HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Photography Forums > Found City Photos

Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #20001  
Old Posted Mar 6, 2014, 9:27 PM
ProphetM ProphetM is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 439
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lorendoc View Post
Excellent - I laughed at this one.

otoh, I see that imageshack is now a pay site. are there any free alternatives?
There's imgur, which can be used both anonymously or with a user account.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20002  
Old Posted Mar 6, 2014, 9:33 PM
HossC's Avatar
HossC HossC is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 4,244
We've seen the Heinz 57 sign near Culver City before, but today I found that the Huntington Digital Library has these much higher resolution pictures. Going by the caption, the first was taken from Adams Street on Dec 10, 1916.


Huntington Digital Library

This close-up shot shows the lighting rig in front of the sign. The horse in the other field gives a good idea of scale. I'm assuming that the "AirLine" in the caption refers to the Pacific Electric Santa Monica Air Line which opened a few years earlier. For some reason it took the photographer a day to get a field closer!


Huntington Digital Library

And finally, let there be light ...


Huntington Digital Library


Previous posts about various Heinz 57 signs around Los Angeles:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7700

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8993

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8995

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16696
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20003  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 2:40 PM
GaylordWilshire's Avatar
GaylordWilshire GaylordWilshire is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NYC
Posts: 3,702
LAT/BSQLA


I recently discovered this picture from the Times of June 25, 1911, showing Pickfair as it was originally conceived as a country house for attorney Lee Allen Phillips and his wife Catherine in 1911.

Full story here: http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles....ips-house.html


So far I can find little information about Horatio Cogswell, although it seems that he was active in West Adams during this period. He built his own house at 1244 S. Van Ness the same year he designed the Phillips house in Beverly Hills:


The City Project

More information: http://www.victorianhomes.com/listin...97a47094a22e95

Last edited by GaylordWilshire; Mar 7, 2014 at 3:32 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20004  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 7:51 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,325
Quote:
Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire View Post
GSV

I had to look to see if 2220 Cedar Street still stands; there is no house now at that address. While the Newmans were listed at 2220 before 1923, it turns out
that they were later at 2224--which is still there, I'm happy to report. Perhaps the caption-writer applied their earlier address to the later house...
Imagine my surprise when you located this house GW! I had checked and only found a pitiful 1950s shoe-box shaped apartment building.
__

M_P, thanks for the additional information on Monkey Island & Hanna-Barbera. -always interesting!

Last edited by ethereal_reality; Mar 8, 2014 at 12:04 AM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20005  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 9:23 PM
Flyingwedge's Avatar
Flyingwedge Flyingwedge is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 1,123
Log House @ 1701 W. Adams @ Normandie

GW introduced us to the Log House, and er and Tourmaline found other postcards of it:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7353
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11653
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19661

Here's more, starting with a larger version of one of the photos GW posted; USC dates it c. 1905:

USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/147/rec/1

USC also dates this one c. 1905; the landscaping is different, and there appears to be a driveway on the east side of the house, unlike in other photos and postcards:

USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/147/rec/1

This early photo shows the Normandie Avenue side of the house:

Autry National Center -- http://collections.theautry.org/mweb...ex=P_14753.jpg

It was built by Judge Edwin H. Lamme, apparently in late 1897:

October 24, 1897 Los Angeles Times

The home, misplaced at Budlong and Adams, is mentioned in the last sentence of this article:

April 29, 1898 Los Angeles Times

It may have also been known as Casa Rusticana (was the Judge fond of listening to Cavalleria rusticana?):

Autry National Center -- http://collections.theautry.org/mweb...x=LS_12367.jpg

The house changed little between the 1900 and 1921 Sanborn Maps:

LAPL


LAPL

The LA County Assessor says the building that's now on the NW corner of Adams and Normandie was built in 1923, so the 1921 Sanborn (and Baist) may have been the Log House's last
documented appearances.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20006  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 9:29 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,325
-good stuff on Judge Lamme's Log House flyingwedge.
__



ebay

I found some information on the house next to Mr. Swan's early Greene & Greene.



It belonged to B. Frank Wood Esq.

ebay



detail
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20007  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 9:38 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,325
Here's another fine home.

1915

ebay







detail


I wish the street address was included.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20008  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 9:45 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,325
I know this photo was posted eons ago on NLA. (I just found it again on ebay)
ebay

Does anyone remember the earlier discussion?
I'm curious about the large wooden building in the background on the right/I'd like to figure out what it is.
__
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20009  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 10:34 PM
GaylordWilshire's Avatar
GaylordWilshire GaylordWilshire is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NYC
Posts: 3,702



We saw it here in 2011...http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4421

Another post followed (#4423), but all the pictures have vanished. They had come from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/. I'll see if I can dig them back up.
EDIT: I looked. No luck. (I'd forgotten what a total pain in the ass that forum is to maneuver...I'll never complain about the "search" feature here again.)


Here's part of a USC picture:



Full zoomable shot here: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...590/show/16585

Last edited by GaylordWilshire; Mar 7, 2014 at 11:11 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20010  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 10:48 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,325
Thanks for your help GW. -much appreciate.

Last edited by ethereal_reality; Mar 7, 2014 at 11:51 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20011  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 10:52 PM
MichaelRyerson's Avatar
MichaelRyerson MichaelRyerson is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 1,155
That reminds me I need a car wash...

Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
Does anyone remember the earlier discussion?
I'm curious about the large wooden building in the background on the right/I'd like to figure out what it is.
__
That's the Westlake School for Girls over on Westmoreland Avenue.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20012  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 11:15 PM
Retired_in_Texas Retired_in_Texas is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 219
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
I know this photo was posted eons ago on NLA. (I just found it again on ebay)
ebay

Does anyone remember the earlier discussion?
I'm curious about the large wooden building in the background on the right/I'd like to figure out what it is.
__
E_R I'm thinking you/we are looking at an optical illusion that appears to be a single building, but in reality may be several structures next to one another on a street running at a diagonal, thus creating the illusion of a single building.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20013  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 11:20 PM
HossC's Avatar
HossC HossC is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 4,244
The Auto Laundry also appeared in a post by BifRayRock, but in case the picture breaks up, here's a solid version (click the link under the picture for a zoomable version).


USC Digital Library

Back in post #645 e_r posted a smaller version of the picture below. It shows the El Patio Ballroom and Bimini Baths before the auto laundry was built.


LAPL

Another of e_r's posts on the Rainbow Gardens/Palomar Ballroom:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=644
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20014  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 11:34 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,325
ginger noir



www.dlisted.com

Wow, www.dlisted.com recently posted this photograph of Tina Louise in honor of her 80th birthday.
She sure makes a great lookin' femme fatale.

I wish she had found more success in movies (before Gilligan's Island).
Has anyone seen her as Griselda in the 1958 film 'God's Little Acre'?
It's really an impressive performance.


http://www.royalbooks.com/pages/book...film-pressbook
__


Hey, thanks MichaelRyerson, HossC and RiT for the El Patio Auto Laudry information.
When I came across the photo again on ebay, I didn't associate the el patio auto laundry with the el patio ballroom. duh!
-and it was kinda' obvious wasn't it...sorry.

__

Last edited by ethereal_reality; Mar 7, 2014 at 11:58 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20015  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 11:40 PM
Retired_in_Texas Retired_in_Texas is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 219
El Patio Auto Laundry

With a bit of looking around I found other views of the El Patio Auto Laundry taken in different years. It was located at 260 Vermont Street, which might make it a bit easier to figure out the buildings seen in other images on a street more or less behind it.

USC DIGITAL LIBRARY

The El Patio Auto Laundry was the brain child of real estate developer B.K. Gillespie. Gillespie is credited with coming up with the super service station concept.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20016  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 11:46 PM
Graybeard's Avatar
Graybeard Graybeard is offline
Comfortably Numb
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 117
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
Here's another fine home.

1915

ebay







detail


I wish the street address was included.
1015 Prospect Blvd, Pasadena, CA.


GSV
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20017  
Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 11:56 PM
ethereal_reality's Avatar
ethereal_reality ethereal_reality is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Lafayette/West Lafayette IN, Purdue U.
Posts: 16,325
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a survivor!
-many thx Graybeard.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20018  
Old Posted Mar 8, 2014, 12:00 AM
FredH's Avatar
FredH FredH is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 676
2700 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach - 1933

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20019  
Old Posted Mar 8, 2014, 12:09 AM
GaylordWilshire's Avatar
GaylordWilshire GaylordWilshire is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NYC
Posts: 3,702
Quote:
Originally Posted by Graybeard View Post
1015 Prospect Blvd, Pasadena, CA.


GSV

Hometown Pasadena
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #20020  
Old Posted Mar 8, 2014, 1:32 AM
Albany NY's Avatar
Albany NY Albany NY is offline
I Like Turtles!
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 168
The Age of Innocence

[QUOTE=FredH;6484194]It is a gathering of the Signal Oil Tarzan Club


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../51004/rec/309

What a great shot, FredH! Good kids excited over a wholesome hero (and free stuff). Sad that the Signal station is now a Liquor store. And Tarzan is nowhere to be seen. The building across the street is still there, though. It looks like it has been well cared for over the years. Curious why the signs were blacked-out on the original photo.

GSV

Imagine what would happen these days if a stranger tried to give a kid a free popsicle!
__________________
---"Rosebud...." It was a sled, people! Just a stupid, friggin' sled!
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts

Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Photography Forums > Found City Photos
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 4:13 PM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.