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Here are a few related posts found using the search engine here:


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=877

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=791

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4084

Is it a nice place? Any noirish stories?

I found those links with search but was hoping for more regarding construction, how it looks today and plans for the building.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may...level-20120523

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-m...2520PM.bmp.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Opening night, 1915

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Under construction, 1913

A Sanborn of the plot:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...2520PM.bmp.jpg


All http://cityplanning.lacity.org


Morgan usually gets all the credit for the building, but J. Martyn Haenke's and William Dodd's probable contributions should be considered.

:previous: Nice posts guys, the Los Angeles Examiner building is one of my favorites.
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Jan. 1, 1972 downtown Los Angeles.

http://imageshack.us/a/img577/802/aaconfetti1972.jpg
ebay



http://imageshack.us/a/img31/8186/aaconfetti1972r.jpg

I've never heard of this tradition.
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For a good view of what's left today on the top half of that Sanborn map, check out season 6, episode 20 of NCIS, "Dead Reckoning". The press building (built in the late 1940s) was torn down in anticipation of residential towers that were never built, and the construction site scenes early in the episode were shot there. At the end of the ep, the final shootout scene was filmed in the alley/driveway between the Herald-Examiner building and the office building next door - marked Wiggins St. on the Sanborn map.

There's also a totally awesome scene where Ziva shoots two intruders coming in through two different doors at the same time. :D

A couple of weeks ago there was an interesting article on the somewhat obscure leading man Lyle Talbot
in the New Yorker Magazine (Oct. 1, 2012).

http://imageshack.us/a/img696/9203/a...cklyletalb.jpg

Pickwick Book Store is mentioned in the article as one of Mr. Talbot's favorite hangouts in Hollywood.
I was able to find a few photos on an old cd of mine.

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/1893/a...vd1948ebay.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img255/7978/a...vd1948bpic.jpg


http://imageshack.us/a/img198/269/aa...dblvd1948a.jpg


http://imageshack.us/a/img841/9071/scameracenter.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img844/9729/a...vd19481day.jpg
ebay


http://imageshack.us/a/img856/8224/93292748.jpg



http://imageshack.us/a/img546/1814/a...dblvd19481.jpg



I love this sign

http://imageshack.us/a/img21/5540/aa...vd19481aam.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img440/2725/a...ckhollywoo.jpg
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...?c=25&i=1&r=96




The old Pickwick Book Store building at 6743 Hollywood Blvd.

http://imageshack.us/a/img31/8383/aa...wicktoday1.jpg
google street view


below: Now & then.

http://imageshack.us/a/img22/2064/aa...kwicktoday.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img854/1893/a...vd1948ebay.jpg

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Never knew that was once the Pickwick.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7017

Lyle Talbot had a lengthy film and tv career.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847939/ A few years ago, "BC" (before cable) LT was well known as a familiar face on the Ozzie and Harriet Show, aka "Joe Randolph."
http://free-classic-tv-shows.com/Sit...shing-Lure.jpg

Just when I think I've seen the worst of the facade cover-ups, I find this example at 811 S. Los Angeles Street.
It looks like giant tongue depressors were used.

http://imageshack.us/a/img840/3067/f...sangelesst.jpg
google street view

Does anyone have a photo of this small classical building before this extremely weak attempt at modernization.
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Los Angeles mystery photo. no location/no date

http://imageshack.us/a/img685/1080/l...etemystery.jpg
unknown/possibly ebay

I've checked the photos at LAPL of the Olympic Trailer Court at 2121 Bundy Drive in Santa Monica and this isn't one of them.
This court appears to be in more rugged/hilly terrain.

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The Olympic Trailer Court was covered here by rcarlton
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6498

and here by GW.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6507

This fine postcard is slightly different (the beautiful lettering is in red) than one posted earlier by rcarlton.

http://imageshack.us/a/img255/9634/l...ltimore191.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img585/4594/l...ltimore5th.jpg
ebay/google street view


If you missed rcarlton's earlier post here is the link. He includes many interesting facts.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6683

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Figueroa Street lantern slide 1900.

http://imageshack.us/a/img197/4224/l...astreet190.jpg
ebay

I wonder if that's a For Sale sign?
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I noticed that Chamber of Commerce building next door appears to have some pretty serious fire damage right by the fire escape no less.

Another murderess in Los Angeles 1955.

http://imageshack.us/a/img441/5255/a...5convicted.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img560/6904/a...nvicted1re.jpg
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Antics with some sewer pipes on Christmas Day 1925.

http://imageshack.us/a/img222/1756/l...claysnap19.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img411/3746/l...claysnap1x.jpg
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I've never heard of this tunnel.

http://imageshack.us/a/img208/9571/l...8sanfernan.jpg
ebay



below: After a quick google search I was able to find this. I believe it's the same tunnel.

http://imageshack.us/a/img42/6662/la...8sanf1ster.jpg
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8199p3f4/

I am now trying to pinpoint it on Google Earth. Does anyone know where this was/is located?
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ethereal, I can see in Google Maps a really long railroad tunnel that begins at the intersection of I-5 and CA-14.

Check out this Google Street View link:

http://goo.gl/maps/C0pjA

Amid the maze of freeway ramps and pillars you can spot the tiniest glimpse of what appears to be a tunnel entrance, at a lower level than all of the surrounding roadways and pillars. If you switch to map view and zoom back out, you can follow the path of the rail line tunnel over a mile northward. There is a 45-degree aerial of the other end, but no street view. Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line runs through this tunnel toward Lancaster.

Anyone have the 411 on the bank building that has been The Surplus Store at Venice & Motor near Culver City for decades?

Address: 10341 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, Ca 90034

http://www.surplusstoreonline.com/images/storefront.GIF
http://pics3.city-data.com/businesse.../1/7981931.JPG

Thanks.

Thanks for the information ProphetM. I'm still trying to spot it.
I haven't been able to located the tunnel entrance.

I'll keep trying. :)
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It should be right in the middle of the picture in my link - the base of a pillar in the foreground, with some rust-colored construction stuff next to it on the right, and the tunnel is right behind that.

Edit: Here's a quick zoomed-in screen cap of the Google Street View - a little bit of black circular tunnel entrance with the right side of the concrete surround visible:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...729%2520PM.jpg

:previous: Oh my God ProphetM! I would never have found it on my own.


How in the world were you ever able to spot this tunnel?

http://imageshack.us/a/img31/4676/aabbtunnel1a.jpg
google street view

I thought the tunnel would still be in service. Are there still tracks down there? It doesn't look like it.
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I live a few miles from this spot. Twice a day for years I have driven on the freeway never knowing there was a tunnel below.

E_R I will sometime in the coming week stop under there and if possible climb down to get some photos.

BTW, in the last big earthquake in '94 that section of the freeway collapsed. I wonder if the tunnel was damaged?

Yes, there are. As I mentioned it's even used for Metrolink service. The problem is that the railroad bed is so much lower than everything else right there, that it's impossible to see the tracks from any Street View. And you can't even really make out where the ground drops off down to the track.

Looking at the train icons with Google Maps, the station south of the tunnel is Sylmar/San Fernando. A northbound Metrolink train takes about 20 minutes to go from there through the tunnel to the next station at Newhall. On the 45-degree aerial picture of the north end of the tunnel (near Newhall south of Santa Clarita), you can see an engine right outside the tunnel entrance.

Some nice pictures of Angels Flight on Gorilla Blog.

Southern Pacific began Construction of the San Fernando Tunnel on March 27th, 1875 from both the north and south. Construction crews met on July 14th, 1876. The completed bore was 6, 966 feet long and was designated as Tunnel No. 20. At the time, it was the longest railway tunnel in the world.
The Southern Pacific was merged into the Union Pacific system on September 11, 1996.

The track running through the tunnel, which runs from Los Angeles to Sacramento, is known in railroad circles as the San Joaquin Valley Line and is used by Union Pacific for freight service, Metrolink commuter trains and occasionally by Amtrak when rails of the Coast Line are out of service due to a derailment or maintenance.

Cheers,
Jack

That's pretty amazing Jack. I'm a bit embarrassed that I didn't know it existed.
That said, it was fun learning about it now. Kind of exciting actually.
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Mayor Shaw, I'll be waiting for those photographs. ;) ..but I'm not sure how you'll do it.
You might have to feign a flat tire or runaway hubcap. Goodluck

I just found this. Oldest known photograph of the San Fernando Tunnel (1877?)

http://imageshack.us/a/img838/4381/aabtunnel20.jpg
http://www.crescentavalleyweekly.com/

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Anyone?

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According to the LAPL, it was once a branch of the Security-First National Bank and later became the Palms Station of the US Post Office.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL


According to this, it was built by a predecessor of Security-First:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e...2520PM.bmp.jpg


PS There is more info on the origins of Citizens State if you google Clarence E. Coe and the history of Sawtelle.

Pig-shaped estaurant
 

Hey super sleuths, a friend of mine just sent me this one, asking me if I knew where it was. I'm drawing a complete blank. He said it was from the 1920s. Any ideas?

http://imageshack.us/a/img22/7277/pigrestaurant.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-6...2520PM.bmp.jpgMarc Shur


Haven't found any vintage shots of 811 S Los Angeles St, but have found that during the '40s and '50s it was home to Kramer Bros, which manufactured Trimfit Hosiery in both NY & LA. Prior tenants included dry-goods wholesaler Isidore Levitt and his Superior Mills (late '30s); manufacturers' agents Granas & Kaufman (early '30s); and during the '20s, the building was occupied by the Columbia Phonograph Co, presumably a branch of the East Coast company that would become Columbia Records. At one time the 800 block of S Los Angeles St was home to a number of hosiery makers. At top is what looks like--but isn't--a noirishly vintage shot of one of the signs on the Beverly Hills Hosiery Co at 801 S Los Angeles, which has been in the neighborhood since at least the mid '50s.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-y...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle SV

:previous: Very interesting GW.
Remember a couple yrs ago we discussed that GIANT LEG that was used to advertise a hosiery company. Off hand I can't remember the name.
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Sanderson...

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...on#post5145295

And there was this of yours, ER:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2661

While we're on the subject...

http://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097840.jpgLAPL

A Herman Schulthies pic with this info: "A billboard attributed to Cooke Co. encourages women not to be "leg shy" by wearing Mission Hosiery (3764 Broadway Place), stockings made from "fresh new silk"."


http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9...hosieryint.jpgLAPL

Not attributed to Schultheis, but with this info: "Employees of the Mission Hosiery Mill appear dwarfed by thousands of model feet."


Mission Hosiery was once in this very interesting building...
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/3...nbwayplace.jpgUSCDL

I am sure all of you know by now that I have a real shitty memory. Thx for digging that up GW.
I must say...the before & after of Theme Hosiery is pretty cool. :)
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Here's that GIANT LEG if anyone is confused.

http://imageshack.us/a/img193/4876/aableggsjansen.jpg

and the link again
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2669

There was also that rooftop GIANT SHOE in downtown Los Angeles around the turn of the century (last century that is).
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below: Here she is riding the wave of popularity of 'Ken Murray's Blackouts'.
http://imageshack.us/a/img42/6586/aablegmariewilson.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2669

....I couldn't resist. :) Thank you gsjansen wherever you are.

The Retail Clerks Union/AFL-CIO, Local 770 (no address given)

http://imageshack.us/a/img402/5896/f...ldingretai.jpg
http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-Hist...story-Timeline





Could this possibly be the old Florentine Gardens Nightclub?? (a favorite haunt of Elizabeth Short a.k.a. the 'Black Dahlia')

http://imageshack.us/a/img341/6170/f...ardenslapl.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...rolNumber=7993




Imagine a stripped down version of the Florentine Gardens Nightclub.

http://imageshack.us/a/img171/293/fl...denspctanw.jpg
Bruce Torrence Collectionhttp://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/




http://imageshack.us/a/img838/5728/f...ebay122001.jpg
ebay



http://imageshack.us/a/img507/420/florentineebaymb1.jpg
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I am just drooling at the thought of these!

Full LA Times article is HERE, and there's another article at Curbed LA.

Just wow! I can't wait for these to start popping up in LAPL searches!

:previous: I agree K2nyc2k...that is such a great find. I would wallow naked in those maps. :)



found this on ebay tonight.

http://imageshack.us/a/img833/567/fl...neblueebay.jpg
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Who is N.T.G. presents?

http://imageshack.us/a/img217/6396/f...entgebaypc.jpg
ebay


http://imageshack.us/a/img15/5255/fl...tgpresents.jpg
unknown

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....and another mystery.

http://imageshack.us/a/img546/5449/p...hilipknox1.jpg
ebay

The only information was Philip Knox, Los Angeles 1930.




below: a closer view

http://imageshack.us/a/img198/5449/p...hilipknox1.jpg

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Where there's a tent, there's an evangelist...

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/2104/knox1.jpgLos Angeles Times May 19, 1928

Beware of the Woman in Scarlet!

There appears to be plenty online about ecdysiast Ann Corio, but here's a start...

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Y...2520AM.bmp.jpgBillboard Sept 2, 1944


I don't remember if we've ever seen the Florentine Gardens as it stands today--great find

It looks like the Florentine Gardens has not gone anywhere.
Today:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8470/8...0ce056cc_b.jpgGE

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8...a20c2edd_b.jpgGE

This is quite interesting and confusing! So 5955 was Florentine Gardens in the thirties and forties, a union hall in the mid fifties (judging by the cars on the left) and then sometime later became Florentine Gardens once again???

Weird:cool:

~Jon Paul

Not sure when it might have become Florentine Gardens again, but I can tell you that in the early 1980s it was one of a very small number of Hollywood venues in which punk rock bands were allowed to play.

I saw quite a few shows there myself, although not this one from 1981:

http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com...IuN0cpzy_c.jpg
[source: pinterest.com]

Hmm...somewhere along the line it changed address. The sign on the front of the building distinctly says 5955.:shrug: The door from where the guy is coming out of would be 5951 per Google earth. The building at 5959 looks like it could have some history as does 5935. Stay away from 6037...the museum of Death. Google earth is wonderful for cruising!