![[OC] Palms Neighborhood - 1925 vs Today](https://preview.redd.it/o02jdjaxaekh1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=188b73f03c5829c399dc808a67a423842f6ab3de)
Well, not EXACTLY today, but in "modern times." From my filming locations website https://video.chrisbungostudios.com/quickpreview-ourgangthelittlerascals-yourownbackyard-part1.html
Filming location then and now from the Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Your Own Back Yard, 1925 vs Today.
Found a small box under a bed in my grandmothers house and to my surprise was full of old napkins from around California and Mexico. There was information about most of these establishments online but some had almost nothing. I love vintage advertising and LA history so this was so cool to find and I figured people might have more info about some of these places.
Another great L.A.-area postcard. This one depicts the Mt. Lowe Railway, which once operated from Altadena up into the San Gabriels. There, atop the railway, travelers like the sender, E.J. Louis, could stay at the Echo Mt. House, a hotel opened in 1894.
Beyond the photos of the railway, note the address of the recipient: Louis's six-week-old niece, Ysidora (known to friends and family as "Bob"). The site of Bob's home at 7th and Hope in what is now Downtown Los Angeles would in 1915 become part of the property where famed retailer J.W. Robinson opened its flagship store. Bob would later joke that she was born in Robinson's menswear section (a cousin born next door often made a similar joke but replaced menswear with the lingerie department).
E.J. Louis, BTW, was involved in many elements of Soutehrn California business and society, with roles as an insurance agent, commander of California's naval militia, president of the Newport Bay Investment company (and a longtime booster of Balboa Island who championed that name for the Orange County destination), and for many years Peru's vice-consul and consul to Los Angeles, but I'll save more about him for another time.
I Love the identification of Hollywood as "near Los Angeles" on this 1905 postcard. I also love that the address is listed simply as "Villa Casa de Las Palmas" without a street number of any kind and that the card still made it to its destination.
That destination — Casa de Las Palmas (I've never seen it written with "Villa" except here, presumably because that would have been redundant) — was located at the intersection of what is now Hollywood Blvd. & Vine Streets. It was owned by Jacob Stern, who'd bought the property a year earlier. In 1912, filmmakers Jesse Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, and Samuel Goldwyn would rent a barn on Stern's property that became their first film studio and lay the foundation for what became Paramount Studios. That barn has since been relocated and houses the Hollywood Heritage Museum, located on Highland Ave. near the Hollywood Bowl.
The card's recipient, Elsa (or Elza) Stern, was Jacob's daughter and 11 years old at the time she received this card from an uncle. Of potential note: Elza's son, Melville Jacoby Jr., would later have a legendary if brief career as a World War II-era foreign correspondent for Time, Life, and other publications in China and the Philippines. She was also the woman behind the selection of the Bird of Paradise as Los Angeles's official city flower.
Source: I'm Jacob Stern's great-great-grandson and this postcard is among a trove of family history materials I've been processing for some time. I also wrote the 2016 book Eve of a Hundred Midnights about her son.
(58 Seconds) Here's a quick preview then and now video of the filming locations in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles used in the Our Gang / The Little Rascals movie Your Own Back Yard. Part 1 of 3. Click the link below to watch and read about the filming locations.
https://video.chrisbungostudios.com/quickpreview-ourgangthelittlerascals-yourownbackyard-part1.html
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Picked up an old newspaper at a yard sale, nothing like looking through the old ads!
From my filming locations website https://video.chrisbungostudios.com/quickpreview-stevemartin-lastory.html
Filming location then and now from the movie L.A. Story. 1991 vs Today.
Found this great photo at a yard sale!
Found this cool photo at a yardsale!
Most interesting fact, to me, was that there were two air fields on that corner in the 20s, both owned by celebrity families.
(57 Seconds) Here's a quick preview then and now video of the Venice Beach filming location used in the Steve Martin movie L.A. Story. 1991 vs Today. Click the link below to watch and read more about this filming location.
https://video.chrisbungostudios.com/quickpreview-stevemartin-lastory.html
I’m looking for any photographs of Hal's Auto Trim, which was located at 7857 Garvey Avenue in Rosemead, just west of Strathmore Avenue. The shop's telephone number was 280-7657.
Richard Glenn “Dick” Jefferson owned the business from approximately 1972 to 1976. He lived in El Monte and was a Navy veteran.
I'm especially interested in photos of the shop itself, but any photographs taken along Garvey Avenue near Strathmore during the early/mid-1970s could be helpful, since the storefront may appear in the background.
If your family lived in Rosemead or El Monte during that period and you have old photos of Garvey Avenue, I'd love to see them.