noirish Los Angeles

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Noircitydame

Any old TV experts out there who could date these Admirals?

Great pictures of Wilshire Coulters!
I'm not an old tv expert but I own one of those Admirals! I was told, or saw a date on it, that mine is from 1949. It's bakelite - weighs a ton.

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Very snazzy smoker's stand Noir City Dame...with lighted marble. Amazing and almost worshipful. Yes, ER, I believe this has an electric lighter which uses an electric coil. The lighter is the marble dome....lift it out and the underside hides the lighter coil. There's a lot of these for sale on ebay. Rather decadent..

[tovangar2]

Nathan Masters put up a blog post this past week on the now vanished 2nd Street Park:



http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...r-retreat.html

[ethereal_reality]

very interesting T2. I don't recall ever knowing about this park.



screen-grabs of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo.


Yamada Family



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Yamada Family



Yamada Family



Watch the video HERE.

http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/nik.../slide/?page=1

*click on the link above. I'm still uncertain how to embed videos.
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[ethereal_reality]

Flash Flood 1966.

Anyone recognize where this was taken? (note the SAFEWAY sign)

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the seller used this photograph as an example from a Los Angeles press photography annual. (see below)


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[ethereal_reality]

I had never heard of the Van Norman Dam until I happened across this photograph on ebay.









The Van Norman Dam in 1920.


museumofsanfernandovalley.com



February 9, 1971 -earthquake damage


nisee2.berkeley.edu

For a length of about 1,800 feet, the embankment (including the parapet wall, dam crest, most of the upstream slope, and a portion of the downstream slope) slid into the reservoir. A loss of about 30 feet of dam height resulted when as much as 800,000 cubic yards of dam embankment was displaced into the reservoir. The reservoir was about half full at the time (thank god!).

Eighty-thousand people living downstream of the dam were immediately ordered to evacuate, and steps were taken to lower the water level
in the reservoir as rapidly as possible. (hence the water in the Los Angeles River in the first photo)

[CityBoyDoug]

Hi ER
Re: Van Norman Dam

I can recall the old-timers talking about it when I was a Cub Scout.

[ethereal_reality]

Many years before the now defunct Los Angeles amusement park Busch Gardens...


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there was the world famous Busch Gardens in Pasadena.


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usually referred to as the Busch 'sunken' Gardens.

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larger view/simply beautiful

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The Adolf Busch residence overlooking his beloved sunken gardens.

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hmmm...how many Busch residences were there? three...four?

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interesting stats.

http://pasadenapio.blogspot.com/




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I'm not sure if that's Helen Burke or Snow White?

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and there was even a lake. (note the lone hilltop house in the far distance)

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folder dated 1913.



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one last view of the mill. Is that a stork on the chimney?

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tourist's snapshots 1910s. (see the woman walking past the sculptured shrub) -reminds me of 'Last Year at Marienbad'.

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The Busch 'eagle' in flowers/lower right

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The borders of Adolf's Busch Gardens. This place was HUGE!


gsv

Bellafontaine Street is the northern border/ Madeline Drive is the southern.
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[Mstimc]

Maybe I've missed it, but have their been any posts about the big Sears building on Olympic? My Dad got a job in its warehouse after returning from the Pacific in WWII. I believe there's still a store on the ground floor but the rest of the huge building is empty--quite a bit of noir potential there!

BTW, I remember when the giant box of a warehouse building just south of the I5-I10 interchange was the shipping center for Sears' catalogue order fulfillment operation. Remember the catalogs?!

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Mstimc

Have their been any posts about the big Sears building on Olympic? My Dad got a job in its warehouse after returning from the Pacific in WWII. I believe there's still a store on the ground floor but the rest of the huge building is empty--quite a bit of noir potential there!

It truly is a remarkable building Mstimc.

under construction 1927

http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69505



http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69505
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http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69511

details from lapl

http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69511
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[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I don't recall ever knowing about this park.

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I think Second Street Park was immediately west of today's Vista Hermosa Park, but someone else would no doubt be better at figuring out its footprint
(a lot of time has been spent here on the thread in the Crown Hill neighborhood/Los Angeles Oil Field).


http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...r-retreat.html

There's a little background on the last owner of Second Street Park here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bayer

[ethereal_reality]

thx T2. I'm still trying to figure out it's exact location....this helps.

[Noircitydame]

I love those screen grabs of Little Tokyo, and have never seen pictures of Busch Gardens LA or the Sears building -wow

How about some traffic safety? The So Cal Auto Club's Highway Patrol Service, from my own collection (no date, guessing c.1925-27). I would not want to be pulled over by these guys. Welcome to Noir City.



I saw this 1940s LA traffic safety film on TCM years ago: someone uploaded a snippet of it on You Tube - the start and end are cut off. The part that they do show is amazing though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on8n4TKHRqk

The "Dope" following the blonde has a Hollywood Co. Wolf Whistle on his car. . .
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[so-cal-bear]

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[ethereal_reality]

Love the wolf whistles NoirCityDame and so-cal-bear. lol


We've seen many photographs of the Los Angeles County Hospital, but I've never noticed the covered pedestrian bridge at lower left before.


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I surmise the other 'bridge-like' structure is an extension of the hospital powerhouse (with the two chimneys).
I bet there are tunnels all over this place. Has anyone ever seen blueprints? It's truly a gem.
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[ethereal_reality]

At what point in time did city officials decide to dead-end Bellevue Avenue?

Here it is in 1897

http://www.historicmapworks.com/




and in 1947. -still a thoroughfare

my map




and today. Here is the missing segment that I circled in blue on the 1947 map

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the actual dead-end on upper Bellevue Ave. looking east.

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lower Bellevue Ave. looking west toward upper Bellevue Ave.

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Obviously it was a very steep grade. Do you think this might be why they decided to do away with this segment of Bellevue?
I don't know how these decisions are made. -just curious
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Forgive me if I've asked this question before.

[ethereal_reality]

Before I leave this area I want to point out one of my favorite 'arts and craft' houses in the city.
It's right on the corner where Bellevue used to be.


google aerial





Here it is! 508 Belmont Ave.

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view with the dead-end

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Diagonally across the street on Belmont Ave. are cute little bungalows that barely escaped the construction of the Hollywood Freeway. A pedestrian bridge crosses the fwy at this point.





close-up/pedestrian bridge

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[Mstimc]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

It truly is a remarkable building Mstimc.


details from lapl

http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69511
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Very cool--thanks so much, E_R!

[ethereal_reality]

from Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986. An interactive DVD-ROM.


http://www.fondation-langlois.org/ht...hp?NumPage=385

click on the link above for information on this project.
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or here

http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller....001280&lang=en

[ethereal_reality]

The 'Edendale Meteor' 1907




www.ollalumni.com this link doesn't work any longer/it says their account has been suspended.

'ollalumni' stands for Our Lady of Loretto Grammar School located at 258 N. Union Ave. in Echo Park.
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[belmont bob]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

At what point in time did city officials decide to dead-end Bellevue Avenue?

Here it is in 1897

http://www.historicmapworks.com/




Obviously it was a very steep grade. Do you think this might be why they decided to do away with this segment of Bellevue?
I don't know how these decisions are made. -just curious
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Forgive me if I've asked this question before.

ER, Regarding Bellevue being cut-off. I think it’s the same as several streets in the Echo Park/Edendale area where some streets are laid out on maps but the terrain just is too steep to make them safe or practical. I was born in Edendale on Ewing Street west of Glendale and over the top of the Hill looking down from Apex Street, Ewing runs only half way up the eastern side from Silver Lake area. Plenty of others streets that feature steep stairways to bridge gaps in the road in that area.

On the out buildings at the County Hospital, that foot bridge and buildings can be clearly seen on the 1948 and 1952 historic aerials. The power plant is also visible. By the 1972 aerial both are gone. The concrete “bridge” is still there as of the latest Google imaging. Which brings to mind the beautiful old brick building which I believe is part of the County Coroner’s facility and maybe was part of the original hospital. I don’t think I’ve seen it on this forum before. Seems to me that place ought to be spelled Coronoir

BTW, the decision to not run the street through would have started with the civil engineer and city planners would have to buy off. That would seem to cover the basics.