Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 7947059)

:previous:


Variety, July 13, 1971

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jw...c=w466-h483-no
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Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts (Post 7947844)

I suspect that the real weapon was a .32 automatic, which was very popular at the time, as opposed to the W-F, which was exceedingly rare. The reporter may have made the common mistake of thinking that any handgun was some sort of "revolver."

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7947331)

This Los Angeles Cold Storage Company facility is on the NE corner of Central Avenue and E. 4th Street:




Just to the north, on the east side of Central Avenue, was the U. S. Post Office Arcade Annex:




This undated aerial view looks north at both buildings. The cold storage building is just below center on the NE corner
of Central and 4th. On the same block, up Central Avenue a bit, is the Arcade Annex Post Office. Alameda Street is
parallel to and one block east of Central:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original

00047225 at LAPL


This is a contemporary aerial view looking south. The post office building appears to be gone, but

This is "Alameda Street from Arcade Post Office" on June 25, 1926. We're looking south from the rear of the post office.
You can see the corner of the cold storage building at far right. At left center is 400 S. Alameda. The sign on the square
brick structure in the foreground says NO DUMPING:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original


LADBS

Originally Posted by Tourmaline (Post 7947716)

Downs' Market, San Fernando - Late '70s (Paraquat Kelley?)

Clearly, a typical/average day at the Texaco Station. Presence of what appears to be a light-colored first-generation-Mazda RX7 parked in front of Downs, leads to a conclusion that the date is approximately 1978 or later.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/d0134fd81...10do1_1280.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7948356)

That girl's legs are amazing! (is it sexist if I say that?)

If it was a guy I'd say it. :)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7948477)

Los Angeles Tennis Club

At the moment I can't remember where this club was exactly. I believe I posted some snapshots taken at the club several years ago on thread.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7946764)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/hqqbO4.jpg
LAPL

"Children participate in a Spanish dance on the playground at Fremont Avenue School." [1949]

Originally Posted by Ed Workman (Post 7948064)

LA Cold Storage was at the north end of the Arcade Station grounds that lay just out of the frame 's bottom right corner -undated aerial view
The new Central Station was built on the site of Arcade, the Arcade being a large arched train shed over the tracks/platforms. The new platforms were low , of the "umbrella" type and were built of Unit Construction, now we call it precast concrete.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7948356)

That girl's legs are amazing. (hope it's ok to say that)

If it was a guy I'd say it. :)

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7947259)

Set your mind at ease, e-r. PE's subway tunnel ran pretty deep below the surface through that area, so I doubt that any remains were disturbed. Freeway grading and related excavations were done from the surface, which is why those construction forces encountered graves.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7946854)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7948491)

These platforms, right?

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original

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The top of the cold storage building at the NE corner of Central Avenue and E. 4th Street can be seen in the distance
just below top center, above the platform sheds:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original

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All of the above photos are from the Report on Railroad Grade Crossing Elimination and Passenger and Freight
Terminals in Los Angeles (California Railroad Commission, 1920) @ HathiTrust


This photo looks east at the exterior of Central Station on May 11, 1959 (the cold storage building at the NE corner
of Central and E. 4th is at the left edge):

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original

EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-BUI-264 at USCDL

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7947123)

Nice to meet you Sun Belt and welcome to noir town.

I don't believe we've seen this home on NLA before. Anyone here remember it?

This is a lovely home at 1105 Attica Street, Southern California, 1925. Is this the new home of Mr. Hammond W. Dwight or he's the agent. I bet a few friends
called him Ham.

I don't know what later went on inside but it could have been very much a scandal. You never know what's behind those lace curtains or roller shades and neatly
trimmed bushes. They're so neatly trimmed they aren't even there yet. Anyway it could be guns, blood, bigamy, a stabbing....could be anything in NLA.

I wonder if its still there?

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 7948870)

I'm sure some of his friends must have called him Ham(m) and by extension you raise an interesting question I had as a kid concerning the old Perry Mason TV show where his chief nemesis, the William Talman character, District Attorney Hamilton Burger must have surely been known by his friends as Ham Burger, right? And yet, I've never seen anyone point out this outrageous and unfortunate inevitability. A meaner man than Perry Mason would have made life even more miserable for arguably the least capable district attorney of all time. What could Gardner have been thinking?

Originally Posted by JimCraig (Post 7948893)

Erle Stanley Gardner used to include a "Cast of Characters" at the beginning of his Perry Mason books. In these he often referred to "Ham" Burger. I think he knew exactly what he was doing.