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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4581/...453856a4_b.jpg GSV Here is the "before" when the address was 45 S. Broadway (with plaster and top deck). https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4528/...8ddeebfe_b.jpg HDL I love those trucks. |
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Winsel Gibbs Seed Catalog, Los Angeles [1925]
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Winsel-Gibb also had a small store at 211 S Main Street. (from the same 1925 seed catalog) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/tJdEpz.jpg ebay mentions "Our Store" at lower left. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/LNOnJk.jpg mailer http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/QstneW.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/FROnJg.jpg The Winsel-Gibb store space today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/y40I01.jpggsv directly across from St. Vibiana's |
This intriguing photograph was published in the April 21, 1908 Los Angeles Herald (without an accompanying story)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/TRjCcN.jpg https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc I was god-smacked by the extreme depth of this tunnel....1,300 feet! So did this tunnel have anything to do with the old Buena Vista Reservoir that was built in Elysian Park in 1876 or is this 'tunnel' connecting to Silver Lake reservoir? And where, pray-tell, was the pump house located? I thought it would be some distance from Elysian Park. (or maybe I'm not understanding how reservoirs work) __ |
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Black Dahlia
Don't think anyone here has mentioned the brand-new book about the Black Dahlia. The improbably named British author and TV producer Piu Eatwell claims (as most of them do) to solve the murder of Elizabeth Short in "Black Dahlia, Red Rose."
Eatwell fingers a suspect I was not familiar with named Leslie Dillon, and thinks the murder was committed at The Aster Motel on Figueroa Street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/eq0Nq8.png The Aster Motel, a definite step down from the Chancellor. https://ladailymirror.files.wordpres...ng?w=684&h=483 I've only read some reviews of the book, but apparently she claims that Dillon was a friend of the infamous Mark Hansen, part-owner of The Florentine Gardens nightclub, whose home on Carlos Avenue was a kind of rooming house for attractive young women. Eatwell believes that Hansen was intensely jealous of Short and ordered his psychopathic accquaintance Dillon to get rid of her. (Sounds like a shaky premise to me). Supposedly Hansen had dirt on members of the police department, who in turn arranged a cover-up when attention turned to Dillon and his connection to Hansen. Eatwell has impressive credentials and The Times of London gave her book a good review - but the L.A. Times' Larry Harnisch totally dismisses her theory, thinks it's preposterous...and so it goes. Here is a very sensationalized review of "Black Dahlia, Red Rose" in The Mirror UK: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...blood-11161233 |
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Whoa... I walk past this place every day. Thank you for the great find.
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S Raymond Pasadena
If I'm not mistaken this building went from Victorian to Deco.....wonder what happened to the bowling alley inside? I may have to go snooping.
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686 Carondelet, 1902-1976
The Feuerborn home was on the NE corner of 7th and Carondelet, which jogs to the west above 7th.
The following two images are from the January 26, 1902, Los Angeles Times: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL Here is the front of the house, from Carondelet: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original This is the back of the house, with the garage at right, from 7th Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original (Both) The Inland Architect and News Record Vol 45 No 3 April 1905 @ HathiTrust http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original 1904 LA City Directory @ fold3.com 1906 Sanborn: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL 1950 Sanborn; I don't know when 686 Carondelet became a restaurant: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL In 1963, 686 Carondelet was a french restaurant: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psykwrhygj.jpg July 29, 1963, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pswmsxwcwv.jpg February 9, 1964, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Boccard's gave way to Helene's: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psnkpgmtoh.jpg June 17, 1966, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Here is 686 Carondelet at the center of this 1968 aerial that looks NW: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8x4xuh4m.jpg DW-87-54-B26-ISLA at USCDL The demo permit for 686 Carondelet is dated April 16, 1976. t2 already showed us what's there now (the wide building just below center): Quote:
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Bally Total Fitness; it closed and became vacant after Bally closed and was bought out by 24 Hour Fitness. And, I used to work with someone who told me that in the 1970s, this building used to be a high-end car dealership, but she didn't remember what brand; I think it might've been a dealership owned by Rusnak, who has other dealerships in Pasadena on Colorado Boulevard, near the western end of Old Town Pasadena. |
Dr. Meyers Nervine and Mdme. Brady's Female Compound
Browsing through random Calisphere.org pictures I found the following, captioned "1957 - candidate for slum clearance, 1st and Central":
https://i.imgur.com/Sg2cVwQ.jpg calisphere.org It looks like the Brunswig Square building is peeking over from the next block, so we're looking at the SW corner of 1st and Central: https://i.imgur.com/1dMPqIV.jpg GSV I think that water tower has been seen in other photos here. A few letters are legible: "__C PUR_". Looking for a Sanborn map of where I thought the tank would be, I found: https://i.imgur.com/jOZyBO4.jpg lapl.org This shows a tank belonging to the Purepac Corporation, which was a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in New York. The lettering is hard to read, I think it might say "45,000 gal steel spklr ?? Elev. 60' abv ?? filled from city main by 120 gpm elec cent pump tank not in use" The Purepac Corporation had a mixed reputation, being the object of enforcement actions and court cases: https://i.imgur.com/RNTa7Ig.jpg US Nat'l Library of Medicine As a physician, I'm intrigued by such things as Dr. Meyers Nervine and Mdme Brady's Female Compound. I am guessing the former caused bromism (chronic bromine intoxication) which paradoxically causes the symptoms it purportedly was used to cure. |
Hey guys, this ghost sign was revealed last week on Broadway during the conversion of a space to WSS Shoes.
545 S Broadway - 'HARTFIELD'S' - I can't find any vintage images showing the space or that sign. Would love to see some. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4515/...d1f6e6ab_b.jpgWSS Shoes / Hartfields? by Hunter, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4523/...cf609ed4_b.jpgWSS Shoes / Hartfields? by Hunter, on Flickr |
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