noirish Los Angeles

[BifRayRock]

Wonder Woman, the beginning or mobile microwave prototype? Soon every garage will have one.



Undated. Woman and Westinghouse generator - Montebello, Pacific Tube Co.




http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/7616/rec/791

[srk1941]

I think these photos are from an earlier standalone modern shop within J.W. Robinson, probably late 1920s. Based on the merchandise, geometric Art Deco furniture and decoration, it doesn't feel like 1934... Looks like they are trying to update their store to compete with Bullocks Wilshire!

The interiors for the 1934 rehabilitation are attributed to Dodd and Richards, but were really designed by Erle Webster, who partnered with another Dodd and Richards designer Adrian Wilson, to form Webster and Wilson in 1935. William Dodd was the artist in the Dodd and Richards partnership, and he died in 1930.

I've seen photos of the 1934 interiors, and they are not so Deco, more of the mid 30s streamlined modern. There was a wonderful nail salon, with wood panelled walls and mural by Millard Sheets in the lobby. Very luxurious. The nail station room looks like a Fred and Ginger set.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

A rare look inside J.W. Robinson's Department Store at 600 W. 7th Street, 1930s.

Photo #1

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Photo #2

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Photo #3

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Photo #4

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Earlier post (from way back on page 42!) showing the exterior transformation, 1934.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...&postcount=912

I imagine the interiors were transformed at this time as well.
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seller's description/


I found this photo set a few weeks ago. I was delighted, as you can imagine.
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Here's how the building looks today.
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/robinson.html

I wonder what the interior look like today?

[gsjansen]

still trying to catch up.............

excuse the filler fluff, but I like this photograph of Einstein at Mt. Wilson Observatory 1940



corbis images

[gsjansen]

duck.....duck.....duck.........duck.....GOOSE!


august 5TH, 1947 Corbis Images

More filler fluff till I'm up to speed.........(I just want to feel like i'm contributing something..................sorry)

[gsjansen]

November 14th, 1940 Loss Angeles Premier of the Great Dictator at Carthay Circle.

View is looking from McCarthy Vista across San Vicente.


Corbis Images

[gsjansen]

due to war time restrictions, the March 5th 1944 Academy Awards ceremony at Gruman's theater were only allowed to use two Klieg lights...............(very noir indeed.....)


Corbis Images

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by gsjansen

due to war time restrictions, the March 5th 1944 Academy Awards ceremony at Gruman's theater were only allowed to use two Klieg lights...............(very noir indeed.....)


Corbis Images

Because so many foods were rationed, guards were on duty as Billy Wilder shot this scene for Double Indemnity with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray to make sure no one walked off with the goods!


ampas

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

A rare look inside J.W. Robinson's Department Store at 600 W. 7th Street, 1930s.
detail, Photo #2


I found this photo set a few weeks ago. I was delighted, as you can imagine.
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That stylish couch is classy and hardly looks dated, even today, in 2014.

[BifRayRock]

"NRA, We do our part."




6003 Olympic Boulevard, once home to Monterey Market and, many years later, Harvey's Guss Meat Co. Still standing but the original architectural flourishes are long gone. (What do you suppose was being broadcast from those speakers? The neighbors must have loved it."




1933
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/43679/rec/7
























http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6150/5...514100a7_z.jpg


?? Reference to Double Indemnity and the late Jerry's Market caused me to start looking for a photo of the delicatessen/grocery store that once operated at 360 N. Fairfax. Per CD, it was operated by W. Erskine in '36. http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...00003/00000002Building is currently a thrift store. Rumor has it that while still an open market, it served as a location for a grocery store in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."





Ghoulish?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oLobbyCard.jpg


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VyDDtRX4MN...eIndemnity.jpg


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpIyFb-uIh...eIndemnity.jpg

[FredH]

A while back, the L.A. Times ran a photo spread on the 1910 bombing of their building. Given the current interest here, maybe there is a clue or two in the old photos.

Here are a few:


L.A. Times


L.A. Times


L.A. Times


L.A. Times


The whole article and a bunch more photos are here:

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/09...eles-times/#/0


Any chance the part of the building left standing could fit the basement area recently uncovered?

[GaylordWilshire]

Seems obvious that the pressroom floor wasn't reused...



[QUOTE BRR]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VyDDtRX4MN...eIndemnity.jpg


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpIyFb-uIh...eIndemnity.jpg[/QUOTE]


Jerry's listing in a May 7, 1945, ad--I suppose the closing referred to has to do with V-E Day:





Another ad, Dec 31, 1958:




I wonder how long it lasted?

[HossC]

While we're on Melrose, I thought we could move a few blocks east. Here's the northwest corner of Melrose & Western in 1925 (where else would you build the Melwest Apartments?). The main first floor tenant is the Huddleston Drug Co.


USC Digital Library

Much of the detailing has gone, as have many of the windows, but the structure survives in a recognizable form.


GSV

[BifRayRock]

Minimalist gas-service station. Service with sunshine and fortified gasoline.



1941 - 855 East California Blvd., Pasadena. http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/2952/rec/92












Jerry' G & L Drive Inn - "Tasty-Food" but is it fortified?

[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

April 25, 1912:

Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/12562/rec/48

Previous posts on the Hotel Snow, later known as the Southland Hotel:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2099
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8747
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20092

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7965/rec/81


May 20, 1970 Flower between Wilshire and Sixth Street.

[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

OK, the caption on this photo was
"looking southwest from 1st and Clay Street."

But isn't this the west entrance to the 3rd Street tunnel? (I recognize the 3-story building from previous pics)
Obviously many buildings have already been torn down.
But where's 2nd Street then? And I can't find Clay Street on the map I have.

Perhaps it was mislabeled.



usc digital archive

Majestic and forlorn?



http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...d/19849/rec/63

Undated (pre '35?)















Things go better with Coke?



Even the Times?





LA Tent Housing. Date and address unknown.






Coming round a familiar bend.




3 pages of Gangland War Photos and a thick stop sign. (Undated) Back East coverage. ~~ St. Valentines Day in Chicago or similar?

[BifRayRock]

Majestic and forlorn, continued.


http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...d/19849/rec/63



J.W. Robinsons

[BifRayRock]

From the same set http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...d/19849/rec/63

[BifRayRock]

Originally Posted by BifRayRock

Bimini Slough. It had quite a "reputation"! First set of photos are from USC Digital Library with minimal description.

Undated photo of storm drain construction.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...CHS-44675?v=hr



"Downstream, near Bimini Baths"




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1905 Fire consumed the first Bimini Baths. Per the accompanying article, the Bimini MIneral Water Company was underinsured, the fire started in the engine room, the pyrotechnical display has never been equaled by any LA July 4th fireworks celebration. They also had just installed a $1000 X-Ray Machine! http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/05.11.html
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Third and Vermont, ca. '29 courtesy of LAPL:




[Depression era(?)] dancing in front of the Bimini Baths. In front of the "Rayfield" "ER" and others touched on this before. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...70279&page=188













All from LAPL




WARNING* This photo is identified as "Depression-era marathon dance contests at Venice and Bimini Baths." Suspect this is erroneous, but maybe someone else has an idea.
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Especially for Etheral: "One of two pairs of railroad tracks in the sidewalk just north of 117 Bimini Place." http://laecovillage.wordpress.com/20...-bimini-baths/

Time for another dip.


http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...d/19849/rec/63




Tops and bottoms required. (Especially for those equipped with goat glands.)

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by gsjansen

duck.....duck.....duck.........duck.....GOOSE!

LOL!

Originally Posted by gsjansen

august 5TH, 1947 Corbis Images

More filler fluff till I'm up to speed.........(I just want to feel like i'm contributing something..................sorry)

Don't be sorry, I love these images.

Originally Posted by gsjansen

November 14th, 1940 Loss Angeles Premier of the Great Dictator at Carthay Circle.

View is looking from McCarthy Vista across San Vicente.


Corbis Images

Love this one...never seen it before!

On New Year's Eve of 1999 for the arrival of 2000, many cities had spectacular displays to welcome in the New Year. Most with fireworks. I was quite disappointed that Los Angeles did not have any real organized citywide celebration of any kind. Being Hollywood, it was my quite simple idea that every block in Hollywood, and as many adjacent blocks, too, simply have a Hollywood search light (Kleig light) illuminate the skies at midnight. Perhaps a Hollywood celebrity or celebrities or TV series cast or... could have been attached to each lighted corner for an added attraction. All we got was a begrudging light of the Hollywood sign for a few seconds.

It turns out, too, that New Year's Eve that year was quite cloudy, cool and misty. The lights would've had a myriad of opprtunities to play off the mist, the rain, the clouds. Sort of like the above photo.

Alas.

Originally Posted by gsjansen

due to war time restrictions, the March 5th 1944 Academy Awards ceremony at Gruman's theater were only allowed to use two Klieg lights...............(very noir indeed.....)


Corbis Images

Hmmm...great photo...you wonder that they were allowed to use any lights at all...but perhaps by 1944 they were feeling safer from any possible attack...

[HossC]

While looking for pictures of Melrose Avenue I came across a set of 47 pictures showing flooding in 1951. There are many commercial premises in the pictures, but I decided to concentrate on three of the residential properties.

The caption at the bottom of this one reads: "Mrs Phoebe Horn, 1518 Electric Ave[nue], Venice, 12-29-51."


USC Digital Library

Now partly hidden by plants and a fence, the house looks relatively unchanged.


GSV

I've cropped the caption from this picture, but in its original form it was unreadable anyway. Once I'd mirrored the image and severely changed the levels it was just possible to make out: "Mrs Fred Pirie & friends on porch, 6577 2nd Ave[nue], 12-29-51." Initially I read the name as "Pine", but the 1956 CD lists Evelyn Josephine Pirie at 6577 2nd Avenue.


USC Digital Library

Some brickwork has been added at the front, and a boxy extension at the rear, but Mrs Pirie's house is still there.


GSV

One street west and Marjory Beggs' job of selling this house just got harder. The caption says: "Marooned house for sale, 6422 3rd Ave[nue], 12-29-51." Luckily, it looks like the water stopped in the garden.


USC Digital Library

Just like the previous house, awnings now seem to be popular in this neighborhood. As far as I can tell, the houses on either side are also the same ones that appear in the picture above.


Bing Streetside