https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520AM.bmp.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...ollywoodhi.jpg
Ellen Bloom Underhill/Bing

Ellen and Kenneth Bloom on Sunset in front of Hollywood High with their family's '58 Country Squire. I never knew Hollywood High was painted pink.


http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071547.jpgLAPL

The same view in the '30s.

I bet the color balance of the photo is off! The sidewalk should be gray. Very cool picture!:)

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/850...5524939020.jpgThe Old Motor


Bandleader Paul Whiteman (apparently retouched) poses with his Cord L29 sporting elaborate Vogue tires. I assumed that this was Los Angeles and that the address was on down on Figueroa, Flower, or Hope. After a bit of digging, I found that the MacDonald-Dodson Tire Co. was at 1317 S. Hope. The building still stands, although its façade has been ruined (see below). (Can those be simulated tire tracks up the corner?)


Here's a bit of background from Modern Tire Dealer:

"While vacationing in Chicago, 24-year-old Loyd Dodson saw the whitewalls on the fancy chauffeur-driven cars cruising around town. He and his brother-in-law, Jack McDonald, had each borrowed $3,000 to start a Los Angeles tire business in 1925, and Dodson saw great potential in marketing Vogue tires to the movie moguls and stars in 'La-La-Land.' By 1928, Dodson had signed a deal to acquire West Coast distribution rights to the tires. He concentrated on sales to owners of Duesenbergs, a top luxury car of the time. Before long, the distinctive white sidewall tires showed up on cars owned by film stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Marion Davies—and other people of means wanted them. People like Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Frank Robinson and Lyndon Johnson have been pictured with Vogue-shod vehicles."

Dodson's obituary in the Times of April 6, 1996, tells more: "Loyd Dodson, 94, owner of Vogue Tyre and Rubber Co. Brought up in Pasadena, Dodson went into the tire business in 1923 and within a few years became the exclusive distributor of Vogue Tyres for the western United States. He bought the Chicago-based company during World War II and remained active in the business until his death. He had been chairman of the board of directors for the last 10 years. Dodson was active in the Masons for more than 50 years and had served as president of the Wilshire Country Club. On Monday in Pasadena."


http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/8...dodsondual.jpgLAT
It looks like MacDonald-Dodson tampered with its own façade...


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

1317 S. Hope today; there are two cute little vintage apartment buildings to its south.

Here is an interesting car crash:
http://www.madle.org/bhdeandrunky.JPG

http://www.madle.org/bhdean.jpgSTUTZcars

Not to be outdone, Sammy Davis got one:
http://www.madle.org/julesbhsdjr.jpg

Lucille Ball:
http://www.madle.org/bh71lb01.JPGStutzcars

Jules Meyers Stutz showroom today:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8483/8...16f145c7_b.jpgGE
10860 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles

Cahuenga Building
 

Larry Harnisch's blog has a recent entry on the Cahuenga Building.

http://ladailymirror.com/2012/11/12/...ing/#more-9604

Cheers,

Earl

"Bell" Shaped Item On Light Pole
 

Hello there from Ojai, I have been a lurker for several months and decided I must be a closer follower of this fabulous site. I born, lived and worked in L.A. till I moved to Ojai after retirement. It has changed very much since my youth in the 40's,50's and 60's and I miss the old L.A. very much. This site is my time machine.
The "Bell" shaped items on the Wilshire Blvd. unique streetlights are probably bust stop signs. If you look closely you can see a bus stopping at the corner. Bus stops were usually on the corner then by the way. The photo with the Chevrolet dealer is Sunset Bl. I believe.

5900 Wilshire Boulevard? :previous:

Across from the LAC Art Museum is currently occupied by a 32 story building - "Variety"

In 1954 it was unimproved property. Must have been an interesting challenge to build such a large structure on or near the middle of tar pit central.

1954
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...3-28-ISLA?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...3-24-ISLA?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...423730E86?v=hrUSC Digital

Built in 1971, for Mutual Benefit Life.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...00Wilshire.jpgWiki

"Berlin Wall Exhibit" in front of bldg.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Angeles_1.jpg Wiki

I had a hard time reconciling your image, until I realized it was reversed!

Your post about the Shrine made me recall a challenge issued years ago by my college professor (of Urban Planning): He offered money to anyone who could come up with the reason why the Shrine, one of the largest buildings in LA and theater anywhere, faced a small side street (Royal) rather than the major streets of Jefferson or Figueroa.

The property doesn't extend to Figueroa, so that's basic, but it does front on Jefferson. The property seems to be slightly longer on the Jefferson side, so perhaps that made it easier to layout the lobby-house-stage-backstage areas, but it seems so strange to have a 6,000+ seat theater face what is essentially a small residential street.

Royal is now paved to be more of a pedestrian plaza which works for big award show entries, with the grandstands and red carpet, and media, etc. But clearly this was not intended in the early days of the theater!

Can you imagine if all or some of the old theaters on Broadway faced the side streets instead of the main boulevard?

Sorry about any confusion. Was attempting to focus on property south of LACMA. Wonderful images are reposts, and it is easy to be disoriented. Each time I look, I notice something new.

Scouring Flickr I came across some random but interesting stuff...

The Original Modern Drive-In:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6...895ae402_b.jpg


1928 Pamphlet put out by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce....here a sampling of the 45 images in the full set:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3281/2...0ae_z.jpg?zz=1

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3151/2...86fc8ae7_o.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3124/2...2a46ca39_o.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3023/2...e4f80e8f_o.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3014/2...cbc2b632_o.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3103/2...b2ba89af_o.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3258/2...615953f1_o.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3058/2...624f3983_o.jpg


Photo's Arcade:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2190/2...a84f5e8b_b.jpg


1940s-era(?) tourists' map:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3630/3...850e6b10_b.jpg


Crossroads of Elegance, 1936:

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4003/4...62db9f9e_b.jpg


It's Copper! 1931:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7...7d0589c7_b.jpg


Not very noirish, but rather dashing....Mayor Poulson in 1960:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6...9dee4a52_b.jpg

What!!!!!

After all that work to move those entire houses they burned????

So sad, that's what I call bad luck :(

I guess they no longer exist, or they rebuild them yet again?

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/7...2780073433.jpgThe Old Motor
Rod Serling in a '55 Ford Sunliner...

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k...2520PM.bmp.jpgO. Lytle Hoover
The gates ca. 1976

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_...2520PM.bmp.jpgO. Lytle Hoover
Ca. 1988 (this is for ER)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520PM.bmp.jpg Hollywood Golden Guy
This is the gate today, not an entrance at all but on the interior of the lot:

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/4523/mgmaerial.jpgBing Maps

I'm fairly certain the stone pillars frame the entrance to the wide carriage drive (we'd call it an alley) which served the very large, turn-of-the-twentieth-century houses on W 28th & W 27th Streets, running NW from S Figueroa until it formed a T-junction with University Ave. It would have been lined with carriage houses like the one shown behind the big house (which faced then onto W 28th St) in the postcard photo. This block (and the next one north) of W 28th St is now USC's Fraternity Row:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o...81231%2BAM.jpg
gsv

The pillars are long gone, as is the house in the photo. One now enters the carriage drive between a Del Taco parking lot and a Fed Ex shop (see above). However, there is one carriage house left. It is behind 715 W. 28th St, the only house remaining on the block that hasn't been remodeled beyond recognition or replaced with a newer structure. It's a lovely house and looks really nicely maintained. If one goes, via Google Street View, to the other end of the carriage drive, where it joins University Ave, one can see its original, classic, gabled, two-story carriage house about a third of the way down on the right.

There is a second house at 624 W 28th St, directly across W 28th from the site of the house in the postcard photo, which, rather like an actor in a fat suit, is encased in an unfortunate remodel. Its third-story, hipped-roof, square tower gives it away. From above (on Google Maps) one can see the outline of the house's original roof. There's also a second-floor sunroom on the back of the house with a lovely bowed line of windows that can be seen in Google Maps axonometric view. The space between the home and what's left of the carriage house has been infilled with an extension.

The film "Fraternity Row" (1977) was filmed on W 28th. Maybe it contains more visual info about this block.

I believe the other postcard pictured above is labeled correctly as Burlington and 7th St. (NW corner). Starting at that corner, travel north in one's Googlemobile to about mid-block where the last remaining house of this once lovely collection of mid-sized homes can be seen on the left at 669 S Burlington:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u...74705%2BAM.jpg
gsv

7th and Burlington:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s...75553%2BAM.jpg
gsv

:previous:

Interesting, tovangar. While rear alleys are also a feature of some Pico-Union streets, those of the University District are considerably wider, so you are probably right about the postcard with the pillars. The second card may very well be the view from Burlington and 7th, as it is marked--I know the house at 669 S. Burlington, and it does seem a fit for the pictured row, even if it can't actually be identified on the card.

In another godawful coincidence (?) - The similarly moved Rochester House went up like a torch -- always left me wondering if any connection was lurking in Yortyville- Boy did he despise the passe Victorians---

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/811...ndwall1947.jpgPERyHS

Per the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society website: "Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) U Line car no. 304 is captured at 5th and
Wall Streets on May 15, 1947, as an LATL crew installs new overhead for the trackless bus systems that will soon be deployed."


http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3401/east5.jpgGoogleSV

The Florence Hotel is still on East 5th, or at least its blade sign is.


http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1396/east5hotels.jpgGoogleSV

The Harland Hotel has now morphed into the Harold; next door is the very interesting looking Panama Hotel. The whole neighborhood looks intriguing.

Thank you GaylordWilshire for your kind reply. I found the Burlington neighborhood postcard image particularly nice as, even though the houses are in a variety of styles and one, one and a half or two stories, there is a cohesiveness of scale that results in a very pleasing rhythm and overall effect, even though the architecture isn't particularly distinguished. Too many of our blocks have had their scale ruined by unfortunate infill apartments, commercial intrusions, McMansions, etc., the result, in the main, of thoughtless zoning changes.

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1...elcomplete.jpg

The aforementioned Panama Hotel, 403 East 5th St., ca. 1918 and 2011.



http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/451...llipsdualx.jpgLAT


Top pictures: LAPL/GoogleSV

I came across this interesting video today that I am almost certain hasn't been posted.

http://imageshack.us/a/img51/5227/aa...oxnardstfr.jpg
http://archive.org/details/LAprocessplatesandcoronation

:click on the link attached to the photo
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I had a little fun with it and located one of the buildings you briefly see in the video.

http://imageshack.us/a/img607/1401/a...antamonica.jpg




The same building today :(
(It looks as if there was a thoughtful addition on the left)

http://imageshack.us/a/img94/9974/aa...onicavideo.jpg
google street view

The building is located on the northeast corner of Oxnard St. & Woodman Avenue in an area just west of North Hollywood.
(google maps labels this area as Valley Glen)







The vintage 'foto-car' proceeds and hangs a left. It immediately passes Grizzy's on Woodman Avenue.
(our 'cupola' building is still visible at far right)

http://imageshack.us/a/img690/1290/aabmy1as2agriz.jpg








http://imageshack.us/a/img35/5674/22190346.jpg




below: Grizzy's site today.
The distinctive triangular wedge is missing and the building is at least twice as wide as when it was Grizzy's.

http://imageshack.us/a/img855/2434/stodayoxwoodinn.jpg
google street view



The Oxwood Inn.

http://imageshack.us/a/img825/2032/a...ardstandwo.jpg
google street view


below: I really love the classic 'cocktail' sign.

http://imageshack.us/a/img836/3415/stodayoxwoodinn1.jpg
detail

If you're at all interested, please watch the video. http://archive.org/details/LAprocessplatesandcoronation

There are other areas in the film/video that I haven't been able to locate.
(especially the last sequence)
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tovangar2, I can't wait to hear more from you. The details in your posts are amazing! :)
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West End of 3rd Street Tunnel Under Bunker Hill 1949
 

The photo shows 3rd St in 1949 looking east across Figueroa and Flower to the west end of the 3rd St tunnel with Bunker Hill above. The streetscape is a vibrant, lively and wonderful jumble of hotels, coffee shops, clubs, theaters shops and signage. Pedestrians bustle along the sidewalks. It looks like one could spend all day there and have a good time. Up on Bunker Hill one can see cars moving on Hope St directly behind the tunnel's retaining wall parapet. More cars and pedestrians travel Bunker Hill Avenue at the crest.

Today, if one visits the spot in one's Googlemobile, nothing but the tunnel itself is left, the entrance of which has been brought radically forward. The World Trade Center squats on the south side of 3rd between Figueroa and Flower (devoid of any entrance for pedestrians) while the monolithic, blank and forbidding base of the 333 South Hope Building (incidentally, the only building downtown the sides of which are oriented towards the compass points) runs from Flower St to deep inside whats left of Bunker Hill. Only the yawning entrance of its loading dock gives any relief. Next to the tunnel entrance on the north side of 3rd a large, but never used, patch of grass angles away followed by Kosciuszko Way and a stray branch of Hope St spilling into the intersection of 3rd and Flower. And finally, the anemic landscaping, "tasteful" signage and glum architecture of the Bunker Hill Apartments brings one back, after passing under a rather cutsy pedestrian bridge, to 3rd and Figueroa. There's not a pedestrian in sight, including on the dedicated bridge. This must now be a couple of the most desolate blocks in town:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-S...93551%2BAM.jpg
gsv

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-G...00155%2BAM.jpg
gsv


If Bunker Hill had remained wild, used by Angelenos only for recreation (as downtown's answer to Griffith Park or even LA's answer to NYC's Central Park) LA would be a very different city. In the 1868 view below Bunker Hill looks like a big, friendly, protective dog sleeping peacefully on downtown's western flank (Spring St at left, Broadway at center, both disappearing towards the horizon).

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3645/...ca79e039_o.jpg
P.S. to ethereal_reality, Thank you!

Greetings,

After several months of going through the noirish Los Angeles thread - and only reaching page 300, figured it was time to chime in with a skyscraper sized THANK YOU... and a question or two.

I'm sorry for not thanking each and everyone for their contributions here but trust me, all your information and photos have been a huge influx of fun and yes, even a good slice of education, God forbid ;-) Of course I might be forced to jump off a tall building if I did not single out Ethereal Reality, a special dedication to you for starting all this fun etc etc!

I got hooked here when a buddy sent me a link to this forum/thread after I asked him if he remembered seeing the gas holders that used to be around Southern California... I didn't even know they were called gas holders but as a kid I remember the one right off the 405 freeway near Signal Hill. The thing always amazed me. I also remember being very sad when my parents told me it was going to be torn down.

So despite only having a marginal interest in old buildings - even though I love 'old' stuff --- this forum/thread etc quickly clued me into the many beautiful - and OLD - buildings that used to grace the LA basin [particularly downtown, wow, had no idea...]

I am now one of those guys you see on the street, arching his neck to admire detailed eves...[after I tuck my wallet away real good of course]

So that is my long-winded intro - again, thanks so much for all the great LA history and photos [just looove the aerials too!]

A question or two... [in this case because I go to Amoeba Music a lot]

Old photo was posted here and I believe it was tagged as the intersection of Sunset and Cahuenga looking north. Just to be 100% sure, is this a match?

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...northatcah.jpg


Also, I told one of the Amoeba employees about this forum and the old street photos around Amoeba Music --- so he is also interested to know 'what used to be where Amoeba is now?'?? Any luck with that one?

One other questions, further west on Sunset, I ran into this wonderful house???
It's at 6720 Sunset Blvd, just east of Highland. I've seen postcards of the motel but are there any other photos of the old house??

I actually went into the 'lobby' the other week just to ask about the house. No info/luck at all. But what a wonderful feeling it was to be near such a grand structure,,, lovely.

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9...dhollywood.jpg

Thanks again for all the fun.... and I got over 200 pages to get caught up on ;-)

:previous: Wow, good find overthere!

To be honest I had no idea that turn-of-century* house anchors the Hollywood Center Motel on Sunset.
I guess I never took the time to look within the 1960s cement walls that separate it from Sunset Boulevard.
Surely someone on the thread can find out some information. I'll try to myself.


all that said and done.....welcome to 'noirish Los Angeles!' :)
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Reply to overthere
 

The photos are not a match. The old photo is on Sunset at Cole Pl. looking west. Cole Place is just west of Amoeba Records and forms a T-junction with Sunset. The Hollywood Laundry building on the right (north) side of Sunset in the old photo looks, when one checks Google Maps Street View (see last image below), like it been highly remodeled, but the building on the NW corner of Sunset and Wilcox still looks recognizable and, of course that's the Hollywood Athletic Club (Meyer & Holler, 1924) tower in the distance, also on the north side of Sunset, between Hudson and Schrader. I think the tower (since remodeled) one sees beyond the Athletic Club, further down Sunset, is the Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic church (TF Power, 1928) on Sunset at about Cherokee, next door to the Crossroads of the World.

The new photo above, is Cahuenga looking north from Sunset. The big square building in the center distance is the Security Trust and Savings Bank Building (Parkinson & Parkinson, 1921) on the NE corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga. Its being turned into a hotel. Noir note: This building is where Raymond Chandler's fictional detective Philip Marlow had his fictional offices. Chandler called it "The Cahuenga Building" in his books. The intersection of Hollywood & Cahuenga has been officially called "Raymond Chandler Square" since 1994.

These images are a match. Both looking west on Sunset from Cole Place:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...02711%2BAM.jpg via overthere
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P...01244%2BAM.jpg
gsv



P.S. The name "Cahuenga", if you're interested, is a local indigenous word of the Tongva people. It means "the mountain place" and originally just applied to Cahuenga Pass. There are many Tongva place names in and around LA, most with similar endings, indicating "place".

#@*%
 

I cannot get the video past the beginning of the coronation sequence! (a message appears saying it's corrupted), I really enjoyed the drive north on Ocean Ave though. But now I'm dying to see what the last sequence is :-(

I wonder if the Blue Cross sign on the former Auburn/Cord building on the NW corner of Wilshire and Mariposa (see: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10208) is just advertising, or if it marked a Blue Cross office? Because Richfield Oil Corporation had acquired the building by January 1953. I'm sure of the date because that's when my dad started working there. Richfield closed off the Wilshire frontage and used the entrance at 645 S. Mariposa.

I remember Dad said that because it had been built as a multi-story auto dealership, the heavy computers of the 1960s could be housed on the 2nd floor rather than the ground floor. I guess it was a big deal.

The photo above shows the dip Wilshire takes at Mariposa; as you can see below, that dip filled up with water during a storm on February 19, 1958 (see: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/11...n-los-angeles/), when my yet-to-be-married parents were both working at Richfield:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1958Flood1.jpg


Mom says palm fronds clogged the storm drains and caused the flooding. This is how she got out of the Richfield building, via the west side of the building on scaffolding that was fortuitously already in place for a renovation:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1958Flood2.jpg


But my dad's '51 Mercury wasn't so lucky. It's there in the underground garage somewhere:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1958Flood3.jpg


The mailroom was a mess, too:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e48/Flood2.jpg

- Flyingwedge family photos

:previous:

Great shots, Fwedge. That flooding reminds me of the "Mariposa Ravine" as seen a block north 36 years before, originally posted by ER:


Another from the same period, before the still-extant Chapman Park garage was built:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics19/00019252.jpgLAPL
The house at left and the one to the far left in ER's shot are the same one. Does it still flood in this area?

I lived not too far away (4th & Hobart) from August 1977 to August 1979, and therefore was around for the major "El Nino" rains in early 1978. I don't recall any major flooding in that vicinity, I guess the storm drain system had been vastly improved in the intervening years. :)

I haven't run across any earlier pictures of the house. It could have been moved back on its lot from Sunset at some point; an early resident (1915) was Frank A McAllister, a real estate man with an office at 6420 Hollywood Blvd. Another interesting resident was Caroline Halberstadt:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f...2520AM.bmp.jpgLos Angeles Times Feb 7, 1959

One wonders how the very old lady from such a background came to be living at the Hollywood Center Motel...


The motel figured in the the movie L.A. Confidential, info that is available by googling.


A few other interesting noirish items:

An excerpt from the Times of June 11, 1978:
http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/2...rescueunit.jpg
This is from an article entitled "24 Hours With Rescue Vehicle 27"


From the article "New Allegations Surface in 'Billionaire' Club Murder Case" in the Times of Dec 7, 1986:
"The name of Dean Karny, the prosecution's star witness in both cases, has come up in connection with the murder of Richard Mayer, 21, whose decomposed body was found Oct. 18 stuffed in a trunk in a room at the Hollywood Center Motel."


And from the Fall 2005 issue of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, there is the story of HCM resident Michele Grey, as told by her daughter Kelly Grey Carlisle. An excerpt:

"Victim is a Hollywood prostitute who was living with three companions at the Hollywood Center Motel. At 10:00 p.m. she told her companions she was going next door to turn a trick to help pay the rent because they did not have enough money. Her friends thought she meant a hotel up the street. They did not see the victim alive again....

"This is what I know about my mother: when she was a little girl she had a cat, when she turned eight she had a birthday party. She spelled her name, Michele, with one L. On my birth certificate she spelled my middle name, Michelle, with two. She had brown hair that, like mine, shone red in the sun. She named me after a steak house by the 405 Freeway called Kelly's. She was a prostitute; she was addicted to drugs. Against all reason she carried me to term. She took care of me as best she could. She died at night, with only her murderer for company. This is what I know about my mother: I am her daughter, and her memory rests with me."


Finally, a short video of two dorks visiting the Hollywood Center Motel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=3iyAd82GcUs

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-q...2520AM.bmp.jpg

19th century Wilshire bridge at Mariposa
 

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...CHS-32950?v=hr

The "dip" where Mariposa crosses Wilshire was, at one time, an actual flowing stream, back in the days when Reuben Schmidt's dairy farm occupied the future site of the Ambassador Hotel. It used to be much deeper. What would later be called Wilshire Blvd crossed the stream on a wooden bridge. A photo exists of the bridge, but I cannot locate it just at the moment. Maybe someone else can find it.

The Mariposa Building (as ARCO called it) was indeed very well built. When I used to install artwork there I had to use a masonary drill because all the original interior walls were concrete.

Caroline Halberstsdt 1853-1959
 

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:previous:

Mrs. Halberstadt is listed in L.A. city directories with her daughter Leonore, a public-school teacher, at 1014 West 17th St from 1902 to at least through 1942. Mr. H (Ludwig) had died before 1900.

Ms. Halberstandt.....
 

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The last segment shows a sparsely settled residential area on the cusp of urbanization (probably somewhere in the valley).
There are homes yes, but also pastures and a few barns. It isn't a spectacular segment, but I found it interesting none the less.


Here are some images from the last sequence
(they're a bit blurry because the foto-mobile was haulin' ass...about 40mph)

http://imageshack.us/a/img689/6906/aabmy5.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img341/1478/aabmy5d.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img593/4130/aabmy5abarn.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img197/4905/aabmy5n.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img688/3369/aabmy5h.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img29/8137/aabmy5f.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img19/6795/aabmy5c.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img7/1092/aabmy5g.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img38/109/aabmy5e.jpg
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Thanks :-) Looks like maybe Chatsworth looking north (?) The ridge line in the background looks more like the Santa Susana Mountains than the Santa Monicas to me.

And what was that coronation about, do you know? That was bizarre. The MC walking towards the camera, right at the beginning of the sequence, was seriously scary looking.

In a case someone didn't know it already, Hollywood Center Motel appears in LA Confidential movie pretty much exactly as it exists today (establishing shot across the street.) It's the scene where they find that young pretty boy/hustler murdered in motel a room.

:previous: I didn't realize that Wenders. I just reread GW's post and he mentions it as well.
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Co-operative nurseries in 1880 Los Angeles.

http://imageshack.us/a/img231/1664/a...gay1880usc.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1353033380668

I like the five little boys sitting on the wooden sidewalk below the sign. -cute
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Claud Beelman, LA architect (1883-1963)
 

John Parkinson, together with his various collaborators, may win top honors as the architect of many of LA's most famous and filmed noir icon buildings, but Claud Beelman runs a close second.

Beelman, born a Buckeye in 1883, had a career that lasted into his seventies. He died in LA in 1963. His architectural style evolved, over his long career, from classically inspired to iconic Art Deco, Streamline Moderne to mid-century modern.

Some highlights:

http://www.cpmusa.com/Images/Buil1.jpg
Commercial Property Management Inc

The Talmadge (1922) A gift from Joseph M. Schenck to his wife, Norma Talmadge. 3278 Wilshire Blvd between Bullock's Wilshire and the Ambassador Hotel. If you need a unit with 4 bdms + maid's, they have one for you.


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Elks' Lodge No. 99 (1923-1924).On Park View St overlooking MacArthur Park. Heavily in demand as a film location.



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The Culver Hotel, Culver City (1924). Billed as Culver City's first skyscraper, the six story building, built on the site of Culver City's first movie theater, was owned by Harry Culver (founder of Culver City) and Charlie Chaplin. It is said that Chaplin lost his share of the hotel to John Wayne in a poker game. Housed the actors during the filming of the Wizard of Oz (and many other MGM films), including, of course, the little people. Has been used as a film location from the start.


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The Roosevelt Building (1926) Seventh & Flower, DTLA. Gives some weight and ominous glamour to the western part of downtown. Outstanding metalwork over the first-floor windows.


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The Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building (1928). On Beverly Blvd between Martel and Vista. Built for Anthony Heinsbergen (1894-1981) who ran his famous business here for 50 years. Dutch-born Heinsbergen contributed murals and other decorations to theaters, hotels, civic buildings etc across the country, including the Beverly-Wilshire, Hollywood Roosevelt, Elks' Lodge No. 99, The Wiltern Theater and City Hall here in LA. As part payment for his work at City Hall Heinsbergen accepted a load of salvaged bricks from old City Hall. They were used to build this slate-roofed, fantasy building. The stone trim includes statuary and gargoyles. The wall along the sidewalk between the doors encloses a koi pond.



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The Eastern Columbia Building (1930). Broadway at 9th. Beelman's universally-loved DTLA masterpiece is often used for location shoots.


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U.S. Post Office, Hollywood Station (1937).1615 Wilcox, between Selma and Hollywood Blvd. Anticipates the Thalberg Building (see below) right down to the plinth-mounted lanterns.


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The Thalberg Building (1938) at MGM (now Sony), Culver City. Louis B. Mayer ran his reign of terror and benevolence from his roost at the top. Thalberg died two years before completion. I sure miss the big "MGM" that used to sit on top of the cantilevered entrance cover. It was integral to the overall design.



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The Don Lee Mutual Broadcasting Building (1948) Vine Street at Fountain, Hollywood. Built specifically for television broadcasting with four large state-of the-art stages. CBS rented half the space. KCET was a tenant from 1964 to 1971. It is now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Pickford Center.


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The Harbor Building (1955). Wilshire at Irving. Built as Getty Oil Headquarters on the site of the old Getty mansion that served as a location for both "Sunset Boulevard" (1959) and "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955). Very similar in detail, materials and fenestration to Occidental Petroleum Headquarters at Wilshire and Westwood and the Standard Hotel (see below), originally built for Superior Oil. Another Getty Building, 3800 Wilshire (at Western) is also related.


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The Standard Hotel / Superior Oil Building (1956). Flower at Sixth, DTLA, directly across from the site of the Richfield Building. Completed when Beelman was 73. Shown to very good effect in the nod-to-noir "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (2005). Many of the Richfield Oil Company employees were stationed here while the Richfield Building was demolished in 1968 until they could move into the new Atlantic Richfield Company building at 5th and Flower in 1972. The Richfield Building was in very good condition when it came down. Charlie Jones, who retired as chairman when R.O. Anderson merged the company with Atlantic Refining, maintained it beautifully. Painters and other maintenance crews were still fulfilling work orders the day before the demolition crews arrived.

Below is another great shot lifted from a 2008 ethereal_reality post (thread page 5). It shows the Superior Oil Building/Standard Hotel going up directly across from the Richfield Building in 1956. Intersection of 6th & Flower looking east down 6th.

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USC digital archive.

There's this from http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoffarth/4609013423/

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I really liked your post GW.
To be honest, I was mortified when Lorimar took down the MGM signs (even though I worked for Lorimar I thought this was a huge mistake).
The gate you posted is actually the east gate facing the Thalburg Building (seen on the left in your last photo).






The old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer main gate was an impressive Corinthian Colonnade facing Washington Boulevard.

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http://rocknjosie.blogspot.com/2011/...s-angeles.html








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below: An extremely early view of the colonnaded gate in 1918 (yes, 1918!)

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http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1353038492210






below: Looking east along Washington Boulevard in 1935.

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http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...chs-m1922.html







below: A screen-grab from a 1925 video/film.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj9m1XEU2zE






...and here's the best part of the post. :)

This almost 100 year old gate has never looked better.

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google street view






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Opposite the gate on the north side of Washington & Jasmine is St. Augustine's Catholic Church.

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google street view

On one of my lunch breaks I noticed limousines lined up along Washington Blvd. in front of St. Augustine's.
That afternoon I learned it was Rita Hayworth's funeral.
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The Oxwood Inn has a most wonderful website- founded in late 60s by a truly impressive woman!

Mgm
 

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old Bunker Hill Steps
 

Yay! Here's a much better pic of the old Bunker Hill Steps, originally posted by ethereal_reality in Feb 2008 back on page 2 for goodness sake. One can't go far wrong using this thread for research. I'd been looking everywhere else with no luck, which was driving me crazy because I KNEW I'd seen this image before.

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(no photo credit on the original post)

The first flight of the steps was within the arches then one emerged though the landing arch to the exposed second flight. The balcony at the top of the steps was a great place to work on one's delusions of grandeur while lording it over the peons below.

The arched and curved glass canopy over the Engstrum's entrance can be seen in this shot too. The small single-family home that was just west of the Engstrum had been demolished by the time this pic was taken. Street-level parking takes its place.

I always loved the Sunkist Building with its shaggy roof gardens. How Sunkist could have moved from such a beautiful place out to the Worlds Ugliest Building in Sherman Oaks is beyond me.

I've got the Hollywood Center Motel on the brain...


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http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5189/rockford2.jpgThe Rockford Files TV Blog
A couple of screencaps from "The Rockford Files" (from a 1976 episode called "The Real Easy Red Dog")



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The Times ran this auction ad on Jan 10, 1954



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The 1914 Baist insurance map shows 6720 close to the center of its block. The street to its left is
now McCadden Pl, which continues north from about in front of #6726; LeMoyne is now Leland Way.
(Hollywood High is on the upper left blue corner at Sunset & Highland.) Below is a 1918 aerial at the
top center of which appears to be 6720 Sunset; although it's really not clear enough to photographic-
ally match the house that sits there today (and actually appears larger somehow), it is in the exact
same spot.

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One last note from ronnierice.com:

"The New Colony Six moved into a duplex at 6720 Sunset Blvd. Paul Revere & The Raiders lived upstairs. Walt Kemp: "We both pulled in about the same time, wearing the same colonial outfits. The only difference was that they had an audition with Dick Clark, which they took good advantage of. We cursed them daily as they went to work – while we sat around the pool unemployed."

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Hol[l]ywood High, Ca., '05
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Hollywood [Union] High, Ca., '10
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Hollywood High, Ca. '22
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HHigh, Ca. '24
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HH, ca., '28 looking NW
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