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Here's a rather surreal postcard for the Sands Motel at 5330 Imperial Boulevard.
They've placed people around the pool like it's the middle of day. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/577/fi8q.jpgebay how much soda are those two girls going to drink?? Here's the motel in daylight/it's rather nice. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/713/c3y6.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/836/umej.jpg I'm not sure if it's still there or not/I found Imperial Highway but not Imperial Boulevard. (they're prob. one and the same) |
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Check out this view, notice the trees and how the landscape is rising behind the restaurant exactly like in the postcard: http://tinyurl.com/ls5uv36 Also, search for "Carolina Pines Jr. on Sunset and La Brea" brings results supporting my theory. The very last scene in movie "Frances" (Jessica Lange, playing Francis Farmer) was filmed on Lanewood. You can see the trees and Hollywood High across the Orange Dr. I lived on Lanewood in mid 90's. At the time Burger King occupied the spot where Carolina Pines restaurant used to stand, if I remember correctly. |
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:previous: Oh boy, I'm batting a 100 today. -I'm embarrassed. :duh:
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-so what was located at 7315 Melrose Avenue? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...0/834/7667.jpg |
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While we're talking about old baseball fields, have we seen this proposed expansion of Wrigley Field before?
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...dPostcard1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...dPostcard2.jpg Ebay |
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While searching Carolina Pines I found this Carolina-Hollywood Motel on La Brea.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/41/fwho.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/842/mxw5.jpg A Quality Inn is at this address today. |
Looking SW from LA Courthouse, c. 1905
This is part of a panoramic photo. Across the center of the photo, right to left, we have the Highland Villa and its fan-shaped rooftop sign at the NW corner of 1st and Hill, then the El Moro (the part in front that looks like a house being the former Sale Mansion), the Moore-Cliff apparently being built, 133 S. Hill which came to be known as The Annex, and the last building with a staircase in front of it, the Hotel Locke.
In the upper left corner is the Crocker Mansion, the Angel's Flight Observation Tower, and either Sinai or Olivet. Below those, with its dome in front of the trees, at 209-11 S. Hill is the Hotel Lincoln. In the foreground left of center is the old Jail/Police Station (stone front & arched window) on 1st Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/1227/rec/7 http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original Los Angeles Then and Now (1897) @ Hathi Trust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=139 Priors on the Jail/Police Station: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7413 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7433 Police Station on 1906 Sanborn (Hill St. at top of map): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original LAPL Police Station, May 1955: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7947/rec/13 August 10, 1956: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7944/rec/22 Just links: Wrecking the police station -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7943/rec/25 Police station wrecked -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7960/rec/27 |
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I haven't been able to find out much about him. Though he is mentioned in a lot of architecture periodicals found at Google Books and the Internet Archive, I haven't had time to look through them yet. He was active at least as early as 1916, and died in 1961. His listing in the AIA directory of 1956 had only his office address, 1200 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles, and no list of his works. A Google search on Howard G. Elwell turns up a few listings for houses in Pasadena and San Marino. Hollywood Heritage had his 1959 Christian Science Church at 7107 Hollywood Boulevard on its Endangered List in 2012. So far, that's all I've got, but judging from the few buildings I've seen photos of he kept up with the times. The theater in Victorville was clearly Midcentury, and the Hollywood church is very much of its time as well. The doctor's office is quintessential '30s modern. I'd look forward to learning more about Elwell. There might be some unknown masterpieces of his design rotting out there. |
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Here is another home by Locke & Munsell. I believe this is my favorite of theirs.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/607/gjz3.jpgebay above: I really like how the chimney on the right disappears into the building before emerging from the roof. detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/27/higr.jpg __ Tetsu, I meant to compliment earlier on your find in Lincoln Heights. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...0/585/4p5h.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/22/yrnx.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20083 |
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Thanks for all the Gilmore related photos everyone! Now I know where they were situated. CBS Television City is basically on the site where Gilmore Stadium stood and Gilmore Field is where the Television City studio additions were built, where they tape American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, by the way. (Yes, they tape Fox and ABC shows at CBS Television City!)
I wish one or both of those sites were still there. I was actually watching a "Hollywood" episode of I Love Lucy this week and because it's raining Fred laments that he can't go see the Hollywood Stars baseball team play (at Gilmore Field)! So it was still there in 1955, but gone by 1960. As has been noted, CBS Television City opened in 1952. Quote:
Right near the Grove entrance and adjacent to the Farmer's Market, there is a small "historical" area with a gas pump and display cases filled with "Gilmore" memorabilia. There are photos of what used to be located all over this area (no aerials though). I assume it's still there, I haven't been in that area for some time, but when I used to go there alot I'd always take a minute or two to appreciate the exhibit. Quote:
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http://i.imgur.com/p9ndV9R.jpgjalopyjournal.com While you were posting, I was amending my prior post by adding this shot of the Gilmore station at Beverly and Fairfax.... |
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