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I have the biggest suspicion that that is Pacific BL in Huntington Park. Pep Boys auto parts.
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Sounds like a front to me...
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Tailors? Ha! Tom Hagen: When I meet with Tattaglia's men, should I insist all their drug middlemen have clean records? Don Corleone: Mention it, don't insist. But Barzini will know that without being told. Tom Hagen: You mean Tattaglia... Don Corleone: Tattaglia is a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along. |
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Here's your old stomping grounds odinthor. (magnificent use of tongue depressors* ;)) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/vcInUT.jpggsv Check this old post out if you like http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31313 Looking especially lonely from the alley. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/XBLTik.jpg gsv __ It seems a bit tragic that all the building in my slide are gone. :( http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/CmcR2P.jpg odinthor, do you remember the old hotel.....it's name perhaps? It appears there was also a 'Federal Savings' in the hotel building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/7tkJAW.jpg hmmmmmm.....I just noticed; I believe the name of the hotel is on the green window (arched above the word hotel), but it's impossible to read. & could the white 'deco' building behind the streetcar be a Sears store? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/CkUbbU.jpg The sign on the side appears to be practically hidden, unless it was intended to be seen from the back......if there was parking in the back. (or...maybe there was a space between the 'Sears' store and the Pep Boys) -in others words, I just don''t know why it would have been placed where it is. __ *back in 2012, I found another building that used tongue depressors. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9913 (I have an innate fear of tongue depressors) _ |
Bring back Prohibition ?!?!
From a collection entitled "Wctu Girls Raid Pasadena Bars" http://images.google.com/hosted/life...a3a8e1eb9.html Pasadena - May 1947 http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/81e984fa9d6892c4_large Is bankable beer an option? :no: http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d60e45e2a7ab1b43_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a144f6ea3a8e1eb9_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/3e96cfaf991b906b_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/93b517a226ae8f8b_large Bald tires, alcohol, texting or all of above?:cheers: http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/feb7984c936462a4_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a57b3d9bab5f07d2_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d0dc18cb70e87f6a_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/3f4c225fd84032e8_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0c6c62aa20190365_large So much for a two drink minimum.:shrug: http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/358d947cc076ecc2_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/e38755b8828d72f8_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/4a9152db2b3a675c_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/4b7d615a0540134d_large |
I've left this Julius Shulman image with its original sepia tones. It's "Job 360: Walter's Furniture (Inglewood, Calif.), 1948".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Other than naming the glass company who ordered the picture, there was no information with the photo. Googling didn't provide an address either, so I thought I'd be posting this as a mystery location until I spotted the distinctive neon on the right. The neon spiral belonged to the Academy Theatre, seen here in a post by MichaelRyerson. Quote:
The theater building is still standing, but the pole has lost its spiral. Armed with the address of the theater, I went looking for the Walter's building. This one at 3215 W Manchester Boulevard is wide enough, and in the right location, but the extra height and design differences made me unsure ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV ... until I took a closer look at the entrance. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
Power pole in photo
That power pole with the transformers in the photo might actually be the same pole in both pictures. I looked it up and it's from 1953. The pole on 33rd st behind the RTD bus in the newer picture is from 1934 and is still there! A large percentage of power poles in these photos are probably still in the same location.
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Man, I was doing all sorts of Photoshop tricks last night to try to read the hotel's name, which is in the window; I can barely make out the word HOTEL, which is in larger lettering than the "personal" name of the hotel just preceding it, and which I can't make out. I had no awareness of the hotel previously--if I thought about it at all in the olden days, it was probably just as being another flophouse in downtown LB. To the right of Acres of Books was a narrow building which was at first a bank and then a photography shop; and immediately to the right of that was a very noir alley. To the left of Acres of Books, beyond a little parking lot, was a bar. I don't recall that one ever entered or exited Acres of Books in the back, though there was a door (delivery door, I'd guess). There was of course the front door, and midway there was a little door at the side, just inside of which was a cashier counter. Back to the pic: In addition to the Sea[rs] sign (there was a big Sears store a few blocks down; this must have been some offshoot remote department of it), one can also make out a small "furn[iture]" sign; and further down is a big blade sign which I think says, in full, "LARS," which rings no bells with me. Ah, tongue depressors! Just the mere mention of them brings back to me their wooden toothpick flavor. Yum... By the way, just before the economic turndown, the city of LB and Cal State Long Beach had an ambitious plan to turn the whole block on which Acres of Books sits into some sort of collegiate arts community, retaining the AoB building, and erecting new structures to accompany it. This was eventually put on hold, and I'm unsure of the current status of the plan. It was an interesting plan, and would I think have been a good thing all the way around, as bringing some youthfulness and vitality to downtown LB. |
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detail / a look further down the street I believe this might be the Sears store you mentioned (it has the same type-font as the Sears of that era) The S is behind a metal sign hanging from the wires above the street .....but I could be wrong (of course ;)) |
Anybody recognize the make/model of that TV and audio console in Walter's window:
http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/TV.jpg Pretty high-tech for 1948. Cheers, Earl |
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And could that be Eddie Cantor just right of the coat rack? [QUOTE=Tourmaline;7499163] |
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The listing has Pep Boys at address 338; my 336 came from a Pep Boys ad in the L.A. Times on June 4, 1961 (or maybe I misread it...). |
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