noirish Los Angeles - Page 904

Those Who Squirm! · #**18061** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 7:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

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Originally Posted by BiffRayRock

1938 - San Gabriel Art Gallery on W Santa Anita Ave. (Exact location undetermined)

GSV

Northwest corner of W Santa Anita Ave and S Mission Drive, San Gabriel...

And on this forum, when we determine a location it stays determined.

Joe Gillis · #**18062** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 7:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

fun souvenir folder

ebay

-odd photo/why is the sailor's date excluded?
-perhaps this was the photographer's first day on the job.

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Bill Paxtons old man perhaps??

GatoVerde · #**18063** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 1:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

The Buffalo Cafe at 1326 S. Main Street in 1929.

The lighting fixtures on either side of the door are extremely cool.
Does anyone have an idea what is attached to the wall between the cafe and the tire shop next door?

usc digital library

Below: The unveiling of the Buffalo Cafe as a speakeasy.

usc digital library

Here's a link to a google maps recent view of this site. This is still here, sort of. Looks like a fire took out the top floor not to long ago:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1322+...4izTTnLtbU84Pg

GatoVerde · #**18064** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 1:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by gsjansen

These two shots, the 1st one taken in 1937, and the 2nd in 1968, (only 31 years apart

) are identical views taken from the same location, above Beaudry between 2nd and 3rd street looking due East at bunker hill.

1937

1968

Cal State Library

simply amazing..................

I see that the palm trees are still there in '68, although thirty years taller. I wonder if they are still there now.

Lwize · #**18065** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm

Awesome story.

I made a somewhat similar discovery in my old neighborhood, near the Nuart Theatre in West L.A. In the very center of the small block bounded by Sawtelle, Corinth, Santa Monica, and Idaho there is apparently a 1906 house which I can't seem to find in Bing Maps or Google Earth. I'll have to drive over there one of these days to see if I can at least identify the building, although I don't expect it to be be a pure vintage Edwardian bungalow necessarily. After all, old buildings do get enlarged, refinished, stuccoed over, and so on.

Another odd thing about this is that in this case there are two parcels with the same Santa Monica Boulevard address; the other one being a typical storefront that faces the boulevard. Outside of condominium units, I've never seen multiple parcels sharing a common street address.

I think the "house" may be a small bungalow. I circled two possibilities:

(Google satellite, hosted by me)

The blue-striped building labeled "3 day suit broker" is the only thing closest to the center, but it has a warehouse-style roof - certainly not a 1906 home.

Sweet Los Angeles · #**18066** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 5:24 PM**

I love this thread! It's taken me a couple of years to read everything, but I've learned so much! I think I need to start at the beginning again as I've slowly gotten acquainted with old LA, the beginning posts will mean much more the 2nd time around.

A big thank you to everyone who posts! I appreciated it!

HossC · #**18067** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lwize

I think the "house" may be a small bungalow. I circled two possibilities:

(Google satellite, hosted by me)

The blue-striped building labeled "3 day suit broker" is the only thing closest to the center, but it has a warehouse-style roof - certainly not a 1906 home.

I think you can rule out the building on the left as it doesn't appear on this 1952 aerial. The picture isn't clear enough to tell whether the one on the right was there or not.

Historic Aerials

Several property websites (eg. trulia.com) list the nearby 1750 Sawtelle Blvd as being built in 1906. It's currently a church, but the Google aerial view shows three smaller buildings behind. They all appear on the 1952 aerial.

GSV

ethereal_reality · #**18068** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 6:15 PM**

1958. I wonder what business occupied the 1905 Kate Stamps building at this point in time? (portion of a sign at far right)

ebay

1967/ Less than nine years later the landscape is devoid of all buildings. -this sucks.

ebay
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ethereal_reality · #**18069** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 6:23 PM**

A tourist (Vivian) posing in the parking lot of the Earl Carroll Theater, 1942.

ebay
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HossC · #**18070** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

1958. I wonder what business occupied the 1905 Kate Stamps building at this point in time? (portion of a sign at far right)

ebay

Royal Liquor according to this photo taken a year earlier.

photosofwar.net

ethereal_reality · #**18071** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 8:37 PM**

Thanks HossC. Decades as a vegetarian restaurant...then a liquor store.

1961/El Paso in the Ferguson Building.

ebay

1963/Rear view of the Ferguson Building at Third and Hill.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3345511...57626195546712

I believe this PBR sign is in the Ferguson Building as well. (from The Indestructible Man 1956, that's Lon Chaney Jr.)

gsjansen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/3345511...57626195546712

I just noticed the Eastside Beer sign through the cable-car window
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HossC · #**18072** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:06 PM**

We've had a few posts about Tanner Motor Livery recently, but I haven't seen any mention of this phone number before. The OXford exchange would suggest Pico Rivera/Whittier, but they seem to be advertising their branch at the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel. Any guesses? Their number in San Diego was Main 3111.

www.cookbkjj.com

As well as Tanner Motor Livery limousines, there was also Tanner Motor Tours operating The Gray Line. These brochures all date from the '30s and '40s (according to their sellers).

All from Ebay

These tickets/passes are even earlier. Note the TRinity phone number and 324 So. Beaudry address on the one from 1927.

Ebay

Tanner Motor Tours could even meet your ship for a day-long tour of the city. This poster is dated 1928.

USC Digital Library

The picture below shows one of Tanner Motor Tours' Fageol Safety Coaches in 1931.

USC Digital Library

ProphetM · #**18073** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Grand Canyon Limited? Here's some info.

wikipedia.com

As an aside, that connecting line from the Williams Santa Fe station to the Grand Canyon is still in operation as the Grand Canyon Railway. I took the train to the south rim with my family in 2009.

Martin Pal · #**18074** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 9:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

A tourist (Vivian) posing in the parking lot of the Earl Carroll Theater, 1942.

ebay
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I'll add another I found recently, to go along with this one.

LazaroStory

Caption: Michael [Lazaro] (left) and 2 buddies in front of Earl Carroll Theatre in Hollywood, 1943.
(Along with over 1200 other Marines, Michael was to lose his life in the Pacific battle of Peleliu the following year.)

A noirish view of the E.C.T.:

Bob Plunkett
From Kenneth McIntyre's post in Photos of Los Angeles

ethereal_reality · #**18075** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 10:24 PM**

I just added this to my Christmas wish list.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannhell/5711779665/

one viewer's comment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannhell/5711779665/

another comment simply said

lol at those two over-sized ducks.
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ethereal_reality · #**18076** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 10:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by GatoVerde

Early image showing Vignes Winery, early site for Brew 102 and home of sacred Gabrielino council Tree later known as El Alisal (from this website:http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...a-history.html) The image is looking east from Fort Hill, shows the plaza cistern in the lower left and the Vignes site and council tree are in the middle right, site of the later brewery.

GatoVerde, here's an earlier post on the 400 year old Sycamore, El Alisal/Aliso.

tovanger2
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10490

Martin Pal · #**18077** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 10:50 PM**

I have not found this to be posted here before. It's my understanding that the original Earl Carroll's Theatre neon sign was gone by the '60's, but Los Angeles' Museum of Neon Art (MONA) has recreated it and recently, at least, it was at the Universal City Walk...I need to go see it. I haven't been to MONA since they moved, after 30 years, to Glendale, but I should go there, too! I don't know if it was built to the scale of the original, which was twenty feet high.

ThomasHawk/Flickr

Martin Pal · #**18078** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 10:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I just added this to my Christmas wish list.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannhell/5711779665/
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Speaking of re-creations...now that is amusing!

P.S. Where is it located?

ethereal_reality · #**18079** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 11:01 PM**

"Amies Bible School"

ebay/sept2013
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Here's a view that I first posted back on April 28, 2010.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1144

As most of you know, Sister Aimee's famous tabernacle is just out of view in these two photos. (to the west)

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GatoVerde · #**18080** Posted **Dec 5, 2013, 11:15 PM**

Does anyone have any info on the Harrelson Block located on the South side of Third Street between South San Pedro and Wall Street. The block and adjacent buildings look pretty old. I thought perhaps somebody else here might be able to shed some light on these forgotten, and perhaps soon to be razed buildings.

Here are some photos I shot a few days ago:

Building on the SW corner of Third and Wall. The early facade covered in stucco:

Eastern face of previous building showing what may be original window and shutters: