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This is the Polito House at 1650 Queens Road, as photographed by Julius Shulman in 1940 (the year it was built). It's "Job 0155: Polito House (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1940".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original There are only two shots in this set, the second shows the exterior from the road at night. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute Mr Shulman returned to the Polito House in 1977 to photograph the interior. This is "Job 5501: Polito House (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1977". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute Here's the Polito House today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV The description below is from redfin.com, as are the recent pictures. The Polito House, Raphael Soriano Architect. Restored three level Bauhaus cube resting on street-to-street lot in lower Sunset Strip. Urbane kitchen, living and dining zones are surrounded by a continuous band of well proportioned horizontal steel casement windows and doors leading to the outside. Master suite and adjacent office or additional bedroom with select city views. 20' x 10' opaque glass wall washes light - threading the staircase through each volume. Master bathroom with steam shower. Swimmers pool, sunning platforms and bridge to terraced gardens lend to seamless entertaining. Dual HVAC systems, fireplace and electronic gated entry. A rare example of International, pre mid-century architecture in Los Angeles.I think that these first two images show the same areas as the 1977 shots above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original It looks like a pool has been added since the house was built. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original |
Historic Palms
Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana was established in 1797. There are two palm trees which were originally located near the mission.
I've read, but forgotten where, that these trees were planted as a reference to where the mission should be constructed. It's possible that Fr. Crespi planted them. Are they still there? What's their history? Noir-ish minds want to know. After scanning Google earth and looking at the mountain ridge-line, I think they were somewhere in the triangle created by the 405 - 5 - 118, possibly between the 118 and Brand. From Pinterest, date unknown: https://40.media.tumblr.com/833c1bde...t224o1_500.jpg Another from Pinterest, 1886: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...d55fb9a8a1.jpg From the San Fernando Valley Historic digital library, dated 1912: http://web.resist.ca/~kirstena/photomission1912.jpg From Water and Power dot org, dated 1887: http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...ion_ca1887.jpg |
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Merry Christmas everyone. I had to go all the way back to page 359 to find my post of the Wilshire Bullocks Christmas Tree. Hope everyone has a safe holiday. Photo by Me |
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Who should I spot? Why it's Alan Napier, Alfred the butler for you Batman fans, but also a classically trained actor from many movies and a good friend of my father. In 1945-46 at the age of 15 my father Peter Strudwick (sound familiar?) hitch-hiked from New York to Los Angeles. When he arrived he was hungry, out of money had a festering tooth-ache. He was in a unknown diner in Malibu when actor Alan Napier noticed he needed some help. Alan took my father under his wing and cleaned him up, fed him and got him in touch with my grandmother. Due to my fathers trouble with his Mom, Alan suggested that he stay and continue school. My father lived with Alan and his family in Pacific Palisades for a few years, finished school and went on to get his college degree and eventually his PhD. Imagine me as a boy of 10 having 'Alfred' from the Batman series sitting at my dinner table! Alan was a great guy. My father told me stories of how Alan, who was a classically trained Shakespearean actor, would read him Shakespeare! Alan had a booming baritone voice and English accent. Dad came home from school in 1948 and there was Boris Karloff sitting in the front room with Alan, Karloff had won an Oscar 9 years earlier and later was also the narrator of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'. Alan lived at 17919 Porto Marina Way in Pacific Palisades. The home burned down in the 80's and I've been unable to locate any pictures of it and it's signature circular tower. Here we are on Google Earth: https://www.flickr.com/photos/151345...posted-public/ and a street view of the foundation remains: https://www.flickr.com/photos/151345...posted-public/ |
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I hope this is what you were looking for. I found this picture in 'Not Just Batman's Butler: The Autobiography of Alan Napier' by Alan Napier with James Bigwood. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...e.jpg~original books.google.com |
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This is really a great thread. Every time I read it, I just get lost in the past of Los Angeles. It has gone through so many cycles... especially downtown. I had a request, something I've been seeking for a while. US 66 and US 99 may have gone through Downtown Los Angeles prior to their "pre-freeway" routing. I've never seen photos with a highway shield visible. I'm looking for a photo showing US 99 in particular along Broadway, Ave 20, Ave 26, Daly St, Marengo St, and/or Macy St from 1928 to 1934. Has anyone here found anything that may show these?
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Several makeshift airstrips are in the area. http://members.tripod.com/airfields_...ndletonhighway Although the size and shape of the area around the strip in question suggests horse track, it could have other (less obvious) uses. :shrug: http://members.tripod.com/airfields_..._CA_67May8.jpghttp://members.tripod.com/airfields_..._CA_67May8.jpg http://members.tripod.com/airfields_...CA_topo_68.jpghttp://members.tripod.com/airfields_...CA_topo_68.jpg |
It's Christmas Eve, so I'm taking it easy with just a single Julius Shulman photograph :). The Picwood Theatre at 10872 W Pico Boulevard was previously written about by tovangar2 in post #12495, but I thought I'd add this larger image. This is "Job 474: Picwood Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1949".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute You can read more about the Picwood at cinematreasures.org. The aerials below show how empty the area was in 1947 (the year before the Picwood was built), and how is was still fairly lonely in the lower-left of the 1952 image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Historic Aerials The Picwood Theatre was demolished to make way for the Westside Pavilion. Here are a couple of LAPL views from 1965 which show what else was lost. Aerial view of the Picwood Theatre (mid-photo) located at 10872 W. Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles; view is looking southeast. Midvale Ave. is at lower left; Westwood Blvd. is middle left to top right; Pico Blvd. is upper left to bottom right corner; Ayres Ave. curves from top left to middle right. Photograph was taken for Pacific Drive-In Theaters. Photograph dated June 20, 1965. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original LAPL Aerial view of the Picwood Theatre (mid-photo) located at Pico Blvd. and Westwood Blvd. in Los Angeles; view is looking southwest. Westwood Blvd. is middle left to bottom middle; Pico Blvd. is bottom left to middle right; Ayres Ave. curves diagonally at middle. Photograph was taken for Pacific Drive-In Theaters. Photograph dated June 20, 1965. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original LAPL |
Thank you so much HossC. It's good to see the Westland mall again (upper left). That's where Hennessey and Ingalls, the art and architecture bookstore, now on Third Street promenade, started out in 1963 (the store will close at the end of the year and reopen in the Arts District in February). I've spent a ton of money there over the years.
Before Westland there was the Pico Drive-In (1934), California's first: Westland opened in 1949, the same year as Culver Center. They were Los Angeles' first malls. Westside Pavilion, built in 1985, was extended across Westwood Blvd in 1991, wiping out S Charles Lee's Picwood (closed since '85). The Landmark Theaters replaced that in 2007. The 1949 parking structure (upper left corner) is still there. Quote:
Shulman also shot the interior of the Picwood. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o...5%252520PM.jpg ucla/s charles lee archive https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a...0%252520PM.jpg ucla / s charles lee archive More. |
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Do you know what ever happened to A L Haley Beaudry? He was over the place and then...nothing. There's a story there I'll bet. |
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Too bad the local homeowners association castrated the Westside Pavilion expansion project. It could have been a decent mall. |
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