Looks like Gazanias are the flower of choice in the foreground bed.

Thank you Lorendoc for the history of 619 S June. I know that house by sight, but did not know it was by S Charles Lee. It's down and across from the British Consul General's residence (Wallace Neff, 1928) at № 450, where I've spent many a golden hour.

619 S June has frontages on both June and 6th Street and backs onto John Burroughs Middle School:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tu...=w1155-h638-no
google maps

Along with all the other work, the pool appears to have been moved:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gm...t=w711-h530-no
zillow



Permits list the owners as Shaul and Danielle Dina. Shaul Dina may be the Hollywood producer (since 2016) of such films as the nouveau grindhouse effort "Carnage Park" (2016), "frequently repellent" said LAT, as quoted by Rotten Tomatoes (critics 60% - audience 30%), which would go a long way towards explaining the choices in facade detailing and hardscape at № 619.



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Yup, that's one of the reasons the newest addition to the Huntington is the Chinese Garden.

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5671/...738a8530_b.jpg_9190128-1_001 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

Look, e_r--a free church! ;)

https://s26.postimg.org/ywl7jc0mx/Free_Church.jpg
LA Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library, reconfigured for space

https://s26.postimg.org/cxesw5u3d/Free_Ch2.jpg
gsv

I ran across, and am reviewing as I have a chance, a very large cache of photos I took in the early 1980s, most of which have no prayer of being of interest to NLA. This one perhaps comes close, if anyone wants a detail of (I think) the Pasadena City Hall...

https://s26.postimg.org/fg0hwr82x/Pa_Ci_Ha_L.jpg
odinthor collection, photo by odinthor

I run a Facebook group called Richfield Beacons, about the beacon towers they put up along the west coast in 1928-29-30. Since the Richfield Building was one of the beacons, I have numerous photos.

If any of you have interest in the Richfield beacons, I am still looking for any information or photos I can find of the LA-area beacons:
Castaic Junction - I have aerials of the site and of the Beacon Coffee Shop across the street, but none of the service station and tower from ground level. The tower was purchased by LA County and moved to what is now LA County Fire Station 82 in La Cañada Flintridge, for use as a transmission tower until the 1960s. It's disposition after that is unknown.
Alhambra: supposedly located at what became the site of the Alhambra airport, I have no photos - aerial or otherwise. It was listed as new in the federal government's Air Commerce Bulletin in October 1929, and again as discontinued in the July 1930 issue.

You can go here for the Historic American Building Survey photos in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/ca0250/

Here are some photos of the Richfield Building I've collected - some were posted here, others on Facebook, still others found online in various places.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RK...v=w643-h889-no
circa 1931

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0A...a=w936-h709-no
1930s? judging by the cars

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Jb...4=w677-h889-no
Herman Schultheis, ca. 1937, from LAPL

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1W...m=w722-h889-no
Penthouse, 1950, from the Julius Shulman archive

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3c...O=w708-h889-no
1950s

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wu...=w1181-h889-no
From Life archives

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/29...d=w496-h577-no
A fire at the Richfield Building, 3/1/54. From martinturnbull.com

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ku...B=w660-h508-no
Atomic dawn over Los Angeles, 3/7/55

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yW...3=w529-h683-no
1955, a slide from eBay

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ix...2=w609-h889-no
South Flower Street, August 1955, from a set on the wrecking of old buildings for the Superior Oil Building

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wV...k=w610-h889-no
A slide from I don't know where

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Zc...g=w522-h877-no
Crop from Julius Shulman photo 7K of Job #4161, Los Angeles Twilight, 1967, from Getty Research Institute

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bN...u=w709-h889-no
Another mystery source

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rh...F=w607-h889-no
April 1968

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VZ...=w1287-h889-no
Last day open, 11/15/1968

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_4...T=w608-h889-no
Last day open, 11/15/1968

T2....most interesting back stories. Something is amiss with this family. At one time they were willing to sell the house in a state of being half remodeled...''as is''. What?!

Now the roof is leaking? Let's pass on this one.....its a can of worms.:shrug:

So you were doing the shim-sham at the British Consulate?

Thanks oldstuff. -Segno's timeline sure is difficult to follow.

per the article below:

After marrying wife #2 (Annie Dell) Victor Segno ran away to Europe with a married assistant, Irene Weitzel.

posted LARGE (for some reason the next size was too small)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/qnrmHb.jpg
[May 31, 1911?] ehbritten

After his flight to Europe, Victor Segno's birthname is discovered to be William Albert Hall
and his legal wife's name is Dell Dinsmore. (not Annie Dell?)
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Once in Europe, Segno's new paramour, Irene Weitzel, adopts the name Carolyn Segno. (huh? :shrug:)

'Carolyn' & Victor Segno.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/fK6zPs.png
1915 passport ehbritten

"And from that point forward, A. Victor Segno and 'Carolyn Segno' disappear from the public record, entirely".ehbritten



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I thought this was interesting.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8apshQ.jpg
Nautilus 1906

We discussed the Worlds Fair searchlight in the early days of the thread, but I don't remember discussing how it was powered. (maybe I just forgot)


below / from GIZMODO

"When running at 200 amperes—a current generated by a Pelton water wheel in a nearby canyon—the carbon arc lamp burned with the intensity
of 90,000 to 100,000 candles. A massive reflecting lens mirror magnified that blaze to 375 million candlepower."


Does anyone know in which canyon this Pelton water wheel was located?
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#2: location of searchlight in relation to the observatory:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/FP6FdD.jpg
ebay find [dated: 1908]

Is this view about 1,500 ft from the observatory?

-was the searchlight in this area in the foreground / where the photographer was standing?









Oh, and one more thing

https://imageshack.com/a/img923/2517/yGE1aW.gif

Am I the only one who didn't know the observatory dome was initially covered in canvas? :shrug:

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[QUOTE=ProphetM;8054561]I run a Facebook group called Richfield Beacons, about the beacon towers they put up along the west coast in 1928-29-30. Since the Richfield Building was one of the beacons, I have numerous photos.

If any of you have interest in the Richfield beacons, I am still looking for any information or photos I can find of the LA-area beacons:
Castaic Junction - I have aerials of the site and of the Beacon Coffee Shop across the street, but none of the service station and tower from ground level. The tower was purchased by LA County and moved to what is now LA County Fire Station 82 in La Cañada Flintridge, for use as a transmission tower until the 1960s. It's disposition after that is unknown.
Alhambra: supposedly located at what became the site of the Alhambra airport, I have no photos - aerial or otherwise. It was listed as new in the federal government's Air Commerce Bulletin in October 1929, and again as discontinued in the July 1930 issue.

You can go here for the Historic American Building Survey photos in the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/ca0250/

Here are some photos of the Richfield Building I've collected - some were posted here, others on Facebook, still others found online in various places.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RK...v=w643-h889-no
circa 1931

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0A...a=w936-h709-no
1930s? judging by the cars

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Jb...4=w677-h889-no
Herman Schultheis, ca. 1937, from LAPL

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1W...m=w722-h889-no
Penthouse, 1950, from the Julius Shulman archive



https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yW...3=w529-h683-no
1955, a slide from eBay


Wonderful pics. Thanks! At least the old Eastern Columbia building still remains. The "oil derrick" spire/beacon of the Richfield might have inspired the design of the Empire State Building's dirigible port spire. Some similarity. Richfield was built a couple of years before. Would be great if some developer could put up a neo-Art Deco tower with a spire/beacon like the Richfield, maybe on the Angel's Landing site on Hill. A 1000'+ homage to Richfield tower. The past and future merge. We can dream. Of all the buildings in L.A. from my youth that are no longer there, the Richfield is the one I miss the most. So beautiful at night, as the lower photo shows.

Yup, that's a detail of the dome on Pasadena City Hall. I was there last Sunday on a photoshoot.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4660/...33ac1374_b.jpg_1141058_PTGui Panorama.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr

Ran across this house while in search of something miles to the south.... The Herald indicates 420 Mt. Washington Drive, though Samuel O. McMichael (no 's')--
an engineer with the water department--actually lived at 410. He died in 1943, but, per building permits, the family was still in possession as late as 1987.



https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3p...=w1010-h673-no
LAH October 3, 1909



https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1p...J=w901-h647-no


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a6...I=w821-h583-no

It's always a treat to revisit the Richfield Tower, ProphetM, thanks!


Ah, but you got to see it!

(Did you ever see the NBC Building at Hollywood & Vine?)

originally posted by odinthor
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/k1RrJe.jpg

look, e_r--a free church!
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lol. you sound just like my friend odinthor. :)



speaking of....

"Class photo taken on the front steps of the Los Angeles Free Methodist Seminary in Highland Park, in an area originally known as Hermon."

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/4O20gD.png
LAPL






We briefly discussed this place back in 2014.


The class photo gives us the first close look at what is written above the door.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/tr2QSS.jpg
detail

L.A.F.M. SEMINARY 1903







GW added this baist map to the conversation in 2014.
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Too much
 

I felt the same discomfort looking at this.

:previous: I wouldn't go quite that far.
What bothers me most is the overkill with the outdoor lighting/lamps*
I count 10 lamps on the house when the two by the door would have suffixe. (and they could be smaller)
The way it is now, the lamps compete head-to-head with the architectural medallions and catouche(s)
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*there are 8 more lamps along the porch balustrade. (they're in pairs).....and 6 on the stairs in addition to step lighting.

...and those clunky stairs themselves. They make the place look like a school or post office or something...

628 and 636 S. Serrano Avenue
 

I posted a small photo of these two "mystery" houses previously, but I've just figured out where they were,
plus now the photo is zoomable so we can see them a little better.

February 27, 1916, Los Angeles Times:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psy4i7nkjy.jpg

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9gougf2w.jpg

ProQuest via LAPL


That's 628 on the left and 636 on the right, with a bit of 640 behind the palm. I'd guess this photo is c. 1918.
As far as I could tell, Hobart, Serrano and Oxford between 5th and Wilshire are the only north-south residential
streets in that part of town where the sidewalk is next to the curb, without a strip of grass between the two:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psjqmqirak.jpg

UCLA/Islandora


August 25, 1916, BP for 628-630 S. Serrano. There is a BP with the same date for 636-638 S. Serrano. The
Certificates of Occupancy for the two buildings are dated April 23, 1917:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psubeauuez.jpg

LADBS


1921 Sanborn with north at right and 628 and 636 S. Serrano just left of center. I believe 610 and 616 (now 618)
are still standing:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psqhn3rvyg.jpg

ProQuest via LAPL


September 30, 1971, demo permit for 636 S. Serrano. There is a demo permit with the same date for 628:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psnxcpsev9.jpg

LADBS


Here's a closer look at 636 and 640 S. Serrano from the photo above:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pssnyeiv0z.jpg


This is 628 S. Serrano:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psmq1abrue.jpg


This is 1125 (formerly 1121-23) 3rd Avenue, which I believe is the structure mentioned in the article at the top of this
post ("identical in plan with a flat being constructed by the same builder on Third Avenue, near Eleventh Street"):

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psqa39x02n.jpg

June 2017 GSV


The BP for 1121-23 3rd Avenue has the same owner's last name, architect, and building dimensions, confirming what
was written in the article at the top of this post:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pss1xlkx91.jpg

LADBS


The Beidlers' old home at 1133 3rd Avenue is still standing.