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Merry Christmas!
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"Broadway looking north-east from 10th Street (now, Olympic Boulevard), showing Christmas decorations along the sides of the street, December 1930"
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original USC Digital Library For reference, the same view eighty-three and a half years later (June 2014). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wayJun2014.jpg GSV Merry Christmas to all those who contribute to NLA, and to those of you who just read :cheers:. |
A festive postcard from 1953.
Christmastime at Los Angeles's Original Farmers Market. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...armersXmas.jpg eBay |
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Based on your information this is pretty much where the photographer was standing when he snapped the 1962 vintage view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/cpt9wu.png GSV ...but I haven't been able to located this building (with the red arrow ->). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/gQcKQs.jpg ebay |
Mysterious objet d'art in front of NBC studios at Sunset & Vine, Hollywood.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/Jn17W2.jpg ebay below: The seller seems to think it's a 'feather' (representing the NBC color Peacock), but he also mistakenly placed the photograph in Burbank. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/oBSMqD.png ebay __ |
Fire at the 'Swing Club', 1710 N. Las Palmas Avenue ca.1937.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...BullPenInn.jpg eBay Ye Bull Pen Inn reappears at 535 S Grand Avenue in the 1929 CD. Up until a couple of years earlier, that had been the location of the Key West Hotel (aka Apartments/Rooms). They were listed at 533 S Grand, which is the same location as the one given in BifRayRock's picture below. Ye Bull Pen Inn only shows up at that address in 1929, so that gives a pretty good guess for the date of this picture. Quote:
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Notice how the far left building, left of the pole, is incorporated into the new one. http://waterandpower.org/1%20Histori...egro_Calle.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...29_Page_1.html Quote:
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It's the final curtain for the former United Artists Theater / Four Star Theater at 5112 Wilshire Blvd.
1932, the United Artists Theater: http://36.media.tumblr.com/d69f5d7e9...rtso1_1280.png [source: Huntington Digital Library] 1937: renamed the Four Star Theater, Frank Capra's Lost Horizon premiered here: http://40.media.tumblr.com/b4a90eb6b...rtso2_1280.jpg [source: Los Angeles Public Library] December 2014: http://40.media.tumblr.com/f0f397077...rtso1_1280.jpg http://40.media.tumblr.com/0f3b7c992...rtso2_1280.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/eb86cceec...rtso4_1280.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/96a8a5ec8...rtso3_1280.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/4c00d6ba3...rtso5_1280.jpg [image source: me] |
:previous: Well that sucks.
__ Los Angeles & Redondo Railway Co., 1901 railway pass. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/0G799W.jpg ebay reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/5BECaU.jpg ...anyone familiar with this railway company? __ |
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:previous: Thanks Handsome_Stranger. It's actually larger than I imagined (with it's 3 separate routes).
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below: You can see HossC's barber shop across the hall in this photograph. (I just re-discovered in an old file of mine) This looks like the beauty salon, circa 1951. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/cMb0OP.jpg old file After taking a closer look at the windows and glass door....this is the barber shop. __ |
In the same file I found a few photographs of the pool area.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/WfCotA.jpg ofilm slightly closer http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/k0RRln.jpg ofilm below: In this view a sign has been added to the poolside building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/xROLuI.jpg ofilm Here's a room at the Ambassador, circa 1951. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/DVPDOb.jpg ofilm -note the television (in 1951!) __ |
Ben's Restaurant, 12004 Wilshire Boulevard, circa 1950s.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4Wilshire1.jpg eBay California Wok, 12004 Wilshire Boulevard, 2014. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4Wilshire2.jpg GSV According to propertyshark.com, the restaurant building dates from 1942, and the building next door (below) was constructed in 1953. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...08Wilshire.jpg GSV Then I spotted this little building at 12020 Wilshire Boulevard. Now occupied by the School of Rock, propertyshark.com says this one was built in 1936. I don't know what it was originally - historic Streetview images show it boarded up in 2007 with a neon sign left over from when it was the Bruin Flower Shop, and as Pineapple Fitness in 2009. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...20Wilshire.jpg GSV |
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Found this link with short video Read this below and stumbled onto this retronaut This copy of the entire King James Bible was completed by Louis Waynai in Los Angeles, CA, in 1930, two years after he had begun the project. Devoting more than 8,700 hours to the book, Mr. Waynai printed the text using a large home-made rubber stamp press. When laid open, the Waynai Bible measures 43.5 inches tall and 98 inches wide. Closed, the spine is 34 inches thick. The book has 8,048 pages and weighs in at 1,094 pounds.” http://i1364.photobucket.com/albums/...ps67aa8e80.jpg http://www.retronaut.com/2014/06/the-waynai-bible/ |
Interesting Ambassador pictures, e_r. As I mentioned in a recent post, there are loads of pictures of the hotel on LAPL, but many of them date from just before it was demolished. Older images showing the hotel in use give a much better view of what it was really like.
------------ Is it too late for another Christmas picture? We seem to have a lot of pictures from Wilshire today, but I assume it's coincidental. This picture, looking west on Wilshire Boulevard from near the base of the E Clem Wilson Building, is dated as 1960s by the seller. That seems reasonable since the tower at 5455 Wilshire was completed in 1961. On the corner just in front of the nearest Christmas tree is the Huddle Restaurant at 5301 Wilshire Boulevard. Its incarnation as Tilford's was discussed again recently in post #25114. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shireXmas1.jpg eBay On the left of the picture above is the Fox Ritz Theatre at 5214 Wilshire Boulevard. According to cinematreasures.org, the Ritz Theatre survived until 1977 when it was demolished to make way for a parking lot. There are more pictures of the Fox Ritz Theatre in BifRayRock's post #9808 and Flyingwedge's post #17458. It was only a block away from the United Artists Theater/Four Star Theater - see Handsome Stranger's demolition pictures above. That building still looks great on GSV! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ireFoxRitz.jpg cinematreasures.org The current 45 degree views on Google Maps still show a parking lot on the southeast corner of Wilshire and La Brea, but the overhead and street views show the new residential development previously mentioned by Tourmaline in post #16495. This is as near as I could get to the postcard view with the Googlemobile. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shireXmas2.jpg GSV |
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California Wok, 12004 Wilshire Boulevard, 2014. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4Wilshire2.jpg GSV I can't help but wonder if the sign on the roof affected their business! Cheers, Jack |
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Some atmospheric photographs of the Four Star Theater during the 1938 premier of 'In Old Chicago'. (it appears to have been quite windy that night) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/3eVWF9.jpg ofilm below: If you look closely, you can make out the giant letters spelling 'In Old Chicago'. (I'm not sure where all the automobiles were parked / Was there an empty lot across from the theater?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/913/yhK240.jpg ofilm __ Not as atmospheric, but interesting none the less. (giant 'CHICAGO' lettering at left) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/nM6NsO.jpg ebay? __ |
A couple more photographs if you don't mind.
The 'Four Star' shortly before it opened as the United Artists Theater in 1930. It was renamed the Four Star in 1937 (shortly before the 'In Old Chicago' premier as seen above). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/903/07UelR.jpg CalState/archives ...and FIFTY years later in 1980, showing movies from India. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/T0PNCX.jpg Tom Zimmerman This is just a few years before I moved to los Angeles. __ |
More Wilshire Boulevard! I came across a blurry, washed out version of the postcard below on eBay earlier tonight. Luckily, I found this better version.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wilighter1.jpg www.cardcow.com Here's a closer (and real) look at the Wilshire Twilighter Motor Hotel at 4300 Wilshire Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wilighter2.jpg jericl cat on Flickr And a night shot. One of the comments under this picture says it was built in 1957 and designed by Sam Reisbord. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wilighter3.jpg Jordan Smith (The Pie Shops) on Flickr I also found this matchbook. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wilighter4.jpg eBay Today, the Twilighter survives as The Dunes Inn. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wilighter5.jpg GSV |
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