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:previous: Whoa, good eye Godzilla!
The greedy developer sure filled up that wedge of land where Carl's used to be. I'd hate to have windows facing one of the light-wells. He appears to have used every inch of available land (except for maybe at the tip). yeech $$$ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/EUno1Q.png detail / gsv below: Do we know anything about this impressive house and grounds? For a brief second I thought it might be my mystery' house.http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24733 originally posted by HossC http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/oDQv7C.jpg usc __ |
Oddities found on the Warner Bros. property lot in Burbank (1940s).
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/VA1gPV.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/L8ELQ1.jpg ebay Match up the oddity with the movie they appeared in to win a monkey from Monkey Island.;) reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/FaTcfD.jpg __ |
Rosslyn Hotel, Los Angeles (1940s) 1100 Rooms...that's amazing when you think about it. How many rooms are in the Biltmore? -Bonaventure?
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...leinHouse1.jpg Detail of picture in USC Digital Library The house belonged to George Zobelein (of Maier & Zobelein's Brewery fame). The picture below dates from 1925 (11 years before the aerial above), and its description says "Exterior view of the Zobelein residence on Figueroa, opposite Exposition Park." As far as I can tell from the 1921 Baist map, the grounds used to extend to Figueroa, hence the difference in addresses. It's right on the corner of four different maps, so I'll see if I can stitch something together. The inset is from the 1936 CD (the same date as the aerial). The house had already been replaced by the current building by 1948 (looking at Historic Aerials). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...leinHouse2.jpg LAPL |
:previous: Thanks for answering my question HossC.
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Footlight Parade.....
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psf39f126c.jpg Warner Bros. archives |
:previous: I have to say....that's a pretty interesting guess CityBoyDoug.
My guess is much less imaginative. I was thinking more along the lines of a water-wheel/grinding stone for a mill. Here's a larger view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/746/NpukeO.jpg |
A few weeks ago I came across this early photograph of Abbot Kinney's home in Pasadena/Sierra Madre. He named the house and the surrounding 550 acres 'Kinneloa".
1880s. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/Jh7lP2.jpg ebay USC says this is a view of Kinneloa taken in 1905, but it doesn't look like the same house to me. (remodeled?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/v1A3N9.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/6199 Among other things, it looks like the centered cupola was moved to the front of the house. -and there are gabled windows now Maybe this isn't even the same house. Does anyone know if the first one burned down? Abbot Kinney, the father of 'Venice of America'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/VD1MDR.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_K...circa_1900.jpg __ |
Night in Los Angeles....1946
A mesmerizing and haunting Saturday night time capsule...YouTube video....link below.
This is one I had not seen before today.....if I recall correctly. The date appears to be March, Saturday night, 1946. There are several fur stores which is something we don't see anymore in 2014. Plus the clothes are very different. Hard to believe things have changed that much in one lifetime. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psceaaa8a1.jpg YT video http://youtu.be/4vNwVD6Xxxg?list=PL0...soJ6KhRLWsH01A |
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Most of the video appears to be a black and white duplicate of the color film I linked to a couple of weeks ago in post #24381. You can watch that on archive.org. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6ColorFilm.jpg archive.org For the black and white version, here are some familiar sights to look out for. Some get two or even three passes. They all appear in the color version as well, but the timings are different. The color version omits the final sequence which was filmed at a different location. 1:27 & 7:19 Coffee Dan's, 8th Street 1:31 & 7:22 RKO Theatre 1:50, 7:53 & 9:19 Comet's (Tower Theatre) 3:34 Clifton's Pacific Seas 4:26 Hotel Bristol/Golden Gopher 11:09 Coffee Dan's, Broadway It's a little blurry, but now we know what color the Comet's stores were. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAComets5.jpg archive.org |
Downtown Film
Looks like it was filmed after 10 when the Acme's were turned off.
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http://www.nkrpoa.com/ewExternalFile...oa%20Ranch.pdf The picture they have seems to be of the same house shown in your 1880's photo; unfortunately it gives no info about any rebuilding/remodeling of the house at a later date. The link also gives some information about the "Vosburg tract" which was in the same general area as Kinneloa and the Sierra Madre Villa Hotel. I posted some pictures a few months back of some Victorian survivors which must have been part of the tract, located on Vosburg Avenue: http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5a888957.jpg http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps597adfac.jpgmy photos Too bad I couldn't find anything more about Kinneloa itself, but I'm glad it led me to revisiting the neighborhood, since I was amazed to find Victorians I hadn't seen before in my hometown. :D |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r.../Rosslyn-3.jpg I really need to find another online photo host. Picasa has not only forced a resize here, but the image is also quite a bit more red than what I uploaded.:hell: |
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Thanks Tetsu.
The link you provided had some pretty interesting information. (If you don't mind, I'm going to post a portion of it for the people who skip links) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/Jh7lP2.jpg ebay "Kinney finally found what he was looking for at the top of a mesa, grown thick with chaparral and with no road leading to it. He pictured a great white house on the plateau and knew that from the windows one would be able to see all over the valley and 30 miles distance to the sea. Kinney later called the area "the mecca of all my hopes. He purchased 550 acres of land in the spring of 1880, which comprised the mesa on which to build his house with a sizable sloping field in front of it. The hill had previously been occupied by a hermit bee-rancher. Two days after Kinney acquired the property, men were at work clearing the brush, bridging ravines, and grading for a road on the east side of Eaton Wash. By tunneling into the base of the mountainside, they transformed an insignificant water source into a splendid irrigation system Pipes were laid and a 35 foot-deep reservoir with a 500,000 gallon capacity was constructed, as well as a storage reservoir with a four million capacity. DETAILS OF THE HOUSE: A commodious two-story home was built with four large rooms upstairs and four downstairs, surmounted by a tower. A wide hall ran through the center of the house, and a kitchen ran along the back. Downstairs, a library and dining room were situated on the east side, while on the west were a parlor and large billiard room. Upstairs were four large bedrooms, but there were no servant quarters in the house. Only Chinese were employed as servants and laborers, and a long, low wooden building had had been erected farther up the hill. Kinney called it the 'Chinese Quarter'. The only servant to live in the main house was Mr. Kinney's black valet." -all information from: www.nkrpoa.com __ |
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