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__ Thanks for figuring out the rooftop location Hoss! It's a perfect match. I'm curious, what is this sign in the distance then? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/MCRv27.jpg eBay Here it is a bit larger. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/zq8RfH.jpg detail and flipped http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/RRv8VJ.jpg :previous: Great Magnolia Life. (I'm not very good at this am I) ;) lol __ |
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Hoss, there's a noirish connection. The 1950s-era structure housed the County Coroner's office until the offices were moved to the county health center. The building was turned over to the Center Theater Group in 1967. "So what had been the morgue became rehearsal space." -said Stephen Rountree, Music Center pres. from http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/m...96a8befaa.html __ Here's the front of the building. (which they're thinking of tearing down) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/i3Vwrf.jpg gsv I wanted to post a photograph of the building when it was the coroner's office, but I haven't located one yet. below: *This is the best i could do at the moment. It's dated 1967 (so the coroner's office had already moved) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/kVsFm1.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/21768/rec/10 |
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The buiding (1923, Walker & Eisen), at 756 S. Spring, was at the spot where Spring and Main merge. It was sold to Occidental Life Insurance in 1935. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...publiclife.jpg lapl photo dated 1927. ...and today looking lonely, seen from the Main St. side. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../grl-today.jpg you-are-here |
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I had a quick look for that roof sign before posting the location of e_r's picture. Now that Noircitydame has told us that it said "Great Republic Life", I was able to find the pictures below. They're both from a Dick Whittington set called "Street scenes, East 8th Street & South Los Angeles Street & Santee Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1931". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Detail from picture in USC Digital Library This one is from a lttle closer, but the roof sign isn't as clear. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Detail from picture in USC Digital Library |
:previous: Excellent! Thanks Noircitydame & HossC.
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Maybe he is dropping off Elizabeth Short in the empty lot in back of the cab. Looks like he could have done it.
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Here's the 1956 Superior Oil Building on the corner of W 6th and S Flower Streets. We've seen it a few times before, but most of the old images seem to be missing (and it's hard to resist a color Julius Shulman photo!). This is "Job 2375: Claude Beelman, Superior Oil Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1957". On the left is the California Club, with the Sunkist building and Bunker Hill behind. On the right, just a couple of arches of the Bible Institute are visible.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute As has been mentioned before, the building is now the Standard Hotel. The California Club remains next door, but the rest of the background looks rather different. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
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6th and S. Flower, c. 1916. The Plymouth Hotel on the corner, 556 S. Flower. The Victorian houses behind it would be gone in a few years. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...16%20-left.jpg USC |
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One is the actual home ....the other was made on a sound stage for the film. The reason is that they needed a larger space to film the stairs, the door and the actress walking towards the door....drama. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pscxohaxka.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psijmynzgd.jpg CD files |
Two snapshots (1970s?) of an unknown filming location.
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There are 65 images in this photoset, so obviously I've just picked a small selection. We touched briefly on the Crane Co a few months ago, but didn't get much further than establishing that it was involved with plumbing. Here are a few of Julius Shulman's photos of their premises at 321 E 3rd Street. It's "Job 854: Crane Company Operations Offices (Los Angeles, Calif.),1950". This is the 3rd Street elevation - that car looks quite old for a 1950 photo.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original This is the back of the building above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original And here's the loading dock in that building. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original The young lady on the left of this office scene seems to be the only one looking at the camera. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original This storage room contains loads of pipe fixtures. The man with the suit and tie appears in quite a few of the pictures, so I'm guessing he's quite important. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original And finally, this must be the where the emails are handled :). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute It looks like the Crane Co's first appearance in the City Directories is 1893, when they were based at 118-124 Requena Street. Requena Street was just south of Commercial Street, on the west side of Alameda. By 1896, they had moved to 126 N Los Angeles Street, where they stayed until around 1909. The 1921 Baist map still shows the building as the Crane Block. After that, the company was based at 321 E 3rd Street for around half a century, with the last listing at that address in the 1960 CD. Here's an advert from the 1923 CD. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original LAPL This is the building layout in 1952. The boxcar in the Shulman photos was near the end of an S-shaped spur that joined the main line between 1st and 2nd Streets on Alameda. The Crane Co buildings still looked much the same until at least 1980. The 1994 aerial image shows a cleared lot, and the current apartments on the site appear to be under construction on the 2005 image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original Historic Aerials |
We haven't visited the Hotel Regina on NLA.
I happened across this interesting postcard a few months ago on eBay. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/gu6eve.jpg I've been trying to figure out where the Hotel Regina pool would have been located. contemporary aerial http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/Fc1Eqt.jpg google_earth :previous: Initially I thought the pool must have been in that rectangular grassy area in the parking lot next to the old Hotel Regina building. But if you look closely at the photograph it doesn't seem possible. (for one thing, there's a house on the left) Here's an enlargement. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/Hmyqvu.jpg So where the heck was the pool? _ |
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Here's a 1972 "Historic Aerial"-- looks like the pool was there in 1964, and going back to at least HA's 1948 shot. Hard to tell, but the pool might have lasted until 1980, possibly later... Looks like a house or other small building to the south of the hotel. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...2520PM.bmp.jpghistoricaerials.com/ |
So you're saying this is the pool, right GW? (there looks like there might be another pool to the north) -under the IA of the word AERIALS
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...903/FWyZev.jpg But to get the house in the right spot, the photographer would have to be at the back of the pool facing Westlake Avenue. Yet this can't be the case, because there's a building where the street should be in the vintage photo. I don't know why I'm not grasping this. _ |
Noted in this morning's LA Times/Real Estate - George Cukor's former home on Cordell Drive is on the market again.
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