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REF: https://silentlocations.files.wordpr...er_page_11.jpg Also, the 1904 postcard on this site: https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/l...of-los-angeles Did a bit more research and came up with this lo-res picture from the LA water Department to which I have made some notations: http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psewrxcokk.jpg Cheers, Jack |
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That film was shot at USC. The large white building, seen in the three photos above, is the Widney Alumni House. You can see it below mid-block in this north-facing c. 1900 photo I posted previously. To its left is a square building with a cupola; behind that are two buildings whose size and roof lines match the buildings seen in the second and third photos above. I know the Widney House and the football field are in the wrong place, but wait: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original CHS-9923 @ USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll65/id/13911 The east-facing photo from which this close-up is taken is dated c. 1920-29 (my guess would be 1925-29). The football field has been reoriented from east-west to north-south, and Widney House has been moved to the corner where the square building with the cupola was. The last screengrab from the Hamilton film, which appears to show a different location, I believe shows the west side of the Old College building, which is to the right of Widney House in the c. 1900 photo above and at the east end of the open area below: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original CHS-36791 @ USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/3791 |
:previous: Thanks so much Flyingwedge, you solved my mystery! I sure couldn't figure it out.
I thought the 'white school' was probably long gone. -so nice to see it's still on the USC campus. __ & to Wig-Wag for locating the train station. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/7QVZEm.jpg This aerial of the station was extremely helpful Jack. "The Indian motif you cited was a typical feature of Santa Fe station decoration." Wow, I had no idea! That's very cool. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/MFQedo.jpg Perhaps the pictograph is Native-American for "Don't Forget your Luggage". ;) __ |
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I think the weight of evidence suggests that the Mackey (Pearl) Apartments photos date from after 1939. Thanks for all the follow-ups. Also, thanks to e_r for identifying my mystery airplane at Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets. They didn't do aviation & aerospace classes when I was at school! Finally, thanks to Flyingwedge for your personal memories and photo of yesterday's Julius Shulman subject. ----------------- The Sunset Medical Building at 6642 Sunset Boulevard has been mentioned a couple of times before on NLA, but I can't find any pictures of it. This is "Job 0136-MB: Sunset Medical Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), undated". The photoset is undated, but the cars in one of the later images suggest this may be closer to 1939! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original I know that these two shots of the entrance are fairly similar, but I decided to include both of them. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Now, a wider view. I've omitted a similar, tighter image from across the street. On the left is Westmore's Salon of Beauty, as seen in post #6078 by GaylordWilshire. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original The set also includes these two interior pictures. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute From the building records, it looks like 6642 was built as a residence in 1921. The description of the Shulman photos names Rudolph M Schindler as architect, and it's his name that appears on the 1936 alteration permit. There also seems to be a demo permit dated as early as 1967. Here's the view today - it's just a parking lot. Check out BifRayRock's post #28477 for more information on 6634 Sunset Boulevard (the building on the left). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV |
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but while searching, I happened across this fun photograph of the Westchester High School cheerleaders from 1962. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/slzWcU.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/zWAr4E.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/pin/273312271107147957/ The Los Angeles Conservancy has some very good things to say about Flyingwedge's Alma Mater. "Los Angeles saw an enormous population explosion in the postwar period, leading to a dire situation for the Los Angeles Unified School District's schools: there were far more students than there were classrooms in which to teach them. Thanks to funding from several school bond measures, the LAUSD embarked on an ambitious construction program to provide more schools all over the region." The designs created for the school building program came from a variety of talented architects, and very few were used more than once, but they all followed basic design guidelines drawing on modern ideas about the ideal school. They followed tenets of the International Style with horizontal orientations, ribbon bands of windows, and flat or nearly flat roofs, and they emphasized outdoor space. "The design that architects Sumner Spaulding and John Rex created for Westchester High School, which later became Orville Wright Middle School, took all of these guidelines and turned them into a spectacular example of a Mid-Century Modern school. The campus features a series of pavilion-like buildings arranged around courtyards, allowing for free indoor-outdoor flow. A large auditorium and unusual circular cafeteria both open to a central courtyard. This campus is a wonderfully intact and very vibrant testament to the power of good "design for learning." originally posted by HossC http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/foJMct.jpg Getty Archive L.A. Conservancy https://www.laconservancy.org/locati...-middle-school __ |
Button found last year on eBay.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/cUJpDd.jpg reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/5vTDZc.jpg I thought a Torrey Meeting was probably a political group, but now I think it has something to do with R.A. Torrey the evangelist. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/kX1pMa.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Torrey "In 1912, Reuben Archer Torrey was persuaded by Dwight L. Moody to build another institution like Moody Bible Institute, and from 1912 to 1924, he served as Dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Beginning in 1915, he served as the first pastor of the Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles." ...but the button is dated 1908, so I'm not 100% sure of the connection. __ While trying to find additional information on Mr. Torrey and the Torrey Meeting button, I happened across this snapshot. I actually thought it was a postcard. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/LGhCmM.jpg http://www.torealize.net/conclusion.html :previous:"BIOLA (Bible Institute of Los Angeles), my mother's alma mater. Photo shot by my mother during the 1930s, with her hand-written notes at bottom." -Larry Dominus Reavus Ph.D. I've been trying to figure out where Mr. Reavus' mom was located when she took this photograph. __ |
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Information on the Wm. H. Hoegee Co. Los Angeles Herald, March 29, 1908. (the same year as the Torrey Meeting button) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/oic6U9.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/EcgrMd.jpg http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d...80329.2.49.3.2 :previous: Sounds like 138 South Main Street was huge! one last look. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/cUJpDd.jpg ....are those Poppies? __ |
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The Hoegee family continues to be part of the city; one of them is a LA County Deputy Public Defender. |
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Here's the pic. from your link. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/JPvBy9.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/7294653@N07/1099574984/ Interesting building on the right with the bridge supports going through the roof............................................................................:previous: I believe this is it in the silent film. I hadn't noticed it before. (I was too busy looking at the bridge ;)) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/RiRyN1.jpg Here's another view showing that same building. I see that there is another building visible under the bridge http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/LaSC37.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/pin/457959855832538259/ I think the building with the bridge supports through the roof might have been a maintenance building. Here's a look at that second building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/v79QUV.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/pin/367958...=0&w=564&h=425 I'm not sure if any of these structures have survived. __ |
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Here's the Architects Building in 1955. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/xyDLoD.jpg urbandiachrony To see how the same view looks in 2013 go here: https://urbandiachrony.wordpress.com...r-1955-c-2013/ See you all on Monday afternoon. Have fun noirishers! __ |
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Looks like a pretty nifty (and rare) Chevrolet Cameo pickup in the foreground of the last picture of Hoegee's.
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In the same :previous: vicinity of Santa Monica Blvd. (5522), there may be something left of the former Marsh Music Co home. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/16969/rec/1 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...q.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...0.png~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.png~original Contemporary http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...d.png~originalGooSV |
Today's Julius Shulman post shows the Lever Brothers Company. It's "Job 988: Welton Becket and Associates, Lever Brothers Company (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Here's the loading dock with a very short truck. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Around the back where the railroad tracks run through the site. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original Mr Shulman could even make a fire escape interesting. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original The final four shots show the interior, including some big boxes of Surf in the first. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The factory stood beside the Santa Ana Freeway in the City of Commerce, just south of E Washington Boulevard. You can read some of its history in an article in the LA Times. If 10 Julius Shulman images aren't enough, there are 16 more pictures of the factory showing its 1951 opening in the USC Digital Library. The view below on the left is from 1953, while the one on the right is from 2003. In the top-right corner of the 2003 image you can see the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Headquarters that we saw recently in post #34573 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Historic Aerials |
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