2448 Gramercy Park



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GSV August 2022


So I was researching a rather obscure architect named Anne Coble Scott, who designed at least two houses in Hancock Park and nearby in the early-mid '20s.... At first I thought that the Crossroads of the World globe had been stolen, then the RKO globe at Melrose and Gower--even though I hear that that architectural icon is slated for--or has been--demolished, the one seen above at 8360 Marmont Lane in August 2022 would be too small ...and it seems that RKO's globe was still there in March 2023. Anyway, anyone happen to have have any ideas about this one?


This interesting blog had a post on the RKO globe in March:

https://davelandblog.blogspot.com/20...-personal.html

Bang !
 

All that glass in an earthquake !

The siding looks like it could use a little TLC but I see they've managed to keep the scroll work on the facia above the porch entrance. Nice!

1636 Hermosa Ave and its neighbor are still standing surprisingly. The big clue was the back corner of the church in the background (the front is also pictured in color in another photo).

Hermosa
 

I decided to trek the few blocks to see where exactly the family lawyer and female would be sitting. The lot where they would of been is a 50's era apartment, and is on a "Row Street" which seems to be built up by the 1940's so i don't know why the sand would be all the way to Hermosa Ave.

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This is 17th and Hermosa Ave

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it's the best that i could do with a line up. Also most of the houses on Palm (the street on the first hill) are mostly still standing.

Oldest neon signs in greater LA
 

What are the oldest still existing neon signs in greater LA? Whether illuminated or not, but excluding the ones in the Neon Museum. It doesn't seem like there's any authoritative list published anywhere!

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When I read that, I thought of the Frolic Room neon next to the Pantages, which itself has neon signs. I don't know if those signs are the originals, but they still look like the neon in photos of yesteryear.

Then there's the story, when Clifton's Cafeteria was being remodeled, of finding the neon light that had been burning for 77 years. From Allison Martino/Vintage Los Angeles: While updating the 47,000-square-foot space, Meieran’s team made an amazing discovery! While restoring a woman’s restroom, they noticed a neon bulb burning brightly behind a wall. Behind layers of plywood was a light panel that had been covered by plaster for 77 years. Someone forgot to turn it off during the Great Depression and today the light is the oldest existing neon bulb still working in the entire world. Meieran has said the lit bulb cost $17,000 in electrical bills over the years. It will be on display when Clifton’s officially reopens (so long as it doesn’t burn out before that).

I read an article recently about the American Legion Post 43 in Hollywood (it's having issues) and the beginning of the article said, "A historic original neon sign glows outside the Hollywood Post 43 American Legion..." So I tried looking up when it was installed. The building is said to have been built in 1929.

In a Google search one of the results was this:

Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
Hollywood Post 43 - American Legion · Media. Original Neon Sign 1936

But I went to that site and found the image, but there was no info I could find about the date it was installed.

https://chambermaster.blob.core.wind.../Neon_logo.jpgHollywood CHamber of Commerce

I looked at older b&w photos and didn't see the sign in them, where the sign is now anyway, it could have been moved. I did see this 1938 photo which shows a sign, bottom left, that could be the neon sign, but if it is, it had another section added underneath it (see above) that says Hollywood | Post 43.

https://ladailymirror.files.wordpres...pg?w=624&h=420Mary Mallory

Same problem with my Etch-a-Sketch Museum. One 3.6 and it's a total loss.

Tangentially related is an article discussing Earle Anthony's neon Packard sign which mentions a billboard permit. Whether this was required for Post 43's signage is unknown. https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-...htmlstory.html

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Happy Halloween noirishers!



This interesting photograph just popped up on eBay.

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Does anyone know the location?

Find out :whip: . .or no treats for you.




for search purposes:..Dustin-Roman Auto Top Co....Los Angeles Cal...1918.......I believe the street numbers on the building are 1047-1041.

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According to the 1924 Directory of California Manufacturers, the Dustin Roman Auto Top Co was at 1041 S Figueroa Street. I found a build date of 1918 and a demo permit for 1969. It would've stood opposite 11th Street until the realignment of what is now Chick Hearn Court.

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archive.org

Is this true, that the rigid top on cars, the "California Top," is "a creation of Los Angeles craftsmen"?

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LA Times, 4/9/1922

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Thanks Hoss and odinthor....I appreciate the help.



Mystery location.

I wasn't aware of Los Nietos until I happened upon this fine photograph on eBay.

"A house in Los Nietos, California. Blind stamp of photographer "Allen W Ramsey, Whittier, Cal.".
Handwritten note on back reads, "W. C. Moore, Mary L. Moore, Angeline Isbell, Glen A. Moore, Los Nietos Calif."

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Link

It turns out Los Nietos is West Whittier.

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Let's take a closer look.

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Wouldn't it be something if this house still stood somewhere in West Whittier.


Lastly, here's a close-up of the photographer's stamp.
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Happy Halloween!
 

How about a couple undated graveyard photos for Halloween?

First, here's the east-facing front side of the 1891 Los Angeles High School building, with a bit of the Fort Hill cemetery, which
originally surrounded the school, at right:

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Catalog Number P-034-146 @ Seaver Center


Now we're looking east from the Fort Hill cemetery, with the west-facing rear side of the 1891 LAHS in the background:

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Hazard-Dyson Los Angeles Photograph Album @ UCLA (both on p. 123)


High school students walked through the cemetery daily while going to class in adjacent buildings like the Sand Street School
(the relocated old 1873 LAHS building) and, apparently, one-room "shacks" in the graveyard:

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March 14, 1900, Los Angeles Evening Express @ Newspapers.com


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February 19, 1907, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC/UC Riverside

Thank you for the explanation

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Flyingwedge, there's nothing more eerie than atmospheric photographs of old cemeteries. Perfect for Halloween!


I'm going to repost this from waaay back in 2008. (it's hard to believe that is 15 years ago!)

I wish I had thought of doing this yesterday on Halloween. :pumpkin:



P.S....None of the links work but at the least the photographs are still visible.

Err... Sorry, I mis-understood previously about the "basement" there at The Fonda. So, you were talking about the dressing rooms. Yes the dressing rooms are of course still in service. The "basement", as I mentioned before, is under the front of the building

I just wanted to say this was a really cool find! Thanks, Unihikid.

The Grave of Pio Pico
 

So. .um. . where are the Picos now?

Originally buried at Old Calvary Cemetery in downtown Los Angeles, his remains were reinterred in the private mausoleum of a friend when the city dismantled Old Calvary in the 1920s.

Pio Pico and his wife are interred in the Walter Temple Memorial Mausoleum in the El Campo Santo Cemetery located on the grounds of the old Workman-Temple family homestead in the City of Industry, California.