Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7597062)

Neighborhood Church, Pasadena - part 2.

The Library of Congress has 13 images of the Neighborhood Church, which can be seen on the left of my first Shulman image posted above. Here are four of them to give you a flavor of what's available.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7597148)

:previous:

Here's a better view of the trees that are on the site today. I believe the church was in the corner closest to the camera.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
GSV

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7597225)

And while we're down Long Beach Way.

Here's a look at a typical modern kitchen from the early 1960s taken by Perry Griffith Photography in Long Beach.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/DotyIC.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Phot...QAAOSwbsdVKvct

:previous: My family had that same make of refrigerator when I was a young'un. (I remember those handles well)

-of course I could only reach the bottom one.


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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7597225)

And while we're down Long Beach Way.

Here's a look at a typical modern kitchen from the early 1960s taken by Perry Griffith Photography in Long Beach.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/DotyIC.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Phot...QAAOSwbsdVKvct



Kind of strange having the washer and dryer in the middle of the kitchen.


And is this the hot water heater inside this cabinet with the vented doors?

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...pso8qhr8mi.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7597391)

a closer look at the homes / W. Adams maybe?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/itDTK8.jpg
detail

In the distance there appears to be a tall commercial building (maybe)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7597200)

The circus comes to Long Beach, 1962.


Citizens viewing the elephants outside Long Beach Arena.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/GwJv2N.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Long-Beach-A...cAAOSwNRdX-vl1




Slide #2

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/HfYoH3.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1962-Rare-SL...gAAOSwh2xX-a4B

I believe we're looking at E. Ocean Blvd. or E. Seaside Way.


note the Caldwell apartments at far right---->
(I thought we visited the Caldwell before on NLA, but I can't find a previous post)
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Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 7597770)

The vendors wandering the aisles hawked live chameleons in little cellophane packet.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7597353)

I believe this is the first time that we've seen an image of the Concordia Club (an exclusive Jewish club).

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/AuYa05.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOS-ANGELES-...QAAOSwCGVX-uD-

I don't know the fate of the downtown clubhouse featured in the 1908 postcard above.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 7597603)

The White Company-- undertakers--were at 664 W Washington in the '20s--how under the 110. Seems likely that the picture was taken in that neighborhood, where, in the larger area, there are plenty of surviving houses of this Vintage, Victorian to Craftsman, in University Park & Pico-Union. Patriotic Hall is a rare tall building in the general area (built 1926)--but it looks like the biggish structure may be one of the smallish apartment houses in the area....

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 7592434)

Begging the indulgence of non-botanical readers: The appearance of the palm tree trunks in the photo suggests that they had endured a fire at some point! I'm afraid that I'm a creature of the coastal plain, so can't supply eyewitness data about the Palm Springs area; but, spurred by the question, I ran across a very interesting article (well, "interesting" to me...), which has a short passage which almost addresses the matter: "Washingtonia spp. are most abundant in large oases at the base of the mountains [...]. Washingtonia filifera and W. robusta seldom grow above 1000 m elevation [...]. In southern California, several W. filifera oases grow on perched water tables along geologic faults, including the San Andreas fault near Palm Springs. From Palm Springs southward to the southern Sierra Juarez, most oases occur in arroyos along the arid eastern escarpment" ("Distribution and Regional Ecology of Californian Palm Oases Interpreted from Google Earth Images," by Richard A. Minnich, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino, and Mario Salazar-Ciseno, Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, v. 29 no. 1, p. 5, 2011). http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi...&context=aliso So the upshot is that there at least "several" such perched water table oases inclusive of one or ones near Palm Springs. I find that it's good to keep such information at hand for casual chit-chat when bar-hopping, and to break the ice at parties.