[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8580128]2717 Altura Avenue, La Crescenta, California. Pre-flood photo. [c.1931]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Fwwe1e.jpg
Ebay


I believe this little house has survived but there is no way to get a closer look at it.

Was there, at one time, a street between (and running parallel with) Prospect and Altura Avenues? (you can see a line)
The way it is now, 2717 Altura is three house in from the actual street. ...How did that happen?


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/o2kVVu.jpg
Check it out for yourself HERE

And if that line between Prospect & Altura used to be an alleyway...it still doesn't make much sense.




Here's why I think it's the same house. (the porch roof appears to match)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/pl9w7O.jpg
gsv / NORTH is at the bottom.






Looks like they have a community driveway back to the house. They are pretty far in.

https://i.postimg.cc/xddNMpkg/house.png
Google Street View

How 'bout An Old CD of Noirishers.

:)

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Or you could go down the old cartological route -


A baist of noirishers.

or

A sanborn of noirishers.

:)

Now those I like! :banana::awesome::cucumber::pepper::dancingbacon:dancinghotdog::dancingtaco:leek:

Can we reach a consensus on the collective noun for Noirishers? It would be nice to resolve this matter so that we can begin bickering over the design of our softball team shirt.

Thanks, FredH!

I'm trying to figure out that writing, too. Can't wait to see a good scan of the image to see what it actually says.

What is the building in the center of Central Park? I thought it was a fountain but the color suggests otherwise.

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Or maybe use the noirist of noirish streets - by shear volume of name drops in literally a million posts here:

A Beaudry of Noirishers!

I'm seeing the words Realt(y) and BREA.

I'll take a stab at the billboard advertising a company like this one.


https://i.imgur.com/hXT2YVh.jpg
rescarta.lapl.org

:)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Fwwe1e.jpg

Thanks for your help, BillinGlendaleCA. I appreciate it. :)
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I am pretty sure we have seen this newspaper illustration/map on nla. (it was a looong time ago)

It's so cool I thought I'd post it again.
.....................................................................LA CRESCENTA - MONTROSE FLOOD, NEW YEARS DAY 1934
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/iuL52B.jpg
adventuresofrustywaters

You can see the complete front page HERE.....Once there, click on the newspaper and it becomes HUGE!

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I just happened upon this rppc. (real picture postcard)


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/V4y4Wu.jpg
csun / oviat library

Can you imagine the power it took to move that huge boulder down from the mountains!



I would be like.......

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/6744/8AsqW8.gif

Oh ShiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiT ! :eek:

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Thanks so much Scott Charles. It looks great for what you had to work with (a bad scan).

It will be fun to compare with Beaudry's actual photograph.


p.s. I still think that's Clio.

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A little more on our Hellers:

https://i.postimg.cc/0NGYG5sv/heller5-19-12.jpg
Building permit in LA Times 5/19/1912 via ProQuest via CSULB Library


https://i.postimg.cc/Y9p1dcrW/Claire9-22-30.jpg
LA Times 9/22/1930 via ProQuest via CSULB Library


But nothing on Clio. :(

How about a pall of noirishers?

Brew 102 brewery has been mentioned recently. When was it torn down, and when did the brand go away? I remember driving by the brewery on the 101 just east of City Hall as late as the 1970s, maybe early 1980s (?). Why was it called Brew 102--what is 102? Did they try 102 formulations before hitting on the right one?

didn't we have a similar situation about a year ago with regard to something that ran in the middle of the block where there were a lot of small houses clustered around? in the case of the Altura Avenue house, it was built in 1920. It was apparently part of what was called Parrago Tract, but I don't have time right now to research it. The little road that looks like it was once a street, is probably access which was put in later to allow fire trucks to get in the area.

I think E_R should open an office and call it Ethereal Realty.

Lwize, Noir_Noir and CaliNative additions included.
Compilation post: HERE.


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And shorts?

https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...x471-76448.jpgLAPLviaKCET
Hollywood All Stars premiered their new uniforms April 1st (yes, April Fools Day)
in 1950 and wore then through 1953. I'm guessing sliding into 2nd base was drastically reduced.

Los Angeles Noirish Bureau
 

Los Angeles Noirish Bureau
Contributors will be addressed as LNB Agents :tup:

I remember some color Hollywood area photos posted once concerning a flood that occurred in 1962 when mud washed down into the area from the hills. I don't recall these were posted anywhere though (didn't find them in a search, but I couldn't find those others I mentioned, either).

Hollywood Blvd. outside the Music Box Theatre, aka the Pix Theatre, aka the Henry Fonda Theatre. On the left, the Hollywood Gun Shop.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NBn9YA48h...ox-Ault-62.jpgSean Ault via L.A. Theatres

Sergeants 3 is playing at the Pix, starring, it appears, the entire Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.

A Closer Look: Pantages blade sign on the right. On the left: Eddie's Food Cocktails, a "Hotel" blade sign (don't recall a Hotel there...)*** ...and a yellow and green sign that says "Blue Chip Stamps." Maybe it's blue, not green? Also a row of those Hollywood street lamps with orange stars on them.

***Thanks to HossC (post below) one can see atop the Hotel blade sign it says "Hastings" for Hastings Hotel. With the condensed nature of the photo, I thought the Hotel was almost next to the Pix, but now see it wasn't from the photo below. (Also, the Pix is the Fox in that photo.) Hastings Hotel aka Regent aka Vermillion. Also thanks to NoirNoir for more Hastings info and photo.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TLIfzxTKq...icBox-62-2.jpg


A newspaper photo of the damage.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8H67HuSky...intageLA-1.jpgVLA Facebook Page

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In 1962, it was the Hotel Hastings or the Hastings Hotel of Hollywood or some variation thereof. Here's an earlier incarnation which I posted back in 2013. I think we were trying to figure out which hotel window one of e_r's Ebay finds was taken from.