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Trocadero Cafe, Hollywood Blvd
I was recently approached by a Ron Rodriguez who emailed me to say that his grandfather was the proprietor of the Trocadero Cafe at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard. I asked him if he had any photos of it in some family album. He dug around and came up with this one:
https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...ero-Cafe-1.jpg I love that old-style floor tiling! Then I realized it's the same photo used in an advertisement I came across somewhere: https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...adero-menu.jpg |
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https://i.imgur.com/iJQ0kZZ.jpg UCSB The sanitarium looks like it had a lot of linear buildings at right angles: https://i.imgur.com/2I9E1MJ.jpg lawc.org The tree break visible to the north of the Busch house follows the property line shown on the assessor's map. https://i.imgur.com/zUZwYJ4.jpg la county assessor |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/Qb6zU4.jpg socalregion the area where the snapshots were taken back in 1950. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/hynvLj.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/nlNqjM.jpg google_earth as you can see, melrose intersects vermont quite some distance from the actual freeway. ....makes me wonder if the first snap was labeled correctly "Building of a Highway Los Angeles Vermont & Melrose, c.1950" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/mVTkJN.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/2a28i8.jpg ebay Now say..... if we were looking in the direction of melrose and vermont (northeast) there might be a glimpse of the old Bergstrom/Pantages Estate which was demolished the following year, in 1951. (far right, 2nd snap) but that's me grasping at straws & wishing for things that aren't actually there :(. -like living in my own ethereal reality. blah. blad. blah https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/1Jq0nG.jpg Bergstrom Estate, N. Vermont Avenue |
Autoette
250 N Lake St, Pasadena, mid-fifties.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4669/...684a9a39_b.jpg PDHC (looks like the photo was cropped to clear the background) I was unaware such vehicles were able to be driven on city streets....you could drive them on the streets, right? Here's a zoom-in for you, ER. The very proud owners I assume- she reminds me of comedian Catherine O'Hara. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4678/...c0c345d2_b.jpg Here's a restored, show quality CruiseAbout car(t). Probably not going to be featured at Pebble Beach anytime soon, though you never know. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4661/...88ce5e4402.jpg The building is apparently still standing. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4655/...bcacb74d_b.jpg |
February 9, 1971 Sylmar Earthquake Dam Damage
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The Sylmar Earthquake was 47 years ago today. Here are some more photos of the Lower Van Norman Dam, which almost collapsed. Here it is on February 10, the day after the quake: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original Photo by Robert E. Wallace, USGS @ Wikimedia This photo looks in the same direction as the previous shot. This and the next photo may have been taken on Feb 9: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original Gendisasters.com Here we're looking back in the opposite direction (compare with e_r's sepia photo): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original Photo by T. L. Youd, USGS @ Wikimedia The LADWP's Earthquake Emergency Report on its Water System at CSUN's Oviatt Library has additional information on the near-disaster. |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/pekx9U.jpg detail Is it just me, or does that floor look like it has an extremely short floor-to-ceiling height. it's like the architects were told to squeeze in an extral floor below the cornice. like this https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/dS8vNl.jpg athenacinema / Being John Malkovich _ |
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When I posted the Busch's hat ad I had no idea Busch had anything to do with this house. A week or so ago, I came across some photographs....and guess what...it's the same house! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/SwyRcl.jpg altadenahistoricalsociety.blog "Hewn from Millard Canyon granite and El Prieto Canyon timber, the huge home was built overlooking the east edge of the canyon where the road curves to go up to the Meadows. The huge craftsman-like lodge was constructed in the Swiss Chalet style and featured spectacular gardens, bridges, an aviary and petting zoo." one of the largest boulders at Boulder's Crest. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/IoneEh.jpg altadenahistoricalsociety.blog "Busch published a brochure featuring the property. In it he boasted, “More than 200 men were here employed at different stages of this work, each one taking unusual interest, thus making it possible to achieve these results.” The caption describing the photograph featuring the ground floor entry (photo above) read, “At the door of this rocky castle the visitor turns through a gateway formed by two immense boulders weighing many tons – resting just where they were placed by the great Creator.” The cornerstone of the lower entrance stood 17 feet high." this pic includes the veranda above the front entrance. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Pqjkmb.jpg altadenahistoricalsociety.blog __ |
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The screengrabs below show a building in downtown Los Angeles that was damaged in the Sylmar Earthquake. Does anyone recognize it? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/PxOopt.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/TTsvnk.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/NRdRFg.jpg I thought it would be interesting to use google earth/gsv to see if the patch-up job is visible. (maybe different color of bricks?) The 'mystery' building is shown at 6:01 in the 28 minute video. (I haven't finished the whole thing yet) |
I had to follow one more lead with Mr. R.J. Busch:
https://s26.postimg.org/lbp0f6k3t/Bus_Val_Art.jpg L.A. Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library. https://s26.postimg.org/7599jy1ix/Bus_Val.jpg Seems like it was a nice-looking building once upon a time! Edit to Add: https://s26.postimg.org/t7nhghul5/Busch_San.jpg |
Frenchy L.A.
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https://goo.gl/maps/c7udYELtgW42 Also, from the UCSB archive, Flight C-3758, Frame 20 (red dot on upper Canyon Crest Rd.) has an aerial of the site after the fire, you can see all the stonework on the ridge. |
Long time lurker, avid viewer and reader of this thread. Thought I'd make a small contribution. :)
A little glimpse of the house that replaced the original Busch house at 3740 Canyon Crest Rd. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/ez73eT.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/kLapTQ.jpg At Home: Pasadena - Google Books It looks like one of the big boulders has come indoors. |
mystery location
Here is another Harry Adams view from the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center at CSUN. It is captioned "Street Scene, 1964."
https://i.imgur.com/wPhtvwB.jpg CSUN There are some clues: the most obvious one is for the African-American Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper. Some others can be seen by enlarging to get this view: https://i.imgur.com/YHwofWu.jpg The sign on the left looks like _BER SHOP....ECHO. And to its right, almost hidden by a telephone pole is another large sign which says S________ERS ______ET. The 1964 CD listing of addresses on Central Avenue around E. 43rd Street gives: https://i.imgur.com/sACkOcl.jpg lapl ...and we see the Echo Barber Shop at 4300 (SE corner of Central and E. 43rd St), and a few stores south the Shoppers Market at 4322. So this picture was taken looking south on Central Avenue from the west sidewalk just north of E. 43rd St. The address of the Sentinel was at the time 1122 E 43rd St, just east of Central, which accounts for the billboard. |
I continue to go through my recently-discovered cache of photos I took around 1983-1985, and post here the very few which have some slight prayer of being of interest to NLA.
From the mosaic mural which formerly graced the front of the old Long Beach Civic Auditorium, and which fortunately was preserved when they demolished the auditorium: https://s26.postimg.org/y3vplw23t/LBCAdetL.jpg odinthor collection, photography by odinthor And here is the full mural: https://s26.postimg.org/63rm1n189/LBCiAuMuL.jpg odinthor collection, photography by odinthor |
Boulder Crest II
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The article mentioned that proteges(?) of Frank LLoyd Wright were invioved in the reconstruction (1946-1952), so I looked on the internet for any archived photographs but came up with nothing other than a build date of 1952 (see below) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/z49EcX.jpg zillow redfin the real estate sites have minimal info. / and all say 'Not For Sale'. Here's the only pic I found: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/3H1cWP.jpg redfin I'm going to have my sleuthing badge taken away aren't I. :( __ |
:previous: Since you started this thread and have posted here pretty much every day for the last eight and a half years,
I think we can cut you some slack. ;) |
Autoette
so I get to keep my badge? Great!
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/KsUgEe.jpg gsv ___________________________________________________________ I'll add a few things... This is supposedly the earliest-known photograph of a 1940s Autoette. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/TWzPq4.jpg Larry Fisher collection Here's an Autoette in Catalina, early 1950s https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DWf0wC.jpg medium.com Quote:
.....but that presented it's own set of problems. This Autoette is driving on Pine Avenue’s sidewalk. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/QCTBeC.jpg Long Beach Press-Telegram By the 1960s, autoettes were called the “scourges of the sidewalk”. "The same newspaper which praised the Autoette in its “Parade of Progress” also decried it once the EV was involved in a series of gruesome accidents. The first occurred in 1952, involving an Autoette which skidded 58 feet before discharging one of its occupants, a Mrs. Jobe, of Long Beach, CA, into the curb at the intersection of Walnut and Clark St. Mrs. Jobe died from wounds sustained during the accident. The second accident followed in 1966, when an elderly Autoette owner struck a ladder while driving on the sidewalk, causing a 51-year-old neon sign installer to fall from the top of the ladder. The man later died of his injuries." Five years later, Autoettes were BANNED from the sidewalks. the parade of progress comes to an end (for autoettes, that is) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/2Y5v63.jpg "Here's a zoom-in for you, ER." -ScottyB Always nice to be thought of. :) |
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R. J. Busch property
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I jumped in the google-mobile to check it out. When I got there I noticed that odinthor was quite correct. Busch's purchase certainly was a nice-looking building at one point in time. Take a look at the architectural details facing Valencia street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ysJZDk.jpg gsv I forget what this is called...something foil....tin foil? no, that's not it. ;) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/qGuPx5.jpg detail Here's a look at both building. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/RKuOQ0.jpg gsv and a closer look at the burnt-umber colored apt. building. (it appears to have some Persian influences) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DtEDzk.jpg gsv originally posted by odinthor https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/44W3h2.jpg __ |
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