noirish Los Angeles

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by HossC

That model airplane looks slightly out of scale.

Hoss, your Schulman series is great. Really love this TWA office. Turns out it has a cameo--well, barely even that, though I haven't watched the film lately--in "Pickup on South Street"--doubling for NYC:



This is a few years after the Schulman shots--the new models of the Constellation-- the Super Constellations--were coming into service. (Btw, I don't remember hearing of "Jerrem's" before.)




This may have been earlier, but apparently from an LA publication. I think "Transcontinental and Western Air" morphed into the "Trans World Airline" after the war--eventually the plural Trans World Airlines was settled on.

Pics from ScoutingNY

[ethereal_reality]

"That's the Lincoln Heights Jail back there. This is the RR bridge that leads in and out of the Cornfield."

I thought it might be the jail but I wasn't sure. Thanks again M_R.

Here's another pic I just came across on eBay.

1954

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TROLLEY-NEGA...8AAOSwUdlWhCRm

Am I correct in saying, the streetcar above is turning onto..............





this stretch of roadway/track? (that we discussed last week)


posted last week / eBay

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[ethereal_reality]

Since we visited the Shrine Auditorium earlier this afternoon, I thought I'd post this intriguing view. (what's with the faux-minaret?)
That's the Shrine in the distance.


[there's a good possibility that this has been posted before]

https://www.pinterest.com/usceye/usc-history/


At first, I thought the roof-top sign over there on the right------> said P For LAS..................................................................................

but after I enlarged it I believe it says Phelps....but the second word is cut off



detail

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[ethereal_reality]

UPDATE:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

1954 (?)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TROLLEY-NEGA...8AAOSwUdlWhCRm

I just found another great image that relates to my earlier post.

below: The seller dates this original slide 1950.

It's a color view from atop City Hall that shows the different detours.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/TROLLEY-198-...UAAOSwr7ZW5Gqm


detail


Isn't this a great view! I love it.






enlargement / I placed an arrow at the Mexico City Cafe.

sorry that it's blurry
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[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

"That's the Lincoln Heights Jail back there. This is the RR bridge that leads in and out of the Cornfield."

I thought it might be the jail but I wasn't sure. Thanks again M_R.

Here's another pic I just came across on eBay.

1954

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TROLLEY-NEGA...8AAOSwUdlWhCRm

Am I correct in saying, the streetcar above is turning onto..............





this stretch of roadway/track? (that we discussed last week)


posted last week / eBay

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Yes, you are. This is Sunset Boulevard and the N. Broadway detour. You can see Bozzani back there on the right. And that's the Villa Cabrini orphanage up on the hill north of Sunset.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'mystery' location.

Does anyone recognize this street corner?


old 2008 file of mine / probably found on eBay

That's the corner of Vermont Avenue and 9th Street (now James M Wood Boulevard). Here's a different view of the same corner. As far as I can tell, the store on the corner was Bear Liquor.


www.pacificelectric.org/Alan Weeks Collection

The building is still there, although some of the windows on the 9th Street side have been filled in. Looking at the building records, it appears that the parapet was modified in 1961.


GSV

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

re: Shulman TWA photographs.

While looking at the scale-model in your next photo Hoss, I couldn't help but notice that other thingy.

detail


Do my eyes deceive me.....is that a saddle??
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I was wondering what that was myself.
It doesn't look like a saddle to me, but I have no other guess!

[Martin Pal]

Thanks for this photo, MR

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson

Looking north in Cahuenga Pass at the Barham Boulevard Bridge, ca.1947

Originally Posted by HossC

We've previously established that Monkey Island is shown on Historic Aerial's 1948 image, so it must be behind the trees in the view above.

I believe when E_R first posted about this he described it as "Mysterious Monkey Island."

And so it still is with this photo; so near and yet so far!

[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by HossC

Here's the progress in 1948. The left/right zig-zag for northbound drivers is still clearly visible as the new roadway edges around the corner, past the future site of Universal Studios. We've previously established that Monkey Island is shown on Historic Aerial's 1948 image (it's roughly dead center here), so it must be behind the trees in the view above.


Historic Aerials

Thanks Hoss, clearly Monkey Island is still there although maybe no longer selling tickets. Love these aerials.

[MichaelRyerson]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Thanks for this photo, MR





I believe when E_R first posted about this he described it as "Mysterious Monkey Island."

And so it still is with this photo; so near and yet so far!

My pleasure Martin. Somebody took their Kodak box to this place. Somebody's got some snapshots in their family scrapbook, dammit.

[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

I was wondering what that was myself.
It doesn't look like a saddle to me, but I have no other guess!

Definitely a saddle. TWA, like the AT&SF, heavily promoted their vacation routes through the Southwest.

Cheers,

Earl

[HossC]

Today we have some exterior and interior Julius Shulman photos of Silverwoods. This is "Job 470: Burke and Kober, Silverwoods (Los Angeles, Calif.),1949".
NB. There are several duplicated images in this set, so I picked a selection.



The blade sign on the extreme left is on the Union Oil Building, so this is the Silverwoods at 615 W 7th Street.



Now we get a look inside.







All from Getty Research Institute

I can't see a demolition permit for 615 W 7th Street, so has Silverwoods become the building with louvred windows in the center of this view?


GSV

[ethereal_reality]

From this.......


old file/usc


to this.


originally posted by HossC

I imagine the reason Mr. Shulman was hired to take photographs was because of this new facade.

I also think the building there now is the same building. Could the art deco treasures still be intact after two modernizations?

I'd love to find that 'frieze' along the top still intact.


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[ethereal_reality]

I noticed there's a survivor in your photograph MR.


Michael Ryerson Collection


It's a gabled Tudor Revival, now home to Valhalla Motion Pictures.


gsv


I like the two tiny (arched) openings. here's a close-up of one of them.

detail / gsv







This plaque is somewhere on the building, but I don't see it in the gsv view.
It must be around back where the people park and enter.


https://foursquare.com/v/valhalla-mo...8ac2be3/photos

(have I posted about this plaque before? It seems very familiar)




Here's a view from the Burnham bridge.



http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/0...d-sighted.html


That 'My Little Pony' billboard caused fans (so called Bronies) to go ape-shit.







There was also some concern about a missing leg. lol






Do yourself a favor & go through the rest of the comments. They're hilarious.
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/0...d-sighted.html

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[John Maddox Roberts]

I think that's the wisest use of "Änonymous" I've ever seen.

[Martin Pal]

In E_R's above photo, can anyone make out what's it says on the hand written
sign attached to the light post? On a couple of occasions a long time ago I had
some reason to walk across that bridge's narrow sidewalk. It's not a particularly
soothing area to walk in, what with the freeway, Cahuenga Blvd. on both sides
of the freeway, Barham Blvd. and the relatively new Universals Studio off-ramp,
which I believe is being closed, or has closed, because they used land up there
for the Harry Potter attraction which opens in April, but it unofficially is open
off and on to tourists right now.

Anyway, I wondered what could be important enough for someone to make a
trek to the bridge and post a sign there. It's enough to make a monkey nervous.

[ethereal_reality]

This one MP?

that makes me feel like I've lost my glasses.

[ethereal_reality]

'mystery' location.

Is anyone familiar with the YOUR ROOM Cafe?


old 2008 file / possibly eBay*

I thought perhaps this might be National Blvd. because of National Surplus...but I couldn't find any further information.

Love that truck. -and the streetcar is obviously some sort of maintenance car. right HH? or Wig-Wag?

The YOUR ROOM Cafe appears to be in a very cool art deco building. I'm not sure what you call the style of the Dentist building, but I like it a lot too.
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*On 03/19/16 HossC informed me this photograph is from http://www.pacificelectric.org/los-a...and-jefferson/






Thanks for locating the 'mystery' location from yesterday Hoss.

It was interesting to see the corner building in it's present shape.





gsv

It looks much more 'noirish' in black & white.




I like this guy standing there with his daily newspaper.

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[ethereal_reality]

Here's a tourist snapshot that we haven't seen yet on NLA.


Looking northwest from the southeast corner of Hollywood & Vine.[1948]


http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE1948-...IAAOSwx-9W0cUN

The seller is asking $399.99 for this photograph.




Just for fun, here are a couple enlarged details.



There's the keyhole shaped doorway we all love so much.................................

The lovely blonde woman is dabbing her nose.....or smelling a carnation? Her friend appears to be quite a looker.







The man at extreme left is wearing a 'tank-top' advertising Ken Murray's Blackouts, which was showing just up the street at the Vine Street El Capitan Theater.




-and what's the day's headlines? "NEW BALKANS BLOC PROPOSED BY TITO"


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I thought you wouldn't mind seeing this excellent photograph-postcard again.

Ken Murray's Blackouts of 1948 (the same year as the snapshot) at the El Capitan.


eBay / http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9861


More on Ken Murray's Blackouts here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9861

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[broadwy_central_bldg]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

'mystery' location.

Is anyone familiar with the YOUR ROOM Cafe?


old 2008 file / possibly eBay

I thought perhaps this might be National Blvd. because of National Surplus...but I couldn't find any further information.

Love that truck. -and the streetcar is obviously some sort of maintenance car. right HH? or Wig-Wag?

The YOUR ROOM Cafe appears to be in a very cool art deco building. I'm not sure what you call the style of the Dentist building, but I like it a lot too.

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I love this photo too! I did a little searching in the city directories and found the "Your Room" at 3114 S Vermont, as well as Dr Felcher (the dentist) at 3124 S Vermont. So I think this must be the spot.

Unfortunately the entire block is now occupied by the Jessie L Terry housing project. I don't even want to post a GSV screencap because it's kind of sad; nothing remains.

What I can't figure out is where those streetcar tracks are curving off to-- presently that little street off of Vermont south of 31st is a dead-end. Maybe one of our RR enthusiasts can tell us if this used to be a rail service yard? Could explain the service-looking vehicle...

EDIT: Maybe this is taken from the corner of Vermont and Jefferson (a little south of the addresses) and those tracks are turning on to Jefferson?)