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:previous: That's quite an obscure piece of information. Good find BRR!
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https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1668/...f093d55b_o.png Getty/Nadel/CRA/HousingandStreetConditions1955October31/237SBHA This one I thought germane to the topic of the sticking-out-stairway: you won't hit it while drunk, they put up a couple handy striped wooden rails! https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1706/...fa47ddf2_o.png Getty/Nadel/CRA/HousingandStreetConditions1955October31/2ndandHope (a detail of from this) |
Thought I'd add this to the going, going, gone: looking at that corner September 30, 1955—note how in the third photo the cars are parked where the Alta Vista used to stand. 251 sure got a lot more sunlight for the few years it had left.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1711/...71e55bd2_h.jpg nadel again, CRA/slums/1955Sept30/255SBHA https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2921/...b78be035_o.pnghunt Quote:
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/oRMSGT.jpg detail The only thing I can come up with is the back of a very large billboard. .....or back of the Intolerance set ;) When did the Los Angeles Examiner start putting up their over-sized signs? __ |
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# # # Nice work by Beaudry to find the other South Bunker Hill Avenue photos, especially the one of the Alta Vista! Also thanks to Hoss for the aerial. |
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The garden upon which the women are standing would later become the property of the Senshin Buddhist Temple. The temple, established in the 1950's continues to be a cultural and religious landmark for the Japanese American community in Los Angeles. This area was once known in the JA community as the Seinan district (translated Westside). It was one of the few places that permitted Japanese to rent or purchase homes post WW2. |
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The occasion was the inauguration of service on LATL's motor coach Line 25 on this date. The line ran from Colorado and Eagle Rock Blvds. to DTLA. As the Colorado Blvd. portion of the route duplicated rail service provided by the 5 Line, the latter was cut back from Townsend Ave. to Eagle Rock Blvd. also effective on this date. A map that shows these routes and others in northeast Los Angeles can be found here: HTML Code:
http://www.chicagorailfan.com/los54tne.html |
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http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/monroe.jpg ebay |
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http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories...l#.Vqn5p_krKWg http://www.officialcoldcaseinvestiga...GUNDO-OFFICERS How he was finally arrested in 2003: Police located Mason, who had returned to and was still living in his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. He was a wealthy retiree and a grandfather, quietly living with his family in a suburban neighborhood. Then, in January 2003, a large group of police officers called at his door. Mason was completely shocked and had asked where they were from. The police officers had said, "We are from the El Segundo Police Department," and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Mason then said, "You're homicide detectives? I think I need a lawyer." The police officers then told him that they were there because of the murder of two police officers in 1957. Horrified, Mason responded, "You're here for that?" |
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As soon as I read the first link a couple of days ago, I knew I'd seen the story somewhere before. The case of Gerald Mason and the 1957 murders was the subject of an episode of 'Forensic Files' which I saw a couple of years ago. You can see the reenactment segment from the show on Vimeo. According to the Wikipedia page on Gerald Mason, '48 Hours Mystery' and 'Murder Book' also covered the story. |
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For reference: Bunker Hill Avenue is in the middle of the right-hand side, and #24 in the center is the Fremont Avenue School. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Detail of map at Library of Congress |
[QUOTE=Beaudry;7315616]Thought I'd add this to the going, going, gone: looking at that corner September 30, 1955—note how in the third photo the cars are parked where the Alta Vista used to stand. 251 sure got a lot more sunlight for the few years it had left.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1711/...71e55bd2_h.jpg nadel again, CRA/slums/1955Sept30/255SBHA Alta Vista Hotel and Apartments - home of John Fante and as described in Ask The Dust. |
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/2634926...-on-porch-1314 which shows a family on the porch of the house located at this address |
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Here's the picture which oldstuff found: "Vintage photo 1908 Family on Porch 1314 W 36th Place Los Angeles" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...e.jpg~original www.etsy.com |
There is a listing in the 1888 and 1890 directories for Frederick William Sparr at 117 S. Bunker Hill. He was listed as being a cabinetmaker in 1890. He is listed at 221 S. Bunker Hill in 1894 and is shown to be retired. Mr. Sparr was born in Germany (Prussia) in about 1824. He appears in a voter registration in Los Angeles in 1884. He is found in the 1870 census in Kansas, with a wife May (or Mary). He is seen as early as 1850 in the census in Ohio
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I can't find them in any census. I do find a notation with the assessor's office that the house was built in 1907, so it was a new place in 1908. A Google street search does not show the house, although the assessor has it listed as still being there (somewhere) Maybe it is under the other building on the site somewhere. |
Not a building, but noirish to the max:
http://unframed.lacma.org/2016/01/26...ntic-zoot-suit Cheers, Earl |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Nov 20, 1922 The Charles may be Charles Kuhnen Jr (27 y.o. in 1910) who lived here from before 1908. He and his parents were listed at 1314 W 39th St in 1906, when West 36th Place was West 39th St, as can been on, for example, a 1906 streetcar map available online. Charles and/or his father developed their own small tract --originally 8 lots--at the SW Raymond/36th Place corner. In the 1923 CD, after the auction in the illustration, Charles Sr was still listed there; Jr was at 1528 W 17th. Two years alter, Sr was next door to his son at 1530 W 17th. Both addresses appear to be gone now... PS...an item from the Herald of May 19, 1914: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0...2520PM.bmp.jpg |
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