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[robeach11]

I've noticed most businesses in that part of Carson list Gardena as their city.

Originally Posted by Bristolian

That is true but the cemetery itself still lists its city as Gardena. I've also seen it on old post cards. For the record, I came across them looking for Gardena collectables, not cemetery stuff.
I appreciate you not wanting to be THAT guy. I don't want to either but here I am pointing out additional trivial details...

Daily Breeze article on Pet Haven: http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...aven-cemetery/

[robeach11]

Dude in the car seems pretty chill about it.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Originally posted by Noir Noir






I took the google-mobile to 5348 Lemon Grove Avenue and this is what I found...




Obviously Mr. Clair's shenanigans created some sort of time portal.

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[Bristolian]

At least what's left of it. This cool old dairy farm property on Van Ness Ave. in Torrance is on the market and way more than likely will be redeveloped. I drive by this almost every day and it will be sad to see it go but it was probably inevitable. According to the real estate listing, the property has been owned by the same family since the early 1900s.

https://www.trulia.com/p/ca/torrance...04--2077791858









The property is currently two blocks deep but who knows how much land it encompassed in earlier days. This aerial is from 1952. The white L-shaped structure is the refrigerated building on Van Ness. The Dominguez Channel cuts across the upper right.

FrameFinder

Here it is just four years later in 1956 with a massive amount of development having popped up all around it.

FrameFinder

1941 in the middle of nowhere. At this time the Dominguez Channel was more of a meandering stream just out of frame here.

FrameFinder. Click link for complete aerial - https://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_imag.../c-7347_37.tif

[Noir_Noir]

Google Books - Farming in Torrance and the South Bay


"The Hudson Dairy was in operation from 1942 through 1981, when it was operating strictly as a store."


The dairy features at the halfway mark in this video on farming in Torrance -

Youtube.com - Farming in Torrance, Early History & Demise











Richard Hudson the last surviving member of the family that operated the dairy died in January of this year.

[Bristolian]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/14411042224...p2047675.l2557


Looking on eBay, there are milk bottles from different Hudson Dairies all across the U.S. but this is said to be from the Torrance location.

[Handsome Stranger]

Originally Posted by robeach11

I've noticed most businesses in that part of Carson list Gardena as their city.

Interesting. I wonder why. Is Gardena more prestigious than Carson? Or could property taxes have something to do with it?

Regarding the Hudson Dairy in Torrance - I'm just old enough to have witnessed the end of the era of farms in the South Bay. In the mid-1960s there was still a small family farm in Lawndale on Inglewood Avenue (it was a two-lane street then) and their roadside stand was open on weekends. My mother went there almost every Sunday when strawberries were in season. The last of the farms with roadside stands was the Ishibashi farm in Torrance; somehow they endured much longer than the others until they finally closed in 2012.

[Bristolian]

It doesn't look like they've produced much for a while but this property on 139th st. in Gardena has a surviving barn.

GSV

Google Maps

Also regarding South Bay farms, growing up in Manhattan Beach, there was an outlet store similar to the one at Hudson that was known simply as "The Dairy".
Back then I never wondered why but years later it became obvious that it too was what was left of a once operating dairy farm.

[ethereal_reality]

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Originally Posted by etherealreality

Here's an especially intriguing photograph from an old photo album that is currently listed on eBay



An emoji for anyone who can figure out what is going on.

..........................................And what, in homeopathic hell, is going on in the background?

Originally Posted by odinthor

e_r, 'tis a set of sales booths for


LA Herald, 3/2/1902

Note "Indian" in the ad. In the background in the photo, it's an Indian whooping it up, presumably because of the vim and vigor which Callala Herb Tea bestowed on him (or maybe it's a tree).

Excellent find Odinthor! Here's your well-deserved emoji.

But I don't see any Indian whooping it up in the background. Are you sure you're not looking at that ladies' mutant hat?


but I did wonder about the tall pole in the background. I can't decide if it's for utilities or simply for decorative purposes. To me it looks a bit like a trident.




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[ethereal_reality]

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Since we're in the East Lake Park area. . . .


Here's an original photograph currently on eBay of the "interior yard" of the Selig Zoo.


eBay

As you can see, the seller mistakenly called it the Zelig Zoo.





Here's a closer look.

I think the structure in the center is a stage. (for bands, perhaps)



If I remember correctly, the tall hill in the background is a reservoir!

and in the 1920s(?) it was breached and caused a destructive flood. ( that wiped out a dance club?) I can see the images in my mind but I wasn't able to find the old posts.

Does anyone remember that tragedy?


I was also looking for a map that shows the reservoir.
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[BillinGlendaleCA]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Since we're in the East Lake Park area. . . .


Here's an original photograph currently on eBay of the "interior yard" of the Selig Zoo.

If I remember correctly, the tall hill in the background is a reservoir!

and in the 1920s(?) it was breached and caused a destructive flood. ( that wiped out a dance club?) I can see the images in my mind but I wasn't able to find the old posts.

Does anyone remember that tragedy?


I was also looking for a map that shows the reservoir.
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The hills in the back are the Ascot Hills and they do have reservoir up there. I've shot sunsets up there with downtown as a foreground. The reservoir you're think of that burst is not in the hills where the current reservoir is, but down in the valley just north of the Selig Zoo as you can see in this 1921 map.

[Harrys]

hi all, don't know if this was posted before

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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If I remember correctly, the tall hill in the background is a reservoir!

and in the 1920s(?) it was breached and caused a destructive flood. ( that wiped out a dance club?) I can see the images in my mind but I wasn't able to find the old posts.

Does anyone remember that tragedy?


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Yes, I remember the Bohemian Gardens flood of page 2364:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=47272

Follow-up posts seem to continue through page 2369.

[ethereal_reality]

Yes, that's it FW. I was beginning to think I had dreamt it.


& thanks the Sanborn map, Bill. That map is exactly what I had in mind.


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[Harrys]

This is a compact 1958 entry-court house from California, situated on a narrow lot. The car shelter was moved around the front. On the rear there is space for a lovely terrace and garden, with large living and family rooms turn broad glass walls in that direction. Kitchen's in the center of things; bedrooms have a wing to themselves. Utility room could provide space for basement stairs if needed.

House size: 44x50 ft. (including the carport) | 1.400 sq. ft.

Architects: Jones and Emmonis A.I.A., Los Angeles

Decorator: Dan Aberle A.I.D., Los Angeles

Builder: Pardee-Phillips, Fullerton, CA.

[ethereal_reality]

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NEW DISCOVERY


Remember this rare snapshot from a few days ago. . .

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's an equally intriguing photograph from the same photo album

....................East Lake Park - L.A. ........................circa. 1904


eBay

I don't recall Sulphur Baths being anywhere near East Los Angeles.
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Originally Posted by odinthor

LA Herald, 5/30/1907

Note the identical phraseology between the ad and the writing above the door.

Here's an extremely rare look inside!

eBay


A description from the 1904 article posted by odinthor.


Los Angeles Times

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[ethereal_reality]

update:

I just noticed a sign with writing at the far end of the bath.


detail

I can't imagine where the restaurant was located. . .hopefully away from the sulphur smell.


P.S. I think there is a slide on the left.
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[Lwize]

1903 church at 1376 E 18th st, LA 90021 just destroyed by fire.

Any info on its history?


(GSV, hosted by me)

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A massive blaze ripped through a landmark two-story church near downtown Los Angeles Friday evening, prompting more than 100 firefighters to respond to the scene.

LAFD said firefighters responded to the 118-year-old church located at 1376 E 18th St. after the blaze erupted around 7:45 p.m.

Intense flames chewed through the building's roof as firefighters tackled the blaze.

All Metro Los Angeles A Line train service was shut down along Washington Boulevard between Central Avenue and Hooper Avenue until firefighters finished operations in the area.

By around 9 p.m., firefighters appeared to have gotten the upper hand on the blaze.

The church, which was built in 1903, was vacant at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported.

It took 116 firefighters two hours, 16 minutes to extinguish the blaze at the 7,151 square-foot structure amid heavy flames and arching, fallen high-voltage power lines, LAFD said.

The church was most recently occupied by the Christian Light Missionary Baptist Church, but the building was recently listed for sale.

It was not immediately known what caused the fire. An investigation is ongoing.

https://abc7.com/downtown-los-angele...lafd/10981866/

[ethereal_reality]

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I happened upon this photograph of a Pacific Electric car a few weeks ago on eBay.


Can any of you transit aficionados (I'm looking at you HENRY HUNTINGTON) tell me what the contraption attached to the front of the rail-car is?


eBay

It looks like a big waffle maker but I doubt that's what it is.

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[ethereal_reality]

In keeping with the transit theme. . .


I had completely forgotten that Los Angeles had a car ferry until I happened upon this color slide on eBay.



eBay (no longer listed)

MUNICIPAL FERRY ISLANDER OF LOS ANGELES ...(is written on the side)







Here's a slightly closer look.



The car are cool. (there's even a tow truck) I believe there's a guy sitting on his bicycle next to the blue car.

P.S....I tried to read what's written on the tow truck but it wasn't to be.



So where was this ferry going that people needed to bring their cars with them?
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[HossC]

Shamelessly copying from Wikipedia:

The Municipal Ferry Building was built in 1941 as a Works Project Administration (WPA) project, built at Berth 84. It was designed in the Streamline Moderne style by architect Derwood Lydell Irvin of the Los Angeles Harbor Department. It has a five-story octagonal clock tower. Its "sister ferry terminal" was across the main channel at Berth 234, also Irvin designed in the Streamline Moderne and built by the WPA in 1941.

It was a working ferry terminal from 1941 to 1963, for the ferry connecting San Pedro and Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor. During those years, the double-decked ferries "Islander" and "Ace" transported thousands of passengers and automobiles to and from the tuna canneries, docks, shipyards, and military bases on Terminal Island.

In 1963, the Vincent Thomas Bridge was completed, connecting mainland San Pedro to Terminal Island, and the ferry service became obsolete. The ferry service was terminated on 14 November, and the bridge opened on 15 November.

The San Pedro terminal building was used for many years as an office building by the Los Angeles Harbor Department. The ferry terminal building on the Terminal Island side was demolished in 1972 to expand cargo operations.