As noted in the earlier post, The French Village was at the 2400 Block of Highland. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24458

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Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6747219) Quote: This windshield view looking north on Highland at Cahuenga captures a woman holding a dog in her lap in the passenger seat, two police officers speaking to two different cars at a police checkpoint, and surrounding businesses like the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery (2500 North Highland) and signs including a Coca Cola billboard. This area has changed due to the 101 freeway. 1938 - Police Checkpoint. (Not clear what is being checked, sobriety?) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099531.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099531.jpg 1938 - Cahuenga Coca Cola, "The Berries." http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1075/rec/5 http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics30/00064558.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics30/00064558.jpg

1939 Cahuenga Pass or soon-to-be named Hollywood Freeway
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1939 - Cahuenga - Highland construction, wide shot
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Little newsie with big news...

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Cohenite...:sly:

:previous: "Little newsie with big news." :)

Excellent find HossC. What a wealth of information!

Here's a couple more diagrams.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/6v5kA6.jpg
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~1929 - Wilson Drug Co. - 100 S Vermont Ave. (Per '29 CD another at 3526 W. Washington)
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Late '20s - Drug store, Washington Blvd. and Western. Now a mini-mall mecca.
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Undated - Sun Drugs - Hollywood and Cahuenga (6384 Hollywood Blvd.)
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(Early '20s?) Sun Drugs, 561 S Broadway In the '23 Directory there are at least 20 listed Sun Drug Stores
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Posting only buildings would tell only 1/2 of the story!

GREAT before and afters! You rock, Hoss!:worship:

they probably still do this stunt, but the plates are in the officer's teeth:koko:

I can just feel that the ladies on the left are all wearing naughty underwear:haha:

Standard Gasoline Co. Long Beach 1930

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ebay

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-rare cabinet card / Old Chinatown, circa 1898.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/yhPUoS.jpg
found in an old file of mine / probably ebay

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Does anyone know who might have worn this type of badge at City Hall (around 1928)?


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ebay

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Post-War housing by Spiros Ponty, 1947.

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Schwabs mens store, 6358 Hollywood Blvd
 

Does anyone know if this Schwabs mens store at 6358 Hollywood Blvd belonged to the same Schwabs family of pharmacy fame?


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For some reason it took the St Petersburg Times over a year to publish the story, but here's the picture, and they got the caption word-for-word.

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From Spiros G. Ponty's obituary in the LA Times (January 26, 1989):

"Spiros G. Ponty, a Greek immigrant who not only built thousands of homes in Los Angeles but led efforts to provide long-term mortgages so returning war veterans and others could afford to buy them, died Monday at St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica.

He was 88.

A restaurateur as a young man who later became an assistant business manager to film producer-director Cecil B. De Mille, Ponty began in the housing business as a real estate salesman.

From 1929 until his eyesight began to fail in 1963, he built homes in Westwood, Norwalk, Beverly Hills, South-Central Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.

They ranged from the economical to the elegant, and his 147 Spanish Colonial Revival homes in the Carthay Circle area of West Los Angeles--each one unique--are historical landmarks."

Time to gas up the google-mobile! :)

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We recently saw Calla Lilly 'detergent'....now here's the White King. (and it's full of 80 year old soap!)

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ebay

"1933 White King Soap, Giant Size 3 Pound Box Full Of Soap, Los Angeles California."
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Now this is amazing...the Westwood Observation Tower, shown here in 1928.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/743/WmvDsN.jpg
http://heyler.com/blog/amh-westwood-tower

"Built by the Janss Investment Corporation in the 1920s, this oddly shaped tower
was located on the northeast corner of Wilshire and Beverly Glen Boulevards.

It stood at 420 feet above sea level, making it the highest point on Wilshire Boulevard at the time
and was used primarily as a landmark advertisement. At night, the lightning bolts along the sides
and the 'WESTWOOD' sign would light up and be seen for miles.

Potential home owners were allowed to climb the tower to get a better view of the new community
and identify the lot they would like to purchase."

-one more look / wider view
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/743/beFHEQ.jpg

Now to find some photographs taken from the observation deck showing the surrounding area and development!
You know they must exist somewhere. It's now my quest. ;)

ER, after a bit of research on the issue of the twin roundhouses shown on this map I have come to the conclusion that a bit of artistic license was taken by the person who created it.

The facility in question would be the original Los Angeles & Salt Lake (later Union Pacific) yards and backshops on the east bank of the LA River. These extended from 1st Street down to 7th Street. They were eliminated when Union Pacific built its East Los Angeles Yard and and shops six miles south of LA near Montebello in 1924.

Page 77 of John R. Signor’s history titled The Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company – Union Pacific’s Salt Lake Route, contains an excellent photo of one roundhouse and a rectangular shop building taken from the 4th Street viaduct in 1915. Nowhere in the book is a second roundhouse mentioned.

Looking over the document 'Railroad Grade Crossing Elimination and Passenger and Freight Terminals in Los Angeles' referenced by yourself and HossC failed to show twin roundhouses on any of the maps or in any of the photos. It is quite a wonderful document, by the way.

Cheers,
Jack

When I first noticed these photos I was...like...huh?...'til I saw what they were.
I like these kinds of photos that are "real" photos, but link the present with
our personal notions of the past...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Film_Shoot.jpg
http://en.wikimedia.org/wiki/photos/File:Black_Dahlia_Film_Shoot_2

These two photos were taken on Hollywood Blvd. in front of the Pantages during the film shoot in 2005 for The Black Dahlia film.
(Which I do not recommend.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lm_Shoot_2.jpg

I don't recall seeing this particular photo on NLA before, though the area around Sunset and Vine has been
extensively covered. It's taken from the southeast corner under the neon canopy of Carpenter's Drive-In.
We see Wallich's, Capitol Records, Coffee Dan's, the Gruen Watch Time billboard and NBC among others.
(Feel free to name them!)

http://waterandpower.org/4%20Histori...ters_1940s.jpgDWP/LAPL

The photo is dated c.1940's. Do you agree with that? I know TV came into fruition in the late 1940's
but I didn't think Wallich's was that early with their store "TV" advertising.