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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Thanks for trying M_P. I haven't found anything on the Rancho Grande either.
FredH. I enjoyed your series of before & after photos of S. Main and 51st Street.
originally posted by FredH
I was going to joke about the 'bird' on the Main St. sign (thinking it was actually a wire connector behind the sign.
But after looking a little closer, I see that it's throwing a shadow onto the sign, as if it's perched on it.
Hmmm...so is it a bird after all?
Here's a wooden survivor on 51st just off Main St.
GSV
Further west on 51st Street, nearer to Broadway, is this impressive survivor.
GSv
Between the two are numerous bungalows with some fine craftman's details.
GSV
CBD had mentioned the many empty lots, and the inability to get investments in the area.
So I was surprised/pleased to see this large construction project rising on Main St. across the street (and a little bit south)
of the corner store shown in FredH's black & white photograph from 1932.
GSV
And as if by magic, here it is finished. (time traveling from one google-car to another)
GSv
I must say it's a nice looking project. (especially compared to some of the other projects being built in L.A.)
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In your "now" pictures of Main and 51st there is a pink house, located to the right of the newly constructed project. That is the house where Emil Aarup, the owner of boat and engine shop lived with his wife and family. It appears mostly unchanged from when it was built in 1907 ( according to the assessor's office)
Emil Aarup was born in Denmark in 1878. He became a naturalized citizen in 1890. He initially lived in New York. His occupation on his naturalization papers indicates he was a boatbuilder. Emil was in California by 1908 when he appears in a directory as a boat builder in Long Beach, working for Fellows Yacht and Marine Construction. In 1910, he then appears in a directory as living Alameda in the bay area. He was a boatbuilder there. This may have been a subsidiary of Fellows.
By September of 1918, when he filled out his draft registration card for WWI he was living in Los Angeles and working in Wilmington as a boat builder for Fellows and Stewart, Inc. At that time he was living. with his wife Elizabeth and two children, in a neat bungalow at 945 W. 45th, Los Angeles. This house, built in 1908, is also still there. The family appears there in the 1920 Census.
Emil appear in a 1925 directory at the Main street address which appears in the pictures. He has his own shop and it is listed as "Marine Engines". They probably were living across the street by that time.
Emil Aarup died in October of 1940.
for someone who can post pictures, find a picture of Emil's shop on Main in the Los Angeles Maritime Museum's Research Library Collection at
http://www.lamaritimemuseum.org/cate...cripts/page/2/