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At first I was going to smart off...but now I'm beginning to see a possible newspaper as well CBD. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/v0pHtP.jpg Here are a few more snapshots of people posing by the same car. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/LYdayT.jpg Easter 1931 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/G470Lb.jpg The same seller also had this snapshot on ebay. ( a few months ago...along with the photographs shown above) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/VAc2Zu.jpg |
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I know we've discussd this strange place in the past, but I'm not sure if we ever figured out the location. (I'll have to check the old posts) . |
Initially I thought this was one of the Pneumonic Plague photographs' that someone is selling reprints of on Ebay.
But this one is an original print. (creases and all) "RAT CATCHERS 1920 photograph CITY OF LOS ANGELES HEALTH DEPARTMENT Badges CAGES Dead Rats" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/PXXwjf.jpg EBAY SELLER'S DESCRIPTION: "One original old photograph. Looks like the whole team showed up for this one. Some are wearing badges. One can easily read a can at right that states 'HEALTH DEPARTMENT CITY OF LOS ANGELES STATE OF CALIFORNIA'. Guy kneeling at left appears to be hiding and does not want to be seen. Dead rats are placed about." HERE |
According to information found on https://playingintheworldgame.com/20...hoot-i-scream/
"The cafe was built at 1201 Valley Boulevard, Rosemead, CA and stayed there from around 1926-1928. The land was sold to a new owner, and the building relocated to 8404 Long Beach Boulevard, three blocks away. Information from the South Gate Directory, dated July 1st, 1945, shows the building at this address from 1928 – 1949. It relocated again in 1949 to 8711 Long Beach Boulevard, and remained there until its demolition in 1979." Here's how it looked in 1977. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4577/...dc4ca16a_b.jpgHoot Owl Cafe, horizontal view, 8711 Long Beach Boulevard, Southgate, Los Angeles, California (LOC) by The Library of Congress, on Flickr |
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Two historical posts on the Hoot Hoot and it's locations - http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5111 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11778 Two additional pictures, the original location and it's final roosting spot, https://i.imgur.com/YBNQ7RB.jpg fastcompany.com https://i.imgur.com/8RizJ0z.jpg Ebay |
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Great picture! I like the guy in the middle with only whites for eyes....brrr. Fast fwd 100 years....rats in City Hall https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...d-city-n969171 |
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On the 1888 Sanborn, the first four addresses on the west side of Hill Street below 4th Street are hard to read but might be 301, 305, 309, and 321. The bottom photo appears to show 309 S. Hill, Judge R. M. Widney's residence until he built behind it on Olive (see the October 21, 1883, Los Angeles Herald). The house in the photo certainly resembles 309 S. Hill (the third house south of 4th St.) on the 1888 Sanborn. If the top photo shows Dr. J. P. Widney's 321 S. Hill before it was remodeled prior to 1888 (as you surmise), the house on the hill behind it could be 317 S. Charity/Grand, which seems to line up west of 321 S. Hill. UCLA's copy of the top image ("View of houses near present-day Grand Ave, Los Angeles") says the house in the background was on Grand (ex-Charity). In UCLA's image you can also see a second set of streetcar tracks in front of 321 S. Hill (in case that's helpful for comparing the location with other photos). Three one seven Charity looks to have been occupied by the Packard family as early as 1878. Mrs. David Packard is shown living there on the 1881 Los Angeles map re-created in 1931 (Block 76). |
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Two historical posts on the Hoot Hoot and it's locations - http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5111 I Scream Ice Cream. Clever. Bet that big owl scared the pooping pigeons away. Might also scare some small children. Maybe why they went out of business? Often a clever name isn't enough. |
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Rats this summer were everywhere even here in Ojai because of the fire. I paid a local exterminator to get rid of them, he charged $150.00 and only caught one. He wanted another $50.00 to stay another week. I told him I will buy $50.00 worth of traps and do it myself. I caught a lot with the traps and BB gun too. Have not seen any since.:cop::cop: |
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7825/...8572f21e_o.png And in '94 the third house down is 417, but I'm now sold that the third house down, pre-89, was definitely numbered 309. Especially since the Herald clip you linked to notes he was building it right behind his old place...and it's numbered 310, which would put it right behind 309 (310 became 416 Olive, also). See, I knew I'd come to the right place to get my head sorted out! And thanks too for the insight on the Packards—and I had no idea there was such a magnificent zoomable JP Widney at UCLA. |
Interior of market on Figueroa.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/LpYqns.jpg EBAY THE ADDRESS IS WRITTEN THE BACK. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/0y7tkz.jpg 4315 So. Figueroa St. LA CA June 13, 1931 The ceiling light situation. What caught my eye was the chain leading from the globe fixture to an outlet(?) in the ceiling. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8JRp5D.jpg DETAIL Then I noticed a barely visible string going over to the light on the left. Hanging in the center of all this is a large clear lightbulb. What's going on here:shrug: Was Rube Goldberg the electrician? |
SOUTHLAND mystery location.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VgwAWS.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/UMl2Cj.jpgEBAY Perhaps the photographer is standing on the roof of the Balboa Bay Bowling Alley? (because I don't see it anywhere in the photograph) __ update: I decided to include a close-up. I decided against it. In the upper left..is the 'Balboa Coffee Shop'..next to it is a small dark sign that says 'cafe'. No doubt the best clue is Knight's Rooms & Apts. ( lower right)...and a Rexall Drugs up the street. |
How 'bout some KODACHROME slides.
A boy's birthday party outing to the NU-PIKE in Long Beach. [c.1956] "Boys..for the last time, TURN AROUND!! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/EoYS5S.jpg EBAY That's better....SMILE! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/q7j7GZ.jpg On the Rocket Ship Ride. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/yHuYGn.jpg BOATS..and a good look at the background. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/fN9UT9.jpg WHAT A DAY! :happybirthday: __ |
Startling contrast
I can't quit thinking about the young rat catcher.
................................this young lad. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/G2xjqC.jpg He is the only person in the rat catcher photo hiding his face. :( |
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We're looking west on Main St. at Bay St. in the Balboa neighborhood of Newport Beach. The building housing the Balboa Coffee Shop has been replaced by a branch U.S. Post Office, but the other buildings shown in the photo remain. The pharmacy on the corner of Main and Balboa Blvd. is still a pharmacy, though of course no longer Rexall. The building on the opposite corner of Main St. was once a hardware store and then a real estate office. It's now a beachwear shop. The building presumably containing the bowling alley also remains. It once housed the Balboa Bakery (the eclairs were special) and later became a take-out eatery. The location was fairly strategic, as the Balboa Pavillion was behind the photographer and across a walkway; while a half-block across Balboa Blvd. the once-famous Balboa Inn hosted big-name big bands in the 1930s-40s. A bit further on, the Balboa Pier still juts into the Pacific. Please forgive me for waxing a bit nostalgic, but I misspent some of the happiest hours of my youth in and around here. And a bit later on, Class of '47 was, and might still be, one of the better dive bars in the OC for the not-so-youthful. |
Snow is predicted for parts of LA today. We'll see.
Last time it snowed in LA was 1962. I went outside tonight and believe me its cold here in LA. This February 2019 is the coldest ever on record.... Tujunga 1962 https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/sFfR...ow_tujunga.jpg curbed LA |
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I have a question--what are the items for sale stacked on the counter at left, and the cylindrical thingies for sale ("2 for 25 cents") in wire bin below? Any ideas? Can't be Pringles--"can't eat just one"--they weren't invented until the 1960s. What would really be strange is if there was an open laptop computer on the counter. Twilight Zone stuff. |
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Aerial view from 1965, you can see the service bay building that's still there on the corner. https://i.postimg.cc/CKKTDJJq/20190221-Tujunga.jpgvia FrameFinder |
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The northeast (sort of) corner of Main St. and Balboa Blvd.
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While I'm here, e-r's red dot is placed exactly right. And thanks to everyone for these remarkable photos! |
Opening of the 170 Freeway stretch of the Hollywood Freeway, North Hollywood, 1962
Sometimes I find photos in the oddest of places – I came across this one on display in my doctor’s office. It caught my eye because I thought, “Since when did a section of the Hollywood Freeway open in 1962?” On further investigation, I learned that we’re looking at the opening of the part of the 101 Freeway known as the 170 that goes from the 101 to Magnolia Blvd in North Hollywood. In this photo we’re looking south past those vintage Fords they hauled out for the occasion. (A 1906-08 Model N is on the far left. The other two are Model T's that could have been built anytime between 1909 and about 1916.)
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Appears that they've eliminated the tile roofs. Current events: Coldest in LA this month since the 1880s when they began keeping weather records. This week at night I could see my breath which in LA is rare. A few hail and snow flurries today in areas above 700'. |
Here is a spectacular photograph of Long Beach in 1905.
There is such a large crowd it's difficult to tell if there is a pier beneath them. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8qNDLL.jpg currently on EBAY Especially interesting is the smallish octagonal building in the middle distance. If you look closely there is a large banner draped across the street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/3neift.jpg detail I should have cropped this a bit more carefully. On the right, just out of sight, is a large United States flag. (refer back to the top pic) |
I couldn't resist.
Here's a closer look at the octagonal mystery building. (and the impressive bank building behind it) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/JV1KFc.jpg hmmm... the lantern-shaped 'box' on top makes me think this might be a camera obscura. __ |
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I thought perhaps the extra bulb in the center was to illuminate the counter area. To be honest, I'm just guessing that the shape on the left is a lighting fixture. Here's the cropped pic. once more. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8JRp5D.jpg the original market photo can be found....never mind Bristolia just posted it again. Perfect timing! Thanks for your help CaliNative. I appreciate it. :) |
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https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...221-story.html A Pasadena Street... https://media14.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNB...x768_scale.jpgNBC News Rose Bowl https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/...2019-02-21.jpgCBS News Bradley Whitford tweeted out a video of a little snow falling around the Beverly Center. https://twitter.com/WhitfordBradley/...04275239186432 |
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View of Long Beach from the pier, Los Angeles, ca.1910 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...APineAvLB1.jpg USC Digital Library There's another 1905 view here, and USC also has pictures looking down the different piers in 1890 and 1906. Here's a very similar view which has been colorized as a postcard. It's dated 1908, and names the location as Pine Avenue (The Norwood was at 38 Pine). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...APineAvLB2.jpg eBay |
mystery location.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/YqzvjA.jpg EBAY Does anyone know where, in Los Feliz, the Los Feliz School was located? Judging by the shadows below their feet...the photograph was taken around noon. _ Wanna' see these rug rats up close? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/921/wer659.jpg The sun got in Amy's eyes. Poor thing. One of the boys is missing his shoes. __ |
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The the same was true at my grade school in the 1950s. In my school there was a special fund which bought shoes for kids and also paid for their lunch.....$.25 cents. My father paid for haircuts for neighbor boys. |
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I remember a couple kids like that in my grade school. One boy in my class used to get teased because his clothes were raggedy and I never understood why people would be mean to this boy because of that. They'd also tease him because his hair was often long (haircuts cost money) and boys hair was not long at that time. I recall one year when the class celebrated Valentine's Day, it was made clear we were supposed to exchange Valentines with all the classmates, but most of the kids still would not give this boy anything. I recall giving him a valentine that year and he looked up at me and got tears in his eyes. It affects me still when it comes to mind. It makes me wonder about that boy in E_R's picture. Notice all the other boys in that row have their arms around each other, but not him. |
Now I'm sad about the young rat catcher and shoeless boy. :(
Kudos to CBD's father for paying for haircuts. Kudos to Martin Pal for giving the dejected boy a Valentine. |
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(are my photos showing up for you now?) I'm at my mom's and found two more photographs of schools in one of my older files. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/8TzN2r.png (it's quite possible we have seen these two pics before) two prints made from glass negatives. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/OKVeNj.png old file at mom's https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/s9WxlU.png old file at my moms for search purposes: pico heights school 1926. second st. school built 1896 los angeles _ |
Seaweed adorned day trippers, Los Angeles [1910s] or20s
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My mom took me there once and when my haircut was done I went outside. She gave me a severe scolding for not saying ''thank you'' to the barber. Link for google street view [Las Tunas Dr., San Gabriel, CA]: https://goo.gl/maps/M363UoT9TJp |
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. Academy Awards in Hollywood today! Here's a photo listed as taken on Sunset Blvd.https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3582/3...1e1cb2c0_b.jpgLarry Jandro/Flickr The 46th Academy Awards were held Tuesday (Tuesday?) April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a drawing of which you can see behind the Oscar on the billboard. The Sting won Best Picture that year. Cine Mobile sign on small building. Notice the billboard says 7:00 p.m. I remember when I grew up in New York State the Oscars would sometimes start at 10:00 p.m.! |
I was trying to find out where on Sunset Blvd. the above photo was taken.
Hollywood Photographs has this photo of Cine Mobile from 1973, saying the location was at Sunset Blvd. and Sunset Plaza Drive. http://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/lrg/SB-095.jpg The two tower buildings in the distant background of the color photo must be the two towers in Century City. This area on the south side of Sunset Blvd. has been very much altered since the photo was taken, unlike the north side where Sunset Plaza Drive connects to Sunset, which is mostly the same. I wonder what the original intent of the Cine Mobile building was when it was built. It doesn't seem like it'd been built for this company. |
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