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Old Posted Nov 22, 2020, 3:59 PM
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I doubt that wagon car had any wood on it. The ''wood'' was a vinyl glue-on.
I'm sorry Doug, most car people i talk to about it, remember that they stopped using real wood on cars around 1952. The wood paneling i was talking about is called Dinoc. My father grew up with a real wood wagon and loved it. My grandmother bought it new and kept it up until the late 60's, the roof leaked (wood and canvas) and it was too much up keep for her at the time.


Dad, with my aunts, 1947 Pontiac Woody and Lassie


Dad and my aunts (Uncle tony was cut out by my aunt)and Woody C1948


All Photos taken in LA 1947-48 at Sheen Residence on Kenwood
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2020, 4:32 PM
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Congratulations, unihikid. Seems odd for someone to have ordered a Country Squire only to remove the Di-Noc within the fiberglass frame. Why not just order a black Country Sedan? Anyway, you'll have a good time with this one. First year of a new body, first year of the rear scoops to keep dust off the back window...hard to tell, but it looks like it could have the great 289 V8...or even the 240 Six, which would be a rare bird indeed (352, 390 and up V8s would have, at least originally, an emblem behind the front wheels). You can de-code the data plate here. I have a couple of old Ford wagons...the Squire framing was real wood around Di-Noc through '53 and into very early production '54, fiberglass after that.

Have fun.
Thanks GW! I think Mr. Lewis had an "IN" at Ford (his nephew was an engineer at ford ). I've been eyeing this wagon most of my life, so i'm over the roof. It came from the factory with a 352, but had a rebuild at the local Montgomery Wards in 1981(with 21,000 miles. The receipt is in the glove box...i wanna know why the rebuild ?) and they have it being rebuilt as a 390! It doesn't have the jump seats, but is pretty much untouched.
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I'm sorry Doug, most car people i talk to about it, remember that they stopped using real wood on cars around 1952. The wood paneling i was talking about is called Dinoc. My father grew up with a real wood wagon and loved it. My grandmother bought it new and kept it up until the late 60's, the roof leaked (wood and canvas) and it was too much up keep for her at the time.


Dad, with my aunts, 1947 Pontiac Woody and Lassie


Dad and my aunts (Uncle tony was cut out by my aunt)and Woody C1948


All Photos taken in LA 1947-48 at Sheen Residence on Kenwood

Couldn't resist finding the house-- 2642 Kenwood, built in 1907. At one time the home of real estate man Roy C. Seeley and in 1948 the home of Dr. Herbert A. Sheen. A few recent GSVs:

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Old Posted Nov 22, 2020, 6:26 PM
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Kenwood!

Bingo GW! my Grandparents moved to Kenwood in 1945, and i think they sold it in the late 70's.


From L-R: Aunt Mildred, Aunt Eugenia, Granny, Aunt Delores cutting cake, Dad, Papa aka Dr. Sheen at Clifton's 1950



From top: Uncle Tony, Aunt Eugenia, Aunt Delores, Dad, and Aunt Mildred 1947
in front of Kenwood

Since you know your cars GW, check out the license plate topper. Dad evidently got into a few car incidents because he thought he could get away with speeding in Papa's Cadillac's (he bought a new one every other year)


Aunt Mildred, Dad, Lassie and Medical License plate topper.
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Congratulations, unihikid. Seems odd for someone to have ordered a Country Squire only to remove the Di-Noc within the fiberglass frame. Why not just order a black Country Sedan? Anyway, you'll have a good time with this one. First year of a new body, first year of the rear scoops to keep dust off the back window...hard to tell, but it looks like it could have the great 289 V8...or even the 240 Six, which would be a rare bird indeed (352, 390 and up V8s would have, at least originally, an emblem behind the front wheels). You can de-code the data plate here. I have a couple of old Ford wagons...the Squire framing was real wood around Di-Noc through '53 and into very early production '54, fiberglass after that.

Have fun.
IIRC, the Country Squires with the faux wood paneling were of a higher trim spec. An all-black wagon might not have as nice an interior, or would have to be special-ordered to attempt at a better interior.

My folks had two Country Squires with the faux wood - 1968 and 1973 (to replace the '68). The 1968 had the 390 and the 1973 had the 351.

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I could not find anything on Arical or John Clair Pictures but I did take a flyover at 5348 Lemon Grove Avenue in Hollywood.



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The "Lemon Grove Studio" was probably housed in this small building in the backyard.


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Thanks so much for your sleuthing, Noir Noir.

At first I highly doubted the little fancy studio was in the backyard . . .but they really do seem to match!

Amazing discovery.


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Old Posted Nov 23, 2020, 6:21 PM
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mystery location.


"Los Angeles Street, aerial photo, Novack Salvage Yard, 1957."



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I don't think the salvage yard is actually on "Los Angeles Street". I believe the seller means the location is Los Angeles and the photograph shows a street.



Let's take a closer look at the photograph.


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And here's the salvage yard from a different angle.



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This angle gives you a good look at the rail spur.



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The Novack Salvage Yard was just north of Mission Boulevard at Milliken Avenue in Ontario. The top view below is from 1959.


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The Novack Salvage Yard was just north of Mission Boulevard at Milliken Avenue in Ontario. The top view below is from 1959.


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Nice find! Looks like the Novack building was located where the curve of Philadelphia Street bends to reach the approach of the fly-over of the still-extant rail ROW.

Now what is an "Animal Removal" company?!?
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"3314 Thompson Street, Los Angeles - postmark 1915"



House located by GaylordWilshire. (NOT at 3314 Thompson St.)


2319 Portland née Thompson


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The address is actually 2319.... Thompson Street north of Adams was renamed as a northerly extension of Portland Place circa 1925.
Thanks so much for finding the house, GW.....I don't know how you did it.


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Thanks for sharing the photographs of your beautiful family, unihikid.


unihikid

I'm curious. .did you ever have a chance to ask your dad what song he is performing for your aunts?


Was the family Collie really named Lassie? . . or are you joshing us.


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artsy.net bio.....

Vivian Maier was a photography hobbyist whose output would become an influential body of work in the 20th-century street photography. Maier was a nanny and caregiver with a hidden passion for photography that resulted in over 100,000 negatives—mostly discovered posthumously. She picked up a camera for the first time in 1947 and worked late into the 1990s capturing her favored subjects: fleeting moments and images from her urban surroundings in Chicago and New York, touching upon destitution, urban development, pedestrian culture, and the American identity. Her later works featured fewer figures and took more interest in found objects, graffiti, and detritus.  

She was out here on at least two occasions....



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Isn't anyone else interested why "Uncle tony" got cut out of the photograph?

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Dad and my aunts (Uncle tony was cut out by my aunt) and Woody
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I've seen people do this in movies or TV shows; characters cutting out people in photographs for one reason or another, but I've never known it to be done in actual practice!
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I was curious but I was afraid it might be too personal. ... So I asked about Lassie instead.


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Here's an interesting rppc. (real photo postcard)



ebay






Let's take a closer look at the photograph on the left.


detail

Note the two workers.

Is that a ghost sign on the building next door?






The postcard was addressed to 'County Flood Control' at 8th and Figueroa.



It was postmarked at the Arcade Station in 1937....Hmmm. .but the Arcade Station was long gone by 1937. ....So what, exactly, is the Arcade Annex?
(I've seen the postmark many times but I've never specifically asked about the annex)





for search purposes: southwest equipment co. - 1928 e. 7th St. - L. A. - VA.8521 - sales - rentals
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We have probably seen the MissionVillage Auto Court but I don't remember seeing this excellent sepia rppc.



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4 Acres....5675 W. Washington Blvd. ...Los Angeles

The reverse is blank.




Here's the area today.


GSV

'4 acres' is quite large. I imagine the Mission Village Auto Court was replaced by the United States Post Office on the southwest corner. (this is a guess)




There's something interesting down the street.

A large sign appears to say MAMMY.


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If my coordinances are correct this would be the west side of S. La Brea just below Washington Blvd.


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There's something interesting down the street.

A large sign appears to say MAMMY.


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If my coordinances are correct this would be the west side of S. La Brea just below Washington Blvd.
The 1939 CD gives the following:

Mammy's Shack (Chas H Cole) Established 1923, Chicken, Steak and Squab Dinners, Cocktails, 5687 W Washington Blvd.

There are various pictures online, but none that I've found are an exact match for the sign above (one has a similar font with the colors reversed). I make the addresses near S Fairfax in Culver City.
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The postcard was addressed to 'County Flood Control' at 8th and Figueroa.



It was postmarked at the Arcade Station in 1937....Hmmm. .but the Arcade Station was long gone by 1937. ....So what, exactly, is the Arcade Annex?
(I've seen the postmark many times but I've never specifically asked about the annex)
You answered your own question back in April 2014, e_r:

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At first, I thought this was a photograph of Central Market.


ebay

but the seller places it at 3rd Street and Central Avenue.



United States Post Office
Arcade Annex

3rd & Central puts it just north of the Arcade Depot.

www.bigmapblog.com

After a quick google search or two I found the Arcade Annex Post Office was only open from 1930 to 1940.
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Here's an interesting rppc. (real photo postcard)



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Let's take a closer look at the photograph on the left.


detail

Note the two workers.

Is that a ghost sign on the building next door?

Speaking as a former Public Works manager, that piece of equipment looks dangerously off-balance, especially in the long boom configuration. I don't see any outrigger stabilizers or counterweights. With a full bucket, I can see it tipping over quite easily.
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