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CityBoyDoug · #**25861** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 1:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by nickdahammer

The opening scene from Chaplin's 'The Kid' was shot at the old Oxy building on Avenue 50, near Figueroa.

Thanks Nick for the info!
Here is the building from the scene...with the added prop sign.

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C. King · #**25862** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 1:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Now that's a neat bit of trivia. thx

-Here's an interesting photograph I just came across a few minutes ago on ebay.

LAFD Engine Co. 22

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LAFD-LOS-ANG...item487942ec96

reverse

-sounds like the firemen gave the neighborhood kids rides.

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The seller also has this LAFD photo.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Historical-M...kw=los+angeles

-note the BUDGET __________ store behind. I wonder where this was taken?

Both new and old Station 22 seen in the photo still stand. The newer house which closed in 1980, now houses the local Calif. Conservation Corps

A good area to start looking for the location of Engine 30's photo, would be near the Coca Cola Building on S. Central. Engine 30 was one of two segregated engine companies in the LAFD. Station closed in 1980.

Their former station is now the African American Firefighters Museum at 1401 South Central. The museum opened their doors in 1997.

http://www.aaffmuseum.org/

tovangar2 · #**25863** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 1:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by nickdahammer

The opening scene from Chaplin's 'The Kid' was filmed here. The apartments grew around the building over time.

Thank you so much nickdahammer. When anyone talks about filming locations, they have my full attention.

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Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" (1921)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAUFUv1k9Zw

gsv (Ave 51)

The properties on either side of the route of the old walkway to the Hall of Arts and Letters have low retaining walls faced in small river rocks.

I bet I can guess where they got them.

PS LOL, CityBoyDoug, you beat me to it! I've got to learn to put a post together faster :-(

ethereal_reality · #**25864** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 3:22 AM**

HossC, I had noticed the Bahia in Anaheim as well.

ebay

I was pleasantly surprised that the sign was still intact....but I was aghast when I saw that it was renamed 'The Covered Wagon'.

GSV

-and nothing says 'pioneer days / covered wagon' as an Italian restaurant named Giovanni's.

Then I zoomed to the sign to see what had happened to the mid-century Tiki God.

GSV / detail

...this f*cked up mess with super glue that apparently hadn't worked.

It's just all so bizarre.

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ethereal_reality · #**25865** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 4:21 AM**

The messed up Bahia / Covered Wagon sign made me think of this Jolly Jug sign in El Monte.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/88735055131387240/

-here are some humorous comments about the enigmatic image on top.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/70839390@N00/6894121625/

"What the hell is that thing?" lol

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HossC · #**25866** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 11:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Thanks Nick for the info!
Here is the building from the scene...with the added prop sign.

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'The Kid' was released in 1921. A quick look at the 1921 Baist map shows that the old Occidental College Hall of Letters had become the Pacific Chiropractic College. The inset is from the 1921 CD - the only directory in which it appears. It looks like the 1898 Academy Building across the railroad tracks to the north had already been demolished. Note that North Figueroa was known as Pasadena Avenue at the time.

www.historicmapworks.com/LAPL

I found the following pictures and text in a book called 'Highland Park' by Charles J Fisher. I like the front view of the Charles M Stimson Library. The chiropractic college gets a mention in the second caption.

books.google.com

ethereal_reality · #**25867** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 2:40 PM**

Here are two Los Angeles High School graduates. I'm guessing the one on the left is attending Occidental, and the one on the right, Polytechnic.

1910s?

ebay

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HossC · #**25868** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 3:34 PM**

The Bungalow Motel of Hollywood at 2010 North Highland Avenue. The date of issue is listed as 1930-1945, but as I can't find it in the 1942 CD, I tending towards the later end of that range.

Boston Public Library on Flickr

It was soon renamed the Bowl Motel of Hollywood. Under that name it appears in the City Directories from 1956 to 1973.

eBay

Today the site is occupied by the BLVD Hotel & Suites Hollywood.

Google Maps

ethereal_reality · #**25869** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 4:12 PM**

What's the building with the turret to it's right?

You can't see it at all from street level.

front view from Highland

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below: Here's a better view of it from Las Palmas (luckily, Las Palmas is a higher elevation than Highland)

GSV

-look at that little 'room' on the right with the door cracked opened.
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HossC · #**25870** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 4:45 PM**

That's the 1926 Roman Gardens at 2000 North Highland Avenue. They were mentioned in mdiederi's post about the Lost French Village of Hollywood because they had the same architects. BifRayRock also posted some black and white images in post #15726.

Michael Locke on Flickr

ethereal_reality · #**25871** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 5:20 PM**

That's an excellent photograph. I like how the building has aged.
I looked at the 1930s black & white photos BRR had posted earlier, and I prefer how it looks now.
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ethereal_reality · #**25872** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 7:46 PM**

"To Move 10,000-Ton Los Angeles Building, ca. 1931"

"Described by engineers as the largest moving job ever undertaken west of the Mississippi,
work was under way on the moving of the 5-story, 10,000-ton Brunswig Building in
Los Angeles to make way for the extension of Spring Street as part of the civic center
plan.

To avoid cutting through the building for the extension, the structure will be given a
quarter turn and moved back, so the side of the structure will become the front
facing the New Spring Street. The structure will be lifted on 1,200 jacks and turned
on 2000 steel rollers to its new position.

This photograph shows the north side of the building which will be turned around."
(ACME) 4/1/31

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1931-Brunswi...item3f460c5c75
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below: This was posted by GaylordWilshire back in 2012.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8033
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Handsome Stranger · #**25873** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 7:54 PM**

Since we're in the neighborhood, here's a lurvely recent photo of Lake Hollywood:

[source: Twitter]

ethereal_reality · #**25874** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 7:58 PM**

I don't believe we've seen this photograph of 512 S Broadway in 1952.

ebay

That's the Roxie Theater to its right.

Here's 512 S. Broadway today.

GSV

ethereal_reality · #**25875** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 8:54 PM**

I just came across this amazing photograph on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Real...item487934d810

Harness Shop plus Undertaker/Embalmer, Los Angeles, 1870s? 1880s?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Real...item487934d810

below: Here it is larger, so it's easier to see the clues.

I am still trying to read the proprietor's name in that arched area above Shoes, Harness Repairing & Undertaker/Embalmer.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Real...item487934d810

-note the child sitting in front of the whips.
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tovangar2 · #**25876** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 9:05 PM**

F. H. Mason

ethereal_reality · #**25877** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 9:15 PM**

-thanks T2.

the same view today.

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Originally Posted by C. King

Both new and old Station 22 seen in the photo still stand. The newer house which closed in 1980, now houses the local Calif. Conservation Corps

Here's the Cal. Conservation Corps with the older Engine Co. 22 building in the distance.

GSV

The bungalow in-between the two buildings is still there as well.

I should say, "are still there", because there are actually four of them!

very colorful!

Here's an aerial.

google_earth

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tovangar2 · #**25878** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 10:56 PM**

e-r, if you have a subscription to newspapers.com, it looks like you could maybe get the address for F.H. Mason, harness-maker & undertaker. The snippet below is from the 6/20/03 Covina Argus :

google search

Andys · #**25879** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 11:18 PM**

While sitting around this Saturday afternoon, KCET televised Ralph Story's "Things Than Aren't Here Anymore." It reminded me that I own the VHS of this program; it's still fun to watch nevertheless.

Andys

HossC · #**25880** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 11:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by tovangar2

e-r, if you have a subscription to newspapers.com, it looks like you could maybe get the address for F.H. Mason, harness-maker & undertaker. The snippet below is from the 6/20/03 Covina Argus :

google search

Here's the information from newspapers.com. There's no address, but it does say that Mr Mason had the largest harness business in the San Gabriel Valley.

newspapers.com