Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7106775)

3000 Clyde (above) was built on the site of short-lived Spartan Field, which was at 2801 Clyde.
On the lower map, the street that hits Jefferson in the lower right corner is probably Hauser Blvd:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original
Airway Bulletin No. 940, March 1, 1930 @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=285


This c. 1940 Spence Air Photo looks south at the Baldwin Hills.
The former Spartan Field site is in the triangular area near the lower right corner.
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original
Photo from Rancho Cienega o Paso de la Tijera by Virginia French (John D. Roche, Inc., Los Angeles)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7106853)

I don't believe we've seen this image on NLA.

"Los Angeles City Hall seen from US 101 and Interstate 110 interchange. 1950"
(photograph taken near Sunset Blvd. and Figueroa Street)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/OfFnyR.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vie...198/zz0002qqw5

I'm curious about several things.




Here's a detail of the lower right edge of the photograph. I think that's a Café sign (red arrow). -and what is 'Challange' advertising? ice_something

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/CLAuMb.jpg
detail

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7106853)

I don't believe we've seen this image on NLA.

"Los Angeles City Hall seen from US 101 and Interstate 110 interchange. 1950"
(photograph taken near Sunset Blvd. and Figueroa Street)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/OfFnyR.jpg
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vie...198/zz0002qqw5

I'm curious about several things.

What's up with the crazy chimney flues? Does anyone know what building this is?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/9rW7PT.jpg
detail

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7107039)

It looks like the St. Angelo Hotel at 237 N. Grand:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original
UCLA Digital Library, previously posted by er: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1203

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7107125)

Thank you. I hadn't remembered those extraordinary, branching flues at all. What a contrast with the new freeway exchange.

Apparently they were not original:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L...10719%2BPM.jpg
historic hotels of los angeles and hollywood, page 34

...but, they're in all the 1950s pix:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...04536%2BPM.jpg
huntington dl (detail from a selection of 8 color images)

More info on the St Angelo from On Bunker Hill

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7106970)

Site of Lasky Ranch.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/GP5iUH.jpg
https://silentlocations.files.wordpr...dy_page_11.jpg

:previous: "The former Lasky Ranch, bordering Griffith Park near Burbank, and future site of Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Memorial Park.
Once part of the Spanish-era Rancho Providencia, the Lasky Ranch was used for more than three decades as a filming location."

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7107125)

...but, they're in all the 1950s pix:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...04536%2BPM.jpg
huntington dl (detail from a selection of 8 color images)

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7088169)

It looks like 16-year-old Ione Gail Murphy, aka Patsy Gail, was the alleged victim of an assault by Arthur Hudkins at a "wild party".

July 30, 1928
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...oneMurphy1.jpg
www.newspapers.com

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7102679)

I could not resist looking at dannywa01's "new" neighborhood, S Wilton Place from Pico to Venice in Mid-City:

This is the place in 1910 when Pico Blvd was "Pico Street", W 15th through here was "Dorchester" and Venice was still called "16th Street". Three institutions then dominated the neighborhood:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...64146%2BPM.jpg
Baist, plate No. 17, 1910 (detail)

dannywa01's two blocks of S Wilton Place:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0...15029%2BAM.jpg
Baist, plate No. 17, 1910 (detail)

The Los Angeles Country Club (mentioned many times on the thread, this is just a tiny recap) was started as the Los Angeles Golf Club in 1897 on land that is now centered on Alvarado Terrace. Too cramped, LACC briefly moved to 16th (Venice) and Hobart, then on to the nearby premises shown on the map below, at the NW corner of Pico and Western, where they built their first 18-hole course. In 1911 LACC decamped to West LA, to a parcel just north of 20th-Century Fox studios, where they remain. The grounds of the club's former premises were platted into house lots and built out.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M...94006%2BPM.jpg
Baist, plate No. 17, 1910 (detail)

Eleven years later (compare with the map immediately above):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...00705%2BAM.jpg
Baist, plate No. 17, 1921 (detail)

This photo taken looking north towards Hollywood up Western from Pico in 1898 gives an idea of the lay of the land before anything was built. Just two years later, LACC will take over an irregularly-shaped parcel on the left, siting their clubhouse near the intersection. After the club departed, this area was converted to residential use and became known as Country Club Park:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L...90047%2BAM.jpg
cc pierce/usc dl

The same view today:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-B...73645%2BAM.jpg
gsv

"Harvard College", later "Harvard School" and now Harvard-Westlake, (the school has also come up multiple times on the thread) was established, originally as a military school, in 1900 at the site shown on the first map above, at W 16th St (Venice Blvd) and Western. Thirty-seven years later, thwarted in their attempt to move to Westwood, they relocated to the defunct Hollywood Country Club grounds at the Valley end of Coldwater Canyon. The school's former location is now Western Plaza Shopping Center. There's a big Food 4 Less there, a CVS, a Factory 2U and some other shops.

The original Harvard College/School building, "Harvard Hall", by Arthur Burnette Benton (1900), faced on Western Avenue:


Today the site is Western Plaza Shopping Center:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...74544%2BAM.jpg
gsv

The Good Shepherd House is a Catholic charity which provided, and still provides, services to women and their children. As part of their mission, they ran a girls' high school on the northern end of their property from 1905 until 1977. When the school ceased operations, the land was sold to LAUSD. Pio Pico Middle School is there now and uses two of the historic structures from the former high school. Good Shepherd retreated to the southern end of the property at the corner of Arlington and Venice behind a big hedge. The Sisters continue to maintain a shelter for victims of domestic violence:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-d...74247%2BAM.jpg
gsv

Good Shepherd (SW corner with pool below) now shares its original site with Pio Pico Middle School:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2...01912%2BAM.jpg
gvs

The streets surrounded by Good Shepherd, LACC and Harvard School were built with large homes of wood and stucco during the first two decades of the last century. Good brick apartments and 4-plexes provided infill in the 1920s. More modern apartments have replaced many of the homes. About twelve of the original houses remain on S Wilton Place, between Pico and Venice, most in good repair.

This one, for example, from 1910 is at No. 1422:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U...91854%2BAM.jpg
gsv

Another at No.1527, also from 1910, features an unusual roof line:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...24719%2BPM.jpg
gsv

One of the 1920s apartments is No. 1310 (1927):
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...10130%2BPM.jpg
gsv

A generous four-plex (1922) at No. 1321:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N...80401%2BAM.jpg
gsv

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All thx go to Beaudry. He's the one who so generously gave us the info re building permit searches. I put that one up so he'd know I do pay attention....sometimes :-)

(now if the city would just cross-reference them by architect & contractor!)

Originally Posted by dannywa01 (Post 7107448)

I know the school used to be an all girls catholic school owned by the "Sisters of the Good Shepherd" and that they still use two of the former buildings (the gym & the rose cottage). The only new information I came across was a possible name (Pelletier High School). During the time I worked there after school, I would hear rumors of the rose cottage being haunted by a little girl and a monk in a robe.

Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham (Post 6026389)

The place where your pop got the horse meat was one block farther west, it was called Mabel's, I worked for Mabel for a week or so as a kid. I would go out when a car pulled up and take an order for horse meat. Mabel had a Spider Monkey she kept in the store, monkey bit me, quit. My pop bought horse meat there also. Just beyond was Metropolitan Chevrolet and up a couple more stores was the chicken market you mention. You watched as the chicken was killed, defeathered, gutted and wrapped up for you. Up the next block was Michaeltorena Street School. I also went to King in 56, 7 and 8.

Originally Posted by dannywa01 (Post 7107448)

I tried looking for some pictures of the school, but ended up empty handed.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7107491)

Frank's Liquor 12329 Prairie Ave. Hawthorne CA.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...913/PzCU5g.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1577/rec/1

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7107566)

Kodachrome slides of the Los Angeles Police Academy, circa 1966.