Last night when I posted the photograph of the brown Central Receiving ambulance, I didn't realize there was a companion photo that showed the back of the ambulance.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/uKPySh.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lafdhs/9163355805

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Could one of you Computer Gurus improve these Never-Before-Seen (on NLA;)) photographs?

J.L. Ordaz writes...

"I found these ancient photographs in a abandoned house. They were all rolled tightly, shaped like a cigar up in the attic. They were extremely brittle.
I took them home, lightly misted them with water and slowly pulled them apart."


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https://www.flickr.com/photos/java18...n/photostream/

:previous: a visitor wrote:

"It's the old Los Angeles Times building. This looks like the crowd that gathered after it was bombed in 1910.

This is an amazing find J.L.!!! I think this must have been a snap from someone in the crowd. I have never seen a photo quite like this of the bombing aftermath."



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ps://www.flickr.com/photos/java1888/3147680185/in/photostream/

"This is looking down Hill from First, shot from above where they put the Hill St. tunnels. The three-story blocky building at right-center was the Moore Cliff hotel, built some time between 1894 and 1906. The turreted building on the hill is the Hotel Locke. The tall building in the distance with the flagpole is probably the Wright-Callendar at Fourth and Hill. This was shot before 1907/08 because the 8-story YWCA was built at 2nd and Hill then.

Creepy as it sounds, but everything in this photo is gone."







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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/Dumeza.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/java18...n/photostream/

"Yep, lookin' down Hill Street from above the tunnel at First. Ca. 1900. The steps at the bottom right are between First and Temple".







http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/e25h2N.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/java18...n/photostream/

"It's the old Bradbury Mansion on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles. It was demolished in 1929. What the hell was a photo of it doing in an abandoned house somewhere in the Central Valley?"

"The woodwork on this house is amazing! In the actual photo, you can see lots of detail in the woodwork, but my scanner is a piece of crap and its difficult to really see it."
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*I pieced together the extra-large vertical photo.

-for anyone wanting to 'work' on it...here it is in one piece.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/6rseEC.jpg




Now I'm off to see my mom. Happy Mothers Day everyone!
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Way to destroy a perfectly good paranoid fantasy.

The first bona fide moving picture theater in Westwood?

The Fox Westwood :previous: may have the distinction of being the oldest movie house in Westwood currently in operation. Most sources suggest it was constructed in 1930. However, at least one source indicates there was a big house that preceded it, perhaps by five years. The May 9, 1925 edition of Motion Picture World references a "Westwood, Cal." theater with 1200 seats having opened in April '25. (This is distinct from Westwood NJ or the former theater on Manchester Blvd. http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=30819 ) Clearly before Vitaphone, the capacity alone suggests the likelihood of dual use, i.e., projected features and vaudeville. A search of contemporary CDs offers little information (thus far) regarding either the 1925-theater's location or its reported manager, "W.H. Laughead." The same publication mentions Laughead of "the Westwood theater" a few months later (September) and also references anticipated "Welshire[sic] district" construction for the Fox Carthay and a theater at Wilshire and LeBrea[sic].

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1929 Aerial of Westwood digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/18566
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And . . . the existence of a Westwood movie theater in '25 would have probably been a welcome venue for the Bruins who were officially in the area by '29.


Some images of UCLA's move from the City to Westwood in '29. Location is not provided but a hunch says this was somewhere on the new campus. Nice that at least one building was being equipped with Frigidaire products by General Motors.

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...o.jpg~originaldigitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll170/id/10721


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Police escort. (No funny bid'ness from the Trojan community. :P
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http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...6.jpg~original


Bullocks Westwood looks like a nice place to shop, circa 1936.
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...c.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/84507

It looks like the issue where some of my images don't show up has returned. Refreshing the page (maybe more than once) often makes them pop up. It's a problem with Photobucket, so I'll have to email their tech support yet again. I'm not holding my breath for a quick reply!


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Welcome to NLA, LA Kitty Kat. Is there any chance that your sister could take some comparison pictures?


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I posted some pictures the Lever Brothers Company factory in the City of Commerce just over a week ago (see post #34821). Well, it looks like Julius Shulman made a second visit soon afterwards, because there's a second photoset. This is "Job 1000: Welton Becket and Associates, Lever Brothers Company (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951". I've only picked six of the sixteen images because many are similar to views we've already seen.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

We saw a close-up of the stairs on the right in the original post, so here's a wider view.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

Travel Santa Fe all the way!

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I have no idea what these vats produced, but they make an interesting photo.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

With all the recent discussion about the Garden of Allah model, I thought I should include this model of the factory which shows its proximity to the Santa Ana Freeway. It appears to have been on display in the cafeteria.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

The final image appears to show a roof-top patio area. It doesn't seem to fit with the other photos, and its index number duplicates that of another picture, so it may be in the wrong set.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

City Hall South
 

Thanks ethereal_reality and HossC.

I will ask my sister to take some photos for comparison. She says the plaque for the Health Dept is still on the wall in the lobby and the offices that are pictured look the same. The ambulance entrance was a surprise to her, too.

Police escort. (No funny bid'ness from the Trojan community. ;p)
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http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...6.jpg~original




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By golly, L.A. had some spiffy-looking motorcycle cops in those days!

I believe your pictures are turned around 180º. The section of Santa Monica Blvd you are showing on the 2015 Google Street View is the South Roadway, whose elevation is above the old right of way, not below it. I know - I live two blocks from Fairburn,

The things one discovers when lurking around the odd Los Angeles garage...am especially enamored of the plural of bus.

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You win! :)

Changes noted. :previous: :shrug:

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Did the Officer retire and later study method acting?:rolleyes:


Steiger
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Lytton Plaza
 

Yeah...no...that's not the model I saw in the guy's apartment in West Hollywood. That looks like a model of something else. Maybe a planned re-landscaping that never happened? Who knows. Also, I'd always heard that the Garden of Allah model wasn't protected from the elements - it just sat under the pavilion, which is why they moved it into the bank building. My guess is they moved the model inside and then figured "I guess we ought to put SOMETHING in that thing out there..."

And thanks for all those shots of the museum space under the bank. I knew where it was, but had never seen photos - of it or Scary Black Bart!

BTW, the building now proposed for that site has been designed by Frank Gehry. I saw the architectural model for it earlier this year on display at LACMA. Last I heard, the LA Conservancy have taken a "currently neutral but interested" position on saving the bank building. I don't know how they'd corporate it into the current Gehry design, but anything's possible I guess.

http://www.8150sunset.com/

I've just spent half an hour trying to get these images to display at their full size, but Photobucket won't let me. They did reply to my very detailed email by asking for more information (it's almost like they didn't read it!). Seeing as it's the same problem I had just over a month ago, they shouldn't have too far to look for a solution. In the meantime, here are some smaller-than-usual images which I'll restore to normal size when the problem gets fixed. The Photobucket problems seem to have been fixed.

Here are Julius Shulman's photos of the Security Pacific Bank Building. They are a selection from "Job 4991: William L. Pereira and Associates, Security Pacific Bank Building (Los Angeles, Calif.),1973". Notice the white "U" shapes to the left of the entrance - I think they're part of the bank's logo waiting to be fitted.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

This shot of the entrance shows a small version of the logo for comparison.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Moving inside, there are a lot of interesting angles in this view.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

Click the link at the bottom to see the full photoset which includes a couple of color shots of the arches on the right.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

Here's a better view of the hanging sculpture. I'm sure I've seen something like this an the back of a tractor :).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

Office space above the lobby.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

Some comfy chairs and a meeting room.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original

I have no idea what this last image shows. My first guess was waterfalls, but now I'm leaning towards translucent fabric.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

Some of its neighbors have changed, but the bank building looks much the same. Signs at the entrance suggest that the building is now known as "800 West Sixth". Other signs suggest that the building is looking for tenants.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original
GSV

Woo Hoo!

Cash & prizes?

'mystery' location.

Street view showing the North Hollywood Health Club. 1970s

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eBay

The health club building is really unique......quite theatrical.




Here it is a bit larger.

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I thought that was a yellow pinto...but now I'm not so sure.

Some of the other buildings are interesting as well.

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A blast from the past :-)

In 1978 I was working computer security for Honeywell Information Systems and an employee of one of our subsidiaries took that very office of that bank for $10.8 million dollars, which at that time was the largest bank heist in history. It was billed as a computer crime but it wasn't, as I found out as the techie on the team that was trying to stay ahead of the press and keep Honeywell's name out of it.

The perp is litigious as hell so you'll have to find out his name on your own. He was installing a network in the Security Pacific wire room and noticed that the wire transfer clerks wrote the password of the day on a post-it and stuck it on a bulletin board. Our perp did some research and discovered that the most compact and liquid form of money (then) was uncut diamonds. A big source of diamonds was the Soviet Union, with whom trade was embargoed, and who sold uncut diamonds on the black market to get hard currency.

Our perp made the necessary arrangements (not hard, given the enthusiasm the Soviets had for a sale) and one fine day he memorized the password of the day, walked out of the wire room, into the street, around the corner, and from a pay phone called the wire room masquerading as a trader and had $10.8 mil wire transferred to a Swiss account of the Soviets.

He then flew to Zurich to collect. And this is part I loved: after identifying himself, the Soviets gave him a Swissair ticket (I can't remember where to) and a baggage claim check. At his destination he picked up a checked attache case with the diamonds in it. Those were indeed simpler times.

Anyhow, our perp sort of went to pieces, made some desultory attempts to sell the diamonds and finally went home to L.A. and confessed to his lawyer, who dropped the dime on him. What an idiot. I often thought that if I found myself in Europe with a valid passport and $10.8 mil in diamonds I could think of a hell of a lot more options than flying back to the scene of the crime and bragging to my lawyer.

After the legal kerfuffle was over, it turned out the diamond market had gone up, so when they were handed over to Security Pacific they were worth a little over $12 mil. So everybody but the our perp won: Security Pacific turned a quick profit and the Soviets got a hard currency windfall. Our perp did his time and got an IT job with a major government agency, with a side activity of suing anybody who questioned his hireability.

And that, ladies and gentleman, was the strange, terrible and noirish story of what went on in the bowels of that building (and a nearby pay phone) one fine day in 1978.

Cheers,

Earl

Since we've been in this area, here's another 1967 photo of the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Crescent Heights, with a KNX Radio billboard, Pandora's in the Center,
Schwab's sign partially obscured by a palm tree, Steak N' Stein sign below that one and, up in the right hand corner, a glimpse of a sign for The Lytton Center of the Visual Arts.

http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/Misc_26.jpgShorpy

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