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I found this postcard with the following caption at jhgraham.com:
"It’s doubtful anyone actually counted them, but the midway’s “Walk of a Thousand Lights” lit up the Pike at night all the way to Chestnut Place." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...000Lights1.jpg jhgraham.com While I was reading the page above, I saw this picture of the Victory Fountain: "The Victory Fountain was a new addition to the north end of the Pike at Chestnut Place in September 1926 in remembrance of World War I veterans. Designed by Edwardes Sproat, it stood 45-ft. high and was equipped with electric lights that flashed in time to the water’s spray. At the top was a mirrored ball that reflected the lights at night. Postcard view and 9-26-26 LA Times." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...emorialLB1.jpg jhgraham.com You can see the statue in this aerial I posted the other day. It's the oval structure just below the center. Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original UCLA The statue's obviously not there now, but I can't even see it on the 1953 aerial view. I found someone else looking for it at millikanalumni.com: We are assembling an inventory of all WWI memorials and monuments in the US, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what happened to the American Legion Victory Fountain erected on the north end of the Pike in 1926.Does anyone know what happened to the memorial? LAPL has a couple more pictures here and here. |
:previous: Hoss, I had no idea the Victory Fountain ever existed!
How in the world did the City of Long Beach allow something this grand to seemingly disappear? :shrug: If the PH.D hadn't picked up its trail in 1941...I would have bet money the fountain was destroyed in the 1933 EARTHQUAKE. _____ ...when I first laid eyes on it I thought it looked like an American cousin of the Albert Memorial in London U.K. |
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https://s26.postimg.cc/welpnbkft/Albert_Mem.jpg odinthor collection; photographer: odinthor How did Long Beach allow something this grand to disappear? Long Beach is like that, e_r. Long Beach once had a nice long beach alongside downtown. :hell: |
civic amnesia
https://i.imgur.com/JIPCl0R.jpg
Long Beach Independent 10/18/1962 But: https://i.imgur.com/NUBGPX9.jpg Long Beach Independent 4/26/1940 The Veterans Memorial Building was at 245 W. Broadway. |
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Do they mean here? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xp...p=w736-h586-no the living new deal |
If, by chance, the Victory Fountain (or parts of it) was moved to 245 W. Broadway....it's gone now. :(
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/CGGwYO.jpg google_earth |
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So what was there between 1978 and now?
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1972: https://i.imgur.com/fMWLjEP.jpg 1980: https://i.imgur.com/axax8rN.jpg |
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Yeah, it was the California Veterans Memorial State Office Building from the early 1980s. I can't find a picture of it at the moment... Ah, here we go: https://i0.wp.com/la.streetsblog.org...45WBroad01.jpg lastreetsblog.com |
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The old building is still visible on older GSV images. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV Info on the new building can be found here. |
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__ Do ya'll see what's at the end of the walk? It's the elusive Victory Fountain!!! 1932 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/355BVp.jpg HSLB The historical society's prominent watermark pretty much ruins the photograph. :( Why so damn BIG? |
The Grand Stairway in the Hotel Virginia.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Pak14V.jpg ebay collection The lighted statue: if you look closely the young maiden is holding a basket of flowers (lightbulbs) and has raised a bouquet of flowers (lightbulbs again) above her head. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/C7I5Dh.jpg at least that's what I see. :shrug: _ |
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"Civic Cuspidor" of "atrocious design"
Here is the oldest available aerial from historicaerials.com (1953).
https://i.imgur.com/ohtLpOk.jpg The Victory Fountain should be at the "x" but there is nothing there nor is there a shadow apparent, compared with the 1939 UCSB aerial that HossC posted. I'd say the likelihood of it mouldering somewhere in a warehouse is pretty low in view of the following: https://i.imgur.com/YnkxmaT.jpg Long Beach Independent 3/29/1940 via newspapers.com |
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/593/3...ce984d_o_d.jpgflickr
1951 Wayfarers Chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes I believe the photo slide is 1958 |
A final tour through the LA Times building:
http://www.latimes.com/local/califor...13-story.html# http://www.latimes.com/resizer/pv03m...CGAYVY4NRE.jpg (LATimes) |
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