Trocadero Cafe, Hollywood Blvd
 

I was recently approached by a Ron Rodriguez who emailed me to say that his grandfather was the proprietor of the Trocadero Cafe at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard. I asked him if he had any photos of it in some family album. He dug around and came up with this one:

https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...ero-Cafe-1.jpg

I love that old-style floor tiling! Then I realized it's the same photo used in an advertisement I came across somewhere:

https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...adero-menu.jpg

The county assessor says that 3726 Canyon Crest was built in 1941, and so that fits. Here is a UCSB aerial from 1931 which shows both the sanitarium and the Busch house, I think. Canyon Crest was slightly rerouted after the fire.

https://i.imgur.com/iJQ0kZZ.jpg
UCSB

The sanitarium looks like it had a lot of linear buildings at right angles:

https://i.imgur.com/2I9E1MJ.jpg
lawc.org

The tree break visible to the north of the Busch house follows the property line shown on the assessor's map.

https://i.imgur.com/zUZwYJ4.jpg
la county assessor

Slim, I thought the Hollywood Freeway was part of the 101. :shrug:


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/Qb6zU4.jpg
socalregion


the area where the snapshots were taken back in 1950.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/hynvLj.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/nlNqjM.jpg
google_earth

as you can see, melrose intersects vermont quite some distance from the actual freeway. ....makes me wonder if the first snap was labeled correctly



"Building of a Highway Los Angeles Vermont & Melrose, c.1950"


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/mVTkJN.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/2a28i8.jpg
ebay

Now say.....

if we were looking in the direction of melrose and vermont (northeast)
there might be a glimpse of the old Bergstrom/Pantages Estate which was demolished the following year, in 1951. (far right, 2nd snap)

but that's me grasping at straws & wishing for things that aren't actually there :(. -like living in my own ethereal reality. blah. blad. blah

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/1Jq0nG.jpg
Bergstrom Estate, N. Vermont Avenue

Autoette
 

250 N Lake St, Pasadena, mid-fifties.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4669/...684a9a39_b.jpg
PDHC

(looks like the photo was cropped to clear the background)


I was unaware such vehicles were able to be driven on city streets....you could drive them on the streets, right?

Here's a zoom-in for you, ER. The very proud owners I assume- she reminds me of comedian Catherine O'Hara.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4678/...c0c345d2_b.jpg

Here's a restored, show quality CruiseAbout car(t). Probably not going to be featured at Pebble Beach anytime soon, though you never know.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4661/...88ce5e4402.jpg

The building is apparently still standing.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4655/...bcacb74d_b.jpg

February 9, 1971 Sylmar Earthquake Dam Damage
 

The Sylmar Earthquake was 47 years ago today. Here are some more photos of the Lower Van Norman Dam,
which almost collapsed. Here it is on February 10, the day after the quake:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original

Photo by Robert E. Wallace, USGS @ Wikimedia


This photo looks in the same direction as the previous shot. This and the next photo may have been taken on Feb 9:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original

Gendisasters.com


Here we're looking back in the opposite direction (compare with e_r's sepia photo):

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original

Photo by T. L. Youd, USGS @ Wikimedia


The LADWP's Earthquake Emergency Report on its Water System at CSUN's Oviatt Library has additional
information on the near-disaster.

:previous:You nailed it Beaudry. Thanks!

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detail

Is it just me, or does that floor look like it has an extremely short floor-to-ceiling height.
it's like the architects were told to squeeze in an extral floor below the cornice.



like this

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/dS8vNl.jpg
athenacinema / Being John Malkovich
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:previous: Way to go odinthor!

When I posted the Busch's hat ad I had no idea Busch had anything to do with this house.




A week or so ago, I came across some photographs....and guess what...it's the same house!

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/SwyRcl.jpg
altadenahistoricalsociety.blog

"Hewn from Millard Canyon granite and El Prieto Canyon timber, the huge home was built overlooking the east edge of the canyon
where the road curves to go up to the Meadows. The huge craftsman-like lodge was constructed in the Swiss Chalet style
and featured spectacular gardens, bridges, an aviary and petting zoo."





one of the largest boulders at Boulder's Crest.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/IoneEh.jpg
altadenahistoricalsociety.blog

"Busch published a brochure featuring the property. In it he boasted, “More than 200 men were here employed at different stages
of this work, each one taking unusual interest, thus making it possible to achieve these results.” The caption describing the photograph
featuring the ground floor entry (photo above) read, “At the door of this rocky castle the visitor turns through a gateway
formed by two immense boulders weighing many tons – resting just where they were placed by the great Creator.”
The cornerstone of the lower entrance stood 17 feet high."



this pic includes the veranda above the front entrance.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Pqjkmb.jpg
altadenahistoricalsociety.blog


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I didn't realize that FW. thx for the pics of the Van Norman Dam-age.


The screengrabs below show a building in downtown Los Angeles that was damaged in the Sylmar Earthquake.

Does anyone recognize it?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/PxOopt.jpg



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/TTsvnk.jpg



https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/NRdRFg.jpg


I thought it would be interesting to use google earth/gsv to see if the patch-up job is visible. (maybe different color of bricks?)





The 'mystery' building is shown at 6:01 in the 28 minute video. (I haven't finished the whole thing yet)

• Video Link

I had to follow one more lead with Mr. R.J. Busch:

https://s26.postimg.org/lbp0f6k3t/Bus_Val_Art.jpg
L.A. Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library.

https://s26.postimg.org/7599jy1ix/Bus_Val.jpg

Seems like it was a nice-looking building once upon a time!

Edit to Add:

https://s26.postimg.org/t7nhghul5/Busch_San.jpg

Frenchy L.A.
 

It may not be obvious for everybody here : this looks exactly as a traditional french restaurant. They date roughly from the 1870-1930 period and they are a lot of survivors, mainly in the provinces.

You were right, the apparent address for the Busch property is 3740 Canyon Crest Rd. Zooming in on Google maps shows the boulders and the new house at the location.

https://goo.gl/maps/c7udYELtgW42

Also, from the UCSB archive, Flight C-3758, Frame 20 (red dot on upper Canyon Crest Rd.) has an aerial of the site after the fire, you can see all the stonework on the ridge.

Long time lurker, avid viewer and reader of this thread. Thought I'd make a small contribution. :)

A little glimpse of the house that replaced the original Busch house at 3740 Canyon Crest Rd.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/ez73eT.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/kLapTQ.jpg

At Home: Pasadena - Google Books


It looks like one of the big boulders has come indoors.

mystery location
 

Here is another Harry Adams view from the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center at CSUN. It is captioned "Street Scene, 1964."

https://i.imgur.com/wPhtvwB.jpg
CSUN

There are some clues: the most obvious one is for the African-American Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper. Some others can be seen by enlarging to get this view:

https://i.imgur.com/YHwofWu.jpg

The sign on the left looks like _BER SHOP....ECHO.
And to its right, almost hidden by a telephone pole is another large sign which says S________ERS ______ET.

The 1964 CD listing of addresses on Central Avenue around E. 43rd Street gives:

https://i.imgur.com/sACkOcl.jpg
lapl

...and we see the Echo Barber Shop at 4300 (SE corner of Central and E. 43rd St), and a few stores south the Shoppers Market at 4322.

So this picture was taken looking south on Central Avenue from the west sidewalk just north of E. 43rd St. The address of the Sentinel was at the time 1122 E 43rd St, just east of Central, which accounts for the billboard.

I continue to go through my recently-discovered cache of photos I took around 1983-1985, and post here the very few which have some slight prayer of being of interest to NLA.

From the mosaic mural which formerly graced the front of the old Long Beach Civic Auditorium, and which fortunately was preserved when they demolished the auditorium:

https://s26.postimg.org/y3vplw23t/LBCAdetL.jpg
odinthor collection, photography by odinthor

And here is the full mural:

https://s26.postimg.org/63rm1n189/LBCiAuMuL.jpg
odinthor collection, photography by odinthor

Boulder Crest II
 

Thanks for posting interior photographs of the house Noir Noir.

The article mentioned that proteges(?) of Frank LLoyd Wright were invioved in the reconstruction (1946-1952),
so I looked on the internet for any archived photographs but came up with nothing
other than a build date of 1952 (see below)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/z49EcX.jpg

zillow

redfin

the real estate sites have minimal info. / and all say 'Not For Sale'.

Here's the only pic I found:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/3H1cWP.jpg
redfin

I'm going to have my sleuthing badge taken away aren't I. :(

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:previous: Since you started this thread and have posted here pretty much every day for the last eight and a half years,
I think we can cut you some slack. ;)

Autoette
 

so I get to keep my badge? Great!



:previous: Scotty, the building looks a lot better now than it did back in 2007.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/KsUgEe.jpg
gsv
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I'll add a few things...

This is supposedly the earliest-known photograph of a 1940s Autoette.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/TWzPq4.jpg
Larry Fisher collection


Here's an Autoette in Catalina, early 1950s

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DWf0wC.jpg
medium.com


:previous: That's a good question Scotty. I could be wrong, but I believe autoettes had to stick to the sidewalks.

.....but that presented it's own set of problems.



This Autoette is driving on Pine Avenue’s sidewalk.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/QCTBeC.jpg
Long Beach Press-Telegram

By the 1960s, autoettes were called the “scourges of the sidewalk”.

"The same newspaper which praised the Autoette in its “Parade of Progress” also decried it once the EV
was involved in a series of gruesome accidents. The first occurred in 1952, involving an Autoette
which skidded 58 feet before discharging one of its occupants, a Mrs. Jobe, of Long Beach, CA,
into the curb at the intersection of Walnut and Clark St. Mrs. Jobe died from wounds sustained during the accident.

The second accident followed in 1966, when an elderly Autoette owner struck a ladder while driving on the sidewalk,
causing a 51-year-old neon sign installer to fall from the top of the ladder. The man later died of his injuries."

Five years later, Autoettes were BANNED from the sidewalks.

the parade of progress comes to an end (for autoettes, that is)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/2Y5v63.jpg







"Here's a zoom-in for you, ER." -ScottyB

Always nice to be thought of. :)

The Long Beach intersection of Walnut and Clark today (or today-ish):


https://s26.postimg.org/ern6yw3ix/Waln_Clk.jpg
gsv

R. J. Busch property
 

:previous: I was curious about that burnt-umber building down the street.

I jumped in the google-mobile to check it out. When I got there I noticed that odinthor was quite correct.
Busch's purchase certainly was a nice-looking building at one point in time.

Take a look at the architectural details facing Valencia street.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ysJZDk.jpg
gsv




I forget what this is called...something foil....tin foil? no, that's not it. ;)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/qGuPx5.jpg
detail



Here's a look at both building.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/RKuOQ0.jpg
gsv





and a closer look at the burnt-umber colored apt. building. (it appears to have some Persian influences)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DtEDzk.jpg
gsv

originally posted by odinthor
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/44W3h2.jpg

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