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Re: the b&w malt shop photograph, on the side of the building it looks like it says: FRENCH FRIED POPCORN. Maybe there's a word or two not visible? |
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We had to wait almost 9 years to get those clarifications ! The California Street section gave me headaches to reconstruct mentally so much everything disappeared and photos missed. Thanks Beaudry ! And now we have a synthetic overview of classic (1930s) and current Downtown. Thanks Scott Charles ! I guess that the section surrounded (clockwise) by Figueroa or Flower, Temple, Grand and First streets was called "Bunker Hill". Odinthor please ? |
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Is it worth noting that the only extant part of Bunker Hill Avenue is North Bunker Hill Avenue, between Cesar E Chavez Avenue and New Depot Street? Did anyone's definition of Bunker Hill ever extend that far north? I'd forgotten that image of California Street, Beaudry, so thanks for the reminder (and enlargement). Also, thanks to Scott Charles for the animated overlays. |
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Today the entire thing is gone, being home to the Foltz Criminal Justice Center and the adjacent southeast end of Grand Park. Here's an article at KCET about the lost hills, by Nathan Masters, which shows Poundcake Hill both before it held the high school (when it was called Telegraph Hill) and early during the school's stay. https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/t...wn-los-angeles Normal Hill is mentioned as well. It is my understanding that Normal Hill was kind of the furthest tail end of Bunker Hill. |
Fort Hill was Loma de las Mariposas in the pre-Yankee era; but I think that's the only name any of the hills had in that era.
Here's a passage from Narciso Botello's Annals in which the hills in question play a big part. The "barracks" referred to would be the structure known variously as Isaac Williams' Adobe and Government House, later the original part of the Bella Union Hotel. The momentarily-occupying Yankees had made it their headquarters. The "hills in back" would, most immediately, be Poundcake Hill and Loma de las Mariposas. This actually is probably my favorite moment in Angeleno history, the rebelling Angelenos mocking and evading the occupying force. (Permission to use kindly given by the author.): [¶ 180; p. 142; September, 1846] That night, the Californios continued trying to take over the barracks, but were unsuccessful and left, going up into the hills in back to wait for morning. On first light next morning, I saw the Californios march from the peak of the hill down towards town, right next to the barracks, and playing their drum. Gillespie, after seeing the Californios from the barracks, mounted a horse and, joined by six or eight of his soldiers, rushed all the way down the street (Spring Street) in order to catch up with them; but, by the time he got to the ridge of the hill where he had seen the Californios come from—just like I had seen them, because my house was on that street—the Californios were gone, lost among the hills, covered by a heavy fog which had rolled in that day. He searched through the gullies for them, and then returned to the barracks. The Californios had run, scattering across the lower part of a hill, then doubling back at the furthest vegetable plot [huerta], heading in a direction opposite to where they had been seen that morning. This is why Gillespie couldn’t find them. They kept this up for three days, annoying Gillespie every moment of the day. |
re: Oak of the Golden Dream
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/YWCFrk.jpg GSV To get to the tree from the Placerita Canyon Park you have to go through a tunnel under Placerita Canyon road. (really a wash) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LneO8W.jpg GSV Here' the tree and the tunnel. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Ok49qA.jpg tripadvisor So Hoss, I imagine the Duke's General Lee whizzed over this tunnel and past the Oak many times. __ OH, and if anyone is wondering why the Oak of the Golden Dream is misshapen on that one side. https://imageshack.com/a/img922/8971/Pylvyz.gif Here's your answer :hell: This was shortly before the tunnel was built. |
p.s. I forgot to mention there are murals of dubious quality in the tunnel.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/I0NHr2.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/8jxMxv.jpg 100HIKES In Quieter Times https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/KM1Nod.jpg calishpere I just came across this 1949 photo earlier this afternoon. "David Fraser and Alice and Helen Flint visit the "Oak of Golden Dream" in Placerita Canyon." PEACEFUL. |
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'mystery' location.
I just happened upon the slide a few minutes ago. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dEODJY.jpg EBAY Original Slide, View Overlooking Los Angeles, c. 1945 Mount/Film Type: 35mm Kodachrome film, remounted from glass mount to plastic mount But I can't decide what we're looking at. Are we south of Baldwin Hills? (I think that might be them in the middle distance) _ |
Here's another 1945 slide.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/W533zb.jpg EBAY Original 35mm film slide Subject: Burbank street scene, showing the Marcia Ruth Beauty Shoppe, Clark's Barber Shop, Brawley Drug Co., McFadden's, and more. (huh? I only see that one big store :shrug:) Date: circa 1945 Mount/Film Type: Kodachrome film, remounted from glass mount to plastic mount _________________________ Wow, I can't believe how sparse Burbank looks. _ |
I was just about to call it a night....
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/nU0sCa.jpg EBAY Original 35mm film slide. Subject: Florentine Gardens nightclub in Hollywood. Date: circa 1945 Mount/Film Type: Kodachrome film, remounted from glass mount to plastic mount Boy-Howdy! Someone needs to buy this one!! __ Goodnight |
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Marcia Ruth Beauty Shoppe 2206 N Hollywood Way H B Clark's Barber Shop 2004 N Hollywood Way Brawley Drug 2000 N Hollywood Way e_r's picture was taken from Victory Blvd, just west of N Hollywood Way, looking NE. Surprisingly the building at the NE corner of North Hollywood Way and Victory Blvd is still standing: https://i.imgur.com/qMFiP6V.png GSV |
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The "official" boundaries of Bunker Hill
Still hoping to find the "official" boundaries of Bunker Hill, I began searching...
Eventually, I began to notice that the online photos I found of Bunker Hill were often credited to the Title Insurance and Trust Company - so I did a Google search for that phrase, plus "Bunker Hill". The first Google search result was this: https://i.imgur.com/wC3oOUX.jpg Granted, this document is from the redevelopment of 1958, not from the time of the original 1870s real estate project. However, I figured that this would be as close as I would ever get to finding any official definition (i.e., used in official documents of the state of California) of the boundaries of Bunker Hill. In addition, I suspect that the term "Bunker Hill" came to be applied to an entire district of the city not necessarily bordered by the original real estate plan - much in the same way that "Hollywood" is not contained within the borders of the original Hollywoodland real estate venture - this article specifies only that Prudent Beaudry bought the land "atop" Bunker Hill, though I don't know if by this they mean only the top. But back to the document. First, we come across the introduction page: https://i.imgur.com/scxw1Un.jpg But the best part, of course, is this: https://i.imgur.com/huuz8vj.jpg Eureka! And it pretty much matches the version I drew up a few days ago to a T! :) Here is the link to the full 39-page PDF document, in case anyone wants to give it a look. Lots of plans and maps! http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPG...project_1b.pdf |
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ETA: It's definitely from the Observatory. I'll find a current pic. ...and here's a pic(from my b-day hike): https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4773/...3c398a7d_b.jpg20180121_170945_glendale_facebook by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr This was shot on the trail just below the observatory, but the view is pretty much the same. |
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And the novel? That will come in the fullness of time. Maybe. :uhh: |
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