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more ephemera.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/nKHvbD.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/3ffQVY.jpg ebay Your straw hat is waiting for you at Busch's Cor. 2nd & Broadway, Los Angeles |
Two amateur snapshots that show construction of the 101 near Melrose and Vermont.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/mVTkJN.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/2a28i8.jpg seller's description: "1950 Building of a Highway Los Angeles Vermont & Melrose" I don't recognize any of the buildings in the distance. (nor do I know if they were demolished or left intact) Since you're all such pros I thought one of you might recognize one of the bldgs. Here's a closer look. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/G6Vb16.jpg left snapshot detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Bx1HhR.jpg right snapshot detail Left snapshot found HERE Right snapshot found HERE __ |
This is from the same group of amateur photographs.
"1940's Downtown Los Angeles St from High Window Old Trucks Vintage Photo" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/gFbUB2.jpg EBAY Can anyone figure out what ledge the photographer is sitting on to achieve this vantage point? (I couldn't :shrug:) _ |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4676/...82ae1ddf_z.jpg at 5th and Bway, looking south https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4747/...ea173c8d_z.jpg Here's a similar shot at LAPL also showing Reese's and Finks https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4675/...87bc4938_z.jpg Looking the other way, about ten years earlier https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4674/...087057c0_b.jpg usc |
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https://s26.postimg.org/dydar4c3t/Busch_A.jpg Dates left to right, up to down: 7/1/1900, 4/21/1906, 6/10/1906, 6/28/1906. https://s26.postimg.org/subtysv95/Busch_B.jpg Dates left to right, up to down: 5/23/1911, 9/19/1912, 4/3/21. Note that on e_r's interesting piece of ephemera, the addressee lives a mere block away from Busch's . . . |
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UPDATE https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/We...=w1346-h637-no More here: http://urbanize.la/post/affordable-h...-dtla-mortuary And some Pierce Bros history: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/20/local/me-24693 |
I like to get to know people.
Mr. R.J. Busch seemed like a person to get to know. I think you'll agree (all from Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library, dates as indicated): https://s26.postimg.org/ysgx0vb89/BuschBitsA.jpg https://s26.postimg.org/h2f8fv7y1/BusBitsB.jpg https://s26.postimg.org/s20frhdsp/BusHom13a.jpg https://s26.postimg.org/srj83um21/BusHom13b.jpg But wait! There's more! . . . |
. . . Continuing (again, all from Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library, dates as indicated; as always, resized and re-formed to compact):
https://s26.postimg.org/wnwjztrm1/BusBitsC.jpg The date of the following is 11/2/1952: https://s26.postimg.org/m12qufebt/BusHo11-2-52A.jpg https://s26.postimg.org/k99rzj2op/Bus11-2-52b.jpg |
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Do you have a current street address or coordinantes for the (rebuilt) R. J. Busch boulder crest house? Sorry if I missed it somewhere. Thanks, Andys |
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Another noirish street scene from Calisphere labeled "View is looking south on Figueroa st Exposition Boulevard. The City's Streets have become a perilous No Man's Land of crime, due to curfew in effect 9 p.m., Saturday night. Photo dated: March 6, 1966." This was 7 months after the Watts riots. There was (and is) a 10 pm city curfew on persons under 18 years old unaccompanied by adults.
https://i.imgur.com/JVj3ECr.jpg calisphere.org I couldn't match Figueroa and Exposition to this picture, though. The only clear business name is "Figueroa Medical Offices" but the online city directories didn't have a listing. https://i.imgur.com/o8bzgMA.jpg Driving the Sanbornmobile up and down Figueroa eventually led to the corner of Fig and Santa Barbara: https://i.imgur.com/ptmBF4f.jpg lapl.org sopas_ej posted a view of this intersection 7 years ago: https://i.imgur.com/YjockA0.jpg calisphere.org This is captioned "Figueroa Street looking south to Santa Barbara Avenue (later Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard), with the Coliseum Hotel and National Automotive School on the left and the Figueroa Theater on the right." e_r probably would like a better view of those roof signs. The Coliseum Hotel was built in 1927 by the Zobelein interests, the beer family often mentioned on this thread. It disappears from aerial photography around 1985. Today the hotel site is a mini-mall not worth posting. |
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Forgive me if this has been posted before..
This website has lots of photos...not hi res but interesting nonetheless. Water and Power Associates http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...+)_Page_1.html Cheers,Pat |
It is not The 101, it is The Hollywood Freeway.
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I remember the business on the ground floor of the building on the NE corner of Figueroa & MLK/Santa Barbara. It was Coliseum French Dip and it was there when I used to go to USC and Raider games in the '80s. I recently attempted to get some information or photos but came up empty so I was pleasantly surprised to see it here. The sign was pretty prolific and I had the impression it was a pretty popular place and thought more info wouldn't be too difficult to find. I guess CFD was no match for Philippe though. |
This is the 1956 Los Angeles Motorama...when cars were unique. Nothing quite like this in 2018. 'Golden Rocket', Oldsmobile dream car.
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Add: Let's afford one more item to Mr. Busch: His wedding. In the Los Angeles Times-- https://s26.postimg.org/r5379w6pl/Busch3-13-1898.jpg The George H. Busch mentioned in one of the articles is, I guess, R.J.'s brother. He showed up at R.J.'s wedding reception with a lot of other Busches, who seem to have had a center of distribution around Santa Ana/Orange in O.C. |
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