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I don't remember seeing that last 'black and white'. Is there information on that house and apartment building in the foreground? -note the two stone lions (I think they're lions) guarding the front steps of the apt bldg. __ |
William Douglas Lee
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Lee also did the Renaissance Building , now the Downtown Women's Center, (also for developer Florence C. Casler), The El Royale Apartments, Chateau Marmont (in partnership with two other firms) and the Streamline Moderne LLO-DA-MAR Bowl on Wilshire in Santa Monica (for Harold Lloyd and partners), as well as many others. . |
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Here's an amazing early view of the 3rd Street Tunnel and Angels Flight.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/ynf6aq.jpg eBay I've been trying to decipher the sign.* (note the man walking up the steps) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/QeXRDq.jpg detail but it's too blurry. :( something....Silent. *you can read the sign in this angels flight photo posted back in 2011. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2463 And what's going on in the tunnel? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/kNoNcz.jpg detail top arrow: -it looks like a popcorn seller's wagon. bottom arrow: -what's this on the ground.....horse manure? is the guy leaning against the 'pole' the horse poop sweeper? below: as you can see, the photograph was taken out of an album back http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/ZROI5j.jpg Here's the complete photograph as found on eBay. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/nY6f6U.jpg http://www.ebay.ca/itm/14340-OCLACA-...item2101667ebb :previous: starting bid on eBay. $50.00 (I think it's worth it) # # # # |
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P.S. I meant to say, re that sign, developer Edward D. Silent was one of the sons of attorney/developer Charles Silent. After Edward's brother Chester was killed in a hunting accident, their father developed and named Chester Place for him. The sign is probably advertising the land it's on for sale (future site of the Hill-Crest). That's a great early shot. Thx |
A field report from noirish LA
Recently, we launched a grassroots petition campaign to preserve Angels Flight. We also redesigned the funicular's website.
A happy side effect of this work has been the opportunity to ascend to the upper floors of the Bradbury Building, where Angels Flight Railway Foundation board chair Adele Yellin keeps an office, from which we return with many photographs and elevator ride videos. If you enjoy period noirish LA fiction, our Kim Cooper's novel The Kept Girl is discounted for the Kindle at 99¢, and the paperback is on sale from Esotouric Ink. For more info about this fact-based 1929 cult mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and real-life Philip Marlowe click here. Claud Beelman's magnificent, long-shuttered Garfield Building is on the market, and last week we were able to duck inside the lobby and marvel. https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...4a&oe=5635BE2A |
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:previous: I didn't know that about the 3rd street tunnel. thanks t2.
I just came across this slide on eBay. sellers description: "Original Slide Sunset Blvd Edgemont Hollywood Los Angeles 1956 Street Scene" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/gk72qv.jpg eBay Which led me to this second view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/2mlBda.jpg http://www.kaiserpermanentehistory.o.../10/sunset.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/EsEP0z.jpg http://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/w...ne-17-1953.jpg below: "Baby-in-a-drawer", Kaiser Foundation Medical Center Los Angeles June 17, 1953. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/S5UDKn.jpg http://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/w...12_0524_05.jpg Here's an amazing aerial from 1957 (that's Barnsdall Park and the Hollyhock House behind the hospital) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/4qwEqk.png http://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/t...rn-california/ Now there are buildings crammed on every inch of that parcel (see below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/bteMQ1.jpg bing maps But......the 1953 building was recently torn down http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/d2reCK.jpg big maps along with the building to the left and the diagonal building behind it. (a total of three buildings gone) the old buildings still show up on the google street-grid. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/xzIzqO.jpg google street view but they're gone here... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/zhtWLS.jpg google_earth __ |
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I love that 1957 aerial view. Here's a 45 degree view of the new buildings. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...erHospital.jpg Google Maps |
USS Portsmouth / Bank of America
I could not resist posting this. Irrefutable:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-S...24341%2BPM.jpg worthpoint Thank you ProphetM for the link and HossC for the reminder. (Thx to the thread, I finally, after 60-odd years, learned the name of the ship pictured on my childhood savings book. Amazing.) --------------------------------------------------- Thx esotouric for the wonderful images and info. --------------------------------------------------- Thank you too to e_r for the pix of Kaiser Sunset. My first was born there. It was a beautiful building. |
I found this unique view of Hollywood and Vine last night on eBay.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/IJA1ZS.jpg http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Holly...item28065f4cdf :previous: At first, I thought the blurry things in the foreground were cable wheels for a window-washing apparatus. now I am pretty sure they're two of the architectural elements along the roofline of the Taft Building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/1kGLs8.jpg gsv __ |
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It's fun to see the White King Soap ad mimic our landscaped billboards (on top of a building!): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C...54022%2BPM.jpg ebay (detail) via e_r That's an outstanding group of cars in the shot. |
:previous: At first glance I thought the faux shrubbery was real t2.
__ ..from White King Soap to Anita Cream. Here's an interesting advertisement. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/ThBAjV.jpg eBay 'Anita Cream' ad on the side of Hamburger's Department Store, downtown Los Angeles. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/EDSSqK.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=22716 So who was 'Anita'......anyone know? __ |
We've seen many motels on NLA, but I don't believe we've seen this one.
"The Players Motor Hotel, 777 N. Vine Street, Hollywood 38, California" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/CgoFTE.jpg eBay And today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/6652we.jpg gsv :previous: The curved façade, that has so much potential, is wiped clean of details and painted Pepto-Bismol pink. To add insult to injury, incongruent columns are added throughout. __ reverse of vintage pc. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/rTffGW.jpg eBay :previous:I wonder about the "restaurant across the street". Today it's something called 'The Oinkster'. :( http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/CzcZnu.jpg google_earth __ |
Beverly Hills Speedway 1921...
found some info on this while reading up on the Culver City track posted a few pages back....motorcycles were also raced here, have read some harrowing accounts of how dangerous this was on a splintery wooden track at over 100 mph :eek:
YouTube silent newsreel on MC racing at the track http://roa.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/14/47/...rimpburns3.jpg Road and Track |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h...93641%2BPM.jpg pearsons magazine Send for a sample and a "booklet containing directions, toilet helps, pictures of California Missions, etc." With a random list like that, I cannot imagine what the "etc" might represent. I think 135 N Spring got wiped out by the old State of California building. ----------------------------------------------------------- Thx haiku99. Thrilling stuff |
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:previous: As always, excellent sleuthing Hoss.
I hope we can turn up a photograph of Players Restaurant. -or better yet, Sternberger's Rite Spot. __ |
I just found this.
Was there ever a Carpenter's near the Rite Spot Cafe' on N. Vine Street? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/AycXdT.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/DleBmG.jpg waterandpower.com |
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The 1930 Census still lists his occupation as a manufacturer of storage batteries. By 1940 he is living in the household of George Potts, his brother-in-law. Versal's occupation at that time is as a caster in a lead foundry. All that lead exposure must surely have given him more lung trouble. He had only worked 25 weeks in the preceeding year. Versal Vaughn died in January 1965 in Los Angeles. Howard G. Schuler named his son Versal Vaughn Schuler. Howard Schuler was the brother-in-law of Versal Vaughn, having married Versal's sister Laura. |
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