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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson
'course we can go all the way back to the Montana Grocery store days...
Montana Grocery Store on the corner of Temple Street and Hill Street, November 1908
Photograph of Montana Grocery Store on the corner of Temple Street and Hill Street, November 1908. A sidewalk is visible in front of the two-story store along the two roads, although neither road is paved. A sign advertising Coca-Cola is legible in huge lettering on the side of the building, below the clapboard veneer. The sign for the grocery store itself advertises "Fresh Fruits, Cigars and Tobacco," and "Laundry Agency". Utility poles line the side of Hill Street. Trees are visible at the top in the background at the top of the hill at the intersection with Court Street.
USCdigital archive/Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
and we can then step across the street (Temple) turn around and take another snap...(here you get a nice sense of the second Los Angeles High School's location)
View of Hill Street looking north from Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906
Photograph of a view of Hill Street looking north across Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca.1906. A man stands with his hands on his hips in the middle of Hill Street in the center foreground. The Montana Grocery is to his right and bears an advertisement for Western Star Soap. People walk along the sidewalk behind him. A wrought-iron fence stands in front of a two-story house further back, which is partially obscured by trees. In the background, the clock tower on Los Angeles High School on Fort Moore Hill can be seen. More Victorian-style residences line the street to the right. Utility poles enter the frame from the right foreground. The streets are apparently unpaved.
USCdigital archive/Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 |
Could the bottom image (dated ca. '06) actually be later than the first (dated Nov. '08)? The advertising painted on the clapboards has expanded and the closest utility pole seems to have grown another cross arm.
I have wondered whether the second image didn't give rise (literally) to the notion of a levitating house on its way to Oz. Notice the building that appears to float or be balanced on a single support. Coincidentally, L. Frank Baum, of Yellow Brick Road fame, had several residences in Downtown and Hollywood, including 2322 Toberman Street and 1749 N. Cherokee Avenue (aka "Ozcot.") Read more about it here:
http://allanellenberger.com/l-frank-baum/
Ozcot (undated, Cherokee and Yucca)
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