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https://i.postimg.cc/bNFrPyVj/Annota...-21-175026.jpgvia FrameFinder. I think #4 is in Ascot Hills Park, but I'm not sure about that. #1 and #2 are probably from City Terrace(just a guess). |
Excellent Bill. Thank you.
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https://i.postimg.cc/XqG63bDs/Annota...-21-185830.jpgvia Google Maps. My guess was correct. |
:previous: Yes!...I didn't expect anyone to find that one.
GW & unihikid. RE: Hal Roach. The following two photographs are from an aviation blog post honoring corporate pilot, James B. Dickson. Did you all know that Hal Roach Studios had a studio airplane named the 'Spirit of Fun'? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/UrSYMk.jpg dmairfield "Roach is standing between the two men wearing the Laurel & Hardy cartoon heads. Dickson is the man in knickers and the white cap. He wears aviator sunglasses in the bottom photo, and carries them in his left hand in the one above. The others in both images are unidentified. Can you help identify them?" Here's the second photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/7nITX2.jpg dmairfield Note- the Laurel & Hardy heads have been placed next to the propeller. The Washington Post of June 17th reported Dickson's arrival at Santa Monica in 14 hours, 49 minutes (from Newerk, NJ). He carried three passengers. They were Arthur Loew, theater magnate, Henry Ginsberg, general manager of the Roach Studios and William Melnicker, South American manager for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. "Alas, the world tour was not to be. "The Spirit of Fun" crashed in Africa killing Dickson and injuring passenger Loew." Info. from dmairfield I skipped over some of the details. . |
A question for all in attendance:
What do you call this hobby of ours? That is, the research and appreciation of the old buildings of Los Angeles. Whenever someone asks about my hobbies, and I try to explain what we do here, it takes me an entire paragraph to give any kind of reasonable explanation... and I still don't feel I explain it well. Then they look at me like I'm nuts. Is there a term or phrase you folks use to describe what we do in this thread here? Or am I doomed to sound like a crazy person?? THANKS! |
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https://i.postimg.cc/QtdNvVG5/Annota...-21-194218.jpgshell gas nearbyvia Google Maps. There's quite a few new houses and apartments, but there are a few survivors. The house with the red roof at the bottom left is a survivor, you can see it's garage when you tilt the view to look straight down. There's a house with a pitched roof just above it that's also a survivor. OK, Slide #4 has me a bit perplexed...I think it may be in Rose Hill Park, just north of Rose Hill Court and south of Debs Park; it's got a large and a small baseball field in a canyon, but there's a parking lot in the March 1976 aerial(as there is now) and not on in the slide. |
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Chickens?
Snooping the CC Pierce catalog...Figueroa is at the right, LA river at left looking NW from Elysian park, and what looks to be a chicken/egg (egg/chicken?) farm center foreground.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...02dbdf94_h.jpg HDC https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...27533586_h.jpg That's a lot of chickens. Guess they'd be considered free-range. |
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... or perhaps "architectural archaeology."
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That chicken farm could be the Pigeon Farm.
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Noirtitude.
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Scott's hobby ?
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"We're experiencing not only the buildings but also the emotional and social environment of the streetscape and the landscape, the city as a whole". |
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Say nothing ... just hand them your calling card. https://i.imgur.com/VuaLBxs.jpg :tup: |
I think we should just call ourselves Etherealists.
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Great answers so far, you guys! And I love the business card, Noir_Noir - I've always wanted one of those old telephone “exchange” numbers, they are so cool! I've thought of using the phrase urban archeologist before - but that kind of makes you sound like Indiana Jones or something, and it may be a bit pretentious. If you say something like Los Angeles historian, I dunno - it makes it sound like you have a master's degree in the subject, which I certainly don't! I don't want someone to react by saying “Oh! Where did you graduate from?” I guess I'm overthinking this a bit. Probably should just stick with “crazy person”. At least I know that's accurate! :D --- I only started thinking about this because I was filling out a job application that asked for a brief listing of your hobbies... and I discovered that I could not summarize this hobby of ours briefly. I guess I'll just stick to putting down musician. :thrasher: |
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