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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/sJA3IB.jpg google_earth This impressive old garage (red arrow above) is just a block south of 2517 Pasadena Ave (outlined in blue). -street view June 2009 (in later views the façade is partially covered in vines) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/O6qc04.jpg gsv It's located at 2450 Daly Street. note the impressive art deco detailing around the large doors. (the folding metal screens might be original as well) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/aM9w64.jpg gsv I need some help on it's history. |
:previous:Telephone Company garage, building permit dated 26 Aug 1935
(Pac Bell is still across the street) It's now the Daly Lofts per LA. curbed http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...ln_heights.php: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V...10608%2BPM.jpg Video of one unit Loopnet calls them the "Telephone Company Lofts" Lane Barden lives there: Quote:
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I don't mind at all. It was my grandfather, the 17 year old. I'm sad to say I don't have any LA related photos from his navy days (only some shipboard ones) or stories of him visiting the USO. I suspect when he was in town he had to make the rounds to the relatives houses. It was hard to get him to talk about old LA or WWII, though I was interested in both. I'll look through my mom's photos anyway. I know she does have one of the boys at some unknown nightclub posing with bandleader Dick Jurgens and Johnny "the Phillip Morris midget." One of the sisters got the bulk of the familty photos; I got to glance through them once only- a certain coolness exits between her family and ours, stemming apparently from my mom calling her daughter "Sleeping Ugly" at a slumber party in 1962. The phrase "get over it" comes to mind, but I know I'll not likely ever see those pictures. My grandmother Lorraine was also an LA/Hollywood girl and her friend was dating a local sailor boy, Jack Howell, who came to their apartment with some of his buddies one afternoon and they posed for some photos. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...obelle/011.jpg Lorraine and some sailor buddies. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...obelle/009.jpg Jack Howell. His girlfriend, Flo, wrote on the back of this one "He took some cuter ones but I'm stingy!" I wish I knew Jack's family; I have pictures from their wedding June 29, 1946. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...obelle/008.jpg I don't know his name but it's so LA with the white stucco and huge poinsettia. I see he has a comb in his pocket. The fire in 1942. I did find a report of it in the LA Times, 12-13-42.It didn't take long to finger the suspect for it- Jimmy Jordan, age 16. Poor Jimmy- I hope the FBI wasn't too hard on him. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/12-13-42.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/12-14-42.jpg LAT 12-14-42 This was the only picture I came across, via eBay. Not the greatest and has the dreaded watermark. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-12-42fire.jpg ebay Nice information about the Bowl and the Play. I've been trying to track down some recordings from those Bowl rallies. I came across the mention of a plan to turn the place into dorms for servicemen, but not confirmation that it was acted on. |
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$200,000 in 1950 is really not that impressive! I expected a more substantial number as well. What cost $200,000 in 1950 would cost $1,940,689.04 in 2014. Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2014 and 1950, they would cost you $200000 and $20733.68 respectively. |
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Los Angeles Alligator Farm
As we're out in Lincoln Heights, I thought I'd add one or two more pictures of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm. The Farm was on Mission Road from 1907 to 1953 when it moved to Buena Vista, across from Knott's Berry Farm, and renamed "The California Alligator Farm". It closed in 1984, after a 77 year run, and (per wiki) the critters were shipped to a private estate in Florida.
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...92513%2BAM.jpg lapl Herman J. Schultheis Collection And the dark underbelly of the alligator business. LOL. Alligator Farm workers, exhibiting a variety of facial expressions, package babies for sale / shipment: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...83643%2BAM.jpg lapl Interesting neighborhood, even had a Natatorium: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-B...03744%2BAM.jpg 1921 Baist Today (note Selig Place): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...04250%2BAM.jpg google maps ------------------------------------------------------------ Wonderful post NCD re wartime romances and the Christmas mail fire. I really enjoyed it. Thank you. |
Thanks tovanger2 and oldstuff for the information on the old telephone co. garage on Daly Street.
Close Call. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/tT4uNl.jpg eBay "Elysian Park's moving mountain finally collapsed on the night of Nov. 26th. The 'avalanche' carried some one million tons of earth down above a viaduct demolishing the re-enforced concrete structure. Here is a big boulder that which 'pressed' against an automobile which had been parked on the street below the mountain." 11/28/1937 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...540/f4pgmn.jpg This is my favorite. Amazing http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/0fz9tA.jpg http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vie...198/zz0025gn14 :previous: Can anyone read the name of the hotel? *never mind. I just realized I could enlarge the photograph further. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/Qhs8sv.jpg And there's a train I didn't see before. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...673/AQNMTN.jpg originally posted by Martin_Pal back in March 2015. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/Axzr1g.jpg Martin's post includes many other photographs and information on the event. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26980 __ Here are a few more recent finds that I don't think we've seen on NLA. below: A week before the massive slide. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/HJZevY.jpg eBay info. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/4p2zEf.jpg "rapidly widening" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/YAujtr.jpg eBay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...540/aIINv5.jpg close up of Dayton Street viaduct damage http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/07fjOh.jpg eBay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/ztEwoq.jpg __ |
1924 Original Photograph Rooming House 432 N. Hill St. Los Angeles California Chas. Brown.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/UE9PE2.jpg eBay enlargement http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/6aidzR.jpg two 'twin' houses? _ |
'mystery' man with the bedroom eyes.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/40DG8t.jpg eBay I think he's sweet on Beverly. detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/NbjPV3.jpg :previous: the photographer was 'Bruno of Hollywood' Gerry spelled with an I...I bet he was in show business. ;) Does anyone recognize him? __ |
Some shots of 1971 LA, grabbed from the "Cannon" series.
We start at the Hotel Always Open, because evil, like rust, never sleeps: http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Cannon1.jpg Evil hits the street, and the game's afoot. Oops, this LA: the game's a-wheel. http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Cannon2.jpg Our hero stealthily picks up the tail of an innocent: http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Cannon4.jpg Whom he prepares to rescue in the sumptuous courtyard of the Hotel Always Open: http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Cannon3.jpg Meanwhile, in the better part of town: http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Cannon5.jpg And after making all well, our hero reflects on what it must be like: http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Cannon6.jpg Thought the crew might get a few moments of amusement from locating the locations :-) Cheers, Earl |
Leo Katz mural "Youth Arisen", Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, 1935.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/aJuHKZ.jpg http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vie...198/zz002883gp I posted this is because I was wondering if the mural was still intact at Abram Freidman Occupational School (formerly the Frank Wiggins Trade School) but then I noticed this side-note in the description: " The central panel (the one pictured above) was removed from the Frank Wiggins Trade School lobby and returned to the Public Works Administration in 1935. The other two panels were returned in 1939." -UCLA Archives Does anyone know...is there a repository for WPA artwork? I'd really like to know if "Youth Arisen" has survived. As a reminder, here's the school. Quote:
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The other sailor, with the comb, stunned me a bit because he's a spittin' image of my young neighbor, Lenny! __ Thanks for the Union Station fire info and photo...I didn't know they'd found the cause of it! I guess they put 16 year olds to work overnight back then. And smoking, too! I guess I hadn't realized the fire was in a tented area. Imagine some of the stories caused by 35 tons (!) of holiday mail during World War II disappearing? Lost letters and gifts. Burnt photographs. Hurt feelings. Confused children. Missed opportunities. G.I. mail that wasn't delivered. Information never to be known. "It's the thought that counts." Most people probably would never have known about the fire and wonder about what happened to their mail. Some may have used it to their advantage: "I bought you this expensive gift...it must've been in that fire!" :tup: to you! |
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so that they don't or won't interfere with each other. That didn't happen when I attended the Bowl on a Friday night sometime in the 90's. One of the featured performers that night was Rosemary Clooney. Playing at the Ford Amphitheatre was a punk rock group, I believe. So, throughout the concert one also had the occasional background track of a completely opposite musical style. It was a hot summer night and, reminiscent of Streisand's famous rendition of "Silent Night" sung in her summer night concert in Central Park back in the 60's, Rosemary sang "White Christmas" from the popular film she had starred in, but it was a disonant version you'd never want to hear again. The Bowl management profusely apologized, on stage, and said they were trying to do something about it. (But what could they do at that point?) Quote:
Loved these photos, E_R, particularly the unusual "model" one of the new entrance, which opened in 1939. They should've put more cars in it, though! :P A couple interesting Hollywood Bowl notes I found along the way: View of the Hollywood Bowl as seen from the top of the seating, looking down towards the stage, 1923. http://waterandpower.org/Historical_..._Bowl_1923.jpgLAPL Image Archive In 1923, the Hollywood Bowl’s first 150 boxes were built. Also in 1923, the Hollywood Bowl’s debt was paid off and the mortgage was burned (!) on the Bowl’s stage. Among the donors who helped retire the debt were three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, who made a $100 donation.Info from: L.A. Philharmonic Bowl Moments Also from L.A. Phil's Bowl Moments: In 1923, with the re-paving of Highland Avenue sure to disrupt the Hollywood Bowl’s season, Bowl leader Artie Mason Carter [AMC-heh!] took to the streets to protest the city’s work. She and another woman manned “battle positions” in rocking chairs (with their knitting) in the middle of Highland Avenue and refused to allow crews to break up the street. Protesting roadwork on Highland Avenue, 1923. http://waterandpower.org/3%20Histori..._Bowl_1923.jpgHollywood Bowl Philpedia The result? Paving was rescheduled for the 1923 Bowl’s off-season. ___ I didn't know this: Hollywood High School held its first graduation at the Hollywood Bowl in 1920 and has continued to do so each year since then. Undated: http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...graduation.jpgLAPL Image Archive |
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Thanks, tovangar2, it dawned on me after I'd made the inquiry it might be a camera! ___ There's been a dozen or two posts showing incarnations of Carpenter's Drive-In's. HossC's post #17962 has photo's of Carpenter's Drive-In and links to some other posts of the same. Segments from the above post: Quote:
http://waterandpower.org/4%20Histori...e_In_1940s.jpgDWP What caught my eye is this: This Carpenter's Drive-In replaced the one located near the northeast corner of Sunset and Vine (6265 Sunset Blvd), which was torn down in 1938 to make room for the new NBC Radio City building. I looked through most all of the posts on NLA concerning this Carpenter's at Sunset and Vine and I don't think it's clear that we 1.) knew the Drive-In was remodeled (rebuilt) because it moved across the street to make way for the NBC Building that was being constructed, or 2.) that there were two Carpenter's for awhile across the street from each other. At least I didn't know that. The info that HossC posted: "The 1936 CD lists [Carpenter's] at 6285 and 6290 Sunset Blvd." indicates two locations, then, maybe they did have one on both corners for a time? (And the info I posted says the address was "6265", slightly off the CD list.) And speaking of the NBC Radio City building being constructed, I have no idea what this was originally published in, but I found this link to a three page 1938 article titled "Is Radio Moving to Hollywood?" and it's about the NBC building construction and the possibility of radio moving to L.A. from N.Y and what will Hollywood do? There's a few photos and some tidbits like: "The construction was delayed by the recent floods." (1938.) http://www.durenberger.com/resources...LYWOOD0638.pdf |
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Arthur Heineman is also credited with designing the first motel, Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo. My apologies if we've covered all this stuff already. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...2880459%29.jpgWikipedia |
Fresh from Muscle Beach, Venice, CA
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Its very easy for me to see why this mural didn't really sit well with the cultural mores of the 1930s. Its the central figure that goes over the edge and sits squarely in the realm of what is called today ...soft core porn. His ''proportions'' are wildly off key and for some reason... just plain kinky. Its one thing to be classically nude and its another to be in your face as this fellow appears to be. It doesn't bother me but I can see why a lot of 1930s people would say..."I don't think so." The various symbolisms scattered throughout the saga are harmless and excruciatingly vague. Even the pendulous breasts eagerly echo the Daliesque women of that era. But its that precursor of a Speedo that leaps at you, as if to assault, and wants to collide with your face. Now, if the artist wanted to achieve the effect I describe above....he achieved it in spades.:tup: |
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