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Wonder Woman, the beginning or mobile microwave prototype? Soon every garage will have one. Undated. Woman and Westinghouse generator - Montebello, Pacific Tube Co. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/7616/rec/791 |
I think these photos are from an earlier standalone modern shop within J.W. Robinson, probably late 1920s. Based on the merchandise, geometric Art Deco furniture and decoration, it doesn't feel like 1934... Looks like they are trying to update their store to compete with Bullocks Wilshire!
The interiors for the 1934 rehabilitation are attributed to Dodd and Richards, but were really designed by Erle Webster, who partnered with another Dodd and Richards designer Adrian Wilson, to form Webster and Wilson in 1935. William Dodd was the artist in the Dodd and Richards partnership, and he died in 1930. I've seen photos of the 1934 interiors, and they are not so Deco, more of the mid 30s streamlined modern. There was a wonderful nail salon, with wood panelled walls and mural by Millard Sheets in the lobby. Very luxurious. The nail station room looks like a Fred and Ginger set. Quote:
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excuse the filler fluff, but I like this photograph of Einstein at Mt. Wilson Observatory 1940 http://www.corbisimages.com/images/C...f-8d8e8bfd51b3 corbis images |
duck.....duck.....duck.........duck.....GOOSE!
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/C...b-861ccf528b51 august 5TH, 1947 Corbis Images More filler fluff till I'm up to speed.........(I just want to feel like i'm contributing something..................sorry) |
November 14th, 1940 Loss Angeles Premier of the Great Dictator at Carthay Circle.
View is looking from McCarthy Vista across San Vicente. http://www.corbisimages.com/images/C...7-176544b77479 Corbis Images |
due to war time restrictions, the March 5th 1944 Academy Awards ceremony at Gruman's theater were only allowed to use two Klieg lights...............(very noir indeed.....)
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The 1910 Bombing of the L.A. Times Building
A while back, the L.A. Times ran a photo spread on the 1910 bombing of their building. Given the current interest here, maybe there is a clue or two in the old photos.
Here are a few: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psd74a94ca.jpg L.A. Times http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps06f5f67f.jpg L.A. Times http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps3b918c5c.jpg L.A. Times http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psa110a5ac.jpg L.A. Times The whole article and a bunch more photos are here: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/09...eles-times/#/0 Any chance the part of the building left standing could fit the basement area recently uncovered? |
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Seems obvious that the pressroom floor wasn't reused... [QUOTE BRR] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VyDDtRX4MN...eIndemnity.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VyDDtRX4MN...eIndemnity.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpIyFb-uIh...eIndemnity.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpIyFb-uIh...eIndemnity.jpg[/QUOTE] Jerry's listing in a May 7, 1945, ad--I suppose the closing referred to has to do with V-E Day: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520AM.bmp.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J...437%2520AM.jpg Another ad, Dec 31, 1958: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...021%2520AM.jpg I wonder how long it lasted? |
While we're on Melrose, I thought we could move a few blocks east. Here's the northwest corner of Melrose & Western in 1925 (where else would you build the Melwest Apartments?). The main first floor tenant is the Huddleston Drug Co.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lwestApts1.jpg USC Digital Library Much of the detailing has gone, as have many of the windows, but the structure survives in a recognizable form. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lwestApts2.jpg GSV |
Minimalist gas-service station. Service with sunshine and fortified gasoline. 1941 - 855 East California Blvd., Pasadena. http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/2952/rec/92 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Jerry' G & L Drive Inn - "Tasty-Food" but is it fortified? http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7965/rec/81 May 20, 1970 Flower between Wilshire and Sixth Street. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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Majestic and forlorn? http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...d/19849/rec/63 Undated (pre '35?) http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Things go better with Coke? http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Even the Times? http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 LA Tent Housing. Date and address unknown. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Coming round a familiar bend. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 3 pages of Gangland War Photos and a thick stop sign. (Undated) Back East coverage. ~~ St. Valentines Day in Chicago or similar? http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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From the same set :previous: http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...d/19849/rec/63 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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On New Year's Eve of 1999 for the arrival of 2000, many cities had spectacular displays to welcome in the New Year. Most with fireworks. I was quite disappointed that Los Angeles did not have any real organized citywide celebration of any kind. Being Hollywood, it was my quite simple idea that every block in Hollywood, and as many adjacent blocks, too, simply have a Hollywood search light (Kleig light) illuminate the skies at midnight. Perhaps a Hollywood celebrity or celebrities or TV series cast or... could have been attached to each lighted corner for an added attraction. All we got was a begrudging light of the Hollywood sign for a few seconds. It turns out, too, that New Year's Eve that year was quite cloudy, cool and misty. The lights would've had a myriad of opprtunities to play off the mist, the rain, the clouds. Sort of like the above photo. Alas. Quote:
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While looking for pictures of Melrose Avenue I came across a set of 47 pictures showing flooding in 1951. There are many commercial premises in the pictures, but I decided to concentrate on three of the residential properties.
The caption at the bottom of this one reads: "Mrs Phoebe Horn, 1518 Electric Ave[nue], Venice, 12-29-51." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...951Floods1.jpg USC Digital Library Now partly hidden by plants and a fence, the house looks relatively unchanged. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...951Floods2.jpg GSV I've cropped the caption from this picture, but in its original form it was unreadable anyway. Once I'd mirrored the image and severely changed the levels it was just possible to make out: "Mrs Fred Pirie & friends on porch, 6577 2nd Ave[nue], 12-29-51." Initially I read the name as "Pine", but the 1956 CD lists Evelyn Josephine Pirie at 6577 2nd Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...951Floods3.jpg USC Digital Library Some brickwork has been added at the front, and a boxy extension at the rear, but Mrs Pirie's house is still there. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...951Floods4.jpg GSV One street west and Marjory Beggs' job of selling this house just got harder. The caption says: "Marooned house for sale, 6422 3rd Ave[nue], 12-29-51." Luckily, it looks like the water stopped in the garden. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...951Floods5.jpg USC Digital Library Just like the previous house, awnings now seem to be popular in this neighborhood. As far as I can tell, the houses on either side are also the same ones that appear in the picture above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...951Floods6.jpg Bing Streetside |
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