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:previous: It looks quite extravagant doesn't it. I'm guessing the white 'pillar-like-things' are portable heaters.
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No sign of the columns yet, but I did come across this picture of the pool. How sad that all that signage in necessary these days, just in case someone tries to dive into 30" of water. "View is of the new pool on the roof of Metro 417, the old Subway Terminal Building, located at 417 S. Hill St. Photograph dated September 13, 2005." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original LAPL I'm going to continue calling it the Subway Terminal Building - Metro 417 just doesn't sound as good! Regarding the pool, one comment on yelp.com says, "We found the hot tub on the roof was constantly shut down...". Here's another view of the pool. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original www.acmartin.com The same site also has this image of the area where two of the urns used to be. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original www.acmartin.com |
:previous: Good job Hoss. I was looking for photos of the patio but didn't find any.
Remember this colorful photo from earlier this week? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/WpGjf1.jpg [/URLhttp://www.pacificelectric.org/los-a...and-jefferson/ Quote:
By sheer coincidence, I happened across this black and white photograph that shows the same segment of street in the early 1960s. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/XCLKdh.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/921/wcwR8D.jpg Alumni Review, Oct. 1963 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/234571/rec/2 :previous: I was trying to get the two photos next to each other (they were on facing pages in the periodical, page 10 & 11) I knew it was the same street by Dr. Felcher's sign. (kindly pointed out by broadway_central_bldg) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/8LrhNx.jpg detail __ |
This photo was posted today in the "SoCal Historic Architecture" Facebook group... is this "Masonic Temple" building next door to the "Terminal Market" we've been looking at? Or is the "Hill Street Station" in the bottom right corner a different building?
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The second image does not look like an village, although they could be Kizh people at a mining camp, perhaps. The two tipis are interesting and something not likely to be in California, so it's kind of weird. I had previously gone searching looking for images of remnants of the Yangna or other local villages and I did come up with this image, which was captioned as being taken at the Los Angeles River, but no more information was provided. http://www.califaztlan.org/LANoirPic...manAtRiver.jpg |
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...from a recent article in lacurbed. "The coffered ceilings on the ground floor are plaster, Frallicciardi says as he walks through the cavernous space, triggering the staggered motion-sensor lights and revealing it to be largely empty. The room was once the lobby, the entry point to the terminal where thousands of people a day would have gotten their tickets and boarded Red Cars bound for destinations across the city. The columns were originally wrapped in terra cotta, but "a major renovation" that pre-dates Forest City resulted in "the loss of the column cladding and the installation of a suspended ceiling" that really messed up the original plaster, according to a 2006 report on the place from the National Register of Historic Places. Light streams in through a mouse-sized hole in the ornate ceiling; there's a skylight behind it that runs nearly the width of the room." :previous: I wonder if the author meant to say the 'length' of the room? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/Q4gVjO.jpg Bianca Barragan at http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/2/111042...ls-los-angeles http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/KEkwAV.jpg http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/2/111042...ls-los-angeles __ More photos at: http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/2/111042...ls-los-angeles |
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Great before & after shots. I wonder if that ceiling was originally painted, like the similar one in the restored lobby of what was the office tower (now lofts). http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...g%20detail.jpg That's a fake cobweb attached to the light fixture (it was Halloween). As long as we're here, I also liked the mural above the front entrance showing a streetcar coming out of a tunnel: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1318.jpg detail of this: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1317.jpg my photos |
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As long as we're here, I also liked the mural above the front entrance showing a streetcar coming out of a tunnel:
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1318.jpg detail of this: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1317.jpg my photos[/QUOTE] There are complimentary mosaics at each of the main entrances...one (the former entrance to the offices) represents various aspects of business/commerce and the other [pictured] (the former entrance to the subway) represents various aspects of travel/motion. Both are beautiful and we are lucky they were never altered/removed in the past as so many other great Beaux Arts buildings were at ground level!!! |
I'm sure we're all familiar with the Sunset Tower on Sunset Boulevard, but I don't remember seeing this pool and these cabanas before. It's Julius Shulman's "Job 2248: Palmer and Krisel, Sunset Tower, cabanas and pool (Los Angeles, Calif.),1956". I've omitted two images as they didn't show anything different. All the pictures in this set are black & white, so if anyone has a color picture...
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute At some point, this larger pool complex replaced the one seen above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Google Maps At least there's some nice ironwork on the De Longpre Avenue side. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/0Kd7P7.jpg was built on the footprint of the 1896 Masonic Temple, which was demo'd in 1925. Originally the market was built by the PE Ry as the ticket office and waiting room (Rittenhouse Bros, archs, 1925) but was remodeled into a public market by CC Rittenhouse Jr in short order (1927), because the actual Subway Terminal Bldg had opened. It was demolished in 1957. That little "Pacific Electric Hill St Station" shed next to the Masonic Temple was by Hunt, Eager & Burns, put up in 1908, also demolished in '25 with the Masonic Temple. Mid-20s is a good guess in dating the pic, B-C-B, because this was shot before the 1925 demolition of the shed, but after the erection of the 1924 Bliss & Faville Pacific Telephone & Telegraph bldg at 433 S Olive, which you can see in the background. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1583/...54587af3_o.pngusc This building is still there, of course; it was just clad in concrete/gunite panels by Woodford & Bernard in late 1972. And famously painted with Frank Stella's mural "Dusk" in 1991. That Masonic Temple was really something. Just massive, multiple 2000sf lodge rooms, an entire Scottish Rite Cathedral on the third floor, designed by Bradbeer & Ferris, 1896 (Bradbeer was a brother). Peck & Chase had their undertaking establishment on the first floor, so that many a fine masonic funeral was held there, and so large they could host the annual convention of California Funeral Director's Association. I've never seen images of the inside. I asked a brother from the Henry Wilson Coil library about it but never followed through... https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1474/...ccb46406_o.png |
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Wow, thank you, Beaudry! I had no idea that concrete-clad building under the AT&T tower was the same stately structure in the background of those shots-- I almost can't believe it... And, HossC, thanks for the extra perspective there. I feel like I have a whole new understanding of the block outside my window!
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One of the photos looks like the one the Times printed in September 1956 about the recently opened pool & cabana http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/9-16-56.jpg 9-16-56 LAT The DeLongpre side of Sunset Tower before the pool http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...9_10778-00.jpg UCLA with zoom Standing in almost the same place May 2014 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ongpre2014.jpg I concluded that the whole concrete structure is new material. I also took this not very pretty shot of what survives of the garage in May 2014 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...gpredetail.jpg Not long after the pool went in, construction started on the apartments seen in the modern Google view from DeLongpre, at 8400 Sunset. Same owners as Sunset Towers and architects Palmer & Kristel again, is was called Sunset West. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0%20sunset.jpg lat 10-7-56 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...958%208400.jpg May 1958 ad for Sunset Tower West. lat 1956 view of the Strip near Sunset Tower http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...014%201956.jpg lapl 1960s view of the same vicinity http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/ssstrip.jpg from a postcard, files. |
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