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2nd and Beaudry
Intersection of 2nd and Beaudry Streets looking northeast across Harbor Freeway construction and Bunker Hill. Gas station at left, center; houses in foreground; City Hall in distance
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An odd sojourn through Broadway (mostly by date rather than geography)
- Wonderful site.>>> http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal7.html Circa 1910 - Broadway /Mercantile Place http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...BE2RYG5846.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...BE2RYG5846.jpg Circa 1915 - Broadway and Sixth Street http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...Q8BHG2QH9T.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...Q8BHG2QH9T.jpg Circa 1918 - http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...H6XDHR9RHC.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...H6XDHR9RHC.jpg Circa 1918 - Broadway and Seventh Street http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...RSS8QGYV5N.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...RSS8QGYV5N.jpg Circa 1926 - Third and Broadway http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...7B5SHLB8IY.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...7B5SHLB8IY.jpg |
Happy Easter
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Easter prize award at Hattem's Market, South Vermont Avenue and West 81st Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930 Just remember, Easters come and Easters go but a hard boiled egg lasts a long, long time. Bon Appetit. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 |
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Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932 Interesting series by Dick Whittington concentrating on just the one intersection, here looking east on Temple Street with the Hall of Justice on the left and the County Courthouse on the right just beyond the Owl Drug store. The Acme semaphore sitting over here on the right curb is interesting in it's placement well short of the intersection allowing for the turning radius of the streetcar tracks. The fact that the Acme is showing neither the 'stop' or the 'go' arm means either Whittington hit the shutter at exactly the moment they were both folded into the light body or the exposure was taken early enough in the morning (probably by 7 am) before the semaphores were again operating for the day, being turned off around 9 pm when the 'red' and 'green' lights would suffice until being turned off themselves around midnight (or 1 am) when the little light seen at the base of the light body would then be turned on as a flasher. The Bank of Italy stands out down the street with the squat old post office just to its left. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8110/8...4fbcd69d_o.png Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932 (2) Second image in the series here standing with our backs to the WCTU building looking southeast across the intersection at the County Courthouse (here with it's truncated tower) and the Hall of Records, with the new City Hall just peeking through the haze. A beautiful, busy image of a favorite intersection. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8540/8...07c1e260_o.png Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932 (3) And number three looking southwest directly at the Owl Drug Co. with our backs now against the Hall of Justice with the County Courthouse just out of frame on the left and the WCTU out of frame on the right. Nice shot of the Broadway Rose. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8401/8...3f32f6be_o.png Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932 (4) Looking north on Broadway in number four, Broadway tunnel showing just over the hump in front of the Alhambra Hotel/Apartments (the Alhambra Annex is seen on the left). The Hall of Justice on the right and the WCTU building on the left before the haircut. Here again (see number one) the Acme on the corner is showing neither the 'stop' nor the 'go' semaphore arm indicating the shot may have been taken in the early morning (perhaps before 7 am) before the semaphores were turned back on for the day. While I wish for clear skies when I look at these images, I try to remind myself even the haze is part of the truth being captured. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8545/8...54b83191_o.png Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932 (5) Number five finds us looking west on Temple which is suddenly bathed in sunshine with the WCTU building on the right and farther down the block at Hill Street is the two story, light colored, Temp-Hill Hotel. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8...713cdb16_o.png Intersection West Temple Street and North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1932 (6) And finally number six looking south across Temple Street right down the east side sidewalk of Broadway at the Hall of Records with the County Courthouse on the left. Beautiful shot. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 |
Kenny's, 3314 N San Fernando Blvd. - Lockheed-close, If you are going to be modern, "Cook with Electricity!"[/I] (Kenny's private entrance :blink:) To the best I can tell, Kenny's is no more. No answer at Thornwall 2-1731. He promised a good trade in on my Frigidaire! http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8424/7...dd0c1922_b.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8424/7...dd0c1922_b.jpg Wing Co, 1941 East Colorado Street, Pasadena (Wonder if they have a new set of rabbit ears. We're all out of foil and I never miss Korla Pandit on KTLA!) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8010/7...83e54262_b.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8010/7...83e54262_b.jpg |
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Thx for all the reminders of Greystone. We went to some great parties there back when it was the American Film Institute HQ, whatever decade that was. |
Maybe not the finest, Gwinn's was one of Pasadena's finer restaurants. Bennie's was always further west! 2915 E. Colorado Blvd. (Food and car service?) :coolugh: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7249/7...51969f67_b.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7249/7...51969f67_b.jpg Bennie's 3875 E. Colorado Blvd http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8024/7...4deaa7b4_b.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8024/7...4deaa7b4_b.jpg |
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Historians may quibble over the exact date for Bunker's legitimized wholesale destruction. One source has it as late as '59! See: http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....c-wall-of.html and http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures...ictorians.html http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...nker-hill.html Of course, there were hold outs though the '60s (visualize "the Castle" house being readied for removal - and its ultimate carbonizing). Some of us, including this non-native, never fully experienced the "eminences" called Bunker Hill, except in its final gasps and/or through the modern magic realized by William Henry Fox Talbot. Those that did visit may not have appreciated things until they were long gone. One long-gone resident, then in his late '80s, told me he hated the place because it was so tough on his knees and hard to park on an incline. Yet he loved the views, sights and sounds, and said he had the same feelings toward the City by the Bay. Fortunately, SF still has a few of its hills and remaining. I do not recall this thread addressing the history of the Bunker Hill name. Suffice it to say, Brent Dickerson seems to have put this to rest by noting the Bunker Hill moniker appears on the 1849 Ord Map/Plan of LA. http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal8.html see also http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....c-wall-of.html Please excuse the repetition: 1950 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...GNDQ38D8MJ.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...GNDQ38D8MJ.jpg 1952 - J and B Wilson Block. Unrelated to Bunker Hill, but significant regarding freeway-related changes. From Hylen's photo essay entitled "Los Angeles before the Freeways." http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...YHI2K9CPYA.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...YHI2K9CPYA.jpg 1953 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CREXXXL2HI.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CREXXXL2HI.jpg 1955 - First and Olive Streets (Were there Olive trees there? Who planted them and when?) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CEUUH9TMKI.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CEUUH9TMKI.jpg 1955 - First and Hill http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...KHXK2LJY9Q.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...KHXK2LJY9Q.jpg 1958 - The Dome http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IBPA2P4APX.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IBPA2P4APX.jpg 1965 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...732KJ3HVDQ.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...732KJ3HVDQ.jpg 1965 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...36BI97F5CY.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...36BI97F5CY.jpg 1965 - Fifth and Flower (LA Dodgers were only 3 YO) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...8SMKEP64EU.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...8SMKEP64EU.jpg The Castle - 1965 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UJQUAQ1923.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UJQUAQ1923.jpg 1967 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CSYGTXHGKJ.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CSYGTXHGKJ.jpg 1967 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...ERCI5Q9E3S.jpg 1968 - The Castle http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...36A8FSVJGY.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...36A8FSVJGY.jpg 1973 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...PXH8TKJ3E7.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...PXH8TKJ3E7.jpg |
Mt Zion
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http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...h_cemetery.php Another cemetery gone to blazes. Story here: http://www.latimes.com/news/columnon...5412.htmlstory I'm glad my family gets cremated and scattered. When we go, we're dead and gone. |
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Hotel Alvarado
This John C. Austin-designed hotel was on the NE corner of 6th and Alvarado. I'm not sure when it was built, but it's on the 1906 Sanborn Map. It looks like it had a large roof garden:
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Corner of W. 11th and S. Lake Streets
The southeast and southwest corners, to be exact. We're about four blocks south of MacArthur (née Westlake) Park:
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OK, I don't know if it was Godzilla or belmont bob, but the one photo of the 101 freeway construction photo along side the Hall Of Justice labeled 1967 seem wrong to me. Wasn't that much earlier, during the late 40s or 50s?
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Chalk it up to the date? (Could have sworn I heard "Last Train To Clarkesville" in background while viewing image.) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CREXXXL2HI.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...CREXXXL2HI.jpg |
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