Here are a few more.


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columbia square
 

and just down sunset boulevard east of vine street NBC's rival, CBS's Columbia Square design by William Lescaze

Grand opening night 1938

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/...8becd3e8_b.jpg
USC Digital Archives


site under construction 1937


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/...631ff002_b.jpg
LAPL


Sunset Boulevard elevation 1939

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/...e18f4b6a_b.jpg
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sunset boulevard night time elevation 1939

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/...05c62688_b.jpg


columbia square cut away image

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/...36216329_o.jpg
California State Library


columbia square noir

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LAPL

going back to page 42 and Ciro's

ciro's cigarette girl 1940

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ciro's entry 1940

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just your average southern california suburban couples out for date night at ciro's

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/...249f86d6_b.jpg
USC Digital Archives

07/2016 I'm surprised so many of the photographs are missing. I'll try to replace them. Sorry for the inconvenience.

For years I've wondered what the interior of the Earl Carroll Theater looked like during it's heyday.
I finally came across these great photos a few weeks ago.


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Here are a few more.



Below: The stage area.

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Below: A detail of the stage area.


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Below: Another great photo of the bar area.


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Below: The telephone room.


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earl carroll, moulin rouge, hullabaloo, kaleidoscope, aquarius, nickelodeon........
 

these are the names that venue has been known as,

during the 1960's when it was still known as the moulin rouge, the most depressing television game show ever, queen for a day was filmed here

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/...fe642cc0_b.jpg
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when it was the aquarius, the doors recorded their live from the Aquarius here. in 1969 the exterior got a new paint job for the play hair which played here for several years. The exterior painting was done by the dutch outfit known as the fool, the same folks who painted the exterior of the beatles shop in london

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/...a22873cd_o.jpg
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here's a scan from the book Dreams of Laurel Canyon showing the Fool paint job on the sunset boulevard elevation. this is where the wall of fame used to be

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/...555a38cf_b.jpg


from the same book is a scan of the band the turtles by the wall of fame when it was the hullabaloo club, (yes this is the place where they taped the television show hullabaloo)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/...bb8f709e_b.jpg


Earl Carroll noir 1939 looking se across sunset boulevard from NBC

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Man, how I love the architecture of those 1930s studios. Streamline art moderne kicks ass.

Is that Ronald Reagan? I guess in 1940 he would have been in Hollywood. I feel like I am wrong and am going to sound like a huge idiot, but that is who the dude second to left looks like to me anyways. I'm not versed in ancient hollywood celebrity history like some people.

you're correct, that is nancy davis and ronald reagan before they were married, out on a double date with mr. and mrs. dean martin circa 1952

note the smoke nancy is holding................just say no.................................

a couple of interior lobby photos of the edison building, (one bunker hill)

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ceiling detail

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Mansion on right
 

What about the mansion on the right? It is seen here and in another older view from Poundcake Hill. Was it also on Hill Place? What family built it?

what is the history of the house on the right in this photograph?

Wow. The George Mann photo below "Second Street and South Grand".
Isn't that the Frontenac north of the Hotel Melrose? If so, that would be where my greatgrandfather Daniel Webster McMillan lived in 1918.

Great!

Oops. Think not. Going back to previous posts, the Frontenac would be just to the right (south) of 2nd street. The Melrose was across from what is now Disney Hall. Am I getting this right?

Thanks for all of the wonderful images everyone. This is my weekend activity now.

From the Pyrenees to Hollywood
 

https://i.postimg.cc/Vk16G7hH/glessboyle-bmp.jpgGSV Jan 2019
131 S. Boyle Avenue


http://historicparks.org/imagegaller...Family_jpg.jpgLos Encinos State Historic Park


I seem to keep running into actress Sharon Gless. While I knew she was a native Angeleno, with forebears figuring in the history of L.A.--there is a Gless Street on the east side of the river--I wasn't aware of just how illustrious her extended family was in terms of that history. She grew up on Muirfield Road in Hancock Park (in the house her mother, daughter of entertainment lawyer Neil McCarthy, grew up in); nearby in Windsor Square and frequently mentioned in architecture guides is another Gless house, this one designed by Arthur Heineman and built by her great grandmother at 627 S Ardmore before being moved to the southwest corner of Plymouth and 6th in the '30s, where it still stands. (I can find no vintage image of it to post.) Researching the origins of this house led me to Boyle Heights and the discovery of Los Angeles's newest Cultural-Heritage Landmark: yet another Gless house, this one at 131 S. Boyle Avenue, seen at top.


http://historicparks.org/imagegaller...aGless_jpg.jpgLos Encinos State Historic Park
Simon and Juanita Amestoy Gless--their wedding photograph.

Simon Francois Gless, Sharon's great grandfather, built the Boyle Heights house soon after inheriting the property from his uncle, Gaston Oxarart, who died in 1886. Gless farmed the land for a while; the family retained the property until 1916, when it became part of the Hebrew Shelter Home and Asylum. Included in the legacy from Uncle Gaston was a bonus--the Rancho Los Encinos, which Uncle Gaston had acquired from Eugene Garnier (of the Garnier Block at the Plaza), who had gone bankrupt. Gless married Juanita Amestoy in 1889, and, preferring the Heights of Boyle, sold the ranch to his father-in-law, Domingo Amestoy...later, of course, the ranch became that jewel of the San Fernando Valley, Encino. Anyway, it seems that after Simon died in 1903, Juanita tired of Boyle Heights and commissioned Arthur Heineman to build 627 S Ardmore. She later sold it to department-store magnate John G. Bullock, who a few years later moved it to Windsor Square next door to one he'd just moved from 3200 Wilshire Boulevard (check it out here). By all accounts the Glesses and Amestoys were close, but if one is in a noirish frame of mind while reading the history of the Valley--so fraught with Chandler/Mulholland/Chinatown intrigue--it's hard to shake the idea that the Amestoys might have had ulterior motives in allowing Juanita to marry Simon. Were they after the Encino property all along? It was conveyed to them within months of Juanita and Simon's marriage, and Simon declared bankruptcy about 10 years later. In any case--even if indirectly--he left Juanita enough money to build an architecturally significant house even if she only lived in it a few years.

Interestingly, the Glesses, the Oxararts, and the Amestoys were apparently all French Basques who emigrated first to Argentina, and then, so the story goes, all arrived in Southern California on the same ship.

some Dick Whittington aerials over the years
 

the gold standard for los angeles aerial photography over the years is Dick Whittington Studios.

here are some aerials that focus on the west side of bunker hill generally centered on an area between sunset boulevard to the north, figueroa to the west, 2nd street to the south, and grand avenue to the east.

these aerials were taken between 1946 and 1971.

all images are USC Digital Archives

looking east 1946

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...11-6-ISLA?v=hr


looking east 1959

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-1-6-ISLA?v=hr


looking north/east 1952

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...3-30-ISLA?v=hr



looking north/east 1962

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-1-2-ISLA?v=hr


looking north/east 1963

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...13-1-ISLA?v=hr


looking north/east 1964

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...5-42-ISLA?v=hr


looking north/east 1971

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...14-1-ISLA?v=hr


this last aerial is a long range shot looking east towards downtown from the wilshire business district. it was taken in 1970

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...75-7-ISLA?v=hr

gsjansen--Great pictures. Somewhere in at least one of those Whittington shots might be the Oliver house. Do you think we'll ever find out more about it?

gsjansen--Great pictures. Somewhere in at least one of those Whittington shots might be the Oliver house. Do you think we'll ever find out more about it?

i haven't as of yet been been able to find out anymore about the Oliver residence........but Beaudry might have something to share.

here is his last paragraph in his 6/15/10 "144 S. Grand Revealed" post over at onbunkerhill.org


(Speaking of modern structures on the Hill, remind me sometime to tell y'all about 353 South Hope. The Stuart K. Oliver residence was built on the site of the Hildreth mansion's adjacent carriage house ca. 1952, and Oliver didn't want to sell or move. Stalled the CRA for years. The house was demolished around 1969.)


ok beaudry, consider this sometime and now's i'm remindin' ya! do tell....do tell! :yes:


the house is visible in all except the 1971 north/east aerial views above, (most notably the 1964 image)

here is the link to my original posting about the Stuart K. Oliver House

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1314

The architectural firm of Morgan, Walls & Clements who designed the building above apparently agreed with you

Mullen & Bluett stor , located at 3639 Wilshire at Harvard

http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mo.../1992-1655.jpg
California Sate Library


Columbia clothing shop at 6332 Hollywood Blvd. near Vine

http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/mo.../1992-1236.jpg
California State Library


of course they also dabbled in quite a bit of diverse cultural inspired design themes throughout los angeles...........................

such as;

farmers and merchants bank 4th and main

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Bullard building at spring and court, (or is it franklin?)

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Hotel Nadeau 1st and spring

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Ralphs hollywood 5711 Hollywood Boulevard

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The Dominguez Wilshire Building located in the Miracle Mile

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Samson tire and rubber company located at at 5675 Telegraph Road, City of Commerce, (it's now the Citadel outlets)

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The Pellissier Building at wilshire and western

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The Leimert Theatre, located at 3341 W. 43rd Place

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oh yeah....................and this building as well

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Very interesting history. I wouldn't have guessed that Gless was a Basque name.

The Basques actually have a long history in Calfornia, even many of the French settlers were actually ethnic Basques.

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Great pictures and posts yet again! I haven't really been going into this thread for the past week or so because I've been busy with family visiting from Hawaii. Now I can give it more than just a quick glance.

I found this on the USC Archive; the caption said that it shows Crenshaw looking south, with a car crossing it at 48th Street, 1930-1939.

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WRONG.

I saw the lamp posts and immediately knew that this shows Olympic Boulevard, being that those lamp posts are the "Olympic Specials." It's nice to see them here with their original teardrop luminaires. So, this is actually looking west along Olympic Boulevard at Crenshaw. You can even see the tower of Los Angeles High School to the left. This is where residential 10th Street branches off, though today, 10th Street no longer directly intersects with Olympic and Crenshaw. 10th Street is now closed at S. Victoria Avenue, and a landscaped grassy triangle has been created on that corner, with a driveway to a Rite Aid.

Vons Supermarket apparently was celebrating its 33rd anniversary in this picture, so that would date it to 1939.

I knew from the lamp posts cause' they're olympic specials??!!??

S EJ! you're amazing!:worship: amazing catch due to the oly's!

a few skid row images from pre-skid days. these are all focused around the intersection of towne and 5th

looking northwest from towne and 5th 1890. is that the bradbury mansion up at court and hill in the center of the photograph? the other two large structures would be the courthouse and the newly completed Los Angeles School building

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-4782?v=hr
USC Digital Archives


looking southwest at the intersection of towne and 5th 1890

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-3758?v=hr
USC Digital Archives


Looking south on towne from 5th street 1891

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-4794?v=hr
USC Digital Archives


Looking east on 5th from towne towards the arcade depot 1890

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-4784?v=hr
USC Digital Archives


Looking west on 5th from towne 1891

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-4788?v=hr
USC Digital Archives



the same view looking west on 5th from towne post skid set-in 1986

http://helios.library.ca.gov/soca/reagh/1990-1330.jpg
California state library


a 1926 aerial from grand and 5th looking east over the skid row area

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-9067?v=hr
USC Digital Archives

noirish tale
 

after i met with my meal ticket client who stiffed me til i produced results, i high tailed it over to the southern pacific to hop a nightliner to san diego to get some lettuce from a pigeon who owed me. but first i needed a haircut so i stopped at a clip joint i knew on 5th and Stanford a short walk from the train for a snip and and a shave. but all i had in the buxton was a round trip ducat and a nickle...........good thing i was hungry.........................

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i had the spaghetti red.............................

noirish tale conclusion
 

i shookdown my san diego mark, and got back into town with a satisfying thickness in my breast pocket sometime late after midnight. as tired as i was, a stiff three finger was what i needed.........good thing it was a short walk to salvation

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the caption reads;

View looking west on Fifth Street from the southern pacific terminal on Central Avenue at 1:45 a.m., just before bar closing time.

looking west on wilshire from St. James Church 1936

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...2-12-ISLA?v=hr
USC Digital Archives

Well, dag, if yer all gum remindin' me...!

I guess I could write a li'l somethin'...

WOW!

watta' tale! thank you so much Mr. B for fillin' in the blanks.

now that i finally know the whole story, i'll be able to sleep soundly tonight, (providin' o' course that the grimey griftin' hopheads don't get me first)

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...338-004~8?v=hr
USC Digital Archives


(san julian and fifth)

That is incredible! Man, some amazing finds in here guys!!

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...338-004~8?v=hr
las vegas nv hotels
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...2-12-ISLA?v=hr

Vine Street in 1957.



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300 block of N. Main St. (Thanks for the correction Beaudry)


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Broadway near the Majestic Theater.



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usc digital archive


Find the one legged man.

Hill north from 8th in 1929.


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usc digital archive

Wilshire Blvd. in the 1940s


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ebay slide

Notice Bullocks Wilshire's art deco tower in the far distance.

6th & Main in 1955.



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Now, ethereal, you know it pains me to correct you...but I hope you will see it as correcting the historical record.... This is actually a shot of 7th Street at the south side of MacArthur Park, looking northwest. While Bullock's tower appears to be along the street in the picture, actually it is not. The LARY "R" line followed 7th--if 7th continued straight without its westerly jog at Hoover, it would run directly to the Bullock building's northwest corner. (Btw, on its westbound run, the "R" line followed 7th to Vermont to 3rd to La Brea.)


http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie...,0.024762&z=15

Wow, and I thought I knew my way around USC and I hadn't seen this wonderful evocative neony image. One thing though, it's nowhere near Pico...though very near the Pico House which is a stone's throw N up Main...this is the 300 block of N Main, just down from the Baker Block. Check out here and here -- it all came down in the Spring of '57 and you now know this part of the world as Bowron Square with the Triforium and such.

Glad ya liked it! And hey, the grimey griftin' hopheads are my people, I'll put in a good word for ya...

Now if you'll excuse me...gotta get me a pint and a racing form...

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(Wm. Reagh, Chinatown, 1976, Cal State Archives)

Thanks for the corrections GaylordWilshire & Beaudry.

Towering Inferno!
 

Union Bank Building 1988

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/ima...caleFactor=1.2
UCLA Digital Collection


first interstate bank building

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/ima...caleFactor=1.2
UCLA Digital Collection


Bradbury Building 1947

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/ima...caleFactor=1.2
UCLA Digital Collection


Newmark Brothers Building first and san pedro 1928

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/ima...caleFactor=1.2
UCLA Digital Collection

A view from Angels Flight in 1928.


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calisphere


So I take it that the couple is walking along Clay Street?


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Below: Detail of the first photo.

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View from Angels Flight in 1928.


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Below: Detail of the photo.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/362...mangelsfli.jpg

One last view from Angels Flight in 1928.



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Below: A couple details of the above photo.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3...mangelsfli.jpg




http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/3...mangelsfli.jpg

This is pretty amazing. I just found this among my pictures...it's date 1860s.


http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/3...eview1860s.jpg
ebay




I went back to post #1540 and checked the first photo I posted with the couple. (see below)
They're walking in front of the house that appears in the sepia photo.....nearly 60 years later!

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7...lightview1.jpg



http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7...lightview1.jpg

whoa.......................that is one amazing photo E_R...............

this view looking down on clay street has to be from the nelson residence. it's too far down third to have been taken from the crocker, (IMHO).

great corresponding images from years later. just fabulous!

I ran across this waaaay waaay waaay before 1885 image of the ne corner of sunset and gower. i thought it was a nice addition to go with S EJ's post of of so so so many moons ago :)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/...93b5baf1_b.jpg
LAPL

the caption for the image says;

Exterior view of Six Mile House, a bar offering wines and liquors, located on Sunset Blvd. at Gower Street in the 1880s. Just six miles from Los Angeles, it was a stopping point for 20-mule teams coming out Sunset Blvd. into the San Fernando Valley

whiskey for me.......beer for my mules.............................

i don't know if anyone has posted this yet, (i couldn't find it searching the forums)

Victorian residence of Russell Judson Waters, located at 900 West Adams Blvd., on the southwest corner of Adams Blvd. and Portland Avenue

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061823.jpg
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aftermath Battle of Los Angeles
 

An air raid roundup occuring on February 25, 1942, in a blackout during World War II, during which lights were turned out and vehicles stopped. Numerous streetcars are parked on tracks on Georgia Street, near Hotel Houston, 1226 Georgia St., and Georgia Arms, 1260 Georgia St


http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050978.jpg
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the line up is for his early morning radio show "breakfast in hollywood" in order for it to be broadcast to the country, (outside of hollywood), this photo must have been taken 5:00 am

wow, the early morning pre-cursor to the today show!

some cold war noir image

Los Angeles mayor Fletcher Bowron and civil defense director Admiral Robert W. Berry declare the city hall air raid shelter open, July 2nd 1951

The Amestoy building is still standing at market and main on the left

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1394/...19d44ff5_b.jpg
USC Digital Archives


Air raid drill city hall shelter October 2nd, 1952

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1159/...4552a697_b.jpg
LAPL


Mary Lou Miner, in summer sportswear, poses on top of a concrete-block bomb shelter. The owner has hopefully attached a mailbox to the wall by the entrance and put a water filter inside. A sign, "Normal Ground Level" is staked in the ground. Photo caption reads: "Beautiful Mary Lou Miner suns herself atop a new West Los Angeles bomb shelter at 10333 Santa Monica Boulevard, dreamed up by John Vale and executed by Arthur Lowe. If we're not bombed, it'll make a good den, play room, or dog house". Photo dated: Apr. 7, 1951

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1049/...934c65a0_b.jpg
LAPL

looking north past 1st street at the hill street tunnel in 1954

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067353.jpg
LAPL

grading operations have already begun. the tunnel........(and the whole dayum hill) will be history within a year.