Does anyone know if this "Memorial to Animals" was ever built :shrug:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/gEe9AL.jpg
lapl

It was to have been "set up" Allesandro Street and Riverside Drive.

"The monument will be 8 feet high and ach panel will be 25 feet long."

The date of the photo is: April 18, 1935.



My eyes were blurry (after a looong day of computer usage) when I happened upon this photograph so at first I didn't realize it was a model.

I was especially flummoxed by what was all over this car. I thought perhaps the lady had driven down from the mountains and she was waiting for her car to thaw out.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/0kwBDy.jpg
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Reminds me of this:

If your New Year's resolution is "I will learn Chinese."

You might want to change it to "I will order Chinese."

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Here's the junction of Allesandro and Riverside in 1944 (below, left). From the picture above, I'm guessing that the proposed site for the "Memorial to Animals" was the triangular traffic island, but here it has a circular design at the center. The location (marked below, right) is now under an off ramp of the Glendale Freeway.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...llesandro1.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu/Google Maps

In that case, I achieved my New Year's resolution on Friday ;).

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e_r and Hoss, I can't find anything further about the memorial; but I can note that the LA Times, in its couple of articles about the model for the memorial, has the artist's name wrong. It's Helen Lundeberg (not "Helen Lundburg").

Here's the Wikipedia entry on this interesting artist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lundeberg

Here an excerpt from a 1965 oral history interview with the artist Helen Lundeberg.

There's a question mentioning "fire engines" (there's one on the left side of the model) and "animal memorial".

She replies that mural project was "never carried out".


https://i.imgur.com/yPBXBKR.jpg
aaa.si.edu

You go to the LADBS Online Building Records Search page -


http://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/idispublic/


and search to your heart's content. :)

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Here's an interesting snapshot showing a large billboard for Max Barish Chrysler - Plymouth located at 444 So. So. LaBrea Ave.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/B4E17O.jpg
eBay

As you can see the Mona Lisa restaurant is next door. I believe this is the Wilshire Blvd. location.


The back of the photograph is stamped with a date. March 3, 1956.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/GShPkR.jpg


Max Barish has been briefy mentioned here and here . . but so far we haven't seen a photograph of his S. LaBrea dealership. (unless I missed it somehow)

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Thanks very much.

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A mystery location.


This snapshot shows two "hostesses" entering the Samoa Ballroom. [May 1970]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/4Re9J4.jpg
eBay

The seller doesn't specifically say this is Los Angeles but to me it has a L. A. feel to it. (and if I'm not mistaken there is a Samoa Avenue in Los Angeles)



Let's take a closer look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/XDR2YY.jpg
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hmmm perhaps that's just one hostess (and one client) ...................................... :previous: note the blade sign advertising "Hostesses".



update:
There is a Samoa Ave.GSV but it's way up in Tujunga.
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There you can see it. Many LA restaurants had rabbit dinners when I was a kid. I also lived on a farm in San Fernando where my caretakers raised rabbits and we had rabbit all the time. I can also remember rabbit in the meat departments of the markets in LA but no more. What happened? Rabbit is very good and a lot less fat than the Colonel's greasy chicken.

BBQ Rabbit..........mm good.

https://paleogrubs.com/wp-content/up...it-800x420.jpg

e_r, here's a (feeble) start: It was "downtown":

https://i.postimg.cc/wT0dWj9T/Samoa-LAT-11-24-69.jpg
LA Times, 11/24/1969

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Edit Add:

Ah, here we go:

https://i.postimg.cc/sgvbwPnw/Samoa-LAT-7-21-68.jpg
LA Times, 7/21/1968

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Edit Add No. 2:

The form of the blade sign has been maintained; and the semicircular feature over the (former) door is still there:

https://i.postimg.cc/BbSVD2L5/Samoa-GSV.jpg
gsv

What does rabbit taste like? Any answer except "just like chicken" is Ok. I've never had it but am curious to try it. Also never had venison or goat or horse except possibly in a burger that had a different flavor. I've also never eaten grasshoppers or crickets or any other insects but they are popular in some cultures. I do wish people would refrain from eating bats--look at all the problems that has caused.

Here's the Mona Lisa building from the east (from my Wilshire After Its Houses survey):

https://i.postimg.cc/br4V823Q/WBMona...tcbldg-bmp.jpg


and an interesting colorized version of the other end:

https://i.postimg.cc/bJcQz9hY/WBcolo...shsign-bmp.jpg
Pinterest/Bizarre Los Angeles



Max Barish (left)

https://i.postimg.cc/yNqMz2kD/maxbar...dealer-bmp.jpg
Per the LAPL: "Photograph caption dated April 30, 1958 reads, "Newest Valley automotive dealer is Barish Chrysler Imperial Agency at 5109 Van Nuys Blvd. Opening tomorrow, Barish Chrysler is one of few dealerships in America awarded Chrysler's 'Quality Dealer' emblem. From left are Max Barish, Howard 'Bud' Barish, president; Marvin Donelly, manager. New, modern facilities have nearly 25,000 square feet and addition to new cars will offer large stock of top quality trade-ins." (The car they're behind is a '57 Chevrolet...and it looks like there's now a Burger King at 5109 Van Nuys Blvd.)



Max with his wife Etta, from a very interesting article from Forward recounting Max's response to the infamously anti-semitic Henry Ford:

https://i.postimg.cc/PxdrdCPv/maxbarishpic2nd-bmp.jpg



444 S La Brea today--remodeled façade but you can seem the classic arched-roof of a car dealer....

https://i.postimg.cc/m2cRfvbs/maxbarish444-bmp.jpgGSV



Late '50s Chrysler and Plymouth logos flanking his name...

https://i.postimg.cc/8CZnCCHn/maxbar...cframe-bmp.jpg
Pinterest

Hmm, National Airlines was gone by 1984, it merged with Pan Am in 1980. Probably Pan Am acquired the 747 (National did fly 747s in the early 70s, but by the time of the merger, I think their only widebodies were DC-10s)

Great pic of the AA 747 at LAX. My very first flight on a 747 was on AA, San Juan to JFK in December 1973. I never did fly an AA 747 in or our of LAX, but I did fly them on TWA and United. The Queen of the skies! :D

Though it's not the (never-built) piece we were discussing, this online booklet tells about and shows another mural ("History of Transportation") of Helen Lundeberg's in the same era and style which was brought to reality in Inglewood (and restored in 2007):

https://www.inglewoodpublicart.org/w...n-brochure.pdf

Here, from the above booklet, is a small piece of the very large mural:

https://i.postimg.cc/q7m61fjC/Lundeberg.jpg
from booklet linked above

Of course, down the street, presumably before Mr. Barrish opened his La Brea dealership, was A.E Nugent.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~originalhttps://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=34039





A lengthy list of Los Angeles dealers is here >> http://www.oneownercollectorcar.com/...s-city-dealers


It includes these La Brea addresses:

HOLMES TUTTLE FORD "AUTHORIZED FORD LEASING" 361 N. LA BREA
MURPHY OLDSMOBILE CO. 740 S. LaBrea Ave
Ferarr-Bach Pontiac was located at 200 South Le Brea Ave
Buick On La Brea-Metropolitan Auto Center was located at the old Metropolitan Auto Center location at 400 S La Brea Ave
Frank Sanders Oldsmobile was located at 740 S. La Brea Ave
Utter Pontiac Company was located 200 South LaBrea Ave.


One notable omission is Irv White Buick, and there are likely others.


More info on the general area, including a nursery:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=10734




https://repository.duke.edu/fcgi-bin.../0/default.jpghttps://repository.duke.edu/fcgi-bin.../0/default.jpg


https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/11179...-1/s-l1000.jpghttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/11179...-1/s-l1000.jpg

Mystery location solved.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Fx6E0f.png
Ah, so the Samoa was in Los Angeles. Good sleuthin' odinthor.

I'm a bit surprised the term "taxi dancer" was still in the L. A. Times' lexicon in the 1969. ... I always thought taxi dancers were from a much earlier era like the 1920s and 1930s.


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Houswife shows off her lemons.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/CGgRW6.jpg
old file of ebay pics

Across the street, on the other side of the tall fence, you can see a Star Cash Grocery Store.




Let's take a closer look at her lemons the grocery store.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/nrx3Uo.jpg
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Somewhere in my files I have similar photograph that, if I remember correctly, shows a woman with a little boy.. .I believe I posted that photo but I haven't been able to find it again

I thought the store stood alone but now, with this enlargement, I see a row of windows next door.
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e_r, the 1920 City Directory has . . .

https://i.postimg.cc/prGgkMTr/StarCash.jpg

A couple of years later, the stock of a grocery store of another name is being auctioned off at that address:

https://i.postimg.cc/ht7H8wq4/Star-Cash-LAT-6-4-22.jpg
LA Times, 6/4/1922