|
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...aldorfApts.jpg I happened to, as serendipity would have it, have this among a stack of stuff on my desk. So adding it to the Waldorf Salad! https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/461/19...b56dfd1e_h.jpg Garrett & Bixby established themselves about 1896 and designed all sorts of residences, business blocks, commercial structures but were most prolific in apartment houses. They seem to have split about 1912 and as far as I can tell this is Bixby's first commission on his own. https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3864/1...5130b5f4_b.jpgLAT Dec 22, 1912 https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/547/19...5afbde8f_o.png |
Quote:
Actually the placard reads "Hi-Level Chair Car". This is part of a trainset for Santa Fe's "El Capitan" all-coach service from Los Angeles to Chicago. This type of equipment made its debut (per Wikipedia) on July 15, 1956, so this obviously staged photo likely would date to about that time. As for ATSF 1010's red paint job, a Google search brought me to a thread on Trainorders.com which suggested that it had been done for a GE TV commercial. I find that a little surprising, as color TVs were pretty rare then. Still, I didn't find any better info for you, ER, so that's at least a working hypothesis. One anecdote about the 1010: it was one of the locomotives employed on Death Valley Scotty's famed record-breaking run from L.A. to Chicago in 1905. So this might've been why ATSF chose it to pose opposite the new El Capitan. |
:previous: Thanks for the information HenryHuntington.
I just noticed the woman standing there with her bags....facing the red train. |
Quote:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...gger.jpg?gl=USwaterandpower.org The wall of the Van Nuys house is still there in Godzilla's views...but the house itself is probably gone. Could it be that the drivers were distracted by the sight of a huge house moving down off its hill? Per Historic Los Angeles's Windsor Square site: "Isaac Newton Van Nuys left his name to Los Angeles in the form of a hotel and a San Fernando Valley district, among other things. While the Valley is now considered suburban, so too in 1899 was the area between downtown Los Angeles and MacArthur Park, where Van Nuys built his house at 1445 West Sixth Street to the design of Frederick L. Roehrig. With suburbs multiplying at a dizzying rate, Angelenos were always looking to moveāand it was not all that uncommon for them to take their houses with them. After I. N. died in 1912, J. B. Van Nuys took over his father's house, in 1915 moving it off its hillock in pieces to a new (and flatter) lot in Windsor Square three miles west. There it was reassembled and remains at the northwest corner of Lorraine Boulevard and West Fourth Street." https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...seye.JPG?gl=USmemory.location.gov The Van Nuys corner today GSV |
:previous:
I posted a couple of pictures of the Van Nuys house in post #20855, including the aerial shot below showing it in its current location in Windsor Square. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ysMansion3.jpg Google Maps |
Plate Mania Revisted - the 1960's CA Legacy Plates
Quote:
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...960_banner.jpg more here: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2...to-begin-soon/ and the DMV's site: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/det...cyplates/index |
Another two June 1915 - photos, possibly from the same neighborhood as Loma Drive and Sixth. No obvious address indicators, although someone might recognize the structures and the street car tracks. Suppose it was not uncommon for oil derricks to dot the neighborhood. :shrug:
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/14400/rec/10 It would be interesting (to me) to see the gardeners at work on those tiered lawns. Certainly by 1915, some lawn/farming equipment was gasoline powered; however, there may have been plenty of labor to offset equipment costs and maintenance. Notice in one shot what might appear to be a hitching post or it could be a denuded Norfolk Pine sapling. Guessing the So Cal Edison Co. responsible for these images made a conscious effort to play up the virtues of modern mechanization/electrification and downplay or ignore the horse and buggy age. May be pure coincidence, but there may even be an electric vehicle in the first picture. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 A Detroit, Milburn or Baker, maybe? ^^^^ (Per 1917CD Anderson Electric Car listed as "manufacturers of the Detroit Electric" 1715 W 7th) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ElectricAd.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ElectricAd.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VkluANAxB_...lectric+ad.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VkluANAxB_...lectric+ad.jpg http://chuckstoyland.com/national/el...12%20color.jpghttp://chuckstoyland.com/national/el...12%20color.jpg http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Hitching post, perfectly straight sapling, oil drilling remnant? Always a good idea to have a three-wheeled young assistant on the ground to catch any dropped items. :no: Did Jackie Coogan and his teddy bear perform their own stunts? http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
Here's an excellent photograph of Clifton's Cafeteria at 648 S. Broadway.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/1EfoSv.jpg Ryan Vaarsi on flickr I checked it out on GSV and it still pretty much looks the same. :( Did the developer run out of money? __ |
Quote:
Cheers, Jack |
Quote:
LA curbed describes the rehab as "achingly slow". Los Angeles Eater has more here, including a schedule (of sorts). As you said, I too was hoping the Clifton's project would inspire the next-door neighbors, but Cliftons has been out of commission so long, it may have had the opposite effect |
Quote:
In 1920 the employment is listed as a newspaper office, still as a janitor. The family was living on Bartlett at that time. When he appears in the 1930 census he is a printer in a publishing house and owns the house at 842 N. Beaudry. This house, built in 1921, is no longer there, or has been covered by apartments that were built on the property in 1947 William died in Los Angeles in 1944. |
Young palms line Canon Drive in Beverly Hills, circa 1918
Here's one I don't think we've seen here before - a 1918 shot of Canon Drive in Beverly Hills. It's so funny to see those tall mature palm trees so short and tiny. (To say nothing of that wide, open land...)
http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...a-1918-PIN.jpg |
Quote:
|
the "Back Forty"/"Forty Acres" AKA 28.5 acres
Quote:
A major issue in this little mystery, and just to be extra confusing, the former Forty Acres lot isn't in the Fox Hills neighborhood of Culver City which is a couple of miles away bordering Ladera Heights. Fox Hills is an office park and condos (no houses), the mall and Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery (containing the distinctive Jolson monument). As far as I know, there is no landscape feature called "Fox Hills", just the neighborhood. The Baldwin Hills is the landscape feature and part of those hills may be seen across Ballona creek from the "Back Forty". Culver Studios left and the former "Forty Acres" right: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...70002%2BPM.jpg google maps 1965. Check out that water tower on the Culver Studios lot. "Forty Acres" is highlighted: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-x...64554%2BPM.jpg wiki Was there ever a studio in Fox Hills?: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-E...13308%2BPM.jpg google maps I need to go back and spend a lot more time with the photos e_r posted because now I'm more confused than ever. Thx so much for looking at this mystery. Apologies to e_r for (most probably) leading you astray (again), at least about Republic. |
Quote:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...0/DSC04514.JPG Photo by me |
Quote:
In any case, thank you SO much, Godzilla! This is an interesting pair of photographs - and they are of the same location, not just similar, as I can see the same billboards in both and even the very edge of the "California Hotel" sign in the photo of the motorcycle cop. However, this precise location is something of a mystery because San Bernardino was not one of the beacon locations. In fact the Barstow beacon was the only official Richfield aerial beacon anywhere in San Bernardino County. The service station has a canopy which the SoCal beacon stations did not, with the exception of Beaumont whose building was moved, and it had a canopy after that point at least. This tower also seems to say 'Richfield' on all 3 sides. This is apparently a replica, not part of the aerial beacon chain but still quite large. I have seen 1930s photos of a replica tower at a location in OR or WA but it was clearly much smaller than the real thing, and smaller than this one as well. Thanks very much for the new mystery to unravel! |
Since the US Bank tower seemingly went rainbow for June...
Why not one of the original LA skyscrapers in a colorNoir tribute?
http://brettspivey.net/noir0602richfieldwith14.jpg :happypunk: -brett |
Quote:
Sight unseen, I would defer to you on Richfield beacon-iana. When you use the term "replica" are your suggesting some towers were not part of the original '20s plan? If that is the case but Richfield endorsed the towers, maybe they are more aptly described as version"2." I believe "the but" was inadvertent and originally part of another observation concerning the trailer camp sign which may say "rainbow." My vision is a little fuzzy and the first letter may be an "S." Another clue may come from the San Bernardino Fire Company no. 3 markings. Finally, notice the "Sunset" Station behind the truck and across the street. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/32310/rec/30 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/32309/rec/29 http://sarahwilsonpilot.com/wp-conte...y_FYAVIXYO.pnghttp://sarahwilsonpilot.com/wp-conte...y_FYAVIXYO.png http://paradiseleased.files.wordpres.../03/beacon.jpghttp://paradiseleased.files.wordpres.../03/beacon.jpg From : http://ochistorical.blogspot.com/201...int-doris.html Dana Point http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G2p8Hy_uuO...1928++copy.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G2p8Hy_uuO...1928++copy.jpg Dana Point, 1969 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HKuMFbO4ld...,+Feb+1969.jpg Orange County, erected '28 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K_WM2l3VIq...lt+1928+DP.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K_WM2l3VIq...lt+1928+DP.jpg Your Beacon-primer post: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=23900 |
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Here is the San Bernardino photo compared to a similar viewpoint of the Bakersfield beacon. The original ones were enormous. Quote:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Rich...eacons/photos/ sourced by a Bakersfield member of the group from his local library Before I get too far afield of LA, let me bring it back with this photo of a model of the Richfield Building, said to be located in the Los Angeles Conservancy offices: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...ld_Model21.jpg http://walknridela.com/roaming-the-r...deco-by-metro/ No beacon tower on top, funnily enough. |
All times are GMT. The time now is 10:26 AM. |
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.