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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
The Lawlor Professional School/Denny hobby shop building was originally the office of the Taft real estate concern. A. Z. Taft had a good bit of property along the north side of Prospect Ave/ Hollywood Blvd, including a lemon grove between Van Ness and Wilton. His son A. Z. Jr. developed the grove, running Taft Avenue up the middle; the arroyo-stone pillars marked the tract's entrance. Both are seen in the photo in this prior post: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5418 |
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Thank you
GW, I was hoping this was one of the neighborhood gates you knew. I'll bet neighborhood kids were constantly climbing these.
When I first saw the photo, it instantly reminded me of the charmingly hokey fruit and nut exhibits at the State of California Building, which were such a hit at the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition:
Mabel Normand posing with an elephant made of California walnuts:
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com
Cow made of California almonds:
U of WA Library
and, of course, this one:
U of WA library
There's still some beautiful blocks of homes on the Taft tract. Makes a pleasant drive in one's Googlemobile.