part 3
In this sequence, our romantic leads dash out of the Cyclone Racer. Let’s heighten the madcap comedy by introducing an authority figure. Ain’t love grand?
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