Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7041578)

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7041578)

Originally Posted by Tetsu (Post 7043020)

Proximity to City Hall certainly had to have played a factor. The irony in the total destruction of Bunker Hill lies in looking at neighborhoods like Echo Park, Highland Park, and Boyle Heights and seeing the way that they are being gentrified now (for better or worse, I can understand both sides of the argument). What is happening with those neighborhoods certainly speaks to the way that many people of some means wish to live nowadays, i.e. not in the faraway suburbs. Had Bunker Hill not been completely annihilated, might it have become the first such gentrified neighborhood in LA?

And, I certainly do understand that, in any scenario, not everything could have been saved. Still, I look to nearby examples such as San Diego's downtown for reference - many older Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings are literally standing side by side with huge modern skyscrapers.

Not to nit pick - but none of the buildings at Heritage Square are actually from Bunker Hill, though they are certainly representative of the same era in LA.

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7043764)

:previous: For me, I regret the loss of nothing that was ever built on Bunker Hill as much as I miss the hills themselves. I wish they'd never been built on and that the hills were still here.

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7044070)

Too bad the City Fathers did not have the foresight to turn the Bunker Hills tract into a park back in 1850. The size being similar to Central Park, NY.
But Los Angeles politicians are notorious for having bad judgement and desiring to line their pockets with gold.

I suppose the reality was that those hundreds of Bunker Hill parcels were worth a fortune by 1955. Pershing Square, the one Central Park that Los Angeles does have was eventually paved over and turned into a parking lot. It was purposely made as unfriendly to people as possible.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7039929)

A. Bard Mohr Pretzels, 504 Molino Street, Los Angeles. (i can't quite read the smaller words after Mohr and above the S in Pretzels)

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detail / buggy with the street address.
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:previous: I've been trying to decide what is stacked at the side-door. (besides boxes of pretzel ;)) looks like small fans on top...but I know it's not.




the pretzel factory would have been along this stretch of Molino Street.
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Originally Posted by Matt Maxwell (Post 7040858)

Popping back in after a little time away. Still buried under research for SMOKETOWN and the day job and still trying to get through this thread, but wanted to share a couple pics:

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Not technically Los Angeles, but the Valley. Still, beautiful neon and sixties design probably most famous now for use as a setting in TRUE ROMANCE.

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Toluca Lake, CA, home of the original Bob's Big Boy, where I ate many times during my time as an animator (once saw Laura San Giacomo two tables away) though honestly I preferred Mo's, which was just up the street. But you can't argue with classic design.

More at the following photoset on Flickr, but it's not all LA. Some points further south, including the giant tombstone hangars of the Tustin air base:

SoCal 2013 photoset by me.

Should note that there's some photos in this set taken at a friend's studio space in the brewery building (which is now artists lofts and the like) that's been featured here. If it's of vinyl toys or motorcycle helmets, car parts or pinball machines, it's taken at his place.

Originally Posted by oldstuff (Post 7044187)

Mo's isn't Mo's anymore. The name has changed. The building that housed it was the first IHOP. Bob's Big Boy is still the same

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5670436)

I cropped the White Log Coffee Shop [1061 S. Hill] photograph in my previous post. [http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7388 ] Here is the complete photo from 1939. [The '39CD lists an office for White Log Coffee shopS at 1036 W Sixth Street.]



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Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 4832562)

Great photos of Mr. Eltinge's house, Gaylord. "Bohemian Los Angeles" is another book I've had for a while but I still haven't read it all the way through, I've just skimmed through it in parts; it is of course a very interesting book.

I like those photos of downtown LA, ethereal. I was just there today. Yesterday, in my search for old photos of the Engstrum Hotel, I stumbled upon other photos that made me stare at them all night last night... I'm now fascinated by the area around the Los Angeles Central Library. Apparently that area used to be a lot more hilly than it is now.

I know that LA's Central Library was built on the site that once was the southern branch of the California State Normal School (which evolved into what became UCLA). But I didn't really have it in my mind how that school building was situated on that site and how much it had been altered after its demolition and the subsequent building of the Central Library.

Here's a 1910 photo, looking west on 5th Street from Hill Street; 5th Street dead ends at the Normal School.
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Now this is where it got interesting for me. Here's an undated photo; but this is looking west from where 5th Street USED to dead end at Grand Avenue, but here you can see that it was cut through the hill to extend the street. On the left is where the Central Library will be built; on the right is the Engstrum Hotel, with a narrow street in front of it that slopes down and intersects with Grand Ave.
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Here's an aerial shot of the nearly completed Central Library, I assume this was taken while the finishing touches were still being put on the Library. You can see the Engstrum Hotel across the 5th Street from it, on the edge of the rise of Bunker Hill. The Edison Building/One Bunker Hill Building to the right of the Engstrum wasn't even built yet, nor was the Sunkist Building, which would rise to its left. Where 5th Street meets the hill looks unfinished, and you can see the narrow street that slopes down to meet Grand Avenue.
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The Sunkist Building, retaining wall and sloping street are of course gone, and in their place are the Citigroup Building, the Bunker Hill Steps and the US Bank Tower. The arches along the wall next to the Bunker Hill Steps curiously remind me of the arches in the retaining wall, if you look at the Sunkist Building photo.
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Here's another shot of the Sunkist Building from the 1940s:
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This is what's there today:
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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck (Post 6356570)

Sears (formerly at Western and Santa Monica) getting a remodel or spruce up? Don't recall seeing the scaffolding before. Before or after awnings?


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