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ethereal_reality Jan 25, 2015 6:16 PM
Blacksmith 1906.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/djBwVC.jpg
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reverse
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/DeTDO6.jpg

H. H. Walter, Blacksmith
1807 S. Bonnie Brae
Los Angeles Cal.
Court No. 880


Here is 1807 S. Bonnie Brae today.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...631/kr0Orq.png
GSV

Is there any way to find out if this house dates back to 1906? -the time of the blacksmith?

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HossC Jan 25, 2015 6:39 PM
:previous:

After a quick Google, redfin.com, zillow.com and trulia.com all agree on a build date of 1907 for 1807 S Bonnie Brae, i.e. a year after the known date for the blacksmith.

ethereal_reality Jan 25, 2015 6:46 PM
:previous: OK, it was close. -thx Hoss


Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 6887042)
Yeah, you need a lieberry card. :) From the LAPL homepage, select "Research and Homework" at upper right, then go to S for Sanborn Maps.
Since you said 'lieberry', I thought you were telling me a way to do it without a library card. :(
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ethereal_reality Jan 25, 2015 7:04 PM
I'm always amazed when I come across an eye-catching building that I've never noticed before.

Take this building for example:

It's located on the northeast corner of E. 8th Street and Kohler Street.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/6Ij8dA.png
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/Lox3Yp.png
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-wonderful architectural details

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/mjPuNc.png

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/M1EP77.png


The exact address is 1205 E. 8th Street, Los Angeles....but I still couldn't find a build date.
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Godzilla Jan 25, 2015 7:28 PM

A friendly reminder? (A time when vehicular traffic was not expected to stop for cross-walked pedestrians?:no:)

http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0


December '38 - Huntington Drive in San Marino.
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/33195/rec/60

Flyingwedge Jan 25, 2015 7:35 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6888970)

Since you said 'lieberry', I thought you were telling me a way to do it without a library card. :(
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No, sorry, I just forgot to run spellcheck. :dunce:

Godzilla Jan 25, 2015 7:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6529601)
There was a gOOgie's similar to the one on Sunset Blvd. in the San Carlos Hotel downtown.

NW corner of 5th & Olive.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/853/2tio.jpg
no date/ebay

Notice how the g00gie's exhaust duct slithers up the front of the hotel.
-at least it's painted the same color as the building-

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July '57 - More Fifth and Olive Streets. Goo Goo Googies.

http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/8659/rec/86


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http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0

ethereal_reality Jan 25, 2015 7:46 PM
Wonderful graphics on this Van De Kamp's breakfast menu.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...913/JI4Xys.jpg
ebay


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/Ix56kD.jpg
ebay
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HossC Jan 25, 2015 7:48 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6888987)

I'm always amazed when I come across an eye-catching building that I've never noticed before.

Take this building for example:

It's located on the northeast corner of E. 8th Street and Kohler Street.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/6Ij8dA.png
GSV

The exact address is 1205 E. 8th Street, Los Angeles....but I still couldn't find a build date.
I tried searching with 1201 East 8th Street (which I think is the same building), and got a build date of 1928 from realtytrac.com and propertyshark.com.

I see that the building was painted rather differently in 2009.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...E8thStreet.jpg
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Godzilla Jan 25, 2015 7:52 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5934751)

Five "Chop Suey" signs plus Union Station, 1937:
http://www.latimes.com/includes/soun...hinatown12.jpg
LAT


Mas Chop Suey.


1933 - Apablasa and Alameda Streets.
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~1933 - 710 N Alameda

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HossC Jan 25, 2015 8:10 PM
:previous:

In case anyone is wondering about the location of Apablasa/Apablaza Street, it was one of the streets lost when Union Station was built. It can be seen here on the 1921 Baist map. Alameda is the street across the top.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lazaSt1921.jpg
www.historicmapworks.com

Godzilla Jan 25, 2015 8:13 PM
Sunshine Vitamin D? Make mine with Schlitz!


http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0



1937 - "Sunset, Vine, Argyle . . . "
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/3449/rec/2

http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0


Billy McCain's
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0

Boorey Drugs
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/3449/rec/2

ethereal_reality Jan 25, 2015 8:16 PM
Interesting July 1957 slide Godzilla.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...912/jDb2yR.png





-just for kicks, here's the nw corner of 5th and Olive today.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/jJQeAh.png
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Martin Pal Jan 25, 2015 9:12 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6889013)

A friendly reminder? (A time when vehicular traffic was not expected to stop for cross-walked pedestrians?:no:)

http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0
West Hollywood just had signs installed in the middle of the road near it's crosswalks like this becasue of several pedestrians being hit in the corsswalks the past year.

It's their "WINK THEN WALK" campaign.

Martin Pal Jan 25, 2015 9:17 PM
Sorry to repost this query from a couple days ago, but does anyone at least remember reading the post on this forum? Or who might have written it? I'm beginning to wonder if it was here that I read it, though I am pretty sure it was. As you might've guessed, I still haven't located it.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 6887263)
Someone posted an anecdote about being a young lad who delivered the newspaper to the Hollywood Canteen and wrote about coming to collect the weekly or monthly bill for it. I have spent a long time looking for that anecdote again and am having no luck. Does anyone remember it?

I've searched Hollywood Canteen, canteen, Cahuenga, Cole, newspaper, delivery, collection, anecdote, and a few other words to no avail. Anyone have any suggestions?

ethereal_reality Jan 25, 2015 9:33 PM
:previous: I don't remember it Martin Pal, but I don't remember a lot of things.

Albany NY Jan 25, 2015 10:56 PM
Standing guard over their neighborhood.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6886933)
-mystery location.

P.E. car #103.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/ck6utR.jpg
found recently on ebay

-we always think of the 'good-ol-days', but look at all that litter at lower left.
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Interesting pic ethereal_reality. Great sleuthing on the location, old_stuff! If you look closely, you can see that even the original telephone poles have survived. On the GSV, you can clearly see the same slight tilt to the left and center poles. I wonder how long telephone poles usually last? And what is that at the upper left of the photo? The corner of a billboard, perhaps?

CityBoyDoug Jan 26, 2015 12:45 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Albany NY (Post 6889215)
Interesting pic ethereal_reality. Great sleuthing on the location, old_stuff! If you look closely, you can see that even the original telephone poles have survived. On the GSV, you can clearly see the same slight tilt to the left and center poles. I wonder how long telephone poles usually last? And what is that at the upper left of the photo? The corner of a billboard, perhaps?
The service life of a wood utility pole in Los Angeles is quite long. Forty to eighty years is common.

Many factors feed into the pole life: Street widening, change of service, car impacts, the need and the winner is of course decay.



Old reliable Douglas Fir poles. A wide angle view of Van Nuys Boulevard looking north in 1926.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps2urhsnwu.jpg
Water & Power

Hollywood Graham Jan 26, 2015 1:03 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6889316)
The service life of a wood utility pole in Los Angeles is quite long. Forty to eighty years is common.

Many factors feed into the pole life: Street widening, change of service, car impacts, the need and the winner is of course decay.



Old reliable Douglas Fir poles. A wide angle view of Van Nuys Boulevard looking north in 1926.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps2urhsnwu.jpg
Water & Power
CityBoyDoug, You forgot Woodpeckers. I have 8 to 10 of them working everyday on one in my backyard. This is the second pole there that I know of.

CityBoyDoug Jan 26, 2015 1:48 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham (Post 6889343)
CityBoyDoug, You forgot Woodpeckers. I have 8 to 10 of them working everyday on one in my backyard. This is the second pole there that I know of.
I wouldn't thought that semi-arid LA would be home to woodpeckers but there are several species of the darlings here in LA. Does this mean that we're doomed.? I suppose someone brought them here as tourists and they decided to stay.
 :D:D:D

http://losangelesaudubon.org/index.p...imball-garrett


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