Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 7253205)

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7263965)

Thank you oldstuff.

There's some more on Wiesendanger's bio here. It includes the claim that the Roosevelt was LA's first apartment building. Does anyone know if that's accurate?

The article includes this quote:

"An unfortunate series of legal battles with investors and stockholders whittled his sizable assets down to a tiny fraction of their former worth. At his death, in Los Angeles in 1919, the Los Angeles Times reported that, 'He had only one friend left to say a last farewell.'"



P.S.

Some info on Wiesendanger's Arlington Heights Tract is here (pg 12).

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...6%252520PM.jpg
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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7264068)

Another I Magnin further west along Wilshire. In front of Saks Fifth Avenue is an attractive little building housing Nobby Knit Shops. In the background is Haggarty's, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, a Bank of America and the Warner Beverly Hills Theater.

Saks Fifth Avenue now extends across the site occupied by Nobby Knit Shops. At some point they seem to have filled in all the windows on the side of the building.

The old I Magnin store, including an extra floor on the roof, is now also Saks Fifth Avenue.

Originally Posted by RAH (Post 7264216)

What a neat picture of the fire station at Olvera Street! Thanks for the post!

Current View...

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0559...2!8i6656?hl=en

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7263112)

This list of T Wiesendanger's properties that I found in the 1910 CD might help to identify some of the other locations.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7264446)

:previous: I just visited all the addresses and every single apartment building is gone. :( :(

But the list is still very interesting......now we know the names of T.W.'s apartment buildings.
Since he named 3/4th of the apartments after places, google searches are extra-frustrating.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7264523)

Early ad for a meat market. (1910s?)

"Norma Market, 1818 S. Main Street, Los Angeles. M. T. Ryan Proprietor. Tel. W 71"


:previous: I am surprised there isn't sawdust on the floor. -maybe they swept it up for the photograph.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7264446)

Since he named 3/4th of the apartments after places, google searches are extra-frustrating.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7264523)

Any idea what's in the large glass case on the left?
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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7264493)

... he provided flowers and ''birds''.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7264523)

Here's a great ad for a meat market. (1910s?)

"Norma Market, 1818 S. Main Street, Los Angeles. M. T. Ryan Proprietor. Tel. W 71"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/AvDPJ3.jpg
old file / eBay

I'm surprised there isn't sawdust on the floor. Maybe they swept it up for this excellent photograph.

Any idea what's in the large glass case on the left?

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7264068)

I can't see any connection between the images in this 1949 Julius Shulman photoset. It's vaguely labeled "Scenics", and jumps around the city. It's "Job 441: Scenics (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1949". I'll start with this view looking south-east across the UCLA campus.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

I'm sure we've seen this canyon before, but I just can't place it.

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

I love this view looking at DTLA from the Arroyo Seco Parkway. The road heading towards the Hall of Justice is N Hill Street. Along the way it passes the China City pagoda. On the right is a road running around the edge of Chavez Ravine over a decade before the opening of Dodger Stadium.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

Here's the I Magnin store at Wilshire and New Hampshire which we've seen many times before. It's now the Wilshire Galleria Department Store.

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

Another I Magnin further west along Wilshire. In front of Saks Fifth Avenue is an attractive little building housing Nobby Knit Shops. In the background is Haggarty's, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, a Bank of America and the Warner Beverly Hills Theater.

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

All from Getty Research Institute

Saks Fifth Avenue now extends across the site occupied by Nobby Knit Shops. At some point they seem to have filled in all the windows on the side of the building.

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

The old I Magnin store, including an extra floor on the roof, is now also Saks Fifth Avenue.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
GSV

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7264068)

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7264287)

Saks Fifth Avenue grew and grew, starting on the corner of Peck and Wilshire, in the late 30s, in a John and Donald Parkinson building (Paul Revere Williams did the interiors):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o...6%252520PM.jpg
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Massively successful, SFA expanded west down the block in 1940 and 1948. This time PRW was the architect for the exterior and the interiors:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...0%252520PM.jpg
paulreverewilliamsproject

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g...0%252520PM.jpg
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Since completing the block, and expanding into the Magnin's building, I think they're done.
(Too bad they didn't mirror the Parkinson building):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...1%252520PM.jpg
paulwilliamsproject/donhoran (2010)

I've always really liked the interiors at SFA (the exterior too) but could never find anything I wanted there.

The painted windows makes the store look more than a little blind.

The large department store I worked for covered the insides of the windows with fake Venetian blind sticky film and then dry-walled over them or used the window spaces for stockrooms, etc. (retailers don't want customers to be aware of the time). It gave a nicely uniform look (but they don't do it anymore).