http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1...omasdrugad.jpgMaxwell's Los Angeles City Directory
I just like the typeface in this 1897 ad...

:previous: Looks like the graphic designer was paid with free drugs. ;)

PCH Pedestrian Bridge at Castellammare
 

Wow, that pretty little pedestrian bridge was a loss, wasn't it? I love the four lamps.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-c...809%2520PM.jpg
gsv

Holy urinal cakes, looking back on some of the posts I've made, some of the pictures have disappeared! I must see about repairing those...

time-traveling typeface
 

I agree, it is very 60s.

Made in Van Nuys.


http://imageshack.us/a/img842/1/davi...nnuysjusta.jpg
unknown

4 people in the front and 3 in the back?






below: This is from an earlier post (2011).

http://imageshack.us/a/img341/219/aabdavislife.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3715




http://imageshack.us/a/img11/4733/aabdaviscolorized.jpg
http://www.suarezweb.com/davis/davismen.htm


GaylordWilshire offered further information and links in his post titled "Where's the sparking pole?".
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3718


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For what it's worth, I have the first 257 pages of the thread completely archived; every word, and every image file. That doesn't do anybody but me any good, unfortunately. And I'm SOL for anything after that. I'm afraid I fell too far behind to keep up, and now it's way too late to go back that far and start again. I suppose half is better than none, though.

I might add, private webhosting accounts are always an option. Mine costs me $5 a month for 2GB storage. As long as I keep paying the bill, the images will remain.

-Scott

What about starting a new thread?

Even a die-hard L.A. history nut like me, seeing this thread for the first time with 600+ pages - it would prove too daunting for me.

Just a thought. I do feel sympathy with anyone just discovering this thread now, though. It's so-o-o long, and has so many gaps. It probably disappoints readers now nearly as much as it enlightens.

Kress Miracle Mile
 

Returning to the Miacle Mile for a moment, the Kress pylon looks much more substantial in the photo above than the odd-looking blade we're left with now. It must have had some sort of housing around it. It looks triangular.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-E...931%2520PM.jpg
gsv

This is an intriguing photograph. I had never heard of Cherry Street.



http://imageshack.us/a/img248/8200/a...s2info1954.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img9/5497/aab...outhernend.jpg
http://www.lapl.org/

We're looking north on Cherry Street and the cars are turning onto Washington Blvd. at a T Intersection.




1947 map
http://imageshack.us/a/img855/1930/aabtraff1954.jpg

Looking at this, I am amazed the freeway missed Chester Place (and St. James Park as well).



2011 map
http://imageshack.us/a/img338/8700/aabcherrypost1.jpg



below: The same view today. Looking north on Cherry Street from Washington Blvd.

http://imageshack.us/a/img267/822/aa...etatwashin.jpg
gsv




If you look closely, these are the same two buildings seen in the 1954 photograph.

http://imageshack.us/a/img13/5497/aa...outhernend.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img248/475/aa...eta2bldgwe.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img703/7302/a...streetatw1.jpg


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No one?

3940dxer and I were supposed to combine our two resources into one shared archive (I had all the early stuff, he had everything up to that date), but the swap never occurred. I'm still more than willing to do that. If 3940dxer happens to be reading this, please send me a PM!

-Scott

It seems apocryphal to me, but in researching the area, I came across the theory that such was the clout of the former telephone operator who rose to become a countess--Estelle Doheny--that the path of the Harbor Freeway was made to curve on its way south to avoid Chester Place....


As for Cherry Street... couldn't help but notice its proximity to Wright Street, which we've visited before:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10696

Cherry and Washington
 

Astounding ethereal! I am so not worthy.

Great to see a Studebaker. Remember the Lorimar show Max Headroom? All the cars were Studebakers

:previous: Thank you T2.
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One thing that stood out in the 1954 photograph was this large church on Cherry Street.

http://imageshack.us/a/img209/5497/a...outhernend.jpg
http://www.lapl.org/






After searching here and there, I finally located a photograph of this truly magnificent church.

http://imageshack.us/a/img27/3421/aa...eranchurch.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img541/3421/a...eranchurch.jpg
http://www.lapl.org/






below: July 1959.

http://imageshack.us/a/img28/8577/aa...heran1959b.jpg
http://www.lapl.org/





http://imageshack.us/a/img689/7168/a...theran1959.jpg
http://www.lapl.org/

:(
If that doesn't hurt, I don't know what does.

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http://imageshack.us/a/img37/2478/aablwize1s.jpg

Lwize, your church would be several blocks northeast of the Trinity Lutheran Church on Cherry Street.
Let's try to find some aerials of the area. It should be fun.
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Long Beach 1949.

http://imageshack.us/a/img208/5303/b...ongbeacheb.jpg
ebay

I'm speechless.
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Lwize, it wouldn't be St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 12th and Los Angeles, would it?

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/3...30130at133.png
Circa 1901-15, USC Digital Collection

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4...30130at142.jpg
Circa 1929, USC Digital Collection

http://jpg1.lapl.org/00076/00076329.jpg
1940s, with the Bendix Building in the background, LAPL

http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017167.jpg
1957, LAPL

http://jpg1.lapl.org/00076/00076331.jpg
1971, LAPL

It burned down in 1983 and was replaced by the Diocese a few years later with a somewhat cartoonish--and wholly suburban--structure:

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/7...30130at149.jpg

Some good reading here: http://blogdowntown.com/2011/10/6440...own-firedamage

Or was it this more Romanesque number, the Christ Church at 12th and Flower?

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4...30130at155.jpg
Circa 1900, USC Digital Collection

Satellite shots show this one being gone by 1994.

Start the morning with a couple of cups of noir...
 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8206/8...43c3a376_o.jpg
End of the Line, 1957


Feb. 23, 1957: Jewelry store robbery suspect Benny Hirschfield is wrestled to the ground by Patrolman Fred Kite, right, and Officer D.J. Lightfoot. Delmar Watson, Mirror-News staff photographer, shot this image after getting caught in the middle of the jewelry story robbery and helping chase Hirschfield.

The Mirror-News reported the entire incident in the Feb. 25, 1957 edition:

Mirror-News Photographer Delmar Watson and Reporter Jack Springer found it’s possible to get TOO close to the news – they covered a robbery Saturday while it was still in progress and Watson was a shot-at victim.

Springer and Watson were five blocks from the scene of a jewelry store robbery at 6317 Hollywood Blvd. when the police radio reported a holdup. They dashed to the scene just as one robber ran out.

Springer pursued the fleeing bandit while Watson ran into the Kruse Jewelry Store to discover that Bandit No.2 was still very much in business.

Benny Hirschfield, 40, the ex-convict robber, had just herded Jack Sanford, store manager, and Patrolman J.E. Eifert into an upstairs storeroom when Watson barged in.

Hirschfield menaced Watson with his gun, but the distraction provided Officer Eifert with an opportunity to fire at Hirschfield who fled from the store. Eifert’s bullet, which missed Hirschfield, passed over Watson’s shoulder.

Hirschfield was arrested minutes later in a nearby parking lot by Officer Fred Kite and Watson was on hand to get a vivid, grade-A action shot of Kite just after he stretched the bandit on the asphalt with a tackle.

Bandit No. 1 outsprinted Springer and boarded a bus just pulling away from a stop. Springer furnished the only accurate description of the thug who escaped with $20,000 in jewelry in a shopping bag.


Los Angeles Times archive


A 'getaway bus'??



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8065/8...1e7fdf0c_o.jpg
All that's good with America, 1952


Aug. 21, 1952: Halftime entertainment at the eighth annual Times charity game was provided by Spike Jones, left, Marilyn Monroe and Ken Murray (actor Paul Picerni far left peeking over Jones' shoulder). The defending champion Rams beat the Washington Redskins, 45-23.

Los Angeles Times staff writer Jack Geyer reported in the next morning’s paper:

There were a lot of fancy runs at the Coliseum last night where the Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins clashed in the eighth annual Times charity game, but none was more thrilling than the 50-yard dash luscious Marilyn Monroe made from the sidelines to the center of the field.

Marilyn…bounced across the field with a run that charged more batteries than a generator.

Ken Murray, the incomparable comic who emceed the terrific halftime pageant, explained it best. Said Ken:

“Marilyn had better be careful or the referee will penalize her five yards — for backfield in motion.” (Ain't America great?)

The Los Angeles Times-Rams Charity games continued until 1993.

This image was published on a photo page with five shots from the game. Photo credit for all six images was given to Phil Bath, Art Rogers, Larry Sharkey and Bob Jacobsen.


Scott Harrison
Los Angeles Times archive



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8...e3afd3d5_o.jpg
Policewoman lures rape suspect, 1952


30 July 1952. Florence Coberly -- 26 years (policewoman); I have to admit, there is something very alluring about a woman with seriously plucked eyebrows wearing a tight skirt and a firearm.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961




http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8204/8...de2a3fa1_o.jpg
Policewoman lures rape suspect, 1952 (2)


30 July 1952. Detective F.A. Marz shot and killed suspect Joe L. Parra; Detective S.W. Griffin;


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8477/8...a365658f_o.jpg
Los Angeles Police Department narcotics arrest, 1958


8 January 1958. Barbara Burns, 19, booked by Los Angeles Police as narcotic addict early this a.m. Narco detective in shot with her is E.L. Allen". This would be Barbara Burns, daughter of comedian/musician Bob Burns, also known as the Arkansas Traveler. Her father had been dead two years when this picture was taken.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8480/8...d4611573_o.jpg
Barbara Burns sentence, 1958


9 June 1958. L to R: Marshall Norman Coppock; Barbara Burns.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8205/8...cb9a486a_o.jpg
Mocambo Party for Mr. and Mrs. C. Ray Gilliland, 1954 (3)


2 June 1954. Paul Brinkman & Jeanne Crain dancing.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7138/8...ba7f0d10_o.jpg
Runaway boy (Inglewood), 1952

17 March 1952. Davies Herron -- 12 years. I hope things settled down for Davies. I hope he had a good life.

USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8200/8...4255c6c6_o.jpg
Bruce Cabot Divorce, 1951


27 November 1951. Attorney Jerry Geisler; Mrs. Bruce Cabot. And here's two more folks to whom an impending divorce moves them to laughter. I understand the lawyer's high spirits (yet another picture in the paper, big fees) but the lady seems unduly amused. Maybe she just realized the big fees for Mr. Geisler will be covered by the soon to be ex-husband. Then again maybe it's just me.



USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961




http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8202/8...1ff1491f_o.jpg
Monterey Park 'spying suitor' court trial, 1954


21 January 1954. Champion Rogers (suspect); Harry Leppek (Attorney); Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Paegel. Date: 1954-01-21. Reporter: Massard. Assignment: Monterey park's 'Spying Suitor' court trial. 3/4: Champion Rogers and his attorney Harry Leppek." I think nowadays this guy would simply be called a stalker.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8346/8...071062a5_o.jpg
Monterey Park 'spying suitor' court trial, 1954 (2)


21 January 1954. Jean Yates (victim).
Jean Yates, on whom Rogers was spying, hides face from photo lens."


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961




http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8479/8...52b35ab7_o.jpg
Shooting (Wilshire Police Station), 1958


6 January 1958. 'Tim' Moore -- 70 -- 'Kingfish' of TV 'Amos and Andy,' in Wilshire Station for shooting at wife".

He took a shot at Sapphire? At Sapphire?? That man must be crazy.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8209/8...744e7a4a_o.jpg
Wrestling, 1951


19 September 1951. Baron Leone; Red Berry. Whoa Nellie! I don't know exactly what they're doing here but it looks as though they're both losing! The paying customers seem to be enjoying it though. I just about hear Dick Lane's voice.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8350/8...7001688d_o.jpg
Marriage license, 1951


Marriage license, 4 September 1951. Cornell Wilde; Jean Wallace.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/8...dd4aa7ec_o.jpg
Catholic School Mothers Club -- plan dance, 1958


10 January 1958. L to R: Mrs. Joseph Dunnigan; Mrs. John T. Cahill; Mrs. Ambrose Schnieder".
Supplementary material reads: "Photo assignment for Friday January 10 at 3 p.m. Pls go to home of Mrs. Wright, 804 North Linden Drive, Beverly Hills, CR 17814, get shots of Catholic School Mothers Club women planning dance. Candid, three cols. Contacts Monday; Thanks, Carter Ludlow".


...And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost...


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8201/8...675483e2_o.jpg
Ku Klux Klan warning (Negro house bombed), 1952


01 April 1952. On sidewalk at 2633 South Ridgeley Drive; Reporter looking on.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8486/8...0d26e179_o.jpg
'Queen of the Barbelles', Abbye Eville, 1949

When Abbye Eville wanted to shed some pounds, her then-boyfriend Les Stockton encouraged her to lift weights at Santa Monica's Muscle Beach. The "Queen of the Barbelles" soon was the poster-girl of fitness, and as one wag put it, her nickname, "Pudgy," became "a libel." In the 1940s, she organized the first all-female weight-lifting contest and opened the first all women's gym in the United States. She and Les, by then her husband, later popularized working out on the Sixth Street Stairs in Santa Monica. Photo dated: December 10, 1949.

LAPL



http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7125/8...b41ec83b_o.jpg
Narcotics suspect, 1954


14 April 1954. Suspect Frank Rasulo, left, being questioned by Detective Al Challoner.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8444/7...8d915cce_o.jpg
Murder in front of 663 Lamar Street, 1952


Murder in front of 663 Lamar Street, 30 May 1952. Murder scene; Body of Fernando Reyes -- 17 years (shot and killed in street brawl) 1726 1/2 Clover Street; "Choppie" Reyes (brother of dead boy); Louis Barrera -- 17 years (friend of Reyes); William Humm (Deputy); Don Joseph (Deputy); Detective T.F. McGovern. Boy walking around officer on far left is Louis Barrera, 17. Shows murder scene, where Fernando Reyes lies dead". Murder east of the river, in a tough part of town. Then again, maybe they're all tough parts of town.


USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961



http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8436/7...58e802fb_o.jpg
Murder, 1960


Murder, 12 December 1960. Lt. R.W. Lauritzen inspects the body of L.L. Hardwick, 43. Police Sgt. Reggie Floyd, first police officer on scene, looks on. In background is victim's car.

USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Was this the inspiration for "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues?"

Cheers,

Earl

Better than Wheaties....
 

Thanks! Outstanding.

Fonts
 

I forwarded this to my font freak daughter (there's a whole community of designers out there who collect, discuss, trade, share and, of course, use unusual/historic/classic fonts as well as design new ones). She instantly shot it out to a bunch of her typeface geek friends, who also sent it on.

So thanks GW, you amazed and delighted a whole bunch of people yesterday :-)

The location seems close and the stone structure too, though I felt it was smaller, more spooky and had the name Trinity when last I noticed it sometime in the 1980's. Hmmm.
Could be. Maybe an extra 80 years of aging, and some trees around it.
I may have to accept this. Could there have been a name change?

Union and West 20th is the corner at left middle in the shot above; the vacant lot where Hardwick's body was found is now under the 10. The recently cleared areas were for the freeway then being plowed through the neighborhood. The house circled above still stands:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/611...edhousetod.jpgGoogleSV


A view from the 10 today, almost right above where Hardwick's body was found:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4...viewfrom10.jpg


The story:
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/3...dwickcompl.jpg

Mystery Church
 

Lwize, can you find it in the below?

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-q...109%2520AM.jpg
http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/birds...f-los-angeles/ (click the link for zoomable version)

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6558/1916itworked.jpg
uscdl

Poor old Leo must not have been a very successful bookmaker seeing that he was living in a flophouse hotel, had only a dime in his pocket and was driving the most basic model '47 Chevy in 1960. At least he was dressed nicely. ;)

~Jon Paul

Filling in some gaps a la USC Digital. And there are a lot of 'em.

Circa 1940
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0 USC Digital

More from the Wilshire-La Brea area, circa '40. :previous:

Ford Dealership or enormous Ford advertisement? In '39 Lail Oldsmobile was at 747 S. La Brea. By 1940, Lail was at 419 S. La Brea.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0USC Digital

The Four Star Theater - plenty of parking, plenty of adjacent billboard space.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0



John Burroughs Jr High School on McCadden (are those handball courts?)
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0USC Digital

Burroughs School, circa '26 Built to last.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026195.jpgLapl


The money shot. (Of course it has been posted before.)
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...SLA&DMROTATE=0USC Digital

It seems that our policewoman later got married and then got busted for shoplifting. (oops)

"Police woman shoplifting hearing, 22 July 1958. Mrs. Florence (Coberly) Stanton (suspect in shoplifting)"

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...697&DMROTATE=0

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/52444/rec/1

http://newspaperarchive.com/redlands...cts/1958-07-24

Here's another little tidbit of noir to brighten your afternoon re. Florence:

There's more here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/police...3sanf_djvu.txt

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. But for groceries? Sounds kind of sad.

Las Palmas Market / Reds
 

I love the Las Palmas Market, Las Palmas at Fountain. Built in 1912, it's a genuine mom 'n' pop establishment, rare in this 7-11 era. I've known it close to 40 years and it has not changed one bit. It's called the Red Market or just "Red's" by locals. You can buy anything here, but they seem to mostly sell Lotto tix, beer & cigarettes. Street parking only. Often used as a filming location (mostly getting robbed...though that's never happened in real life in living memory). I hope it lasts until I'm gone, b/c I'd really miss it.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...359%2520PM.jpg

There's a lot of good stuff here:

http://www.archive.org/stream/police...3sanf_djvu.txt

It's chinatown, Jake.

Richard Neutra and de-development
 

Speaking of cycloamas:
Not much to do with LA, except it involves "our" Richard Neutra, but does provide food for thought about what to save and from which era. Painful choices being made back in PA:

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/b...ews_2013_01_30

Neutra's Cyclorama Building, Gettysburg (1962):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U...228%2520PM.jpg
national park service

Yessir.

[IMG]http://i47.tinypic.com/5btjd3.jpg[/IMG]

http://archive.org/stream/policepeac.../n139/mode/2up

Be afraid....be very afraid.
 

ankle-bracelets and bombings
 

Is that an ankle bracelet under her stocking? Ms. Coberly sure is rocking those pumps.



2633 S Ridgeley Drive, now ready for anything, including her close-up
(not too shabby for an 85-year-old)
I'm not going to begudge her that fence:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-d...904%2520PM.jpg

Excellent 'noirish' post this morning MichaelRyerson. Very haunting crime scenes.
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Oh, and good job locating the house in the crime scene photograph GaylordWilshire.
I keep envisioning poor Leo's bones underneath the freeway (ridiculous I know).

As for the small woman's compact found in his pocket......was Mr. Hardwick a murderer as well?

http://imageshack.us/a/img21/131/aabgwfind.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img835/4681/aabgwfind1a.jpg
gsv
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Even LA can be a small world
 

I've labeled this the 'mystery medallions' building.

http://imageshack.us/a/img90/3299/my...ons7thsout.jpg
gsv


It's located on 7th Street between Rampart and Hoover.

http://imageshack.us/a/img198/1939/m...ons7thbtwr.jpg
gsv

http://imageshack.us/a/img705/1980/m...ons7closeu.jpg
gsv

....anyone have any clues about this unique building...does anyone recognize the gentlemen in the medallions?
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Motorcyle formation is cruising down incline of 300 S.Olive block- on left side of first image - Portion of big parking bldng pedestrian entrance on the front left side - followed by bit of wooden Van Sickle Apts with The Ems beyond it midway up the block. 2nd image shows these again but also includes front entrance of the Bailey Bldng @ 344 S.Olive.(orig. The Wales Apts)

Remember this discussion from last week? Well get a load of this itteration of the Players Club!!!!

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/232/areyoukidding.png
Vintage Los Angeles - Facebook

Mere words escape me:(

~Jon Paul

So I did a search for Trinity Church on LAPL and you know what? The building in question apparently changed names (and denominations) and was later on known as Trinity Church, which explains why I had trouble finding shots of this particular building last night.

So without further adieu, I give you Trinity Church at 1201 South Flower Street:

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics52/00075536.jpg
1971, LAPL

And here's the associated blurb: While the church is identified as a Methodist Church, the denomination changed to United Methodist in 1968, three years before this photograph was taken. Originally a church of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South denomination until 1938, this church was closed and merged with Wilshire United Methodist Church in 1980. This structure was demolished in the early 1980s.

I hope this is the answer you're looking for!

How unfortunate. "Pink Taco". That's one hell of an innuendo.

OOPS!


http://imageshack.us/a/img69/5362/aaboops.jpg
ebay




reverse
http://imageshack.us/a/img717/6540/aaboopsr1.jpg

The riverbed looks dry to me.

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I just came across this 1942 photograph on ebay. pan right--> for gas-o-meters...or whatever they're called.

http://imageshack.us/a/img690/9279/a...1942noinfo.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1942-Victory...item53f3ec3cf0

Hmm...offhand, the only person I recognize is Jack Benny. I'll have to look at this for a bit.

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When I saw this picture, I thought that locomotive looked familiar. We have one of the last working ones of its kind, the 3751, parked here in Los Angeles at the Redondo Junction Round House.
But I found the 3785 (pictured above) mentioned in this article from the 3751 web site (http://www.sbrhs.org/history.html):

The original 4-8-4s had been handling the Grand Canyon Limited between Los Angeles and Wellington, Kansas (1,534 miles) since January 1940; upon completion of its rebuilding, No. 3751 entered this pool. Operating requirements sometimes saw No. 3751 on a La Junta-bound train out of Los Angeles, but after delivery of the 10 newest 4-8-4s, Nos. 3776-3785, in the summer of 1941, this became less frequent. Effective May 23, 1942, the original 4-8-4s started running through from Los Angeles to Kansas City via Amarillo, a distance of 1,789 miles, setting a new record for through steam locomotive runs. During World War II, these engines handled both the Scout and the Grand Canyon Limited. On-time performance was not the best with the long stops to work heavy mail and express, but seldom was one of these engines cut out at an intermediate terminal due to failure. During the typical month of August 1943, the 14 engines averaged 18,435 miles per locomotive with a repair cost of 23 cents per mile, at a time when 3,600-horsepower diesels handling lightweight trains cost 32.4 cents a mile for repairs.

Redondo Junction Round House? -any current photographs of the 3751 locomotive?
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