USC has this photo dated 1940, which seems to be correct, but it is misidentified as "Aerial view of Greystone Park, Greystone Mansion," which is
in Beverly Hills. The photo actually looks south at part of the Sunset Fields Golf Course (1927-47) and the Baldwin Hills:
USCDL --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../21936/rec/343
This closeup shows Stocker Street exiting the Baldwin Hills at right. In the lower left corner is the intersection of Stocker and Palmero Blvd. The lot on
the SE corner is empty; LA County gives a build date of 1941 for the house there now. Northland Drive winds up the hillside directly above Stocker. At
bottom center is the golf course clubhouse; you can just barely make out what looks a like a water tank on top of the 2nd story. You can also see the
little NW-facing 2nd story window under it:
Here's the golf course clubhouse in an undated photo. That clubhouse combined new construction with the salvageable remains of the c. 1790-95
Sanchez Adobe. Those remains included the two-story portion, so perhaps instead of a heavy water tank that's some kind of horn or loudspeaker on the
roof. Whatever it was, there it is, plus that little window (on the right):
USCDL --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/24213/rec/8
The clubhouse still exists at 3725 Don Felipe Drive. I posted about it two years ago:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13985
Here's a closeup of the top center portion of the 1940 photo. The large two-story house by itself on the hillside below top center is on Mt. Vernon
Drive; Mt. Vernon intersects with Northland to the left of the big house. Near the upper right, the short S-shaped block is part of Presidio Drive; the
intersection at the top of the S is Presidio and Olympiad Drive. The SE corner of Presidio and Olympiad is vacant, but there are homes on either
side. The house now on the corner has a 1952 build date, and the houses on either side are dated 1939.
One block to the west/right of Presidio and Olympiad is the intersection of Orinda and Olympiad; the house we see on the SW corner has a 1940 build
date. Today, Presidio Drive winds down to connect with Stocker -- it runs under the big house on Mt. Vernon -- but it appears to stop at Mt. Vernon in
this photo. The ravine that starts at the bottom of the photo at the Y in the dirt road is where Don Felipe Drive will be built:
Here is much of the same area in a closeup from a 1954 photo. The intersection in the extreme lower left corner is Stocker and Angeles Vista
Blvd./Santa Rosalia Dr. (the names change at Stocker). Just above that intersection is Stocker and the barely visible at left Palmero Blvd. The old
golf course clubhouse is above bottom center; the two-story portion has some trees in front of it. The construction of Don Felipe Drive behind the
clubhouse took out a building or two from the clubhouse grounds.
Going west on Stocker, the street branching left that's lined with homes and climbs up the ravine below the large flat area is Presidio Drive; that S-shaped
block from the 1940 photo is seen here as a short diagonal line on the hillside. At upper right, Valley Ridge Avenue climbs up a ravine from Stocker
to the top of the hill, with some of the still-vacant 1932 Olympic Village site beyond:
USCDL --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/21761/rec/4
This is a closeup of a photo looking NE at the 1932 Olympic Village. The street that abruptly stops near the upper right corner is Mt. Vernon. Just
before the end of Mt. Vernon you can see its intersection with Northland Drive (which looks to have three cars driving on it). The ravine immediately
below and to the left of Mt. Vernon is where Presidio Drive will be built.
Just to the left of center is the V-shaped top of the ravine where Valley Ridge Avenue will be built. Looking beyond the top of that ravine, Stocker
Street looks to be a twisty, unimproved dirt road. Beyond the hills, what is now Stocker runs along the south side of the golf course from its parking lot
east to Crenshaw Blvd., but it does not align with the part of Stocker east of Crenshaw, which is about a block north. In the very upper left corner is
what is now the intersection of Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.:
Occidental/Bill Henry Collection @ Calisphere --
http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030....52.33.1.4.jpg