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CaliNative Feb 26, 2020 12:48 PM

Apropos of current events, are there any historical photos/articles on the "Spanish" flu pandemic in L.A. after WW1? The articles/pictures must exist. Ethereal & others will dig them out I'm confident.

ethereal_reality Feb 26, 2020 5:00 PM

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CaliNative, this article is from the Los Angeles Herald dated September 27, 1918.

As you'll see it's full of misinformation. . .much like the misinformation we're experiencing today. ("We have the virus under control." our current Pres.)


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NE5t2V.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/GsLeMv.jpg
california newspaper list


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odinthor Feb 26, 2020 5:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8842562)
:previous:

RE: The 'Jackie Coogan' Building.

odinthor, did you find this information in the city directories?





As a reminder, there was also an Europa Cafe at 312 W. 7th St.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/WVge6x.jpg
eBay

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/A5sy3s.jpg
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e_r, 'Twas in the pages of the Los Angeles Times!

https://i.postimg.cc/fyhdXcY1/678-SV...LAT1-23-26.jpg
January 23, 1926


https://i.postimg.cc/zfbHctj9/678SVermontLAT12-7-48.jpg
December 7, 1948


https://i.postimg.cc/HLq8Dwvj/678SVe...AT11-18-62.jpg
November 18, 1962

ethereal_reality Feb 26, 2020 5:12 PM

:previous:

Thanks odinthor!

Noir_Noir Feb 26, 2020 6:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8840743)
CORRECTION

RE:....Knox Presbyterian Church. 438 Figueroa Street.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/vPgErt.jpg
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THIS is the correct location. (sorry that I misled you in my previous Knox post)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/r8DrWb.jpg





e_r trust you'll be ok with a correction to your correction. :)


The church was across the street on the SE corner of Figueroa and 43rd with an address at 4300-02 South Figueroa Street.



Here is it in 1938.


https://i.imgur.com/VWBN3s8.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu


The Arthur Miller mentioned on the back of the picture card was the contractor on the job. The Reverend Henderson Shoemaker was the applicant on the permit.


https://i.imgur.com/RGWraI5.jpg



I can't find a demolition date for the church but the early 1980's looks likely. The building that's there now was built in 1998

ethereal_reality Feb 26, 2020 7:23 PM

:previous:

Of course, Noir Noir. Thanks for clearing it up.

That's very interesting about the permit. Good job!




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Mystery Club

The following two photographs show, what appears to be, a fraternal-like organization called the Static Club.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/yB9fcp.jpg
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Note the 'pin-ups' between the windows and above the mirror on the left. . .and the musical instruments. . .and the exotic pipe. . .and the two phones on the bureau.


The next photograph shows the exterior of the house with members of the Static Club posing on the front porch.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/xrSLCF.jpg
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The two photographs were taken in Los Angeles in 1905. [below]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ebxJcI.jpg

Has anyone heard of the 'Static Club'. . .or where, in Los Angeles, it was located? :shrug:..........I'm stumped.



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BarSnake Feb 26, 2020 8:05 PM

I found this mention of The Static Club.
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https://theasc.com/asc/the-15-founde...nematographers
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There is also a mention of some of the camera crew for Buster Keaton being Static Club members.

HossC Feb 26, 2020 8:40 PM

:previous:

There's "A Short History of the Static Club" at gracekingsley.wordpress.com. Here's the opening paragraph:

Before there was an American Society of Cinematograhers, there was the Static Club. Founded on February 13, 1913, their object was “for the benefit and furtherance of the camera-men of the motion picture industry” according to the minutes from the first meeting. The club’s name came from a common problem cameramen were having with static electricity fogging their film, but Kodak soon developed an anti-static backing that solved it. However, the cameramen found plenty of other things to talk about, and the club lasted for five years.

The article mentions meetings at the Wilson Building at First and Spring Streets, and later a "cozy bungalow retreat" at 1839 Santa Cruz Avenue. The bungalow is still there. Meanwhile, a book called The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry says that the club was initially head-quartered at 406 Court Street.

ethereal_reality Feb 26, 2020 8:50 PM

Wow! ....Thanks BarSnake and HossC.

I would have never guessed the Static Club had anything to do when the origins of the American Society of Cinematographers!

I imagine the two photographs are extremely rare. The ASC should bid on them.

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odinthor Feb 26, 2020 9:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8843389)
Wow! ....Thanks BarSnake and HossC.

I would have never guessed the Static Club had anything to do when the origins of the American Society of Cinematographers!

The ASC should nab the two photographs. I imagine they're quite rare!

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:previous:

Some items on the Static Club from the LA Times (the Herald has more, mostly about their annual Ball).


Not sure if this first one is the early days of the same Static Club. But whatever it was, in 1904 they went to Coronado for some fun.

https://i.postimg.cc/6Qrjq2M3/Static-LAT9-4-04.jpg
September 4, 1904


https://i.postimg.cc/15bJKcTX/StaticLAT4-24-13.jpg
April 24, 1913


https://i.postimg.cc/YqL56xRD/Static-LAT5-24-15.jpg
May 24, 1915



https://i.postimg.cc/g0Hsm90L/StaticLAT2-17-16.jpg
February 17, 1916

ethereal_reality Feb 27, 2020 1:42 AM

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re: odd architecture / 8582 Lookout Mountain Avenue

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/0Qe3Ai.jpg
GSV

Quote:

Originally Posted by UphillDonkey (Post 8842105)
It's the Mirkin residence, owned by Margeaux Mirkin. Morris Mirkin founded Budget car rental.

Thanks UphillDonkey.

I located the original source of the photograph, Travels With Two. ...

A commenter, one Agnes Gellen Szecsenyi, wrote this. . .

"I have been is this home many times. Margoux was my customer when I was altering her waste collection of vintage 1940- 50 costume collection for years, the home was just like Margaux herself. unbelievable! . I was allowed to take pictures inside and I will post them here, I know I tucked them away. from church seats what she purchased in South America taken apart and shipped here and built in the home and outside of course it was more than 20 years ago. everything was eccentric like Margo herself lived with a monkey and many dogs in that house. if she is still alive she is in her 70 -s now. she had a very interesting rich life."...Jan. 12, 2018

A monkey! just like Norma Desmond. ;)

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CityBoyDoug Feb 27, 2020 3:41 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8843060)

e_r...("We have the virus under control." our current Pres.) [Politics now?]

Dr. Dunsmore, that's good advice, thank you sir. I'm all wrapped up like baby-bunting [...Daddy's gone a hunting]. I even wear two pairs of socks in bed at night. I pray this will ward off virus C-19. Good that many of us noirishers live in the Sunshine state where we can convalesce on our front porch .

Years ago, two of my friends caught SARS in China.....holy moly they were sick for a month. That HCoV-NL63 can do a real job on you.

odinthor Feb 28, 2020 12:55 AM

While researching . . . something else . . . I ran across this nice image of the Arcade Bldg., which I hope has not been posted here before:

https://i.postimg.cc/J00Y3NN7/Arcade-LAT1-1-25.jpg
LA Times 1/1/1925, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library


The ad including the above is large; but I also extracted the following from it, which I thought might be of interest:

https://i.postimg.cc/br4gQKYL/Arcade-LAT1-1-25a.jpg
same data as above

CityBoyDoug Feb 28, 2020 7:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8844923)
While researching . . . something else . . . I ran across this nice image of the Arcade Bldg., which I hope has not been posted here before:

https://i.postimg.cc/J00Y3NN7/Arcade-LAT1-1-25.jpg
LA Times 1/1/1925, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library

I've been to the Arcade.....its a fun walk-through.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/GG0c...AM-thumb.0.png
Spring st.

https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph...xlaiNArw/o.jpg
yelp.

ScottyB Feb 28, 2020 8:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8844923)
While researching . . . something else . . . I ran across this nice image of the Arcade Bldg., which I hope has not been posted here before:

https://i.postimg.cc/J00Y3NN7/Arcade-LAT1-1-25.jpg
LA Times 1/1/1925, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library


The ad including the above is large; but I also extracted the following from it, which I thought might be of interest:

https://i.postimg.cc/br4gQKYL/Arcade-LAT1-1-25a.jpg
same data as above

Very fun list or tenants, odinthor! Good to see Zinke's there. And R.S. Croff, Marvel Whipper! One has to wonder.

westcork Feb 28, 2020 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by riichkay (Post 8809685)
Long before the Convention Center/Staples, a proposal for a downtown "trade fair" center and arena....from the L.A. Examiner archives, 3/28/51...


https://i1381.photobucket.com/albums...pszbkvhyot.jpg

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Did GettyImages buy the USC digital archive? Or do they just slap their watermark on everything?

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=357

westcork Feb 28, 2020 11:46 AM

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GaylordWilshire Feb 28, 2020 12:03 PM

Does anyone recognize this cluster of buildings, obviously then new--a school, an asylum...? Have we seen it before on NLA?

https://i.postimg.cc/3w1ZtPQT/mysterybldg3-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/k4yLFjf6/mysterybldg2-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/sfhTrHpp/mysterybldg5-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/t4304CWN/mysterybldg4-bmp.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/x1RsZkLh/mysterybldg1-bmp.jpg

Cliff Wesselmann

CaliNative Feb 28, 2020 1:09 PM

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 8845278)

My guess would be the old Camarillo State Mental Hospital? The hills look right, with a few scattered oaks. Now a state college. Just a guess. The gathering of people in top hats, looks like a grand opening. The fat guy at the podium, the governor, or maybe the warden????

CaliNative Feb 28, 2020 1:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8843060)
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CaliNative, this article is from the Los Angeles Herald dated September 27, 1918.

As you'll see it's full of misinformation. . .much like the misinformation we're experiencing today. ("We have the virus under control." our current Pres.)


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NE5t2V.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/GsLeMv.jpg
california newspaper list


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Interesting article. I wonder if the "Spanish flu" was actually a type of coronavirus rather than influenza virus? This was before electron microscopes (invented in 1930s), so all they knew was that it was a tiny virus, not a bacterium (which can be seen in ordinary light microscopes). They had no images of it and of course no genetic info. The 1918-1919 epidemic was pretty wicked, but we survived and the Roaring '20s followed. The way to avoid this cv is to avoid crowds and wash hands constantly. Carry clorox & lysol wipes with me, and purel. Turning into Howard Hughes. Also take vit. C & coldeeze. Can't hurt.


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