Here's an upcoming event that should appeal to a variety of us on here:

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Link here— http://www.americancinemathequecalen...-angels-flight

S Bonnie Brae & W 11th + The Lyndon
 

Thank you Tetsu. Maybe one owner moved the whole trio of homes and saved a bit of money by shoehorning them on to just two lots (?)

Remember the house pictured above e_r? Its turret and roof peak were captured in one of the photos you posted, taken on the roof of the Athletic Model Guild.


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Thank you e_r and Beaudry for the posts on the Lyndon. It makes an enchanting mask for the new building it wraps. I think the handicapped entrance is handled a bit awkwardly though. I would've taken the full width of the window down to the ground and put the address over the door. (But no one asked me and I have too many opinions anyway). It's certainly better than the Hollywood Brown Derby facade fragment they "saved" or the iconic bits of Perino's which were incorporated into that apartment building.

1954
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1956 - "Shot from the Law Library [12th Floor] on Broadway. Bottom left is the northeast corner of 1st and Hill Streets. Structures in background are on Grand Avenue north of 1st Street."
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August '56 - From the southwest corner of Grand Avenue and Court Street, looking south on Grand Avenue
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December '56
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December '58
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December '59
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February '59
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1956 - Court Street homes make way for Civic Center
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1955 Hotel Broadway
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The College of Medicine was at 737 Buena Vista, later 737 N Broadway. Here are some listings from the City Directories. The word "Southern" seems to get dropped from the name for 1909 and 1911.

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LAPL

Here's a small extract from the '1922-23 Register - University of California, Volume 1' by University of California, Berkeley.

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books.google.com

The college can be seen here just above the word "Vista" on the 1910 Baist map.

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www.historicmapworks.com

Today, you'll find this structure roughly where the college was.

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GSV

:previous: thx Hoss. I appreciate you posting the 1910 baist map.
"and the cadaver operating rooms".....I wonder if these were in the basement? (I noticed the building had a full basement)



below: Does anyone recognize this location?

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found in an old file of mine / screengrab from unknown film


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...and here's another sequence. (the bus number is different, so i'm not sure if this is the same street)

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note the building with the cartouche and ornament (painted over in blue)


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the cartouche building is further down the street now. (far right)


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:previous: Is this a Desmonds sign? It looks like the same type/font used by the department store.

Sorry I misplaced the origin of the film. (I've looked thru several youtube videos, but haven't found any with these particular street scenes)
-hmmm...perhaps the scenes are from someone's home movies? 8mm.
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Amazing color slides from the Huntington archives Tourmaline. -and I love the Hattie McDaniels photograph you posted. (good timing...the day before the Oscars)

1928 - Erlanger's Mason Theater http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/4176/rec/5
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Curious handlebars positioning
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See also: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1757

Seminole Hot Springs



'49 map including Seminole Hot Springs
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Pacific Boulevard at Zoe Avenue in Huntington Park. The old F W Woolworth building looks pretty intact under some new additions. The building on the left is still occupied by the Bank of America, and the property websites I've checked say it was built in 1930, so it must have had quite a makeover.

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GSV

I'll have to take the Googlemobile down the road to see if the stores in the second batch of e_r's screengrabs are nearby.

:previous: Ah, yes! -the buildings still stand! thx HossC. (how did you find it so quickly?)-I'm impressed.

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Thanks for the heads up Beaudry.

I saw the film ANGEL'S FLIGHT when KCET aired it as part of a celebration of the re-opening of Angel's Flight in it's current
incarnation, before I was schooled on Bunker Hill history. Imdb curiously lists the film as both in black & white and color. (?)

Other tidbits from imdb say that the film was shot in 1962, but released in 1965. Apparently the film stopped shooting
because they had no film permits and it got shut down, which is why it's only 77 minutes and has an "abrupt" ending.
(But effective, one person notes.)

There is also a theme song ("Angel's Flight") sung by Ann Richards, but I doubt it was the same woman who became
Governor of Texas!

I did remember that the one person in this film people would recognize is a small role played by Rue McClanahan.
(Billed as "Rhue" in the film.)

A month ago, someone posted a 72 minute version of the film on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81HvMHetMJg

Stills:
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Ann Richards! Yes! Same one! Governor of Texas! Here she is rockin' the "Angel's Flight" theme at a concert:
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That would be great, but it's actually this Ann Richards—

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—the image from her album cover was taken from her Playboy shoot (hubba, hubba!) which the other Ann Richards probably couldn't say. Richards had something of a tragic history: she was married to Stan Kenton, had children with him, and separated almost immediately; apparently Mr Kenton was no choirboy. Then she shot herself, age 46, in her Hollywood apartment in 1982.

The Sherman, continued


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Undated
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Another interior shot. Lavish kilowattage.

1933 - Sales Department office just off the main lobby
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So Cal Edison customers should heed those blackout regulations. Source suggests 1940. More likely post '41



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Possibly for a new depot, but also possibly for the dozens of small "weekend" homes built for people who lived farther inland, but kept a place in Santa Monica for the hot months of the year. There are still a few of them around.

Old Bunker Hill Steps
 

That's a wonderful shot of the old Bunker Hill steps. When we were little, my sister and I used to play princesses on the balcony at the top, benignly waving to our "subjects" below:

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Huntington Digital Library (detail)

The photo makes a great pair with the shot of the interior flights of the old steps Beaudry gifted us with last New Years' Eve. I'd guess at least 40 years separates the two photos:

:previous: I can picture you on that balcony T2. :) -sweet story.



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jg6544,
I think you made a good point. -small 'weekend' homes like this.


Santa Monica beach, 1880s
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www.businessinsider.com/life
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