:previous: Whoa, you've done your homework T2! -very interesting
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A very interesting find on ebay.
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Entrance to the Beverly Hills Hotel? (possibly circa late 1940s)
I found this image in a 1950 book called "The Los Angeles Book." (Photographs by Max Yavno, text by Lee Shippey)
At first I thought it was the front entrance of the Beverly Hills Hotel. The layout is right but I didn't think they renovated the entrance (significantly) since the hotel opened in 1912. What does everyone think? http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6144/bhhtlquestion.jpg |
Circa 1920 - "Wood and Jones" Saxon and Ford Auto Dealers Somewhere in north side of West Colorado Blvd. Pasadena (Saxon ceased business in '23)
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ER The 1927 directory has Costa Macaroni at 1530 Mateo, which puts it between Porter and East Olympic Blvd. Not sure if this helps to place it or makes things more confusing.
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Homework e_r? Was it that bad?
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Meanwhile, back in Pasadena at northwest corner of 655 E. Green Street and El Molino Avenue. One source pegs this date as '35. http://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/3256778-1000-810.jpghttp://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/3256778-1000-810.jpg http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...ile&DMROTATE=0 http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...ile&DMROTATE=0http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...ile&DMROTATE=0 http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...ile&DMROTATE=0http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...ile&DMROTATE=0 http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...ile&DMROTATE=0http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis...ile&DMROTATE=0 On the tangentially related subject of Los Angeles Manufacturing is this '48 Railroad map. http://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/3891896-1183-758.jpghttp://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/3891896-1183-758.jpg A portion of the map was previously posted by GW here: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=2754 |
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Somehow these images seem incomplete without looking at other pictures posted by ER and gsJansen. http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=2743 http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=2747 Maybe not everyone was celebrating when these pictures were taken. 1929 http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/584...y1929strai.jpg http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/346...yviewstrai.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/...54b2c6ce_b.jpg |
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1933 - Get a better deal at Orrin Fox used automobile lot at 2345 East Colorado Blvd. Best selections before the weather changes :tup:
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A bit of LA high-end retail history. The iconic Bullocks-Wilshire store on Wilshire Blvd. (now the Southwestern Law School), was the first major retail establishment outside of downtown. It was also the first in LA designed to be approached on foot from Wilshire or by car on the parking lot side of the store. It opened in the 1920s sometime. I. Magnin was based in San Francisco and had operated a smaller store in Hollywood plus boutiques in a couple of hotels. They decided in the mid-30s to open a major store in LA. At the time, Hancock Park was "old" money on the west side of town, so they located the store close to that neighborhood. They copied Bullocks-Wilshire's approach of having two "front doors", as it were. At some later date, they opened a smaller store in Beverly Hills. It, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman-Marcus all have auto entrances at the rear. I suspect that's how most of their customers arrive at the store now.
Bullocks-Wilshire and I. Magnin merged sometime in the early 1990s, with Magnin closing their store and "rebranding" the B-W store. It was badly damaged in the riots and eventually closed too. The whole Magnin chain went out of business (sadly) later in the 90s. At the time your picture was taken, I. Magnin and Bullocks-Wilshire were probably the two most opulent, exclusive stores in the U. S. aside from Bergdorf Goodman in New York. |
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First Hebrew Christian Synagogue
This is another image I found in the 1950 book "The Los Angeles Book." (Photographs by Max Yavno, text by Lee Shippey)
The fact that it was a Hebrew Christian Synagogue really caught my eye so I've been doing some googling but haven't turned up much other than the fact that it was established by someone called Arthur U. Michelson whose autobiography was called "Out of the Darkness into the Light: Life Story of Arthur U. Michelson." But I haven't been able to track down an address for this building. Anyone...? http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/916/christjewsyg.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7638bc6b.jpg 1906 Sanborn @ LAPL c. 1904 closeup: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps983ff1d9.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/2722/rec/25 |
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You all have sharp eyes, please help me with something that's been tugging at my sleeve. Do you remember the pair of sphinxes at the 1875 Los Angeles and Independence Station on the east side of San Pedro St at the T-junction with Winston? https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f...21850%2BPM.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ang...dence_Railroad https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...94708%2BAM.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lo...pot_-_1875.png (detail) They were on either side of the broad stairs on the north side of the station: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...94859%2BAM.jpg http://books.google.com/books?id=4w8...20tree&f=false The station was decommissioned in about 1880. At some point the sphinxes were removed and the building remodeled for industrial use. By 1888 the California Door Company and the Los Angeles Storage, Commission and Lumber Company shared the building: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...95723%2BAM.jpg http://books.google.com/books?id=4w8...20tree&f=false The 13-year-old building burned to the ground on 30 October 1888, the victim of a turpentine fire at the door company. In 1880, Irishman Andrew McNally (of Rand-McNally fame) moved to Los Angeles from Chicago, living first in Pasadena and then in Altadena. In 1893 he bought 2,300 acres of the old Rancho Los Coyotes, subdividing 1,500 acres into the "La Mirada" development of 20-acre parcels and starting Windemere Ranch on the remainder, planting citrus and olives. McNally commissioned architect Frederick Roehrig to build him a handsome house and outbuildings at Windemere (McNally grandson Wallace Neff was born there in 1895). The home was reached via a pair of curious gateposts, topped with sphinxes. This view is circa 1895: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_...95356%2BAM.jpg http://so-cal-arch-history.com/archives/1847 A later view, after the trees had matured. The sphinxes sport breast-plates, although one supposes these could have been added: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--...95040%2BAM.jpg http://so-cal-arch-history.com/archives/1847 The breast-plates do not appear on the Windemere orange crate label: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B...95154%2BAM.jpg http://so-cal-arch-history.com/archives/1847 Most of Windemere Ranch was sold for a 8,ooo-unit housing development in 1953. The McNally home and a couple of outbuildings still exist in Neff Park, San Cristobal & San Esteban Drives, La Mirada: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...13123%2BPM.jpg google maps My, by now, painfully-obvious question (hoping I have not put you all to sleep) is, could the station sphinxes and the Windemere sphinxes be the same? Or were sphinxes common then, available at any garden center? Both were bronze or "bronze-colored" and just over life-sized. Where are they now? Other info, both listing the Windmere sphinxes as missing: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NR...t/78000684.pdf http://www.lincolnparkstatues.com/?attachment_id=1569 |
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Excellent discovery Flyingwedge!!
It was the entrance to the elevator: http://imageshack.us/a/img441/1714/a...planfwedge.jpg 1906 Sanborn map lapl 1904 close-up http://imageshack.us/a/img560/5043/a...gnflyingwe.jpg usc You can see the 'Entrance to Elevator' sign in the photograph below as well. I'm not sure how I missed it earlier. originally posted by ethereal_reality http://imageshack.us/a/img803/1015/aabelevator1a.jpg lapl Quote:
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