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Fascinating old buildings
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I'm going to be first and attribute the above buildings to Bob The Builder.
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I've been stumped by this slide ever since I happened upon it on eBay earlier today. Seller's description: "Hollywood Street Scene California Cars Stores Billboard Signs 1970s 35mm Slide. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/4FORZ2.jpg eBay It finally dawned on me that we're probably looking at the backs of buildings facing Sunset Boulevard. (I could be wrong of course) But which buildings are they? There are clues, like the letters on this building. . . . .unfortunately I can't make out what it says. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/UkGaKq.jpg detail Can anyone help me out? . |
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It's the backside of the Sunset Plaza. https://i.imgur.com/88lCWgb.jpeg GSV The business you have circled was Tennant Galleries at 8646 Sunset Blvd. https://i.imgur.com/ByJBbPW.jpeg archive.org - Antiques June 1974 |
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That's it, Noir Noir. . .and you perfectly matched your GSV view with the eBay slide. :) While I was looking for something more on the Tennant Galleries I happened upon this cool photograph that we MAY or MAY NOT have seen before. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3fMH00.jpg i.pinimg It's very Sunset Boulevard....The dog sure is enjoying the ride. . |
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That photo can be dated to 1979. The Albert Brooks film Real Life opened the last week of March. Also, the Sunset Plaza photo can also be dated to 1979. The Champ was released a week after the Brooks film in April of that year. |
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I have spent countless hours enjoying all of your incredible sleuthing and photos of Los Angeles, then and now. I can't tell you how many lunch hours at work I've spent with my nose about an inch from my screen seeing photos of how the city used to be, and seeing pictures of places that I would read about but thought were lost forever.
I have been searching all over for a picture of a particular building that was torn down many years ago. The building was at 321 East 3rd street, between San Pedro and Los Angles streets. In 1983 it was being used as loft living spaces for artist types, and a semi famous musician / tv host named Peter Ivers was murdered there. For some reason I am dying to see a picture of this place. I know it was 6 stories and I think it had been a warehouse or commercial space before artists started living there for the cheap rent. I tried using the Ed Ruscha Streetscape Photos but even narrowing down the search isn't seeming to do the trick. Can anyone here help me find a picture of this building? I feel like if the people here can't find it, a picture probably doesn't exist. |
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Someone will likely come up with a better full shot of the building. This one from 1926 features the occupants, the Crane Company, showing off their fleet of trucks. https://i.imgur.com/5nzwEgU.jpeg digitallibrary.usc.edu |
Noir Noir - THANK YOU! I can't believe how quickly you found a picture - it's a little humbling because I have spent weeks searching for anything about this building.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time and actually finding it. This forum is the best. |
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Welcome to NLA, Charlie Noir. :) I searched all afternoon yesterday and all I found was a corner of the roof. (that's Peter) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/32NhKc.jpg getty_images I also fell in a rabbit hole - and I have to tell you Peter Ivers was quite an interesting character. His cable show, New Wave Theater predated MTV by a few months and shortly before his death the show had gone national on the USA Network. He attended Harvard and was arguably the world's best harmonica player. He wrote the song, 'In Heaven' for Lynch's Erasurehead in 1976. Here's Ivers with a young David Lynch on his show, New Wave Theater..(date unknown) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/VtOKj9.jpg dangerous-minds His murder remains unsolved. :( . |
I'm much more of a 20th century guy than a 19th, but this 1876 image of what I presume is downtown Los Angeles intrigues me mostly because I don't recognize a single thing in it! Maybe everyone has seen this photo by Carleton E. Watkins already, but...what am I looking at?
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e7eb4c43_b.jpg Creator Carleton E. Watkins, American, 1829-1916 Title Los Angeles Date 1876, printed ca. 1876 Location Depicted: United States of America, California Material Albumen silver print from glass negative Repository The Metropolitan Museum of Art ID Number 264978 https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/...00485;iap=true |
This one is dedicated to Beaudry!
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d2ef42ce_b.jpg Title Bunker Hill Towers under construction Work Type black-and-white photographs Date 1960s Location Los Angeles, California Repository Collection Title Proper: Robert Evans Alexander papers Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Archival Location: Collection # 3087, Box 93, Folder "Bunker Hill (Residential Towers)..." https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/...=1708146700485 |
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That's a great photo, I don't remember seeing it before. Maybe taken from Boyle Heights, possibly the hill the USC Health Sciences Campus is on? |
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4bce2644_o.jpg Some landmarks to orient you. Top, St Vibiana under construction, Main near 2nd. The roundhouse, Main near 3rd. The B'nai B'rith synagogue, Broadway (then Fort St) between 2nd and 3rd. |
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But I believe we can attribute its design to Messrs. William Alciphron Boring and Solomon Irmscher Haas. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...oring_Haas.jpg January 1, 1885, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...al_Alameda.jpg January 30, 1885, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...Commercial.jpg February 18, 1885, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com Quote:
00047781 @ LA Public Library The photo above is dated 1929, but was obviously taken much earlier and shows the NEC of 1st and Main perhaps around 1895-1900 (my guess). Clearly, the building was built as a two-story structure. But the original plans called for four stories: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...egin_Jun_1.jpg May 6, 1893, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com Those plans were drawn up by architect Hugh Todd, and the building was supposed to be done around November 1, 1893: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._yesterday.jpg June 13, 1893, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com However, there was a extended debate over whether to widen First Street, and that delayed the building's construction: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...ldg_-_Copy.jpg December 4, 1893, Los Angeles Evening Express @ Newspapers.com Also, I'll speculate that the Panic of 1893 may have caused the bank to scale back the plans for its building. Anyhow, architect Todd seems to have stuck with the project the whole way: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...36d4bndhhe.jpg April 11, 1894, Los Angeles Herald @ Newspapers.com The bank didn't open its offices until August 2, 1894: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...w_building.jpg August 2, 1894, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com Those were some fine-looking buildings, Beaudry. Thanks! |
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I thought this mystery location would be fairly easy to solve but I've checked numerous city directories from the 1920s and 30s & came up with.. n o t h i n g. The Adelle Apartments, Los Angeles https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/y6hhz1.jpg eBay If you look closely the street number appears to be 744?...or 144? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/9aioiv.jpg detail |
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From the Long Beach Press-Telegram, 18 July 1924. PCH was once named State in this part of the world, so if it's 744 PCH you're looking at, it's been redeveloped with a massive Goodwill store. |
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