:previous: Very interesting Hoss. I didn't know that building was even there!

It's very mid-century cool......I wonder if it's ever been used as a movie location?

-note what appears to be a good sized penthouse on top.
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Hi Jack. No, I didn't buy the photograph.

But I'm curious, what did you mean by "put a lupe"?
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Anyway, here's an enlargement of the hood area. (I realize this isn't going to help much)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/yRQULy.jpg
detail



Is the badge you mentioned the rectangular plate by the side air vents? (red arrow below)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/cHsoye.jpg
micro detail ;)


Click here to see the complete photograph again:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=36027


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I think he meant "loupe." In any case, it's a 1930's Fageol, probably built in Oakland, CA.

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/fageol.htm

Cheers,

Earl

Thanks Earl, for the spelling correction and truck info! I was thinking Corbett.

Cheers,
Jack

Rare 1909 postcard.

I checked through the past posts and I don't believe we've seen this postcard of the Kensington Flats in Santa Monica.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/ouRna8.jpg
eBay

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/B3vTOk.jpg



The sentiment on the back says something about a short sickness on the train, and eating oranges, lemons....fruit juice & marmalade.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/IVYVFC.jpg
detail




Just for fun, here's a larger view of the flats.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/YQzW6p.jpg

Does anyone know where in Santa Monica this courtyard apartment complex was located?
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Early cabinet card/photograph. [1880s or 1890s]


Take a look at this turn-of-last-century coiffure.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/5NHDJa.jpg
eBay

Payne, Stanton & Co. - - ELITE GALLERY - - Los Angeles, Cal


Here's the reverse with all it's interesting typography. -note the five different typefaces!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/1JVStJ.jpg

Temple Block, Spring & Main Streets.





I've been imagining this woman, dressed to the nines, walking to the junction of Main, Spring and Temple streets to have her photograph taken
in one of the most prominent buildings in the city. (or maybe she took her buggy;))

I was hoping to find 'Elite Gallery' painted on one of the windows in the Temple Block (shown below)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/P6qsQE.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1947/rec/8


Alas, the upper stories are filled with law offices.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/oE7aWB.jpg
detail



But I found a spooky man in a window next door.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/r8wVIh.jpg
detail
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I think this is the same place.

"Kensington Apartments on 1746 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, Calif."

The description says: "Apartments were built circa 1907 and became the Kensington Motel from 1960 to 1990."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonFlats1.jpg
Santa Monica Public Library

A slight name change, but the details are all the same as the image above. The design looks a little different to both the image above and e_r's picture - maybe this is just a different side, or it got a makeover with the name change.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonFlats2.jpg
Santa Monica Public Library

I didn't find anything at that address now, and I can't even see it on Historic Aerials.

:previous: Excellent! Thanks Hoss.

Hoss, you probably didn't recognize it in the aerials, because they added all kinds of sh*t to make it appear more modern.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/mw4OdH.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/94207108@N02/15160987677

You can still see the 1907 bungalows if you look closely.





I also found this.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/xNgeIP.jpg
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/467600373786012887/




pano at top, from this postcard.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/NGEqcr.jpg

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Kensington Flats update.

I've just found this later picture which shows Kensington Court behind the Hotel Chase. The source, SMPL again, dates it at 1950 or 1951.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonFlats3.jpg
Santa Monica Public Library

After locating the Hotel Chase, I found these overhead views at californiacoastline.org. The first is from 1986. I think the Kensignton Motel (as in e_r's pictures above) is what I've outlined in red.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonFlats4.jpg
Detail from californiacoastline.org

By 1993, the lot is empty.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonFlats5.jpg
Detail from californiacoastline.org

For comparison, I've rotated a current view to match the ones above.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonFlats6.jpg
GSV

Wow that's really clear for such an old photo, e_r.

Payne and Stanton are both in the LA City Directories for several years, but they are together running the Elite Gallery
in only the 1881 and 1883 directories.

Apparently these were the days before the photographer told you to "say cheese"

Here's another cabinet card that's quite outstanding in it's clarity. (I posted it extra-Large; there may be an insignia on the buttons)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/JbbPAR.jpg
https://cabinetcardgallery.wordpress...g/los-angeles/

This handsome man is wearing a military uniform that I haven't been able to place. I thought perhaps someone here on NLA might recognize it.

And as you can see, the photography studio is Blanchard of Los Angeles, Cal



I located two Blanchards that were photographers in the 1897 Los Angeles city directory.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/MDJmZb.jpg
lapl

The first one is Gilbert E. Blanchard, r. 203 S Hill

and the other is James B. Blanchard at Plaza Gallery, 513 N. Main (r. sw cor. of Sunset Boulevard and Lucile)
lol...at first I thought Lucile was his wife, but it's a street.



Out of curiosity I typed "Lucile street, Los Angeles" into Google_Maps.
(but the only result is down in Marina Del Rey)


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Kensington Motel
 

Good Lord! From gracious "period charm" to hideously remodeled 60's Dingbat eyesore. - and right on Ocean Avenue.

Well, Little Richard sang "I woke up this morning, Lucille was not in sight." (thanks for the earworm, e_r :)), but I checked Google Maps and Lucile Avenue still intersects with Sunset Boulevard in the Silver Lake area. I don't know which corner Mr Blanchard was on.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...setLucile1.jpg
Google Maps

I had a feeling that I'd seen an advert for Blanchard's photography studio, so I went back to the 1897 CD. I may have remembered wrongly, but I did notice a lot of page header adverts for the Garden City Foto Company at 606 E 5th Street. This is their main advert, showing how they get their unique 25-foot elevation (although they only claim 18 foot in the picture).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nCityFoto1.jpg
LAPL

:previous: That's such a great ad Hoss, but there's no way in hell I'd climb that precarious ladder.

I shudder to think what would happen if the horse bolted down the street while he was up there.
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Thanks for finding Lucile. :)

Once more...

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/mw4OdH.jpg
And if that wasn't bad enough JD, at one point in time it was painted BROWN!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/UEUIzV.jpg
www.cardcow.com

At first I thought the postcard company messed up it's colors, but then I noticed the blue cars. (if it was a misprint, they'd be brown too, right?)

...and i just noticed, the number 1746 is missing. (it's clearly visible in the top card)

:previous: So what's the make of that smaller blue car?


the various amenities
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/vEPuYT.jpg
cardcow

:previous: I'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that there were 92 units! (60 with kitchens)

It just doesn't seem possible.



Here's HossC's 1986 aerial again.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/sgQzvb.jpg

Ok, now that I've compared the size of the bungalows to the neighboring houses, I see that they're rather large,
so perhaps 92 units is feasible.

(I have to laugh at myself, I was thinking perhaps 10 units...at max 20, if the bungalows were duplexes)
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pano from this
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/0LdZV2.jpg
cardcow

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Renault Dauphine. One of the worst automobiles ever made.

Cheers,

Earl

:previous:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/u5sTNs.jpg
http://vinson.hagleyblogs.org/2013/05/

Thanks Earl.

What made it so bad.....besides the rather unattractive design. (the headlights remind me of beady little eyeballs)


-& I'm not sure why Frida Kahlo is in the ad ;).
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We've got some more mid-century architecture from Julius Shulman today. This is "Job 623: International Union of Operating Engineers, 1949".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

A view of the side.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

I can't read the street sign in the first picture, but the 1956 CD led me to 2323 W 8th Street. The 2009 GSV images show the building as the Gu Sung Medical Clinic.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original
GSV

Sadly, the 2011 image shows an empty lot. Now you'll just find the wall of a playground, possibly connected with the MacArthur Park Primary Center at the northern end of the block.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
GSV