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Here is an exquisite, hand-colored, [magic lantern] slide of West Lake Park. [c.1890s?]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/BxyoJk.jpg Ebay I was going to ask about the light pole that the young lady in yellow is leaning against......oh never mind. (now I see it extends up into the tree) THIS ONE https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/GvhQcn.jpg detail My question was going to be about the under-sized globe and the too-thick pole. *schedules eye appointment* I also thought the lad, just to the left of the tree, was leaning against a monolithic slab like the one in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. *schedules psychiatric care* Of course, it's a tree. ........... (or is it? I see a small patch of sky above it) If it is a tree, it's much older than any of the other trees in the park. What do you think odinthor? . https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/j4ocR5.jpg |
Early Century City [c.1963]
I wonder if the clump of trees at lower left, with the diagonal walkway going through it, was a park? ... It seems such a waste to lose the trees to construction. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/3J2Zpj.jpg Flickr Does anyone remember a park at that corner? *The east west street is Santa Monica Blvd. (I'm not sure of the name of the north-south street) The other north-south street, with the missing segment, is 'Avenue of the Stars'. I am very arboreal this weekend. :treehugger: . |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...randeJatte.jpg www.widewalls.ch For people around my age, this is the painting which captures Cameron's attention in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'. |
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Over the years, the title "noirish Los Angeles" has become somewhat of a misnomer.
Back in 2009, I had no idea the thread would take on a life of its own. If I had it to do all over again, I would probably choose a more all-encompassing title. . |
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Have no regrets, ER. I really don't think the site would have evolved with anywhere near the scope it has now if it had been generalized from the start. It might have become merely a feel-good, pinterest-type of site...IMO. The great thing about Noirish Los Angeles is that it demythologizes the city--no, it wasn't ever a crime-free paradise where gentle Midwestern transplants lay around in the sunshine. Mayhem has always been around every corner in LA. (I'm always amazed by the crime reporting in the halcyon days I'm most interested in 1900-1930, and all the way back to the earliest days of the pueblo. Every single neighborhood, even those with the fanciest houses in the best 'hoods, was regularly plundered by porchclimbers. Assault was common all over town. And worse, of course.) PS Quote:
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Isn't it a wonderful thing that you can pop into the Tate Gallery in London for a peek into a clump of trees on Santa Monica Blvd. Here's it is in a detail from a 1967 Ed Ruscha picture. https://i.imgur.com/ED5lbM2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/QrlGct9.jpg tate.org.uk Looks to be machinery and small structures/stuff strewn about in the roughish terrain. :shrug: Not looking like a park you'd want to taking a relaxing lunchtime stroll in. |
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I wonder how long the park was there, because in 1939 it looks like there was a golf course on the south as well as the north side of Santa Monica Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...yCity1939a.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...yCity1939b.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu ETA. Going back to 1928, there was very little at all on the future site of Century City. Even what-is-now W Olympic Boulevard just ends precariously at the edge of the area. A little of Wilshire Boulevard can be seen in the top left corner. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ryCity1928.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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From https://williambellsociety.wordpress...-lost-courses/: "A short drive to the northwest, near both the Hillcrest Country Club and Rancho Park, lay another popular facility, the private California Country Club, which opened in 1917. A solid, challenging layout, its architectural origins have remained murky over the years (both Billy Bell and the iconoclastic Max Behr seem strong possibilities) but its creator was certainly a skilled hand, for its 6,538 yards were squeezed into limited, extremely hilly acreage. The club was well-known as a Hollywood hangout (as much because the city’s most famous golf clubs still shunned entertainers in those early years as for its proximity to 20th Century Fox studios) and counted among its members the legendary Olympian-turned-golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias." This is the only mention I can find of any former golf courses in the area. |
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When Mix bought it, "it was little more than 176 acres of low rolling grasslands, with three ancient oil derricks dating before 1911, located between two country roads." lacurbed ..................................................The two country roads would eventually become Pico and Santa Monica Blvd. Quote:
____________________________________ Noir Noir, the close-ups [of the specific corner area] from the Tate Gallery were amazing! p.s. In 1925 Mix sold the land to his bosses at the Fox Studio Corporation to raise some cash ($1.5 million). |
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Plus I've met a few interesting people.:cheers::cheers: |
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Indeed -- and no family was immune. At NLA we've discussed Samuel C. Foy, his family, and his house: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psbpcahswu.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psqjzz1mof.jpg November 17, 1896, San Francisco Chronicle @ ProQuest via LA Public Libary See also the November 17, 1896, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC for another account of the crime. |
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From the Los Angeles Times of November 22, 1896, via ProQuest via CSULB Library. Resized, compacted, and text of a will omitted. Excuse the length, but . . . it's interesting. https://i.postimg.cc/YC2ZXPPF/JackLee1.jpg Continuation: https://i.postimg.cc/JzTgSqw2/JackLee2.jpg |
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