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From the 1938 CD, Lionel E Kent ran a real estate business at 6022 Wilshire Boulevard, Shirley Simon ran Shirley's, a dress shop at 6024 Wilshire Boulevard, and Majestic Upholstery at 6026 Wilshire Boulevard appears to have been a trading name of Abraham Schlamovitch. The directory also lists Benjamin and Charles Schlamovitch as upholsterers - I'm guessing that they were related. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nBuilding1.jpg LAPL The 1942 CD lists 6022 Wilshire Boulevard as the Alan Building, and Shirley Simon seems to be the only one of the 1938 residents who's still there. A small part of the building is just visible on the left of this detail from a 1952 photo that I originally posted in post #25076. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nBuilding2.jpg Detail of picture in USC Digital Library To me, it looks like the building's appearance has already been changed from the one seen in 1937, but I'm not sure that it matches the one we see today. The question is: was the Alan Building remodeled or replaced? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nBuilding3.jpg GSV |
The Billows Motel - "20 ultra modern spacious motel units in refined location", and "recommended by Knott's Berry Farm".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LABillows1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LABillows2.jpg eBay The Billows seems to have become the Shamrock Motel by 1962, and was still going by that name in 1969. The photograph below is undated. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AShamrock1.jpg William Bird on Flickr The 1973 CD doesn't mention a motel at 6220 S La Brea Avenue. The only entry for that address is Jack L Spangler. By 1987, the Shamrock had become the Travel King Motel. Below is an aerial image from 1980. The main layout doesn't appear to change from 1952 (the earliest image at Historic Aerials) until 1994 (the last image where the motel is visible on Historic Aerials). The images from 2003 to 2005 show just a single building remaining at the southern end of the plot (I'm assuming it's the same one as in the image below). The whole site is now empty. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AShamrock2.jpg Historic Aerials |
Museum Row / Churrigueresque
Thanks HossC for the background on 6022 Wilshire Boulevard. Curbed LA reports that that end of the block is coming down for the new Purple Line Station. The Architecture + Design Museum is moving to the Arts District.
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It was Irving Gill's refusal to work in this style re San Diego's 1915-1916 Panama-California Exhibition which caused his break with Bertram G. Goodhue and Elmer Gray. Gill disliked copying decorative historic styles and endeavored to develop a new, local architecture. However, the public enthusiastically embraced Churrigueresque Revival as expressed in San Diego. It remained popular through to the 1930s when Streamline took over. |
Wow, I haven't been down Overland for awhile. At least the old Starbucks kept the Ship's building. This modern mishmash is horrible.
October 2012: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...03455%2BPM.jpg January 2015: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-w...03239%2BPM.jpg gsv |
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The '56CD (and '60CD) lists Majestic at 265 S. La Brea, which means it may have occupied part of the structure currently used by Trader Joe's. The 56CD lists several drapers and upholsters. Address 271 S La Brea a Simca-Fiat dealership as well as "Good and Bad Furniture" and Richard W Lee furnishings. http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...00001/00000001 Plenty of posts on this location, e.g., http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=10721 http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=10722 GW's post seems to confirm a drug store, yet the '29CD lists, for the 263 S, La Brea address, a clothes cleaner, so I wonder if this wasn't like today's mini malls with several businesses under adjoining umbrellas, so to speak. :shrug: 1937 - 677 S La Brea. Cedric's flowers with a sidewalk full of poinsettias. (First come, first serve.) http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059019.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059019.jpg 1937 - Familiar McDonnell's with E Clem Wilson in the background http://jpg1.lapl.org/00008/00008723.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00008/00008723.jpg |
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Was that an earthquake? Loud enough to wake the very dead?
There was blasting at the La Brea Tar Pits, to get at the tar. 1890 - La Brea Tar Pits http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010558.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010558.jpg |
In this NLA LINK, FredH introduced us to Jan's Restuarant (aka Jan's Coffee Shop) by way of actress Gail Russell,
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I discovered some unwelcome news. According to L.A. Eater: As Los Angeles’ real estate market continues to soar (forcing potential homeowners and new businesses alike to scatter towards the suburbs), plenty of old school restaurants are starting to feel the pinch. Case in point: Jan’s Family Restaurant on Beverly Boulevard, which has existed at the same location for more than half a century. On March 15, they closed their doors for good. Furthermore, the rumor du jour has it that the site will next accommodate a Chipotle, because apparently Los Angeles doesn’t have enough of those. Want to experience Jan’s one last time? You’ll have to head over to Astro Family Restaurant in Silver Lake, which is owned and operated by the same family. There is already a Chipotle right around the corner from there near the Beverly Center. ? Coffee Shop restaurants are disappearing. There used to be any number of them, both large and small, chains and single-owner places, all around: I miss them. Where do people eat nowadays that want food like this? I wasn't familiar with the Astro Family Restaurant, 2300 Fletcher Drive, Silver Lake, Los Angeles 90039. Here's a photo of it: http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...vwy1o1_500.jpg L.A. Facades From another angle! https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3606/3...ffa0d7e5_b.jpghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/kansas...an/3359886111/ A commenter notes that this was originally built by Armet & Davis in 1958 as Conrad's Drive-In. And in other Googie style Coffee Shop news, this from March 26th: Celebrities Rally With Community To Save Norms Restaurant on La Cienega http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/...on-la-cienega/ |
Little help.
Refresh my memory. Did someone establish the original building permit dates for the Sunset Hotel (703 N. Spring Street or more likely San Fernando Street) NW corner of Ord? And the original building permit dates for the San Fernando Hotel, NE corner of Ord? Seems like I remember seeing 1888 for both or maybe 1888 for one and 1887 for the other. Can't find any mention in the thread searcher thing. Thanks. Good post coming, I think.
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Peat Fires
L.A. Creek Freak has an excellent article on the peat fires that plagued L.A. on and off for a couple of decades in the vicinity of Baldwin Hills. Peat bog madness in LA https://lacreekfreak.files.wordpress...5547.jpg?w=480 |
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Had the date been 25 years later, perhaps the picture could have been explained as a pyrotechnic related to a DWGriffith production. :rolleyes: http://rockcellarmagazine.com/wp-con...l-War-1915.jpghttp://rockcellarmagazine.com/wp-con...l-War-1915.jpg Curious whether the dangers associated with this type of exploratory endeavor was fully appreciated in 1890. At the time, few would have been around to complain, and to whom would they complain and by what manner?:shrug: undated - An alleged oil well fire (or spritzer?) near Western Ave and 125 Street. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics45/00042278.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics45/00042278.jpg 1924 - smoke from 125th Street and Ballona http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics36/00037806.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics36/00037806.jpg Don't like smoke, fire or heat? 1929 - Wind machine to help fire fighters stay cool http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics49/00044206.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics49/00044206.jpg 1945 - Seal Beach. Explosion led to death of five men as diagrammed http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099363.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099363.jpg Source identifies this image as Miracle Mile, but particulars, including address and date, are unknown. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099425.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099425.jpg Quote:
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1888 Los Angeles Panorama
Here is a two-shot panorama from the Denver Public Library's William Henry Jackson collection. The photos look south from the hillside just south of what is now the Dodger Stadium parking lot.
DPL estimates the date at c. 1885-1910, but I'm fairly certain the photos were taken around the spring of 1888. UPDATE: No, it was taken c. Oct-Nov 1887. There is some overlap between the two photos. The Left Half Running left to right across the bottom is Bernard Street. The "T" intersection of Bernard and Yale Street is just to the right of bottom center, partially obscured by the tip of a plant in the foreground. Near the left edge of the photo, smoke is coming from the Baker Iron Works, which fronts on Buena Vista Street (now North Broadway). The largely empty area between Buena Vista and Yale is the excavation of the City Brick Company. The street parallel to and between Buena Vista and Yale that ends at the south end of the excavation site is Castelar Street (now North Hill). http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original Denver Public Library -- http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm...id/12624/rec/2 This is a closeup of the area just south of the brickyard excavation. At bottom center, the two-story building with the two one-story wings and the big front yard is the French Benevolent Society Hospital. The building to the south with the tower is the Castelar Street School on the SW corner of Castelar and College. In the upper left corner is the Clinton Block at the NW corner of what was then Upper Main and Walters (now North Spring and Ord). The Clinton Block will later be known as the Sunset Hotel. It is not in the 1887 LA City Directory, but it's in the 1888 CD. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original Here's a closer look at the Baker Iron Works; behind it, through the smoke, you can barely make out the Capitol Milling building on Alameda. The three-story building to the right of Baker Iron Works, with the writing on the left side and across the top, is occupied by the Heywood Bros. It is on the SW corner of Upper Main and College St. That building burned down on November 9, 1887, but in this photo it has obviously been rebuilt (No, actually it hasn't burned down yet). The three-story building next to Heywood Bros, which is actually on the NE corner of Buena Vista and College, is the Mullally Block. The July 1, 1887 Los Angeles Times describes the plans for the Mullally Block as being "in the hands of the architect," so its construction must not have been far off. At the far right edge of the photo past the Mullally Block is the Woodhead residence on the SE corner of Buena Vista and College. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original Here's the Woodhead residence in 1883. The note at USCDL indicates the home was "built by Mullally," which would have been Joseph Mullally, Los Angeles brick maker and builder of the Mullally Block across the street. [Upon further review, this might be quite a bit after 1883. The house looks a bit run down, like the porch used to wrap around the house.] http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1726/rec/4 The Right Half The U-shaped industrial plant just to the left of the middle of the photo belongs to the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company at the SW corner of College and Cleveland, which is one block west of Yale. The road in the right foreground that runs off into the ravine is now Stadium Way; today you'd pass the old Naval Armory on the right just up the hill on that road. The trees barely visible in the lower right corner are planted around the old Jewish Cemetery in the ravine. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original Denver Public Library -- http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm...id/12621/rec/1 Here's a closeup of part of the right half. Near the upper right corner is the original Los Angeles High School building (at this time known as the Central School) with the Fort Moore Hill Cemetery (labeled the IOOF Cemetery on the 1888 Sanborn Map) in front of it. The Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company at Cleveland and College is in the foreground. Behind and to the left from the LA Pressed Brick Company, bounded on the west by Cleveland, on the east by Yale and on the south by Virgin (later Alpine), are the modest buildings of the Los Angeles Orphans' Home Society, which sit on the back of the lot next to Cleveland. The 1888 Sanborn Map indicates that a larger, three-winged structure was being built on this site, and the December 2, 1888 Los Angeles Times says that the building had just been completed and was ready for occupancy. Since in this photo the construction of that new building hasn't even begun yet, that's why I date these photos at around the Spring of 1888. BTW, at the left edge of the photo, near the base of the hill, is a windmill at the SW corner of Castelar and Walters (previously High Street, later Ord Street), which you'll see in the next two photos. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original These next two photos are not by William Henry Jackson, but look north at Sonoratown and the hillside where Jackson took the panoramic photos, which must have been near that trail leading up the hillside at the center of the photo. The old Jewish Cemetery can be seen in the ravine in the distance at the left side of the photo below, taken c. 1885. The windmill at the SW corner of Castelar and Walters is in the foreground. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/8307/rec/6 This is more or less the same view north over Castelar Street as the previous photo, but c. 1900. At left you can see the larger Orphans' Asylum building with its central tower. Also, the Castelar Street School has been enlarged. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/3614/rec/14 |
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"The old Jewish Cemetery can be seen in the ravine in the distance at the left side of the photo below, taken c. 1885." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/5YNT6A.jpg Huntington Digital Archive I was wondering whatever happened to the Jewish Cemetery. Here it is listed as "Hebrew Cemetery" on a map dated 1897. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/RuUbZt.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/bigmapblog/ By 1913 it's missing. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/MTcGma.jpg http://www.lapl.org/collections-reso...map-collection I know we've discussed the removal of bodies from the larger Calvary Cemetery (to the east of the Jewish Cemetery), but I don't recall discussing the Jewish Cemetery. |
Sunset and San Fernando Hotels
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Anyway, the 1888 Sanborn shows the Sunset Hotel already built, with the San Fernando Hotel building. That's as close as I could nail it down. The future Sunset Hotel is at the bottom at the NW corner of Walters and Upper Main (now Ord and North Spring), with the San Fernando directly across Upper Main: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original LAPL |
Thanks to oldstuff and Wig-Wag for explaining the difference between a city streetcar (left) and a 'blimp' interurban (right). It's much appreciated.
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It's 1888. Here's a stitched copy. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8740/...5ae31bca_o.jpgSonoratown from Yale Street, 1888 Looking south and southeast from the heights at Yale Street above Calvary Cemetery, William Henry Jackson, 1888. Among the various clues is the fully constructed Sunset Hotel and the still under construction San Fernando Hotel. Voila, 1888. DPLdc https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8699/...581926a7_o.pngThe Sunset Hotel and the as yet uncompleted San Fernando Hotel, detail, William Henry Jackson, 1888 The Sunset Hotel and the as yet uncompleted San Fernando Hotel, detail, William Henry Jackson, 1888 DPLdc https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/...bc8645b3_o.pngBaker Iron Works and Capitol Milling from Yale Street above Calvary Cemetery, William Henry Jackson, 1888 Also shown a good shot of the enormous Union Warehouse at Naud Junction and an as yet unpaved Bruno Street. Also missing is McCarey's Pavilion or Naud Junction Arena which would be to the left of the Union Warehouse. Notice the relative absence of rails. This view will ultimately be loaded with rails leading into and out of the 'Cornfield' just out of-frame to the left. DPLdc https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8686/...b3556b7c_o.pngCastelar Street Public School and the French Hospital from Yale Street above Calvary Cemetery, William Henry Jackson, 1888 DPLdc https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8711/...1584d7fe_o.pngPoundcake Hill high school building on Fort Moore Hill, 1888 DPLdc |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdened...os_angeles.htm info: http://www.backyardtouristsla.com/20...d-stooges.html Home of Peace Cemetery, lower right w/ Calvary Cemetery adjacent Evergreen Cemetery, upper left https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...45106%2BPM.jpg google maps |
:previous: Thanks t2. Is the "old gate" from the original location?*
*(t2 deleted the photograph I was asking about) It was a pretty cool looking brick gate. __ I found this interesting 1954 photograph along with the Hollywood Fwy. / Alvarado bus stop photo that we recently discussed. "Metro Olive St. Bus Depot" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/PwZD8O.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/Z67tPU.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/30993133@N04/ Is that car turning into underground parking? and does anyone recognize that apartment building from the back? __ |
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