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Old Posted Nov 11, 2013, 3:06 AM
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Thank you for the posts on phone company buildings. I always find those extremely interesting. The design of many phone company buildings was selected to look futuristic; often in the latest styles of their time. There are conservatively designed exceptions, but many of them wanted to be seen as the future in their communities. I've seen small cities with many conservative Neoclassical or Beaux-Arts styled buildings (from banks or local governments wanting to show strength and stability) and an Art Deco phone company building, as the future of communications and technology.

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Merchants National Bank
2001 E. 7th Street
Los Angeles
interesting side door along Mateo Street

detail
I love the detail in the grille work with MNB.
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Old Posted Nov 11, 2013, 3:39 AM
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You'll really like this one GW. The Occidental 'shuttle'.

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HossC, thanks so much for the vintage photos of the Merchants National Bank/Bank of America at 7th and Mateo.
It's great to see the building in it's prime.

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Old Posted Nov 11, 2013, 4:02 AM
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I love the detail in the grille work with MNB.
Good eye Matthew! It took me awhile to figure out what you were talking about.
Sure enough, the bank's initials are included in the grille work. SO AWESOME!
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I wasn't aware of this 48 year old LAX restaurant until the article in today's Los Angeles Times.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-p...#axzz2kBkvYLsF



If you're not a subscriber to the Times, go here...The Daily Breeze.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-n...plans-to-close

The Proud Bird is located at 11022 Aviation blvd.
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Thanks for the heads-up on this. The Proud Bird is where my Senior Prom was held several decades ago, and I'd hate to see it close out of pure, senseless bureaucratic fascism. But hey, welcome to the New Millenium.
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Thanks for the guidance

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4339106...3093/lightbox/
from Pasadena CHRID database
(My first time linking an image here; I hope it works)

This is our house, some years before we bought it 15+ years ago (it was in much worse shape by then). It's been on the CHRID database for decades longer than the date indicated. It was built in 1885. It's known as the Keil-Wilson house, after the lady who built it (Jennie Keil) and the family who lived in it from some time between 1900 and 1905 until they sold it to us over 90 years later.

We've completely restored it structurally now, and are in the (never-ending) process of restoring it cosmetically. We've been living in it for eight years now. We have received absolutely no help from any of the local Pasadena agencies and organizations except for the excellent Pasadena Heritage (who helped with professional references). No one was interested in helping us research the home's history, because to their knowledge no one they considered important was involved with the house's history. The limited resources available to us at the time did not give us any indication that they were wrong.

Then, I discovered this marvelous thread. All of you informed, committed, fantastic people taught me how and where to look for the kind of information I needed.

The result: I have found a historical connection for one of the home's residents that the local architectural cognoscenti will find relevant, and perhaps even important.

Put simply: the Wilson of the famous Batchelder-Wilson Company is the father of the Wilson we bought the house from. He lived here during his high school years (at least a few of them) and for several years thereafter. His mother lived here until she passed at the age of 106 in 1971. That explains why we found dozens and dozens of unglazed Batchelder tile clinkers used around the property for erosion control.

I have conclusive evidence of this, and will document it in due course, but for the time being, I just wanted to thank you all for your guidance. Without it, I likely would never have found it out.

[edit] Well, the link did not work per se, but at least you can click on it to see the picture. If one of you can smarten me up as to what I did wrong, I'd sure appreciate it.

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[edit] Well, the link did not work per se, but at least you can click on it to see the picture. If one of you can smarten me up as to what I did wrong, I'd sure appreciate it.
Maybe someone who uses Flickr can help you with the best way to do it, but in the meantime, here's your image. I hope you're planning to post some up-to-date pictures too.

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As far as I can tell (by which I mean that I've compared utility poles and trees), Brunger's Pharmacy once stood on the same corner as the Merchants' National Bank. The photo below is dated 3/26/17, and is described as "Distribution Lines - Joint-pole construction at 7th and Mateo Streets."


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Here's a slightly larger version of the center section.


Detail of photo above.
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It seems clear that the drugstore and the bank occupied the same corner, though there are a few oddities...Carroll E Brunger's pharmacy is listed in 1912, 1914, and 1915 CDs as being at 2006 East 7th, which would put it on the other side of the street. And the appearance of the shoe shop that doesn't appear in the older view--its bay-windowed building and boot-shaped sign--seem antiquated to have been post-1917 additions...but apparently they were.



West on 7th toward a gasometer and the Walnut Growers' building...

Vintage NLA: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13090


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It seems clear that the drugstore and the bank occupied the same corner, though there are a few oddities...Carroll E Brunger's pharmacy is listed in 1912, 1914, and 1915 CDs as being at 2006 East 7th, which would put it on the other side of the street. And the appearance of the shoe shop that doesn't appear in the older view--its bay-windowed building and boot-shaped sign--seem antiquated to have been post-1917 additions...but apparently they were.



West on 7th toward a gasometer and the Walnut Growers' building...

Vintage NLA: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13090


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I is most probable the locations are indeed not the same given location of fire hydrants and the variations in the power poles. there are other differences that would suggest the locations while similar are not the same.
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Actually, Retired, I'd be very surprised if the pharmacy and the bank didn't both occupy the northeast corner of 7th and Mateo. Utilities were and are constantly changing--streetcar routes altered--so changes in the poles and wires aren't really surprising. Even water lines could change, so it doesn't bother me that a hydrant--if that is indeed a hydrant--seems to be missing in the later views. (Perhaps the less-flammable bank building was sprinklered.) Even today, there appears to be only one hydrant at the intersection (sw corner).

It might be that Brunger was at 2006 E 7th until 1916 or so, then moved across the street to 2001 into the building formerly occupied by the Evans Drug Co in 1909 (and afterward by a couple of restaurants, according to CDs)...and then the picture was taken in 1917.


Here's a shot of 2001 East 7th in its original Merchants National Bank guise:

LAPL

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Hello to all,
I just bought a new camera a few days ago and a friend and I were driving
around Downtown so I snapped a few photos. let me know what you think

These first three feel a bit noirish to me.











all photos by me.

as soon as my schedule clears up I plan on going around the neighborhoods i grew up in, Highland Park and Lincoln Heights, to take pics of all the old remaining structures and victorian houses.
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-another lone sailor/Sunset & Main.

old cd of mine
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Hello to all,
I just bought a new camera a few days ago and a friend and I were driving
around Downtown so I snapped a few photos. let me know what you think
Thanks for sharing your photographs HLP. I especially like this one.

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Old Posted Nov 11, 2013, 9:24 PM
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Her early days in Hollywood

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posted earlier by GW -used in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2039

When I first read Mr. Anger's book in high school I thought Lupe was with Johnny Weismuller in this shot, when in the fact the man is Clayton Moore. I wasn't very observant, The Lone Ranger (Mr. Moore) is much hairier than Tarzan.

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Couldn't find much, but it looks like the Grattan Gables was next to an apartment building seen recently:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17214

LAT Oct 26, 1924
I can't be sure, but in the Peg O Los Angeles drawing, at the upper left, it looks like I'm seeing the same archway between the two wings of the current apartment building. Also, the depiction looks more like a typical hotel than the old watercolor. Could the apartments at 1500 have been part of the hotel at one time?
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2055 East 7th, across from the Ford assembly plant...


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LAT Oct 26, 1924


Couldn't find much, but it looks like the Grattan Gables was next to an apartment building seen recently:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17214

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I can't be sure, but in the Peg O Los Angeles drawing, at the upper left, it looks like I'm seeing the same archway between the two wings of the current apartment building. Also, the depiction looks more like a typical hotel than the old watercolor. Could the apartments at 1500 have been part of the hotel at one time?
I can see how you might have gotten the idea that the Grattan Gables Inn was being depicted, but the "Peg O' Los Angeles" column was a long-running feature in the Times--at least from 1917 to 1962. The illustration changed fairly often, at least until 1948, when it stayed the same all the way to '62. Here are a few samples... (as I do this, I'm thinking, this is really more ladylike than noir, but anyway, it's L.A....)


LAT Dec 9, 1917

LAT July 5, 1925

LAT July 25, 1927

LAT Nov 1, 1928

LAT Dec 19, 1934

LAT June 23, 1940

LAT Oct 19, 1947


It was the same from January 1948 to February 1962, when the column seems to have run out of ethyl...




All LAT

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Interesting before/after GW.

I'd love to break into 50 and see what's left of that pool hall.
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Using the Arwyn Apartments as a guide, I was hoping to locate the art deco building with the American Cancer Society sign.
Alas, unless I have the wrong street, it and the Frank's bakery/restaurant to it's right is gone. (the 76 gas station survives)


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