Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7828851)

Here are some more Park Sign Co photos I found. I drew a blank with 6201 Rita Street, but there is a Rita Avenue in Huntington Park.

I didn't find anything recognizable from these photos.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7829465)

I don't believe we have seen this amazing photograph on nla.

The description is somewhat vague on calisphere.

"California Bank Building and view of street."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/7ADO3B.jpg
https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/tf0b69n8cj/

I believe we're looking up 2nd Street from Fort (now Broadway)





This photograph of the California Bank Building was posted back in 2009.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/YuEWV2.jpg

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=681

Originally Posted by Noircitydame (Post 7153583)

The short answer is, not that I know of.
I’ve been meaning to organize my files on the Hollywood drive-ins so here goes.
The Carpenter’s at Vine has been much shown, here…
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14241
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29699
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17962
which are probably only a few of many more.
These pictures are all previously posted. (these drive-ins were here all those years yet there only seem to be a handful of photos of them).
I did some research using newspapers, city directories and the city online building records trying to get them organized in my mind. (Not going to post all the permits, unless someone wants them, I happily can do) So to round ‘em up: heading down Sunset

6285 Sunset NE Corner @ Vine
CARPENTER’S

This is the one that was demolished for the NBC studio.
• 1930 Carpenter’s builds a sandwich stand here.
• 1938 NBC builds its broadcasting studio here
• 1962 NBC’s Radio City is demolished

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...Carpenters.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...32-hwdvine.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...AT6-6-34_1.jpg 6-6-34 LATimes

6290 Sunset SE corner @ Vine
PIG STAND / CARPENTER’S / STAN’S

This is where Carpenter’s moved when its first Sunset & Vine stand was to be demolished. Originally though it was a rival drive-in operated by the Pig Stand chain from Texas. Not sure Pig Stand was still in biz when Carpenter’s took over the location in fall 1937. But carpenter’s demolished the building and put a new one built by engineer SB Barnes. They were there until it became a Stan’s, 1951.
• 1931 the Pig Stand BBQ Sandwich restaurant goes up.
• 1937 Sept. Carpenter’s demolishes the existing building, builds a new drive-in opens here.
• 1951 Carpenter’s becomes a Stan’s Drive-in
• 1961 Drive-in demolished for 20-story Sunset-Vine Tower

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...vinesunset.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...uns%20vine.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...20pigstand.jpg



Getting back to E-R’s question, these were the only Carpenter’s on Vine that I know of.

6407 Sunset - NE cor @ Cahuenga & NW cor @ Ivar aka 1502 N. Cahuenga
ROBERTS/SCRIVNER’S

Scriveners at Cahuenga covered here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10601

Roberts leased this property in 1939, demolishing an existing building that had been something called the Hollywood Mercantile in the 1890s; since 1917 it had housed the Frank Meline-owned Hollywood Laundry. When Roberts came along, HL moved to the north, taking its roof-sign with it. Between 1952 and Nov 1956 became “Scrivner’s.” And some time in or around 1958 it became a gas station. Jack in the Box now occupies this property. Its Sunset address is 6407.
• 1890s Hollywood Mercantile
• 1917 Hollywood Laundry (owned by Frank Meline) buys this lot.
• 1939 Roberts Bros. lease the corner; builds its drive-in. Hollywood Laundry moves to the north
• 1952 The drive-in becomes Scrivner’s
• 1960 Drive-in is demolished for a service station (per building records)

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...s%20sunset.jpg
matchbook from Roberts

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...vners%2058.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...11-30-56_1.jpg 11-30-56 LATimes

6760 SE cor @ Highland and cor @ McCadden
SIMON’S / STAN’S
One of two Simon’s on Sunset for a few years. Across from Hollywood High School and the Currie’s ice cream. Simon’s was here as of 1938. S.B. Barnes was engineer for the round building. As of December 1951 it became a Stan’s drive in. Since Stan’s took over the Carpenter’s at Vine that same year, there were now 2 Stan’s on Sunset. It was still a drive-in in 1971 when it was demolished.
• As of 1938 Simon’s Drive-in here
• 1951 Simon’s becomes Stan’s
• 1971 demolished.


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ndhighland.jpg

7101 Sunset NW cor @ La Brea
MCDONNELL’S / TINY NAYLOR’S

McDonnell’s is here as of 1936 but isn't listed in their 1940 ad. By 1952 this location had become a Tiny Naylor’s drive in. No pictures (that I know of) showing it as McDonnell’s.
• As of 1936 Drive-in here
• 1952 Drive in becomes Tiny Naylor’s
• 1980’s Tiny Naylor’s demolished.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ls-jan1940.png Jan 1940 LATimes

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...tandlabrea.jpg

8204

Colonial Drive In / Marquise
This is the one that became Marquise Restaurant (non-drive-in) covered here recently.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...unset-1938.jpg

8801 Sunset @ Horn
SIMON’S / DOLORES’ / JACK’S ON THE STRIP

This was a Simon’s Drive in as of 1937 at least. In 1945 it was taken over by Amanda & Ralph Stephens, who’d founded the first Dolores in Oklahoma City, OK. Dolores isn't here as of 1950 and at some point a diner named “Jack’s on the Strip” opened here- no other info about the property until it was demolished for Tower Records.
• 1935-37: About this date Simon’s opens a sandwich stand here
• 1945: Dolores Drive-In opens here by this year
• 195?: Becomes Jack’s on the Strip drive-in
• 1970: demolished for Tower Records


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...%20dolores.jpg as Simon's c. 1937

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...resdribein.jpg a as Dolores

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/9-28-50.jpg 9-28-50 LA Times

***
now a mystery drive in (mystery to me that is).
Hollywood Historic Photos has this view of a McDonnell’s captioned Sunset & Cahuenga 1941 and supposedly designed by Wayne McAlister.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...enga-not41.jpg
here

I can sure see the influence of Wayne’s other 1941 design, the El Rancho Vegas in Nevada.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ncho_vegas.jpg my files

But if that building was at Cahuenga and Sunset?…… I don’t know it.
• SE cor Sunset & Cahuenga: One of those under-photographed corners, I have no idea what was here. In the fall 1942-summer 1943 the American Women’s Voluntary Services (AWVS) had it HQ here, whatever it was. Amoeba Records is on this site now.
• NE cor Sunset & Cahuenga was the Robert’s
• NW corner Sunset & Cahuenga had been Sweet’s Furniture Exchange since 1935 (6425 Sunset)
• SW corner Sunset & Cahuenga was a Shell station.

There WAS a McDonnell’s at YUCCA and Cahuenga. I don’t know if that’s it, though. I found a record of Melvin (M.A.) McDonnell applying for a permit in 1932 at 1820 Cahuenga, NE corner but didn’t see a 1941 record. I think this must be the later location of Biff’s, whose sign (next to the gas station) is shown in E-R’s post here:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...cca_ca1953.jpg

(There’s the family connection between Biff’s and Tiny Naylor’s and the McDonnell’s at La Brea became a Tiny Naylor’s) but I found no record of it in the online records either.

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 7829493)

Has the thread had this one?

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...pseynthhwb.jpg
odinthor collection

Originally Posted by ScottyB (Post 7827364)

This remarkable view from Denver Library is looking south at what I believe to be Fort Hill. I think the photo must have been taken from near the Hebrew Cemetery, with Chavez Ravine Rd snaking thru the right foreground. A thousand apologies if this is rehash.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4236/3...e57df83a_b.jpg

Is it just my fevered imagination or can we see the Baker and Wills homes? it seemed like a match the other night but now I'm not so sure.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4219/3...28f01df8_b.jpg

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7827209)

Nice shot Flyingwedge. Do you think it was taken from 318 Court?

1910:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zd...g=w496-h536-no
historicmapworks

Originally Posted by ScottyB (Post 7829564)

I'm curious about the business on the NE corner- perhaps a real estate office? Can't quite make out what the sign above the front says.
And is the banner hanging from the church (which church is that?) behind in a foreign alphabet or an ornate script? Or both?


https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4287/3...cfbf3cd6_b.jpg

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7829570)

ScottyB, we've seen that photo at NLA, but not in the context of looking for these homes, so thank you very much for
posting it. We determined it was taken sometime in 1888, and yes it is remarkable!

This what I see: below the red line = Wills home; yellow line = Baker carriage house; green line = Mary Banning home;
purple line = Hancock Banning home @ 416 N. Broadway; above the orange line is the Mary Banning stable/carriage house:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original

Enlargement of CHS.J3927 at Denver Public Library

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7828907)

I'm guessing those are the first names of all five people in the photo, no?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7829382)

I did. :)

below: See that large building in the background on the right?

It looks like it might have been a large auditorium of some sort? An intriguing building to say the least.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7829487)

I find this 'postcard' photograph quite intriguing.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/N8HDw4.jpg
ebay

The man holding the large fish, the obedient dog (cute!) and the stone thingy (I thought it was a water trough for horses) -then realized there's no place for water.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7829487)

I find this 'postcard' photograph quite intriguing.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/N8HDw4.jpg
ebay

The man holding the large fish, the obedient dog (cute!) and the stone thingy (I thought it was a water trough for horses) -then realized there's no place for water



On the reverse
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/BcSO7W.jpg

The seller added who's who in the Eiss family. (and that Daniel was a doctor)

Dr. Daniel Eiss, Rosa Eiss (Wife) and Zula Eiss (Daughter)

They also added that Zula Eiss (Bradley) died in the Los Angeles area.
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Here's a closer look.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/Ss4os4.jpg
detail

Oh, to hear the story about that big fish. ;)

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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7829570)

ScottyB, we've seen that photo at NLA, but not in the context of looking for these homes, so thank you very much for
posting it. We determined it was taken sometime in 1888, and yes it is remarkable!

This what I see: below the red line = Wills home; yellow line = Baker carriage house; green line = Mary Banning home;
purple line = Hancock Banning home @ 416 N. Broadway; above the orange line is the Mary Banning stable/carriage house:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original

Enlargement of CHS.J3927 at Denver Public Library

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7830051)

Just for a change, a house from Julius Shulman that's not in Beverly Hills! This is "Job 2419: Jones and Emmons, Reicher House, 1957".




On the other side of the wall above, the kitchen.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7597181)

"Dairy Farm, Self Help Association, Burbank/Los Angeles, 1936"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/iz2Zoj.jpg
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...0-e00a18066c61

I've never heard of the 'Self Help Association'.

Was this a WPA program?__

Originally Posted by "HossC'

Could it be a step for mounting horses? I haven't found any others with exactly this design, but it's the first thing that came to mind.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7830404)

(my first thought that it was a water trough doesn't hold water) ;)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/dl3hIa.jpg

It could be Hoss, but I don't understand why the bottom of the 'carved-out' area would be curved like that. (especially if it's intended to be a step)

usually they look like this /
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...924/GGKzre.jpg


Thanks for the information on the Eiss family oldstuff. I appreciate it.
I agree that the home in the postcard might be the Eiss' summer home.
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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 7829999)

This is such a nice image, I just wish it wasn't quite so murky and washed out. The high school building is easy enough to be made out in the full sized version and the absence of the third high school building (brick structure with the clock tower) hasn't begun to go up yet, helps with the dating. If you look closely in your detail image, and are a bit persistent, you can make out the J.W. Robinson Mansion (1887) lurking in the haze. If you follow the fence line that sits atop the cliff running west away from Mary Hollister Banning's carriage house it (the light colored fence) runs into the Robinson Mansion (a darkish structure with a light colored beltline at the eaves). While it addressed on Teed Street, Teed 'Street' was never an actual street but more just a set-aside on maps of the period and here it appears as little more than a fence line below the mansion. Access to the house was from Hill Street. Fun image.