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1939
https://i.ibb.co/WtYyd42/Untitled-Panorama1.jpgOkay have not added and image for a long time. This photo was taken in 1939 That's my dad with his Plymouth car. The house behind the car was a home for WW1 vets and is located at 636 Gladys Ave located between 6th and 7th street about 10 blocks east of main St
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I'm not so sure. Might have jumped the gun. https://i.imgur.com/HbdatyH.jpg Nowadays on the corner I originally arrowed is this - https://i.imgur.com/gb0xAna.jpg Google Maps https://i.imgur.com/bK9lvhS.jpg GSV A circular structure oddly incorporated into a building that is nowadays numbered 1155 N. Mission Rd. That circular part looks to be in precisely the same spot as the one in the 1938 aerial ... but the build date for the present day building is 1946. If that round part stood alone in 1938, it looks a little big and not right for the gasoline station structure? :shrug: |
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That's actually a '37 Ford-- the house is gone, of course, but it's an interesting coincidence (?) that its site is now part of a parking lot for the Veteran Co, an auto upholstery supplier. https://i.postimg.cc/P5w3qXFd/gladys-bmp.jpg |
Thanks Gaylord. I thought it was a 37 Plymouth because of the humpback but you are right it's a 37 ford. I will have to correct my family history.
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A group of absolutely amazing [1870s?] stereoviews appeared on Ebay last night.
It's probably due to my shitty poor memory, but I don't recall seeing the topiary entrance. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................I am posting them EXTRA-large so you can see all the details. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/62nLsX.pngEbay reverse https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/TMcm4K.jpg This 2nd stereoview [of the Plaza] includes a fine view of Fort Moore hill. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/dpiBEe.jpg Ebay Everything is so.... perfect. The Plaza wes certainly civic Los Angeles' pride of place. reverse https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/RJWWAJ.jpg There are a total of seven stereoviews [being sold separately] If I'm not mistaken we have seen a few of the others on NLA. (I might post them anyway..just in case I am wrong) If we have seen these two stereoview before...pretend you haven't. ;) . |
Yesterday, I posted this 1924 snapshot of the Tam-O-Shanter.
Someone posted this snapshot on the Tam-o-Shanter's YELP page. Molly V. wrote: "I found this old pic of dad at Tam O'shanter!" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/4MLYTv.jpg YELP Does anyone know where this more modern version was located? __ |
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Hmmm... this one is called "Tam O Shanter's"... the Chevelle's plate doesn't look like a Calif plate, not that that means the pic wasn't taken in Calif...are we sure this is a branch of "our" TOS? |
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The structure up on Fort Hill looks to me to be the early state of the building when it was Jake Phillippi's place The Gardens, which was, I believe, a beer garden. According to my notes, he established this place in or about 1883, the location being referred to in The Illustrated History of Los Angeles County as on the corner of Buena Vista and Rock Sts., "but on account of ill health sold the place to Mrs. Banning" (Mr. Banning had been his employer once upon a time when Phillippi was a teamster, about 1863?; but I don't have a date as to when he "sold the place"). Phillippi died November 14, 1892. |
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Then what about this cryptic item in the Times of June 25, 1882???, one might ask: https://i.postimg.cc/436cLK6y/Oscar6-25-82.jpg Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library Another item on July 1, 1882, explains: https://i.postimg.cc/MpkXC6KQ/Oscar7-1-82.jpg Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library, latter portion of article lopped off æsthetically https://i.postimg.cc/05FNSkSB/Oscar-Sunflower.jpg |
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7906/...3cd011e7_o.png And it seems he sold it not to Banning, but to Carl Seidel, for here we are in May 1884: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7893/...986d88eb_o.png Mary Hollister Banning purchased it from Seidel in 1887, lived there with daughters Misses Mary and Lucy. The 1900 census shows just Mary, 52, with Anna Pendergrast, her 26-yo servant from Ireland, and Soledad Fuentes, an 11-yo servant from Mexico. In 1910 she's still there, with her daughter Lucy Greenleaf and son-in-law Mace and three servants, two male, one female (1910 is also the year Lucy dumps Mace for the son of a prominent judge). Mary is last listed at the house in 1914, and it becomes apartments; in the 1920 census MHB is living in Pomona by her lonesome (her filling out the census being the last thing she ever did, apparently—she died in 1919). |
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Thanks, Beaudry! :tup: This place has always interested me. |
This is LA but I don't know where. Anyone know or can take a guess?
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9098bda0...px5vo1_400.gif Its from the film "Gun Crazy",,,,, |
Remember the Epworth League? (METHODIST ASSOCIATION)
The Question. 1915 decorated car The Answer. Lorendoc / The Epworth League https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/wnhplv.jpg I dug a little deeper, and arrived at a Social Justice website that has some fascinating photographs chronicling the birth of Goodwill. Many of locations [of the PHOTOGRAPHS] are a bit vague, but a majority of them are in the vicinity of the Plaza and the nearby Methodist Mexican(?) Church. I'll start with this mystery location. "Three men stand next to a Goodwill Industries of Southern California truck, c. 1921" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/L06gdp.jpg museumofsocialjustice A good clue, obviously, is the 'El Camino Bell' as well as... the haunted-looking house atop the hill. THIS ONE. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/6qoM05.jpg DETAIL I should probably know.....but I don't. . |
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7903/...0607c4e0_b.jpggetty https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7850/...3b4130f0_o.png Gun Crazy was the first noir I ever saw. I was, what, seventeen maybe. I think it warped me in all the ways you'd expect it to. Explains a lot. |
OK, one more for tonight.
Mystery Adobe Can anyone figure out...who lived in, [or] what business was located in the adobe building? (I don't know where to put my commas) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/O3dm4R.jpg museumofsocialjustice It's obviously in the process of being torn down. ( there is some writing on it, but I can't read it) The adobe was eventually replaced by this... "1917 Chapel Methodist Mexican" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/BmTxrq.jpg museumofsocialjustice "Two wooden portable buildings built in 1917 contained the Plaza Mexican Methodist Church and the Plaza Goodwill Store, which offered medical, dental, employment, and general welfare services." . |
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7888/...9497ce88_o.pngdwp It's looming down on J M Gallegos's place at 324 Sunset. In the map below, 324 is at bottom right. The Banning place is at 535 Broadway, upper left, above the "A" in Broadway. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7801/...637f2cee_o.pngbaist https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/L06gdp.jpg |
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Last weekend I saw W.C. Fields' last starring movie: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941 - original story credited to our own Otis Criblecoblis). Towards the end of the movie, there is a 5 minute chase scene which has excellent exterior shots of the warehouse district downtown, Atwater Village, and the Cahuenga Pass. At least 3 Noirish LA posters have commented on this chase: 3940dxer and GaylordWilshire back on page 1417, and Scott Charles elsewhere.
Here's a link to a brief 2 minute, 40 second clip from the first portion of the chase, well worth watching: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VT...xYA0_LNIZi2Vtb The most interesting to me are the downtown shots. And it is good I googled before putting effort into identifying each of them: last year, John Bengtson made a terrific and detailed blog post on these locations: In the comments section of Bengtson's blog, Scott Charles contributed a missing chase location ID. The downtown venues were shot in the area bounded by E 6th, Alameda, E 7th, and the river: https://i.imgur.com/tqN6LX0.jpg Google Maps Bengtson has some great "then and nows" - well worth seeing. Here's a "then" that he didn't include. It fits between his location 16) and 17). Fields' car careens east down Produce Street past the Certain-Teed Products company warehouse and makes a quick jog south towards the California Warehouse building, then left to continue on the next east-west street which is Wholesale St. Here is the Sanborn map: https://i.imgur.com/qrFi5VV.jpg lapl.org At 1:00 there is a scene of well-dressed citizens exiting south through an arcade from E 6th to Produce Street. They are immediately set upon by Fields' car and are forced to jump out of their shoes to get out of the way in time. This is followed by a view of 2 confused motorcycle cops driving in circles outside an adjacent building with a sign "Beekeepers Supplies - Honey Beeswax." https://i.imgur.com/6ravfgQ.jpg Universal Pictures I wondered if this were a real business or just something made up for the movie. I looked in the CDs and found that bee products actually were a thing, although the only business listed was several blocks away from where Bengtson placed these shots. But looking more closely at the Sanborn above, there is an "apiary supplies" building at 1300 Produce. Searching for that address yielded several entries for the Diamond Match Company, which does not appear to be insect-related at first sight. This company, according to Wikipedia, continues to be the leading producer of matches (12B/yr) in the USA, and was controlled in the 1920s by Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish Match King - "a genius and swindler," the "Leonardo of larcenists," according to John Kenneth Galbraith. Kreuger operated Diamond Match as his personal Ponzi scheme until his (suspicious) death in 1932. So what about these bees? Google provided the answer in an AP wire story from August 3, 2004: CHICO, Calif. (AP) -- One of the original Diamond Match factory buildings in Chico has gone up in flames, apparently a victim of arson. |
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Hey Beaudry.....thank you so much....you are in the know for sure. Now I can relax. I will check out your link. |
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