Wonder how it felt to live here in 1928, after the San Francisquito dam burst?
Under construction, 1923
The LAPL's dating of its photos of this dam careen all over the place; it dates the one above 1937; I believe
they must mean 19
27. Similarly, some shots with a fully landscaped south face are dated 1925. Oh well, sifting
through the evidence is what we're here for, right?
Wondered for a moment what the strange body of water was a right...
The dirt is piled on in the early '30s...
Looking up Holly Drive from Odin Street, December 18, 1963. The LAPL caption to this shot, for what it's worth, says that "tall pine trees above home at end of
street, grows [
sic] on the front side of the Hollywood Dam." Anyway, it would seem that the dam was pretty well obscured by 1963. "Out of sight, out of
mind...."
Google Street View
All photos aside from the Google Street View:
LAPL
Note to
ethereal re the Chelsea Hotel's bellboy statue: it had to have been some sort of roadside advertising--don't know where this shot was taken, whether somewhere, say, just west of Cucamonga, or after it was discarded. Maybe one day it will turn up on ebay.... It would be the ultimate lawn jockey, wouldn't it?