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It looks like the Janss Investment Compnay wanted to develop Westwood as "The Second Hollywood". This map is circa 1925. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/LAJanss1.jpg The name lives on in the Janss Steps at UCLA. They were donated to UCLA by Harold and Edwin Janss. 1928 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/LAJanss2.jpg 2007 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3/LAJanss3.jpg All from waterandpower.org -----------:previous: There are loads of early UCLA pictures at this link. |
Today we've got more Buffums' in Long Beach from Julius Shulman. This is "Job 3260: Hugh Gibbs, Buffums' (Long Beach, Calif.), 1961".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The sign by the door identifies it as Buffums' Marina Sportswear. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original There are no interior shots, but we get to see some oil wells on the right of the final image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The Peninsula Shopping Center was mentioned yesterday by e_r in his post about UCLA's propsed move to Palos Verdes. Here, in an article from Palos Verdes Peninsula News, we can see the groundbreaking for Buffums' sportwear store. The last paragraph says that Buffums' Marina Sportswear store was at Alamitos Bay. NB. I've rearranged the layout to make it more screen-friendly. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original California Digital Newspaper Collection The GSV images up until 2011 show the old Buffums' store. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV I'm not sure if the building was remodeled or knocked down and rebuilt. Either way, the arches are gone. I never found an address for Buffums' Marina Sportswear, but the address for CVS is 6265 E 2nd Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV |
The building on the right with the loading dock looks like the Compton PE depot. This is in reference to the mystery photo of a PE trolley in a previous post posted yesterday by ethereal_reality. For some reason my reply did not attach to the original post. I'm still new at this.
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Fascinating details. We've seen these images on NLA many times since their first posting. (Now it seems whatever gets posted here, somehow ends up elsewhere, occasionally with a reference.) :shrug: Edit. Apropos of CBD's link regarding George Shatto, the man, vvvvvv, it is interesting to note that he is (probably) not in any of the pictures of the house he built - in 1892. Most of the shots are dated at 1892 or 1900. Shatto was in his early '40s when he died as a result of a train accident (1893). The sources do not clarify the identity of those pictured. Some suspect Leonard Zelig :P but it could easily be surviving members of the household. Circa 1900 - (unidentified) Shatto family members http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...y.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...coll65/id/2600 Wonder about the ground covering. From a distance, everything looks well manicured. Closer views indicates the covering was "rough" or "spotty" rather than "smooth" ornamental grass, e.g., Bermuda. Was it an indigenous (drought-tolerant) grass? Succulents? Iceberg plants? Assume the landscape required constant maintenance, yet there may have been an effort to avoid capturing the action on film. (Cue the leafblowers and auto sprinklers.) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...0.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~original Circa 1892 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...g.jpg~originalhttp://waterandpower.org/Historical%...tto_ca1892.jpg http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...b.jpg~originalhttp://militantangeleno.blogspot.com...1_archive.html http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...y.jpg~original(Source presently unknown) Circa 1900 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...u.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...coll65/id/2601 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...5.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...u.jpg~original Duplicate of GW image, with slightly more detail. :previous: http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...5.jpg~original http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...coll2/id/19054 |
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Born August 15, 1850 Medina County, Ohio Died May 30, 1893 (aged 42) Ravenna, California I thought it might be good to know just who was George Shatto. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shatto |
CSUDH Roots in Palos Verdes
The recent posts about the links between the early days of UCLA and Palos Verdes reminded me that Cal State University Dominguez Hills actually started there and at one time had plans to make Palos Verdes its permanent home with a design drawn by architect A. Quincy Jones that was eventually built at the Carson site.
http://patch.com/california/palosver...e-to81a3a1d8de http://modernistarchitecture.blogspo...ge-campus.html Site of first classes at CSUDH http://i.imgur.com/Oa7Hijv.jpg Original Palos Verdes plan http://i.imgur.com/ezpIHlo.jpg Library on campus designed by A. Quincy Jones http://i.imgur.com/AU89DIJ.jpg All from modernistarchitecture.blogspot.com |
I'm still reading through the whole topic, but it's growing so fast that I barely can keep up! I'm like only half way through, somewhere around 2012. Anyway, I found these photos online and I hope they are not posted yet, if so, I'm sorry! For some of them I made a comparison with recent Google images.
http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(01).png City Hall at night, Los Angeles, 1961 Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(2).png Crowds at the Hollywood Bowl, 1940 Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(1).jpg Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, California, 1907 Source: oac.cdlib.org http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(3).png Christmas trees, South Flower Street, Los Angeles, 1928 Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(4).png Whittier Boulevard & California Avenue, Montebello, 1934 Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(5).png Rainy day, Ventura & Woodman, Sherman Oaks, California, March 15, 1952 Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(6).png Main Street between Sixth & Seventh, Los Angeles, 1941 Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(7).png http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA%20(8).png Tom Breneman's restaurant, Hollywood, 1948 Source: digitallibrary.usc.edu |
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But the ground cover...eh, I'm drawing a blank there. :titanic: The fact that the main planting is seemingly so new, it could be that, for the time being, they're relying on Mother Nature to cover the rest of the ground while they concentrate on the bigger stuff. |
We haven't had a travel bureau from Julius Shulman for a while. This is "Job 3233: Risley and Gould, British Overseas Airways Corporation (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1961".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original That's a pretty impressive map on the back wall. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute I couldn't find this office in the CDs, but the advert below appeared in many issues of Black Belt magazine in 1968. The advert is from seven years after the Shulman pictures, and gives the address as 9460 Wilshire Boulevard. Trading on the James Bond movie 'You Only Live Twice', we have Mie Hama enticing bachelors on an Orient adventure. It's a shame they spelled her name wrong at the bottom. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original books.google.com While I was searching for information, I came across a collection of Julius Shulman pictures at theguardian.com. The article includes the second picture above, which comes with this caption: ‘What a vivid contrast of colours in this travel agency scene,’ Shulman wrote of this image. ‘This represents a perfect example of the functional design and spacing of the clients’ offices embellished with elegant decor’British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA) merged in the early-70s to form British Airways. |
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Loaded to the gills with fuel and cargo, cleared the perimeter fence at LAX with a couple of feet to spare. I think that 15 miles out to sea we were finally up to about 5,000 feet. Stopped at Gander. Return trip was nonstop, not much cargo. Service was terrific. Cheers, Earl |
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In connection with something called a drought, there has been a call for return to native drought-resistant plants. Unfortunately, most suggestions include hybridized versions of native plants. Native ground coverings, by their very definition, might not necessarily have been in the Nursery, Hardware or Seed Catalogs of the day. Wasn't some of LA covered in something like generic Buffalo Grass or Meadow Grass, both of which, when manicured, would look smooth like traditional lawns? Harper & Reynolds Co. (48-50 South Main Street. and 61 -63 Los Angeles Street was selling Excelsior reel push mowers per the 1886-1887CD. So whatever the typical LA lawn's composition, it was being mowed then. (A decent hardware seed/sod catalog from the period might come in handy right now.) The 1894CD lists James Denham (245 S. Main Street) as a dealer in nursury stock (seeds, blubs and plants.) Whether this encompasses ornamental grass, seed, sod or turf, is unknown.):shrug: When Don Ameche is too busy? Call Ralph Bellamy! 1940 - "Ralph Bellamy is impeccably dressed as he mows the lawn by the driveway of a large estate, possibly his, in a wealthy area of Southern California." http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics50/00074596.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics50/00074596.jpg Undated view of Bernheimer Estate lawn, which was evidently maintained by human power. (See bottom):cool: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070817.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070817.jpg Undated Rent-a-mower? Jones Hardware, 1258 American Avenue, Long Beach, http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics34/00066518.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics34/00066518.jpg Since golf courses (greens and fairways) tend to make heavy use of some ornamental grasses, it might even be fair to assume that LA ornamental grass history loosely parallels Golf's history in LA. :shrug: This is by no means a definitive ten-minute study. (It took six minutes.) The 1900-1CD lists a Westmoreland Golf Club, somehow affiliated with Plessier. A different 1900CD lists the "Golf Store" at 108 W. Third, operated by the Watson Brothers. The LA Country Club's history page indicates 1897-1899 as dates for a 16-acre nine-hole course at Pico and Alvarado (The Windmill Links), and a nine-hole course at Hobart and 16th Street (The Convent Course named for its proximity to a Convent near Rosedale Cemetery). https://www.thelacc.org/history So, by the turn of the last century, ornamental grasses were probably taking root, if not firmly rooted throughout LA. |
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Though not as to location. While putting together my residential survey of Wilshire Boulevard, I came across a small apartment building at the nwc of Gramercy Place. There was never a single-family house on the corner, so I put the lot aside. It appears in images we've seen on NLA before, including the eastward view from Wilton Place below dated by the USCDL as 1923... also in a previously-seen 1929 aerial. The building is missing from another air view dated 1948. EDIT: Mystery solved--the story of the apt building is in this survey of post-residential Wilshire Boulevard called Wilshire After Its Houses, available here. https://s22.postimg.cc/siw3olapt/WBe..._USCDL.bmp.jpgUSCDL Showing a bit of itself on the other side of the apt building is 646 South Gramercy, which Jack Pickford and Olive Thomas were renting just before she died in Paris in 1920. At right is the Leon Kaufmann house, which he had moved to the boulevard from Alvarado Street and would move from after building the famous Villa Leon. (Read all about the boulevard's houses here: wilshireboulevardhouses.com.) https://s22.postimg.cc/qgvmaan0h/HLA...-_Gramercy.jpg LAT Jan 7, 1923 :previous: Hoss: enjoyed the pictures of B.O.A.C.--or, as it was known, "Better On A Camel".... :previous: Quote:
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