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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Whoa, that was fast FW! It's good to know they're still standing.
It looks like the middle one has added a port-hole window (and maybe a curved corner)
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There's more port-holes on the front:
741 s bristol, santa monica (1939) / gvs
It's a pity the owners felt that they had to add the chain-link round the back.
Zillow listing:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7...20469320_zpid/
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Originally Posted by RudyJK
I wonder if that white wavy retaining wall is still there amidst the shrubbery?
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Nah, it's gone:
https://www.homesnap.com/CA/Los-Ange...nue?a=30877273
google maps
P.S. Does anyone know why the neighborhood bulges into the country club like that? There's that extra heavy line of trees running SE along Centinela & Carmelina too. Looks like a watercourse:
google maps
ETA: Oh, here we go, it's Brentwood Canyon:
http://westsidetoday.com/2014/09/19/...-lost-canyons/
"It is amazing that Brentwood Canyon survived. Although sections were filled in for Sunset, San Vicente and Montana Blvds. and the Brentwood Storm Drain project in 1960 obliterated most of the canyon that ran through the Brentwood Country Club, the canyon is still mostly intact. Had the developers come in the 1920s or later it is possible most of the canyon would have been filled in, but at the turn of the 20th Century the heavy machinery to do so wasn’t readily available and not cheap. Plus, the canyon added a rustic charm that helped put the “park” in Brentwood Park. Although Brentwood Canyon ends just north of Wilshire, it once extended further to roughly Santa Monica Blvd. and Berkeley Street. The dip in Arizona between Centinela Avenue and Franklin Street in Santa Monica, for example, is part of Brentwood Canyon."
The abrupt end of Brentwood Canyon at the 1100 block of McClellan, just a block north of Wilshire:
gsv
The vestigial "dip in Arizona", south of Wilshire:
gsv
Brentwood Canyon, 1924, dry as a bone, looking SE from the air above Brentwood Country Club:
lapl (detail)
The water tower (upper right corner, above) doesn't exist anymore, but the Mt Olivet reservoir is still there on Franklin St.
(Marilyn Monroe spent much time at her psychiatrist's, Dr Ralph Greenson's, 1946 house near the reservoir at #902 Franklin Street.
She bought her own home just north of the country club.)
The Brentwood Park development:
http://brentwoodpark.org/about/park-history/ (North of
Brentwood Country Club)
Little canyon remnants snaking all over the place:
google maps
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