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[ethereal_reality]

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Today we have a mystery construction slide!

"Vintage 1960s Kodachrome Photo Slide Los Angeles California Skyline Scene 1968"


eBay



As I am wont to do, here is a closer look.




Good luck minions!



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[ethereal_reality]

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We have a bonanza of construction photos today!


This is from a different eBay seller so I don't believe it's the same building as in the previous post.

"City National Bank Construction Photo 1960s Los Angeles California Building"


eBay

Obviously the building is almost complete but it's fun to see the construction sign.

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[ethereal_reality]

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A mystery location currently on eBay


"VTG 1900s Historic Los Angeles Residence C.H. Wade Calif. Architect Estate Photo"


eBay

There appears to be a barn(?) being built on the right.


From the back. . .





Also from the back.




Good Luck!

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[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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We have a bonanza of construction photos today!

This is from a different eBay seller so I don't believe it's the same building as in the previous post.

"City National Bank Construction Photo 1960s Los Angeles California Building"

Obviously the building is almost complete but it's fun to see the construction sign. .
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I notice that sign says "An underground walkway to Pershing Square Garage"!"

I'd imagine that tunnel is still there, no?

The sign also says "A New Los Angeles Landmark."
It doesn't have that connotation to me, but I suppose in the broadest terms possible it could be.

City National Bank Building

CTBUH=Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Height: 106.1 m / 348 ft
Floors: 24
Structural Material: All-Steel
Official Name: City National Bank Building
Type: Office Building
Construction Start: 1966
Completion: 1968
606 South Olive Street
Los Angeles
#71 - Tallest Buildings in Los Angeles

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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A mystery location currently on eBay


"VTG 1900s Historic Los Angeles Residence C.H. Wade Calif. Architect Estate Photo"


eBay

There appears to be a barn(?) being built on the right.


From the back. . .

2233 Fern Dell Place. It was built in 1924 as 2238 E Live Oak Dr--that street is up the hill--I didn't dig into when the address changed, but it seems to be after Wade died in 1939. Charles H Wade was the prexy of the State Building and Loan Association. The barn is actually the east end of 2251 Fern Dell Pl--which seems to have started out in the fall of 1926 addressed 2250 Live Oak....


Seems there has been no GSV car along Fern Dell Pl....

[unihikid]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Today we have a mystery construction slide!

"Vintage 1960s Kodachrome Photo Slide Los Angeles California Skyline Scene 1968"


eBay



As I am wont to do, here is a closer look.




Good luck minions!



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Wilshire Bl. is the focus, isn't that the Temple, and the IBM building near the construction ? The Ambassador would be too low to be seen. Just a guess.

[ethereal_reality]

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Thanks unihikid.

Here's my 2 cents.

I think the building circled is the old Union Oil Headquarters built in. .um. .1955(?).





It has the same slight V shape. (see below)



usc digital archive 1955


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Excellent sleuthing on the Wade residence, GaylordWilshire.

And thanks for the information on the City National Bank Building, Martin Pal...I've never heard about the tunnel connecting it to the parking lot under Pershing Square but it makes sense.
If any of you norishers live or work downtown perhaps you can scope it out for us & take some photos.
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[ethereal_reality]

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This is interesting. I don't believe we have seen the Aragon Avenue School on NLA.


Currently on eBay




Let's take a closer look.



I wonder if that's the school up on the hill on the right. - - - - >

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[ethereal_reality]

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The first thing that came to mind when I saw this thumbnail. . .





GIANT FEZ EATS LOS ANGELES!


eBay

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[VC351W]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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This is interesting. I don't believe we have seen the Aragon Avenue School on NLA.


Currently on eBay




Let's take a closer look.



I wonder if that's the school up on the hill on the right. - - - - >

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No, that not the school. That’s my childhood home. The school is to the left of the school children. The school building at that time would be very different from the building that currently sits on the site.

[odinthor]

gsv

[ethereal_reality]

Yep, that's right where they were when they had their picture taken over a hundred years ago!

Good eye, odinthor!

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[stanklem]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Thanks unihikid.

Here's my 2 cents.

I think the building circled is the old Union Oil Headquarters built in. .um. .1955(?).





It has the same slight V shape. (see below)



usc digital archive 1955


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Excellent sleuthing on the Wade residence, GaylordWilshire.

And thanks for the information on the City National Bank Building, Martin Pal...I've never heard about the tunnel connecting it to the parking lot under Pershing Square but it makes sense.
If any of you norishers live or work downtown perhaps you can scope it out for us & take some photos.
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Definitely NOT the Union Oil Building. Look at the horizontal spandrels that are not on the Union Oil. If the Union Oil there should be the 405 and buildings in front of it.

I've seen this building before. Cannot put my finger on it. The building under construction is in reality two buildings, one partially in front of the other. Those might be spires on top or two tower cranes.

[sopas ej]

My guess is that is a southwesterly view towards Wilshire Boulevard, and the high-rise under construction is The Equitable Building on Wilshire: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0617...8192?entry=ttu

I don't know what the building circled is, though.

Hmm, could it be the Ambassador Tower, on 7th and Irolo? https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0605...8192?entry=ttu

[riichkay]

Until encountering this sign I had no idea the city was doing this.....




The sign, at W. 4th St. and S. Kingsley Dr., memorializes the murder of Ofcr. Thomas Scebbi in the early morning hours of June 20, 1958.

The story is that Ofcr. Scebbi and his partner, Ramon Espinoza, were working that night in their prowl car out of Wilshire Division....sometime after midnight they received a be-on-the-lookout call for a man who had robbed a liquor store in the area....they proceeded to canvass the streets and eventually turned up S. Kingsley Dr.

At 2:30 AM they saw a man walking alone past 322 S. Kingsley, improbably he was wearing white gloves....the officers stopped him and approached....turns out the man, James Hooten, was an ex-con casing the neighborhood for a house to burglarize....he was packing a .22 caliber handgun, stolen the day before, under his shirt....the gloves were to protect against fingerprints.

Hooten thought he could BS his way out of the scrape, but as one of the officers indicated a pat-down he panicked: "I thought I could bluff them out of searching me," he said later. "I gave one cop my ID. The other guy looked like he was going to frisk me. Something inside me snapped. All I know is if they found that stolen gun, I'd be back in stir. I didn't want to go back."

He pulled the gun and opened fire, striking both officers, who returned fire and hit Hooten in the left leg....Scebbi crawled back into the car and called in the shooting before he collapsed....he was pronounced dead at the scene....




Backup arrived.....





Ofcr. Espinoza was critically wounded and taken to Central Receiving Hospital, where he eventually recovered....Hooten was found on a nearby lawn and was transported to a hospital prison ward....



"Suspect screams in pain as Nurse Wini Gronvold cleans left leg shattered by police bullet. Detective Sgt. Eugene Danforth stands by to question Hooten as soon as he can talk after treatment".


After recovering from his wounds Hooten was promptly convicted, and executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin on May 13, 1960 (11 days after the execution of Caryl Chessman in the same room).....


Thomas Scebbi, left, and Ramon Espinoza....




Additional details here.....http://www.cemeteryguide.com/LAPD-Scebbi.html

[Godzilla]

Originally Posted by sopas ej

My guess is that is a southwesterly view towards Wilshire Boulevard, and the high-rise under construction is The Equitable Building on Wilshire: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0617...8192?entry=ttu

I don't know what the building circled is, though.

Hmm, could it be the Ambassador Tower, on 7th and Irolo? https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0605...8192?entry=ttu

Buildings to the right of the construction appear to be the Tishman complex at 3440 Wilshire.


https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=31069





https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/api/...06/default.jpg

[sopas ej]

It was that Tishman complex that gave me the clue; I know that area from my childhood. St. Basil's Catholic Church is near there, I'd go to Mass with my family there when I was very young.

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Here's an ad, don't know if it's been posted in this thread before. Not sure of when the ad was made, nor what model year Cadillac this is:

Source unknown

[Mackerm]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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The one with the Tishman buildings was maddening because of the low angle. Maybe because the camera was tilted, it looks like we're facing southwest, when it's actually looking southeast across Wilshire. I spent a lot of time searching for Italianate churches, and finally worked out that the one lower-right of center was the chapel at the entrance to Hollywood Forever cemetery.

The photographer was probably in the tower at 6255 Sunset Blvd, and the circled building is 3345 Wilshire Blvd.

[VC351W]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Yep, that's right where they were when they had their picture taken over a hundred years ago!

Good eye, odinthor!

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One more from a hundred years ago. Aragon elementary from Roseview Ave. Near San Fernando Rd.

I found this picture of a midget racer at the TESS LAPL digital photo collection.
https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll...hotos/id/81868

I can’t seem to figure out how to post the picture. Any suggestions?

[stanklem]

Originally Posted by sopas ej

My guess is that is a southwesterly view towards Wilshire Boulevard, and the high-rise under construction is The Equitable Building on Wilshire: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0617...8192?entry=ttu

I don't know what the building circled is, though.

Hmm, could it be the Ambassador Tower, on 7th and Irolo? https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0605...8192?entry=ttu

That is not it either. The photo is taken from a raised vantage point. I see a number of perfectly white buildings in the foreground suggestive of a campus or studio. I looked everywhere south of the hills and...nothing.