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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6421633]Garden of Allah Guest Book, 166 pages, 1942. (not meant to leave the premises)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/513/uqyt.jpg ER - I keep looking at this page of the Garden of Allah Guest Book you posted and wondering if the girl in the photo could be Jean Spangler. She did work at the Florentine Gardens back then. https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/39...0/854/2fne.jpg http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...-spangler.html Kind of creepy if it was. |
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I've always assumed the old entrance was given some place of honor after the 1970s building was put up. I never would have thought it was demolished. I know I've said it before, but people back in the 60s and 70s just had no sense of historic preservation. I'm a 1967 graduate of LA High and remembered the old entrance being placed near the B Field on the west side of the school. ____________ |
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Looking up Main from the 800-block split. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3780/1...75afa458_b.jpg How could the noirish crowd not be particularly fond of the Chandler? Note as well the California Theater. Demo'd in '89, now the site of a mysteriously zebra-striped building: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3776/1...3ffed238_o.gif A shot of folk under the California Theater marquee: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5481/1...304a3e92_b.jpg And on the sidewalk a couple doors north: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5499/1...765109a3_b.jpg I became curious by the Hotel Senator, which seemed to be there (next to its pal The Dewey) in name and spirit, but didn't match in massing -- http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2843/1...b356d387_c.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2870/1...433cf308_o.giflapl But I figured it out: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5546/1...c654617f_c.jpgkfa And a couple pix of old Glendale from the same collection of negatives: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3669/1...39c19ed2_b.jpg Jeremiah Johnson on the big screen, which pegs these as probably early '73. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5527/1...647cc586_o.gif http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5511/1...d02f2d90_o.gif Looking down Wilson toward Orange. Nothing on the left remains, it's an open pit. The important, intact and amazing 1939/41 streamline moderne Alexander's Market by Stiles Clements is just across the street from that pit and it too IS BEING TORN DOWN. Because Glendale is stupid. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5540/1...88e0c762_o.gif |
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http://imageshack.com/a/img811/5371/iybn.jpg Glendale had better leave this house alone. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3403 |
I know a gaggle of folk with some serious Glendale Pride -- it was voted Curbed's "Neighborhood of the Year" after all -- so I trust my impudence in stating "Glendale is stupid" will be taken in view of the righteous pique duly accorded the demolition of a Stiles Clements. Further Glendale preservation issues discussed here.
God bless Glendale -- it's always had a noir shadow side -- but it will have less of one with the twenty-one new (uninspired) developments adding nearly 4,000 units and the traffic that goes with it. Anyway. Now I feel like I should toss some Glendale into the mix just to keep the peace! http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7324/1...8aeda19c_b.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3749/1...a16dca5b_b.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3721/1...89abbb39_b.jpg Below, Sarmiento's GFS. Now THAT was a preservation fight. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7318/1...5238a467_b.jpg |
Couple more random things. I've got a bunch more if people are interested in the area.
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original Los Angeles Times, Dec 15, 1899 Higgins had bought the property early in the year: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1899 An undated shot of the Bivouac I don't think we've seen here before: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original California State Library -- http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf929012f2/?order=1 Before Otis decamped to the Bivouac, he lived at 1948 S. Grand, which I don't think we've seen here before either (I looked, anyhow): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/4056/rec/51 Getting back up to Wilshire Blvd., I know we've discussed street lights there and also elsewhere before, but, again, I don't recall seeing this one at the corner of Wilshire and Something, photographed November 7, 1914: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/14771/rec/59 |
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Wilshire and Windsor: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=14583 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-S...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV |
9441 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original California State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IXA924KTPG.jpg March 2011: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original GSV That's Sterling Plaza as in Donald T. Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers (and a lot of buildings around town). |
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I thought the same thing when I saw the pic, and now that I really study it, I'm sure you're absolutely correct. You would have to have one at Go and the other at Stop: you can only make the right turn from "Upper Fifth" (where Hope loops around the Engstrum atop the retaining wall) and because of the jog in the street between you and the continuance of Fifth -- with the Biltmore Garage staring you in the face -- there's no way you could make the turn in the path of all the oncoming traffic. And that's four lanes of one-way traffic coming at you westbound on Fifth (it was made a one-way in Oct '47). I think what they were trying to say is, look, here's a guy who's pulled his fastback too far into the intersection and he's going to look at the semaphore across the street for his direction? The title of the article should be Don't Pull Too Far Into the Intersection. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5549/1...be25006c_o.png Aerial view of the area -- note the retaining wall under construction, which dates the picture to the Spring of 1930. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3674/1...ed89d2a2_b.jpgUSCdl More images of said retaining wall here and here ...I did a little more digging into the retaining wall (so to speak) and discovered that it was designed by none other than the great Carleton Monroe Winslow, who, although Goodhue is generally known as the architect of the Central Library, Winslow had a mighty hand in its completion. As such, Winslow purposely conceived the wall's severe pilasters, arches and clean Egypto-Deco lines to complement the library across the street. I always thought it was a particularly effective and handsome structure; more's the pity it lasted just until the time -- early 1980s -- it could become appreciated. One bit of it survives, of course -- I suppose most people think it's part of the Edison Bldg and thus was drafted by the hands of Allison & Allison. Ha! http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3683/1...8be53db5_o.gif |
Short but flaming hot life.
Here's Rudolph Valentino's Isotta Fraschini town car. The car had black leather upholstery and inlaid walnut interior trim. Sounds kinda noirish to me. He was born in Italy so the car fits as the car was also born in Italy.
Below [right] he's done up for some silent Hollywood film. Maybe a bit excessive but then maybe not. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psa5ba9999.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps2bc0b8a6.jpg Studio publicity An earlier post: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1195 |
Pacific Ocean Parks ruins
I also looked for this photo on NLA and didn't find it (between the less-than-robust search function here, and the fact that after almost 1,000 pages most of the "low-hanging fruit" is gone, I'm getting afraid to post photos for fear they're repeats). Anyway, USC dates this 1960-79; my guess would be c. 1974.
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../25560/rec/149 Here is closed Pacific Ocean Park in 1972; the rusty tower is the same as in the b/w photo: http://www.californiacoastline.org/c...gs=0&year=1972 More POP photos here: http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...ent_Parks.html |
"Not one of those cheap new things made of chromium and spit, an Isotta-Fraschini. Have you ever heard of Isotta-Fraschini? All handmade. Cost me $28,000...."
A few more shots of Valentino's I-F... jet-black with highly polished aluminum hood. His friend Nita Naldi also seen posing with the car. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L...2520AM.bmp.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-l...2520AM.bmp.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-P...2520AM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520AM.bmp.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520AM.bmp.jpg rudolph-valentino.com/ |
It's nice to see the Edison Building here again. I recently stumbled upon a great collection at the Huntington Digital Library documenting the building's construction, taken by G. Haven Bishop. I don't recall having seen these here before. I'll just share a small subset of them, but the rest of the collection is fantastic too.
Before construction. Photo credit: G. Haven Bishop, Huntington Digital Library http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/u...t/793/rotate/0 No retaining wall yet. Photo credit: G. Haven Bishop, Huntington Digital Library http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/u...21926/rotate/0 The intersection of 5th and Grand after the project's completion. Photo credit: G. Haven Bishop, Huntington Digital Library http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/u...51678/rotate/0 Thank you again to Beaudry for the last Gendale post. I had never heard of the Glendane Federal Savings building until now. What a beauty! I know I don't post in this thread too often nowadays, but I'm happy to see it going strong! :cheers: |
Good Old Gardena ...
... a nourish town if ever there was one.
http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/LANoir/Colony.jpg From burleskateer: http://http://25.media.tumblr.com/e8...r9io1_1280.jpg Cheers, Earl |
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Have wanted to ask, would anyone do a google streetview of 10086 Sunset Blvd. and post a photo of that? (Or aerial, too?) For those that do not know, it's the address where Norma Desmond lives on Sunset Blvd. I know there is no actual building at that address, at least now. Near as I can tell from travelling by that area on Sunset before is that there is some kind of roadway looking path there that looks like something might have been there once, but it's in a curved and sloped section that is totally not conducive to slowing down and/or stopping for a look; it'd be rather dangerous in my opinion. But it would be interesting to see, don't you think? |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV As you can seen, GSV places 10086 opposite Carolwood Drive. I think I've read that the actual driveway used in the movie was that of Judy Garland and Vincent Minelli, but I don't know if their address was 10086 Sunset. The street-level GSV was taken at dusk and is very hard to make out.... Of course, the house used in the film was this one: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P9alfi05UR...inginprog2.jpg http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...lease-see.html |
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:previous: This appears to be LA's first Gasometers. Per the DWP site, they were built in 1867, some three years before the Pico House and the Merced. Quote:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...pot_-_1875.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...pot_-_1875.png 1877 - Independence RR Terminal - The Independence RR was short lived. On July 4, 1877 it was acquired by the Southern Pacific RR. (Feel those Santa Ana's!) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...X9RXN89MBT.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...X9RXN89MBT.jpg |
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I always thought that scene was filmed at the old warners theatre...you learn something everyday |
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