A couple snapshots recently found on ebay.

"Irma and Bill at Venice 1936"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/n4xlBA.jpg
ebay


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/pfVRTe.jpg
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The seller also had this one.

"1930's Steve's Eats sign LOS ANGELES-VENICE CA"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/ceOxMx.jpg
ebay

poor Steve looks a little worn out.. :(
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Mystery Building
 

This photo is titled, "Los Angeles residence across the street from the Pio Pico House." However, the frame of the photo (which I
cut off) is stamped "Plaza Photograph Gallery, Opposite Pico House," so the photo's title is a misinterpretation of that information.
The building looks to me like a small hotel, but I have no idea where it was. Does anyone recognize it?

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

UCLA/Islandora


Here's an enlargement of the tower, presumably part of the same building that's in front:

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


Here are the men gathered around the entrance:

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

More Oaklawn Bridge
 

Thank you for showing us this marvelous old bridge, e_r. The cracks shown in the photo of the bridge below might
have been "enhanced" by the art department a bit, but obviously there was concern at the time about the bridge:

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

March 15, 1907, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL


I could not find a later article that talked about the added pillar. Maybe someone else might have better luck.

Temple St. housing
 

Here is a view of tenements at "477 Temple St" in Los Angeles per Calisphere.
http://i.imgur.com/fCJDAF0.jpg
calisphere.org

The Hall of Justice and the City Hall look down disapprovingly.

A little digging with Sanborn maps shows there was no 477 Temple, but there was a 447 W Temple that lined up with the Hall of Justice and City Hall as seen in the photo. Today these slums have been replaced with the Queen of Angels campus.

I assume that the arch of the bridge moved by 1/8" under load.

Maybe the designers of the support had heard about Sir Christopher Wren's architectural "joke" at the 1690 Guildhall in Windsor, England. From inel.wordpress.com:

On close inspection you will notice that the central columns do not touch the ceiling and tradition has it that the councillors of the time, against Wren’s wishes, insisted on the columns in the interest of safety. Wren, not to be outdone, left the columns an inch short of the ceiling.

The building's still standing over 300 years later, although fillets have apparently now been added in the gaps.

:previous:

Although I can't immediately locate it, I believe we have seen a larger version of this image (attributed to Ansel Adams) on NLA.


Similar?
http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017229.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017229.jpg




How about an undated images of "Fickett Hollow?"

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033665.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033665.jpghttp://



More Fickett Hollow
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033662.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033662.jpg


Fickett Hollow Honorable Mention
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033660.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033660.jpg



Undatedhttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics44/00041963.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics44/00041963.jpg


Undatedhttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033615.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033615.jpg



Undatedhttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics30/00034569.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics30/00034569.jpg




Undatedhttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics34/00066543.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics34/00066543.jpg




Hewitt Street Apartment
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033724.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033724.jpg



http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033684.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033684.jpg



1944 [Way] Out house
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033563.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033563.jpg



1940's
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics34/00066562.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics34/00066562.jpg




1948 Seismically relaxed construction
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033640.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033640.jpg



1948 Image is described as "Lean-to slum housing in the San Fernando City Dump." Unclear exactly what is depicted.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033717.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033717.jpg



1948 (Could this have been a repurposed street car?)
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033718.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics28/00033718.jpg



1950 http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017238.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017238.jpg

1936 Workmen dismantle old courthouse
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...&DMY=0&DMTEXT0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...DMY=0&DMTEXT=0
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...Y=512&DMTEXT=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...Y=512&DMTEXT=0
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...=1024&DMTEXT=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...=1024&DMTEXT=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...oll44/id/64061

Oaklawn Bridge comparison
 

Contemporary Bing Maps photo looking south (Fair Oaks is on the left):

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



August 9, 1937, looking south (Fair Oaks is again on the left). I think we see the added pillar between the tracks:

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

Flight C_4666, Frame 51 @ UCSB

I enjoyed this 3 1/2 minute video I happened upon:

Legendary Hollywood location scout Lori Balton shares her favorite hidden Los Angeles gems,
some of which aren't available to the everyday public.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/201...orth-watching/


Includes: Pico House, Palace Theatre, Clifton's Cafeteria, Heritage Square

:previous: Fantastic find Flyingwedge! You, my friend, have a very good eye.

Doesn't it seem odd that the Oaklawn Bridge isn't more well known considering it's famous designers.
I seriously don't know how it flew under my radar (and I'm a big fan of Greene & Greene)

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Oh, and one more thing...

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/K2QgDA.jpg
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eres...DA89-F764.html Greene & Greene drawing #13


Do you suppose this lamp designed for the Oaklawn Bridge was intended for the top of the tall pylon shown below?


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/rXjGNu.jpg
gsv from Fair Oaks Ave.


If you look closely there is a metal rod sticking out of the cement where the lamp would have been placed.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/kxX43J.jpg
gsv detail

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Here we see the shadow, in this 1953 aerial, of the added support column which has now been removed. Looking north.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/...a9f752_o_d.jpg
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/...a9f752_o_d.jpg

Yes ER, there used to be a lamp on the pedestal and its been stolen.....that's my theory.

Yes. It looks to be a former Los Angeles Railway Standard. These were called "California" cars because they had a closed section in the center and an open section at each end. The latter made possible by our "mild" California weather.

The photographer is standing in what was one of the open sections and is shooting into the closed section, note the rudimentary effort to board up the a portion of the open section on the left using cardboard. These were all wooden cars and groups of older examples were phased out as newer, all steel cars were acquired. The bodies made inexpensive diners, summer cottages and chicken coops.

The photo below is one of two LARY Standards that for almost a half century were part of the "Cafe Dining Cars" restaurant on U.S. 101 in Buellton, CA.

[IMG]http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psb6xhgfn3.jpg[/IMG]

Cheers,
Jack

One of my email accounts finally got back on its feet after several days (I think the provider was under cyber-attack), and I find--funneled through my publisher--the following message which I'll quote nearly in full because it compliments me (me? Narcissistic? What could you be thinking?):

"I am looking for Brent C. Dickerson, who wrote a fabulous piece on Downtown Los Angeles, street by street, building by building. We are looking for some history on a tunnel that is not on record called the Frank C. Court Tunnel aka “Angelus Court.” And there was a walkway from the Angelus Hotel (which he writes about), which on the 3rd floor bridged over to the building to the north, now demolished H.A. Stack Building and Mason Building. I wanted to reach out to him and see if he knew anything about the underground tunnel, or bridge from one building to another."

Do the wise and learned Noirishers, wiser than myself, have any information on the Frank C. Court Tunnel and/or walkway with which I can regale my querier?

Being a Route 66 buff, I was aware of the Oaklawn Bridge as one of the historic structures along the route (Fair Oaks Ave.) and I stopped by in March 2015 to take a bunch of pics. These pics begin in my Picasa archive here:

https://get.google.com/albumarchive/...qctnq5p3yWw8_Y

Here are a few of them.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YQ...jKsePwHw=w1000
Pacific Electric waiting station, now a bus shelter.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_0...lyLwiyhg=w1000
It was built as a car bridge but is rather steep and narrow for that purpose so it is pedestrian-only today.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/m2...vTS9MHCQ=w1000
The War Memorial Building is adjacent.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Le...ToedY1EA=w1000

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MG...YVbRmzSg=w1000
You can clearly see the soot under which one set of tracks ran, then the white space nearer to camera where the extra support once stood. The other segment of sooty underside is obscured by some attached girders and mesh, which I believe are meant to guard the electrified wires of the Gold Line against ne'er-do-well pedestrians on the bridge.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/OP...om6u99NyQ=w600
There is also some lovely drainage construction nearby - not sure if it's original but the river rock construction certainly matches the waiting station.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ts...zaG4BZHg=w1000
These benches underneath the bridge also match.

:previous: Great pix, ProphetM!

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Well, I don't know about "wise and learned," but I can offer some information that may be of interest to your querier.

Below, from right to left, we have the five-story H. D. Stack Building (formerly the Mason Building) at the SE corner of
4th and Broadway, then the three-story Hulda Block, then 20-foot-wide Frank Court (an alley), then the Angelus Hotel
on the SW corner of 4th and Spring:

Here is the 1906 Sanborn Map, showing the Mason (later Stack) and Hulda buildings, Frank Court (unnamed here but the
1950 Sanborn uses the name, as does Google Map today), and the Angelus. You can see the third-floor inclosed passage
across Frank Court ("INCL. PASSAGE") between the Angelus and the rear of the Hulda. The Angelus has an underground
boiler room (sticking out into Frank Court on the map), and the Mason Building is marked "HEAT FROM ANGELUS HOTEL,"
so there was probably at least a steam tunnel connecting the two buildings. That's 4th Street running along the right edge:

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

1906 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL


The Hulda Block was built by Mrs. Hulda Behrendt. The building permit was issued on May 20, 1896:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original

May 21, 1896, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL


By the time she sold her building in 1903, the upper two stories were leased by the Angelus as an annex.
That explains the passage between the two buildings, which is absent from the 1950 Sanborn Map:

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

April 22, 1903, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL


Here's some more history on the Hulda Block:

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

August 25, 1957, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL


As interesting as the preceding article may be, please note that 1) the three-story Hulda Building was never LA's tallest, and
2) the city jail on Second Street ("[the] jail, where the Mirror-News Building is now located") closed on August 26, 1896, so
it seems unlikely that gamblers were taken from the Hulda -- which didn't get its BP until May 20, 1896 -- to that jail.


Late Update: There is a June 2, 1932, building permit for the Hulda Block at 218 W. 4th St. to "Brick up opening on third floor
at alley," so that's got to be the end of the passage over Frank Court to the Angelus Hotel.

.....great photos but can't get your album link to work.

https://i.imgflip.com/i3qjk.jpg

A change box would have been a nice addition, even as a piggy bank.




1959
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00083/00083745.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00083/00083745.jpg


Um. Yes, some images are not new to NLA


1945 - 2200 block of East Seventh Street
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041342.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041342.jpg


Undated. Familiar landmark in background.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics33/00051184.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics33/00051184.jpg


Undated. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics33/00051182.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics33/00051182.jpg


1937 Unknown location.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059409.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059409.jpg



http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics50/00044867.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics50/00044867.jpg



http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics50/00044920.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics50/00044920.jpg




1958
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00117/00117003.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00117/00117003.jpg



"Trailer Royalty";)
1963 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00126/00126992.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00126/00126992.jpg

March 1954, Hollywood Freeway/Cahuenga Pass at, near or from Pilgrimage Bridge.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00115/00115023.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00115/00115023.jpg


Oh yeah, some images are not new to NLA.;)

Pilgrimage (or Pilgrim) Bridge: http://bridgehunter.com/ca/los-angeles/bh36778/ http://laist.com/2008/09/20/laistory...age_bridge.php


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=32440



http://waterandpower.org/Historical_..._Pass_1953.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/Historical_..._Pass_1953.jpg




1954
http://www.waterandpower.org/7%20His..._Frwy_1954.jpghttp://www.waterandpower.org/7%20His..._Frwy_1954.jpg




http://waterandpower.org/Historical_.../Bowl_Frwy.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/Historical_.../Bowl_Frwy.jpg



http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~originalhttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=32440

Thank you
 

Thank you so much for posting these pictures - gave me additional reference points and took quite a bit of digging but I was able to find this 1910 pic of the rooming house (little 2 story across from Wilhelm apts). Really appreciate your assistance
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...S5XGKVAXG3.jpg
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/F/1V31...043&format=999

Behrman, Martin.

orginal request for help http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...09#post7607509