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Is that an L-29 under the coffee shop sign? It sure has a far-forward front axle.
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Is that an L-29 under the coffee shop sign? It sure has a far-forward front axle.
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In 1945, the station's owner, E.L. Cord (the F.A.C. in the station's call letters stood for "Fuller Auburn Cord", the Auburn Cord & Duesenberg dealer in the Los Angeles area, and western region headquarters for the Auburn Automobile Co. The transmitter was located on the roof of the building), was touring the station when he saw for the first time the huge collection of discs (a full symphony might take up twelve 78 rpm discs) KFAC owned. Cord decided to make better use of this investment by switching to all-classical music. Management tested the waters on this idea by asking the audience if they wanted another nighttime program, "Lucky Lager Dance Time" (which played pop and swing tunes) to continue or if they would prefer more classical. Classical won by a slim margin.
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Because the Pan-Pacific building was used in the 1980 movie Xanadu you can Google "Xanadu building" to get more info on the two fires that destroyed it and what has become of the site since then.Tom_Parkinson wrote: Hi,
I am uploading a photo of the fire that destoyed this beautiful wood-construction Art Deco building. Although it had fallen into bad decay, its destruction remains a great cultural loss.
When I see those (pre-fire) horizontal lines of windows and trim, what I think of is, "CORD!"
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No surprise that once the wooden roof started to deteriorate from age, that renovation costs might be impractical. I've been reading through all this material, and it is amazing what could be done in those days. The Pan Pacific Auditorium (there were a whole range of OTHER major buildings in the Pan Pacific Village complex, such as the bowling alley, theater, ice rink arena etc etc) was constructed in 1000 hours! Only six weeks time from breaking ground to ready to open for the first Exhibition in 1935! At roughly 110,000 sq ft, it was the third largest auditorium in U.S. It was booked solid, for years, and most of the basketball games, hockey games, Ice Follies etc were sold out events. Two of the (Many) Annual events were the Automobile Show and the Aircraft & Boat Show. I have a whole album of 8 x 10 professional photographs of the Aircraft and Boat Show. Alas, I do not see a similar album for any of the Auto shows.. Here is a circa 1940 image from one of the Auditorium's brochures. (There is even a 1943 Original UNCASHED! check in the PP Auditorium files, for $1000! Fun stuff!) But cannot find Cord info?yet..
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But it would appear that Cord left all Pan-Pacific Auditorium matters in the very capable hands of the Henderson Brothers. Still have more boxes to go through. Acquired 400 lbs of Hendersons material, years ago.
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To have these giants of design working in the same Auburn studio building cars.
At least we still have examples of their art to enjoy.
The only time I met anyone of that stature was completely by accident. I was called to the Santa Monica home of Dutch Darrin to do some work. We chatted all day about old cars and he told me of his whole life in styling.
He was also ill and when I returned at a later time I was greeted by his son with the news.
Anyway, I was listening to 1950's music, a change from the 1940's Horace Heidt, Harry James, Glenn Miller that sound so good around the old cars.
It got me to thinking of what the cars may have evolved into. Not so much the Duesenberg 1963 but a fifties version.
The song Dream Lover by Bobby Darin was playing.
He only lived to age 37. He bought the DiDia 150. Quote," Darin's car was built by Detroit native and clothing designer Andy DiDia; the car took seven years, from 1953 to 1960, to finish. Two engines are listed as power plants; I assume the present 427 came later. Originally the car cost $153,647.29 to create; today it's worth $1.5 million."
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