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Big Trees: Morton Bay Fig / Sen. J. P. Jones: Miramar
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http://www.santamonicalandmarks.com/landmk20.html The Miramar Morton Bay Fig is the second largest in California. The champ is in Santa Barbara: http://sbmerge.com/wp-content/upload...a-barbara.jpeg sbmerge.com http://www.andysnow.com/legacy/newvi.../sbfigtree.JPG andysnow.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreton...ra,_California) It's just near the old Southern Pacific Station, also worth a look if you're ever up that way. West LA has one too: http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...-fig-tree.html P.S. Quote:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ramar-1890.jpg wiki Christmas at Miramar, 1897: http://o1.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dim...81bc5a8d111d6c santamonicapatch The front porch at Miramar: http://digital.smpl.org/cgi-bin/geti...B=1&DMROTATE=0 http://digital.smpl.org/cdm4/item_vi...SOBOX=1&REC=14 Miramar was sold to King Gillette in 1912, used as a military academy and finally sold for use as a hotel in 1921. see also: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3724 The Jones' neighbor at Wilshire and Ocean was Frederick Hastings Rindge and his wife May: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...236%2520PM.jpg Fred E. Baston This was the Rindge's main home from 1887 until 1904 when their Havard Blvd home was built. All three of their children were born at the Santa Monica house. The Rindge's new home on Harvard Blvd, with its round, Norman-style towers, is reminiscent of Miramar. It may represent a slight case of 'keeping up with the Joneses'. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...House_1910.jpg wiki |
DTLA 5-globe streetlamps
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Morton Bay Fig Trees / La Mesa Drive
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Carlos and Gower, Hollywood
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http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md...63xro1_500.jpg J in the B in Los Angeles http://american-business.org/uploads...estaurants.jpghttp://american-business.org/2477-fa...staurants.html Not that there is any direct relationship, but there was a restaurant on the 9000 Block of West Sunset that went by the name of "Hamburger Jacks.") 1937 (??) http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071369.jpgLapl http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6...idemarket1.jpghttp://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2...rgoburlesk.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=917 More fast food potpourri: Undated Somewhere in El Monte - Undated http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UTGS1U6KGY.jpgCalStLib 1970 "Jack and Hy" on Olive Street http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...13TK6GDI4Q.jpg 1986 the same "Jack and Hy." http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...LLT34TS9AB.jpgCalStLib May 25, 1962 - Another orb-related eatery. Don's "future" Dugout on Oxnard Street in Van Nuys http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052205.jpgLapl |
John C. Fremont High School
I attended John C. Fremont High School around '50 to '52...all the original buildings were there from 1926...beautiful buildings and campus...in those days...now, I understand...just the auditorium survives to this day...
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King Gillette Ranch / Wallace Neff
Speaking of King Gillette (1855-1932), he was a bit of an oddball. According to wiki he was, among other things, a Utopian Socialist. He advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. Gillette made no small plans.
When Metropolis didn't take off (Teddy Roosevelt turned down the presidency of the corporation, including the $1 million salary), Gillette bought a 588 acre property in the Santa Monica Mountains, adjacent to what later would become Malibu Creek State Park, and commissioned Wallace Neff to build him, "a paradise on earth, California style". The parcel of land is beautiful, a high, flat valley that leaves the mountain tops looking like little hills surrounding the property. The setting really is gorgeous and very remote. When one is there the cares of the world below seem very far away. A true life Shangri La: http://www.trbimg.com/img-505ca4da/t...g-20120920/600 LAT http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/envir...l/gillette.jpg cityofcalabasas.com http://lamountains.com/enlarged_images/aerial-bldgs.jpg lamountains.com http://www.iamnotastalker.com/wp-con...g_6493-800.jpg iamnotastalker.com http://aka-img-1.h-img.com/media/img...83336.400_600r hunch.com "MGM movie director Clarence Brown (Anna Karenina, National Velvet) bought the property in 1930, following Gillette's death. Brown built a private airstrip for elaborate MGM "fly-in parties" that were attended by such luminaries as Clark Gable and Greta Garbo." -santa monica mountains conservancy The property became an RC retreat in 1952 and was then sold to Soka University in '86. Soka, a Japanese concern, was great, pretty much letting the public in for any reason. Finally it was bought for the public in 2005 and opened in 2007. So now it belongs to everyone, even though it's not powered by Niagara Falls: http://www.trbimg.com/img-4fb69aaf/t...ains20-001/600 LAT MORE: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep...ranch-20120922 http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-...5.photogallery 1906 ad: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1906-Gillette...!H2RQ~~_12.JPG eBay 1931: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Original-1931...-PQ~~60_57.JPG eBay |
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King Camp Gillette's 1917 abode at 100 Fremont Place. Probably mentioned before. Neither a whisker nor a blade of grass out of place?
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Love that the FP Patrol was using a 17-year-old Dodge.... A history of 100 Fremont Place is here: http://fremontplace.blogspot.com/201...e-see-our.html Note that it wasn't "razor king" King C. Gillette who occupied 100 FP after its original builder, Charles Henry Thompson--but rather his son, King Gaines Gillette. No doubt that real-estate salesmen perpetuate the myth of the famous father having lived in the house (he lived on Catalina Street when he was in town). http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4824/gillettecompl.jpgLAT K G Gillette didn't stay long. By 1928, the house was the home of John J. Cantwell, bishop of the diocese of L.A. and San Diego. A private chapel was added to the house that year. |
Grauman's Chinese Theater
http://www.lamag.com/EI/sharedobject...=&h=500&mh=500
Los Angeles, CA – Here’s Why Sid Grauman’s Name Should Not Disappear From His Chinese Theatre by Theatre Historical Society Elie Samaha and Don Kushner, who purchased Grauman’s Chinese Theatre from mall owner CIM at a reported cost of $10 million in 2011, announced this morning that they have sold naming rights to the Hollywood showplace. The gentlemen have earned half their investment back in a deal to strip off Sid Grauman’s name and rename the theater in honor of Chinese TV manufacturer TCL... http://www.lamag.com/citythink/askch...hinese-theatre |
The Gillette pool
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King got the idea for disposable blades (his one great idea* which did take off) from bottle caps. Something everyone needed, bought and discarded, over and over again. http://www.celebrateboston.com/image...fety-razor.jpg celebrateboston And one more of those great Gillette ads: http://beta.fool.com/media/images/us...ng_1_large.jpg motleyfool * If 'planned obsolescence' can be called a 'great idea'. |
A lot of history at 6th and Olive Streets, some of which was influenced by King C. Gillette.
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http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8218/dahlialawn.jpg 66 years ago today, the body of a key noir figure was found here... |
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