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From left to right, the buildings are the Trenton at 427 S Olive, furnished rooms belonging to Mrs Elizabeth Collier at 422 S Grand, the St Clair/Sinclair Apartments at 414 S Grand, the Rose Mansion (the Victorian) at 4th and Grand, and the Fremont at 401 S Olive.

Thank you :previous:





I believe the original post that may have mentioned Bryn Mawr has disappeared from NLA.



April 2, 1924 - Hollywood.
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Looking for information on this cloistered group of eight Hollywood bungalows. Or is it two Barns or Cape Cod style structures and six bungalows?
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Palmer Photoplay, 6362 Hollywood.
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Like, oops
 

Here's my question:
Exactly how fast do you have to be driving in order to jump the freeway divider?

This is the 5 Freeway (Santa Ana) near the Atlantic Blvd exit, right near what is now the Citadel Outlet Mall.


http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...drail19401.jpg

And that lady is still holding on to her cigarette between her fingers there inspecting her? car there. (hand on car) Oh the style of the time and cigarette smoke stench that I don't miss at all! ;)

I feel sorry for her. She looks quite worried. Maybe it is her boyfriend's car. I used to have a car similar to that one. It was a V8 Fairlane 500. I loved that car.

Clune Studios, a little history.






Available on Blueray and Beta?


1915 - Clune Studios, shooting "Ramona."
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...C43D8XCFFV.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...C43D8XCFFV.jpg



1916 - Ramona, Get your tickets early!

http://www.anndvorak.com/cms/wp-cont.../02/ramona.jpghttp://www.anndvorak.com/cms/wp-cont.../02/ramona.jpg


1916 - Clune
http://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploa...tudio-1916.jpghttp://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04
/Clune-Studio-1916.jpg


Another Iowa picnic?





1918 - Clune co. (Unclear that Clune is in this photo. Possibly at far left? Is that a left fist or a shrunken head? :koko:)
http://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploa...units-1918.jpghttp://artsmeme.com/wp-content/uploa...units-1918.jpg

Clune in 1930
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1927 Tec Art/ Clune
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1915 - J. Clune residence 1424 W. 8th Street

1930 - J.Walter Clune
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:previous: Very interesting history of Clune Studios BRR.


I'm hoping someone can dig up a larger scan of this 1922 map. (I don't believe we've seen it before on NLA)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/bA0L6y.jpg
http://metroprimaryresources.info/19...or-relief/281/

"Grade Crossing Elimination and Union Depot Plan" 1922
Is that two side-by-side roundhouses east of the L.A. River? (I can only read a few of the captions)

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Heavy March rains and a sink-hole, 1938.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/jBEZf9.jpg
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ebay

So what is the building with the dome? I'm trying to locate this spot on GSV.

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A couple of racially insensitive ads.

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inside of matchbook
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ebay


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Hand-painted photograph showing a flapper-type girl posing on a car bumper in the Santa Monica Mountains, 1920s

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/TBnLx7.jpg
ebay
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The domed building is King's Tropical Inn. GW posted the picture below - the full post, containing other pictures of King's Tropical Inn, can be found here.


Other posts about King's Tropical Inn:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8536

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21610

Farewell to Little Tokyo 3/28/42.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...DrugStore1.jpg
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According to the 1942 CD, Mr and Mrs Katsujiro Iseri lived at 3504 Folsom Street. The property websites say the current house at that address was built in 1912. The Iseri's drug store was at 305 E 1st Street. Most of the buildings on that side of the block look like they've been there a while - could this be the Iseris' drug store?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...DrugStore3.jpg
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Hollywood Roosevelt Plaza Hotels, 1941
 

The front of this building says "Hollywood Roosevelt Plaza Hotels" and yet it's clearly not part of the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Blvd.

A streetcar is running past it, but it might be Hollywood Blvd, but has anybody seen this before?

The notation on this puts this at Highland and Cahuenga, which I guess is approximately outside the entrance to the Hollywood Bowl...?

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...ene-Lentz1.jpg

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...Lentz-copy.jpg

For those of you interested in Hollywood history, apparently costume designed Irene Lentz (more commonly known simply as Irene) had a shop in this complex for a while.

BifRayRock, this is one of the most fascinating and relevatory posts I've read here, and I've read everything. I'd known Clune was a producer for a time, but I had NO IDEA he'd been so involved in elemental Hollywood history.

Thanks sincerely for your marvelous post.

MartinTurnbull Knew I'd seen the Roosevelt Plaza Hotel in a recent post! sorry I cant quite work out how to do that post quoting thing without showing the whole of it

:)





With such large signage, it is doubtful that entrepreneur, William "Billy" Clune, wished to go unnoticed.



From the Historic LA Theaters' site:

Quote:

"Clune's electrical display on this theatre was a real achievement. The theater had entrances on both streets and over both entrances were built gorgeous electric signs that cost many thousand dollars. The interior of this theater, I have been told, would be hard to improve upon even today. It was most beautifully appointed and unusually comfortable, with wide, luxurious seats. This theater made W.H. Clune famous from coast to coast and was a a continued success and a veritable gold mine for four years, when the lease expired and the building was razed to make room for the present twelve-story Rosslyn Hotel." https://sites.google.com/site/downto...theatres/clune

Clune's post card
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1912 - Clune's
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Yes a repost of this wonderful image.
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Mandela near 7th & Olive (now Soi 7) - 1937 vs Now:

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While looking for a larger version of e_r's map, I came across a huge circa 1920 report titled 'Railroad Grade Crossing Elimination and Passenger and Freight Terminals
in Los Angeles' - you can find it on archive.org. The full report is around 600 pages long, and it's packed with information, statistics, photos and diagrams. I've
picked out a selection of photos and diagrams for this post, although I may revisit the report at a later date. I'm sure other members will be able to pull completely
different information and images from the same document.

Despite searching the report a couple of times, I can't see the map above. The one below is the nearest I could find.
NB. I've kept most of the following images fairly large to try and preserve the legibility of the captions. Some of them have had their levels tweaked for clarity.

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archive.org

It may be hard to see on the map above, but one of the proposed locations for Union Station was west of Alameda Street, directly on top of the Plaza. The detail below
shows the old Plaza location under the platforms, while a New Plaza would be built to the south. The southwest corner of the New Plaza would have extended nearly to
the future site of the new City Hall. Macy Street would be elevated over the tracks and join up to the Broadway tunnel. It looks like Olvera Street, Pico House and the
Brunswig building were due to be obliterated instead of Chinatown.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
archive.org

Here's an artist's impression of how the new station and plaza would look.

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archive.org

Another idea had the new station roughly where it was eventually built, although with the platforms running parallel to Aliso Street. The terminal building seems to bisect
Alameda Street, and the Plaza also gets a redesign.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
archive.org

Yet another scheme involved building the new terminal at the Arcade Depot site, and included a radial design for the New Plaza.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
archive.org

Have we seen this station before? Its caption says it was the first Los Angeles railroad station, located at Commercial and Alameda Streets.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original
archive.org

This station has definitely appeared before - BifRayRock posted an aerial view of Salt Lake Station in post #7837, and noted that it was "awfully
close to the LA River". In fact it was on the east bank of the LA River, directly south of First Street. I think the station was being demolished in
BifRayRock's picture, because the roof details have all gone. You can see a streetcar heading for the station in post #14469 by Chuckaluck.

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I'm guessing this location is an elaborate neon billboard. (I'm assuming it is neon.) There's an arrow under Roosevelt, indicating the direction to that hotel (down Highland) and another arrow under Plaza indicating to go down Cahuenga toward where that hotel is located.