The Roundhouse Cafe circa 1929. Sadly no street address was given. Operating hours were 5:00 to 2:00 A.M.
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...fe1929oper.jpg LAPL There was a long shuttered R.R. roundhouse outside of my home town....so they have always interested me. This is the first time I've seen a roundhouse themed cafe. |
A real roundhouse at the former Taylor Yard.
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/5...arlariverp.jpg LAPL Photograph caption dated April 18, 1953 reads, "This is the Southern Pacific's old roundhouse near the Los Angeles river. It's a far cry from Dieselville, which is a sprawling yard. In the roundhouse, locomotives are stacked in stalls like silver stallions. On the turntable is the DInky, a snubnosed beetle on an engine which pushes the 'biggies' hither and yon. 'There still is romance in steam,' said one veteran railroader." |
-swank club Cafe Society on Sunset Boulevard circa 1942.
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/793...esocietyon.jpg LAPL This very noirsh looking nightclub was unknown to me until I came across these two photos in the Los Angeles Public Library Collection. http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/793...esocietyon.jpg LAPL above: Interior of the private club Cafe Society at 4 A.M. in 1941. Does anyone know the street address? |
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Thank you for that picture! Our second grade class went on a field trip to that roundhouse just before it was to be torn down. (School year 1961-2.) I remember we all wrote thank-you letters to the man who was our guide there. Mrs. Leonard (our teacher) also took us to Angels Flight on a field trip, but I don't remember if that was the same day as our roundhouse visit. I DO however remember that roundhouse field trip was the very first time I went on the new Santa Monica Freeway. (It didn't go very far then; only a few tenths of a mile past the East L.A. interchange). Ah, the memories! -Scott |
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One very noirish mystery that has always fascinated me is the death of TV's Superman George Reeves. It was 52 years ago yesterday that he was shot to death in what was determined to be suicide. The controversy surrounding the facts of his last night alive and subsequent death, in the early morning hours of June 16, 1959, started immediately and has never subsided. One fascianating synopsis can be found at The Straight Dope:
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^^^That is a VERY interesting article on George Reeves Fab_Fifties_Fan!
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/229...assuperman.jpg tv_cap1 G. Reeves 1953 I hope you continue to contribute to the thread. |
Negatives for sale on ebay today.
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2...g4lahbxmas.jpg ebay http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7438/neg2la.jpg ebay http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6089/neg2ala.jpg ebay http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6716/neg3lanbc.jpg ebay http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2807/negsebay6.jpg ebay |
...more negatives/scanned at a smaller scale.
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5213/negsebay7.jpg ebay http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9501/negsebay11a.jpg ebay http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6431/negsebay9.jpg ebay Where is this? The photos somewhat remind me of a location we discussed several pages back in the thread. The first photo above, looks like an area for a funicular. (if I remember correctly, I was way off base in the previous post) |
An amazingly early photograph of Chinatown, circa 1880 (perhaps late 1870s).
I believe this might be one of the earliest views of 'calles des los negros'. http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4...natownandg.jpg ebay http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4...natownandg.jpg ebay above: The description is 'Chinatown and Orange Grove'. |
The label for this is '2nd St. hill'.
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/379/early1880sla.jpg ebay http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5374/...880slahuge.jpg ebay below...a black and white view. I love the clothes on the line. http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9...lahugen2bw.jpg ebay |
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Nice view of Los Angeles's first Jewish synagogue there on Broadway! (The church-like building just left of center.) Here's a ground-level view: https://otters.net/img/lanoir/CHS-11100.jpg USC Digital Library And a map showing its location on Fort Street (now Broadway). For years the synagogue was right next door to City Hall: https://otters.net/img/lanoir/1888-1.jpg I think I got this from Beaudry. Don't really recall... You can just see the corner of the synagogue at far left in this 1888 view of the brand new City Hall: https://otters.net/img/lanoir/CHS-2838.jpg USC Digital Library -Scott |
architecture lecture today (Saturday) at downtown library
Sorry for the short notice:
Please join us at the Los Angeles Public Central Library for a presentation by Dr. Ken Breisch on "Architects and Architecture of Los Angeles, 1950 to the Present" as part of the 19th Annual Marie Northrop Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by Los Angeles City Historical Society and the History Department of the Richard J. Riordan Central Library. Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011 Time: 2:00 TO 4:00 P.M. Reception and door prizes following the lecture Dr. Ken Breisch, a graduate of the University of Michigan, is Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He previously taught at the University of Texas and the University of Delaware, as well as the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the Society of Architectural Historians. He is 2nd Vice President for the latter, as well as past president of the Board of the Santa Monica Conservancy and former member of the Santa Monica Planning Commission. Dr. Breisch is the author of Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America , co-author with Alison K. Hoagland of Constructing Image, Identity and Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture and Building Environments: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, as well as numerous articles on the history of American architecture and design. At present, he is completing a book commissioned by the Library of Congress, entitled The Library in America: Images from the Library of Congress. The Richard J. Riordan Central Library is located at 5th Street between Grand Avenue and Flower Street. Parking: Library Garage on Flower Street (one way south) between 5th and 6th Streets. $1 from 1:00 p.m., with library card, available that day, and validation. Free and open to the public. Made possible partially by LACHS member contributions. Handicap accessibility available. |
Scott......very interesting details about the synagogue on Broadway.
I am somewhat surprised there was a Jewish community large enough to build a synagogue (in downtown Los Angeles) at this point in time (1880s). |
I didn't go to this, but I bet the Q&A was significant. Did anyone on the forum make it?
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the beth torah congregation synagogue located on olive street between temple and court was built in at the turn of the century, (i don't know the exact date) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00081/00081596.jpg Source: LAPL i would have loved to have gone to the Architects and Architecture of Los Angeles, 1950 to the Present, presentation at the library........(except for the fact that i live now in miami..............sigh) |
Actually, djlx2, the Q&A at yesterday's Architects and Architecture of Los Angeles, 1950 to the Present lecture at the downtown library was brief, maybe three or four questions. About a hundred people were there. Dr Breisch crammed about as much as he could in the hour allotted, "... about a year per minute," as he said. The span covered Case Study Houses to Sunnyside out in Rancho Mirage. Dr Breisch zeroed in with more of an architect's view of the city in contrast with Kevin Roderick whose February kickoff lecture in the series was more about the 19th Century history of L.A. (I missed the second third of the talks in April). Both were worth much more than the price of admission (free).
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looking north on grand from 4th street during the 4th street viaduct project 1955. 4th street is in the process of becoming an open cut that tunnels beneath grand
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092842.jpg Source: LAPL looking north on grand across 4th street after it has been tunneled under grand as part of the 4th street viaduct project 1956 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092843.jpg Source: LAPL looking north on grand across 4th street 1980 http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb2/00017522.jpg Source: LAPL looking north on grand across 4th street 1990 http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb2/00017523.jpg Source: LAPL |
A glass negative on ebay of an unidentified building in Los Angeles.
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1...edepotnegw.jpg ebay http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/4...ssneg0303a.jpg ebay http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6...arcadedepo.jpg ebay If I remember correctly, the seller mentioned that the word on the awning is 'restaurant'. I pretty much thought it was the Arcade Depot so I ventured into the USC archive to compare it with a couple photos there. Sure enough...it's the Arcade Depot. http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4...adefotousc.jpg USCDL |
A cabinet card I found on ebay of the L.J. Rose residence.
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/770...idenceebay.jpg ebay below: The L.J. Rose residence at Fourth and Grand in 1890. http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1...jroseresid.jpg usc digital archive |
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Both very cool finds! Congrats! Don'tcha wish you could find a complete set of those "midwinter" cabinet cards? I sure do! -Scott |
Is there a way to contact you directly? I am working on a WB film set in 1940s - 1950s Los Angeles and I have a question I'd like to ask you. Your photos are wonderful.
Thank you. slaverne@earthlink.net |
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http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/3333/0bb42st2.gif b_berkeley WOW!......I didn't expect it to work. -This is very cool :) *see my following post on the old Busby Berkeley mansion on west Adams Street. |
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As in, the first head of our Chamber of Commerce (and member of our City Council in 1853, and who co-incorporated the Water Company) was Solomon Lazard; our second police chief was Emil Harris, Isaac Norton is incredibly important if for no other reason than being the father of S. Tilden; and I hope I don't have to mention Harris Newmark, whose Sixty Years in Southern California I gather you'll agree should be required reading for any serious student of early LA! But we're here to talk not about the Jews' doings, but their buildings... So, Jacob Frankfort arrives in 1841, and by 1850 the Jewish quarter is at Aliso and Los Angeles St. The first formal services of congregation B'nai B'rith are held in July 1862. In 1867, with all Jewish businesses closed on Yom Kippur, a Los Angeles newspaper reported that "so many of our stores were shut, that it looked like Sunday in a New England village." (from here) Sooooo, in August of 1872 the cornerstone's laid for our (soon-to-be) City Hall neighbor: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5025/...1a83d8fc_o.jpg ( from USC) Yes, that's an inverted pentagram. As so lovingly used by 1980s hair-metal bands to indicate their "neo-paganism" or something. The pentagle is simply known as the Seal of Solomon, just as the six-pointed star is known as the Shield of David. (That the five-pointed star could be co-opted by knuckleheads is roughly akin to the indo-sino four-armed "hooked cross" being used by those funny guys in Germany come the 1930s.) Anyway. By 1894 B'nai B'rith has sold the property, as its “cracked walls and antiquated appearance in a busy commercial street...was not conducive to worship.” (from here) Thus, in 1896, they erect this guy on the NE corner of Ninth and Hope: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3176/...857f5020_o.jpg (from A Visit...) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/...8b992f6e_z.jpg (usc) Abraham Edelman (son of the chief, rabbi, G-d bless him for giving his father some nachis), architect. “The synagogue, which was long regarded as the finest church edifice in Los Angeles, was of red brick with twin towers and pomegranate domes, characteristic of ‘mosaic’ architecture.” The sanctuary seated 600. “The floor was carpeted in deep red, the pews were plush-cushioned, and the chandelier, containing sixty bulbs, was the largest in the city. Stained glass windows were presented by H.W. Hellman, Harris Newmark, Kaspare Cohn, and Mrs. J.P. Newmark.” While the 9th & Hope 'gog is many times the Fort/Broadway gog's size and bitcheness, by the 1920s it seems hopelessly out of date architecturally, not to mention locationally, as the City moved west, so B'nai B'rith elects to build one of America's great synagogues. Note that Abraham Edelman is again an architect on the project. (I don't care if you're a devout Muslim, you owe it to yourself to attend temple there at least once.) But back to the 1890s. B'nai B'rith is building its monster down at 9th and Hope, which is all fine and good, except for one thing...they've gone reform. Judaism Lite. Roughly akin to if your Roman Catholic brood were to suddenly become...Episcopalian! As such LA's three conservative/orthodox congregations band together in 1899 and form Beth Israel. Next step: build a synagogue. And where else? Bunker Hill. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5148/...3dcfbb0d_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2535/...949e35b8_o.jpg(from A Visit...) The cornerstone is laid July 1901, and is formally dedicated, with a march and speech from Mayor Snyder, March 1902. (Here is a photo of a wedding inside the Beth Israel in 1909.) Dig the onion domes on both. Onion domes are not always associated with synagogues, belonging more to the Kievan Rus' (or Pietran Baroque) Russian thing, the Orthodoxy, the Mughal, etc.; I'd wager that these folk knew of the 1850s Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest or, more likely, its copycat, the 1871 Central Synagogue in New York, which spawned a (small) wave of onion-domed Hebraic temples across late-Victorian America. What became of these two? B'nai B'rith is made obsolete with the opening of the late-20s opening of the Wilshire temple -- thus Ninth and Hope becomes a parking lot before 1950, according to the Sanborn maps. (And remains a parking lot today.) http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5269/...f34dc8e3_b.jpg(lapl) http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2725/...c5c1f7e0_b.jpggooglemaps Now as for Bunker Hill's Beth Israel (AKA the Olive St Shul) it is, according to one of the sites I referenced here, "used until 1940." http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/...8d83ee2c_b.jpg ( lapl ) I guess the more conservative strain of Hebraicism couldn't win out against the mounting tide of noir. Here's an image of the steps of the Beth Israel after its demolition. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/...789d27a0_b.jpg(offbunkerhill) Note the backside of the Carleton (its façade facing N Grand) which matches the above image. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3347/...b469c94a_o.gif(sacramento) That color image above is by the inimitable Emil Kosa. In the distance, right, across the street on Grand, the green tower of the St Angelo. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5313/...14f35b63_o.jpg(private) |
^^^Excellent post Beaudry! I cringed at the great loss at Ninth & Hope. -so sad.
below: The mansion of Secondo Guasti at 3500 West Adams Street as it appeared in 1910. http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/6...denceofsec.jpg usc digital archive below: A view of the exquisite interior. http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4...astaircase.jpg unknown below: After Guasti...the mansion was owned by none other than Busby Berkeley. Luckily the mansion survives to this day albiet with a parking lot instead of a front lawn. http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4...abusbyberk.jpg wikipedia below: Another view when the front lawn was NOT a parking lot. http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/7...ahistorica.jpg unknown/perhaps LAPL below: A contemporary aerial view from google street views. A 'spiritual' group now owns the property. http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9...astiaerial.jpg below: One last view from google street views showing the mansion behind the parking lot on it's front lawn. http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4928/111guastig1.jpg google street view Let me insert that Busby Berkeley GIF again. ;) Mr. Berkeley was known to throw legendary parties at this address in the 1930s. http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/3333/0bb42st2.gif b_berkeley |
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such as, Angel Week Fashion Show at the Flight! October 21 1965 "Fashion seminars by the Broadway, part of Angel Week festivities, will feature two-piece knits for the working girl headquartered in business district of downtown Los Angeles." http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092189.jpg Source: LAPL "Angel's Flight fashions for Angel Week include career bound paisley printed sheer wool skimmer shift." http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092188.jpg Source: LAPL of course, during the other 51 weeks of the year, examples of angels flight haute couture is represented in the image below.......................... http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092187.jpg Source: LAPL actually, the angel fashion show was part of the annual Angel Ball sponsored by St. Anne's Foundation, (which until i saw these images, i honestly had never heard of before), this image was taken to advertise the 1962 Angel Ball http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092177.jpg Source: LAPL ahhhh............good times......good times |
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In case you missed this earlier post. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1500 If I remember correctly, gsjansen posted a wonderful photo of the mural in the enormous lobby. |
High above the streets of downtown Los Angeles a little girl performs death-defying acts.
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/7...obatla1930.jpg lapl http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4...batla1930a.jpg lapl Both photos are circa 1930. Notice the 'mission revival' rooftop of the Herald Examiner Building in the photograph above. http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/3...examinerpc.png ebay |
I found this on ebay this week / A night view from city hall, circa 1928.
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Marineland of the Pacific
Marineland of the Pacific was a public oceanarium and tourist attraction located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast in Los Angeles County, California, USA. Architect William Pereira designed the main structure. When it opened in 1954, one year before Disneyland, Marineland of the Pacific was the world's largest oceanarium. The owners of Seaworld in San Diego bought it in 1987 and closed it six weeks later. Much of the infrastructure was left abandoned for nearly 20 years. Marineland's most visible landmark, the 414-foot (126 m) high Sky Tower, remained standing until 1995. The Marineland Restaurant continued operating through 2004 as the "Catalina Room" (where Santa Catalina Island was visible on a clear day). Several other structures remained through 2006. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rounds_L10.jpg Marineland of the Pacific in the 1950s. http://www.image-archeology.com/mari...pacific_CA.htm http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...y_Tower_PC.jpg Sky Tower http://www.image-archeology.com/mari...pacific_CA.htm |
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and once again......some more mickey............
grieving at the casket of his beloved bulldog, mickey jr. - june 28th, 1960 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics21/00030180.jpg Source: LAPL mickey and mickey jr. in happier times - may 14th 1951 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics01/00010390.jpg Source: LAPL mickey paying last respects to johnny stompanato - april 9th, 1958 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics01/00010415.jpg Source: LAPL mickey and johnny in happier times walking along the west side of broadway between temple and 1st. the view is looking south on broadway, the hotel broadway which was adjacent to court flight can be seen down the block - august 7, 1941 http://www.corbisimages.com/images/U...7-12cbffb618cf Source: Corbis Images i know it's wrong to covet, but dayum! gotta get me some mickey wing tips! |
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In this photo that etheral_reality posted in December I noticed that all the posters for republican candidates are in great shape and the ones for the democrat have been defaced. Ahhh, the pleasantries of politics have always been with us! :notacrook: |
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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;4815266]Three photos of Little Tokyo on Dec. 7, 1941...just after the attack.
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Another hmm... maybe the driver was signaling a right-hand turn with his arm? Turn signals were only just patented in 1938, after all; naah, he was flipping the bird. |
for quite awile i've looked at this photograph from time to time. it finally registered within me what it was that i am looking at.
this is taken in 1948 looking south at the begining of the construction of the 101 hollywood/harbor freeway interchange. on the far right of the photograph is the rochester facing temple, and on the left are the homes on the east side of court circle about to be demolished to make way for the harbor freeway. if you look closely you can see the outline of court circle curving in the center of the photograph http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008293.jpg Source: LAPL 1970 aerial looking south east across the interchange. the north side of court circle still exists, rochester house is visible on figueroa just west of the harbor freeway http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008249.jpg Source: LAPL a 1963 aerial of the interchange http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033985.jpg Source: LAPL |
Not noirish but fun
Fun pictures I found on another thread
Women auditioning at the Biltmore Hotel for Billy Rose's Aquacade featured at the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/449...0325812aj1.jpg Pat Hall, "Miss 7-Cent Cup of Coffee, 1950," serving William E. Kinman coffee while wearing a bikini, Los Angeles, Calif., 1950 http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/2...0328392aj1.jpg The most important thing to me is that after two weeks I think I finally figured out how to upload pictures! That's me, baby steps...:doh: but then again, maybe not SIGH Pictures courtesy H.A.M.B. Forums Now I got it!!! Flickr bad, Imageshack good |
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in order to post photos, they must be 1st uploaded to a photo sharing site such as flickr. once the photos are there you right click on the photograph and select the copy image location tab http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/...18b8185e_z.jpg once you have done that, to insert the photograph into a forum post, you select the button that looks like a mountain range agasint a yellow background with a grey sun (i have highlighted the button with my nifty little purple crayon that i borrowed from harold) http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/...4841b63a_z.jpg that will bring up a dialog box that looks like this http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5039/...d377edb0_b.jpg paste the image location form step one into the box, click ok............................. and ...................viola! photo is now in post! |
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And now some noir...
Snowden House at 5121 Franklin Ave. in Los Feliz. Originally designed and built by Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright) for John Snowden in 1926. Nicknamed by residents of Los Feliz as "The Jaws House", this architectural marvel has seen its share of noir.
http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/8...nhouse1940.jpg Snowden House 1940's In both his books "Black Dahlia Avenger" and "Most Evil", author Steve Hodel a retired LAPD Detective, maintains that his father Dr. George Hodel tortured, killed and dissected Elizabeth Short in this house. Dr. Hodel owned the house from 1945-51. http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/579/hodelshort.jpg Dr. George Hodel 1950 - Elizabeth Short 1946 In "Most Evil", Steve Hodel also draws startling connections between his father and many other unsolved murders of women in 1940's Los Angeles. It's quite the read! http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/9...owdentoday.jpg Snowden House 2010 All images courtesy www.stevehodel.com |
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