noirish Los Angeles

[vivacaz71]

Originally Posted by westcork

Great shot.
I was going to save this one for another post. This looks like the same neighborhood, but from a different angle. This comes from the section of the LAPL database that covers various slum clearance efforts.

LAPL

This is Amelia Grade School on Gary St. My father went to this school and lived on 400 block of Gary St.. Great pic, it made his day! Just right of the pic would be the corner of Gary St. and Jackson St.

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here is the Hitching Post on Hollywood Blvd.


http://hollywoodphotographs.com/deta...?c=43&i=1&r=96
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They should still have those signs in theaters:

"Check your guns at the box office."

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[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by PicoDeGallo.Net

I had to find the angle. This is what I got. I hope i added to this thread.

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Excellent PicoDeGallo. That's it.
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Yes, thank you, I understand that photo perfectly now!

[Jungmann]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

They should still have those signs in theaters:

"Check your guns at the box office."

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The Hitching Post did. It was a sheet of plywood with pegs on it--you'd have to hang up your cap gun and belt on one of the pegs and collect it when you left. My grandfather used to take me there in the late 40s. He loved Westerns--a Russian immigrant, he'd read cheap pulp Western novels in Russian while he turned the crank of a huge flywheel in the basement of the carpentry shop where he was apprenticing with the other hand. Entering the States from Canada, it wasn't long before he moved his family to Boyle Heights. One motive, besides opportunity in LA, was to be closer to the legendary West, My mom remembered driving to the beach down Pico one weekend day in the late 20s and my grandfather stopping to watch a crew shoot a Western on the Fox acreage, until studio guys told him to move on--the family was in the shot.

[Martin Pal]

Thanks for sharing that, Jungmann. I like those kinds of stories on this forum, that go along with the photos!

[Blaster]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

They should still have those signs in theaters:

"Check your guns at the box office."

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I like the father (presumably) wearing the Indian head band and feather.

And what's that bag at the curb?

[HossC]

I don't think this Julius Shulman subject needs any introduction. It's "Job 45: Beverly Hills Hotel (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1947". There are 36 images in the set - I've picked 10.



I bet these palms are bigger now!



Note the Champagne bucket and glasses on the left.



There are more glasses on the bar in this photo.



I wish this bedroom picture was in color, because that sofa looks pretty bright.



Some of the rooms feature these wavy partitions walls.



Here's the entrance to the Polo Lounge.



The pictures on the wall suggest that this is the inside of the Polo Lounge.



A (dining) room with a view.



I don't know which room is shown in this last picture, but I like the wavy lines.



All from Getty Research Institute

[tovangar2]

Some of the rooms are identified here

[oldstuff]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

I believe this photo is new to NLA.

JK.....Its actually my mom. She was born in 1921, so she must have been about 4 or 5 in this photo. They lived in Hollywood at that time.


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I have a picture at home which has one of my family members around the same time in what appears to be the same goat cart. Now I will have to find it.

I am also hunting for a picture which I want to match with the one of the boy and his dog fishing at Toluca Lake. The boy in the picture looks like my dad, or possibly one of my uncles and the dog is very like their dog at the time, I just have to find it.

[tovangar2]

Does anyone know where the Hollywood Park subdivision was? The ad says to get off the Hollywood car a mile west of the Hollywood Hotel, which is the only clue, but I can't lock down the boundaries:


la herald 16 march 1912

[BifRayRock]

[Arthur] Taube Plumbing. 3200 Wabash Ave. 1928, per source although address appears in '32CD. Hill probably made moving heavy water heaters . . . awkward.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...oll170/id/5917



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Where did Charles Ray shop for plumbing?http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=38035

Nautical motif, circa 1936 (?) (A similar image appeared on ebay but has since vanished. Ship's log does not indicate where she dropped anchor. "987"?)

Taube Plumbing Supply Co.

Street No. "987"
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/4415b1abd226e4f5_large

[odinthor]

LA Times via Proquest via CSULB Library


LA Times via Proquest via CSULB Library

It seems the name changed from Hollywood Park Terrace to just Hollywood Park.

Edit: "The tract is located at the crest of Cahuenga Pass" (Los Angeles Times, 12/21/1921).

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here are a couple more 'mysteries' from 1985.

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#2

emb, flickr2 1985

Mateo Street near E 4th Place.


Google Maps

[rbpjr]

My favorite ER pix is the one where he is in front of the old casino on Catalina Island...looking like a make model for a travel magazine...

[tovangar2]

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[tovangar2]

Thank you odinthor.

I think the ad is for the West Hollywood one (I still can't quite imagine the boundaries). The one in Cahuenga Pass is east of the Hotel Hollywood.

There was another on Lankershim with its "Wonder" springs.

Too many "Hollywood Parks"

[59imperial]

Hard to believe that the tower-like structure seen in the Taube Plumbing photo (not the ship but the one on Wabash Ave) of both the historical and GSV has survived. At first I thought it was a support structure for an overhead sign, much like what you'd see as a gateway sign to a small town Main Street business district. But upon closer inspection on GSV the structure is a power pole. Never seen anything like it.

[Flyingwedge]

This is 720 S. Westlake Avenue:



Jan 2017 GSV


You have to get an aerial view to see it has a rear section with three stories, plus there's a little house in back.
Please note the two third-story corners that face Westlake Avenue:



Google Earth (looking east)




Bing (looking northwest)


This is how the Westlake Hotel appeared on the 1950 Sanborn Map:



ProQuest via LAPL


The Westlake had a major remodel in 1939; there are building permits for new rooms and baths and the construction of
a 15-foot-deep addition to the front of the building (September 6) and for exterior stucco (November 10). This is how
the Westlake looked before the remodel:



1906 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL


This undated photo of the Westlake Hotel appears to have been taken after 1922 (see note at end of post). You can see
why today the building's third-story corners look the way they do:



CA State Library


This postcard view of the Westlake -- which first appears in the 1898 LA City Directory -- has a message that's dated
April 25, 1905, so obviously this photo is at least that old. The kid in the street is standing on the edge of a circle he's
drawn in the dirt, and he's holding a stick in his hand:



486993 @ Huntington Digital Library


The building to the left of the Westlake Hotel in the above photo, 716 Westlake Avenue, was moved in 1922 (BP dated Oct 26)
to 1254 W. 84th Street, where it still is today, though it's cut down to one story and hard to recognize.

[unihikid]

Originally Posted by HossC

I don't think this Julius Shulman subject needs any introduction. It's "Job 45: Beverly Hills Hotel (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1947". There are 36 images in the set - I've picked 10.


I don't know which room is shown in this last picture, but I like the wavy lines.



All from Getty Research Institute

If you look to the right you see a very very very rare Hammond Novachord..it was Hammond's attempt at making a synthesizer which was a success for radio and tv broadcast but over all a flop. These command high prices now, the last one i saw on ebay went for 18k and it wasn't complete!

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[Hollywood Graham]

Originally Posted by 59imperial

Hard to believe that the tower-like structure seen in the Taube Plumbing photo (not the ship but the one on Wabash Ave) of both the historical and GSV has survived. At first I thought it was a support structure for an overhead sign, much like what you'd see as a gateway sign to a small town Main Street business district. But upon closer inspection on GSV the structure is a power pole. Never seen anything like it.

Apparently there are several in a line down Wabash.