Apparently it does!.......

And in a quirk of numerical symmetry......you're the 10,000th post!

You win a grocery basket of S&H Green Stamps. ;)

that would bug me if i worked there lol....maybe the cyliders are upside down.They had an antique alley there about 15 yrs ago,and near the entrance was a old restored helms truck,they would let you toot the whistle,and had fake bread and donuts in it,it was a great touch.the stuff in the store was great also,we got my head and footboard there super cheap,they also had a ton of old radio consoles,i was pretty sad when they closed along with the one at farmers market.

and isnt that a nice little pe station in the alan weeks photo.

Nowadays, there's a cute little art piece on the Washington Blvd side that has half a bread truck crashed into the side of the building with bread falling out the back into an Olympic O's shaped pool. I'm actually working in the Beacon Laundry building which is just across the alley, which is now a promenade from Helms.

As for the trash cans, no, you can simply flip them. There's an opening on top (bottom) and the bottom (top) is cemented to a base. I'll post a picture of it tomorrow...

Congrats to all on the thread making it to 10,000 posts+, and more than 500 pages (and to still be here). :cheers:

I started reading from page 1 several months ago, literally every post, and I'm currently up to page 388! I also started reading from a page in the 450's when I first joined the discussion a few weeks ago. The gap is closing!!

There are several buildings I'd like to discuss that I know will fit in great here, but I'll hold my tongue until I get all the way through the thread and make sure they haven't be discussed yet on the 80 or so pages I still have to read...

Hi Arch2000, If you know the name of a building or simply its street you can search this thread easily--as long as you are logged in. When logged in you can see a "search this thread" box up near the top-right edge of the page. You do not need to read the entire thread before posting. A little duplication is not a sin.

Train Tunnel Follow Up
 

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This is taken at the south entrance of the tunnel looking north
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Again looking north, just inside the tunnel. The white spot seen in the distance is the north mouth of the tunnel
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Just as I was leaving and about half-way up the embankment, a train came by. I wasn't in the best position, but was able to snap it as it entered the tunnel
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Fantastic shots, Frank. Right down on the tracks.

Thanks G_W it was fun. The Santa Anna's are blowing today, so it was a perfect Fall day

I certainly wasn't expecting this. 1875/1920 in the shadow of four levels of freeway.

posted by Mayor Shaw
http://imageshack.us/a/img51/3547/aabtunnel.jpg

Thanks for traipsing down there....it's much appreciated. :)

Man, do I miss the Santa Anna's.
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I found this photo on an old cd of mine.

http://imageshack.us/a/img545/6186/k...andaveradi.jpg

I googled it and referenced it back to this site. http://www.radiocityhollywood.com/




below: The building still stands at 1440 North Highland Avenue.

http://imageshack.us/a/img812/7666/aabkecatoday.jpg
google street view

Does anyone know the original purpose of this building...even before it's KECA days?
Could it possibly have been a fire station? (note the three arched doors fronting the street)
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I found this photograph on ebay several years ago. The only information is Los Angeles.

http://imageshack.us/a/img411/3295/s...ngelesebay.jpg





below: There appears to be a pastoral mural, or sign, between the windows on the facade.

http://imageshack.us/a/img821/6866/signsl1detail.jpg




below: There's one on the right side as well. (to me it looks like a tranquil pond with trees)

http://imageshack.us/a/img545/2733/signsl1a.jpg

above: I can't quite make out the street numbers. Is it 1033...1053....or perhaps 1055? I can't quite make it out.

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The Hotel Van Nuys, Main Street Los Angeles. I found this on ebay just this week.

http://imageshack.us/a/img37/4751/aabvannuys1896.jpg
ebay

The mystery is: What is this small 'museum' that appears in the lower left hand corner??







I can't quite make out this sign.

http://imageshack.us/a/img195/5396/aabebay1896.jpg
detail/ebay

above: Notice the small boy on his bicycle..lower right.
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:previous: I think that sign reads Curios. We are looking at it from the backside, reading right to left

The 1915 City Directory shows the Dromgold-Schroeder Co. at 1033 S. Los Angeles:

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1033 South Los Angeles today:

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And it appears a small sign on the fascia (at the left) says (c)urio store.

When I see this I don't think of balmy Santa Ana's, I think of how cold it was on that freight train I hopped one night out of the north end of the LA freight yard. When I went under this sign and into that tunnel it was about 11:00 PM on a moonless night. My buddy Rick and I were huddled behind the wheels of a semi trailer on a flatbed rail car. We thought we were catching a freight up to Santa Barbara, but woo-hoo we were on our way across the mountains and up to Bakersfield. If you want noire it's hard to beat freight yards. The Bakersfield yard at 4 AM was particularly hard to beat.

Event: George Mann's Lost Los Angeles (LAPL, 11/14/12, free)
 

On November 14, LAVA – The Los Angeles Visionaries Association and the On Bunker Hill time travel blog in association with the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and Photo Friends present George Mann’s Lost Los Angeles, a celebration of a newly-discovered treasure trove of mid-century photographs captured by the one-time Vaudeville dance sensation, and projected for the first time tonight in stunning 3-D Kodachrome. Join us as historians Richard Schave (Esotouric) and Nathan Marsak (On Bunker Hill) contextualize the places, 3-D experts Susan Pinsky and David Starkman (Reel 3-D) demystify the format’s history and technology, and Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison takes us on a virtual tour of his beloved neighborhood.

http://lavatransforms.org/sites/defa...ar/BH112-S.jpg

For more info on this free event, visit the LAVA website:
http://lavatransforms.org/mann3d

I thought this was an excerpt from a Raymond Chandler novel. It isn't.....is it?
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ER: The building seems to have been built as the block-long Knights of Columbus hall in the late '20s. The KoC hall had the address of 1441 N McCadden; I couldn't find much ready info on the the Highland end, but perhaps it was a theater. KECA seems to have become KABC in 1954; other tenants included Frank Flynn's insurance company and a business school. Lately, it's been home to studios for various creative pursuits.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...2520PM.bmp.jpgLos Angeles Times July 29, 1956

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-F...2520PM.bmp.jpgLos Angeles Times June 10, 1936

Frank Flynn's operations seem to have also occupied the addresses between KECA and the little building down the street, which is also still there:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle SV

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL

This design of this ad from the 1932 city directory caught my eye a while back. I just noticed that the Neuner Corp was right next door to the "tongue depressor" building you posted not long ago, ER.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9...7nobord175.jpg

When I looked into ER's thought that the Knights of Columbus/KECA buiding on Highland might have once been a fire station, I came across this 1926 shot of Engine Co. 17, which still stands at 710 South Santa Fe Ave, right across, as it turns out, from the side of the old Ford Motor Co plant (see this old post).

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV


What intrigued me more than the fire station was the Heinz building next door, which also still stands (and was obviously built before the fire station, since it had lettering on its north side). The lettering on the facades--the two lower parts of the front, at least--appears to have been etched into the brickwork. You can see "shadows" of this signage in current views. The letters have been filled in, presumably when the seismic rods and plates were installed.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520PM.bmp.jpgBing

:previous: Great posts GW.

Thanks for the information on the old KECA studios. I like that you noticed that little building down the street.
To me it has the same look and feel of the buildings up in the Sunset Plaza/Boulevard area. I wonder who the architect was.

I really like that old HEINZ building as well. Interesting detail about the 'filled' in letters.
I mean, come on..the lettering was actually carved INTO the building...that was their first clue to leave it alone. -They didn't.
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GaylordWilshire, this looks like your type of place.

http://imageshack.us/a/img4/5048/aaf...sadenahuge.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...chs-m6096.html

I wasn't even aware of this place until I came across this photograph.
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:previous:

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/145...lacead1903.jpg[/IMG] Pasadena Star, 1903



I guess I do have a thing for old gated streets... There's not a lot of info on Ford Place; it seems to have been developed soon after the turn of the 20th century; streets were renamed, and later it basically became the campus of the Fuller Theological Seminary. Herkimer Street on this map is now Union; the roadways of Ford Place itself have been altered and renamed as seen in the map below. Quite a few of the development's original houses appear to survive as part of Fuller.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e...altfuller3.jpgFuller Theological Seminary

I remember that the E-W remnant of Ford Place ran you into Fuller Seminary...a place I avoided like it was filled with consumptives. I may have cut through there on my bike. I lived a few blocks due south from there.

My dad was a great admirer of Raymond Chandler and modeled his (unpublished) detective novel in a Chandleresque style. My freight hopping experiments were in the late 60's and quite real. I was trying to recall whether I was packing heat at the time. I don't think I wanted to risk losing one of my more valuable pieces so I think I was just carrying my old .22 zip gun as a throw-away. I was certainly carrying a switchblade. A freight train can be a dangerous place.

:previous: Is your father's unpublished detective novel set in Los Angeles?
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Hello All,

I happened upon this site and forum just a few days ago and am enthralled. I live in West Los Angeles and have been here, since 1980 (college) and "full time" since 1985. I love the Then and Now photos- trying to locate amazing architecture that has survived, in various forms, and eluded the wrecking ball.

Here are a couple that I tripped across.. those of the Dicksborough Apts located on Beverly Blvd, on the corner of N. Berendo. The first image is from 1929:

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-BUI-085?v=hr
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...ner-m2655.html

http://i1355.photobucket.com/albums/...cksborough.jpg
https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-...ed=0CCAQ8gEwAA

Anyone have an overview map of the DOWNTOWN area with the streetcar lines? Like, it shows the streets, and the rails for the streetcars.

A shot looking at the Heinz building and Fire station. I read that the Heinz building has been leased for use as a restaurant space. It is interesting to note how the roof lines of both buildings have been truncated. The fire house had what looks to be 2 interesting cornice pieces (gone) and the top portion of the Heinz building, where the name HEINZ was located, was also sheered off, at the common roof line, for some reason. Truly a shame.

http://www.loopnet.com/xnet/mainsite...Original=False

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17298...os-Angeles-CA/

Welcome to the thread spitfire80! Very interesting before and after. :)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Noir

A new TV series to tickle our taste buds????

Made by Frank Darabont of Shawshank and Walking Dead fame

Based on John Buntins great book

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

Sign me up!!!

Where else, but LA. I remember it started with the hero driving down Riverside Drive (I think around Burbank) and wondering when he had picked up a bullet hole in his wind wing. I don't know if any copies survived. I last saw it in the mid-60s. I think I was looking at an unbound proof on carbon paper. He probably wrote it in the mid-50s. His only published novel (an historical intrigue) came out after that.

Alexandria Hotel sealed wing update in today's LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/business/real...,5899510.story

http://www.trbimg.com/img-508c7e7e/t...g-20121027/600
Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times / September 13, 2012

Bummer...can't read the story since I exceeded my limits of viewing the LA Times.:hell:

"Become a member to keep on reading.
You reached your limit of free articles over the last 30 days."

Thanks for including the article!!!!

That article on the Alexandria 'wing' is sooo interesting. Thx for posting it Lwize.


Just a reminder of the opulence of the mighty Alexandria (amid all that grandeur is a porcelain spittoon).

http://imageshack.us/a/img593/1230/aabalex.jpg
http://www.homerlea.org/photoarchives5.htm

above: I'd like to see the light at the end of that chain at far right (obviously it's down in the lobby). Lobby pic anyone?





The magnificent stained glass in Palm Court (still in place in the old Alexandria ballroom)

http://imageshack.us/a/img820/5382/aabalexpalmcourt.jpg
http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...ria-hotel.html
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So I shot a couple afters to go with these photos:
http://www.pacificelectric.org/wp-co...e-Helms194.jpg
Alan Weeks Collection

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8472/8...62e96731_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8468/8...b27c77f4_b.jpg
Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8054/8...5ee3588d_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7...7b47ae1ce4.jpg

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4064/4...b3db34c2_o.jpg
Jack Snell

The offending upside down trashcans:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8327/8...507a2c72_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8476/8...84e48805_b.jpg

the cute art piece on Washington Blvd:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8334/8...335580e4_b.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8051/8...103bcd9a_b.jpg



The new promenade:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8472/8...1dcbac48_b.jpg

:previous: Great post KevinW.
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A little blurb about the Wich Stand we discussed a few weeks ago. It cost $192,000!!?!
The Broom Room was much larger than I expected (seating for 58).

http://imageshack.us/a/img577/8301/a...standblurb.jpg
latimesblog

Here's a link to Silverlaker's excellent post (complete with photos)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...97#post5867397
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Zip gun? Switchblade? Damn, you were bad to the bone. Was that standard baggage for a young man from Pasadena in that period? Probably not. I'd be fascinated to hear more about hopping freights from the LA freight yards. I always had daydreams about riding the rails, but I chickened out on my one attempt to hop a freight back in the late 1950's.

Found on ebay. Wilshire Boulevard winding through Westlake (MacArthur) Park.

http://imageshack.us/a/img203/295/ebayviewwestlake.jpg

There are quite a few noteworthy buildings in this panoramic scene...from the art deco tower of Bullocks Wilshire at far left to the magnificent
Elks Club Building at far right.


http://imageshack.us/a/img26/1807/aa...lkslodge99.jpg
postcard/ebay

Built in 1925 by the Elks to be used as lodge number 99. The building, in Neo-Gothic style, was created by renowned
architect Claud Beelman. The pool area hosted many indoor swimming events during the 1932 Olympics.



Today, the building survives as the Park Plaza Hotel.

http://imageshack.us/a/img802/6587/aabmacarthur.jpg
google street view
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Here are some of the dramatic interior spaces in the old Elks Club building.

http://imageshack.us/a/img685/9416/aabelks1d.jpg




http://imageshack.us/a/img801/2839/aabelks1.jpg




http://imageshack.us/a/img5/5617/aabelks1a.jpg




http://imageshack.us/a/img685/5147/aabelks1b.jpg




http://imageshack.us/a/img411/2125/aabelks1g.jpg




The wood inlaid design on the columns is amazing.

http://imageshack.us/a/img87/1852/aabelks1h.jpg




http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4340/aabelks1e.jpg




A beautiful wooden bar in the corner of the room shown above.

http://imageshack.us/a/img23/949/aabelkssmbar.jpg
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View these 360degree photographs in motion at
http://tour.circlepix.com/tour/Nitro...?tourId=306358
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Fire station No.28 at 644 S. Figueroa.

http://imageshack.us/a/img856/706/fi...644sfuguer.jpg
google street view



http://imageshack.us/a/img72/4418/fi...644sfiguer.jpg
ebay
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I didn't know the Laemmle Building had skylights until I came across this photograph on ebay.

http://imageshack.us/a/img339/2282/h...skylighton.jpg
Hollywood & Vine/ebay

The Laemmle Building was home to Coco Tree...Melody Lane...and Hody's...among others.



http://imageshack.us/a/img694/1425/aabe1hodyhoe.jpg
http://allanellenberger.com/tag/laemmle-building/


http://imageshack.us/a/img502/2241/aabe1hodytall.jpg
http://gogonotes.blogspot.com/2009/0...wood-hojo.html



The Laemmle Building was destroyed in a dramatic fire on April 30th 2008.

http://imageshack.us/a/img31/8423/aabe1hodyburns.jpg
http://allanellenberger.com/category/vine/
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A beautiful business card, circa 1910.

http://imageshack.us/a/img811/8062/a...rdteacoffe.jpg
ebay
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I wonder if the Top Ten building could be the location. The numbering changes here...building on left is 352 while the Top Ten Building is 372-376.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8195/8...f0aa7c8b_b.jpgGE

Sexy Yoga Butt Massage??

100 Years Ago Today
 

There were those gunning for Bunker Hill way before the Community Redevelopment Agency... As I pass time in NYC during the hurricane...power still on... I discovered that the Los Angeles Times had this to say about the epicenter of noir on October 29, 1912:


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...2520AM.bmp.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7...2520AM.bmp.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-n...2520AM.bmp.jpg

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Sorry about the fuzzy parts--it came to me that way.

List of star's homes with their exact addresses. Date unknown, but judging by the stars this is your grandparent's list.

http://imageshack.us/a/img502/1213/a...starshomes.jpg
ebay
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I was at Helms on Saturday furniture shopping.
At Buttercup, there was a great divide between my perception of the cost of the furniture and the reality. For example, a nice fabric-covered chair looked like $500 but had a price tag of $1,700! Everything I encountered seemed to be 2-4x as expensive as I believed. I even encountered a small $20-value throw pillow with a $119 price tag.
I made no purchases. :(

I didn't realize Eagle Rock was so HUGE until I came across this postcard with climbers on top.

http://imageshack.us/a/img96/7120/pc...klookshuge.jpg
ebay
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Stay safe GaylordWilshire. Don't walk under that dangling crane over on W. 57th Street.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3345
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I was going to search an item tonight and noticed the 'search this thread' option is missing.
http://imageshack.us/a/img341/326/aabsearchmissing.jpg
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*Nevermind, I opened a new page and it's there again. :)




...here's a cool postcard. Look down the aisle and notice the passengers on the first level. That dome is high!

http://imageshack.us/a/img23/5699/pcdomeliner1950.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img845/5596/pcdomeliner1950r.jpg
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