whats with the "dude" in the short shorts and the lace-up boots? i`m wondering if he realizes that he forgot to put his pants on when he left for work!
Maybe he is the FTD floral Delivery mascot Mercury delivering flowers to the not yet missing Amelia. Or perhaps he is the perso she was always flying away from....
I'm thinking he might be a wing-walker. Lots of stunts were performed back then to make folks get over their fear of flying...
Ed, you were talking about the MGM lion? Louis B. Mayer with his 1926 Packard C. 1926 MGM movie mogul Louis B. Mayer, sitting at his desk in his office. Jan 01, 1943
Harry Houdini's house in Laurel Canyon. I think Frank Zappa lived in a house across the street for awhile. We used to go to Harry's house on Halloween Night and hang-out as teenagers....
The 1954 version of "A Star Is Born" with James Mason and Judy Garland was filmed in LA (as was the 30's version with Janet Gaynor and Frederic March). Here's some shots from the '54 movie. Mason parked on Crescent Heights Blvd. outside Oleander Arms Apartment Mason crossing Fountain Avenue at Crescent Heights Blvd. Mason arriving at Garland's boarding house. Garland working at Roberts Drive-In Oliver Niles Studio (Actually Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank) Mason running up the stairs of the make-up department<WBR>. Mason's funeral at Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills
How cool is that, Trick-or-Treating at Harry Houdini's house? Oh, and let's go across the street, although I'd be tentative about approaching Zappa's house on Halloween. Then again, you weren't exactly trick-or-treating as teenagers, were you?
We weren't trick or treating. It was benign, and offered a central meeting place for anyone old enough to get there. Carloads of girls from all over the Los Angeles basin would show up. I would usually offer to take them on a tour of the very dark backyard. And I would offer my own version of a treat... You had to love the sixties...
Harry died on Halloween night, and vowed to return from the dead. So it was a no-brainer that everybody would just go up there and hang out. And any girl brave enough to drive up there to see some guy come back from the dead thirty years later, was OK by me!
A little side trivia: The body of Leo the Lion is buried in New Jersey. His owner/trainer owned a farm there and Leo was so tame,he'd sleep under a tree in the front yard. The lazy bastard wouldn't even raise his head to look at the deer in the area,let alone chase one. Here's the story: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/leo.html
Yea, well, that's what I get for robotically copying and pasting captions. At least some among us are actually thinking
Acording to Wikipedia, there were at least 5 lions used for the MGM logo over the years. Logos [edit] Logo 1: 1924-1928 The original Goldwyn Pictures lion logo, which was later utilized for MGM. Slats<SUP id=cite_ref-tvacres_1-1 class=reference>[2]</SUP> was the first lion used for the newly-formed studio. He was born at Dublin Zoo, Ireland on March 20, 1919.<SUP id=cite_ref-2 class=reference>[3]</SUP> Slats was used on all black and white MGM films between 1924 and 1928. The original logo was designed by Howard Dietz and used by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation studio from 1916 to 1924 (see left). The first Goldwyn Pictures Corporation film to feature Leo the Lion's roar was Polly of the Circus (1917). Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was ultimately absorbed into the partnership that formed MGM, and the first MGM film that used the logo was He Who Gets Slapped (1924). Dietz stated that he decided to use a lion as the studio's mascot as a tribute to his alma mater Columbia University, whose athletic teams' nickname is the Lions; he further added that the inspiration for making the lion roar was Columbia's fight song "Roar, Lion, Roar". Slats was trained by Volney Phifer to growl rather than roar, and for the next couple of years, the lion would tour with MGM promoters to signify the studio's launch. Slats died in 1936 <SUP id=cite_ref-3 class=reference>[4]</SUP>, and his skin is currently on display at the McPherson Museum in McPherson, KS but his body is buried on Morristown road, Gillette, NJ in Long HIll Township by Volney Pfifer. <SUP id=cite_ref-4 class=reference>[5]</SUP>. [edit] Logo 2: 1928-1956 Jackie in the black and white version of the MGM logo, 1928-1956 Jackie<SUP id=cite_ref-tvacres_1-2 class=reference>[2]</SUP> was the second lion, depicted on the left in a frame from the opening credits to The Wizard of Oz (1939). Jackie looked almost identical to Slats, his predecessor. Jackie was also the first MGM lion whose roar was heard by audiences of the silent film era, via a gramophone record. Jackie growled softly; this was followed by a louder growl, a brief pause, and then a final growl, before looking off to one side. In the early years that this logo was used (1928-c. 1932), there was a slightly extended Jackie logo wherein, after growling, the lion looked off to one side and returned its gaze to the front seconds later. Jackie appeared on all black and white MGM films (19281956), as well as the sepia-tinted opening credits of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Jackie also appeared before MGM's black and white cartoons, such as the Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper series produced for MGM by the short-lived Ub Iwerks Studio, as well as the Captain and the Kids cartoons produced by MGM in 1938 and 1939. Despite Jackie's "official" introduction in 1928, the lion had been used on three earlier films: Greed (1924), Ben-Hur (1925), and Flesh and the Devil (1926). The color variant is ultra rare and can be found on the colorized version of March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934). Coffee, one of the two lions used for Technicolor test logos on early MGM color productions, 1932-1934. MGM began experiments with two-color short subjects in 1927 and animated cartoons in 1930. Two two-strip Technicolor variations of the MGM logo were created for the first MGM color films, with two different lions being used. This is depicted in the still on the right featuring the second lion from the 1932 feature Roast Beef and Movies. This logo lasted until 1934 for live action films and late 1935 for the Happy Harmonies cartoons, when production was switched to full three-strip Technicolor filming. The 1934 The Cat and the Fiddle had brief color sequences, but was otherwise in black-and-white (including their opening credits), so it used Jackie instead of Coffee. (The Cat and the Fiddle however, showed its The End title card against a Technicolor background.) There has also been an extended version of this logo, seen at the beginning of the 1932 short Wild People. It features the lion growling as it did in Roast Beef and Movies, but lasts a few seconds longer to feature an additional roar by the lion. Then it looked off to one side and returned its gaze to the front a second later. [edit] Logo 3: 1934-1956 Tanner in the MGM logo, 1934-1956 MGM began producing full three-strip Technicolor films in 1934, and the logo was slightly modified for color. Trained by Mel Koontz (who also trained Jackie), Tanner<SUP id=cite_ref-tvacres_1-3 class=reference>[2]</SUP> was used on all Technicolor MGM films (19341956) and cartoons (late 19351958, 19631967), except for The Wizard of Oz, which had the opening and closing credits and the Kansas scenes in sepia-toned black-and-white. The 1941 Third Dimensional Murder was shot in 3-D and in Technicolor, but it had the opening credits in black-and-white, so it used Jackie instead of Tanner. The 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray and the 1949 The Secret Garden both had brief color sequences, but were otherwise in black-and-white (including their opening credits), so they used Jackie instead of Tanner. (The Secret Garden however, showed its The End title card and the cast list against a Technicolor background.) Tanner, whose first appearance was before the short subject Star Night at the Coconut Grove (1934) (his first feature film appearance was before Sweethearts four years later, in 1938), was in use as Leo the Lion for 22 years, second only to the current lion (who has been retained for 52 years). It is the Tanner version of the logo that was the most frequently used version throughout the Golden Age of Hollywood as color became the norm. The MGM full three-strip Technicolor short Star Night at the Coconut Grove (1934), as well as early James A. Fitzpatrick Traveltalks color shorts, features an extended longer version of Tanner roaring a whopping four times. Tanner and Jackie were kept in the change from Academy ratio films to widescreen CinemaScope movies in 1953, with Tanner for color movies as depicted on the right from Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) and Jackie for black and white films. The logo was modified; the marquee was removed and the company name was placed on top of the ribboning. [edit] Logo 4: 1956-1958 Bob in the MGM logo, mid-1956 to 1958 The fourth lion, Bob <SUP id=cite_ref-5 class=reference>[6]</SUP>, was introduced in mid-1956, and was more heavily maned than any of the predecessors and the current lion. Two different versions of this logo were used; one with the lion roaring once toward the right of the screen & then roaring at the camera, another version had the lion roaring just twice toward the right of the screen. This logo would have either a black or blue background.This logo is also in black & white. Two of this lion's appearances include The Opposite Sex (1956) and The Wings of Eagles (1957). From 1957 to 1958, the fourth lion was used in tandem with the current lion. [edit] Secondary MGM logo Mention should also be made of a secondary MGM logo, seen in the opening or closing credits of several MGM movies. This logo was based on a standardized opening title background seen in many MGM films from the late 1920s and early 1930s. The logo features a reclining lion (from a side view) on a pedestal with "A MetroGoldwynMayer Picture" inscribed on it. Behind the lion is a semi-circular film ribbon with the "Ars Gratia Artis" motto. On either side of the pedestal are torches. The secondary logo was used in the opening title and end titles of most MGM films from the late 1920s until the early 1960s, then moved to the main film credits until the early 1980s. For example the logo is seen on the 1983 release A Christmas Story during the closing credits. In addition, many MGM films made in the late 1930s and early 40s, set their entire opening credits against a background of a relief carving of an outline of the reclining lion image. Among the films that include this kind of credits sequence are the 1938 A Christmas Carol, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and the 1939 Greta Garbo film, Ninotchka.
Langer's, romantically located across from MacArthur Park, the best source for your false I.D. (MacArthur Park that is and please go in the day), has great Pastrami. Johnnies is another for great Pastrami and don't forget The Hat..
Hey, you have a couple of hours before you get dragged to the ballet and you're looking for a little revenge. You say you have a score to settle with the snobby couple who offered your wife the two "extra" tickets that they had to the ballet. And your not exactly looking forward to a droll evening with them and having to endear 2 1/2 hours of the "Moscow Svitza" ballet troupe??? GO to "Burrito King" at Alverado and Sunset. Tell the old gal at the walk-up window that you want $20 worth of whatever., you're not picky.... The evening and it's aromatic hilarity awaits....
Too stinkin' funny!!! (no pun intended) When I saw the burrito sign and you wrote "ballet" I kind of figured where this might be leading...
Whisky-a-go-go in the early 1970's. Sunset Blvd. The Doors were one of the house bands there during the sixties.
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