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:previous: Thanks for the information t2. I should have guessed the M might have stood for Mission since the building is located on Mission Road.
(although the M on the building faces Aliso Street) Here's a 1935 view of St. Joseph's Catholic Church where GatoVerde's parents were married. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/23fHFV.jpg http://blogdowntown.com/2011/10/6440...own-firedamage Thanks for sharing your personal photograph with us GatoVerde! __ |
more on St. Joseph's...
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/FPhMsy.jpg http://blogdowntown.com/2011/10/6440...own-firedamage and it's awful replacement. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/IPbSJz.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/qM4ZCn.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/7294653@N07/467681097/ Flyingwedge included a fine photograph of St. Joseph's here: (it's visible in the distance in photo #12, and a close-up photo #13) http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19366 __ |
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Here's St Joseph's on the corner of Los Angeles and 12th Streets on the 1914 Baist map - towards the later end of the possible date range of the picture in Flyingwedge's post. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original www.historicmapworks.com There's a 1985 article about the building of the replacement church at latimes.com. |
:previous: Thanks Hoss.
Pasadena 'mystery' home. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/5jTw34.jpg eBay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/gPRQLv.jpg eBay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...913/0vhpLz.jpg reverse everything but the street address. __ |
Queen of Angels Middle School
Found a user group of Queen of Angels Middle School alumni and I thought I would share. The school stood on the west side of Hill, from Ord and north, across from the Velvet Turtle.
The gym, along Hill btwn Ord and Alpine: https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...13&oe=56484686 https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...13&oe=56484686 The main building on Hill. The left side of the pic (south side) is Ord Street: https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a3&oe=56529E35 https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...a3&oe=56529E35 |
I think the gothic brickwork entrance is original. Thanks for these etherialR!
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Queen of Angles Middle School
A 1959 view from just north of Queen Angels Middle School looking south-east and towards the future site of the Velvet Turtle (thanks to FlyingWedge for this ref.)
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From my map reading memory: this is adjacent to, and may be part of the same structure that houses "El Pato" cannery, albeit, that is a newer stucco facade, which was a principal railroad produce terminal (Santa Fe?) in the late 1800s. I wonder it this is a newer building or still part of the old depot with a new facade.
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:previous: Excellent find HossC!
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it was a great idea, but the jackhammers aren't going to do us any good - the slots are gone. Judge James H. Pope was the party pooper. I came across this view in the LAPL http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k....jpglapl39.jpg LAPL Herald-Examiner Collection: "One-armed bandits, 833 of them, found their just reward today in a Los Angeles junk heap. Slot machines seized in a raid on a warehouse, are shown being pounded to pieces by a huge steel ball dropped from an overhead crane." Photo dated: October 4, 1939. LAT also carried the whimsically-written story, 10-5-39: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/slots1.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/slots2.jpg If we had diving eqipment, we could go after these ones, confiscated from the Rex and dumped in November that same year. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k....jpglapl39.jpg LAPL Bugsy had these 2 in his home bar. I wonder where they ended up? http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...gbugsysbar.jpg Photo dated Aug 17, 1940. LAPL |
There is still one Pioneer Chicken left in the LA area.:
6323 Florence Ave Bell Gardens, CA 90201 I went there one time to sample it. I was disappointed because they were not using the traditional chicken batter from the old days. The place is a mere shadow of its former glory. They may have been using Dixie Fry which is similar but not the same. I used to eat Pioneer in the East Hollywood area on Sunset in the 1970s when I was in college and had some spare coins...one piece only. Actor Michael J. Fox was also a customer at this location in his early years. Recipe?.....https://youtu.be/CNWmYtaY9Sg There have been a lot of places where I would have food that was wonderful...then they close down and I can't find the same taste...anywhere. This is sad. The solution? I usually have to make it myself. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psa5dyzmje.jpg yelp More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Chicken It was named after Pioneer Market, a now-defunct small chain of supermarkets in Los Angeles. The original location in Echo Park was located next to the 1980s era Pioneer Market (the original 1932 market having been torn down in the 1980s) and is (now a Walgreens Pharmacy) on Echo Park Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. Due to considerable redevelopment activity in the neighborhood caused by gentrification, it was shut down in March 2009. |
We lost Coleen Gray yesterday.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/IZ8bzz.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleen_Gray "In the 1950s Coleen Gray played a crooked nurse in 'The Sleeping City' (1950) and appeared in 'Kansas City Confidential' (1952) and in the Stanley Kubrick film noir 'The Killing'. Other films included 'The Leech Woman' (1960) and 'The Phantom Planet' (1961)." Rest in peace pretty lady. __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eerChicken.jpg GSV The next available image is 2011 (below). Like all the more recent images, it shows the current business as Little Caesars 'Hot-n-Ready Pizza'. Is pizza really more gentrified than fried chicken? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tleCaesars.jpg GSV |
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The old Pioneer Market site is just a parking lot for the Walgreens, the building itself is set back toward Montana Street. Here's the old market. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/8LBiYs.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/5QnqbZ.jpg getty :previous: It looks like an Apartment Hotel was torn down as well (for the Walgreens parking lot). Does anyone know the name of this hotel? The photograph below shows a streetcar turning off the Echo Park Line onto Sunset Blvd., with the Pioneer Market in the background. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/KtcOHE.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/CIzlC2.jpg http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/echopark.htm site of the old Pioneer Market http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/Sooxq6.jpg aerial. (I'm guessing at the dimensions) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...913/8bdl0w.jpg google_aerial Do you have a vintage aerial for us Hoss? ;) __ |
Just remembering going to these places as a kid ..... are they all gone?
Lum's Burger Chef Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips Sambos Red Onion Velvet turtle Po' Folks Farrells Pioneer Chicken Charlie Browns Roy Rodgers Straw Hat Pizza Pup "n" Taco and back then "A and W" was the best root beer served in that frosty mug even if the food wasn't that good the memories are Farrells is alive and well: http://www.farrellsusa.com I went to the one in Brea a while ago and it was nearly identical to how I remember them as a kid. Apparently a lot of people were feeling nostalgic like I was because the wait for a table was over an hour. |
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