While anything's possible, Foote would be far more likely. I've heard of people with the name Foote, but never Hoote.

My first thought was "Hoote", but a) the seller had "Foote", b) there's a flourish across the top of the letter, and c) as Those Who Squirm said, Foote seemed more likely. LAPL's City Directories seem to be down for me at the moment, otherwise I'd have checked before I posted the images.

I can imagine that the specialized stylus was particularly necessary if this was before ballpoints came into widespread use. You certainly didn't want to use the delicate point of your dip-pen in a contraption like this, and fountain pens must have been right out, given that they could sometimes leak in your shirt pocket just sitting there.

I wish I could tell you. But I do know that LAHS was still a few years away from moving to its present site, Olympic and Rimpau. This was somewhere downtown, but I've never been 100% clear on where it was exactly, what with the radical street re-alignments and leveling of entire hills that went on in the post WW II era.

Regarding the address below, does anybody know any details as to when and how house numbers were standardized citywide? From reproductions of relevant ads, directories, and other materials I've seen from the same general period, it seems to have been a hopeless hodgepodge. Some businesses and residents used modern addresses, i.e. nothing with fewer than three digits, while others continued to use two digits like the one below.

As late as 1926, the Avila House condemnation notice identified it as 24 - 26 Olvera, leading me to think that obscure alleys and other small streets were the last to change. But then Spring is certainly a major thoroughfare, isn't it? And this address was presumably just north of Temple, assuming that it was then the baseline for north and south addresses, as it is today.

Venice west of Main was allowed to remain aloof from the renumbering, but AFAIK residents and businesses everywhere else in the city fell in with the new order. (I don't count Chester Place since it's now a college campus, rather than an ordinary neighborhood.)

I've been wondering about this for many, many years, and have yet to come up with a single, solitary clue anywhere online, or elsewhere for that matter. I wouldn't know where to begin with offline sources. It's easy enough to find examples that suggest and indicate possibilities. But what I'd really like to know is how the decision came about and how it was implemented. Who advocated for it, and when?

Maybe the plane is titled the "Los Angeles Airdrome" and it was in another city or state? Perhaps?

I remember that Copper Penny on La Brea in the early 1980's.
Across the street from Tiny Naylor's. Was the Copper Penny where the Carolina Pines was?

I believe I also remember a Copper Penny on Sunset Blvd. across the street from the Hollywood Athletic Guild (6525 Sunset Boulevard). At Sunset and what is now Schrader Blvd., formerly Hudson and before that Dae Avenue. It seems to me it's some kind of a check cashing or Western Union place now.

I don't know about businesses, but I can tell you that one of the oldest, if not the oldest, same-site LAUSD school is San Pedro Street ES, which has been there since early in the Johnson administration--that's Andrew, not Lyndon! Of course, this being L.A. all the buildings are much newer.

Thanks! And thanks for the clarification. In L.A., LBJ's administration qualifies as historical architecture!

It would be odd for a plane to be called an airdrome. Airdrome (or aerodrome) is an old fashioned word for airport or air field. Besides, there's no reason they couldn't fly this plane from LAX to BUR.

Yes, the Pines Jr was replaced by the Penny.


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Another view of La Brea looking south toward Sunset.
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I spy the Roosevelt Hotel roof sign peaking through the trees above the Copper Penny in the above photo.

Tiny Naylor's; part of a "3-D stereo slide" circa 1952.

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'mystery' location. (recently found on ebay)

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I could be wrong, but I think the red car is coming from the elevated station at the Pacific Electric Building on 6th and Main streets.
What makes this a 'mystery' is the street in the foreground. I don't believe we've seen this vantage point before on NLA.

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"Santa Fe Engine, Los Angeles 1975."

I'm curious about this 'cut' the train is traveling through.

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In this second photograph, the photographer appears to be standing on a bridge (or pedestrian walkway). The engineer is looking at him.

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So where was this 'cut' located? Is it still there?
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This is an interesting house HossC.

So are these three elements there just there to ventilate the attic? Usually they're not so elaborate.

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And look where the chimney on the left is located. That's fairly odd as well.
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I'm really impressed you found the house HossC, since the name of the street on the back of the photo was wrong!

Santa Fe westbound at Grand Terrace in Colton
 

The cut is still there. The location is next to La Cadena Blvd, the old main drag between Colton and Riverside. On the hill is the big Stater Bros distributution center, which is no longer there. Here are the coords: 34.03657, -117.33220

:previous: -thanks Pdxrailtransit. I'll check it out on Google Earth.



Streetcars at 7th and Alvarado streets. (no date)

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...and today.
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This is a very nice looking building. Does anyone know it's history? (maybe we've discussed it before...I don't remember )

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-note the Westlake Theater roof-top sign in the distance. (up Alvarado)
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