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Thanks for finding Baby Town on Sherman Way, e_r. I didn't think to look for that store in the historic street views.
--------------- Here's a branch of Standard Shoes, as photographed by Julius Shulman in 1973. It's "Job 4945: Standard Shoes (Los Angeles, Calif.),1973". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The photoset also includes a couple of other black and white shots, but luckily for us, Mr Shulman packed a color film. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The colorful theme continues inside. The interior designs and graphics are the work of Deborah Sussman. You can read about her and her work in an article on metropolismag.com (Standard Shoes is mentioned on page 2). Enjoy ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute I eventually tracked down this branch to 6222 Laurel Canyon Boulevard. A faint shadow of the Standard Shoes sign can still be seen on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original GSV An article in the LA Times says that most of the Standard Shoes stores became branches of Designer Shoe Warehouse in 1997 when they were taken over by parent company Shoe Pavilion. The earliest GSV image (2007, below) shows the building when it still had windows, but the store looks empty. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: Those interiors by Deborah Sussman are fab Hoss.
Ms. Sussman was one of the co-design directors responsible for the "look" of the 1984 Olympics. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/a8spA4.jpg http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034682/...er-than-life#9 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/FaqUYe.jpg http://www.sussmanprejza.com/portfol...geles-olympics At the time I remember thinking the 84 design looked dated (more 1974 than 1984). Now, looking back 30 years I appreciate it a bit more. (but I still don't love it) __ Additional information: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/1X8oUG.jpg http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034682/...er-than-life#9 |
Birthplace of Adlai Stevenson II.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/BL5IfD.jpg eBay here's the info. horizontal http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/u6oYX7.jpg :previous: but no address.:( __ I later found out the address is 2639 Monmouth Avenue, Los Angeles. The house is still there, although it's missing some of that ornamental "scroll-work" above the porch. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/hqsuaa.jpg gsv there's a marker with a plaque out front. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/fINpoh.jpg detail / gsv There is a charming neighbor to the south. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/kP0tDY.jpg gsv but the next door neighbor to the north needs some work done. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/MaRDxt.jpg gsv __ |
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There's a bunch of MLS photos of the Stevenson birthplace here, including ones of the interior, mostly the entry and stairs (and a close-up of the plaque). The twelve rooms are now housing for USC students. It sold last year for $995K. The caption for the image below is, "Presidential candidate Stevenson visits "the old homestead," at 2639 Monmouth Ave., Los Angeles, where he was born. Behind his right shoulder is one of his sons" (1952) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-f...6%252520PM.jpg lapl ................................................................................................. Quote:
I thought Jerde/Sussman's 1985 Westside Pavilion was less successful, but it was painted out a "tasteful" beige about 5 years ago: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...4%252520PM.jpg wiki https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Y...8%252520PM.jpg gsv |
:previous: The Westside Pavilion would be considered 'post-modern' right?
I've never liked that style much with it's stripped down cubes and cylinders (read 'columns') standing in for classical design. like the post-modern design of the current Pershing Square. (recently discussed here on NLA) That said, I think the interior of the Westside Pavilion is impressive with it's long arcade-like hall. _ |
Navarette Cleaners, 1708 Beverly Boulevard.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/aVN4i7.jpg eBay The building/house in 2011. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/MN6pd3.jpg gsv and from the side to get a better look at the house. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/ldUxiz.jpg gsv and today. GONE http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/FeFkSW.jpg gsv |
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Prior focus on 7919 Beverly Boulevard and Merlo's. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9417, http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9466 http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=20189 etc. One post references "Shoe Pavilion." Uncertain whether this morphed from Standard Shoe or it was essentially one and the same with a different brand name-spelling. Recall seeing but cannot locate an image quite similar to the :previous:Laurel Canyon image - for this Beverly Blvd. location. The 7919 location seems to have evolved from farm/dairy land to miniature golf (Fairfax Greens) to Merlo's to Standard Shoe/Shoe Pavilion to what is currently a Goodwill store. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...pswrepvczj.jpg LAPL http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psmqqqjhlb.jpgGooGooGoogle SV From a reliable source, this clock hung on the wall directly behind Merlo's meat department. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psigjam9xe.jpg |
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That Beverly Boulevard location was one of the addresses I looked at before I found Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Another was 3120 E Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, which I saw recommended as a place to buy large women's shoes in a 1967 edition of the Pasadena Independent. Property Shark lists the build date as 1966. I think this was the store where the pictures in the Deborah Sussman article I linked to were taken. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV The word "shoe" is still clearly visible in this 2007 view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
It's Sunday, so let's go to church! Following on from tovangar2's recent post on St Vibiana's, I couldn't resist adding these Julius Shulman photographs from 1977. They're part of a fairly random collection called "Job 5466: Miscellaneous Monuments (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1977". There are 16 images in the set, and most subjects (I spotted the Mary Andrews Clark Residence of the YWCA amongst them) only get a single picture. That's not the case with St Vibiana's, which gets five. The edge of the Union Rescue Mission can be seen on the right.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a detail view of the image above. I know it was the dismantling of the bell tower one Saturday morning in 1996 that prompted the frantic save-the-cathedral campaign, but does anyone know why these bells were hanging in this structure next to the cathedral in 1977? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original An almost straight-on front view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original And here's the back of St Vibiana's, as seen from somewhere near Los Angeles Street. It's been impossible to get this view since the Little Tokyo branch of the LAPL was built behind the cathedral in around 1999. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original We've already seen inside St Vibiana's thanks to an earlier post by tovangar2, but who am I to ignore a couple of Julius Shulman's photos? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute |
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:) Psychedelic art? https://2warpstoneptune.files.wordpr...pg?w=762&h=254https://2warpstoneptune.files.wordpr...pg?w=762&h=254 Peter Max "[Long time Laurel Canyon resident] Timothy Leary's dead. No, no, no, no, he's outside looking in" Joplin '65 Porsche http://peewee.com/wp-content/uploads...965-view-1.jpghttp://peewee.com/wp-content/uploads...965-view-1.jpg 1970 - Aquarius Theater (formerly Earl Carroll's) Notice Mark C. Bloome http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Lg1Z1d3GS...88990051_o.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Lg1Z1d3GS...88990051_o.jpg |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...6%252520PM.jpg panoramino The design of the Westside Pavilion was supposed to have been based on the 1819 Burlington Arcade in London (as have been a great many other malls). Open to the street at each end, the Burlington Arcade has been relentlessly upscale since it opened. It was said that pricy courtesans inhabited the upper units back in the day. Samuel Ware was the architect: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Y...2%252520PM.jpg wiki commons .................................................................. Speaking of malls, this little shopping center, 3649 Beverly Blvd (at Westmoreland), deserves a 'then and now'. 'Then', circa 1929, a Barkie's Sandwich Shop (note the puppy head and paws), the Tip-Top market and Beverly Auto Body share a building and parking lot. (Four of the five houses on Westmoreland, behind the center, still exist. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...0%252520AM.jpg water and power Now. Beverly Auto Body is still in business: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...1%252520AM.jpg gsv sopas ej took us here before with a link to whatwasthere.com, as did gsjansen, but both focused just on the Barkies __ |
:previous: Thanks for the information on the Westside Pavilion tovanger2.
__ I happened across this intriguing photograph yesterday afternoon. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/Tt0lQp.jpg Kevin McCollister, http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8...4/DSCN4071.jpg The blogger (Kevin) doesn't include the locations of his photographs, but one of the commentators below mentions Fairfax. And no one seems to know what the sign means. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/chFS8Y.jpg https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?bl...8857745&bpli=1 I thought one of you NLA sleuths could help figure out the mystery of 'Asthma Vapineze' ;). (I'm thinking of driving the google-mobile up and down Fairfax to look for it.) __ *The photographer is the author of the book "East of West LA". http://www.amazon.com/East-West-LA-K.../dp/0967472067 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...905/c1NzTI.jpg |
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Vapineze Research Labs, 1026 N Fairfax Avenue. ;) |
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As Tourmaline says, it's just north of Romaine Street. You can't miss it - there's a cow on the roof of the building next door! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV So far I've found at least five other sites asking if anyone knows the story behind the "Asthma Vapineze" sign. |
I found this on the Madeline Brand website:
At 2:25 PM PDT, J said... The mystery is solved! While my friend and I were snooping around the house in question we noticed that there was a shop right next door called Filth Market which has vintage t-shirts and motorcycle jackets ect. We went inside figuring that if anyone would know what going on there it would be them. My friend asked the girl at the counter if she knew anything about what the Asthma Vapineze sign was about. She told us her name was Maggie and that she sometimes sees the gentlemen who lives there. She described him about 70 years old, tall, skinny and often walks around the neighborhood with no shirts on. Maggie said that she told him that there is a few websites online of people wanting to now what the sign was about. She asked him if he knew this and apparently he doesn’t pay any attention to it. She went on to explain to us the story he told her, in the 60’s he had a business which sold a product for asthma and the bungalow was the office. The product didn’t work out but he now lives there and enjoys the sign so he keeps it on. She said he wouldn’t really explain what the product did. Even though the business didn’t work out. He still keeps the sign up and now lives there with many pet birds in the back yard(I noticed this while snooping). I was hoping it was some kind of cult or something more sinister. All this still doesn’t exactly explain all the surveillance cameras and motion detectors and the 2 coded gates but maybe that is just his cover story, who knows. |
:previous: Thanks for the quick research guys!
__ When I first saw these photographs I thought Hedda had robbed the cradle. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/Au6ykf.jpg http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu...y/hopper2.html http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/ZdZOhD.jpg http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu...y/hopper2.html It turns out the handsome guy is her son! stamp on reverse / October 18, 1934. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...908/9VV9Zs.jpg __ |
William Hopper
That's Paul Drake, from "Perry Mason." (I know this because I'm producing the new Perry Mason movie.)
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:previous: I didn't realize that! Thanks FredMertz
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aMGfBkqhz-...0/IMG01115.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/30Gnem.png :previous: I can't tell if that is loose tar-paper or a beat-up awning under the sign. -one of the large motion-detector lights. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...912/io5Iu0.jpg http://ellenbloom.blogspot.com/2008/...ther-sign.html I was hoping to see some of those exotic birds flying around. numerous flags / perhaps the man is a war veteran. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...901/y9AkBk.jpg my dad was a veteran, and he was always sticking flags in strange places. ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...910/gqJW9q.jpg http://ellenbloom.blogspot.com/2008/...ther-sign.html __ And one more thing; "Asthma Vapineze" has been used as lyrics in the chorus of a song by Le baron. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...901/Aenz48.jpg http://genius.com/1659106 |
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