USC dates this picture of the Farmers Market and Gilmore Stadium at 1938/39. Ground-breaking on Gilmore Field began in 1938. Maybe the dark patch on the right is the remains of the "little stadium" in Chuckaluck's picture above.
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Anyone remember the Los Angeles Dons, L.A.'s first professional sports franchise. They shared the Coliseum (not Gillmore Stadium sadly) with the Rams from 1946-1949:
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The Cadillac's parked at the motel twigged my memory. I own a 1956 Cadillac that was purchased from Hillcrest Cadillac by the architect James Dolena. Mr. Dolena lived in Brentwood and was the "architect to the stars" > I bought the car from Mr.. Dolena's cousin who lived in Victoria at the time. I just remembered the cousin told me that the Dolenas bought matching "his and hers" Cadillacs in 1956.
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The venues adapted to the exhibition. Recall that there was midget auto racing, horse shows, baseball, football and probably a host of other events. Look closely at HossC's bottom image and the (soccer?) grid on the field. Manchester United goes Hollywood? Per some of the earlier postings, there were a variety of circus tents and teepees erected near the Farmer's Market area too. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RFgeZSDwfJ...-ticket-ad.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RFgeZSDwfJ...-ticket-ad.jpg Has anyone seen an aerial that includes a clear depiction of the "Gilmore" gas station (supposedly at Beverly and Fairfax)? Just read your response GW, so I know you're looking. ;) There have been images posted depicting a Standard station on the NE corner. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067272.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067272.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7503 http://lainsidertours.lainsidertours...s-1024x651.jpghttp://lainsidertours.lainsidertours...s-1024x651.jpg Gilmore Field http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTI1WDY1Ng...ro5!~~60_3.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTI1WDY1Ng...ro5!~~60_3.JPG http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTUwWDU1Mw...srQw~~60_3.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTUwWDU1Mw...srQw~~60_3.JPG http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/366336.jpghttp://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/366336.jpg Curiously, this ebay image is listed as '39 Gilmore Stadium, Burbank West LA. http://www.ericdatz.com/m17500.jpghttp://www.ericdatz.com/m17500.jpg http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODAwWDgwMA...tTBBmL/$_3.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODAwWDgwMA...tTBBmL/$_3.JPG http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODM1WDYwNQ...THzgm/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODM1WDYwNQ...THzgm/$_57.JPG http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6...0453674970c-pihttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6...0453674970c-pi |
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If you want to check them out to see what's still standing, here are a few of Dolena's "brand-name" clients from the Pacific Coast Architectural Database: Bennett, Constance, House, Holmby Hills Boddy, Manchester, House, La Canada (Descanso Gardens) Bosworth, Hobart , House, Beverly Hills Cukor, George House, Beverly Hills Dolena, James E., House, Brentwood Farmer's Market, Fairfax District, Los Angeles Murdock, David, House, Bel-Air Weber, Hilda Olsen Boldt House, Bel-Air |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/834/7667.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/27/yt1h.jpgebay I just noticed the trees behind the Carolina Pines Jr. look like pines. I don't know trees, so I'm guessing they're pines) I wonder if they survive? the Carolina Pines Jr. site today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/545/ysyy.jpg GSV below: Across the street is this fine one story building with twelve count'em twelve miniature dormers. SE corner Melrose & Martel Avenue. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/545/k5ig.jpg GSV __ |
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Before Gilmore Field, it looks like there was a small oval track there. This picture is dated 1935.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAGilmore5.jpg hollywoodphotographs.com Regarding the soccer, I found that a friendly match was played at Gilmore Stadium in 1947. It was Los Angeles XI vs Hapoel Tel Aviv, and ended as a 1-1 draw. See soccerstats.us for more details. The Wikipedia article I linked to in my first post above also says cricket was played there at least once. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...moreSoccer.jpg |
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It took me quite awhile to locate the plane and the parachutist. lol -let me know if you can't find the parachutist..I'll circle him. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/89/5voi.jpg dated 1929/ebay I didn't realize at first that the dark diagonal lines were rows and rows of automobiles. __ |
Here's a rather surreal postcard for the Sands Motel at 5330 Imperial Boulevard.
They've placed people around the pool like it's the middle of day. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/577/fi8q.jpgebay how much soda are those two girls going to drink?? Here's the motel in daylight/it's rather nice. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/713/c3y6.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/836/umej.jpg I'm not sure if it's still there or not/I found Imperial Highway but not Imperial Boulevard. (they're prob. one and the same) |
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Check out this view, notice the trees and how the landscape is rising behind the restaurant exactly like in the postcard: http://tinyurl.com/ls5uv36 Also, search for "Carolina Pines Jr. on Sunset and La Brea" brings results supporting my theory. The very last scene in movie "Frances" (Jessica Lange, playing Francis Farmer) was filmed on Lanewood. You can see the trees and Hollywood High across the Orange Dr. I lived on Lanewood in mid 90's. At the time Burger King occupied the spot where Carolina Pines restaurant used to stand, if I remember correctly. |
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While we're talking about old baseball fields, have we seen this proposed expansion of Wrigley Field before?
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While searching Carolina Pines I found this Carolina-Hollywood Motel on La Brea.
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Looking SW from LA Courthouse, c. 1905
This is part of a panoramic photo. Across the center of the photo, right to left, we have the Highland Villa and its fan-shaped rooftop sign at the NW corner of 1st and Hill, then the El Moro (the part in front that looks like a house being the former Sale Mansion), the Moore-Cliff apparently being built, 133 S. Hill which came to be known as The Annex, and the last building with a staircase in front of it, the Hotel Locke.
In the upper left corner is the Crocker Mansion, the Angel's Flight Observation Tower, and either Sinai or Olivet. Below those, with its dome in front of the trees, at 209-11 S. Hill is the Hotel Lincoln. In the foreground left of center is the old Jail/Police Station (stone front & arched window) on 1st Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/1227/rec/7 http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original Los Angeles Then and Now (1897) @ Hathi Trust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=139 Priors on the Jail/Police Station: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7413 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7433 Police Station on 1906 Sanborn (Hill St. at top of map): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original LAPL Police Station, May 1955: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7947/rec/13 August 10, 1956: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7944/rec/22 Just links: Wrecking the police station -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7943/rec/25 Police station wrecked -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7960/rec/27 |
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I haven't been able to find out much about him. Though he is mentioned in a lot of architecture periodicals found at Google Books and the Internet Archive, I haven't had time to look through them yet. He was active at least as early as 1916, and died in 1961. His listing in the AIA directory of 1956 had only his office address, 1200 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, and no list of his works. A Google search on Howard G. Elwell turns up a few listings for houses in Pasadena and San Marino. Hollywood Heritage had his 1959 Christian Science Church at 7107 Hollywood Boulevard on its Endangered List in 2012. So far, that's all I've got, but judging from the few buildings I've seen photos of he kept up with the times. The theater in Victorville was clearly Midcentury, and the Hollywood church is very much of its time as well. The doctor's office is quintessential '30s modern. I'd look forward to learning more about Elwell. There might be some unknown masterpieces of his design rotting out there. |
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Here is another home by Locke & Munsell. I believe this is my favorite of theirs.
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Thanks for all the Gilmore related photos everyone! Now I know where they were situated. CBS Television City is basically on the site where Gilmore Stadium stood and Gilmore Field is where the Television City studio additions were built, where they tape American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, by the way. (Yes, they tape Fox and ABC shows at CBS Television City!)
I wish one or both of those sites were still there. I was actually watching a "Hollywood" episode of I Love Lucy this week and because it's raining Fred laments that he can't go see the Hollywood Stars baseball team play (at Gilmore Field)! So it was still there in 1955, but gone by 1960. As has been noted, CBS Television City opened in 1952. Quote:
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http://i.imgur.com/OroTAix.jpg We've seen the Zamboanga here before, but have we seen these shots? It was at 3838 West Slauson. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10431 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10431 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10437 Pics jalopyjournal.com |
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Another Beverly-Fairfax puzzlement? Do any of the aerial photos depict this expansive enterprise? No reason for the recently discussed solitary Gilmore Station to coexist with this. Several prior posts also included photos of Gilmore's self-serve station. See e.g.,http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11613 and http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=19396 Per DWP: Quote:
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Another shot of Beverly meets Fairfax? Was everyone aware that there was a Grove Market in '31 at this location? West of the BF intersection, looking east. A continuation of the Miniature Golf Craze. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13536 and http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13569 1931 - http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/17409/rec/16 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...fax&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...fax&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...fax&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...fax&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...fax&DMROTATE=0 Vestigial Oil Derrick? http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 Richfield at North Edinburgh Ave. and Beverly Blvd. - look carefully and you will see another advertising statue. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7727 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...%20&DMROTATE=0 |
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I notice all the GILMORE signs have the same 'S' shaped pattern within the 'O' is there any significance to this?
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NE corner Los Angeles and Winston
For many years it was home to the Excelsior Laundry. The LA County Assessor says the building dates to 1895. Here it is on January 1, 1907, behind the two small houses:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/1482/rec/7 1933: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/36118/rec/11 Detail: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original GSV Detail: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original GSV Hard-to-read 1894 Sanborn; 3rd floor is unfinished: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.png~original LAPL Easier-to-read 1906 Sanborn; note barn at bottom: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original LAPL Why they needed the barn: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073856.jpg |
Stillmore on the Gilmore...
It looks to me like after it was at the southeast corner of Beverly & Fairfax that it may have been moved south on Fairfax, with Herbert's Drive-In replacing it at the Beverly corner. Notice also what appear to be Beverly/Fairfax street signs... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f...2520AM.bmp.jpg The building at right is the one indicated by the red arrow below... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g...FAIRARROWS.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520AM.bmp.jpg You can see the stadium behind the station when it was at 7870 Beverly... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520AM.bmp.jpg If the station was picked up and moved down Fairfax (and not a new one), it was turned 90 degrees. In city directories, V. L. Anderson, whose name appears on the station at 7870 Beverly, becomes merely a "gas sta atdt" by 1939...no indication if he may have moved with the building. Perhaps there were other branches in areas not covered by the L.A. CD (and perhaps we've seen them here), but in the 1942 edition there is only one Herbert's listed, at 7870 Beverly Blvd... . https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U...0/herbets2.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8.../herberts1.jpg jalopyjournal.com |
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