The first shot above may be Fox. The standing sets were at the north end of the lot (now the site of Century City Shopping Center) and the lot did, at one time, have "Fox Hills" signage (although I don't recognize the angle in the photo below). One of the lot entrances was on Fox Hills Drive (the first street that runs parallel to the lot to the west) and the lot still sits at the western border of Beverly Hills:
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The second photo, with the arroyo, looks like the Mack Sennett lot which would become Republic on Radford, just north of Ventura Blvd. The LA river runs through it. You did a wonderful post on it's early days and also this:

:previous: Excellent sleuthing tovanger2! I didn't realize there was a "Fox Hills Studio". I thought the photographer was making it up.
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'mystery' location, with 'Grizzly' billboard.


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What's the word preceding 'Club' in the lower 'billboard'? (....actually painted on the retaining wall) -also note the 'Amityville-style' house.

The seller dates this as 1949.
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"Southern Pacific GS4 Steam #4449 at Los Angeles, circa. 1984."

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N. Broadway
 

Looks like North Broadway about almost to where the Portola Trail Monument is.

I was also hoping to find the Osborne Market still standing. Comparing all the vintage views, I concluded that it was on San Fernando Road rather than Osborne Avenue (now Osborne Street). For a while I thought it might be the building below, but it seems to have a build date of 1946/47.

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Here's a look at the intersection in 1953. Historic Aerials' earliest image of this area is only a year older, and it's very washed out. I've marked the building I believe to be the Osborne Market, with the building from the image above to its right. Some of the later images are a little blurry, but I think the Osborne Market disappeared between 1964 and 1967.

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Historic Aerials

Here's a more recent (2004) view. The 7-Eleven is marked in blue.

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Historic Aerials

I didn't think North Broadway was on the route of the 9-line, but I'll have to concur with your location, Hollywood Graham. This is roughly the same view today.

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The house below the Grizzly billboard has gone, but I found it in this circa 1938-56 Dick Whittington picture.

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Detail of picture in USC Digital Library

Here's a 1940s garage flange sign for Grizzly brake linings.

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Signal Fun
 

Good one, BifRayRock! :cheers:

Great pix of a pre-WWI North San Fernando Valley. I think I will stay away from the Gas Station "menu", however

Cheers,
Jack

Honary Steam Locomotive
 

Tourmaline, I agree with your ID on the Toyota and Buick. I am not as up on Mercedes of the era. As to the locomotive in the photo. it is an American Locomotive Company PA (Passenger Alco). Among the railfan community it is considered to be the most beautiful American diesel locomotive ever built and has been given the unofficial title "Honorary Steam Locomotive."

For more than you will ever want to know about this locomotive model see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCO_PA

Cheers,
Jack

I think W 8th was widened through there in ca 1927. Always painful to see missing front lawns.

A little advertising slipped in?:
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To railfans the locomotive was called model PA- mavens may be able to tell us if Alco started using that designation- previous models were known by specification number, and later models were less descriptive- , but Passenger A unit, A for lead, gives some useful information. There were PBs FAs FBs S for Switcher and RS for Road Switcher
Of the RRs that bought and used PAs Santa Fe and Southern Pacific were extensive and long time users. Its classic lines and long life earned it the title of "Honorary Steam Locomotive. The last few ended up in MExico, from whence one was returned and is being restored - IIRC in guise of a NIckel Plate RR engine
Thanks for the pix

I think this is 826 S Carondelet Street, which was built in 1922. The 1932 CD names it as the Rondell. Here's a current view.

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The front has obviously undergone some modification, but the side windows match up.

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In 1932, the building with the towers on the corner of S Coronado Street was the Lakeshire. It was built in 1912, but has been considerably modified at some point since 1932.

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GSV

We've seen this building before on NLA. GW also posted a couple of current pictures in here.

W 8th and S Burlington + Langer's Delicatessen
 

Speaking, as we have been, of W 8th St and Masonic lodges and Westlake, I don't think the Westlake Masonic Lodge on W 8th has ever been mentioned here. It didn't make la.curbed's "magnificent Masonic architecture" list, but it's very nice just the same. It was designed by Dennis and Hewitt (Oliver Perry Dennis and Henry Harwood Hewitt) and should get more respect.

Built on the SW corner of W 8th and S Burlington between 1914-1916, on a never-before-built lot, it has a grand piano nobile over a retail base. Great windows:
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The 1890 home at 807 S Burlington (pictured above) seems more than a little overwhelmed by the brick bulk of the lodge.

An unbuilt proposal for the Westlake Masonic Lodge by Train and Williams:
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This area was a lovely part of Westlake (S Bonnie Brae runs N/S on the left margin of the map, S Burlington is right of center):

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L...74150%2BPM.jpg
1921 Baist

South of W 8th was almost exclusively homes, while hotels and apartments were mixed in to the north. The 1906 "Beverly" apartments (called the "Rosewill" until ca 1920) at 746 S Bonnie Brae (upper left corner of the map) is still with us:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...91656%2BAM.jpg
gsv (e_r posted about this one here)

The 1898 Methodist Episcopal Church, designed by John C Austin, diagonally across the intersection from the Masonic lodge, fell in 1927 when 8th St was widened:
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Everyone knows Bradbeer & Ferris' 1894 Frederick Mitchell Mooers house at 818 S Bonnie Brae, just around the corner from the Masons (I think an upper corner of the lodge may be just glimpsed at left):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...15011%2BAM.jpg
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Because of the Sleeping-Beauty-style landscaping, it's impossible to get a shot of the Mooers' moorish-domed, next-door neighbor to the south anymore, so I'll make do with one of the back and its cupola-topped, commodious carriage house. Also said to be by JM Bradbeer, originally built by the Howard family:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-G...20516%2BAM.jpg
gsv

Five doors south of W 8th, on the east side of S Burlington, at No. 826, is another handsome John C Austin effort. Built in 1899 for Mr and Mrs EA Messerly and their daughter Mary, it appears to be almost entirely intact and has been beautifully maintained for 116 years:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...00029%2BPM.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W...93007%2BPM.jpg
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The interior seems to have all its fireplaces and still has some original electrical and gas lighting fixtures (plus an alarming paint color). Rather than touring the whole place, I'll just take you up the stairs:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...72146%2BAM.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N...24102%2BPM.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l...00927%2BPM.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...00623%2BPM.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--...41914%2BPM.jpg

An east-facing, third-floor dormer (also seen in the loft in the above photo) has a view of DTLA:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-j...00211%2BPM.jpg

In the back, the carriage house has been turned into a rental unit and two further units built (w/o permits) in the back garden. (The three-story apartment building at right is very recent):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...95159%2BPM.jpg

Mary Messerly had many genteel parties in the home until she was married in 1903 and left to live in Kansas City. Here's a description of the first one:

"Miss Mary Messerly charmingly entertained the members and alumni of Alpha Upsilon Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity Tuesday evening at her home No. 826 South Burlington avenue. Long streamers of blue and gold ribbon were suspended from the chandeliers to the corners of the parlors, where they were caught up in large bows. The dining-room was decorated with Marechal Nell roses, sweet peas and carnations, and ivy and evergreens were twined about the balustrading and reception hall. Cards and dancing furnished amusement for the guests. The Coterie Mandolin and Guitar Club furnished excellent music."
LAT 8 June 1899

The home changed hands three times at least before it was bought by a family in 1944. They kept it until 2013.

More MLS pix, like those above, showing more of the interior of No. 826, may be found at Zillow and Redfin.

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The Messerly home has been covered before by minkykat and Godzilla . Their posts are here and here.


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Thank you for posting that shot Hoss. I find it fascinating as I've eaten lunch in that room any number of times:
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:previous: Nicely done, Tovangar2!
















Details, details.


But four years earlier in 1925, across La Brea to the east, before the crowds, when things were fresher and newer . . .
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Burton & Co., Realty 5222 Wilshire and Comet Drugs 5224 Wilshire (Wonder about the effectiveness of the flashing "Danger" - "Slow" sign?)
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Hard to miss the Commercial National Sign, but where is the actual bank located, behind Comet Drugs? (Listing is for 5220 Wilshire - to the left of Burton Realty above)

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Good to see the Messerly house again. Here's a good closeup from Godzilla's post of Dec 1, 2013: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17980


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8471/8...d59b1ea8_h.jpg


Before that, minkykat found it in January 2012, but the picture in that post has gone missing: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6259

Illuminated Stop Sign
 

I thought this one looked close BifRayRock. but on careful examination it is not a back lighted sign.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stor...e-route?in=140

Cheers,
Jack

It looks like Yosemite Club to me. The only one I could find on Google was in Stockton, CA.

Messerly House
 

I apologize minkykat and Godzilla for missing your previous posts on John C Austin's 1899 Messerly home. Links to your posts have been added to mine



Thank you BRR

"Lonesome" :whisper:



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The Lonesome Club has CD listings from 1923 through 1942 and a series of different addresses, including an art deco ballroom on Seventh Street, that is long gone. If the attributed date of 1949 is correct, the club would have probably been closed for a few years. More details here>>> https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com...nesome-club-2/ http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...s-angeles.html


Mundane image of the Lonesome Club's 1934 dance floor (937 W Ninth Street).
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