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I thought it interesting that all but three in the photo had sour expressions on their faces as if someone had just announced the evening meal would consist of boiled Okra and baked Road Kill. We know it was evening because all the windows indicate it's dark as pitch outside. |
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------------ The picture below comes from a USC set titled: Series of pictures for lantern slides, at Southern Pacific depot, Los Angeles, CA, 1927. The camera is on South Central Avenue, looking south toward 6th Street. Apart from the Terminal Market warehouses in the distance on the left, everything has now gone. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library Checking the 1927 CD, the Barber Shop in the center appears to be H C Gordon. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ntralAvCD1.jpg rescarta.lapl.org I'm intrigued by the cab driver's expression - is he just posing for the camera, or is he getting impatient because he's had to wait for the picture to be taken?. The cab itself looks quite dark for a Yellow Cab Co. vehicle, but maybe that's just in comparison to the Gray Line cab on the right of the main picture. The phone number here is DUnkirk 50-50 rather than the more familiar MAdison 1234. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Detail of picture above. On the left of the photo above are the New Orleans Hotel and Grand Sheet Metal Mfg Co. Here are their 1927 CD entries: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ntralAvCD2.jpg rescarta.lapl.org |
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Contracts, Seller, Deed, Broker, Agents Authority, Sales, and Deposit. Maybe this is a class on real estate law. Could these people be real estate agents or lawyers or both? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps0a66654d.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psb87d09e1.jpg Huntington Library collection |
This looks like a George Wesley Bellows painting, though I'm sure it isn't. He would have been too young.
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You might be right, W-W...some models/series of mid-50s Studes have a slightly visor-like framing to their windshields...as do 55/56 Chryslers and DeSotos. The three makes even share a similar angle to A-pillars.... What pushes me toward believing it's a Chrysler product is what appears to be a slightly peaked chrome headlight rim...the Studes' rims are chrome but rounded. The detail of the wiper pivots on the car on the ferry appears to be Cryco....and also on the ferry car's cowl I am detecting the characteristic retractable air intake of Chrysler products, while, of course, a characteristic of Studes was their fender-scoop intakes. Studes and Chryslers both had the elaborate hood ornaments of the era, not seen in the ferry shot.... ok, ok, before anyone cries uncle, I'll stop. Just trying to make my case... No one could actually be reading down this far, could they? https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s...2520PM.bmp.jpg 1956 DeSoto https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-f...2520PM.bmp.jpg 1955 Studebaker |
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Despite its downbeat name and checkered history, its infamy among Japanese-Americans and its industrial uses--Terminal Island was once a resort rivaling Catalina, as some of your pictures show, Godzilla. Bralys and Woolwines, among others, owned summer houses on the island: http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspo...histories.html |
The Beacon beckons. Get laundry here. Get laundry dirty, next post. If you survive, get clothes laundered again.
Beacon Laundry - 9134 Wilshire Boulevard, BH. (Gone!) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085731.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085731.jpg |
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Good points. I am guessing that by the time the prison was constructed in the late '30s the likes of the Bralys and Woolines were very far and few between. The random images neglect to depict all of the island's history, including shipbuilding, fishing and canning. I was unaware that the Federal prison had its own colorful history, having been both a Federal (including military) and State facility, as well as a mental hospital. http://wonderland1981.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/happy-54th-birthday-barbara-richardson/ Notorious San Pedro video: "Beacon Street was the toughest four blocks in the world." http://vimeo.com/25152402 Per the narrative, RattleSnake Island became Terminal Island in 1918. The name "Terminal" may have been the Rail Road's unimaginative moniker as the obvious end of the line. 1900-1910 Beacon Street. Sepulveda Bldg. http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...AQTFBNGBU9.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...AQTFBNGBU9.jpg 1910 - Beacon Street, San Pedro http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics35/00037183.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics35/00037183.jpg 1910 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...LKJRH7HQQC.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...LKJRH7HQQC.jpg 1970 - Beacon Street, San Pedro http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics39/00039127.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics39/00039127.jpg 1970 More Beacon http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032606.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032606.jpg 1971 - Last glimpse http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...M4FUCVXYN4.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...M4FUCVXYN4.jpg 1971 - Demolition http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...A8XMRR7UJ8.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...A8XMRR7UJ8.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...9XPTTV8JN3.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...9XPTTV8JN3.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...JAMD14J4QR.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...JAMD14J4QR.jpg Prior Beacon Street references: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=4810187&postcount=1098; http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=16724 http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=16732 |
https://8b95b2b2-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites....attredirects=0 This is my grandmother in 1925. The caption says "In front of Mary Pickford's house"
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I tried the short version here but still no luck: https://8b95b2b2-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites....pi/scan347.jpg Everyone else, if you can't see the pic just use the quote link for her post or mine to get the URL. It's a nice pic! |
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7441/1...a7207f6b_o.gif http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7443/1...929f1a11_o.gifhuntington Everybody loves the Edison Bldg but who remembers its contemporary annex at 432 S Hope, also by Allison & Allison? That a major Art Deco work of theirs was allowed to be demolished is kind of shocking. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7444/1...7c6e7091_o.gifhuntington http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7294/1...5a3c40ce_o.gifhuntington Station 42 at 428 S Hope was an early-20s branch powerhouse for Los Angeles Gas & Electric, purchased by the Bureau of Power and Light in 1937, and later as a distributing station for the DWP a lot of its load was taken over by the 1957 construction of the underground station at Temple between Broadway and Hill. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5471/1...2030f1d4_o.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7306/1...8035de2a_o.jpgdwp We know it existed at least through 1977, as it was at the end of that year the papers noted its leaky roof resulted in a sixteen-minute blackout downtown. http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2876/1...cd3b4ca5_o.pngGSV Station 42 is now about where "Hope Place" starts. The only recognizable imagery is the library peeking through foliage in both shots. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...PsDTLA0216.jpg MGM TV/Rosner TV Both buildings also seem to be present in this aerial shot from 1980 which I posted last year (the red box surrounds the Engstrum). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAEngstrum.jpg Historic Aerials |
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Well, it's not Pickfair... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j....bmp.jpg?gl=USLAPL http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070677.jpgLAPL https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-F....bmp.jpg?gl=USdavelandweb.com https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K....bmp.jpg?gl=UScredit link As seen with its original gates--perhaps put in by the original owner, attorney Lee Allen Phillips (story here). https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H....bmp.jpg?gl=USGSV May 2011 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X....bmp.jpg?gl=USGSV May 2011 The matching back gate, and below, the not-very-attractive now-primary entrance to the late Pickfair https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k....bmp.jpg?gl=USGSV May 2011 From the air, the neighborhood of Pickfair looks about as exclusive as Levittown these days https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v....bmp.jpg?gl=USGSV Could we nevertheless have Pia's head on a pike? You know, the Golden Globe best-actress winner of of 1952? |
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As a side note, I have come to the conclusion the room is on the second level and on the left side if one is looking at a front elevation of the building. Conclusion arrived at on the basis of the windows we could see in the first photo seem to follow the outside shape at that point. I'm also thinking that some of the "fixtures" that appear to be without light bulbs may actually be sprinkler heads. |
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The USS Texas was the last of the Dreadnaught class of Battleships in the Navy and had the unique distinction of having served in both WWI and WWII in both the European and Pacific theaters. Having in the early 1930s been the "Flagship Vessel" of the Navy she enjoyed many firsts as the Navy geared up to more modern times. The Texas was decommissioned in April of 1948 after 34 years of service. She is now located in San Jacinto State Park in the Houston metro area. I had the privilege of touring her pretty much as she was on decommissioning. Anyone who is interested in her unique history can go to http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-pa...ttleship-texas and http://www.usstexasbb35.com/ For those who venture to the second link the spire seen in the background is the San Jacinto Monument, erected 1936 as tribute the location where Texas won its independence from Mexico in 1836. Our next door neighbor was the mason that constructed the 34 foot high Star atop the 570 foot tall Obelisk. It is the tallest stone memorial monument in the world and is 15 feet taller than the Washington Monument. https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...jY8I4uZEIeI4zw http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-pa...-site-monument |
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