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I have no idea about this postcard. Monster House Factory....is that really the name?
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Home designed by Henry Wilson
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/543/qpwz.jpgebay -as seen in purple ink :previous:, Mr. Wilson's office was on the top floor of the 1895 Byrne Building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/560/yf2q.jpg http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal6.html __ |
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This was a short-lived branch of the Ahmanson Bank, which along with the Wilshire Central Building below, was replaced by the current Ahmanson Center completed in 1970. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/838/qq4m.jpgLAPL https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...2520PM.bmp.jpgLA Times Sept 16, 1963 |
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The giveaway was the tower with the barrel tiled roof and the interestingly adorned windows. ;) The pictured building and what appears to be travertine is reminiscent of the Home Savings. A mini Scottish Rite temple? :no: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...coll59/id/1213 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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Richfield Building
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e_r had posted a photo with the arch way back at the beginning of this thread! (On page 5!) Quote:
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The building’s two-story underground parking garage was also one of the first ever installed in an office complex. The building itself was a giant U-shape, actually two wings united by the façade on Flower Street. The Richfield Building’s exterior dark green tile only appeared black from the sun’s reflection off the mirrored surface. Real 14-carat gold leaf was contained in the gold surfaces lining the windows and sculptures. “The gold ornamentation is of terra cotta coated with a layer of finely pulverized gold, held in suspension in a transparent glazing solution,” per the Architectural Record. The entrance featured Belgian black marble, Cardiff green stone trimmings, Russian bronze metalworks, Benedict nickel hardware, rubber tile on the floor, and black lacquer-coated woodwork. Six high-speed, etched metal elevator doors and two freight elevators were installed beginning April 20, 1929, the first on the West Coast. |
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"Filine's" is a name I haven't heard in many years. They like many others now only in the annals of history were rooted in an era the shopping center, freeways, and the automobile laid waste to starting in the 1950s. But the same factors also killed the likes of W.T. Grant and other variety stores at the opposite end of the spectrum. Most certainly so called "Boutique" stores which are franchises will never duplicate the imaginative opulence evidenced in this thread, mainly because the franchise founders and individual franchisee owners are so far removed from the era and probably without imagination themselves, as is much of today's consuming public. We are adrift in an unimaginative cookie cutter world in virtually all aspects of our lives and few seem to be really enjoying it! |
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The seller places these two snapshots in Los Angeles.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/30/cmc4.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/703/knxc.jpgebay I looked for Warren's U-Drive in both the 1942 and 1956 city directories (1943 thru 1955 are missing at lapl...as most of you know). I came up empty handed. __ |
bridge construction.
1962 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...0/809/kzrg.jpgebay a year later, 1963 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/191/upfr.jpgebay noirish suicide side-note: If I remember correctly, this is the bridge a famous movie director jumped off a couple years ago. That's quite a leap. __ |
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I would suspect the sign to the left of Warren's U-Drive explains what may have happened to them. The history of Hertz shows they set a course on catering to the business traveler as far back as the 1920s. A regional business such as Warren's probably just found it impossible to compete or could have well been bought out by Hertz. The photo would appear to have been taken in the early to mid 1950s as the vehicle seen is an early '50s Chevy pickup. |
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See: From the Rio Grande to the Arctic: The Story of the Richfield Oil Corporation by Charles S. Jones (University of Oklahoma Press, 1972). Richfield's management was old; Atlantic's was young, and they took over. I don't think they cared one whit about Richfield's HQ. Atlantic also got rid of most of Richfield's supervisors/managers after the merger. My dad worked there and saw it happen. Louis Ream, quoted above by MP, was an Atlantic executive (http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-...executive-vice). http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original Photo by me Genuine Richfield bowling shirt: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original Photo by me |
Los Angeles 1905
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/849/qoih.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/21/crky.jpg I was able to locate a J. M. Eustace under plumbers in the 1909 city directory. If this is correct, the store (above) was located at 830 Ceres Avenue. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/856/hepk.jpg http://www.lapl.org/ So why does the window say G.J. Eustace? (in the 1905 photograph) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/855/h6sg.jpg http://www.lapl.org/ Was C.J. Eustace J. Eustace's father?? __ |
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800 N Alameda [Union Station] 7001 Hollywood Boulevard [across from Roosevelt hotel] 9641 Sunset Boulevard [Beverly Hills Hotel] 3569 Vernon [truck rental] 718 E 3rd [truck rental - Little Tokyo] 555 W 5th [near Biltmore Hotel] 915 W 7th [Statler Hotel] At 513 W 5th, the 1956 directory has a listing for "LA Car Rental System," which I'll wager was Warren's. The 555 address for Hertz would be to the pictures' left, as the arrow on the second one indicates. The Sanborn map of this address: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/30/rolm.jpg lapl.org shows a narrow gap to the west of 513 W 5th, which is visible in the second picture. And the pictures show a perceptible grade up to the left (west) up toward Bunker Hill. |
This blog will have information on developments in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities. Its brand new (there are only 4 posts) but it is really neat and has a lot of interesting and informative information. Check it out if you can. One post talks about 801 south olive street, and has a link to external information.
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