|
|
Oh my, fantastic images Flyingwedge!
I didn't realize the vertical sign was inspired by an un-spooled length of 35mm film. Quote:
lol :) |
Quote:
__________ The link you provided tell us it's origin (1917) was the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad. Logo imprinted on bridge. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/zFnR70.jpg http://picture.abandonedrails.com/k3vhuhhd.jpg "The arrowhead logo of the SPLA&SL, the "Salt Lake Route" herald, is seen cast into the Pickering Avenue bridge (over the sidewalk) when this line was built around 1917. This bridge is immediately west of the truss bridge over Whittier Boulevard (CA Route 72)." The description above makes it sound like this bridge & logo is still there, but I searched the area in the google-mobile and couldn't locate it. Here's the area where I searched. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/vJeHui.jpg google_earth Does anyone know, is this little piece of RR history (the arrowhead logo) still there (& I overlooked it), or has it been destroyed? __ |
Quote:
Tourmaline, here's another image of Betty and Frank. ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/KLmyJH.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/matchlesslondon/ __ |
Thanks for the additional pictures of the Academy Theatre, Flyingwedge.
--------------- This Julius Shulman image was taken out in Encino. It's " Job 2873: West Valley Medical Center, 1959". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute The layout of the medical center at 5353 Balboa Boulevard has changed several times over the years (I tried to follow the changes on Historic Aerials). I'm pretty sure that the building on the left is the one above with modifications. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
Quote:
For some reason the architect gave rather short shrift to the money making candy concession stand. I don't see it in this drawing. Plus that, you need a large store room to keep your candy supplies....:):) Your movie ticket money goes to pay for the film rental. The only way a theater can make operating money is from the concession stand....the drinks, candy, ice cream and popcorn. That pays all of the salaries. In my movie theater days it cost about $50 dollars a day to keep the doors open. In 2016 dollars that's about $415 a day to keep a movie theater operating.....and in many cases a lot more. The projectionists are probably union and they make more than a manager does. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pso5x6vbrl.jpg Why they had stairs going into the toilets in those days is a mystery to me.....but many theaters had them. |
Quote:
I wonder if the clock tower was damaged in one of the earthquakes, and had to come down. Here's a look from behind. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/VJdIq1.jpg __ |
Quote:
|
I found this postcard a couple days ago on eBay. (I think the description is a bit confusing)
"In order to accommodate the thousands of Comrades to the 20th American Legion National Convention at Los Angeles, Sept. 19-22, 1938, Victory Post No. 54 offers for your approval and invites you to visit "The Longest Bar In The World" located at 224 South Hill Street, Los Angeles Calif." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/DQ3olx.jpg eBay The description makes this sound like a bar that was built specifically for the 4 day convention? (by post #54) Also, what building was located at 224 South Hill Street? (I'm pretty sure it's just a lot now) -although 222 South Hill is still standing. Here's the reverse of the postcard. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/NtA7NM.jpg We've visited the longest bar (or was it soda fountain?) on NLA, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't this one. _ |
Quote:
|
Hey guys - does anyone have an image of the 'last queen anne on Bunker Hill'?
According to many articles it was at Sunset & Figueroa. Does that even count as Bunker Hill? I've searched everywhere, no images turn up... "1880s Queen Anne house left at Cesar Chavez Avenue and Figueroa Street in the late 1980s, when Palmer began work there on the Orsini. It was called the Giese House and it was protected under preservation laws. There were plans in place to move the house to Angelino Heights, but Palmer's workers demolished it instead." http://la.curbed.com/2014/11/25/1001...ng-downtown-la |
Someone needs to be found who could do something similar for Los Angeles:
http://www.popsci.com/80-thousand-ph...gion-3&lnk=txt https://www.oldnyc.org/#717402f-a |
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LakeRoute1.jpg GSV The bridge has since been redesigned (the pillar in the center of Pickering Avenue has gone too), and the pedestrian tunnel is no longer there. The logo is still visible, but I think it may have be re-made rather than preserved. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LakeRoute2.jpg GSV |
Quote:
--November 20, 1904: J.D. Bicknell is improving and altering a four-story brick building at 224-228 S. Hill at a cost of $60,000. --September 2, 1933: a Warehouse Shoe Sale is to take place at the address. --Your Longest Bar postcard is about an event occurring September 19-22, 1938. --December 16, 1938 (right-hand column unrelated): http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...pswramxetd.jpg LA Times, via ProQuest, via the CSULB Library. --January 18, 1948: The former assets of He & She of California are being auctioned off, the assets being composed of garment manufacturing supplies etc. --May 10, 1951: http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psygrv8hbi.jpg LA Times, via ProQuest, via the CSULB Library. --December 19, 1957, referred to as the Bicknell Bldg., and as a clothing factory, with the Salvation Army Thrift Shop at 224 1/2 S. Hill St.: http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psh4qz9bzr.jpg LA Times, via ProQuest, via the CSULB Library. |
Looking for hills that "Our Gang," among others, may have used and revisited some flooding photos. (Thought they were NLA'd before, or maybe another familiar database.) First windshield view reminds of proceeding south on Sepulveda or Overland, but haven't been able to pin point - yet. This low lying area would make a great spread for a Santa Monica Freeway.:hmmm:
Quote:
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b567c22533b5ca54_large More http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/7fc89b1e2e5cf6f8_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/5e56675bf99b91d4_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/07d39437e16979fd_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b4c916d39f2ea08f_large The End http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/7cfc587f788c7431_large |
Quote:
the distinctive house at right being remodeled, and it no longer looks the same: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original Mar 2014 GSV |
:previous: Thanks.
Could have sworn this was asked and answered but was unable to locate using usual search function. I should have been more specific about the Sepulveda/Overland guesses. Was focusing on the windshield view of the 76 Station. Any ideas? |
Careful...this update to a video familiar to NLAers might make you dizzy...
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-U...8%2BPM.bmp.jpg http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cul...-ago-and-today |
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Detail of picture in USC Digital Library While we're in the area, these two houses were on the opposite side of Sunset (at 841 and 835), just out-of-shot in the image above. Seen here in 1960, Historic Aerials shows them gone by 1964. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original California State Library |
Quote:
---------------- The other day, while I was looking for something else, I came across this interesting building at 2312 Whittier Boulevard. A quick Google search told me that it was once the Monterey Theatre. It apparently opened in 1939, and has since been home to a nightclub and a church. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV The image below, dated 1983, is one of two I found which show the theater as the Teatro Blanquita. So far, that's the earliest I can go. Somewhere there must be a picture of the building in its original guise. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original www.americanclassicimages.com |
The Julius Shulman pictures of Los Angeles are getting thin on the ground again, so here's another single image. This is "Job 6329: First Interstate Bank building (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1985".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original I find the colors very striking, and finally decided to leave them as they were. While I was toying with the adjustments, I spotted a detail that's not obvious in the original. Inside the circular part of the building is what looks like a safe. Has anyone got any more details? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Getty Research Institute GSV doesn't make the building at 9601 Wilshire Boulevard look as good as Julius Shulman did, but it hasn't changed much. It now seems to belong to the Bank of America. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
| All times are GMT. The time now is 12:34 PM. |
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Prev