Much to my surprise....I just realized there are two people in the sweet potatoes photo.

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I wonder what else this guy has stored down in the root cellar? :whistle:



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"Antique Negative Girl In California Oil Field"
 

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I'm looking for some help in reversing this negative.(I used to know how before I changed computers)

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EBAY

I'm guessing this was taken in one of the oil fields in the South Bay area.
(I realize there's going to be a big black blob floating in the air next to the little girl)





Here's a closer look at the girl (and blob)

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She appears to be charmingly dressed in frills and bows. It makes me wonder if she was the young daughter of the owner of the oilfield. :shrug:
They even brought her a little chair to sit on.

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Not a great job, sorry; but here's a start on the closer look, e_r:

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I'm going to disagree on the guy's location. I believe he is at the rear-facing steps at the far left of the front house, shown on the demo plan. In the photo of the guy you can see the side of the front porch of the house next door, which is the same house today, and a couple of other houses across the street.

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I hadn't considered that possibility, ProphetM, but I think you're probably correct. There doesn't appear to be a door on the back corner today.

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Here's a 2014 view through from the front.

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Snow Dates
 

I'm not exactly sure where the location of the above photo is specifically, so I'm not sure that is snow pictured...we also have to be wary of dates supplied by 3rd parties.

I tried to keep a source listing for snow dates in Los Angeles and environs, but I keep finding anomalies here and there.

Since official records were first kept in 1877, the downtown Los Angeles weather station observed measurable snowfall three times:

Downtown Los Angeles weather station
RECORDED SNOWFALL:
1882
1932
1949

News reports recorded snowfall elsewhere in the Los Angeles Basin:
1913
1921
1922
1926
1944
1957
1962

And from a source:
Snowfall at higher elevations and in inland valleys is more common; a
1989
system dropped several inches on the San Fernando Valley but missed the coastal plain, and a
2007
storm dusted the canyons above Malibu with powder and dropped hail-like graupel on L.A.'s Westside.

A search for photos on NLA concerning snow have some dated
1923 (Hollywood & Vine)
1948 (from Universal Studios to across the valley)
1953 (San Bernardino)

HossC posted HERE some snow photos dated:
1912
1930
and included links to a post from G-W to a photo of snow in Silverlake dated
1950

And from the L.A. Almanac which began in 1921 I posted this once:

A revisit to that link right now has updates which include:

Latest Incidents of Snowfall Los Angeles International Airport, Downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach
1991
Los Angeles Intl. Airport trace (less than 0.5 inches) March 27, 1991
1996
Long Beach Airport trace (less than 0.5 inches) February 25, 1996
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If you put all these dates together from sources and captions of snowfall in the L.A. area, we get:


1882
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1912, 1913
1921, 1922, 1923, 1926
1930, 1932, 1935
1944, 1947, 1948, 1949
1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957
1962
-
1989
1991, 1996
2007
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Well, a couple of things stand out for what's not in the photo. I don't see any blood on the seats so chances are the bullets weren't stopped by a body. The driver's side window appears to be rolled down, so if the shots were fired from outside the passenger side, did they simply pass through? Or are they exit holes fired at the driver through the open window? Any ballistics experts in the crowd?

Hello Gents. Was wondering if I can get a little help. Trying to find information on 2118 Trinity Street. Apparently my grandmother traveled to Los Angeles to give birth to my mom in 1944 and stay at a place on Trinity Street. When we checked the 1940 census, the building was occupied almost entirely by women, and was labeled a "Training Home". The building disappeared sometime between 1964 and 1972. Any information would be appreciated.

Edit: oh yes, and the occupants were listed as "inmates"?

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The Minnie Barton Home for Girls was built at 2118 Trinity Street in 1918 under the auspices of the Big Sister League and the Women's City Club.
Minnie Barton was "the well known probation officer" from the city jail. In the late teens and early 20s, the Training Home appeared to be a halfway home for young women being released from jail. Its mission was later expanded.

From Minnie Barton's Find a Grave page:

"Minnie Hafley McCoach Barton was the second female police officer in Los Angeles, the first one being Alice Stebbins Wells, who was the first female cop in the entire nation. Minnie was noted for befriending homeless girls and working with young women on parole or probation, sometimes taking them into her home and giving them vocational training. In 1917, she founded the "Minnie Barton Home." In the early years, she and her co-workers were primarily interested in women just released from jail. Often younger women were committed to the Home in lieu of jail sentences. This facility grew to include care for pregnant women, often left destitute as a result of the father's jail confinement or abandonment. The Home has since expanded and exists today as Children's Institute, Inc. Minnie was born in Linn County, Kansas, and followed her parents to San Marcial, New Mexico, where she married John Alexander Barton, who took her to LA, where they had three children.

See http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr73b.htm and http://www.childrensinstitute.org/about/history/ "


Much more info on Minnie Barton and the Training Home may be found at this KCET page:

"Parole Officer No. 2: Minnie Barton and the Crusade for Lost Women"

and on google.


I'm sure Ms Barton has come up before here.

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Here's a undated picture of the Minnie Barton Training Home at 2118 Trinity Street.


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Thank you guys. This really clears things up. My sister has been tracking down my mother's birth parents. All we know is that her mom traveled from Northern California to Los Angeles to give birth, and kept it a secret from her family.

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Here's a teeny-tiny Los Angeles connection to one of the more fascinating crimes of the 1920s, one I hadn't come across before in reading about the Leopold & Loeb case. It seems that Nathan Leopold's father, NL Sr, a widower since 1921, married Daisy K. Hahn of LA in Chicago on October 3, 1927. He died there less than two year later, just after returning from spending the winter in California. The couple appears to have lived at 4409 Francis Ave in a duplex that has since been replaced with an apartment building. Mrs. Leopold seems to have been fond of the name Francis--on her return to LA after her husband's death, she leased an apartment at the new Sir Francis Drake at 841 S Serrano...one of the big residential buildings that rose in Pellissier Square after the single-family-house restriction was lifted in 1928. We've touched on these buildings at NLA before, but here's a little more on the subject:


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LAT Oct 28, 1929

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LAPL/LAT Oct 28, 1928


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http://i.imgur.com/hLc4rvR.jpg?1?1586GSV
https://s22.postimg.cc/g6nvawgzl/drakeaptsnow.bmp.jpgGSV

I found some off-topic noir earlier. You may remember that a couple of months ago e_r posted a picture of Mickey Ward's LA Camera Exchange by renowned photographer Weegee, aka Arthur Fellig (see post #46996). Well, some of Weegee's early twentieth century crime scenes photos of New York have now been colorized. You can see the results at mediadrumworld.com. The one below is from June 17th, 1915.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...egeeColor1.jpg
Frederic Duriez/mediadrumworld.com

Maybe some of his old LA photos will get the same treatment one day.

:previous: Thank you odinthor!

I appreciate it buddy. :)

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Bing Watching , those 2003 version (Ed O'Neill)
DRAGNET episodes , I caught one were , "Joe Friday" comments about
WEEGEE photographer , it is a real pity the 2003 version Dragnet series , did not have a longer run on Prime Time First Run Broadcast ...
they kept close to the epic Jack Webb-ishness as far as just the facts Mam'
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We have seen alot of 'shooting range' photographs over the years, but I believe this one might be a newbie.

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Ebay [no longer listed]

seller's description: "VTG 1927 Los Angeles Sheriff Deputy at Shooting Range Practice Z31"


Did you see that the sheriff has a choice of shooting either SLUG, BUTCH and GYP.

(GYP? :shrug:)

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The picture appeared in the May 1940 issue of Popular Science. Is it my imagination, or is the police office missing his shadow in e_r's image?

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:previous: I didn't realize the shooting range had sound effects and flashing red lights! (like the county fair...except serious ;))

Hey, he's missing his shadow in both photos!. I hadn't noticed that until you mentioned it Hoss.

and as you can see, Popular Science 'chiseled' the hillside into the shape of a plateau...sort of.

:previous: While looking for the link to the firing range photograph on Ebay (to no avail), I happened upon an item that is....well...amazing!

It is a hand drawn LAPD tongue-in-cheek "Fugitive and Warrant" map from 1933.

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Here it is in its entirety.

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And it can be all yours for the sum of $1,200.00........or all mine if you're feeling generous. ;).




The seller also included close-ups. I've decided to post them since the map is a bit difficult to read. (at least it is for me)


#1
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#2 (similar to #1..but more to the right)
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#3
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and #4

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Artist signature at bottom. (Haskell?)

I searched the thread for noted photographer Robert Frank, and came up with several images...but I did not see these two.

They are from The American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC...and are identified as Los Angeles, 1956...


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