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
detail

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
detail

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

*****

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
detail


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

I always thought the same, e_r - imagine my surprise when I found out that taxi dancing clubs still exist in downtown to this day!

Here are a few I know about:

4th Street, near the corner of Broadway:

https://i.imgur.com/xPuI3HU.jpg
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0496...2!8i6656?hl=en

No markings on this one, but it is a taxi dancing club. I know because I wandered in one night after having drinks at the Golden Gopher. 8th Street, by Olive:

https://i.imgur.com/jieta5X.jpg
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0449...4!8i8192?hl=en

Another place I wandered into just to see what it was. Pay lots of money to sit and talk to girls. Are you kidding me? I took a pass on that adventure. Broadway between 12th and Pico:

https://i.imgur.com/fxtRmNZ.jpg
https://www.google.com/maps/place/90...4d-118.2581668

Club Galaxy at Olive and 9th (appears to be gone in most recent Google view):
https://i.imgur.com/bni9CnH.jpg
https://www.google.com/maps/place/90...4d-118.2581668

I don't really understand the appeal of these places. I mean, sure, if you're on shore leave during WWII, and only have the weekend, haven't seen a girl in months, and you want to dance with a pretty girl, I get it.

By why would anyone go to such a place now?

Hey thanks CaliNative..........
Rabbit tastes kinda bland.....people use all kinds of spices to flavor it.

Venison has a pungent wild taste, its dark red in color....no fat. Horse meat is kinda sweet, also no fat. Horse is often called Cheval. Horse meat for humans is not legal in all states. Bison is like beef...very nice muscle meat....lean. Goat I think is quite tasty. Its great in Mexican food.

Always interesting to discuss unusual food.

When I got my first job at the USC Bookstore in June 1977, I worked with a girl who danced at that club in the evenings. I was kinda interested in her, so I considered going one night to see her but I never did. She got laid off from the bookstore job after a month, so that was pretty much the end of that. Amazing that it is still around, 43 years later.

Here is another intriguing Edward Weston photograph.

The title is "Stacked Boat" c.1939


At first I passed over the generically named thumbnail but then I noticed the odd shape of the "boats" and realized they were gondolas!
My insane vivid imagination made me think the gondolas might be remnants from the old tourist canals in Venice (the California one)


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/eu1ijn.jpg
getty

But the information with the photograph describes the image as the MGM Back-Lot. (the back-lot was long gone by the time I worked at MGM
but I knew where it was located. I don't remember any oil wells being that close to the site)

At first I was disappointed the boat were studio props :( but perhaps MGM purchased them from whomever owned the gondolas in Venice
(was it Abbot Kinney?)



As is often the case: I can't (re)locate the photograph in the Getty collection but luckily I took a screengrab of the information. (shown BELOW)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/1cY50w.jpg
getty / note the three different dates.




As a reminder: I recently posted a Weston photograph of half a cabin on the Paramount Back-Lot. . . .Here

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One of my ex-girlfriends worked there, too. This would be in the late '90s, about five years after we dated.

She didn't last long. She was a brunette, and very pretty - but she said that the place was filled with Japanese businessmen who only wanted to talk to a blonde!

This information from Wikipedia is from two articles, one in the New York Times and the other in L.A. Weekly:

There remain a handful of nightclubs in the United States, particularly in the cities of New York and Los Angeles, where an individual can pay to dance with a female dance hostess. Usually these modern clubs forgo the use of the ticket-a-dance system, and instead have time-clocks and punch-cards that allow a patron to pay for the dancer's time by the hour. Some of these dance clubs operate in buildings where taxi dancing was done in the early 20th century. No longer called taxi-dance halls, these latter-day establishments are now called hostess clubs.


It's not a taxi dancer place, but I don't recall ever seeing The Body Shop at 8250 Sunset Blvd. mentioned before on NLA. It was a Burlesque house in the 1950's and turned into a strip club in the 1960's and is still there.

The venue appears in several B-movies including Right Hand of the Devil (1963) and the Candy Tangerine Man (1975). Sally Rand stripped there in the early 1960's and it is where Tura Santana, the iconic star of Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat Kill Kill (1965), was discovered.

Some screen grabs and ads etc. are at this link, but nothing is dated:
https://oldshowbiz.tumblr.com/tagged/the-Body-Shop

1973:
https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-g...0/RN-014-2.jpgHollywood Photographs

2014:
https://www.wehoville.com/wp-content...-Shop-Sign.jpgWeHoVille

There was a fire there in the early hours of the morning in Dec. 2008:
https://walkingweho.files.wordpress....shop-sign1.jpg
More pics and/or info:
https://walkingweho.wordpress.com/20...-up-in-flames/
or
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...-broke-ou.html

The other picture which you mentioned with the Star Cash Grocery in it.


https://i.imgur.com/Db8hdho.jpg
Ebay


The store close up.

https://i.imgur.com/Ab1Rujx.jpg



I found this ad for a Star Cash Grocery opening in San Pedro in 1921.


https://i.imgur.com/l2cEdwa.jpg
San Pedro Daily News 6 April 1921



133 S. Grand Ave. in the best unobstructed view from recent years.


https://i.imgur.com/N1VKdnC.jpg
GSV


Not overly promising on a first quick view ... but then I remembered a lesson from Lwize last week on remodeled facades and such like.

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=54783


Could the Star Cash Grocery from the 1920's be the same building at 133 S. Grand these days.


Stitching together the old Star Cash store sign level from pieces of the two pictures.


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


The building is not symmetrical. That off-center block on top to the right must be hiding something. This maybe?


https://i.imgur.com/0je2oTs.jpg



The building permits I could find don't detail a removed facade or the changes to the windows. :shrug:


Returning to the picture of the Woman and Boy at the steps across the street, I scouted around and came up with this.


https://i.imgur.com/8iXuXBQ.jpg


Steps leading up to a side door. Not as impressive as the old ones I grant you ... but steps nonetheless.


This is what it would have looked like in a 1927 aerial. Woman and Boy at the steps of 598 West 2nd Street. Lemon Girl is in the garden on the side of the house and the Star Cash Grocery now open across the street.


https://i.imgur.com/40TU0Ge.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu


What do ya think? Stretching it ... or a maybe. :)

1973:
https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-g...0/RN-014-2.jpgHollywood Photographs

2014:
https://www.wehoville.com/wp-content...-Shop-Sign.jpgWeHoVille

There was a fire there in the early hours of the morning in Dec. 2008:
https://walkingweho.files.wordpress....shop-sign1.jpg
More pics and/or info:
https://walkingweho.wordpress.com/20...-up-in-flames/
or
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...-broke-ou.html[/QUOTE]

The interior was shown in Miss Melody Jones, released in 1972.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068957/

I'd say you nailed it Noir. That old house had a fake front on it when it was a grocery store.....very common then. Even the empty lot to the left has the old dirt paths across the lot.

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Noir Noir, I believe it's the same building!

You convinced me with these last two images.

. . . . . . . . . . .:previous: Fantastic sleuthing Noir Noir. ......You are hereby awarded one of these rarely given worshipping dudes - - >... :worship:



Also, the former grocery store/gray building is flush with the sidewalk while its residencial neighbors are set back a bit farther from the street.




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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .UP Periscope.


Starlet Christine Larson is uneasy about her neighbor's Do-It-Yourself periscope.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Euuq9j.jpg
Old File / found on ebay



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/fMw4MM.jpg


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Herbert. Herbert. Herbert. tsk tsk tsk



There's no mention of an address but I located a clue!. . .Christine Larson live on North Beverly Glen. (see BELOW)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/jLDzrr.jpg
from some book

Now all we need is a street number.... Why do I need the street number?

. . .because I want to drive the googlemobile over to her former house and see if Herbert's old periscope is still UP.
next door.


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I missed opportunities like that as well. Carpe diem. Seize the day. Shyness is a curse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Euuq9j.jpg
Old File / found on ebay

Never stand on a ladder like that. A friend of mine did and she spent a month in the hospital.....and years in recovery with badly broken leg bones.

Christine lived at 1624 N. Beverly Glen...the peeper Kubowitz at 1628.... Nancy Davis's apartment was at 1244 Beverly Glen (apparently South rather than North Beverly Glen)--I guess we will always have to wonder whether it was actually Christine who gave the best head in Hollywood, which Nancy is widely credited with, since Nancy "forgot" her diaphragm one night, snagged Ronnie, with Maureen being born seven months after the wedding in March 1952. (Btw Christine was a Republican as was Nancy, so Ronnie must have been doubly torn.)


I was wondering who might have set up Christine in such a deluxe situation. Seems the house was owned by a Ben C. Bradley (not to be confused with the younger Washington Post editor) who is listed in the same records as Christine down the street at 1218 N Beverly Glen. But I'm sure, being a married man, he was just her landlord.... Going farther down the rabbit hole, it seems the Bradleys ran Bradley's Coffee Shop at 5909 Sunset...since it's raining, maybe I'll go look for a picture of that....)


The last GSV of 1624 N Beverly Glen:

https://i.postimg.cc/ZqVdSYS4/larson1-bmp.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/zGkjyrrP/larson2-bmp.jpg


Herbert's peeping pad is at left:

https://i.postimg.cc/y8rDQQX8/larson6-bmp.jpg


A demolition permit for Christine's house was issued on July 20, 2018:

https://i.postimg.cc/Fs5gGRFB/larson3-bmp.jpg


Maybe someone with a laser eye can find the periscope:

https://i.postimg.cc/VLhw23Tp/larson5-bmp.jpg



PS from the Needless Addendum Dept-- how I miss the merciless Spy magazine, its esteemed reporting dovetailing as it did in the the case of Nancy with noir-era Hollywood--Gardner McKay (jealous), Xavier Cugat (not jealous), No-Nose Nanette Fabray (definitely not jealous)....

https://i.postimg.cc/4yP40gFq/larson10-bmp.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/1XVhGZ1D/larson11-bmp.jpg

See all 50 Spy questions at here

The gondola boats are sitting on the MGM backlot #3. Just to the south of that backlot is a hill with the Inglewood Oil Field which still has oil wells on it. West Los Angeles College is directly south of where the backlot used to be. This backlot #3 had a Tarzan jungle and at least 2 separate western streets, among many other sets.

:previous:

The following three photos, and text, are from the post: MGM Lot 3… 67 acres of Paradise on website Phantom of the Backlots:
https://phantomofthebacklots.com/2019/04/26/536/


"This is a shot from a Jerry Lewis movie, The Family Jewels, 1967. This is just outside Lot 3. Before WLA college."

https://phantomofthebacklots.files.w...img_1887-1.jpg



https://phantomofthebacklots.files.w...img_1952-1.jpg

"Billie Rose’s Jumbo set starring Doris Day. I am amazed with all the oil derricks in background."

"Below: Production still of the same area."

https://phantomofthebacklots.files.w...6313999904.jpg
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In the late 70's early 80's I worked in Culver City on Jefferson Blvd. just east of Duquesne, and there was an oil well on the land right near where Duquesne t-boned into Jefferson. They were filming a scene from CHiP's there one day. GSV now shows a Culver City park there and Duquesne has been extended up into the hills, it looks like! I guess that was a long time ago now! Part of the 1984 Olympic Marathon route went down Jefferson past this area.

This park seems to have been a major civic work. I find no info as to when it was built. It rises from street level up into the hills and comprises 41.55 acres. It has a baseball Field with dugout, announcer/press box, bench seating (less than 500 seats), score board, batting cages. It also includes the Culver City Skate Park, The Boneyard (Dog Park), Recreation Hut with Restroom facilities, Picnic Area with 2 separate picnic areas, 4 Barbeques, Children's Play Equipment, 3 Softball Diamonds, 2 Half Court Basketball Court, 1 Soccer Field, a Passive Grass area, Skateboard Park and Interpretive Nature Trail. It seems to have been built with being a filming location in mind, although in this one photo, you may not want to shoot the top half.

https://ca.reel-scout.com/up_images//3/sm/1523.jpgCaliforniaFilmCommission

There is this interesting thing in the park, too. I believe it's a sundial:

https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/...LmfcpIDutc.jpg https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/...FJVQRH5FHH.jpg

https://bsbproduction.s3.amazonaws.c...019%20crop.jpgCCLL

ETA: LADA (Los Angeles Design Associates) did some work on "Multiple athletic fields requiring corrective measures in response to grading and settlement issues, poor drainage and hazardous topography," in 2010.

Here's a LARGE view from the LADA website atop the hill. I spy the MGM (Sony Studios) water tower.

Sorry for the size, but it's a great view of Culver City (where E_R used to work :) ): ...scroll right...

https://ladainc.com/wp-content/uploa...-thumbnail.jpgLADA

In the above photo you can see an "arch", which is this, below, now on the lot:

https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/oKUt9...79cc9223f7.jpg

Maybe they're the reason he turned right:

Reagan began as a Roosevelt Democrat. He moved to the right-wing in the 1950's, became a Republican in 1962, and emerged as a leading conservative spokesman in the Goldwater campaign of 1964.

I ran across this interesting building at 1356 South Flower . . .

https://i.postimg.cc/NfSpNg6h/1356-SFlower.jpg
gsv

. . . in the course of doing some research for a postcard I'll be posting in due course (not today).

I can't find much about this building.

The addresses along this stretch seem to have been (rental?) residences ca. 1890-1900, with 1356 seeing "improvements" in 1906 (but 1352 was still a residence in 1913). The look of the entrance at right seems to betoken accommodation for automobiles; and indeed across the street at 1355 was the Apperson Motor Car Company, from about 1915 to January 15, 1920; and so let's make use of that excuse to look at some keen automobiles:

https://i.postimg.cc/K8mrpR1H/Apperson-LAT-4-15-17.jpg
LA Times, 4/15/1917; Lady, you've got a flat tire.


https://i.postimg.cc/HnGbwxG3/Apperson-LAT-6-17-17.jpg
LA Times, 6/17/1917


But Apperson was across the street from the building in my gsv view about which I'm unsuccessfully seeking information. :shrug:

This project which was all set to go in 2019 would have incorporated your building into the design.


https://i.imgur.com/8Up2Ctv.jpg
urbanize.la


But in fairly quick time that all seems to have been superseded by this, set for 2021.


https://i.imgur.com/bHxKKVu.jpg
urbanize.la


I don't spot it as a feature this time round.

I hope this Jan 5, 1924, building permit helps, Odinthor. I think this is your building:

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds

LA Dept. of Building and Safety

:previous:

Many thanks, N_N and Flyingwedge!

Let us hope that the advocates of keeping at least the facade of the old building come to the fore again. It gives a human, warm touch, and would be appropriate for a cafe or other such component to the larger project.

Edit Add: For the record, just a final summing up for this suite of addresses (1352, 1354, 1356, 1358). From just after the current structure's being built (1925), into the early 1930s, the addresses hosted businesses of the nature of light industry. I'm seeing auto repair and supply, nickel plating, printing, tool company, art supply, metal goods. The outlier is that 1356 became first a dealer in Beer (ca. 1935), and then a restaurant site (1936, 37, 38 . . . and I didn't check further).

OMG! I know exactly where this is! This is the intersection of 9th Street and Wilton, on the westernmost edge of Koreatown. The shot is looking across Wilton. The building sits on the SE corner of the intersection. The building is still there but is surrounded by stone framed wrought iron black fence. You can still see the the first floor windows when passing by but not the yard. It was recently undergoing renovations (Thank God!), until Covid hit and slowed down it's progress. The little house next door to the right is gone and was replaced with one of those 60's styled 2 story apartment buildings that runs depth wise on the property. I live one block east of this corner.

^^^

Thanks OJC1927! And welcome!

The apartment building is on the SE corner of 9th Street and Wilton in the westernmost edge of the Koreatown area, just above Olympic Bl. to the south and Wilshire to the north. It's still standing but currently undergoing renovations.

Thanks for adding me! LOVE THIS SITE!!!

If anyone is interested this is an online event I just learned about:

Atlas Obscura: A Peek Inside Legendary Hollywood Estates
by Atlas Obscura

Join author and architectural historian David Silverman for a fascinating peek inside some of the most legendary homes in Los Angeles.

The event is online, July 6th, and it costs $7 to participate.
More info about it and to sign up:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atlas-o...eid=1892dea337

As strange and bizarre as this may sound, I'm 95% sure that the woman holding the baby in this photo is my grandmother and the baby is my mother. I sent you a private message Lorendoc with the details. I hope you see it and get back to me. =)

As strange and bizarre as this may sound, I'm 95% sure that the woman in line at the bank holding the baby in this photo is my grandmother and the baby is my mother. I sent a private message to Lorendoc with the details. I hope they see it and get back to me. =)

You overlooked the main event.

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Close, But No Cigar Periscope.


Christine Larson Love Nest, 1624 N. Beverly Glen [now demolished]

Good sleuthing GW. I appreciate your help, buddy.

It makes me sad to see these simple houses (love nests?) destroyed. I can just imagine what the new owners of the land plan to build there.
No doubt something four or five times larger. ...*shakes head in dismay*


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


I'm surprised that Ms. Larson was given 4th billing on the movie poster for, The Well [1951]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/FWvR5P.jpg
imdb

On imdb she is listed sixteenth in official credit order. (I believe she played a waitress)....Someone pulled some serious strings to get her name on the poster.




Welcome to the thread, OJC1927. :hi:
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