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First of all, I'd like to thank Beaudry for bringing our attention to this treasure trove of remarkable photographs. I have a couple areas in this photograph that intrique me. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/PP4VkG.jpg #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/zjIvni.jpg detail I initially thought the sign was over the road (like a gate) but now I see that it's actually next to the road. Any idea what the sign says? I'm also intrigued by the steps on the slope. Why do you think this spot was chosen for the steps. Is it a bus stop? (there's a sign or a very LARGE mailbox at the top of the steps. #2.....What, pray tell, is the tower with the [white] rounded top? To me it looks like a RADAR DOME. If you look closely you can see the metal structure that holds it up. . but I can't decide if it's on top of the white building or behind it. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/I8QloJ.jpg detail I don't see it on the map that Hoss kindly labeled for us. . |
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Thanks Beaudry and HossC for all that additional information!
Bark n Bite...LoL! I love the close up...you can see a customer or two in the joint. The aerial pinpointing the locations is great. Quote:
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https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells1.jpg serendipitism.blogspot.com Here's a sugar wrapper (dated 1930). https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells2.jpg www.icollect247.com And part of a menu. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells3.jpg toliveanddinela.com The restaurant is visible on the far right of the aerial I posted yesterday. It's at the center of the detail on the right below. I believe that the 1927 detail on the left below shows the "Old Bridge" mentioned on the menu above. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...cDonnells4.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu/mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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P.S., While I'm here, thanks to Beaudry for sharing a great find! |
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mystery location. I recently happened upon this snapshot on eBay. It shows a lonely bus stop at the Los Angeles City Limit. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/AhPWb3.jpg eBay I've been trying to make out the name of the motor lodge but it's next to impossible. Here's a closer look at the sign and, what looks like, a gas station. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/7KtoPm.jpg detail and there's no name of the mail box. (clues are sparse) The fairly nice building on the right [top photo] might possibly be the main building to the motor lodge. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/0onRfi.jpg detail And as you can clearly see. . . the photograph was taken when the population of Los Angeles was only 1,808,579. Does this area look familiar to anyone? . |
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Well, I can't tell you where this was taken...but the population of the city in the 1950 US census was 1,970,358...so it may have been shot not long before that figure was arrived at (or until the sign was updated). Anyway, the car is a Mercury, either a '49 (intro in April 1948), a '50, or a '51, all of which used the same hood ornament. Here's one on a '51: https://i.postimg.cc/65Rx45yV/51hood.jpg |
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. When I first came across this amazing photograph I thought it was a hotel in Terre Haute, Indiana - when it fact - it is a photograph of the 'Terra Haute Hotel' in Los Angeles! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/HMgill.jpg eBay The long horizontal sign appears to have been white washed and it looks like the last word was "House" and not hotel. :shrug: It also appears the hotel is for sale. The seller included this. . . https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/q45qKG.jpg eBay "Old Terra Haute Hotel on E. 1st St. in Los Angeles. Owned by my uncle Oscar & Grubb in the 1880s & 90s. My youngest brother and cousins Florence & Oscar were all born there. Ed, 1887 Florence, 1888 Oscar, 1890" . |
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https://i.postimg.cc/MGsyWFK1/Terre-HLAT9-9-85.jpg LA Times, 9/9/1885 https://i.postimg.cc/Njk6n03J/Terre-HLAT3-29-87e.jpg LA Times, 3/29/1887 https://i.postimg.cc/T2BJLFj9/Terre-Hlacd1888.jpg LA CD 1888 https://i.postimg.cc/hvQhRCf4/Terre-HHer3-20-05.jpg LA Herald, 3/20/1905 This walk down First Street is interesting, and mentions the Terre Haute House in passing (sorry about the fragmentariness of the following): https://i.postimg.cc/MZfyStkj/1st-St-Her3-1-89a.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/bwgnTBn4/1st-St-Her3-1-89b.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/mrrH6yNk/1st-St-Her3-1-89c.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/zfPgmH0j/1st-St-Her3-1-89d.jpg All the above fragments, LA Herald 3/1/1889 As to the Armstrong family mentioned in the above, methinks the writer got the given name of the pater familias wrong. According to my notes, there had indeed been a James Armstrong in old L.A.; but he was the commander of the Savannah out in San Pedro Bay during the Yankee onslaught in 1846. The head of the household with Pinky and Kate etc. however was Edward R. Armstrong, saloon keeper in L.A. in 1870 etc., born in New York ca. 1817. |
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The 1886-1887 CD lists B H Harbert as proprietor of Terra Haute House at 125 & 127 E 1st Street. By 1888, Oscar E Grubb had taken over. He's still there in 1891, but the name has changed to Terra Haute Hotel and the address has become 227 E First Street. The last listing I found was 1895, when the name had reverted to Terra Haute House. The 1887-1888 CD also lists the Terra Haute Dining Room (prop. E L Grubb) at 125 E First Street. |
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That explains the horizontal sign mystery. Mighty fine sleuthing, odinthor. :) and thanks for the additional information, Hoss . |
Golly! I thought the address 127 E. 1st seemed familiar! That was in due course the location of the other Poodle Dog restaurant, discussed in message 53180. A number of unsavory incidents (thefts, shopgirl being beaten by employer because she dared to ask for her pay, structure found unsafe) happened at that address over the years.
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In 1907, the Greater Los Angeles Hotel is listed at 227½ E 1st, while Oscar E Grubb has furnished rooms at 103 E 2nd Street. I didn't search many CDs after this, but Oscar E Grubb turns up in the 1910 CD as an assembler at the Industrial Electric Co (815 S Spring Street) whilst residing in Ocean Park. |
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Would the elevation of 320 ft. be any sort of a clue to finding the location? I'm assuming it's feet. |
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https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AYO5rnrgS...uf2qn26377.jpg is pretty cool, it's the Hotel Southland neon with the fins of the General Petroleum across the street. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ol9jdJluG...uf2qn26372.jpg ]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...260ede46_o.png 6th and St Paul https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jkX4vhdm8...uf2qn26358.jpg See the neon sign behind Mike's Body and Fender? It says Pacific Dining Car. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...67d93629_b.jpg https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/a6sAA...UWM/s-l400.jpg |
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There's even a picture of the Teris Drug Co in the collection. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...risDrugCo1.jpg serendipitism.blogspot.com My 2013 post on the Hotel Teris can be found here. |
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