noirish Los Angeles

[Otis Criblecoblis]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Don't get me started on Frank Gehry... a non talent architect. One of his new college buildings on the east coast had to be torn down because it was impossible to maintain. That building was replaced by a ''normal'' building.

I agree with you, City Boy Doug, and I am alarmed that he has anything to do with something he couldn't possibly know much about, especially when the project is so shrouded in secrecy. It just seems that they're taking the whole matter of renovating the LA River unseriously.

[Earl Boebert]

Security Warning:

Twice recently this site has displayed a page containing a small box telling me my Adobe Flash installation is out of date and presenting a tempting button to click to get an update.

DO NOT FALL FOR THIS, IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO LOAD MALWARE ON YOUR MACHINE.

These pages are not the fault of this site; the site is an innocent third party being exploited by the malware writers who use targeted advertising as an attack vector.

What these people do is submit an advertisement to services like Google Adsense and it is the ad that contains code to trigger the display of malware-linked page. Since Adsense selects ads based on what they know about you (which is lots), one of us may see the malicious page while nobody else does because Google has rolled the dice differently for them.

Be careful, it's jungle out there :-)

Edit: per HossC's excellent advice, do not download flash from any site other than Adobe.

Earl

[HossC]

There was a genuine security alert concerning Adobe Flash in the first half of July. In my case I got a warning banner courtesy of Firefox. I then Googled to make sure it wasn't a scam, and downloaded the new version directly from Adobe's site. This doesn't affect Earl's warning about fake adverts.

If you do get caught, you can get free anti-malware software from www.malwarebytes.org, and always have up-to-date anti-virus software - there are plenty of free ones available.

[HossC]

I found this photo on eBay. The reverse says it's the Pasadena branch of the Automobile Club of Southern California, and dates it at 1923. No other information is given.
NB. I've grayscaled the image for clarity.


eBay

USC has this better image in their Automobile Club of Southern California collection. It's titled "District Office, Pasadena, 1933". There's also a big clue to the location below the mailbox.


USC Digital Library

I tried Googling for an address, but have drawn a blank so far. I did find this 1930 map which labels the branch office a few streets west of Fair Oaks Avenue.


Detail of image in USC Digital Library

This second USC image is titled "District Office (exterior), Pasadena (condition 2), 1938", but appears to show a different location.
NB. I've tidied some of the damage on the original image.


USC Digital Library

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

806-808 South Broadway

below: Here's a photograph from 1924. That's the Garrick Theater on the left and the Rialto Theater on the right. The Rialto is showing Harold Lloyd's "Hot Water".


https://sites.google.com/site/downto...heatres/rialto

Note that the Tower Theater...has replaced the Garrick.

Does anyone know what's going on with the building?

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I meant to reply before e_r, but got sidetracked. This one's been a long time coming. Steve Needleman from Anjac Fashion properties was set to turn this into 7 units (6K sq ft each except for the penthouse, which will be 10K), then he got sidetracked on a boutique hotel idea and now he's back to the 7 units with one retail space. DTNews has the story, but it's now over a year old (?)


gsv

[Godzilla]

Originally Posted by sopas ej

Aliso Street viaduct, early 1950s

USC archive

This of course is now the 101 freeway headed west into the LA Civic Center/downtown LA area. This photo really puts things into perspective for me, on how huge those gas storage tanks were. They look like they dominate the skyline. It's funny to me that those tanks basically were like a gateway into downtown when approaching from this route; I always associated the City Hall and the skyscraper skyline as being the visual focal point when headed this way. This would make a great "then" for a then and now. Looking at the lamp posts on the Aliso St. viaduct, I think it's a shame they couldn't have kept the old twin-pendant street lamps. This picture was also taken not too long after the Pacific Electric streetcar was abandoned through this area; you can see the curved right-of-way along the bottom left corner of the photo; the poles that held the trolley wires are still standing too at this point in time.

A glimpse of the bashful gasometers from Ducommun Street, circa 1926 . On the right is the Dept. of Water Works.



http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...68528/rec/9995



































http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=23627

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3585

[Godzilla]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Construction of the National Biscuit Company Building, 1924-25. (this set of photographs was purchased from ebay by jericl cat/flickr)


http://www.flickr.com/photos/7976130...pool-vintagela






http://www.flickr.com/photos/7976130...pool-vintagela





http://www.flickr.com/photos/7976130...pool-vintagela






http://www.flickr.com/photos/7976130...pool-vintagela







http://www.flickr.com/photos/7976130...pool-vintagela




view from the roof

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7976130...pool-vintagela

jericl cat


I believe this is incorrect. I think this view is looking east and the building in the distance is the old Boyle Heights Orphanage.

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The National Biscuit Co. Building today


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view from Imperial St.

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The National Biscuit Co. is one of the buildings featured on LA NOIRE.

http://lanoire.wikia.com/wiki/National_Biscuit_Factory


Today the building is home to the Biscuit Company Lofts.
http://www.biscuitcompanylofts.com/

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Another look.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...68528/rec/9995


1926

[Godzilla]

More from 1926 vvv


Interesting apartment complex shadowing another structure to the East. Both still extant.




2260 N. Beachwood Drive

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...68528/rec/9995



1926 2260 Beachwood Dr.

















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9_Gz6u3Xc



http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...1f6643eaed.jpg




http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...f69bc2ba1d.jpg

[Mstimc]

[QUOTE=Godzilla;7124757]A glimpse of the bashful gasometers from Ducommun Street, circa 1926 . On the right is the Dept. of Water Works.[QUOTE]

When I was a kid in the 60's-70's, my parents piled me into our 65 Chevy Biscayne to visit my grandmother, who lived in an apartment on Laguna, across the street from what is now the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of L.A. Coming in from the 5/101 interchange from the OC, those gasometers were the first sign we were hitting DTLA. I asked my dad what was in the tanks, and he said "Gas". That shocked me, because the old man owned a gas station, and I was amazed they'd fill tanks that big with flammable gasoline so close to downtown. Ah...childhood memories....

[Krell58]

Originally Posted by Earl Boebert

Security Warning:

Twice recently this site has displayed a page containing a small box telling me my Adobe Flash installation is out of date and presenting a tempting button to click to get an update.

Edit: per HossC's excellent advice, do not download flash from any site other than Adobe.

Earl

I always keep Flash disabled, the pages load much faster, and I don't waste bandwidth.
I do this all the time, not just on this site.

[MartinTurnbull]

I was contacted via my website last week by someone called Louella Rehfield, who turned out to be the niece of Hollywood golden era power-columnist, Louella Parsons. She sent me a couple of photos from her family photo album, which I thought I'd share here.

At the Moulin Rouge (which used to be Earl Carroll’s) on Sunset Blvd. From left to right: Barbara Ettinger, Mecca Graham, Louella Rehfield, her husband Jerry, Louella Parsons, and Ed Ettinger. Circa 1952 or '53. (This photo makes me realize I don't think I've ever seen interior shots of the Moulin Rouge incarnation of that venue. Kinda makes me wish we could see more of it.)



From left to right: Maggie Ettinger (big time Hollywood publicist and cousin of Louella Parsons,) Orry-Kelly (Warner Bros costumer and subject of new documentary,) Hearst gossip columnist Louella Parsons, and friend Mecca Graham at the Cocoanut Grove. (I know those palm trees were paper mache but they look mighty real in this photo.)



I ended up interviewing Louella's niece about her life in LA during the 30s and 40s, and for those who are interested, I posted it on my website.

[JScott]

Originally Posted by Godzilla

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...68528/rec/9995

This has quickly become one of my very favorite images of vanished Los Angeles.


"Bureau of Power & Light, National Biscuit Company, home-large castle, Southern California, 1926 [image 2]" (detail)
Dick Whittington Studio/USC Digital Library


Is this a 19th century street light?


"Bureau of Power & Light, National Biscuit Company, home-large castle, Southern California, 1926 [image 2]" (detail)
Dick Whittington Studio/USC Digital Library

[MichaelRyerson]

Anybody ever run across a Hotel San Bernardino in Los Angeles? Or Glendale or Burbank?

[Godzilla]

1930 - Service station at 3201 Beverly Boulevard. (Not far from the Beverly Building (3107 Beverly Blvd.) with its portrait hall of fame facade.)



http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/16320/rec/14













Schilling Plumbing was located at 3215 Beverly Boulevard.










Post No Bills (or else)





A sign that looks flight-ready.











The Beverly Building, 3107 Beverly Boulevard
http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...b346404d47.jpg

[Godzilla]

1930 - Erkes' Service Station, 3138 S Figueroa.














Veedol-Erkes Lubricating Laboratories (When it goes public, I'm buying.)





When Figueroa had sidewalks for walking.










"Quicker starts" or "power"?






Monarch of All. ( Does the House of Windsor know?)













http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/16320/rec/14

[srk1941]

What a wonderful interview!!!! How great that she contacted you, thanks for posting the link!

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull

I was contacted via my website last week by someone called Louella Rehfield, who turned out to be the niece of Hollywood golden era power-columnist, Louella Parsons. She sent me a couple of photos from her family photo album, which I thought I'd share here.

At the Moulin Rouge (which used to be Earl Carroll’s) on Sunset Blvd. From left to right: Barbara Ettinger, Mecca Graham, Louella Rehfield, her husband Jerry, Louella Parsons, and Ed Ettinger. Circa 1952 or '53. (This photo makes me realize I don't think I've ever seen interior shots of the Moulin Rouge incarnation of that venue. Kinda makes me wish we could see more of it.)



From left to right: Maggie Ettinger (big time Hollywood publicist and cousin of Louella Parsons,) Orry-Kelly (Warner Bros costumer and subject of new documentary,) Hearst gossip columnist Louella Parsons, and friend Mecca Graham at the Cocoanut Grove. (I know those palm trees were paper mache but they look mighty real in this photo.)



I ended up interviewing Louella's niece about her life in LA during the 30s and 40s, and for those who are interested, I posted it on my website.

[Godzilla]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Have we seen this children's hospital before? We probably have, but it doesn't look familiar to me.


ebay

That must be a sun room along the front on the third story.
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Started in 1901. Original location was DTLA , 769 Castelar Street (southwest corner of Alpine Street.) In 1913 moved to 4650 Sunset (Sunset and Vermont). Officially opened in '14, ceremony presided over by Woodrow Wilson (Via telegraph).




Original Children's Hospital on Castelar Street. Undated.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078343.jpg





1922 - When Sunset Boulevard was shovel-ready.




http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/388/rec/47



1922 - Looking west on Sunset from Vermont Ave. "Where have all the flowers gone?"

[Godzilla]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

It seems that Walter Leimert thought that with all the new bridges over the the LA River, people would start moving east of Main Street, evening out the westward population trend. Apparently after only a few years he gave up on that idea and opened Leimert Park to the southwest, providing a resting place of sorts for Our Lady of Noir. I knew Mr. Leimert was a major developer, but never knew his full story, which is well-told here:

http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures...mert-park.html

1934 - Leimart - Crenshaw Boulevard and 46th Street

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/62816/rec/74




































http://static1.stopklatka.pl/library.../105538162.jpg

[Godzilla]

1931 - 356 North Poinsettia Place

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/19442/rec/98





Looks like none of the original ornamental ironwork has been preserved.



















https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api...QGTu96z4DEhLQ=



Additional images of homes at 336, 340 and 344 N. Poinsettia Place here >>> http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../24146/rec/249

[AlvaroLegido]

Originally Posted by Godzilla

A glimpse of the bashful gasometers from Ducommun Street, circa 1926 . On the right is the Dept. of Water Works.

JScott : This has quickly become one of my very favorite images of vanished Los Angeles.

This was very evocative for Charlie Chaplin too. I guess it is the factory we see in "Modern Times" (ten years later).