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:previous: Thanks Hoss, that helps a lot.
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Here's another great photograph of an Austin Healey. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/1s9JKz.jpg http://cdn.silodrome.com/wp-content/...tin-Healey.jpg Does anyone recognize that blonde guy in the back? __ |
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:previous: Yep, you got it CBD.
We've seen world famous Ciro's many times on NLA, but this amateur slide is a first for us. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/0I1Fu2.jpg eBay Here's Senor Wences with his smoking hand puppet. (and by hand puppet, I mean hand puppet. ;)) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/jIh0ZV.jpg https://classicmovienight.files.word...wences1935.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/wFmign.jpg http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.co...es-comedy.html :previous: If that doesn't give you nightmares, I don't know what will! __ |
I saw Sr. Wences at the Hollywood Bowl in '57-'58. He was an opening act for a Danny Kaye show. He used to be a fixture on the Ed Sullivan show.
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For today's Julius Shulman post we have an unidentified Van De Kamp's Bakery. This is "Job 946: Welton Becket and Associates, Van De Kamp's (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original And here's the dining area. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute The information for the set above doesn't give a location, but it does say "See job 1201". Here are the two images from that set which show the kitchen area. I assume they were taken at the same place. This is "Job 1201: Welton Becket and Associates, Van De Kamp's (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute |
The big house behind 3320 N. Griffin Avenue
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original November 3, 1889, Los Angeles Times @ LAPL The Von Keith home was located about where the tree in the center of the photo is; I think below the tree is where the short stairway under the central tower is in the 1888 photo. That's 3320 N. Griffin Avenue in the lower right corner: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original Bing Birdseye View If you ever wondered where the neighborhood's E. Von Keithian Avenue (upper right corner) got its name from, now you know: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original Google Earth John H. Von Keith was a landscape painter and author of Von Keith's Westward or 1,000 Items on the Wonders and Curiosities of Southern California (1887), copies of which are available at these locations. When he registered to vote on September 24, 1888, the 51-year-old, Massachusetts-born Von Keith listed his occupation as "Artist" and his home as "N. Griffin Ave." His daughter Wallula married pioneer Los Angeles grocer George A. Ralphs. Von Keith apparently lost the home due to financial difficulties before it burned down: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original December 23, 1890, Los Angeles Times @ LAPL |
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Capable of serving 13,000 people a day, it had an 85-seat counter in the main dining room, a “sidewalk café” separated from Wilshire Blvd be a glass wall, a bakery department, take-out food bar and public lounges. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...p-wilshire.jpg 2-15-51 lat Van de Kamp's ad for their Wilshire Coffee Shop, June 1951 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...andekampad.jpg 6-25-51 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-lapl-1969.jpg lapl http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics25/00062149.jpg (seen on NLA before) |
Excellent sleuthing Flyingwedge! So the 'Show' house turned out to be the Von Keith residence.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/Qsw7uB.jpg CA State Library / detail Do you think that's Mr. Von Keith and Wallula up there? ;) Quote:
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'mystery' location.
"Caledonia Laundry Service, Los Angeles [1920s] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/rNnoq4.jpg eBay I posted this extra-large so you can see down the street. The real size is more like this... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/OfEPn5.jpg eBay My search at lapl lead me to the Caledonia Hotel at 1219 S. Palos Verde. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/TgJAL3.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/MUyobp.jpg1926 I don't believe the Caledonia Hotel is connected in any way with the Caledonia Laundry. I also found a Caledonia Way on the far side of Forest Lawn in Glendale, but that doesn't look like the spot either. __ |
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Here's an interesting photograph showing Torrance police officers posing with confiscated liquor in 1925. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/bO5Tcj.jpg http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...rancebooze.jpg |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original www.historicmapworks.com The 1914 map isn't as clear, but looks very similar, except that the "Idlewild Terrace" name has gone. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original www.historicmapworks.com By 1921, all the empty plots marked on the maps above have disappeared. In fact, most of the area between Griffin Avenue and Avenue 33 is just labeled "Mt Olympus Tract". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original www.historicmapworks.com The 45 degree views don't really show the height of the hill behind 3321, so here's a lower angle. I also checked out Bing Maps, and that doesn't even show E Von Keithian Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...l.jpg~original Google Maps |
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Thanks for locating the branch of Van de Kamp's in yesterday's photos, Noircitydame.
-------------------- My last set of Prudential Building photos by Julius Shulman should've included a night shot (I'm not sure how I left it out), so I couldn't resist these two. This is "Job 344: Wurdeman & Becket and Harry Bennett, Prudential Building (Los Angeles, Calif.),1948". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute Seeing as it was all on its own, and from the same year, I thought I'd include this picture of Ohrbach's at the Prudential Building. Just visible between the first two pillars is the Stiles Oliver Clements designed Citizens National Bank which I posted a Shulman picture of in post #33516. This is "Job 355: Wurdeman & Becket and Harry Bennett, Ohrbach's, Prudential Building, (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1948". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute |
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LAPL has this one looking down the column walk the other way (showing the Van de Kamp's Wilshire Coffee Shop there at the end) http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-1951-lapl.jpg dated 1951 lapl |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original GSV Here it is reborn in April 2016 as Bowlero (I haven't looked inside yet): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original Flyingwedge photo taken out of the driver's side window, waiting for the traffic signal to change |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/YnLe9W.jpg gsv The Los Angeles Motorcycle Salvage building down the street might be the two-story building that's visible behind the car in my vintage photo. (see detail below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/ewk0l0.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/Ql8rCl.jpg I believe the four second-story windows in the front have simply been covered over. The windows that are visible on the far side of the building appear to be similar to the ones in the vintage pic. (wide borders/trim) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/YoUnRN.jpg gsv But I was a bit lazy & didn't check out all other addresses you mentioned Hoss. (since the 402 E. 58th St. address was from a 1926 directory, I thought that date was closest to the date of the vintage photo) __ |
I have a deal of unidentified flotsam in my personal collection. This splendid photograph, from the photo album of an unidentified Someone, is identified by that Someone as "Street in Los Angeles." By the mix of architectural styles, it would seem to be--if in downtown L.A.--the sort of streetscape one would find in the south 100-south 400 blocks, or so; but I see nothing familiar, and I would think that the double-horned peak of the tower at dead center would be ever-memorable. There is lettering on the front of the trolley, but, play with contrast and so on as I will with the photo, I can't quite make it out. The British flag at right is intriguing and perhaps a clue to the date though not to the location. Of even less help is the photo on verso of the album page, which I'll share at some point, showing a cluster of structures identified as "Residence of Fred Robinson, Los A." Does anyone recognize anything in the photo?
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psgeisja2g.jpg From the odinthor collection. |
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