:previous: Rufus Brown was a BRAVE man.

I guess I owe you a burger at the Apple Pan. :) I've always liked their hickory burgers. I haven't been there in a number of years now, though.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Pico_Blvd.JPG
Wikipedia

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-N...holecovers.jpgjericl cat

Sometime in the '80s, I think it was, New York City began using new manhole covers, many still in place, which caused some xenophobic comment at the time... including my own, I suppose. It didn't really bother me that the city bought the lids from overseas--but I wondered why it couldn't have stipulated in the contract that they not read "MADE IN INDIA." Only recently have I noticed that L.A. has their own versions. Not sure when they first appeared.


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sopas: Neither have I. Next time I'm out there, I'll call you to collect that hickory burger.

High Tower Drive 1931. Garages below....apartments above....via elevator.

http://imageshack.us/a/img12/5417/aa...ive1931usc.jpg

from my original post dated May 2010 (along with contemporary photos of the High Tower elevator).
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1229

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I accidentally came across a modern day equivalent of the High Tower elevator.

At first I noticed what looks like a bluish bridge crossing Silverwood Terrace (I've circled it in red).

http://imageshack.us/a/img440/9716/1...erwoodterr.jpg
google aerial




below: In this closer view, the mystery 'bridge' doesn't cross Silverwood Terrace after all....it traverses private property.

http://imageshack.us/a/img585/9716/1...erwoodterr.jpg
google aerial detail



So I grabbed a 'google observation car' and headed down Silverwood Terrace. I came across this tiny garage at 1750 Silverwood Terrace.

http://imageshack.us/a/img801/9716/1...erwoodterr.jpg
google street view


and just to the right of the garage is this separate entrance...

http://imageshack.us/a/img225/9716/1...erwoodterr.jpg
google street view


..at the base of this vertigo inducing elevator!

http://imageshack.us/a/img152/6918/a...50silverwo.jpg


Pretty amazing isn't it. I was flabbergasted!

Wasn't there an easier way to reach this property? -like a road at the top-
Also, who plots out these ridiculous parcels of land?

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Here's an interesting, and quite romantic, description of the old High Tower apartments.

http://imageshack.us/a/img98/4937/aa...chaelconne.jpg
http://www.michaelconnelly.com.au/photo_echotower.html

This is very, very cool

:previous: Indeed it is! and it's still in use fhammon.

If truth be told, I'm more of a Los Angeles Pueblo-file than a Noirist but I've found a happy home here because I dearly love Old Los Angeles and there's more Noir here now, today than a long gone crumbling adobe village to enjoy. I can mostly only visit the old pueblo of Los Angeles in books and faded photos.

I brought up the subject of Nicks Cafe at 1300 North Spring Street across from the old train yard now called The Cornfield.
The sign at Nicks says since 1948. I think I have proof of that little building from 1924. Lookie here. Here's a photo from (supposedly) 1924 showing the old train yard with the footbridge. I've drawn an arrow mid-photo pointing to the Nick's building followed by a modern Google photo of the same area with a crude arrow pointing to the same little building - I think:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...nfield1924.jpg
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics25/00032359.jpg corn field 1924

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ZanjaMadre.jpg


I've also drawn in a crude caricature in the top distance of a water wheel to show approximately where water was drawn for the pueblo from the Los Angeles River via that method to feed the Zanja Madre or "Mother Ditch" to supply water to the village around the 1860s, being at higher ground, and have drawn thin black lines showing two routes the Zanja took over the years. The first being an open ditch running downhill more or less cutting straight across The Cornfield (probably inaccurate) and another enclosed in brick and buried up against the steep western slope which has recently been rediscovered and partially excavated and now stands revealed as a monument of sorts in the Cornfield Park.


http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics20/00009662.jpg
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics20/00009662.jpg

It ultimately dumped water into a large brick and mortar cistern in the central Los Angeles Plaza where the band stand is now located seen to the far right in the first photo with the Plaza Church to the far left. Other ditches carried the rest of the water elsewhere as needed.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets.../CHS-2146?v=hr
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1337231855130


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...88A3D4FE5?v=hr
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1337231463910

http://waterandpower.org/museum/images/zanja_madre.jpg

Further reading on the Zanja Madre:
http://waterandpower.org/museum/Zanj...ueduct%29.html

:previous: - I think: You're right. :)

The High Tower Apartments have a noir connection, too. They figure prominently in Robert Altman's 1973 remake of Raymond Chandler's The Long Good Bye with Elliott Gould assaying an extra laid-back Phillip Marlowe. They stand in as Marlowe's residence with the camera tracking through the property several times with the requiste kooky neighbors, his cat coming and going through an open window and a crew of baddies appearing at his door to deliver a noir beating. And yes, the elevator's featured too.

I am not sure if this place has ever been mentioned here. It's the Santa Fe Hospital in Boyle Heights. Built in 1904 and rebuilt in 1924. Now Linda Vista Community Hospital.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-62GBjj0W6n...Hts%2B1925.JPG
Boyle Heights History Blog

http://www.cardcow.com/images/set262/card00201_fr.jpg
Card Cow

http://railwaysurgery.org/Hospitals_files/image004.jpg
Railway Surgery

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An article I read yesterday about the future of the Linda Vista Community Hospital: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...192911064.html

'each...cover saved 500 pounds of metal'?? How? Manhole covers are seriously heavy but still, they can be moved by one man with a long-handled hook and some elbow grease. Are they suggesting manhole covers weighed 500 pounds?

Look at this amazing remnant of an old stone wall in the 1400 block of North Broadway.

http://imageshack.us/a/img402/5060/1...roadwayold.jpg
google street view

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