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Thanks also for your gracious request to see up-to-date pictures of our house. I was reticent to do that because a Victorian in Pasadena is not terribly Noirish, but I guess a few won't hurt, if the links cooperate. http://webpages.charter.net/rspencer..._4501_2_3M.jpg Here it is looking a bit Noirish, just before the Big Blow took out the pine directly in front of the house. I'd just finished restoring the north side. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KIdFFTieWd.../IMG_2431M.jpg Here it is after I'd finished the south side (a huge job) and the middle front dormer. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oDMxS76XHa.../IMG_2426M.jpg Here's a detail showing the High Victorian color scheme we're using. Reflections in the surface make the dark red sash look unevenly painted, but I assure you, in real life it looks fabulous. I discovered while working on this dormer evidence of bargeboards in the front dormers, but of course we'll have to get approval from the Cultural Heritage Commission before we replace them. At this writing, I'm working on the north front dormer, although work has been stalled while I recover from a bad bout of tendinitis. I have a blog on which I discuss the restoration work in detail: http://ocriblecoblis.blogspot.com. I haven't posted there in a while, because I haven't been working on the house, but I will be posting again soon; I'm going to be presenting my research findings concerning former residents, and in any event I'll be back painting soon In the meantime, there is some good information therein regarding techniques and procedures, and some swell lolpix. Plus, you can read about my contribution to discography! |
:previous: That's absolutely wonderful Otis! Thanks for sharing it all with us here at NLA.
side-note: The thread long ago ceased to be noirish in the strictest sense. It's more like "panoply Los Angeles". :) -and that's a good thing. __ |
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Glad you got the image posting worked out, Otis. The "now" pictures look great.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...WesternAv1.jpg USC Digital Library There's another interesting building on the far right of this scene. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...WesternAv2.jpg Detail of photo above. I believe that this one survives, although it's in a pretty sorry state. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...WesternAv3.jpg GSV I can't read the sign in the vintage photo, but GSV gives the address as somewhere around 729 S Western Avenue. Googling that address gets loads of results for C.P. MacGregor Studios, which shows up under "Electrical Transcriptions" in the 1939 CD. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AMacGregor.jpg http://www.digitaldeliftp.com |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps52810be8.jpg LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics08/00013606.jpg It's interesting to compare the surrounding neighborhood in the above photo with a similar photo from 1926 that Tourmaline (and also BRR) posted: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17501 |
The Stilson-Botsford House in Angelino Heights
I know you guys have covered the Victorians of Angelino Heights before on NLA but I don't think anyone has ever mentioned the Stilson-Botsford House. It was probably one of the grandest in the neighborhood, with thirty rooms including a ballroom on the third floor. It was built for William Stilson, one of the original developers of Angelino Heights (along with Everett E. Hall, who jointly filed for ownership of the tract. It was then spelled "Angeleno Heights.") He built his own house on the northwest corner of Carroll Avenue and Edgeware Road in 1887, but died in the 1890's. The house was then purchased by California Bank president William Botsford. Here's a few photos of the place from the 1890's:
http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps36dd5c2c.jpgLAPL http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7cac7270.jpgFlickr Like most of its neighbors, the house was converted to multi-family use and was altered. This one seems to have been dealt an unfair share of remodeling. Ready to cry? Have a look at the Stilson-Botsford House these days: http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2aa46d42.jpgFlickr No wonder this house is never mentioned alongside its neighbors, that never saw alterations of this scope and are all more or less restored now. You might even be wondering if you're looking at the same house in the modern day pic. Just compare the second floor bay window on the right side of the facade, that's the most telling feature that still (sort of) exists. The above photo is from 2006. Google Street view tells us that, as of 2011, the house has been painted a darker brown. Somehow it doesn't help much: http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psae0f6adb.jpg http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps030c2f4c.jpgGSV In the screenshot above, you can pick out a few details here and there that are visible in the 1890's shots. Not much though. Wonder if the house is even restorable? And I wonder what's left of the interior. |
From the Silver Screen to a Sitcom Punchline
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Your unique brand of tongue-in-cheek adventure mixed with sincere curiosity as I've learned now makes me laugh appreciatively, E.R. I Grok it in fullness. Got me thinking about Hollywood Billiards. I lived for awhile up on Bronson just above Franklin in the mid '80s. A couple of times I ventured into the billiard parlor in the basement of the The Hollywood & Western Building at 5500 Hollywood Blvd, being already documented here at NLA. I was really impressed by the fancy woodwork framing a somewhat casual (low-life) environment and I knew from what I could see that it had deep history and better reputation but at that time I had no real historical understanding being a relative newbie to L.A. I moved here in '79. I wonder what's left of it after the squatters and then "re-modelers" had their way with it. Check out this website just for kicks: http://troymartin.com/billiards.html This video of Charles Bukowski was posted there (no doubt you've already seen it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xey8sffnFvk ... and then this even more-to-the-point video on the actual building from the same website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhO6bvnLZQ http://troymartin.com/images/hollywoodbilliards2.jpg http://troymartin.com/billiards.html |
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I'm totally smitten. Her body language here is timeless.... Look at the antique sitting next to her. That's maybe your granny in a similar situation. Lupe's image is exactly the personality I'd used to always fall for and usually got, much to my and her suffering. (I had a thing for Edie Sedgwick too...) I have since learned... but I'm still stimulated by her image here. Not so much the others of her. |
Hollywoodland Stairs
These stairs are at Beachwood Drive and Woodshire Drive, and lead up to Belden Drive. This is a 1929 photo:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa7715b46.jpg USC Digital Library -- https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset...nt/2A3BF1GG55T The house at the top of the stairs is 2950 Belden, built 1926/27. The house at the bottom of the stairs is 2829 N. Beachwood, built 1924/remodeled 1945. A closer look; how long did the waterworks work? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psdbbffda7.jpg January 2011: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps03a61d37.jpg GSV November 2013, from the bottom up: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps26678331.jpg Photo by me The plaque: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps42454782.jpg Photo by me From the top down; you can see repairs where the water used to flow: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps87251fab.jpg Photo by me |
Stilson house post
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I know you guys have covered the Victorians of Angelino Heights before on NLA but I don't think anyone has ever mentioned the Stilson-Botsford House. It was probably one of the grandest in the neighborhood, with thirty rooms including a ballroom on the third floor. It was built for William Stilson, one of the original developers of Angelino Heights (along with Everett E. Hall, who jointly filed for ownership of the tract. It was then spelled "Angeleno Heights.") He built his own house on the northwest corner of Carroll Avenue and Edgeware Road in 1887, but died in the 1890's. The house was then purchased by California Bank president William Botsford. Here's a few photos of the place from the 1890's: http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps36dd5c2c.jpgLAPL http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7cac7270.jpgFlickr Tetsu - Thanks so much for posting these two great photos of the Stilson house. I have never seen closeup photos of it until now. I have often wondered how much of the original structure is left under that remodeling and whether the house could ever be restored. I discovered Angeleno Heights in 1966 and at that time met Charles Pinney of 1355 Carroll Avenue. Pinney gladly showed me the ground floor of his home and also the garage where he had his early 1950s Cadillac stored. He told me he was 93 and had lived at the house since 1887. I'm thinking he may have moved away and moved back, but I'll never know. Pinney lived to be 106. His father, Henry, had bought their house at the northeast corner of Carroll and Douglas as well as the adjacent lot because he did not want a neighbor abutting his property. That lot now contains a huge tree. ------------------------ |
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I'm happy to see a reference to Jennie Keil, because we've always found her to be quite an interesting historical figure, and have been dismayed at the way she's been ignored by the local historical cognoscenti. It seems to us that any woman transacting business on her own initiative in late Victorian times would merit a closer look than has been accorded Mrs. Jennie A. Keil. She built this house in 1885 as an income property on an acre of land, specifically as a rental unit, according to tax documents. I don't have my documentation handy, but I believe it was at the corner of a 600-acre tract. In any event, I know that we are at the corner of what is now known as "Keil's Lakewood Tract." You can find a lot of information about the house at the blog. |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520AM.bmp.jpgcredit. Ok. But the author of Beverly Hills Confidential ("Emmy-award-winning journalist" and the writer of the HuffPo article) insists that the photo below is an actual shot of Lupe as she was found by the police. Perfect makeup, flat on her back with feet pointed skyward, dress that just happened to slide provocatively up one leg...she even tries to tell us that Lupe may have "collapse[d] onto the floor" and wound up as pictured. Please. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...2520AM.bmp.jpgHuffPo The HuffPo article is worth reading for the comments. I was given the book by a friend a few years ago and I have to say--it's not great. While Hollywood Babylon may be full of fables, at least Anger had a sense of humor, and I'd guess would have been smart enough not to take this photo seriously. Anyway, stars live by smoke and mirrors and they die by smoke and mirrors. My favorite line about Gary Cooper--supposedly uttered by Clara Bow--was that "He was hung like a horse and could go all night." Somewhere else I've read that he was actually a slam-bam type. As if anyone really knows. We all prefer our myths--what are stars anyway, but myths? |
I keep finding new items of interest in the large "Cityscape" photo where I found the Hotel Louise/Cortez recently. Over to the left of the Rex Arms is the Westmoore Hotel/Apartments which was discussed on this thread at the beginning of this year. The close-up is a little fuzzy, but it gives a wider view of the "soul-sucking addition" (e_r's description) with its surrounding buildings. The row of stores on the right was taken out by the Harbor Freeway.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AWestmoore.jpg Detail from photo at USC Digital Library One of the photos in the "Statler Hotel dispute" set posted by Flyingwedge shows that the building on the left of the photo above is the Zenda Ballroom. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LA/LAZenda.jpg USC Digital Library That means that the photo below, originally posted by FredH, shows the corner of the Westmoore's addition at the far right. http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6413/zenda.jpg FredH/USC Some of the previous posts on the Westmoore: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11768 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11786 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12099 |
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Found another shot of 330 N. Main, if an even sadder one: http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6881/k2px.jpg HDL |
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I'm afraid Beaudry beat you to it: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16322 I was going to ask a similar question about another color demolition picture in the Huntington Picture Library. This is (was) the Grand Central Hotel on Main Street in a photo dated 2/1/57. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ndCentral1.jpg Huntington Picture Library Grand Central Hotel in better times. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ndCentral2.jpg USC Digital Library |
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