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The cornerstone laid in January, the school opened in Sept 1930... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/t0...A=w749-h607-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MS...w=w749-h607-no Was the tower never built...or was it removed after the Long Beach quake? Seems likely that rebuilding and remodeling occurred as all schools were being reevaluated in the '30s as to seismic safety, bricks on school buildings after the quake now a no-no. LAT Sept 9, 1930 |
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Excelsior High School in Norwalk was also damaged during the Long Beach Earthquake, and was remodeled afterwards in a similar style (fewer architectural flourishes). Incidentally, Excelsior is no longer a high school, I believe it closed down in the early 1980s due to decreasing enrollment; it's now an adult school for the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District, and its auditorium is rented out for use on Sundays as a Korean Protestant church. |
I think this building is new to NLA.
Looking northwest across the intersection of Fair Oaks and Union avenues in Pasadena towards the Pacific Electric depot. A few people are seen waiting outside the depot entrance. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tPasadena1.jpg LAPL Men stand outside the Pacific Electric depot, located at 61 N. Fair Oaks Avenue at Union Avenue (lower left) in Pasadena. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tPasadena2.jpg LAPL LAPL acknowledges that the depot building has been demolished, but the building across the street appears to be the same one (with a few alterations). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
I've got interior pictures of Robinson's Beverly Hills from Julius Shulman today. This is "Job 1303: Pereira & Luckman, Robinson's (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1952".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original I assume this is part of the kitchen. Is the contraption in the center for washing plates etc? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original The telephone exchange. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original The children's records make me think this is a pair of listening booths. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute |
:previous: Very interesting pics of Robinson's Beverly Hills Hoss.
The top photo is probably the employees lounge, right? What to you think this doo-hicky is? (next to the red arrow below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/pvPmP0.jpg detail |
Loyd's of Downey on Firestone Blvd.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/AM3CB2.jpg ebay wonder why it's Loyd's? -Ward and Grace are the owners. maybe too cheap to spring for a new sign? ;) _ There's a motel still at that location but I couldn't find any similarities. |
re: 'mystery' alley
We have seen quite a few 'arrest' photos from the Herald Examiner on NLA, but I don't recall seeing a suspect walked down this particular alleyway. Fur robbery suspect, 'Bobbie' Blanche Privett, 1958. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/CL2Td2.jpgusc I'm pretty sure that's the Federal Courthouse/Post Office Building in the distance, but I still haven't figured out where, exactly, this alley was located. (or which side of the courthouse) Ms. Privett was successful in hiding her face from the camera in all the photos. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/Rcq7Uz.jpgusc keeping a tight grip on her wrist......................................:previous: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/EHdRmI.jpgusc :previous:Hans Conried? (kidding) And finally, this last photo shows the trio as they first entered the alleyway. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/kD9zSB.jpgusc I think the small building over the man's shoulder might be a parking attendant's shack. All four photos from USC Digital Archive PEOPLE VS. PRIVETT, 1961. law.justia.com _ |
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Tomorrow, I am going to Temple and Beaudry to tour my old high school for a little 30th reunion - then off to Olvera St for some taquitos. :) Last year we stayed at the Hilton Checkers and I served as the family docent during our walking tour of Bunker Hill (and I thanked MR for all of the incredible information that I have learned from him and everyone else here!) - and regret not asking for photo requests. So, if you would like me to take a pic of something in those areas - let me know. Either way - a formal thank you to everyone for sharing such incredible knowledge! Also, briefly: I used to come home via Amtrak from UCSD freshmen year in 1987 and would cross the street and sit in the plaza from time to time and wait for my folks to pick me up. As I walked up Los Angeles St. during one of those stops, there was a very tall, handsome man in a suit - just standing there - under that huge tree (ficus?), all by himself - without a care in the world. It was Mayor Tom Bradley and I was shocked that no one else seemed to notice it was him. He was a very nice chap and I felt lucky to talk with him and shake his hand. Oh, remember ScottyB's thread about the Union Theater W 24th St? http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...60#post7806460 Want to see inside? Our old buddy Huell was there! https://youtu.be/BCjNhFyqUsQ?t=8m58s Cheers! |
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So cool you got to meet Tom Bradley, he always seemed like a class act to me. Have fun downtown! |
. Los Angeles City Hall has been busy lately!Tonight: http://image.dailynews.com/storyimag...-170619607.jpg LACurbed https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Vf73...5_212002.0.jpgLACurbed Other photos at the link. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Station2_1.jpg waterandpower.org Water and Power include this historical note: "On April 21, 1962, Distribution Station No. 2 was designated Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument No. 558." Here's a recent picture. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Station2_2.jpg GSV |
Anyone for Pressed Duck?
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I remember my family going to a Chinese place after church each Sunday in the late 50's. Menu items included rumaki (chicken livers and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon) and Pressed Duck. These are things that are rarely if ever found anywhere now. The pressed duck consisted of perfect squares of boned minced duck with crispy skin fried up to resemble a Wyler's beef boullion cube, usually served in some kind of plum sauce. Whenever I'm scouring old menus on line, I always sigh with nostalgia when I see these things listed. Wish I had a plate now! |
This is Julius Shulman's "Job 764: Sidney Eisenshtat, Kanshire Realty, 1950".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original I found the photoset a few days ago, but initially put it to one side. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original No location was included with the photos. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original And none of them showed the finished building. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original My best clue was this shot of some sort of decoration being added to the front. I've omitted a near duplicate of this photo. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Not even sure that the building was in LA, I bookmarked it and moved on. Then, yesterday, I found a second, apparently unrelated photoset, realised that it showed the same building, and included the address. I'll reveal all tomorrow. |
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:previous: Very interesting oldstuff. Thanks for digging up this bit of info for us.
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We have seen NBC's Radio City (Sunset & Vine) many times on NLA, but this particular image is new to the thread.
It shows numerous sailors and others leaving one of the radio broadcast. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/xKEssa.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Orig-Slide-W...4AAOSwYlRZNdC3 note the Navy officer on the steps with his (Mom?) _ |
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Fifty-two year old Arthur Eggers was a sworn Deputy Sheriff working as a desk clerk in the Temple City Substation. Eggers seemed to everyone to be a meek little man who possessed an inordinate amount of patience, was intimidated by his own shadow, and dominated by his wife. Over the years his wife Dorothy had taunted her mild-mannered husband with ribald tales of hitch-hiking and picking up truckers. How often had he visualized Dorothy at a truck stop in the arms of the sweaty antithesis of himself? It would have been enough to drive any man completely mad. Neighbors of the Eggers' recalled that Dorothy had an unseemly number of male callers and rumors of Dorothy's infidelities had been reaching Eggers's ears for a very long time before he finally snapped under their weight. In fact it was the sighting of one of Dorothy's male 'friends' that had ultimately pushed Eggers over the edge into murder. He'd arrived home from work about 1 a.m. on December 28, 1945 to see the dark figure of a man exiting the back door of his home. Once inside the house Eggers confronted a completely naked Dorothy with what he'd seen and accused her of having an affair. Rather than being contrite, or even denying everything, Eggers later claimed that Dorothy had laughed at him and said that if she was having an affair, what was he going to do about it? What he did about it was grab a gun, pump a couple of rounds into her and then, in a blind rage, years in the making, cut off her head and hands. He wrapped his dead wife in a blanket and drove out to the Rim of the World Highway where he dumped her body. Somewhere along the way he had discarded her head and hand--they were never found. He filed a missing persons report on Dorothy but his co-workers became suspicious of him and an investigation was launched. A headless, handless body was discovered within hours after it had been dumped and was subsequently identified as Dorothy because of a surgery she'd had to remove bunions on her feet. In an exclusive jail house interview Eggers swore to Aggie Underwood that he was too chicken-hearted to commit murder, "I couldn't even kill a rabbit." he said. He was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin.Here are a few photos to expand (I was going to say flesh out) the story - LAPL has 54 images in total. The text I've included is a mixture of the newspaper captions and the LAPL descriptions. The first photo is dated circa 1943, which is probably about right as both girls look several years older in the 1946 images (not included here). Note that the address below is different to the one in NCD's post. "Eggers Family before tragedy struck. Mr and Mrs. Eggers with adopted children, Marie, left, and Lorraine." The family is shown outside their Temple City home at 202 N. Rosemead Blvd. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hurEggers1.jpg LAPL Gun and saw used by Arthur Eggers http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hurEggers2.jpg LAPL "Eggers, shown taking lie detector test. Murder suspect steadfastly denies he killed wife." Ray Pinker, police chemist, administered the test. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hurEggers3.jpg LAPL Arthur Eggers waits for jury. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hurEggers4.jpg LAPL "Temple City home of Mr. and Mrs. Eggers. Was this the house the scene of brutal slaying?" The address is 202 N. Rosemead Blvd. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hurEggers5.jpg LAPL Finally, this image was bizarrely included. "Mrs. Eggers' pet cat. Was it a witness at slaying?" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hurEggers6.jpg LAPL There's a note included with the picture of the Eggers' home which says "The structure, now at 5800 N. Rosemead Blvd., later became a commercial building." It's now the U Smile Dental Group - I wonder if they know? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hurEggers7.jpg GSV |
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