...because I'm too lazy to put them all away, and when I do, they're not coming out of their workboxes for a while. Soooo...
Wash between Lincoln and Walnut -- 1962 structure now houses an Ortho Mattress.
I don't use the word
cute often or well, but damn that's cute. Now the site of a pretty good 1958 lo-rise office building.
Now the parking lot of Otto's Cleaners at Slauson and Van Ness. This place has (had) a li'l noir history to boot:
proquest
August 24 & 27, 1955. Back to the books:
Much can be said of the Morrison Hotel. Many a tale of misery and woe about five years ago when its owners were hauled before a judge for their slum conditions there. So they evicted 120 tenants and boarded it up and it sits empty today.
Built for Belgian-born tycoon Victor Ponet, the Morrison Hotel was designed by the master architectural firm of Morgan, Walls & Morgan and run up by builder F.O. Engstrum for about $95,000 in 1914. Though that firm’s career was brief (1910-23), it left an enduring mark on the look of downtown L.A., with still-standing designs like the Globe Theater, the Arcade Theater, and the Hass Building gracing South Broadway and the dramatic Santa Fe Building dominating its neighbors on S. Los Angeles and W. 6th Street. from
http://www.saje.net/site/c.hkLQJcMUK...e_Goldmine.htm
Another survivor...sort of...
Really? Of all the Deco-yness and tile and so forth, that's what we have to show for it? And it is the original structure; City records indicate this as having been built in 1937.
(Joe Borgia ran the Chateau Trianon, a French-themed nightclub, at 8610 Sunset.) I like how the landscape behind has remained basically the same:
Another liquor store:
...of course at the time, demographically, "White Spot" didn't seem so curious a name for the middle of Compton.
This is a "feature" matchbook, which is damn lovable:
This corner (Temple is now Bullis) is a dirt lot. Again, hafta wonder if it fell to the Rodney King riots. Apt, thinking about that, as the beating was twenty years ago today.
Read all about mobsters and pirates (government agents as pirates -- awesome) here:
http://cruiselinehistory.com/?p=2764
Programmatic goodness:
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/02/local/me-then2
Four remain;
Mr Cecil's Ribs,
Kim Chuy,
Roche Guadalajara, and
Valley Dealer Exchange. I'm kind of tempted to patronize
all four in one day.
More mimetic architecture! And a happy ending. Awww.
The Barrel! It has a new lease on life:
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...eservation.php Ok,
not the one on the matchbook (the site is a '50s medical office with flagcrete and eyebrow canopies), but one on Vineland in NoHo. Which's been approved as a landmark, and with some perseverance (and luck) someone special will move in and restore her, and start a-pouring suds again.
Cheers!