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I just happened across this view.
In this photograph you can see the Carnation 'stand alone' building that housed the ice cream shop and cafe. (with it's sloping roof) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/3DRyKj.jpg pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/twitter/ |
Anyone know what this little 'machine' does? -is it a music selector
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Marion Davies' Beach House
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I apologize if it has. Anyway, the house looks fairly new. It's lacking those two curved staircases on the north side: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original C. C. Pierce/Islandora/UCLA -- http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...rcephoto%3A213 |
:previous: I never noticed the twin curved stairs before FW. -Good eye
They're missing in this photograph as well. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/kCBVkt.jpg beachgal at https://www.pinterest.com/beachgal2/ The two "cupolas" above the dormer windows have been added and the windows beneath have been paneled over (two small oval windows were added in their place) in this photo. -here's a close-up of what I am struggling to explain. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...905/642eFH.jpg detail I wonder if Marion was requesting changes? I have to say, it looked better before. Here's FW's photo a little larger, showing the missing "cupolas". http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/BkT5mr.jpg C.C. Pierce/ucla __ |
Marion Davies Beach House changes
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:previous: I see what you mean. -for safety reasons.....that hadn't occurred to me.
I wonder if she was afraid of being kidnapped- or was she thinking of her jewels? __ I just happened across this original slide that shows remnants of Bunker Hills. (late 1960s or early 1970s) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/BtBII7.jpg here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCRTD-LOS-AN...gAAOSwo3pWddNb |
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The hill was narrow, two lanes and about 20' steeper. Exposed retaining walls for existing apartments are visible on the east side of the lower peak. |
Getting smog out of the LA Basin
Before the 1950s factories were the notorious source for poisonous smokes. By the 1940s refineries were appreciated as a killer threat. Most toxic sources were seen as a local threat. The old solution was very tall smokestacks that would dilute the problem as smoke blew down wind and spread. LA didn't have flow-through ventilation like other parts of the country. The prevailing breeze from the ocean backs up against the San Gabriel Mountains and is prevented from flowing over the top by the air inversion layer. (One of my environmental science professors compared pollution in the basin to a fire in a jug. Big fire or little fire that jug would fill with smoke due to the very small opening.) The brute force old school solution was monstrously tall smoke stacks (as shown in this plan). It would sort of work if you could blow the smoke up to the jet stream. The other suggestion was to use nuclear explosives to blow passes through the mountains (fans optional as the on-shore breezes would naturally flow through these channels). It is amazing that we ever managed to reduce pollution production to levels that allows LA to be habitable.
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LA's First Public Swimming Pool
We've seen the City Hall on Broadway many times, shown below c. 1890:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/2696 But I don't believe we've ever noticed the Los Angeles Natatorium next door: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original Closeup of above A similar but slightly wider photo, c. 1895: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics17/00018257.jpg Here's another shot from a few years earlier, showing the same two natatorium signs: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/3468/rec/2 The Los Angeles Natatorium opened September 29, 1888. Capitain and Burton were the architects. Obviously, there were buildings in town with baths prior to this, but with bathtubs, not anything like what we would call a swimming pool: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original September 30, 1888 Los Angeles Times @ LAPL According to the rest of the article, the pool was made of brick and lined with cement. The water was meant to be heated to 79 degrees by means of "steam pipes running under it" (under the brick?), but the water was reported not to have been even lukewarm. The shallow end was just two feet deep, and the deep end 12 feet. There was a railing all around the pool, just above the water. In addition to the rings over the pool (pictured in the ad below), there were two diving boards plus a chute/slide. This ad has the tank slightly larger than the article on the pool's opening day: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original October 10, 1888 Los Angeles Herald @ LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1 By early the next year the problem with the water temperature seems to have been fixed: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original February 24, 1889 Los Angeles Times @ LAPL The 1894 LA City Directory shows that the Natatorium was operated by the Cook Brothers, so this ad is probably c. 1894: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original GPF.2730 at Seaver Center Here's the photo a little bigger: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original October 7, 1895 Los Angeles Herald: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original CDNC/UCR -- http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d...torium-------1 Eventually, as seen in this c. 1897 photo, a building was built on the lot in front of the Natatorium, but the Natatorium was still accessed from right next to City Hall. The sign on the left side of the building next to the City Hall says "Hot Baths" (plus other stuff): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original 2000-0012 @ CA State Library This c. 1894 photo is the best I could find of the Natatorium building; it's the one with the peaked black roof, in front of the Woodbury Business College building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll65/id/1751 The 1894 Sanborn Map shows the Natatorium, the building in front of it, and the building behind it on Spring Street with a saloon and restaurant on the ground floor: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original LAPL Near the end of the Natatorium's run, it was operated by Charles Bauer and Julius A. Kelly, who also operated a bar on Spring Street that was accessed through the Natatorium: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original March 13, 1897 The Capital @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=250 http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original April 29, 1897 Los Angeles Herald @ LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=2 Unfortunately, Bauer and Kelly had financial problems, and they dissolved their partnership: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original May 8, 1897 Los Angeles Herald @ LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...08/ed-1/seq-1/ I hope Julius Kelly's mother did not read the Herald: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original May 11, 1897 Los Angeles Herald @ LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...11/ed-1/seq-3/ There was another tragedy to come. The first public pool also saw the first accidental drowning in a public pool: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original July 2, 1898 Los Angeles Times @ LAPL This ad from October 7, 1898, is the last I could find. The Natatorium seems to have closed not long after that (an April 13, 1899, Times article stated that the Natatorium had been open "until recently"): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=2 Lawyers got involved (in addition, Kelly's widow sued Bauer and his wife for $1,000): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original January 22, 1899 Los Angeles Times @ LAPL The 1906 Sanborn Map shows the old Natatorium Building as the Imperial Restaurant. The 1910 Baist Map shows a new building covering the entire lot. |
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:previous: Yes, I think that could be it! Thanks Graybeard.
I was looking for it at the top near the Carnation sign. __ |
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We've seen this view before, but not in color and without the street car.
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Party Time Estate
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This 5-acre pleasure palace was built in the late 1920s by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, for cutie Miss Davies, with whom he was having a long-term affair. During the 1920s and 1930s the madcap duo would host many of their lavish Hollywood celebrity parties at this 110-room mansion. Be it known that Mr. Hearst was very much married and with seven children. His wife Millicent, being Catholic, would not grant Mr. Hearst a divorce. But that didn't stop the aging roué from linking up with his Hollywood gal pal Marion for the rest of his life. All built with Hearst's millions. Only the Guest House, at the far left survives. Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA. The pool has been rebuilt. Photo: 1930s http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps1vl21edj.jpg DOHollywood |
:previous: Interesting aerial CBD.
I've never noticed that round area (tiled pathway) with what looks like a fountain in the middle. (to the right of the main house) The aerial also gives you a good look at the bridge spanning the swimming pool. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/jiPbeg.jpg eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/orig-1949-2-...QAAOSwZ1lWcKL3 reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/mfqWUk.jpg :previous: Even with the above coordinates I haven't been able to find the same location via the google-mobile. __ |
Somehow I missed half a page of posts from a couple days ago.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Historic Aerials The view below was taken with the Googlemobile near Multnomah Street. If I'm right about the location, the hill on the left is the one in the vintage picture, although very little else is recognizable. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: I think you nailed it. Thanks Hoss.
If wasn't all that long ago we were discussing whether or not the Statler Hilton had a heli-pad. http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=25751 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27053 I just found this amazing slide from 1962 on eBay. It was taken from a helicopter as it was coming in for a landing. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/8AuqJ3.jpg eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/1962-35mm-ph...AAAOSw5ZBWQ4rP :previous: It looks like the helicopter leaks a lot of oil! -also note the Washington Hotel down below. __ |
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