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If I am not mistaken, the streets in the photo were light-colored concrete rather darker asphalt laden macadam. The light colored streets would have thrown off most light meters, assuming one was even used. The dark areas appear to be contrasting dirt, rubber and oil tracking, which was pretty common for traffic patterns of that period and cars that dripped as much as they drank. If it were snow, or even freaky cold weather, background vegetation does not seem impacted, e.g., plenty of leaves. :shrug: |
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Well, since I've been searching NLA for snow posts and googling photos and past weather information and such,
here's a few more snow related photos from Los Angeles and environs that I didn't see posted when I searched the forum. It's HOT in L.A. today and (it was 94° yesterday) so maybe that's why I'm interested in snow today. 1932 North Curson Street, between Sunset and Hollywood Blvd. (The date on top is the magazine publication.) http://webzoom.freewebs.com/looking-...nal%20snow.jpg Harry Vallejo Judith Wood, Paramount screen player who is recovering from an automobile accident, forgot the doctor’s orders and dashed out into the storm shortly after five o’clock. (photo – Paramount, January 15 1932) https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8029/2...550cb577_b.jpg Paramount 1932- Hollywood, CA - View of Hollywood Blvd at dawn in the recent snow storm. http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id515180556 Getty Images 1932, Snow in Silverlake on Allesandro Ave. (Futterer, Holyland Exhibition, 1932. From the Holyland Exhibition, facing the Whitmore Red Car Trolley Stop on Allesandro Ave.) https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/kzP...b03585_o.0.jpg Corralitas Red Car Property |
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Universal Studios after a 1948 snow storm. https://www.linktv.org/sites/kl/file...00022470_0.jpg Security Pacific National Bank Collection – LAPL North Hollywood after a rare snowfall in 1948. https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media...7cnau92jpg.jpg LAPL 1948, Greenleaf and Van Nuys – Sherman Oaks http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Md9z_-LK7q...enleaf1948.jpg Museum of the San Fernando Valley Snow blankets the San Fernando Valley in 1948. Looking south on Lindley Avenue from Nordhoff Street. http://waterandpower.org/1%20Histori...1948scaled.jpg Water & Power Associates |
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The following three photographs are attributed to 1949 by their owner, but the title of the blog post is: MORE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE GREAT SNOW OF 1949 or was it 1948 Atoll Street, North Hollywood, 1949. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9u9p6kfzxU...00/snow+1+.jpg Museum of the San Fernando Valley Same house, Atoll Street, North Hollywood, 1949. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-auZMRcKR58...00/snow+2+.jpg Museum of the San Fernando Valley Looking down Atoll Street, North Hollywood, 1949. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lbz5_2IEYo...0/SNOW+8++.jpg Museum of the San Fernando Valley Welcome to Irvine, 1949. http://irvinehistory.org/wp-content/...rvine-1949.jpg Irvine Historical Society Central Avenue, Irvine, 1949. http://irvinehistory.org/wp-content/...al-Avenue.jpeg Irvine Historical Society A commenter, Bill Scott, writes: "That particular picture looking down Central Avenue towards the general store and blacksmith shop , was photographed from in front of the Irvine Bean and Grain Grower’s Association warehouse manager’s home. Although the snow is long gone, the home was saved and relocated to the Duck Club for use by a 24/7 Water District employee thanks to the efforts of the Irvine Historical Society and the Irvine Water District. This picture was one of many taken by my mother that morning." The San Gabriel community of Monterey Park after a 1949 snowstorm. https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...ark_1949_0.jpg Monterey Park History Collection, Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library The 1949 snow storm transformed the San Fernando Valley community of Canoga Park into a winter wonderland. (Love this large evocative photo.) https://www.linktv.org/sites/kl/file...an_13_1949.jpg USC Libraries – Los Angeles Examiner Collection Canoga Park High School, 1949 view looking north. Topanga Canyon Blvd is the road on the left side. http://www.canogaparkhs.org/pics/his...tory_rev6a.jpg Canoga Park High School Snow on Lake Avenue, Pasadena, 1949. This picture was taken from the Santa Fe railroad track crossing between Maple and Curson, in what is now in the middle of the 210 Freeway, looking north to Maple, with the original Lake Avenue Congregational Church on the Northwest corner of Maple and Lake, with its steeple hidden in the low lying mist. (There's much more location detail at the link.) http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/f...eSnow19492.jpg Avenue to the Sky Rocky chaparral foothills stand above a snowy Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena/La Cañada Flintridge, 1949. https://www.linktv.org/sites/kl/file...e/jpl_snow.jpg NASA/JPL Archive |
1953
A San Bernardino snowman in 1953. https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media...7cos9utjpg.jpg USC Libraries - Los Angeles Examiner Collectio |
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Headlines! https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...page_sm_0.jpeg Los Angeles Times David and Bob Naranjo drag a toboggan down a Tujunga street after the snowstorm of 1962. https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...2_00112343.jpg Valley Times Collection – LAPL |
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Snow in Malibu Jamuary 17, 2007 https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/4Ag...fa7181_o.0.jpg Malibu Surfside News |
^^^ Can somebody who knows how those streets run tell us whether that is a morning or afternoon shadow?
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That's the Hotel Regent (6162 Hollywood Blvd, built by the Christies) in the distance backed by the Taft Building. Looking the other way, soon after the 1925 Regent was built: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/I_...w=w822-h513-no historic hotels of hollywood and los angeles (:previous: the Music Box/ Pix/ Fonda Theater is east of the Hotel Regent across El Centro. A tiny bit of it is visible in the quoted photo too) |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/siwSAi.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/33756661@N07/ "Exterior front corner view of the Victorian Shingle style residence of wholesale grocer Hans Jevne at 849 South Burlington Avenue, on the northwest corner of 9th Street and Burlington Avenue, Los Angeles, circa 1890. Three women are standing in the doorway. Samuel and Joseph Carter Newsom were the architects. The house was finished in 1887 at a cost between $10,000 and $12,000." -ozfan22 |
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And if they looked a little to the left, they would have seen the house across the street on the SW corner at 903 S. Burlington: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original William Reagh (1968) at CA State Library There are building permits to repair chimneys at this house not only in 1933 (April 3) but also 1920 (August 25), apparently due to damage from the June 21 earthquake in Inglewood that year. The demo permit for this house is dated March 16, 1971. I wonder if the chimney on the left side of the house survived the February 9, 1971, Sylmar earthquake? |
I believe we may have another mislabeled photograph. (also a mystery location)
"St. Francis, Gas Station and City Hall" – Los Angeles, 1956, Robert Frank http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/ICORpX.jpg Museum of Fine Art Houston https://www.mfah.org/art/detail/6530...ank%26page%3D7 First of all, I don't believe the statue is St. Francis. It's the statue of Father Serra, right? (now residing in Father Serra Park across from Union Station) And as you can see, the building described as City Hall is actually the Hall of Justice. City Hall isn't visible in the photograph. So where was the Father Serra statue located in 1956? (the year the photograph was taken) I realize that is Fort Moore Hill at far right, but I can't pinpoint the exact location of the statue. __ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uL...g=w721-h546-no google maps https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eh...g=w853-h563-no baist 1921 plate 3 I'm guessing (what's now) Chavez and New High, b/c gas station, but the roads are so reconfigured it's hard to tell: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/aH...g=w661-h499-no lanopalera On the MFAH copy signed and titled by the artist, it says "City Hall, Los Angeles 1956", nothing else. ETA: FWIW, this says the statue was "in the middle of Sunset Blvd": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cH...Q=w760-h282-no Los Angeles Plaza, Sacred and Contested Space, Wm David Estrada And this 1937 Herman J. Schultheis shot (looking west) does make it look as though it's out in the road (there is a traffic island in the historic shot above. I can't tell if the statue is on it.): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hc...w=w478-h637-no lapl LAPL also says Sunset and Broadway. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9A...g=w436-h233-no lapl (detail) And there's still a traffic island in approximately the same place. So, looks like a possibility (but it's not "Sunset & Broadway" like the libraries say): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/z0...g=w951-h565-no gsv See also: "Monument statue of Father Junipero Serra on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Spring Street in Los Angeles" from USC DL . |
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Earl, I was on that corner yesterday. I'm saying that the shadows in that photo are probably around noon. |
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January 9, 1930 - Pico Blvd. (formerly Street), east of Union Avenue. (1500 block of Pico Blvd. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...m.jpg~originalhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...0coll2/id/3685 Contemporary http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...j.jpg~originalGoogleSVU http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...r.jpg~original Notice the snow chains. 1913 - at or near Winston Street Garage (122-124 Winston Street) (Source suggests this is in Long Beach. :shrug:) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...r.jpg~originalhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...coll2/id/13445 126-122 Winston Street http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.jpg~originalGoogleSVU I include this image since, at first glance, one might argue the ground looks like it is deceptively covered in slush. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...m.jpg~original In case you are wondering, it is from this familiar1912- image of the Hotel "Snow." http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...p.jpg~originalhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...coll2/id/12562 http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=21501 |
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