6/18/14
6/17/14
WEDNESDAY TEA SALON~ JUNE 18TH
~PRESENTS~
WEDNESDAY~ TEA SALON
~WEDNESDAY~
5PM TILL 7PM
$5 COVER
TEA & SWEETIES WILL BE SERVED
sip hand~blended tea by rick castro
view erotic art
chat with friends & art patrons
relax and take a load off your sling~backs
every wednesday~ 5pm till 7pm
THE MANY SIGNS OF HOLLYWOODLAND
Everyone know the story of the HOLLYWOODLAND SIGN, stating off as a real estate development in 1923. eventually the LAND was lobed off sometime during 1940s and to this day looks like this~
What most don't know know was across Los Angeles in the 1920s, signs announced new real-estate subdivisions in big block letters perched high above the cities like. BEVERLY CREST. BRYN MAWR. TRYON RIDGE.
Time has largely forgotten these other signs. One still rusts away in the chaparral day, toppled and discarded long ago.
The Hollywoodland Sign—a mere real-estate advertisement when it rose from the face of Mt. Lee in November 1923, as disposable as the rest—might have suffered a similar fate. But as Hollywood soon became an accepted metonym for L.A.'s glamorous film industry, the sign's letters acquired a new meaning. Nine decades later, it's become one of the city's greatest monuments.
here is a sample of the other real estate signs that didn't survive~
Beverly Terrace
Beverly Terrace
This sign might have predated Hollywoodland's. Angled toward Beverly Hills from the slopes above Benedict Canyon, these giant white letters advertised Beverly Terrace, a 110-acre subdivision that developer George E. Read opened in 1922.
Here's a circa 1922 aerial view of the sign from the Security Pacific National Bank Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL):
Beverly Crest
Beverly Crest
Seemingly a close relative of the Hollywoodland Sign, Beverly Crest's block-letter sign first appeared on the slopes above Coldwater Canyon in December 1923—only one month after Hollywoodland's. Large signs weren't all the two developments had in common; they also both featured elaborate stone gates modeled after fairy-tale castles.
Like Beverly Terrace, Beverly Crest was the work of George E. Read. Though its sign rose in 1923, houses and lots didn't hit the market until 1926.
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr
The hillside subdivision of Bryn Mawr opened just west of Hollywoodland in 1924—and of course it featured its own block-letter advertisement. Here's an aerial view of the sign, located near the Mulholland Dam and Lake Hollywood.
Tryon Ridge
Tryon Ridge
Another Hollywood Hills subdivision, Tryon Ridge also opened to sales in 1924. Unlike the other signs held up by stilts, these letters were embedded into the hillside itself.
Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock
In 1911, what was once a small farming community in the rural Eagle Rock Valley north of Los Angeles incorporated as the independent city of Eagle Rock.
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The mysterious Glassellland sign popped up on a Glassell Park hillside near Forest Lawn during april, 2013. It was then removed a few days later, and then erected again over a different part of the neighborhood. we're not sure if it's still up. if so it would be on a hill near Kinney Street, about a half mile away from where a Glassellland sign first popped up above Fletcher Drive. It’s not clear if someone built a new sign or just moved the old letters to a new and more prominent location.
glassellland
DEBBIE HARRY & TED BUNDY
‘It was the early Seventies, maybe 72. I was trying to get across town to a party. It was two or three o’clock in the morning and I was staggering around on huge platform shoes.
'This car kept circling around and some guy was offering me a ride. I kept refusing, but finally I took the ride because I couldn’t get a cab.
'I got in the car and the windows were all rolled up, except for a tiny crack. And this guy had an incredibly bad smell to him.
'I looked down at the door to crank open the window, and there were no door handles and no cranks. Then I started scanning the inside of the car and there was absolutely nothing.
'The inside of the car was completely stripped and the hair on the back of my neck just stood up.
'Fame didn't hit me all at once. It crept up on me,' said Debbie
'I wiggled my arm out the window and opened the door from the outside. I don’t know how I did it but I got out.
'He tried to stop me by stepping on the gas and spinning the car but it sort of helped me fling myself out. I fell out and nearly got run over by a cab.
'Afterwards I saw him on the news. Ted Bundy: responsible for at least 30 homicides. I could so easily have been one his earliest victims.’
DEBBIE HARRY-
READ MORE~OUR GREAT PUMPKIN
i'm so excited!.... my longtime doll of a friend~ KATE MCCONN and i started a "victory garden last season. besides growing regular crops of tomatoes, kale, peas, basil, mint, swiss chard, broccoli, eggplant, mint, thyme, sage, lemons & oranges, we not have our first, (but def not last) pumpkin!
our great pumpkin weights easily over 30 lbs and is a beauty to behold. antebellum artists- talea maven & david crocker promise to bake some kind of pies, tarts or bread with our pumpkin, so be sure to watch out for antebellum's GREAT PUMPKIN TEA SALON very soon!.
photos courtesy~ kate mcconn~ inglewood/antebellum correspondent
6/16/14
OBAMA DRAFTING EXECUTIVE ORDER AGAINST LGBT DISCRIMINATION
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has directed his staff to draft an executive order that would ban workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees of federal contractors, a White House official told The Huffington Post.
The move is the clearest indication to date that the administration is prepared to take action on LGBT rights where Congress has fallen short. Notably, the official would not say whether the president will sign the order into law on Monday -- suggesting the White House is leaking the news to warn lawmakers that they have a limited window to pass more sweeping workplace discrimination legislation before he acts without them.
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