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Bugsy at Rest, 1947 Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, Los Angeles County Morgue, June 20, 1947 It would appear one of the morgue-workers has misspelled Mr. Siegel's last name. A final indignity. LAPL |
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Bookie arrest (1669 North Main Street, Los Angeles), 1951 April 12, 1951. George's Service Station, up between the river and the 'cornfield' switching yard, seems to attract an unusual number of Oldsmobiles and a nice new Pontiac. Oldsmobile seemed to be the favorite of local wise guys, remember the two jitterbugs with the cracked windshield up on N. Ogden Drive? USC digital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8225/8...de3f5465_o.png Bookie arrest (1669 North Main Street, Los Angeles), 1951 (2) April 12, 1951. Another shot of George's, just a sleepy little gas station in a tough part of town. Hey, who's that guy in the Foster Grants and the Italian shoes leaning against the Studebaker? Why I think that's our old friend Joey Sica, one time Jersey button man looking pretty relaxed on a warm spring day. I think this crème colored convertible with the black top over here on the left may be Joey's. USC digital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8225/8...710feb4b_o.png Bookie arrest (1669 North Main Street, Los Angeles), 1951 (3) April 12, 1951. C'mon Joey, let's go inside with your pals for a look-see. Gee, everything seems pretty copasetic. What are all these numbers? And this seems like a lot of money for a little old gas station to have laying around. Aren't they afraid of some young punks coming in and boosting the place? Joey 'JS' Sica (arrested); officer James Lestelle; Joseph George Chaiken (bookie suspect); Robert Duff (bookie suspect); George Weisbart (bookie suspect). USC digital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8505/8...4a3b0333_o.png Bookie arrest (1669 North Main Street, Los Angeles), 1951 (4) April 12, 1951. Joey Sica in his favorite seat, next to the cash register. USC digital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961 |
:previous: Interesting photos MicharlRyerson. I especially like that last one.
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Yes.....Maybe a woman's touch is in order. Maybe this joint is looking like that campsite in the Sierra Madres.........I don't suppose Curtin, Dobbs and Howard were much for housekeeping.:haha:
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There is this rather impressive house where Oak Street dead ends at 23rd Street.
http://imageshack.us/a/img829/8922/a...rffw23rdst.jpg gsv detail/small bay window -nice http://imageshack.us/a/img163/1084/a...rffst23rds.jpg The house actually faces Scarff Street at. W. 23rd Street. There is a wonderful house next door as well. http://imageshack.us/a/img560/7311/a...rff23rdhou.jpg gsv ...as I turned the corner I noticed yet another interesting house (a Victorian, like the middle house). http://imageshack.us/a/img194/2514/a...guttedgsv2.jpg gvs ..but as I ventured further down Scarff Street the third home is blanked out. http://imageshack.us/a/img16/5180/aa...uttedgsv1a.jpg gsv What the?? http://imageshack.us/a/img837/307/aabchu4guttedgsv1.jpg So I checked out an aerial. Yep, it's there alright. http://imageshack.us/a/img713/5135/a...gsv1aerial.jpg google earth Next I tried looking from the opposite direction on Scarff Street. Nope! -still blanked out. http://imageshack.us/a/img802/9543/a...dfromsouth.jpg gsv Does anyone know why google has blanked out this house? __ |
The only information I have on this photograph is Echo Park.
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What the?? http://imageshack.us/a/img837/307/aabchu4guttedgsv1.jpg Next I tried looking from the opposite direction on Scarff Street. Nope! -still blanked out. http://imageshack.us/a/img802/9543/a...dfromsouth.jpg gsv Does anyone know why google has blanked out this house? __[/QUOTE] What Google Has Ignored, Bing Has Restored! http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3062/2311scarffst.jpgBing.com/maps I often forget about Bing Maps, but sometimes it comes in handy. The blurred out house on Scarff Street in in full focus on Bing. Not bad looking, either. |
:previous: There it is! Thanks AlbanyNY. Look at that cute little blue man on the sidewalk...he even casts a blue shadow. ;)
Torn negative found on ebay. http://imageshack.us/a/img43/7206/aa...ub1918aneg.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img5/6477/aab...918aneg1co.jpg below Positive image. The Gamut Club? Never heard of it. http://imageshack.us/a/img856/2765/a...918anegcop.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img252/5175/a...b1918aneg1.jpg After a little research (very little) I found this photograph at http://www.lapl.org/ http://imageshack.us/a/img27/4576/aa...aplshillst.jpg LAPL The Gamut Club, 1044 S. Hope Street. The former home of the Dobinson School of Expression and Dramatic Art, built in 1903. (architect Abram M. Edelman) __ |
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When I looked at this photo, my eyes went directly to the billboards. The first thing I noticed was the billboard for Jap Rose Soap. What!!?? I did a little research and found out that it was a very well known brand in the early 1900's. It turns out that the Japanese were well regarded back then in the personal hygiene department. They actually bathed daily, while us grubby Americans considered a weekly dip in the tub to be sufficient. I'm not sure if the term "Jap" was considered derogatory back in 1914, but World War II propaganda made sure it was by the 1940's. Here is an ad: http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3...oseblotter.jpg http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jshoaf...s/japrose.html The Arrowhead Hot Springs is also a pretty good story. David Smith went up there in 1864 and decided that it would make a great health spa. He built a hotel for his guests in 1868. In 1885 the hotel burned down. The hotel was promptly rebuilt, but burned down again in 1896 during a Fourth of July celebration. Hotel #3 went up in 1905 and lasted until 1938, when a forest fire took it out. The next year, hotel #4 was built and, amazingly, is still there. However, the hotel is now empty, having been abandoned by the owners, Campus Crusade for Christ. Here is #4: http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/4199/ahpresday.jpg http://www.sbcity.org/about/history/...ngs_hotels.asp What I really found the most amazing about these billboards were the ads for Ghirardelli and Hart Schaffner & Marx. Almost 100 years later, they are both still around and going strong. That is a real accomplishment. Also, a small note on "Buffalo Bill" Cody. If you are not familiar with his life, check him out. This guy was a genuine character of the old West. By the time he did this show in Los Angeles in 1914, he was up in his 60's and only a few years away from death. http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/3472/capturerfd.jpg http://www.buffalobill.org/PDFs/Buffalo_Bill_Visits.pdf |
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http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...&c=-1&i=1&r=12 Looking at this 1923 aerial of the Mack Sennett Edendale studios (centered on Glendale Blvd.), I think that the street in our photo is too narrow to be Glendale. Also, the website below states that the Echo Park Ave. line had the quirk of being single tracked (as in our picture), while I'm assuming that the other streets, main PE trunk lines, would have been double tracked. It's a tenuous guess based on assumptions, but Echo Park Ave. seems to make sense as the setting of this photo. The 3 structures at the corner of Echo Park and Morton on the 1921 Baist map seem to fit with the houses in our photo, but I can't make a positive match. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/echopark.htm I found this website about the Echo Park streetcar line- some rather interesting stories! As an aside, I'm sure that this has been covered on this thread earlier, but one of the main studio buildings in that 1923 aerial, with "Mack Sennett studios" on the roof, still graces Glendale Blvd. as a Public Storage building. Many Keystone Kops comedies were filmed on Glendale Blvd and in the general Edendale/Echo Park/Silver Lake area. http://www.silverlake.org/about_silv...tt_studios.htm A little more history about that building. Sorry about the lack of pictures- I'm new to posting, and as I figure it all out, I'll try to make my posts more elaborate. I found this thread a month ago and have been very awed and impressed by all of your strong work and by all the amazing research behind the posts! This is the kind of forum I had been seeking for so long, and I'm so glad that I found it! It may take a while to get through the 600+ pages, maybe a few all-nighters may do the trick =) |
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The original with the two parts I was describing - the house, and the concrete wall. By my count of eaves, the house seen next to the guy's head is 5 houses from the corner. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j.../echopark1.jpg The Google Street View showing the angle of streets - the one coming down the hill is straight and then takes a kick to the right just before it gets to the corner. You can't see the house or much of the wall; we will need other views for those. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...748%2520PM.jpg Street View was useless because of trees, so here's an overhead view showing the corner of the house that I circled in the old pic: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-N...955%2520PM.jpg It's a two-story house, 5th property from the corner (after gas station, two apartments and one single-story house). It has a separate roof over the porch, which seems to me to match what little is visible in the old pic - where the eave of the main roof seemingly hangs out over another, smaller roof at the front of the house. Next, the wall - going up Morton Ave. in Google Street View shows several properties in the right area with a low wall like the old pic: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-E.../echopark2.jpg So, it seems to fit I think, but is by no means conclusive. Oh, and as per the old pic, there was a streetcar line running down Echo Park Ave. from before 1900. |
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