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You were probably on the job when my family visited from Illinois. the studio tour was one of the highlights of our trip (and my dad captures it all on an 8mm home movie camera) So when you say the 'Black Tower' do you mean the MCA Building? this one? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/imKItJ.png eBay I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking it was soooo tall. This tourist wasn't sure what it was either. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/8Z4yst.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/ttpM8I.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Colo...8AAOSwOVpXbJWl __ |
The Black Tower was used as the lower part of the skyscraper in "The Towering Inferno"(1974). In the upward shots, the upper stories were matte-painted in.
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Thanks for the reminder of tovangar2's post about the Good Shepherd Convent, Flyingwedge. My searches didn't find it.
-------------- Today's Julius Shulman post is "Job 1300: J.A. McNeil Inc., Office Building (Alhambra, Calif.), 1952". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The number over the door proved useful. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original I wasn't expecting those seat coverings. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original At least the curtains give this dark office a lift. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original I wish I could see what they're designing. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original I'll finish with this meeting room which has a different jazzy pattern on its curtains. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute I found an address of "3U5 W Mission Road, Alhambra" in newspaper transcript. Luckily, the second picture above told me that it should read 3115 W Mission Road. Other than gaining a few plants, I think building is looking remarkably similar. It's even kept its blinds. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV |
Nuns await the arrival of Senator Robert F. Kennedy during a campaign stop in the Los Angeles area." [June 02-04 1968]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/xXN4FN.jpg https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Vie...-C021-003.aspx Does anyone recognize the building being renovated in the background? Kennedy Girls (dig the blue hosiery) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/KA2P7t.jpg https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Vie...-C010-001.aspx Awaiting the arrival of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at Los Angeles Valley College, 15 May 1968 __ |
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:previous: I thought maybe Pico House, but I decided the building looked too pristine. I see I was wrong.
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Just for fun here's a parked Gremlin in a scene from Remington Steele (Ep 3.02) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/eopDgj.jpg http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_485121-...mlin-1970.html No street address was given, so I took the googlemobile out for a spin and found the street. Looking west on E. 3rd Street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/w0l7oP.jpg gsv The biggest clue were the circles with the cross in it. (I remembered seeing them in the early days of the thread) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/sQxZ0a.jpg detail At the time, I remember asking if this building had something to do with the Santa Fe Railroad because of the similarity to the train company's logo. this one http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/ttditN.jpg old file I can't remember the answer. __ |
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I had a look around the E 3rd Street area a couple of weeks ago when I found that the video below was filmed at E 3rd and Traction. Jodie Abacus - I'll Be That Friend (Official Video) We've seen the Joannes Brothers Company building at 800 Traction Avenue before (see post #12905 and post #13985), but I think this 1932 photo is new to the thread. The building is visible in the video, and only a stone's throw from the building posted by e_r. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Online Building Records On the 1910 Baist map the building is labeled Braun Chemical Company. The 1912 CD lists the California Drug & Chemical Co as "successors to Braun Chemical Co", but at a different address. By the early-20s, 912 E 3rd Street was owned by the H G Chaffee Warehouse Co, whose name is still on it in the 1969 CD. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original www.historicmapworks.com A few years ago the front looked like this. I assume it was for artistic reasons. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV Now you can even "walk" inside. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;7561419]Nuns await the arrival of Senator Robert F. Kennedy during a campaign stop in the Los Angeles area." [June 02-04 1968]
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/xXN4FN.jpg https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Vie...-C021-003.aspx Shortly after midnight on June 5th, Kennedy was shot inside the Ambassador Hotel after winning the California primary election. On June 6th, he died. This photo was taken only a couple days before the assassination. |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/jakpNn.png http://wikimapia.org/4472663/RFK-Com...dor-Hotel-site I don't remember seeing this image before. I have to say, the memoriam billboard looks a bit fake to me. (do you think someone might have superimposed it into the pic?) __ If it's true, which building is the billboard mounted on......this one? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/5nkQST.jpg google_aerial _ |
"First Elect. Car Line in L.A. 1886" (written on the reverse)
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I've often wondered where this photograph was taken. It's one of my all time favorites. ______________________________________________________________ Here's another transit-related photograph that I'm pretty sure it's new to NLA. "Group of men beside streetcar office and barn, southwest corner of Downey Avenue and Hancock Street, 1890" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/GqZBuM.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/12148/rec/7 One of the things that caught my eye was the banner on the streetcar at far right.----> this one http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/HWsGez.jpg detail But I can't make heads or tails out of it. HERM_ _ __ |
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"The name Braun appears on the 1909 building permit." -HossC :previous: So it's probably just a coincidence that the architectural detailing on the building resembles the Santa Fe logo. Oh, and I didn't realize the back of the building was curved (to accommodate the railroad spur) until I saw your Baist map. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/uXdcfS.jpg google_aerial (I was also surprised to see a Baptist Church on the Baist map) __ |
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;7561812]"First Elect. Car Line in L.A. 1886" (written on the reverse)
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http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6s7mcczt.jpg LAPL Their description of the photo is as follows: "A cluster of boulders from the Alabama Hills in the Owens Valley on display at the southwest corner of Hope and Figueroa streets, on the Department of Water and Power property." So - I guess when you steal someone's water, you are allowed to take some rocks along as trophies. Sounds fair. |
:previous: Excellent find FredH. I would never have guessed the rocks were from the Owens Valley!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/fBdaWP.jpg old file / Shulman 1965 / waterandpower I didn't realize the large rock in the current 'desert' garden (with the plaque) was the same rock as in this Shulman photograph from 1965. So where were they situated before being moved to that corner garden on Temple and Hope? In the pic above it looks like they were along a freeway embankment. Now I want to see what's written on that plaque more than ever. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/YlhkhW.png -maybe Mulholland is buried under the rock ;) |
Before it all began:
William Mulholland with two unidentified men sitting in a car in Owens Valley in 1907. All three men are contemplating the future source of L.A.'s water, the snow covered peaks of the eastern Sierras. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/R9z6JS.jpg http://waterandpower.org/museum/The_..._Aqueduct.html |
"Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water."
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-serious minds ;) want to know these details. (where's all our rail-fans?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/34pkcf.jpg I like the way that tough little boy is standing:previous:. Wouldn't it be interesting to know how his life turned out. _ |
Here's a rare look inside the ladies' room at the J.W. Robinson Dept. Store, downtown.
I certainly don't remember seeing this fanciful fountain before. (I wonder where it ended up....someone's garden no doubt) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/GOLZXT.jpg eBay The upper stories of the building are empty now, right? I just had a thought, wouldn't it be amazing if the fountain is still somewhere inside the building! (I've been trying, without success, to read the two signs in the doorways) -there appears to be a row of chairs facing a line of mirrors in the room at far right. |
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