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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...C.jpg~original eBay Follow-ups on the Hotel Cortez/Hotel Louise: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17447 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17467 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17472 |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-G...OT.bmp-002.jpg A great ad from the Times of Jan 3, 1928, reminded me of this shot from Chuckaluck's post last year: http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033990.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21939 |
More views of the traveling courthouse stones:
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Going by Chuckaluck's previous post showing an address of 1711 Albion Street, Los Angeles, CA, the building on the left is still extant, albeit heavily altered and integrated into a newer structure. Check out a Google satellite view. Cheers, Jack |
Any idea what this interesting building is/was? (this is a detail of the photograph above :previous:)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/zjprXu.jpg detail I'm thinking it could possibly be a school (there are kids in a lot to it's right). ...and Albion Elementary School is in the vicinity. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/wRqs9r.jpg google_maps |
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https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5493/...54d78eb8_o.jpgThe great Southern Pacific piggy-back yard, 1934 Hughes Ice Cream on Albion shows just above center. We're looking across the great Southern Pacific piggy-back yard with the Macy Street bridge just out-of-frame at the lower left. The SP roundhouse is just below the Alhambra right-of-way with the Alhambra RR bridge showing at the left. The Main Street bridge is above that with Albion and Hughes Ice Cream just north of the bridge east of the river. See it? All this and we get the SP River Station 'Cornfield' yard at the left/center and the Taylor Yard upper background as well. |
The Windsor Apartments
:previous: The American Ice Cream Company was on the Hughes site until recently.
A fashionable and gracious neighborhood grew around the 1921 Ambassador Hotel. One of the new neighbors, the 1926 Windsor Apartments still stands at 7th and Catalina: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l...12447%2BAM.jpg uscdl (detail) It's maintained nicely, although there's maybe too many attention-grabbing awnings: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...12923%2BAM.jpg gsv The little gable-top bobbles have gone missing: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U...20440%2BPM.jpg gsv The Ambassador and its immediate surroundings in 1956. The Windsor is in the lower-right corner and the Embassy is on the opposite side of the Ambassador, facing Mariposa. Across the top is the 1951 triple-wide 3440 Wilshire building (a big hint of things to come), the 1925 Chapman Park Hotel and Bungalows, the 1926 Brown Derby (at its second location) and the extant 1924 Gaylord: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-I...21852%2BPM.jpg uscdl (detail) There was diagonal street-parking on 7th, east of Catalina: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e...14828%2BPM.jpg uscdl (detail) Tourmaline has taken us here before: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=15943 I read somewhere that the Beverly Hills Hotel at one time provided room service to its immediate neighbors. I wonder if the Ambassador did that. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...layGrounds.jpg www.historicmapworks.com Incidentally, the Hughes Ice Cream factory site is marked as a brewery on the 1910 and 1914 Baist maps. I wonder if the brewery was converted to a factory when prohibition started, or if Hughes built a new factory. The footprints from 1914 and 1921 look similar. |
:previous: -Thanks Hoss. Sanborn to the rescue! :)
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....and then it was a V.D. clinic in 1947? The noir is in the details. Thanks for digging up this information GW. (and I didn't even mention the embalming) __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...indsorApts.jpg California State Library BTW. The Windsor Apartments appear to have had the same red awnings since at least the late '70s. Here they are in they background of a shot from a season 3 episode of 'CHiPs' called 'Hot Wheels'. A reverse view of this location appears in the season 5 episode 'Diamond in the Rough', when the side of the Ambassador Hotel plays the part of Valley General Hospital. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rAptsCHiPs.jpg Rosner TV/MGM TV |
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From age 64 of this Google book. https://books.google.com/books?id=3g...ngeles&f=false http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psv294d8qe.jpg Cheers, Jack |
Re the Windsor apartments
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-h...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3...2520PM.bmp.jpg Times Feb 13 & 20, 1927; Apr 26-1936 |
Chapman Park Hotel
Does anyone know the whole story of the Chapman Park Hotel? I've read (on the net, so it must be true) that the first building (presumably the main hotel) went up in 1925. The Brown Derby was built on the block in '26.
In 1956 view below, the Chapman Park Hotel and Bungalows takes up the entire block with the Chapman Garage across Mariposa (upper left) and the Chapman Studio and Market buildings across W 6th on either side of Alexandria. A regular little Chapmanville: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...42742%2BPM.jpg uscdl (detail) It's what happened at the time of the 1969 Equitable Plaza that interests me. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...35907%2BPM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...35100%2BPM.jpg above: nowandthen Both articles say the hotel will be reconfigured and continue operations. Did anthing remotely like that actually happen? If so, when did it finally close and get demolished? Just curious. Thanks. Chapman Park Hotel pool, n.d. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...70716%2BPM.jpg nowandthen (more pix at the link) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-c...2520PM.bmp.jpgCalif State Library
One of the prettiest buildings ever built on early commercial Wilshire Boulevard was this one at the northeast corner of Westmoreland Avenue. Its story, and that of the other low-rise stores that replaced the boulevard's houses, is here: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...lease-see.html |
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