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below: I found this postcard on ebay about a month ago. (perhaps we've seen it before, but I couldn't locate any previous posts)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/qDPWeX.jpg eBay Laura (at pinterest) wrote this: "A much older Victorian house was moved to build the Durand residence in 1905.' -interesting. I wonder what that house looked like? about the Durand House: "50 rooms, razed in 1962, three remaining acres of the site are now Arlington Gardens." __ |
"Dancers at the opening of the Sepulveda Pass Tunnel (1930)."
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:previous: Thanks for the current view of the Sepulveda Tunnel t2.
It's always fun to compare. I see that most of the 'details' are intact'. I wonder what the design with the twin spirals represents? (it makes me think of a stylized 'art deco' Ram) |
I don't remember seeing this establishment on NLA.
"Macayo Restaurant, Wilshire Boulevard at 22nd Street, Santa Monica." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/QdKmxf.jpg eBay below: Photograph of patrons at 'Macayo'. (1950s?) -there are almost as many ashtrays as people ;). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/6mPpx4.jpg eBay Collage on the back of the folder. (very interesting!) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/9q7XiH.jpg eBay :previous: Does anyone recognize any of these fine folks?" __ |
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right of the lower left corner. To the right of "Join the Celebrities" is I believe a young Fernando Lamas. Below and to the right from him are Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, perhaps flanking the owner, who appears in several of these shots. I think Van Heflin is right under Robert Taylor. Carmen Miranda is there, too, just to the right of center, one row up from the bottom. # # # I also noticed photos missing from the two posts you mentioned, but now after each post was edited I can see the photos. However, three photos hotlinked to this post have also gone missing ("one of the attractive servers," "garden," and "flower shop"): http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27090 |
Durand Durand
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Thx e_r for the PC of the 50-room home of Chicagoan John Durand, built from 1902-1905 of the finest materials, including red sandstone from Flagstaff. It's one of Frederick Roehrig's. He also designed the Rindge home in the West Adams district, the Neff/McNally estate in La Mirada, the Grace home (& water tower) and Hotel Green/Castle Green in Pasadena, all discussed here, plus many others including several others on Pasadena's Millionaires Row. After John Durand III died in 1960, the contents were sold and the home cleared in favor of the 710 freeway, which was thwarted. After 40 years as a vacant lot, three acres of the original ten became Arlington Gardens at Arlington Drive and S Pasadena Ave. The passive park includes a nice planting of Cherokee roses to echo the famous hedge which stretched the length of the Durand's Arlington Drive property line: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W...10835%2BAM.jpg amazon The house is rather reminiscent, I think, of John Parkinson's smaller, 35-room Susana Machado Bernard Residence, of the same 'fantasy baronial' era, if you recall that one: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...909%2520PM.jpg ryerson and burnham archives/art institute of chicago https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...74236%2BAM.jpg ebay via e_r And here's the same image, now only identified as "Palatial": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...6%252520AM.jpg islandora |
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Original Ivar House post http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27090 was suffering from evaporating images. But in attempting to resolve one problem, which appears to be afflicting posts by others using the same server, I discovered an exterior image, which may lead to others.
Different sources offer different dates. Cal State Lib suggests 1920s while LAPL has two of the post cards at late '40s.. It appears that the structure started out as a rectory. The 1915CD lists the 1737 Ivar address as the rectory occupied by Rev. J Arthur Evans, St. Stephens Episcopal Church (6354 Hollywood Blvd is an affiliated address, but Church is now located at 6129 Carlos Street.). The 1960 listing for the 1737 address suggests occupancy by realty business. More on St. Stephen's interesting history here: http://ststephenshollywood.org/becoming-st-stephens/ http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UG1SQNPPSA.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UG1SQNPPSA.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...9A4GCSMXX5.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...9A4GCSMXX5.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/f7515cfa6...tj1o1_1280.jpghttp://41.media.tumblr.com/f7515cfa6...tj1o1_1280.jpg St Stephens Episcopal Church, Hollywood, undated.http://ststephenshollywood.org/becoming-st-stephens/ http://ststephenshollywood.org/wp-co...4/09/004-2.jpghttp://ststephenshollywood.org/wp-co...4/09/004-2.jpg |
FYI: The matchbook was also dated c. 1940's.
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calling Ivar House
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Interesting that the charming Ivar House was on the GRanite exchange. I would have thought it would have had a HOllywood number. Ivar was named, of course, for Danish developer Ivar Weid. Selma Avenue was named for his younger daughter. Quote:
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Has anyone heard of the Club Cercle?
Why it's on La Cienega, just south of Wilshire... |
Also by Roehrig at about the same time--
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6...027%2520PM.jpgLAPL We've seen the Rindge house (still) at 2263 S Harvard Blvd on NLA several times before. Among others: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1932 Quote:
PS And not long before, Roehrig designed this version in wood and stone for Isaac Van Nuys at 1445 West Sixth Street...later moved to its current location at Lorraine and Fourth in Windsor Square. (I find it hard to believe that we haven't commented on it on NLA before, but of course the search feature doesn't mean we haven't. Anyway...) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6...sSIXTHMAIN.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/ https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x...558%2520PM.jpgGSV Dec 2014 Edit-- more here in HossC's prior post 20855. |
I don't believe this color photo has been posted here previously:
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/hollyvd.jpgRense This is Hollywood Blvd. looking east. The tree on the right is in front of the Hollywood Hotel. Two Pacific Electric red cars are featured, one on the cross street at Highland Ave. We can see the Bank of America building on the corner. Next door is Coffee Dan's, with it's great neon sign, the flashing arrow blade sign part of it is lit at the top, and the Hollywood movie theater is visible. In the background is the Hotel Drake, formerly the Hotel Christie. Date listed is 1950's. |
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Interesting. In revisiting some of my missing posts, including one I posted on yellow on blue signage http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24558, I also noticed your prior post with part of an impressive "street" related collection, including many examples of call/signal boxes. Bravo! http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24560 I vaguely recall watching what may have been a rehab of an old E. Hollywood home, the address of which has been long forgotten. Workers were removing all kinds of remnants, including striped posts. In retrospect, I am guessing they may have been once intended/used to support street signs pictured so many times on NLA. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...sJDonahue1.jpghttp://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...sJDonahue1.jpg http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=21733 I alluded to this previously, but the more I think of it, this was where I may have seen one or two porcelain / enameled street signs with yellow lettering (rather than white) on a dark blue field. I mentioned this to someone who has long since passed and he said he remembered the colored signs, because they reminded him of the UMichigan colors (darker than UCLA's). Still, I can't seem to locate any photographic evidence of their existence. In my mind's eye the signs were too solid to have been props and they bore local LA Street names. Do you or anyone else recall (or have examples of) blue shotgun-style street signs bearing yellow (not off-white) lettering? https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...zk7biL2pXP-PDLhttps://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i...zk7biL2pXP-PDL http://www.kta.com/assets/images/cawater.jpghttp://www.kta.com/assets/images/cawater.jpg |
The intersection of N. Figueroa and York Boulevard on February 15, 1948.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/0BvzF5.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/30993133@N04/ Here is the intersection in 2014. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/ruRTxy.jpg GSV The Renaissance Revival 'Arroyo Seco Bank Building' was design by the firm Austin & Ashley in 1926. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/SRXnlM.jpg GSV Near the back there is a side entrance (circled) with Arroyo Seco Bank Building engraved above the doorway. close-up http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/AJ0AYi.jpg There is also a side entrance on the York Blvd. with the same engraving.(below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/GbSQOJ.jpg GSV I couldn't find "Arroyo Seco Bank Building" anywhere on the front of the building. __ |
Red light, green light...
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/...697ac6bc_o.pngIntersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932
Interesting series by Dick Whittington concentrating on just the one intersection, here looking east on Temple Street with the Hall of Justice on the left and the County Courthouse on the right just beyond the Owl Drug store. The Acme semaphore sitting over here on the right curb is interesting in it's placement with it and the corresponding painted auto limit line both well short of the intersection allowing for the turning radius of the streetcar tracks. The fact that the Acme is showing neither the 'stop' nor the 'go' arm means either Whittington hit the shutter at exactly the moment they were both folded into the light body or the exposure was taken early enough in the morning (probably by 7 am) before the semaphores were again operating for the day, being turned off around 9 pm when the 'red' and 'green' lights would suffice until being turned off themselves around midnight (or 1 am) when the little light seen at the base of the light body would then be turned on as a flasher. At intersections where both intersecting streets were relatively major roadways the little light would flash red indicating a boulevard stop for all cars. In the case of an Acme controlled intersection of a major roadway being crossed by a secondary road the little button light would show red for the smaller street and simply yellow/amber (or slow-down caution) for the bigger roadway. The Bank of Italy/International Bank Building stands out down the street with the squat old post office just to its left. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 |
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A.C. Martin, Sr
A.C. Martin, Sr (1879-1960) is known for his monumental civic and commercial buildings. He also took residential commissions.
Recent reports of the destruction of the charmingly-asymmetrical, 1914 Oswald Bartlett house in Los Feliz referred to it as only one of two (or a "few", in one report) A. C. Martin residences left. Info on the doomed fight for the Bartlett here, here and here. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-e...12946%2BPM.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_locke/6304305987/ https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...22444%2BPM.jpg gsv CBS Los Angeles gives the name of the other A.C. Martin residential design as the 1914 Ganahl House, 232 St Andrews Place South. I am so glad I found it. It's stunning. A Prairie-style exterior gives way to a Craftsman interior, complete with a floor-to-ceiling Batchelder-tile fireplace in the main room. A great small (3bd/2ba) house. Check out that tiara-like chimney. Redfin published 18 MLS photos (including historic shots). Here's a few. The rest at Redfin : https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h...12034%2BPM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...11442%2BPM.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h...11707%2BPM.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...11903%2BPM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X...13431%2BPM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...13631%2BPM.jpg Thx to MichaelRyerson for the nice, misty 1932 photo of Temple and Broadway (see below). The civic buildings, left to right: the Hall of Justice, the old Federal Building/P.O., the Bank of Italy building (housing the City Health Dept) and the old Courthouse with its three towers (the clocktower and two much smaller ones) removed and capped off (although rather obscured in this view). The Courthouse may have looked like it was built for the ages, but it was really kinda fragile. |
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