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Old Posted Jun 28, 2020, 8:25 PM
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Does anyone know if this "Memorial to Animals" was ever built


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It was to have been "set up" Allesandro Street and Riverside Drive.

"The monument will be 8 feet high and ach panel will be 25 feet long."

The date of the photo is: April 18, 1935.



My eyes were blurry (after a looong day of computer usage) when I happened upon this photograph so at first I didn't realize it was a model.

I was especially flummoxed by what was all over this car. I thought perhaps the lady had driven down from the mountains and she was waiting for her car to thaw out.


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When I was growing up I wanted to be an astronaut but that didn't work out.

I should have aimed a little lower. lol
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Reminds me of a joke I saw recently:
I always wanted to be an astronaut just like my Dad.

He always wanted to be an astronaut too...

Reminds me of this:

If your New Year's resolution is "I will learn Chinese."

You might want to change it to "I will order Chinese."

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Does anyone know if this "Memorial to Animals" was ever built


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It was to have been "set up" Allesandro Street and Riverside Drive.

"The monument will be 8 feet high and ach panel will be 25 feet long."

The date of the photo is: April 18, 1935.
Here's the junction of Allesandro and Riverside in 1944 (below, left). From the picture above, I'm guessing that the proposed site for the "Memorial to Animals" was the triangular traffic island, but here it has a circular design at the center. The location (marked below, right) is now under an off ramp of the Glendale Freeway.


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Reminds me of this:

If your New Year's resolution is "I will learn Chinese."

You might want to change it to "I will order Chinese."
In that case, I achieved my New Year's resolution on Friday .
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e_r and Hoss, I can't find anything further about the memorial; but I can note that the LA Times, in its couple of articles about the model for the memorial, has the artist's name wrong. It's Helen Lundeberg (not "Helen Lundburg").

Here's the Wikipedia entry on this interesting artist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lundeberg
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John R. Avery was a Hollywood builder who developed the nec of Melrose & Ardmore in 1921...he was issued a number of permits for 4617-21-23-25 Melrose (and various -½s of them) on April 18 of that year for small stores and attendent dwellings--for example, 4619 was originally a store building, with 4619½ a dwelling. Various later permits allow for the alterations of the stores, which included hardware and liquor stores. In 1927 an alteration permit was issued referring to 4619 as a tea room...and in 1937 one was issued for the remodeling of its façade:



How does one access these documents?
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Does anyone know if this "Memorial to Animals" was ever built


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e_r and Hoss, I can't find anything further about the memorial; but I can note that the LA Times, in its couple of articles about the model for the memorial, has the artist's name wrong. It's Helen Lundeberg (not "Helen Lundburg").

Here's the Wikipedia entry on this interesting artist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lundeberg


Here an excerpt from a 1965 oral history interview with the artist Helen Lundeberg.

There's a question mentioning "fire engines" (there's one on the left side of the model) and "animal memorial".

She replies that mural project was "never carried out".



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How does one access these documents?


You go to the LADBS Online Building Records Search page -


http://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/idispublic/


and search to your heart's content.
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Here's an interesting snapshot showing a large billboard for Max Barish Chrysler - Plymouth located at 444 So. So. LaBrea Ave.


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As you can see the Mona Lisa restaurant is next door. I believe this is the Wilshire Blvd. location.


The back of the photograph is stamped with a date. March 3, 1956.




Max Barish has been briefy mentioned here and here . . but so far we haven't seen a photograph of his S. LaBrea dealership. (unless I missed it somehow)

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You go to the LADBS Online Building Records Search page -


http://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/idispublic/


and search to your heart's content.
Thanks very much.

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A mystery location.


This snapshot shows two "hostesses" entering the Samoa Ballroom. [May 1970]


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The seller doesn't specifically say this is Los Angeles but to me it has a L. A. feel to it. (and if I'm not mistaken there is a Samoa Avenue in Los Angeles)



Let's take a closer look.


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hmmm perhaps that's just one hostess (and one client) ...................................... note the blade sign advertising "Hostesses".



update:
There is a Samoa Ave.GSV but it's way up in Tujunga.
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The large house at the top of the hill was called the Alta Pines and it was at 2608 N. Eastern Avenue. It was a residence and a tea room operated by Mrs. Louise Threlkeld.


1932 CD via lapl.org


There you can see it. Many LA restaurants had rabbit dinners when I was a kid. I also lived on a farm in San Fernando where my caretakers raised rabbits and we had rabbit all the time. I can also remember rabbit in the meat departments of the markets in LA but no more. What happened? Rabbit is very good and a lot less fat than the Colonel's greasy chicken.

BBQ Rabbit..........mm good.

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A mystery location.


This snapshot shows two "hostesses" entering the Samoa Ballroom. [May 1970]


eBay

The seller doesn't specifically say this is Los Angeles but to me it has a L. A. feel to it. (and if I'm not mistaken there is a Samoa Avenue in Los Angeles)



Let's take a closer look.


detail

hmmm perhaps that's just one hostess (and one client) ...................................... note the blade sign advertising "Hostesses".



update:
There is a Samoa Ave.GSV but it's way up in Tujunga.
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e_r, here's a (feeble) start: It was "downtown":


LA Times, 11/24/1969

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Edit Add:

Ah, here we go:


LA Times, 7/21/1968

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Edit Add No. 2:

The form of the blade sign has been maintained; and the semicircular feature over the (former) door is still there:


gsv

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There you can see it. Many LA restaurants had rabbit dinners when I was a kid. I also lived on a farm in San Fernando where my caretakers raised rabbits and we had rabbit all the time. I can also remember rabbit in the meat departments of the markets in LA but no more. What happened? Rabbit is very good and a lot less fat than the Colonel's greasy chicken.

BBQ Rabbit..........mm good.

What does rabbit taste like? Any answer except "just like chicken" is Ok. I've never had it but am curious to try it. Also never had venison or goat or horse except possibly in a burger that had a different flavor. I've also never eaten grasshoppers or crickets or any other insects but they are popular in some cultures. I do wish people would refrain from eating bats--look at all the problems that has caused.

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Here's an interesting snapshot showing a large billboard for Max Barish Chrysler - Plymouth located at 444 So. So. LaBrea Ave.


eBay

As you can see the Mona Lisa restaurant is next door. I believe this is the Wilshire Blvd. location.

Here's the Mona Lisa building from the east (from my Wilshire After Its Houses survey):




and an interesting colorized version of the other end:


Pinterest/Bizarre Los Angeles



Max Barish (left)


Per the LAPL: "Photograph caption dated April 30, 1958 reads, "Newest Valley automotive dealer is Barish Chrysler Imperial Agency at 5109 Van Nuys Blvd. Opening tomorrow, Barish Chrysler is one of few dealerships in America awarded Chrysler's 'Quality Dealer' emblem. From left are Max Barish, Howard 'Bud' Barish, president; Marvin Donelly, manager. New, modern facilities have nearly 25,000 square feet and addition to new cars will offer large stock of top quality trade-ins." (The car they're behind is a '57 Chevrolet...and it looks like there's now a Burger King at 5109 Van Nuys Blvd.)



Max with his wife Etta, from a very interesting article from Forward recounting Max's response to the infamously anti-semitic Henry Ford:





444 S La Brea today--remodeled façade but you can seem the classic arched-roof of a car dealer....

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Late '50s Chrysler and Plymouth logos flanking his name...


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Thanks for the information on the SST CaliNative and Hoss. I always appreciate it.





To be honest I was never as enamored with the SST as I was with the Boeing 747. (I was born in 1960 so all these innovations occurred when I was a kid)


pinterest (sucks). I never found the original source





re: Growing up in the 1960s.

I wanted to be an astronaut but that didn't work out.

I should have aimed a little lower. lol


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Hmm, National Airlines was gone by 1984, it merged with Pan Am in 1980. Probably Pan Am acquired the 747 (National did fly 747s in the early 70s, but by the time of the merger, I think their only widebodies were DC-10s)

Great pic of the AA 747 at LAX. My very first flight on a 747 was on AA, San Juan to JFK in December 1973. I never did fly an AA 747 in or our of LAX, but I did fly them on TWA and United. The Queen of the skies!
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Though it's not the (never-built) piece we were discussing, this online booklet tells about and shows another mural ("History of Transportation") of Helen Lundeberg's in the same era and style which was brought to reality in Inglewood (and restored in 2007):

https://www.inglewoodpublicart.org/w...n-brochure.pdf

Here, from the above booklet, is a small piece of the very large mural:


from booklet linked above
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. . . . .


and an interesting colorized version of the other end:


Pinterest/Bizarre Los Angeles



Max Barish (left)


Per the LAPL: "Photograph caption dated April 30, 1958 reads, "Newest Valley automotive dealer is Barish Chrysler Imperial Agency at 5109 Van Nuys Blvd. Opening tomorrow, Barish Chrysler is one of few dealerships in America awarded Chrysler's 'Quality Dealer' emblem. From left are Max Barish, Howard 'Bud' Barish, president; Marvin Donelly, manager. New, modern facilities have nearly 25,000 square feet and addition to new cars will offer large stock of top quality trade-ins." (The car they're behind is a '57 Chevrolet...and it looks like there's now a Burger King at 5109 Van Nuys Blvd.)



Max with his wife Etta, from a very interesting article from Forward recounting Max's response to the infamously anti-semitic Henry Ford:





444 S La Brea today--remodeled façade but you can seem the classic arched-roof of a car dealer....

GSV



Late '50s Chrysler and Plymouth logos flanking his name...


Pinterest



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MAX BARISH CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH, L.A., CA / Closed (195*-1995)

Barish Chrysler Plymouth was located at 444 South La Brea Ave and later 401 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, California. This dealership was a long standing downtown dealership tracing back to the 1950s. By 1989, the downtown L.A.area had become somewhat dangerous at night as evidenced by the April 21st hi-jacking of a demo car. The salesman vanished after taking the demo car out with a 'customer'. The 1989 Conquest driver was captured in Nebraska after a chase that reached 134 MPH. This prompted manager Bill Nelson to institute a buddy system for test drives. The dealership went out of business in 1995. http://www.oneownercollectorcar.com/...s-city-dealers

Of course, down the street, presumably before Mr. Barrish opened his La Brea dealership, was A.E Nugent.
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=34039





A lengthy list of Los Angeles dealers is here >> http://www.oneownercollectorcar.com/...s-city-dealers


It includes these La Brea addresses:

HOLMES TUTTLE FORD "AUTHORIZED FORD LEASING" 361 N. LA BREA
MURPHY OLDSMOBILE CO. 740 S. LaBrea Ave
Ferarr-Bach Pontiac was located at 200 South Le Brea Ave
Buick On La Brea-Metropolitan Auto Center was located at the old Metropolitan Auto Center location at 400 S La Brea Ave
Frank Sanders Oldsmobile was located at 740 S. La Brea Ave
Utter Pontiac Company was located 200 South LaBrea Ave.


One notable omission is Irv White Buick, and there are likely others.


More info on the general area, including a nursery:

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=10734




https://repository.duke.edu/fcgi-bin.../0/default.jpg


https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/11179...-1/s-l1000.jpg
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LA Times, 11/24/1969



Ah, here we go:


LA Times, 7/21/1968
Ah, so the Samoa was in Los Angeles. Good sleuthin' odinthor.

I'm a bit surprised the term "taxi dancer" was still in the L. A. Times' lexicon in the 1969. ... I always thought taxi dancers were from a much earlier era like the 1920s and 1930s.


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Houswife shows off her lemons.



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Across the street, on the other side of the tall fence, you can see a Star Cash Grocery Store.




Let's take a closer look at her lemons the grocery store.


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Somewhere in my files I have similar photograph that, if I remember correctly, shows a woman with a little boy.. .I believe I posted that photo but I haven't been able to find it again

I thought the store stood alone but now, with this enlargement, I see a row of windows next door.
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e_r, the 1920 City Directory has . . .



A couple of years later, the stock of a grocery store of another name is being auctioned off at that address:


LA Times, 6/4/1922
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