Gas War!
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s. alameda and e. vernon, circa 1940 gas war. image from jalopyjournal http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5337/7...df01d149_b.jpg s. alameda and e. vernon, via googlestreetview The station apparently survives. knee-buckling prices. Is there any municipality more downright noirish than the city of Vernon? |
Thanks for the spooky annex shots, mad that I had read about this place all those years ago and now get to see what it actually looks like (The guide book has no pictures of the property)
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Thoroughly enjoyed your post on The Ship Cafe LAboomer52.
___ A postcard I recently found on ebay. http://imageshack.us/a/img815/7086/a...streethuge.jpg Do you recognize any of these houses G_W? |
Jean Malin, The Club New Yorker, Hotel Christie, The Ship, Venice Pier!! Great stuff!! LA Noir just keeps delivering the goods. Thanks so much to all you dedicated online sleuths, especially ER.
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:previous: Thanks rick m!
___ The Oriental Theater at 7425 Sunset Boulevard (date: 1921, seating capacity: 896) http://imageshack.us/a/img35/5999/aa...lctreasure.jpg http://cinematreasures.org/ below: This 'kiosk' (for lack of a better word) in front of the real estate office must show properties that are for sale. I'd love to get a closer look at that! http://imageshack.us/a/img837/5999/a...lctreasure.jpg The interior. http://imageshack.us/a/img163/6148/a...linteriorc.jpg http://cinematreasures.org/ below: The Oriental Theater as it appeared in the 1970s (note the differences; the second floor windows are sealed up...among other things) http://imageshack.us/a/img526/8709/a...l7425sunse.jpg http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/ below: A night view of the marquee circa 1983. That 'faux' stone is really ugly. http://imageshack.us/a/img854/443/aa...l1983ameri.jpg http://www.americanclassicimages.com/ below: Here is 7425 Sunset Blvd. today. http://imageshack.us/a/img405/1713/a...entaltoday.jpg google street view Believe it or not, the original Oriental Theater building is still there, hidden behind the Guitar Center facade! http://imageshack.us/a/img406/7227/a...ltodayaeri.jpg google aerial below: As I studied the Oriental Theater neighborhood I was quite surprised by this distinct diagonal 'gash'. http://imageshack.us/a/img198/2025/a...laerialwit.jpg google aerial This must be an old easement for long gone trolley tracks. Here you see the 'diagonal' continuing southwest from Sunset Blvd. http://imageshack.us/a/img221/3733/a...laerialw2d.jpg google aerial What is most surprising to me, is that even fairly modern buildings have had their shape dictated by this old easement. below: The rectangular apartment building (lower/center left) has it's northwest corner slightly chopped off as well as the swimming pool. At upper right, the entire apartment complex is triangular due to this long gone trolley line. http://imageshack.us/a/img140/4962/a...laerialw2f.jpg google aerial Does anyone have a detailed transit map showing the trolley lines through this area? ___ |
Several more examples of architecture being dictated by 'phantom' trolley tracks.
http://imageshack.us/a/img137/1186/aastu1dia1.jpg google aerial http://imageshack.us/a/img137/1273/a...ia1arepeat.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img36/4449/aastu1dia1b.jpg google aerial It would be great if someone on the ground in Los Angeles would go explore these old trolley line areas (David?). :) ___ |
Drive-Up Banking
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seeaboard national bank of los angeles image from modernmechanix.com http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5311/7...82c2fb9f_b.jpg seaboard national bank mobile teller-one LAPL http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7122/7...1d37dfce_b.jpg seaboard national bank mobile teller-one, 22nd street courtesy stop LAPL |
Hollywood Red Car
Does anyone have a detailed transit map showing the trolley lines through this area? Your wish is my command ER.
To get from Hollywood and La Brea to Santa Monica and Fairfax the PE ran on a private way diagonal to the street grid. You can see the route of this right of way in the following topographic map from 1953: http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/hollytopo.JPG The one-lane street in the next photo is Marshfield Way. The photo is looking northeast towards Hollywood and La Brea. The PE had a private right of way along the left edge of this one-lane street. The five-story apartment building in the middle of the photo has been built partly on the PE right of way. If you had lived in the little house at the right, you would have had to get used to the clickety-clack of streetcars rolling by, day and night. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/marshfieldway.jpg Marshfield Way Today At Poinsettia Place the private right of way curves into Hawthorn Avenue and the trains run in Hawthorn Avenue for two short blocks to Martel Avenue. In the shot below we see an eastbound train about to turn off Hawthorn Avenue into the private right of way. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/poins...ndhawthorn.jpg Train at Poinsettia Hawthorn Avenue is a narrow street. In the shot below a westbound streetcar is about to turn off Hawthorn Ave onto the private right of way at Martel Ave. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/martelandhawthorn.jpg Hawthorn at Martel At Martel and Hawthorn the tracks diverge in a southwest-ward direction, entering a private right of way that runs diagonally to the street grid to Santa Monica Boulevard and Fairfax Ave. In the photo below (by Ray Ballash) an inbound car has just crossed Vista St. (with Hawthorn Avenue in the distance) on the private right of way. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/vista1.JPG Train Crosses Vista Street In the photo below an inbound train is approaching the grade crossing at Sunset Boulevard and Gardner Street. Even today the PE right of way is quite visible at this intersection. About half the Hollywood Boulevard steetcar service turned back using the crossover in the foreground. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/gardnercrossover.jpg Approaching Sunset Boulevard An outbound car, about to cross DeLongpre Dr., has just departed Gardner Street in the photo below (by Donald Duke). http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/gardner1.JPG Crossing DeLongpre Drive In the next shot, taken in the early '50s, an outbound Hollwyood Boulevard car has reached Fairfax Avenue. This shot looks northeast. At this point the Hollywood Boulevard line curves into Santa Monica Boulevard, joining the tracks of the Santa Monica Boulevard streetcar line, which come in from the right in this photo. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/Fairf...nicaNE50s2.jpg Arriving at Fairfax Avenue The trains run a bit less than a mile on street trackage in Santa Monica Boulevard to Holloway Drive, where a private right of way in the median of Santa Monica Boulevard begins. The boulevard also curves a bit southwest-ward at this point. After the stop at La Cienega Boulevard, the next stop is the West Hollywood Carhouse stop, at Westbourne Drive. Tracks diverge to the left here, entering West Hollywood Yard. West Hollywood yard is the main operations center for the PE lines operating out of the subway, including a car house, a car shop, overhead wire maintenance sheds, as well as freight facilities. At Palm Avenue the train reaches the West Hollywood stop (shown below). The station agency is across the street in the PE electrical substation building (out of view to the right). http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/westholy.JPG Trains at West Hollywood Station Next we see a very early image of the same location in West Hollywood — Santa Monica Boulevard near Palm Drive. At the time this photo was taken the eastbound lanes of Santa Monica Boulevard on the south side of the right of way hadn't been built — that didn't happen til 1928. This is a car operating on the Santa Monica Boulevard line which terminated here at the West Hollywood station (which is out of the photo to the right). http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/WestHollywoodearly.jpg West Hollywood near Palm Drive After crossing Clark Street and Robertson Blvd., the line reaches the Beverly Hills city limits at Doheny Dr. From Doheny Dr. to the Beverly Hills civic center the right of way is between Big and Little Santa Monica Boulevards -- an attractive right of way lined with eucalyptus trees. In the photo below a westbound train is running on the private right of way between Big and Little Santa Monica Boulevards in Beverly Hills, west of Doheny Dr. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/westofdoheny.jpg In Beverly Hills After passing the shelter at Beverly Boulevard, where there are various freight spurs for the Beverly Hills industrial park, the line continues another half mile to Canon Drive, the location of the Beverly Hills station (shown below). http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/canondrive.jpg Beverly Hills Station ALL PHOTOS COMPILED BY TOM WETZEL http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/hbline.htm |
Wow, so many great posts lately! I enjoyed e-r's Jean Malin piece and LOVED Horthos' Alexandria Hotel contribution. That aerial view of the Venice Pier is outstanding - I never had a sense of what it really looked like, until now.
The Ship Cafe story was great too (though I wish the gal in the striped top had worn a different pair of shorts that day). Many thanks, everyone! |
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Hollywood Freeway construction, circa1949 LAPL "Three schools, now in the path where a section of the Hollywood Freeway will be constructed, are being razed on Fort Moore Hill to make way for the new thoroughfare. (1) is the Fort Hill School; (2) is the first high school built in Los Angeles, and (3) is Central School. Everything between the broken lines will be cleared away for the super-roadway, Photo dated: February 1, 1949." |
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[QUOTE= A bitty portion of the Duffill dowager's abode is in the very front--but it doesn't much resemble what I see standing there to this day-Perhaps was a briefly standing front structure of Moorish styling that blocked the late Queen Anne that still occupies this lot--#854 --BTW 900 #s on the north side with upper 800 #s on the south--go figure![/QUOTE]
I am wondering if the "Duffil" mentioned above might have been the Duffield family...my father had a friend whose mother (last name "Duffield") originally lived on West Adams "in the old days"... |
What a remarkably in-depth post on the old trolley lines KevinW! Thank you so much for all that amazing information.
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Looks like they are planning grand things for the old Trinity Auditorium building at 9th & Grand.
http://imageshack.us/a/img507/6159/a...toriumrenn.jpg public notice 06/22/2012 below: The Trinity Auditorium. http://imageshack.us/a/img43/3089/aa...itoriumusc.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1340483345796 below: The area directly to the south of the building that will become the 7,600 sq. foot 'outdoor garden'. (no pool?) http://imageshack.us/a/img26/8/aatrinityaaerial.jpg google area To see the full Los Angeles Dept. of City Planning public hearing notice go to LosAngelesSportsFan's post at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4398 ___ |
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The Carthay Circle Theatre's marquee in vivid color, courtesy of this 1939 DeSoto ad:
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And the Mauretania makes an appearance in this 1936 ad for Oldsmobile (remember them?)
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Intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, looking toward the Brown Derby Restaurant (no longer standing) on May 23, 1960. Photo taken from the Union Bank Building.:
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