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"A shade better than the rest.":cool:
1948 - Peckat Auto Shades (6100 W Washington Blvd.) http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...=0&w=817&h=504http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...=0&w=817&h=504 1948 - Peckat Shade http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...=0&w=799&h=516 |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Hawthorne1.jpg Historic Aerials There have been many changes on the east side of Hawthorne since then ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Hawthorne2.jpg Google Maps Here's the end of the 5 Line on the 1934 streetcar map. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Hawthorne3.jpg http://www.bigmapblog.com/ I think (site is currently down for maintenance, so I can't check). |
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It's such a shame that this fanciful street layout on the east side of Hawthorne has been destroyed. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/C0cN6Y.jpg Does anyone have details about this unique neighborhood with the circular park in the middle of the street? (and north of it, there appears to be another park in the center of the street...but the view is cut off) __ |
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I like the street layout too, particularly the quirkiness of one circular central island and one square. It survived until at least 1972 (below), but was gone by 1980. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Hawthorne4.jpg Historic Aerials |
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:previous: I hope we hear from someone that grew up in Hawthorne Hoss. I'd love to learn more about this neighborhood with the 'island' parks.
__ "LATL W Line Car 1201, Monte Vista & Ave. 50, Looking East." Dec. 10, 1954 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/wwYZAP.jpg http://lacmtalibrary.tumblr.com/post...e-vista-ave-50 the same corner in 2015. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/XdiR4E.jpg GSV detail of the store on the left, 1954 and 2015. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/WjwQsy.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/IPmQjy.jpg gsv pleasant and not-so-pleasant. Hey, I just noticed....I think it has the same name after all these years! Barney's (it's partially hidden behind the utility pole in the 1954 photograph) __ |
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I liked learning about Martinez' lost Fresco (a shame--artists lose a lot of work in demolished buildings aka NBC at SUnset & Vine) and I enjoyed the article on Tovangar2's link about the Women's Olympic Atheletes and their perceptions of Los Angeles. (They like cantaloupe and parties!) GSJansen had a nice post featuring a couple hotel brochures. In 1964 you could get a single room in the main building for $9 up to a five room suite in a bungalow for $75! (You could also get quarters for your maid or chauffeur.) One of the postcards mentions the Chapman Park Hotel "Where the 'Bride & Groom' Broadcast is Held." This radio show apparently had a happy couple telling audiences their love story minutes before they were married. The program also interviewed couples who had been married 50 years or more. This LINK has a sample episode one can listen to, and a google search will bring up a couple websites about this radio series. Quote:
I love this particular postcard HossC posted on Feb. 28th, showing the Chapman Park Hotel neon looking as though it'll always be there. Do we know what that neon sign might say in the location of the Zephyr Room/Secret Harbor? (Above the Brown Derby awning on the postcard.) Quote:
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Chapman Park Hotel/Equitable Plaza
Thank you HossC for the construction shot. I had mistakenly thought the main Chapman Park Hotel building also had frontage on W 6th street:
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HossC's construction photo answered my question :-) P.S. Not previously focused on the question of the 6th St building, I missed the significance of this version of the postcard view before: Quote:
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So Hoss thinks it's this building, right? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/njlv1L.jpg 'The Fugitive', Death Is The Door Prize. 1966 |
Union Station....All Aboard...
Maybe this Fred Harvey restaurant will reopen. No one knows yet for sure. Seems to have a lot of atmosphere with the high ceiling and mezzanines. I can just imagine a cozy lunch in the foreground booths. A table for two...a cocktail or two... as the old song goes. On second thought...Tea for Two.
Los Angeles Union Station 1939. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psklx73mea.jpg lamagdot com |
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Fred Harvey Restaurant at Los Angeles Union Station.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/8lUKUk.jpg Lois Nettleton in 'The Fugitive', Death Is The Door Prize. 1966 ..and the other woman is an extra. __ |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3...52057%2BPM.jpg delabuzz-unionstation Nice view of one of the side walls in the Fred Harvey space (Squawk!): https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l...53205%2BPM.jpg elizabethannedesigns Union Station filming location reel is here |
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Thanks for posting the photos of the Union Station restaurant. That floor is certainly spectacular. No wonder people use it for movies and wedding receptions as Tovangar reports. Lovely for sure and with lots of ambiance. Here's Judy Garland as a Harvey Girl.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...su6oepfrf.jpeg stationtostationdotcom |
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Southern Pacific train 76, The Lark, engine number 4429, engine type 4-8-4. photographed on August 1, 1940 at Los Angeles by Otto Perry,1894-1970. DPLdc |
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Or is it a set? (note the concrete brim at left). I think it's real: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q...81315%2BPM.jpg How about the inside? They never pan up to the dome (but who could take their eyes off Bennett?): https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B...81709%2BPM.jpg I like the central kitchen with the booths all around it, the cashier at the cigar counter between the two front doors and, omg, the curtains: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U...14459%2BPM.jpg You decide. The pix are from a 3 min preview reel of "What Price Hollywood?" There's a scene, not included in the reel, of Bennett coming out and walking towards Wilshire. One can see a bit of the landscaped billboards. Here's the real deal in 1932 with its two pairs of doors (I love the tangle out the back): https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-N...92448%2BPM.jpg 3427 Wilshire Blvd, built 1926, in 1932: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...00255%2BPM.jpg above pix: islandora depository ucla "I Love Lucy" famously managed some coverage of the Brown Derby: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...72834%2BPM.jpg youtube And was the Prince really supposed to be the Derby in "Chinatown"? Do they ever actually say that in the film? Just wondering b/c it doesn't look like the Derby (they could easily have dressed it w/ the famous framed charicatures) and they exit from the Biltmore. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...74536%2BPM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...74948%2BPM.jpg both pix: paramount :previous: The Crocker-Citizens Bank tower/"611 Place" (William L. Pereira, 1969) is looking very anachronistic down there at the end of the shot, next to the Checkers/Mayfair Hotel What about this one? Moved or completely rebuilt (?) Maybe the concrete brim is the only truly original bit. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7...83333%2BPM.jpg Willie the Giant relocates the Derby: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o...04416%2BAM.jpg fun and fancy free @1:00:07 |
Neft Apartments @ 901 W. Exposition
Max Neft was born in Latvia in 1874. He and his wife Paula immigrated to the US in 1901. While living in Seattle, where he worked as a jeweler, he
obtained several patents, a couple of which were for knives: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original Worthpoint.com -- http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...1920-rare-find You can google his patents if you're interested; e.g.: http://www.google.tt/patents/US1358097 After that, things were looking up for Max and his family: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original November 1921 Western Machinery World -- https://books.google.com/books?id=Id...page&q&f=false In 1923 or 1924 Max moved his family to Los Angeles and bought property around Exposition Blvd. and W. 37th Place at Hoover. He soon built a two-story building with four flats at 904-906 W. 37th Place, and the family moved into 904-1/2. Here is the 1922 Sanborn Map of the area, pre-Neft. McClintock Avenue intersects Exposition just east of Vermont. Hoover Street stops at 37th Place. University Avenue, one block east of Hoover, is shown here as a short dotted line in the upper right corner. The "Laboratory of Los Angeles Museum" is, according to a March 25, 1933 LA Times article, the taxidermist building for the LA County Museum across the street in Exposition Park: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original LAPL Meanwhile, around the same time, Max was making other plans: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original December 9, 1923 LA Times @ LAPL The plans changed: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original May 18, 1924 LA Times @ LAPL I don't know what happened to Mr. Mernstein; perhaps he sold his share of the property. What was eventually built did not go anywhere near University Avenue. Here's the Neft Apartments in 1925 just west of Hoover at 901 W. Exposition; the building on the left is the county museum taxidermy lab: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/68201 Here's a closer look at the entrance: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original This January 5, 1925, aerial view looking NW across Exposition Park shows the Neft Apartments above the museum dome, on the north side of Exposition, with the flats occupied by the Neft family just to the north. You can barely see the corner of the taxidermy building. Hoover has not yet been built through to Exposition just to the east of the Neft Apartments and flats: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics24/00031939.jpg (date per Seaver Center, LA County Natural History Museum) The 1930 census shows the Neft family living at 904-1/2 W. 37th Place; Max, Paula and their six unmarried children. Sadly, Neft seems to have lost his properties to foreclosure by 1933. By 1936 the Neft Apartments had been renamed the Park View, and the Nefts were no longer living in the home they owned on 37th Place but were instead renting 916 S. Dunsmuir. The Nefts' youngest daughter, Eleanor, married in 1939, but her five older siblings, all still unmarried at ages 34-42, were living with their parents on Dunsmuir according to the 1940 census. There was some legal action concerning the former Neft properties, which you can read about here: http://www.lawlink.com/research/CaseLevel3/14518 Here's the 1950 Sanborn. The former Neft Apartments are just to the right of the Laboratory of Los Angeles Museum, and the old Neft flats are just to the north ("4F"). One of the three industrial buildings from the aerial photo above is still standing on the SE corner of Hoover and 37th Place: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original LAPL November 6, 1958. The intersection of McClintock and Exposition is in the lower left corner. The taxidermy building and the former Neft Apartments are to the right of center, next to the parking lot. Hoover intersects with Exposition to the east of the Neft Apartments: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll44/id/54019 USC expanded in the 1960s and acquired a number of properties adjacent to the campus, and the former Neft Apartments was undoubtedly one of them. There are a few LA Times articles from the mid-60s that discuss the possibility of building a new taxidermy wing for the county museum, so perhaps that's when USC acquired the taxidermy lab and the Neft Apartments. 1967. Many homes east of Vermont are gone, but the Neft Apartments is still standing to the left of center. University Avenue, which looks here like a pedestrian mall -- it's now known as Trousdale Parkway -- hits Exposition in the lower right corner: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/21770 You can see the Neft Apartments and the taxidermy lab in the lower left corner of this 1984 photo looking south at Exposition Park and the Coliseum: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original Seaver Center -- http://collections.nhm.org/seaver-ce...php?irn=511657 The 1989 aerial at HistoricAerials.com is rather blurry, but the Neft Apartments and the taxidermy lab seem to be standing. The 1994 aerial shows two vacant lots. Here's the area now, with Vermont on the left. Hoover Street is now Watt Way, and 37th Street is now Bloom Walk: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original GoogleEarth 2015 Rest in Peace, Max: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original Findagrave -- http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/...7291560166.jpg |
:previous: Oh my, what a fantastic post! Thanks so much FlyingWedge.
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Herman J. Schultheis - neon - lapl - group of faves
Remembering when neon was everywhere. Much of this still exists.
"Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937." -LAPL Al Levy's Tavern, 1937: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...02128%2BPM.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5092592 Al Levy's Tavern, 1937: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...11750%2BPM.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5092591 Searchlights on neon, Pantages, n.d.: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c...15526%2BAM.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=13146 Beverly Hills Hotel sign, 1937: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4...03004%2BPM.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=23080 Wilcox North from Selma at Night, 1937 [Hotel Mark Twain/Warner Brothers' Hollywood Theater/KFWB masts] https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7...13807%2BPM.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5080316 Vista Theater at Night, 1938: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B...03314%2BPM.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5146410 Walking in the Rain by the Warners Downtown, 1938 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k...23556%2BAM.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5111267 |
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