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Car accident 11th and Hill 1951
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5020/11thandhill.jpg USC Digital Archives |
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Why's he still sitting in the car? He isn't going anywhere....
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4715/truckoncar.jpg Truck overturned on car (Silverlake and London Streets),1951 USC Digital Archives |
Doesn't that seem like an odd place to have parking meters?
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Dr. Joseph Gaynor, 58, suicide by slit wrist, lying on bathroom floor in luxury apartment at 1416 Havenhurst Dr. West Hollywood 1952
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7056/norsuicide.jpg Dr. Gaynor in happier times http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/8...betterdays.jpg USC Digital Archives |
Bad heiress
Spreckels Sugar heiress Mary Lavinia Spreckels arrested for drunk driving August 1952
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5...iniadrunk2.jpg Two months later, she goes to court http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7...viniadrunk.jpg Look how innocent and wholesome she is:rolleyes: USC Digital Archives |
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Narcotics death (at rear of service station, 3822 E. Olympic Boulevard), 29 June 1952. Officer A.W. Frank; Eddie M. Gonzalez -- 22 years (1021 Murietta Street), victim; Officers discovered 50 capsules of narcotics on his person.
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/315/narcoticsdeath.jpg USC Digital Archives |
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is it just me, or does this old elephant of a joint give anyone else the willie's? it kinda reminds me of this creepy hostelry http://oldhollywood.tumblr.com/photo...mwdJSk11qzdvhi :eek: anyway...........some more photographs of the raymond hotel station 1924 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics14/00006997.jpg Source: LAPL an undated photograph of art students sketching the station. (i'm guessing late 40's or maybe early 50's by the clothes they are wearing) http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics14/00006737.jpg Source: LAPL |
Wow, wow, wow! I'm really enjoying the Raymond Hotel/Raymond Hotel Station pics. I've actually seen some of these pics before, being of course that I'm really into my town's history. I live near the site of the old hotel, I guess you can say I live at the base, or end of the southern slope, of what the locals call Raymond Hill (I was never sure if the hill is officially called Raymond Hill) near Garfield Park. Maybe some day I'll take some pictures of Raymond Hill, being that Raymond Hill Road is actually the old driveway of the hotel (what is now used as a bus shelter at the southeast corner of Raymond Hill Rd. and Fair Oaks Ave. was originally built as a waiting station for the PE streetcar stop at the entrance to what was then the driveway to the hotel), and there are even old retaining walls and such that still exist, and I assume some of the palm trees that are there date from the hotel era. The hill itself is now covered with post-WWII-era apartments. A popular restaurant called The Raymond is actually inside the old caretaker's cottage that still exists, but technically it's on the city of Pasadena's side of the city line.
http://www.theraymond.com/images/stories/about.jpg http://www.theraymond.com/about/history.html |
Goose bumps....
Speaking of the Overlook Hotel. We stayed there one Halloween night many years ago because its haunted and we were stoned um I mean young!
It is creepy http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/945...rlookhotel.jpg but not as creepy as the guy with the hatchet face and hitler moustache....eek:runaway: http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7893/eekh.jpg (I know its not LA, but it is noirish....aaaand creepy) University of Colorado Archives |
Just a postcard I got recently that has a nice color aerial view of the remnant of Court Circle (left foreground). Probably dates to the early '60s.
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...circle_sky.jpg From my personal collection, photo by Emil Cuhel for Western Publishing & Novelty Co. |
Court Circle completely cut in half! Thanks for posting Scott.
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Isn't this actually Margaret Elliot under an assumed name? Where's her Oscar last seen perched on the dashboard of her Mercury?
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I'm glad you're back GaylordWilshire! I was getting worried
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Rare color slides that were for sale on ebay. (sorry about the green 'watermark')
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Love that dancing city hall, e_r. Oh, the girls too. And I never knew that the Pan-Pacific was ever pink. I just assumed it was always its later green color. I've been workin' on my Berkeley Square blog when I have spare time on the computer. The story of #18 will be posted this week--seven more houses after that plus a few other items, to come. And yes, I am shameless enough to provide the links again here: latest post: http://berkeleysquarelosangeles.blogspot.com/ or, if you want to start from the beginning with "Beginnings": http://berkeleysquarelosangeles.blog...eginnings.html Re the pic above: Have we talked about The Los Angeles Book before? A nice old book about the city in 1950 by Lee Shippey and Max Yavno. I got it for next to nothing on ebay, but there sometimes cheap ones at Amazon. (I would not say you should go so far as the $90 Collector's edition...) http://www.amazon.com/Los-Angeles-Bo...0335788&sr=1-1 |
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Downtown traffic has always been a serious problem in L.A. My guess for why there's so few cars in this aerial photo is that it was probably taken on a Sunday. Until the later '60s, almost everyplace was closed on Sundays (especially in the PM hours). Some restaurants and almost all movie theaters were open Sundays, but you couldn't go shopping anywhere. So, generally, after church in the morning, most people stayed at home or went to the movies (which is what we did) or went "Sunday driving." Angelenos nowadays have no conception how dead things were on Sundays prior to the 1970s. There really was almost nothing to do and nowhere to go. -Scott |
Perhaps even creepier is the Jack Nicholson look-alike at the bottom of the shot. I thought they photoshopped him in.
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The beautiful Bell & Howell building at 716 N. La Brea Ave.
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/183...llbuilding.jpg lapl As it appears today. http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/922...l716nlabre.jpg google street views |
The stunning Rio Grande Gas Station on Beverly Blvd. 'Little Inn' on the left.
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/677...vdriogrand.jpg lapl |
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i too was amazed to see that it was not always green! http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6001/...2b696776_b.jpg |
wow!!..thanks for removing the wmark gsjansen. It's 100% better. Can you do the other two of the Pan-Pacific?
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The sketchy Hotel Barrera's on Soto Street at Michigan Ave.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/470...sotostreet.jpg lapl http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6...sotostlapl.jpg lapl below: The building as appears today....a huge improvement. http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3...lewoodapts.jpg google street views http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/2...woodapts1a.jpg google street views |
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The Bealsco Theater
The Belasco Theater has been discussed several times on this thread but I wanted to add some present day photos. I had the awesome experience of attending a fundraiser there last night and was absolutely amazed by the beauty of it. The theater has recently undergone a three million dollar renovation and it is extraordinary.
Originally financed by Edward Doheny, for the Belaso brothers, and designed by Morgan, Walls and Clements, the theater opened on November 11, 1926. In its later history, the theater served as a church for over thirty years but had been shuttered for many years prior to renovation. ethereal_reality posted this photo of the Belasco, next door to its sister theater the Mayan, earlier in the thread. http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/694/mayanbelasco.jpg Detail of the front facade in 2010 http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/853...losangeles.jpg The entry foyer 2010 http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/250/belascofoyer.jpg Entry lobby 2010 http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/5...entrylobby.jpg The auditorium during renovation http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/4...ingrenovat.jpg The auditorium 2010 http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3...benedetti2.jpg http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/1...obenedetti.jpg Detail of the proscenium http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9...neumdetail.jpg All color photos courtesy Belasco Theater Foundation |
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What Was There?
Is anyone familiar with this website?
http://www.whatwasthere.com/ It's a site for historical location photos that uses Google Maps as a basis for organization. One can use the map to select any portion of Los Angeles (or whatever city you choose), then select a vintage photo from the list of available images. You can then select "Street View" to see it superimposed on a current image of the same location, and use the "Fade" slider to dissolve between past and present. I think the site must be fairly new. Right now there are fewer than 100 historical photos available for Los Angeles. I also discovered an error. There is a 1927 photo of the John C. Fremont Library on Melrose Avenue that is incorrectly matched. They've paired it with a recent photo of a building that is on the opposite side of the street, one block east. The John C. Fremont Library still exists and has changed very little. (I live just one block away from it.) |
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S_C Bear! wow! that is so cool! thank you for taking the time to make the animated gif!
speaking of pain in the you know what............. pan pacific day without watermark http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6002/...df4e9d80_b.jpg |
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I was just going through archives here at my work and I came across a link to this (rather badly scanned) copy of Woodbury history, including a picture of 727 S. Figueroa. We had this link archived from a tribute article we ran last year for the late tennis great Bobby Riggs. It appears that he was a classmate of your mother's because he also graduated in 1936! Enjoy! http://my.woodbury.edu/SiteDirectory...Presidents.pdf ~F3 Sorry, I just noticed that this link had already been provided to you! Oops, and I was so excited....ah well:rolleyes: |
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pan pacific at night image 2 without watermark
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With our local news media hyperventilating over this weekend's temporary closure of a section of the San Diego Freeway, I thought it would be interesting to see what this part of town used to look like.
October 25, 1956: Construction of the freeway at Wilshire & Sepulveda, taken from north of Wilshire, looking south. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-N-11982-025~7 source: USC Digital Archive 25 years earlier: Pepper tree lined Sepulveda Boulevard near Wilshire, February 26, 1931 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...0329/CHS-36903 source: USC Digital Archive December 14, 1937: Looking north on Sepulveda Boulevard from Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood, showing the pepper trees as they appeared at sundown. This section of the boulevard was also known as Pepper Tree Lane. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011889.jpg source: Los Angeles Public Library Oct. 19, 1935: "Celebrating the completion of a modern highway over one of Los Angeles' oldest trails, Sepulveda highway will be dedicated Sunday with gay fiesta where the highway joins with Sunset boulevard. Angeline Pagones is shown with her horse on the bridle path inspecting the new roadway. The highway follows a trail used ceturies [sic] ago by the Indians on their way to the sea". (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner) http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071930.jpg source: Los Angeles Public Library |
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Anybody got some nice photos of the doomed Mulholland Drive 405 overpass when it was new? I remember when that was built. I'd never seen a highway bridge that tall before!
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fairly recent photograph http://images.thecarconnection.com/l...00351955_l.jpg Source: Disaster wise blog just prior to opening 1960 http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/...ion_070811.jpg Source: Jewish journal this one you can really appreciate the height! http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/...efa4d148_o.jpg Source: Interstate guide 405 under construction at the mulholland over pass http://thesource.metro.net/wp-conten...v2-590x567.jpg Source: The source metro view looking from sepulveda at the embankment used in the construction of the overpass, prior to removing it for the 405 freeway http://thesource.metro.net/wp-conten...1960-rev11.jpg Source: The Source Metro the 405 under construction beneath the mulholland overpass http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/...f963cfc5_o.jpg Source: The Source Metro |
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Tales of the 405
Nice pics! Thanks gsj!
When the 405 opened, it was a huge deal to us folks who lived "out of town," whether in the Valley or elsewhere. I remember my mom rejoiced when the northern section of the San Diego Freeway opened. Before 1960, it took practically all day to drive from our house in the east SGV to Mom's sister's place in Manhattan Beach. Consequently, we didn't go there very often - until the San Diego Freeway opened over Sepulveda Pass, that is. From 1961 to 1963, the fastest way to get from points east to the beaches was actually to take the Golden State Freeway from the San Bernardino, then take the Ventura Freeway west to the new San Diego Freeway, and then south over the Santa Monica Mountains. (Notice I use the names of the freeways, not the highway numbers. It wasn't until the 1970s that people started using the numbers more often than the names. In the '60s there were fewer than ten freeway routes, after all; it was just easier to call them by their names.) When the Santa Monica Freeway was completed in 1963, though, that marked the end of us taking the northern route through the Valley to the beaches. After that, we went to Aunt Lorraine's house a lot. (Oh, joy.) After freshman year in college (1973), my friend Richard and I went to summer school at UCLA. We got an apartment on Kester in Sherman Oaks and drove over the Sepulveda Pass every weekday. More often than not, though, we'd avoid the freeway and take old Sepulveda Blvd. to and from school. Generally it was lots quicker! We'd barrel along the curvy road either in his '66 Pontiac 2+2 convertible or in my '67 Mustang. Man that was fun, just blowing by all the stop-and-go folks on the freeway. We always wondered why lots more people didn't take Sepulveda Blvd. over the hills. Just because a road's called a "freeway" doesn't necessarily mean it's the fastest way! -Scott |
a very nice 1953 image of nbc looking south on sunset across argyle
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1622629_n.jpg Source: Photo posted by Richard Wojcik on Face Book |
The Hellman Mansion
The beautiful Marco Hellman mansion once stood proudly at 3350 Wilshire Blvd. An L.A. landmark built in 1902, the mansion played host to many a social gathering of the rich and powerful.
The Hellman family was considered the oldest and most influential Jewish family in Los Angeles, having first settled there in 1859. Marco Hellman was born in the original family mansion that was at the corner of Fourth & Spring Streets, where the Hellman Building (now Banco Popular) has stood since 1897. The Hellman Building and the Hellman mansion were both designed by Alfred Rosenheim. After Marco Hellman's death in 1920, the mansion changed hands twice before being razed in 1950 to make way for an office building. During the mansion's last life, it was a commercial enterprise that was rented out for private functions. It must have been in that period when they hung that ugly fire escape off of the side. The pictures below were taken just prior to the start of demolition. Side view http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5...onsideview.jpg Partial front view http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/727...npartialfr.jpg Foyer fireplace (one of nine fireplaces) http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1...nfireplace.jpg Grand Staircase & Foyer http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9...nsionfoyer.jpg 3350 Wilshire Blvd. today http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/2...shiretoday.jpg USC Digital Library |
Now this is LA Noir!
From the Los Angeles Herald Examiner December 9, 1951. Fisticuffs between two women in a Burbank cocktail lounge early today led to the death by beating of one man and the suicide of his assailant, the husband of one of the women, police reported.
Dead were George R. Wolter, 37, of 1616 East Garfield Avenue, Glendale, and Douglas H. Slover, 34, of 519 1/2 East Providencia Avenue, Burbank. Officers said the trouble began when Slover's wife, Jessie, 34, and Mrs. Dorothy Vogeler Lee became involved in an argument about 'always being in the bar'. Verbal exchanges led to the trading of stinging slaps to the face, officers said, at which time Wolter assertedly moved in to shove Mrs. Slover. Slover, an aircraft worker, then knocked Wolter to the floor and according to the accounts of some witnesses, police said, kicked him about the head. The Slovers then rushed Wolter to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died. Leaving Mrs. Slover at the hospital, Mr. Slover returned home, where police arrived a short time later. After knocking on the door without answer several times, the officers heard a shot inside, kicked in the door and found Slover in the bedroom, where he had killed himself with a bullet through his mouth. Officers said he apparently was writing a farewell letter to his wife when they interrupted him. Beside Slover they found a penciled note which admonished his wife 'not to think too harshly of this horrible way' The note added cryptically: 'Sorry for everything. I've failed...'". Murderer/suicider Mr. Slover http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5300/mrslover.jpg Slap Happy Mrs. Slover http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/4831/mrsslover.jpg Ah, good times at the local watering hole:drunk: USC Digital Library/ LA Herald Examiner collection |
Thank Dog they knocked down that gorgeous old mansion to make way for a mundane, run-of-the-mill office building. I'll just be over in the corner over here, weeping profusely.
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The Bireley's bottling plant was located at 1127 N. Mansfield Ave. in Hollywood.
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7...gnbireleys.jpg lapl http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1...nbireleys1.jpg lapl http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/5869/laplbi6.jpg http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/963/laplbi6aebay.jpg non-carbonated? Has anyone tasted this? interesting link to a brief history of Bireley's. http://armandsrancho.blogspot.com/2009/03/bireleys.html http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/994/laplbi5rem.jpg I love old reminisces like this. _____________ |
A noirish look at Ventura Blvd. circa 1960
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