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Hoss...
I do believe you've found the Holy Grail. Can't thank you guys enough. As soon as I figure out how everything works, I hope to be a valuable contributor to Noirish. |
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I’ve always loved this 1937 photo of the intersection of Fig and First:
https://i.imgur.com/DzY2dCb.jpgUSC If you zoom all the way in, you can see Foy’s service station: https://i.imgur.com/i0R7siw.jpg Sadly, I think Sam Kee’s is obscured by the hill in the foreground. |
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There is a faint line on some maps which follows the line this one and may have been an original boundary of someone's land. |
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This was nagging at me so I looked at the 1931 Sanborn Map and it was still just a bunch of funky property lines. I went back to the 1910 map and it appears that there was a dry creek that ran through this area. https://s33.postimg.cc/kqf5v8l6n/Scr...5.01.47_PM.pngpicture host 1931 Sanborn Map, LAPL Not necessarily related, but this is very close to the original main line of the railroad, that later became a spur to service the lumberyards and other businesses in the 1960's after the main line was diverted to the middle of the 210 Freeway. That one definitely left a scar! There is some good info about the spur here http://www.abandonedrails.com/Second_District https://s33.postimg.cc/68hympbpr/Scr...5.20.38_PM.png Google Maps |
Commercial Ice Machine
The big ice machine: I remember those from when I was a little kid. Now, it's my sick, twisted noirish-nature, but what a great scene for someone to expect a block of ice to slide out and a head or other body part slides out instead!
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If I may ask you a question… is it possible to view the Sanborn maps online? If I go to the LAPL website here… https://i.imgur.com/1KuvOxA.jpg … and click on the link above, I get this: https://i.imgur.com/3KOcQzu.jpg When I click on ENTER, the page just refreshes but never lets me in, no matter how many times I try. If I try clicking on the link directly from the Research and Homework page, the exact same thing happens. PS: I know as a fact that the numbers I enter ARE valid, I use my library card on other sections of the LAPL website and it works perfectly. |
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I issued myself a demerit. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...922/S4xGxG.jpg :( _ |
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- - - There used to be a similar ice dispenser to the one above in my parents’ neighborhood, in nearby Burbank, specifically here (Google Maps). It was finally removed sometime in the 90s. It was still in use, I’d see people getting ice out of it. Here’s a photo I took of it, sometime in the mid to late 80s: https://i.imgur.com/Wol2m8K.jpg I wonder when this one was built. You can’t really tell from the photo, but it was old. Perhaps the 1950s? |
ethereal_reality takes another hit
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I was going by what I read in the [unreliable] Movieland Directory https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/HeKANo.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/aDPD5l.jpg Betty Danko as listed in the Los Angeles City Directory. (is this how you found Betty's correct address GW?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/0Y38u5.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/a7SLQz.jpg P.S. When Ms. Danko was grievously injured on the 'Wizard of Oz' set you'd think it would have been reported in the local newspapers, especially because it was the second serious accident! ("She was in the hospital for two weeks and her legs were disfigured & scarred for life.") I'm curious, has anyone found the Danko incident mentioned in the Los Angeles Times from that time period? I'm beginning to think MGM covered it up. If I remember correctly, MGM employed a person just for that reason....but I can't think of his name at the moment. __ |
e_r: In re: Betty Danko--Alas, I find nothing in the Los Angeles Times files on Betty Danko and her adventures with The Wizard of Oz. In 1988/1990, an Elizabeth Danko gets some column space; but it is about a furniture manufactury in Maryland. MGM's husher really earned his paycheck! :sly:
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Early postcard "Taken in Los Angeles California" (written on reverse)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/o5mozS.jpg old file / possibly ebay This handsome young man is obviously wearing a sailor suit but his hat is civilian, right? I've been trying figure out a date by the style of his sailor's uniform. (any help would be appreciated) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/THqzL1.jpg Addressed to "Pal Andy Bartko, Toledo Ohio" (no postmark) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/THqzL1.jpg . |
odinthor, I believe you'll like this post. (although maybe not as much as the previous post ;))
"Controversial Eucalyptus Tree" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/aW5ehf.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/CKkA3E.jpg lapl This massive eucalyptus, pictured in 1928, once grew on Preuss Road near Beverly Hills. "This magnificent eucalyptus tree estimated at fifty years of age and considered the finest example of its species in the state, stands on Pruess Rd. (Robertson Blvd.), near Beverly Hils. Its owner, Alfred H. Whitworth, has resisted all efforts by real estate interests to have it cut down. Celebrities, like Cecil B. DeMille have offered to purchase it and present it to the city rather than see it cut down." from lapl I had no idea Robertson Blvd. used to be called Preuss Road. __ |
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This coin operated version is on 162nd Street. https://i.imgur.com/d59obpg.png?2GSV And this full service operation is not too far away on Normandie Ave at 166th Street. https://i.imgur.com/7lNHZT0.png?1GSV Is it possible that someone in Gardena is holding out and still using the old ice box? |
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Amazing that some are still in use. |
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https://www.playle.com/realphoto/index.php It's not complete but it can often give you a decently specific time period. This site has an example PMC stamp box from 1907 that matches your postcard - diamonds in each of the 4 corners of the stamp box. |
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After cruising by in the Googlemobile, I see that it matches the chiropractor next door. https://goo.gl/maps/QvhD3dq9wj12 Edit: AND all the businesses in the strip mall facing Western, that the ice house and chiropractor are behind: https://goo.gl/maps/2E7WJHAcex22 |
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