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I'm not an old tv expert but I own one of those Admirals! I was told, or saw a date on it, that mine is from 1949. It's bakelite - weighs a ton. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/IMG-3.jpg[/QUOTE] Very snazzy smoker's stand Noir City Dame...with lighted marble. Amazing and almost worshipful. Yes, ER, I believe this has an electric lighter which uses an electric coil. The lighter is the marble dome....lift it out and the underside hides the lighter coil. There's a lot of these for sale on ebay. Rather decadent.. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps06dda8b8.jpg |
2nd Street Park
Nathan Masters put up a blog post this past week on the now vanished 2nd Street Park:
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:previous: very interesting T2. I don't recall ever knowing about this park.
screen-grabs of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. http://imageshack.us/a/img600/4296/wmck.jpg Yamada Family http://imageshack.us/a/img4/8757/qzvt.jpg Yamada Family http://imageshack.us/a/img189/3721/n1h1.jpg Yamada Family http://imageshack.us/a/img837/7269/da0o.jpg Yamada Family Watch the video HERE. http://imageshack.us/a/img22/7379/fcga.jpg http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/nik.../slide/?page=1 *click on the link above. I'm still uncertain how to embed videos. __ |
Flash Flood 1966.
Anyone recognize where this was taken? (note the SAFEWAY sign) http://imageshack.us/a/img404/6605/cduy.jpg ebay the seller used this photograph as an example from a Los Angeles press photography annual. (see below) http://imageshack.us/a/img546/4841/rcq.jpg __ |
I had never heard of the Van Norman Dam until I happened across this photograph on ebay.
http://imageshack.us/a/img9/9475/tj90.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img824/1029/t5hw.jpg The Van Norman Dam in 1920. http://imageshack.us/a/img585/4990/i0wq.jpg museumofsanfernandovalley.com February 9, 1971 -earthquake damage http://imageshack.us/a/img153/8936/2imp.jpg nisee2.berkeley.edu For a length of about 1,800 feet, the embankment (including the parapet wall, dam crest, most of the upstream slope, and a portion of the downstream slope) slid into the reservoir. A loss of about 30 feet of dam height resulted when as much as 800,000 cubic yards of dam embankment was displaced into the reservoir. The reservoir was about half full at the time (thank god!). Eighty-thousand people living downstream of the dam were immediately ordered to evacuate, and steps were taken to lower the water level in the reservoir as rapidly as possible. (hence the water in the Los Angeles River in the first photo) |
Hi ER
Re: Van Norman Dam I can recall the old-timers talking about it when I was a Cub Scout. |
Many years before the now defunct Los Angeles amusement park Busch Gardens...
http://imageshack.us/a/img33/3520/l661.jpg ebay there was the world famous Busch Gardens in Pasadena. http://imageshack.us/a/img9/5392/0uv0.jpg ebay usually referred to as the Busch 'sunken' Gardens. http://imageshack.us/a/img706/5475/bfi9.jpg ebay larger view/simply beautiful http://imageshack.us/a/img35/2140/rke9.jpg ebay The Adolf Busch residence overlooking his beloved sunken gardens. http://imageshack.us/a/img21/7860/b6pa.jpg unknowned hmmm...how many Busch residences were there? three...four? http://imageshack.us/a/img46/9220/86v5.jpg ebay interesting stats. http://imageshack.us/a/img198/1125/f8mk.jpg http://pasadenapio.blogspot.com/ http://imageshack.us/a/img41/7654/bm8u.jpg rppc/ebay I'm not sure if that's Helen Burke or Snow White? ;) http://imageshack.us/a/img209/3843/8q8n.jpg rppc/ebay and there was even a lake. (note the lone hilltop house in the far distance) http://imageshack.us/a/img812/8412/tyx0.jpg ebay folder dated 1913. http://imageshack.us/a/img35/6729/oae4.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img577/4968/m6f4.jpg ebay http://imageshack.us/a/img833/2536/vfp7.jpg rppc/ebay one last view of the mill. Is that a stork on the chimney? http://imageshack.us/a/img9/8126/rke.jpg ebay tourist's snapshots 1910s. (see the woman walking past the sculptured shrub) -reminds me of 'Last Year at Marienbad'. http://imageshack.us/a/img560/9743/3cvt.jpg ebay http://imageshack.us/a/img69/8836/xrgn.jpg ebay The Busch 'eagle' in flowers/lower right http://imageshack.us/a/img850/8632/k5bz.jpg ebay The borders of Adolf's Busch Gardens. This place was HUGE! http://imageshack.us/a/img404/8316/m07y.jpg gsv Bellafontaine Street is the northern border/ Madeline Drive is the southern. __ |
Maybe I've missed it, but have their been any posts about the big Sears building on Olympic? My Dad got a job in its warehouse after returning from the Pacific in WWII. I believe there's still a store on the ground floor but the rest of the huge building is empty--quite a bit of noir potential there!
BTW, I remember when the giant box of a warehouse building just south of the I5-I10 interchange was the shipping center for Sears' catalogue order fulfillment operation. Remember the catalogs?!:righton: |
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under construction 1927 http://imageshack.us/a/img839/1396/vr21.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69505 http://imageshack.us/a/img195/793/fpzh.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69505 __ http://imageshack.us/a/img841/5917/zqvq.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69511 details from lapl http://imageshack.us/a/img46/9349/76op.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=69511 __ |
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(a lot of time has been spent here on the thread in the Crown Hill neighborhood/Los Angeles Oil Field). https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L...20855%2BPM.jpg http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...r-retreat.html There's a little background on the last owner of Second Street Park here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bayer |
:previous: thx T2. I'm still trying to figure out it's exact location....this helps.
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I love those screen grabs of Little Tokyo, and have never seen pictures of Busch Gardens LA or the Sears building -wow :)
How about some traffic safety? The So Cal Auto Club's Highway Patrol Service, from my own collection (no date, guessing c.1925-27). I would not want to be pulled over by these guys. Welcome to Noir City. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/IMG-4.jpg I saw this 1940s LA traffic safety film on TCM years ago: someone uploaded a snippet of it on You Tube - the start and end are cut off. The part that they do show is amazing though! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on8n4TKHRqk The "Dope" following the blonde has a Hollywood Co. Wolf Whistle on his car. . . http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e-original.jpg eBay http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...histleside.jpg |
Another ad for this high-class auto accessory,
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:previous: Love the wolf whistles NoirCityDame and so-cal-bear. lol
We've seen many photographs of the Los Angeles County Hospital, but I've never noticed the covered pedestrian bridge at lower left before. http://imageshack.us/a/img827/2762/nlkd.jpg ebay I surmise the other 'bridge-like' structure is an extension of the hospital powerhouse (with the two chimneys). I bet there are tunnels all over this place. Has anyone ever seen blueprints? It's truly a gem. __ |
At what point in time did city officials decide to dead-end Bellevue Avenue?
Here it is in 1897 http://imageshack.us/a/img855/60/ad69.jpg http://www.historicmapworks.com/ and in 1947. -still a thoroughfare http://imageshack.us/a/img580/4431/jq1a.jpg my map and today. Here is the missing segment that I circled in blue on the 1947 map http://imageshack.us/a/img543/6862/gqmf.jpg gsv the actual dead-end on upper Bellevue Ave. looking east. http://imageshack.us/a/img827/6970/ogwc.jpg gsv lower Bellevue Ave. looking west toward upper Bellevue Ave. http://imageshack.us/a/img802/8313/u2vz.jpg gsv Obviously it was a very steep grade. Do you think this might be why they decided to do away with this segment of Bellevue? I don't know how these decisions are made. -just curious __ Forgive me if I've asked this question before. |
Before I leave this area I want to point out one of my favorite 'arts and craft' houses in the city.
It's right on the corner where Bellevue used to be. http://imageshack.us/a/img580/9554/tcwa.jpg google aerial Here it is! 508 Belmont Ave. http://imageshack.us/a/img824/6629/ng0w.jpg gsv http://imageshack.us/a/img835/5513/dw8z.jpg gsv view with the dead-end http://imageshack.us/a/img259/5711/r70n.jpg gsv Diagonally across the street on Belmont Ave. are cute little bungalows that barely escaped the construction of the Hollywood Freeway. A pedestrian bridge crosses the fwy at this point. http://imageshack.us/a/img20/9489/kccq.jpg close-up/pedestrian bridge http://imageshack.us/a/img404/4034/46vf.jpg __ |
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from Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986. An interactive DVD-ROM.
http://imageshack.us/a/img191/4597/biit.jpg http://www.fondation-langlois.org/ht...hp?NumPage=385 click on the link above for information on this project. __ or here http://imageshack.us/a/img826/2587/35xc.jpg http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller....001280&lang=en |
The 'Edendale Meteor' 1907
http://imageshack.us/a/img689/84/q6yg.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img163/8340/txqn.jpg www.ollalumni.com this link doesn't work any longer/it says their account has been suspended. 'ollalumni' stands for Our Lady of Loretto Grammar School located at 258 N. Union Ave. in Echo Park. __ |
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On the out buildings at the County Hospital, that foot bridge and buildings can be clearly seen on the 1948 and 1952 historic aerials. The power plant is also visible. By the 1972 aerial both are gone. The concrete “bridge” is still there as of the latest Google imaging. Which brings to mind the beautiful old brick building which I believe is part of the County Coroner’s facility and maybe was part of the original hospital. I don’t think I’ve seen it on this forum before. Seems to me that place ought to be spelled Coronoir :koko: BTW, the decision to not run the street through would have started with the civil engineer and city planners would have to buy off. That would seem to cover the basics. |
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