Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9065333)

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Here's another interesting photograph currently on eBay


Seller's description:..."1930'S PHOTO EATON'S STEAK CHICKEN HOUSE RESTAURANT WILSHIRE BLVD LOS ANGELES CA"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/354X2K.jpg
eBay

The biggest damn knife and fork I've ever seen.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9065333)

Here's a menu with the Wilshire location at lower left.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/9cPwgk.jpg
reddit
hmmm. . .the one illus. looks like court yard apartments. What's that all about? :shrug:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9065234)

I don't recall seeing this mid-century apartment on NLA.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3tk1x6.jpg
currently on eBay

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9065234)

I don't recall seeing this mid-century apartment on NLA.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3tk1x6.jpg
currently on eBay



As you can see the street number is 15901 and. . .

the street is Vermont Ave.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9065234)

I don't recall seeing this mid-century apartment on NLA.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3tk1x6.jpg
currently on eBay





The left side of the apartment reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/RmpTc7.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/TBk8Do.jpg


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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 9065448)

15901 S Vermont Avenue is still standing, but sadly it's lost its 'eyes'!

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds
GSV

Originally Posted by Arch2000 (Post 9065501)

Reminds me more of an 80's era cassette boombox:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/98...bcfef9e625.jpg
Pintrest

... which I'm shocked to find out are still made and for sale in 2020!

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9060541)

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mystery location.

I just checked all the past posts that mention elephants & I didn't see the following photographs.


This group of four photographs were on eBay several months ago. .

. . .and show an Elk's Club that, if I remember correctly, the seller said was located in the Los Angeles area.



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/ji0ujO.jpg
eBay




Let's take a closer look at the shenanigans going on at the top of the stairs.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VhVQw2.jpg
eBay

The young boys in the crowd are also wearing interesting hats. I see a couple of beanies and the smallest boy is wearing, what looks like, a Tyrolean hat with a feather.
Sidenote:...I wore a hat like that when I was a kid to hide my big ears.....(luckily my head eventually caught up with my ears and I'm considered normal now)





https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/pFI9pM.jpg
eBay

Were the elephants inside the building!?...:eek:







https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/nTWHi3.jpg
eBay






In this last view you can see a five-globe standard Llewellyn streetlight. . .

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/sVNCqB.jpg
eBay

. . .and if you look closely there are a couple of signs in the distance.


detail
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/9iNj8u.jpg

possible clues? :shrug:




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Originally Posted by Mackerm (Post 9066080)

I was always fascinated by these two apartment buildings.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1270...7i13312!8i6656
See those hubcap sized circles beside the chimneys? Those were Gold Medallion plaques which indicated the buildings were electric only - none of that relic of the 19th century, natural gas.

Then one day the plaques were gone.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1269...7i13312!8i6656

I always wondered if somebody swiped them or if the owner made the unpardonable sin of providing cheaper utilities for the tenants. Also, I don't think I've ever seen giant medallions like these anywhere else. From what I've read, the all-electric gold medallions were small medals or decals or special doorbells. Has anybody else seen one of the giant plaques attached to a building?

Here's what they looked like:
https://i.postimg.cc/ZRvtbmLV/p16003...67160-full.jpg
Huntington
Ribbon cutting and presentation of Medallion Home award. 4/1/1963

Originally Posted by sadykadie2 (Post 9067110)

This set of pictures looks like a bad dream you get after eating too much Chinese food

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9067137)

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Here's another. . .this one taken through a chain link fence. "The Original Hard Rock Cafe at 300 E. Fifth Street. A scary place, its name refers to the patron who were between a rock and a hard place.".

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9067134)

"The Silver Platter, opened in 1963, in the MacArthur Park area. For over four decades, the bar had become a haven for the city’s Latino transgender community."

Does anyone recognize this corner of 7th Street?

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Originally Posted by unihikid (Post 9067126)

I would walk pass this one on Pico Bl everyday. I doubt someone will take it.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0511...7i16384!8i8192

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9067129)

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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Dl2Mva.jpg
onechair_barbershop

Does anyone recognize this young lady in front of the Tail O the Pup?...(1978)

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 9067277)

Looks like Sigourney Weaver. She'd be around 28/29 in this picture, which dates from the year before the release of 'Alien'.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 9067134)

Neighborhood transgender bar. (February, 1982)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/3UtUVH.jpg
slufty / flickr

"The Silver Platter, opened in 1963, in the MacArthur Park area. For over four decades, the bar had become a haven for the city’s Latino transgender community."

Does anyone recognize this corner of 7th Street?

Originally Posted by Mackerm (Post 9067141)

Nope, but I can make out the sign which says 2700 W 7th, which is at Rampart.