Originally Posted by Noircitydame;7096878

The famous postcard view of the house and Cary's very green car:
[URL=http://s281.photobucket.com/user/decobelle/media/carybeach.jpg.html

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../carybeach.jpg[/URL]

I walked past it last November, looking pretty well cared for and fairly unaltered, and spotted this little call box at the street entrance. No longer used (that's what the note says) but originally if you dropped in on Norma/Cary/Randy, you'd pick up an intercom telephone inside the box and let the butler know.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1692.jpg

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7096989)

Under high magnification (with correspondingly low resolution), here's what I see, ER:

- The streetcar nearest to us is waiting for a couple of pedestrians (man and boy?) standing in the track. The man appears to be looking at the rear end of the streetcar ahead. I've no idea why they're in that spot or why he's looking in that direction.

- The vehicle immediately behind the streetcar is a truck whose porthole windows flank the (blind) rear doors.

- Bringing up the rear is another truck with an open bed, and the white material that seems to resemble firehose might be padding for whatever dark object they're carrying in the center of the bed. Also, there's stylized lettering on the side, so it looks like this is a commercial vehicle.

- The truck emerging from the alley appears to be empty, or at least I couldn't pick up any reflection from a glass load. Those high stakes on the sides certainly are curious, though.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7096947)

1940's kodachrome slide showing a swimming pool beneath the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/089C1Y.jpg
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I believe this the swimming pool at the Hotel Vista Del Arroyo.
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Originally Posted by Tetsu (Post 7097979)

I would guess so too. Never realized how far the grounds of the hotel once stretched out. Judging by the angle of the bridge and the general landscape, I think the pool was once in or near an area that's now occupied by a US Army Reserve center. Here's about the closest you can get with the Google-mobile, looking north from a small side street, Westminster Drive:

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psz2uzqyxc.jpgGSV

Can't help but wonder if any of the shapes on the ground here are the remnants of the pool. The hotel is at bottom right (now U.S. Appeals Court).

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psbso8ckfw.jpg

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7098198)

Hmm, dunno if anyone's still interested in this.

I'm in contact with the Leo Katz Archive. It's run by Katz' grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They may have "Youth Arisen" confused with Orozco's "Epic of American Civilization" at Dartmouth (Katz served as Orozco's assistant on that mural). I'm trying to get that clarified ATM and waiting for second messages from two other institutions.

No inkling (yet) of the mural's current location.

Anyway, here's a photo of Katz in front of "Youth Arisen". It gives a good sense of the scale of the thing:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8...51235%2BPM.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...55800%2BPM.jpg
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Also an 80-year-old Associated Press report re the LA mural controversy of 1935:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0...50718%2BPM.jpg
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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido (Post 7097610)

The cross on the door is still there !

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7096989)

Under high magnification (with correspondingly low resolution), here's what I see, ER:

- The streetcar nearest to us is waiting for a couple of pedestrians (man and boy?) standing in the track. The man appears to be looking at the rear end of the streetcar ahead. I've no idea why they're in that spot or why he's looking in that direction.

- The vehicle immediately behind the streetcar is a truck whose porthole windows flank the (blind) rear doors.

- Bringing up the rear is another truck with an open bed, and the white material that seems to resemble firehose might be padding for whatever dark object they're carrying in the center of the bed. Also, there's stylized lettering on the side, so it looks like this is a commercial vehicle.

- The truck emerging from the alley appears to be empty, or at least I couldn't pick up any reflection from a glass load. Those high stakes on the sides certainly are curious, though.

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5988361)

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5679313)

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5944324)

Thx for the Walker's info, I only knew this building as Milliron's/Orbach's
(now it has what is just about my least favorite base modernization):
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059136.jpg
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Tragic news article. I'll remember that forever.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6358167)

Chuckaluck's picture above provides a nice segue between Carpenter's Sandwiches (far right) and the view down Wilshire that I've been looking at.

I know the tiled Texaco service station at New Hampshire and Wilshire has been on NLA several times before, but I think this close-up is new. The service station stood nearly opposite the I. Magnin store - for a wider shot of both, and a lot more history of this block, see GW's blogspot post on 3240 Wilshire Boulevard.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ireTexaco1.jpg
USC Digital Library

Here's a better view of the service station. Again, I know that similar pictures have been posted before, but I don't remember seeing this one with the Green T Cafe on the left. There's three zoomable pictures in the set (link below image).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ireTexaco2.jpg
USC Digital Library

Of course, this is the old Calpet station, but I did doubt that for a while because e-r's earlier picture makes it look like the wings sweep back.



I now realize that it's just an optical illusion/camera trickery, as can be seen in the picture below. The Calpet station was adorned with far less signage than the later Texaco.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...etWilshire.jpg
California State Library

Returning to my first picture, the Wiltern Theatre is visible in the distance. Nowadays, the view is blocked by trees and tall buildings.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAWiltern.jpg
Detail of first picture above

On the left, just past the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, I spotted a building that looked like a theater. When I zoomed in, I could read the text "Hammond Organ". Sadly, neither of the buildings either side of the sign are still standing (at least not in a recognizable form).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAHammond1.jpg
Detail of first picture above

Here's a listing from the 1939 CD with details of the Hammond Instrument Co. at 3328 Wilshire.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAHammond2.jpg
rescarta.lapl.org

The later buildings also housed a keyboard retailer - the Sherman Clay Pianos/Organs sign is still there, although the business has gone. Sherman Clay went out of business early in 2013, after 142 years of trading, but I believe this site closed earlier because la.curbed described the building as "empty" in this article about redevelopment from 2010.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...manClayGSV.jpg
GSV

USC has a couple of other photos similar to the first, quite possibly from the same shoot. They are taken from slightly different angles, and include a bit of Switzer's on the left and the Gaylord in the background. The first has a better view of the Wiltern Theatre:

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/22062

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/93249

More on the I. Magnin store:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16372

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7098198)

I'm in contact with the Leo Katz Foundation. It's run by Katz' grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They may have "Youth Arisen" confused with Orozco's "Epic of American Civilization" at Dartmouth (Katz served as Orozco's assistant on that mural). I'm trying to get that clarified ATM and waiting for second messages from two other institutions.

No inkling (yet) of the mural's current location.