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'Mystery' location.
"1950 NEGATIVES...CLASSIC OLD CARS & PARKING METERS, LOS ANGELES AREA." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/PkIbQW.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/jl5cOs.jpg ..of course the first thing that caught my eye was the large gas-o-meter gas tank (a favorite subject on NLA) LINK Here's a closer look. #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/19OQps.jpg Luckily, the photographer caught a portion of the sign on the gas tank. (far right)..........................................:previous: Let's concentrate on the sign. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/exGwPM.jpg DETAIL EXPOSI FI5 (?) GRS (?) ....:shrug: Just for fun, here's the other negative that includes the little boy's mom and older brother. #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/tHDK4t.jpg That's quite a bow on mom's head. hmmm....I wonder why the older boy is dressed so much better than the little boy. Maybe they're not brothers after all. (they don't look alike either) . |
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I just saw an article in the L. A. Times about the Dutch Chocolate Shop being put up for sale. would be great to see it reopen.
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I read that article as well, BarSnake.
I thought the most interesting part was about how the building has only ONE EXIT. (an earlier exit, through the Arcade Building, was blocked over in the 1980s) Oh what the heck, here's that section of the story. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/3jMPrO.jpg Link :previous: I'm struggling to understand the solution. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/MIXYlW.jpg You can see what they're up against in this aerial. The back of the building (617) is entirely hemmed in. The article also says the building had a "back exit to the street". ...So what street are they referring to..:shrug:..was there a street back there at one point in time? Here's one of the photograph from the article. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/p7ud4E.jpg courtesy of the LATIMES For search purposes: Dutch Chocolate Shop - Eshman Building - 217 W. 6th St. - Gerhard Eshman - Arcade Building . |
Here's yet another 'mystery' location.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/Pfoc1r.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/7pSnCG.jpg eBay "1950'S TRANSPARENCY...ARNOLD'S LIQUORS,DINER'S CLUB, LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA"..................... . |
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They all look related to me. Look at the cheekbones. Surely dad was the photographer. Younger kid looks like he's dressed in a cowboy outfit or something. I think there was a discussion of a gasometer around Exposition Boulevard several years ago here? |
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re: L. A. schoolboy garden" location.
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And per Noir Noir's 1905 newspaper clipping. ...The corner of Lyon and Ramirez streets. Quote:
If I want to search for the school (and garden) that was located near the macaroni factory, as shown in the ebay photograph, which location would you suggest I use? :shrug: As a reminder, a stamp on the back of the photo is dated July 17, 1923. . .but an earlier stamp, that I just now noticed, is dated March 14th 1918....LINK P.S....Since there aren't any schoolgirls in the photograph maybe the garden project was sponsored by an all-boys school. . .or even a reform school. (?) . |
The corner of Lyon and Ramirez Streets, from the 1909 Bird's Eye map:
https://i.postimg.cc/g25SYLKc/Lyon-Ramirez.jpg LOC https://www.loc.gov/item/2005632465/ |
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Halloween
Last minute Halloween greetings to everyone!
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...85ba952f_b.jpg HDL (verso) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e9c3bbfe_h.jpghttpshdl.huntington.orgdigitalcollectionp15150coll2id19152rec9 Opposite St Vibiana's I presume. And if the phone rings in the middle of the night- don't answer! It might be the Night Operator.... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...45e28dcb_h.jpg PMH |
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By the way, I have the strangest “memory” of the Richfield Tower. It was nightime and we were in my dad's '66 Mustang, driving south on the Harbor Freeway.
As we passed the Richfield Tower, my dad pointed and told me to “look at the lights!” - and I distinctly remember looking out the window and seeing the animated lighting on the Richfield Tower. I can still see it as vividly as if it had happened yesterday. It may well be a false memory, as I was only three years old when the Tower was demolished (1969). Yet I feel absolutely certain that it really happened! On the other hand, my mom took me downtown to ride on Angels Flight before it was removed from its original location right next to Third Street. Our visit took place on one of the very last days before the funicular was shut down. I remember that visit absolutely, without any doubt whatsoever, and that happened in 1969, too - so perhaps my memory is better than I'm giving it credit for. |
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I don't recall any animation like a simulated gusher. Maybe that was earlier, in the 1920s-1950s? I was born in the early 1950s, so my recollection of the tower is from about 1958-68/69 (when it was torn down). I just remember the colorful globe on the top, and the "Richfield" lettering all lit up. Maybe the animation was for special occasions, or only earlier in the tower's history. Like you, I just saw it driving with my parents down the Harbor Freeway on the way to my grandparents house in the late 1950s-1960s. Maybe a REAL oldtimer will recollect the animation feature. Hopefully somebody has a film somewhere. That building was gorgeous. The 52 story twins or some variation could have been built around it or on an adjacent lot. Such a loss. My hope and dream is that someday a taller version that pays homage to the original is built somewhere in DTLA, maybe 900 feet tall with a 350 foot spire with a globe on top, all lit up at night. Of course brown and gold. A neo-deco neo-Richfield, our Empire State building, 1250 feet high. The Empire State went up a couple of years after the Richfield. The top of the ES has features and shape similar to the Richfield, with an "oil derrick" spire being replaced by a "dirigible mast". I do think it likely that the ES designers "borrowed" from the Richfield, with the tapered derrick replaced by a tapered dirigible mast. Compare the top of the ES with the top of the Richfield, and you will see similarities. |
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