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I haven't gotten around to either book yet, but they're both on my holiday reading list! |
I don't think we've seen this picture before. It shows a few businesses on the corner of South Central Avenue and E 50th Street. USC describes it as "Drugstore, beauty salon, and automotive garage on the 5100 [sic] block of Central Avenue, September 1933".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs1.jpg USC Digital Library Going through the 1936 CD yields the following details for the businesses: Albert Baumann drugs 5000 S Central Av Steve McKinney (tailor) 5002 S Central Av Izola Beauty shop 5002½ S Central Av Wayne A Safford (auto repairs) 5006 S Central Av Philip Greenberg (second-hand) Furniture Store 5010 S Central Av Andrew L Wallace physician 5010½ S Central Av Here's a close-up of the drugstore. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs2.jpg Detail of photo above. Now :(. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs3.jpg GSV |
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None in windows or on ground seems odd to me Today there would be crowds all over as we know Wonder why?? |
Here's a close-up of the drugstore.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs2.jpg Detail of photo above. Now :(. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs3.jpg GSV[/QUOTE] So many of the "Now" photos are so, well, sad. I lived on 106th Street near San Pedro in the late forties...would love to see some of the "Then" photos of buildings on San Pedro or Avalon, in that area, from those days...there was a furniture store on 106th and Avalon that I would be interested in seeing... |
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Here's another Wilshire Boulevard house: fruit packer and inventor Edwin T. Earl, one of the biggest of BSDs of turn-of-the-century Los Angeles, hired Ernest Coxhead to design his new house in Gaylord Wilshire's original subdivision. The San Francisco architect designed a shingle version that burned before completion; he then redesigned it in brick. It stood at the northeast corner of Carondelet from 1899 to 1957. The full story of 2425 Wilshire is here. More here. |
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That work is amazing!!! Please do more :) |
The march of time....
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rbpjr....Many people are not aware that various and sundry parts of Los Angeles have decayed into Third World Status. We see it in this photo. I won't get into the reasons why but there's a reason. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery1.jpg USC Digital Library The caption calls it '10525 Avalon Boulevard', but it was clearly 10599 Avalon Boulevard at some point in the past. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery2.jpg Detail of photo above. I wasn't surprised to see that it had gone. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery3.jpg GSV |
The caption calls it '10525 Avalon Boulevard', but it was clearly 10599 Avalon Boulevard at some point in the past.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery2.jpg Detail of photo above. I wasn't surprised to see that it had gone. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery3.jpg GSV[/QUOTE] In the late forties the furniture store would have been to the left...there was also a drug store next door (I think)... |
I wasn't surprised to see that it had gone.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery3.jpg GSV[/QUOTE] The concrete pad (in the "now" photo) fits the shape of the old store including the angled spot where the front door was. I did find (Google Street View) the (furniture) building, across the street, to still be there...but apartment buildings have replaced the drug store and other busineses that were there in the late 40's. |
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A little more Avalon Blvd--closer to downtown. The nice little building above was at 4030 S Avalon, gone now. At the s/w corner of 41st Street is a survivor, despite once getting hit by a Dodge.... The apartment building behind 4101 is also still there. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV |
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http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...446547&page=13 Three old schools, now in the path where a section of the Hollywood Freeway will be constructed, are being razed on Fort Moore Hill to make way for the new thoroughfare. (1) is the Fort Hill School; (2) is the first high school built in Los Angeles, and (3) is Central School. Everything between the broken lines will be cleared away for the super-roadway, Photo dated: February 1, 1949. Posted by BrerHair on www.jalopyjournal.com |
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New member to the site. Found it while searching for the Portal Motor Motel.
Several years ago, I bought a framed picture in a junk store in Cayucos, CA. It is a b/w of a lady posing in the nude with a freeway in the background. Obviously from the 1950's because of the cars. In the background across from her is the Portal Motor Motel, arch readable with magnification. Freeway signs noting 'Hollywood Bowl' and 'Highland Ave.' are readable also. It was such an unusual photo, nicely framed, with this phrase on the matting below the photo "Let me sit by my house at the side of the road, And be a friend of woman.", that I had to buy it. Have been trying on and off to figure out where she is posing. Now thanks to this post, I'm pretty sure I have it pinpointed. The key was the motel. I thought the Bowl was behind the photographer. Actually it is behind the motel and the view is looking almost perfectly due south. It is very close to the one photo here with the construction equipment in the foreground. On the back is a photographer's stamp with the name Orman S Longstreet, 5453 Virginia Ave., Hollywood 29 California. It requests he be credited in any byline or use of the photo. I'll black out the lady's torso, credit Longstreet and upload a lower resolution scan of it later. |
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Angel's flight is one subject with so much coverage here that I have dispensed with prior links. Suffice it to say, I have not noticed this celebratory image before.
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http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...ps996ccb17.jpgAvoiding Regret
I just came across some sad pictures on a very interesting blog: http://www.avoidingregret.com/2013/0...me-chapel.html I haven't gone through all her posts, but here's one on Paul Williams's 28th Street Y: http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...ps122a16bd.jpgAvoiding Regret http://www.avoidingregret.com/2013/1...-williams.html And one on Castle Green: http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...psd602d81e.jpgAvoiding Regret http://www.avoidingregret.com/2013/1...house-old.html |
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