More of the same?


1908
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1925
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1929
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Edit - January 1935 (per source) (Ante widening)
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Edit - September 1937 (per source) (Post widening)
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Pandora looking north at Santa Monica Blvd.
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Similar view, January 1935, south of Sunset Blvd.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/4317/rec/1




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Currie's (6775 Sunset Blvd.)
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The Stonehaven
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Similar view before clipping the sidewalks to expand the roadway. :previous:.
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The brick building at the top of the hill with the billboard is still there. It has a pizza place at street level.

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(GSV, hosted by me)

I live a few blocks West of there.

Yes...thanks for posting it...where the heck did you discover that?

I managed to find this one.

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GSV

Here is the Texaco Building on Wilshire. It's almost directly opposite the Langdon and Wilson Offices I posted pictures of last week in post #34761. This is Julius Shulman's "Job 2407: Welton Becket and Associates, Texaco, inc. Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1957, 1958".

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And here's the building from the other side.

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I've kept this detail of the image above at full resolution to show the piano shop which I previously posted about in post #17969.

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This shot was taken from the lawn of The Ambassador Hotel. Just to the right of the palm tree is the roof sign for the Mona Lisa Restaurant.

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Moving over to Catalina Street, we get to see the parking garage behind the main building. Unsurprisingly, it had its own gas pumps.

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Here's a more arty angle showing the exit of the parking garage.

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The photoset includes three interior shots. The first shows the entrance.

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This office has a good view of the church and the Talmadge.

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And to finish the Shulman pictures, a room full of IBM Card Punch machines.

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All from Getty Research Institute

I decided to do my "now" picture from Catalina Street. The gas pumps have gone, but the rest of the building looks much the same.

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GSV

Los Angeles LUNCH TIME.....
Burritos, tacos, tamales....mmmm good.!!!

2121 N. San Fernando Road
 

Hi All

Last week, my wife and I visited the L.A. Zoo for the first time in ages. The I-5was way backed up, so I got off the freeway and went up San Fernando Rd. We passed a cool little building at 2121 N. San Fernando Rd, with a very nice Art Deco bas-relief band of various transportation modes of an era gone by--dirigibles, trains, etc. I took a screen shot from Goggle Earth and copied it to Flickr, but that's as far as I can get. Anyone know anything about this little gem?

Tim, I have photos of this building from the 1970's. Might take me a day or to to find them and look for a name. Meanwhile, perhaps some of the other folks her on NLA can help.

Cheers,
Jack

Here is part of the bas-relief. Nice to still see it.
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GSV

:previous:

We've seen 2121 N San Fernando Road a couple of times before. It was originally built for the Hemphill Diesel Engineering Schools, and later used as a pressing plant for Capitol Records. There are lots of pictures in e_r's post #13288, and a nice shot of the whole front (below) in post #24471 by ConstructDTLA.

What was there...

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Marco Hellman's bank-like house-- more here: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html

These are early (ca. 1949) IBM 024 or 026 keypunches with the numeric-only (adding machine style) keypads. The machines looked the same but the 026 printed on the card.

This picture shows the operation of the machine clearly:

http://www.bitsmasherpress.com/Downloads/026.jpg

unca.edu

Blank cards were loaded in the hopper in the upper right, fed from right to left under the 12 vertical punches inside the shiny bar, and then moved to the output hopper in the upper left. The machine at the left foreground in the Shulman picture has its little door open exposing the "program card." This was wrapped around a drum and the punches in it controlled things like jumping to the next field or duplicating a field from the previous card.

The vertical black objects on some of the tables appear to be some kind of card holder that I have never seen before.

IBM cards were very useful objects to have around. They were exactly 0.01 inches thick, which made them useful for shims, a nice size for pocket notes and bookmarks, and very water and fire resistant. The latter meant that destroying cards with classified information on them required special equipment. A common Christmas decoration in those days was a "wreath" made from IBM cards rolled into cones and glued in a circle.

IBM assigned a part number to the card (5081) and called them a part of the machine, like the screws and gears. This meant you had to buy your cards from IBM, a restriction that was struck down in an antitrust settlement in the 50's.

I spent many an hour at 026's at school and in the Air Force and believe me, those suckers were LOUD. The noise in that room must have been horrendous during working hours.

Cheers,

Earl

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From this restaurant site: https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory...alling/page/2/

Thanks, HossC. I always wondered who the original owner was.


Cheers,
Jack