noirish Los Angeles

[Blaster]

I recognize humanitarian/actor Jean Hersholt in the International Earth Day line-up, as well as actor Walter Slezak.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

The auctioneer gives a date of 1961 for that gorgeous William Claxton shot.

(I couldn't get your link to work)

Hi t2

Here's the link that wasn't working (sorry about that). It gives the date as 1954. (see photo below)

http://wehadfacesthen.tumblr.com/pos...oto-by-william


http://wehadfacesthen.tumblr.com/pos...oto-by-william



But they also had 1953 for awhile (now I'm totally confused)




Artnet agrees with the 1961 date.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/willia...QqFFSRY8RpLrQ2

And showstudio.com also has 1961 as the date.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/498984833684936262/


To me the clothing looks 1950s. Yet, I probably would go with 1961 because that date comes from an auction house, right?





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Thanks for locating the 'Little Tokyo' / Nardoni Bail Bonds mystery pic.

ebay

Originally Posted by HossC

The 1956 CD shows the Nardoni Bond and Insurance Agency at 130 N San Pedro Street, with Mack's Dry Cleaners at 130½.

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[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by Tehmeh

YouTube clip of 1954 LA Herald Express color movie highlighting LA as a growing hub for business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ix2GiENpXY
YouTube

Thx Tehmeh. Fun times.



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[ethereal_reality]

I just happened uop this noirish looking interior on ebay.



See it here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Linen-Postca...4AAOSwUKxYiSfV


here's the reverse
ebay




I tried to find a photograph of the exterior, but so far I've only found this ad showing the roof garden.


http://collection.pasadenadigitalhis.../id/3517/rec/5


Postcard: Crown Hotel and Apartments, 677 E. Colorado Street, Pasadena Calif.

Ad: has a different address. 685 E. Colorado Street

[HossC]

Today's Julius Shulman post comes to us from Pomona. It's "Job 3877: Kurt Meyer, Lytton Savings and Loan Association (Pomona, Calif.), 1965".



Many of the walls are large slabs (of travertine).



I've omitted several of the exterior pictures, but I liked this one.



A bit of color to start the interior shots.



The shape of the counter mirrored the exterior design.



This is the only view of the upper floor.



All from Getty Research Institute

The building is still standing at 300 W Second Street, Pomona. There's an informative article about its design and the materials used at laconservancy.org. From the article:

The Pomona branch of Lytton Savings no longer serves as a bank and is currently utilized as part of the campus of The School of Arts and Enterprise, a public charter high school. Now known as The Downtown Center, the ground floor is utilized for the school’s office, theater, computer lab, and art gallery, while the upper floor is used for classrooms.

GSV

The church seen on the right of the second images is also still there. It's the Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 360 W 3rd Street.


GSV

[HossC]

Across the street from the Lytton Savings building, and beating it to downtown Pomona by 40 years, is the 1924 First National Bank building at 301 W 2nd Street. Old GSV images show it as The Vault Club, but the lower windows are now boarded over. A page at you-are-here.com attributes the design to Alexander Curlett & Claud Beelman, but I haven't been able to corroborate that.


GSV

The undated pictures below are all from imagesofpomona.blogspot.com. I've enlarged them slightly.

[ethereal_reality]

Man, Eagle Rock and Billboards

1930?

John Spencer at https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...4d245005b3.jpg

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[SHERIFFPAUL]

LATL car 1523 in an accident involving two cars and a motorcycle, 1946 in front of the Arroyo Seco Branch library. | Image courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.

[SHERIFFPAUL]

The Old Soldiers Home in Los Angeles is seen in this photo from 1892. The land was donated to the VA by landholder Arcadia Bandini de Baker in 1887, who specified that it should be used to house wounded veterans.


Courtesy of NPR

[SHERIFFPAUL]

Engine Company No. 15
Courtesy LAFire.com
Early Los Angeles Fire Department-Engine Company 15. THE FIREMAN'S GRAPEVINE, May 1953

Looks like a church.

[SHERIFFPAUL]

May 4 1939 union station big gun Courtesy of Pinterest

[CityBoyDoug]

I think this artistic yet bizarre postcard is from the early 1940s.


CD file

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Hi t2

To me the clothing looks 1950s. Yet, I probably would go with 1961 because that date comes from an auction house, right?
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I think 1961 is correct.

William Claxton was a very interesting guy. From Pasadena, he and Peggy Moffitt, an iconic 60s model, were married for 48 years, until his death in 2008. His photographs of her were also iconic.


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Re the Crown Hotel, Pasadena and the lack of photos:

"There are still some things I like in Pasadena, like a $2 movie theatre called The Academy, but when I go there it makes me sad to see all the places I knew and loved as a child torn down and replaced. In particular, I miss how the area on Colorado Boulevard referred to as the "Playhouse District" used to be, before it was all revamped to be 'an eclectic, cosmopolitan community rich in history and architecture'(according to its website). Before it was revamped, my mom's best friend Bill owned the best used bookstore ever, and it stood where a Laemmle's movie theatre now stands. The Bookstore was called House of Fiction. It was flanked by a cool old tux shop nobody ever went in and a gay bar called Nardi's that had good songs on its juke box you could hear through the walls of the House of Fiction. Next to Nardi's was an indigent hotel called Crown Hotel. I loved these buildings, which were all torn down.

I can usually find anything I am curious enough about on the internet, but I can't find any images of these buildings I miss, the tux shop and Bill's store and the gay bar and the residential hotel."
prettypasadena


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Originally Posted by HossC

Across the street from the Lytton Savings building, and beating it to downtown Pomona by 40 years, is the 1924 First National Bank building at 301 W 2nd Street. A page at you-are-here.com attributes the design to Alexander Curlett & Claud Beelman, but I haven't been able to corroborate that.

Colorized:

pomona pl

"Pomona - Plans have been drafted by Curlett and Beelman, Los Angeles architects, for a five-story building to be erected for the First National Bank of Pomona at the cost of $225,000."
- Western Banker, 1922



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[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by SHERIFFPAUL

Engine Company No. 15
Courtesy LAFire.com
Early Los Angeles Fire Department-Engine Company 15. THE FIREMAN'S GRAPEVINE, May 1953


Looks like a church.

SHERIFFPAUL, here is the first Fire House #15. It was replaced by the 'Tudor' structure shown in your photograph.

1890

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/3159/rec/11

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by rick m

Simon's Circle Bar (notorious hustler joint) appears 1st in 1956 directory , then became Nebb's Coffeeshop (with bar far in the rear) in 1963 listing.

Is this the Nebb's rick m is talking about in the above quote?


Jericl Cat on flickr

Here's rick m's complete quote. I just re-read it. The address he mentions is 326. W. 5th St.) -so it's a bit confusing....to me anyway
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=13888






Here is 319 W. 6th St. today.

gsv

A & A Jewelry Supply, 319 W. 6th St.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...s+angeles+ca&*
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[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

While I was hunting for more images of Buster Keaton's Italian Villa I came across this on pinterest.


pinterest

Originally Posted by tovangar2

This studio covered four blocks (and a bit), not all the same size. The eastern boundary was Lillian Way from Eleanor south to Waring.
The western boundary was Cahuenga, again from Eleanor south to Waring EXCEPT between Romaine and Willoughby,
where it bumped out to Cole on the west, making a double-wide block there. Also, the top of the block bound by Willoughby/Waring, Cole/Cahuenga was used.

Red Studios "History" web page is here

Metro Studios Wiki page is here

Metro Studios, Eleanor (foreground) at Lillian Way (left)

water and power

Originally Posted by HossC

I hope I have this right . . . was the bungalow with the "BUSTER" KEATON COMEDIES/METRO STUDIOS sign on the SW corner of Lillian and
Eleanor, with the rest of the Keaton studio on the south side of Eleanor?

Because if that's where the studio was, this plaque on the NW corner of Lillian and Eleanor would seem to have been misplaced:




This looks SE from the NW corner:



FW Photos


The plaque is referenced at about the 25:20 mark of the 1957 This is Your Life episode with Buster Keaton.

[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by SHERIFFPAUL

LATL car 1523 in an accident involving two cars and a motorcycle, 1946 in front of the Arroyo Seco Branch library. | Image courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=23903

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

...this plaque on the NW corner of Lillian and Eleanor would seem to have been misplaced:

Yes, the plaque is in the wrong place. The bungalow was under "Eleanor" on HossC's map.

[C. King]

Originally Posted by SHERIFFPAUL

Engine Company No. 15
Courtesy LAFire.com
Early Los Angeles Fire Department-Engine Company 15. THE FIREMAN'S GRAPEVINE, May 1953

Looks like a church.

This station was replaced by this Cold War-esque building in 1950. It appears to have been shot after the new station was built. The windows on the apparatus floor doors are papered over.

LAFD Station 15 (University Village) by LAFD42, on Flickr Pic by me.

USC needed the property to expand, so they built on their dime a new better looking station on the Southeast corner of Hoover St and 30th St. Opened in the last year or so.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0268...2!8i6656?hl=en
GSV

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Yes, the plaque is in the wrong place. The bungalow was under "Eleanor" on HossC's map.

Thank you. As Howard Cosell once said, "Who goofed? I've got to know!"