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https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...size=750%2C563 Los Angeles Downtown News |
I just wish the YMCA had saved the rooftop sign.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/u20luK.jpg detail I checked Google_Earth to see if any of the [sign] brackets were left on the roof. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/CG9O7e.jpg Google_Earth I don't see any remnants of the sign....but I was a bit surprised by how 'hollow' the building is. note the tiny skylight in the lower right corner of the building. I think this is a stairwell. [see below] |
LAPD SAFE Burglaries
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This LAPD form [1951] is interesting as well.
It lists the items a safe burglar left behind (he was no doubt interrupted) in an attemped robbery in 1951. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/U5XsMr.png EBAY https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/BOwErw.png EBAY That's quite a list! _ |
American Beauty = Barbecue.
I was hesitant to post this photograph because I wasn't totally convinced it was Venice CA.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/MqNICL.jpg EBAY "1916 VENICE BEACH CA BOARDWALK AMERICAN BEAUTY BARBECUE" asking........................................ $299.99 While trying to find additional proof [that this Venice], I happened upon this article about a planned "meat focused" restaurant in Venice. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/wLdxiQ.jpg EATER: L.A. And guess what the name of the new restaurant is going to be. Yep, AMERICAN BEAUTY. My question is: What does 'American Beauty' have to do with barbecue? am I missing something? :shrug: ________________________________________________________________________________ While I'm here, let's take a closer look at the astonishly well dressed people in the 1916 photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/xI2LEs.jpg detail note: One of the lovely ladies has cleverly strapped her cell phone to the back of her hand. also note...they're wearing matching mink stoles! (the kind with the head, feet and tail attached) And take a gander at this fine looking lad. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/9maVJJ.jpg detaail Arrow collar...and possibly smoking a pipe? _________________________________ jus' kiddin' about the cell phone. ;) |
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Interesting, e_r! The bouquets on the sign, I think, provide the clue as to what the namer was thinking about: The name refers to the 'American Beauty' rose, introduced as such in 1886: https://i.postimg.cc/k5DmLYpq/AmBeau.jpg Deutsches Rosenbuch, 1889, p. 183. The name came to be a generic term used by florists to indicate long-stemmed red roses of perfect form; but the original was as above. (There's a longstanding controversy about whether or not the 1886 rose was actually a re-introduction of an 1875 French rose 'Mme. Ferdinand Jamin'. I'm firmly of the opinion that it was not a reintroduction, as differences between the two roses were noted at the time.) And the new restaurant is on . . . Rose Avenue. |
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My NCOIC taught me the vulnerability in the WWII-era field safes that were still used on our base. We had one whose combination had been lost. You lay it door side up in a jeep or pickup truck and drive around on rough roads. The vibrations ease tumblers into the unlocked position. Like all vulnerabilities, something the designers hadn't thought of -- vibrations from front to back (in the normal position of a safe on the floor) instead up and down. Cheers, Earl |
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"American Beauty washing machine, Southern California, 1935". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...canBeauty1.jpg A close-up of the logo shows that this company also went with the rose motif. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...canBeauty2.jpg USC Digital Library As you can see, the American Beauty was made by the Getz Power Washer Co of Morton, Illinois, but this was a publicity shoot for the Globe Department Store. I can only see a passing mention to the store in post #9616, so here's another advert from the 1936 CD. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eptStores1.jpg LAPL Globe Department Stores Inc was still at 5100 S Broadway in 1956. By the early '60s, they'd either moved or downsized to 5136 S Broadway, and then spent 1963-69 at 5201 S Vermont Avenue. Does anyone have any photos (I haven't had a chance to look yet) - there's only a drawing in the link above. |
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Here's a photograph of "Rose Avenue crossing looking east, Los Angeles, 1929" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/RxL8dF.jpg USC Digital Archive I wasn't sure if this was the correct Rose Avenue (there's a Rose Avenue in San Marino as well) but if you look closely, one of the signs on the right side of the street says Venice Feed & Fuel. [see BELOW] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/uTZErB.jpg detail *blinks* Does that child have a road cone on her head? *rubs eyes* Note the wig wag and railroad crossing. Any idea where on Rose Avenue this pic was taken? Here's the r.r. crossing sign, left side of pic. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/xnLycb.jpg detail That smaller sign to its right might be a street sign. (it's much too small to tell for sure) _ |
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Internet Archive find
Hope I'm not retreading over traveled ground, but I came across this 1905 booklet on the Internet Archive with photos I don't recall seeing on NLA. Lots of typical but interesting views of generally familiar places.
Courthouse https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7874/...f55ef95c_b.jpg IA A while back I was asking if there were panoramas from the observation deck at Angel's Flight and was obliged to have a few posted in response, but I don't think we saw this one. part one https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7825/...e0b35e11_h.jpg part 2 https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7873/...384c64c3_h.jpg IA All the pics are quite zoomable on the site. |
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Any idea where on Rose Avenue this pic was taken? But, of course, e-r. Venice Feed and Fuel is listed in the 1925 Santa Monica CD at 200 Rose Ave. Sadly, it's no longer there; but the two-story wooden structure across the street is now The Firehouse restaurant at 213 Rose Ave. Less convincingly, the two-story duplex with the pagoda-like roof treatment at the far left edge of the frame apparently also remains albeit in somewhat remodeled form at 105 Rose Ave. That would seem to place our photographer just east of Pacific Ave. Incidentally, the railroad crossing Rose Ave. was PE's Santa Monica Air Line. |
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One more thing: coincidentally, my friend who lives at one of the apartments in the photo sent me this photo TODAY. Apparently, when the "tower auto" was converted to apartments, they never got permits and aren't allowed to have kitchens in the apartments. The apartments are due for inspection and to remedy this, the apartment owners are going to remove all the kitchens, pass inspection, install new kitchens, and give all the tenants 50% off this next month. AMAZING. https://i.imgur.com/ZUnoeCJ.jpg |
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GW, I think your house is 503 S. St. Andrews Place. Comparing the photo above with the one below, the house has been painted and the palm trees near the sidewalk have grown, but the shape and details of the house look the same: https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...psrtjaqhfu.jpg UCLA/Islandora/SeeingSunset 503 S. St. Andrews even has that little roundish room on its NE corner: Quote:
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That's a good one, Bill! :) |
So I take it the original American Beauty Barbeque was located on 'Rose' Avenue pier.
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