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Someone who follows me on Twitter sent me this photo and asked if I knew it. At first glance I thought it might have been the entrance to the Biltmore, but then I realized that its arched doorway isn't 3 to 4 stories tall.
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Just for fun- here's a detail of the photograph Noir Noir found. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/WyNyz4.jpg detail I wish the lodge had been moved somewhere & not destroyed. Here's a thought: maybe it was moved and we just don't know about it. Wouldn't that be a nice surprise! Lastly, here's a detail of GW's Acme Plant layout. As you can see the lodge is labeled "Tap Room". https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/opVlQN.jpg detail At first I thought the smallish rectangle in the lower left was an outdoor stage - which led me to believe there was a beer garden (biergarten) behind the lodge . . . . but, no, it's a beer storage unit. (labeled "immense vault" ) Could these three beer mugs be from the Acme Sequoia Lodge? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/C3UCOC.jpg brewery gems/acme collectables https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/ArzmIV.jpg brewery gems/acme collectables Well we know that tall glass. .umm. . .flutes(?) were being used in the 1942 photograph. To see the flutes & the interior of the lodge again go Here . |
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Under the heading of "This May or May Not Have Anything To Do with Anything": Painter and ceramist Karoly Fulop--well-known to the L.A. art scene (going by articles over the years in the L.A. Times)--had a brother Julius: https://i.postimg.cc/s2fJ35Z3/Fulop-LAT-1963-4-9.jpg LA Times, 4/9/1963. More on Karoly: http://www.papillongallery.com/karol...p_clarion.html So is Julius the "J.J. Fulop" of the mugs? :shrug: |
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How about a bierpatio behind the lodge ... with a fishpond? https://i.imgur.com/udDssZb.jpg digitallibrary.usc.edu "Perry Hansen, Acme Brewing Co., manager and W.E Alworth, executive secty., Vernon Chamber of Commerce, at Acme's fish pond in patio of brewery's Seqouoia Lodge. Brewery is at 2080 E 49th St., Vernon" - February 1953 |
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I have quite a mystery on my hands. I happened upon this fascinating cabinet card on eBay. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/kzdlCW.jpg The seller labeled it as... "Antique 1880s Original Photograph Men Hats Daily Newspaper Argyle House, Drawing" As you can see the actual location is a mystery. I thought Argyle House sounded familiar so I looked it up in some old Los Angeles Directories from around time the photograph was taken. Sure enough, there was an Argyle House https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/KbOMx1.jpg LAPL . . .but no street address. Argyle House shows up again in the 1893 Los Angeles city Directory. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/YX6shO.jpg LAPL . . .but still no street address. I wonder who, among the men in the photograph, might be Robert Turner (the real estate agent in the 1888 directory) or Clarence Haviland (in the 1893 directory). The seller also included this:...It mentions a newspaper named THE DAILY. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/a6tbEz.jpg I assume the boy sitting on the ground is holding the newspaper. (perhaps he's a newspaper carrier) But, frustratingly, all we can see looking at the photograph is a few letters. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/7OwTvY.jpg detail And sure enough, Los Angeles had a newspaper named The Daily. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/0mYe0W.jpg LAPL ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Now let's take a closer look at the people. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/YcKeG4.jpg How many of you noticed the twin boys sitting on the banister? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/uYRqlt.jpg detail They remind me of the twin girls in The Shining. Here are the people on the left side of the photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/XwzVGl.jpg detail / left I like that the workman (gardener?) was included in the photograph. . . and on the right. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Eyqs19.jpg detail / right Note the wide variety of the men's clothing styles. The gentleman in the middle on the right, the one in the lighter colored clothes, looks like a Southerner to me. When I look at photographs like this one I am always mesmerized by the people. Each and every one of them have a story to tell. Sadly, we'll never know what kind of lives they lived or what the future held for them. ...I inevitably succumb to a certain wistful melancholy. BUT is this the Argyle House located in Los Angeles?... Is there any way to prove this is Los Angeles? ...(I believe we'd have to find another photograph of the Argyle House, right?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/30VXmo.jpg I'm in the process of deleting the redundant photographs so bear with me. :eeekk: I'm seeing double. . If anyone is interested in buying the photograph go Here |
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flickr.com Here's another group photo, labeled only "Los Angeles boarding house"....undated but the attire appears similar to that in e_r's picture, so likely 1880's-90's. The stamped notation is "Please Return To George E. Farrand"....the original flickr poster found the following... "A Google search of that name turns up a bunch of information. Mr. Farrand was a fairly important lawyer in Los Angeles. At one point he was the general counsel for the California Fruit Growers Exchange. There is a historical record of a letter Herbert Hoover wrote to him, and on Find Law (a web site) one (or several) references to legal cases in which he was involved. One of those cases, concerning the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, was decided in 1914. Mr. Farrand was also on the Board of Trustees of The California Institute of Technology, and he had a fairly extensive record of correspondence with Linus Pauling, who taught there." https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds |
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This photo above is almost certainly later than the other porch photo above ("Argyle" house), which I agree is 1880s. The fact that nearly all of the adult men are clean shaven in the above photo (facial hair was declining by the 1890s compared with the 1880s), plus the more modern style of men's hats and the women's dresses in the above photo is more like those in the 1890s, or even first years of the 1900s. The "Argyle" photo is likely 1885 +/- 5 yrs., the above photo perhaps 1898 +/- 5 yrs. |
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A little insomniac research: From what I can tell, George E. Farrand didn't move to LA until ca 1918...according to the 1900 census--already a lawyer at age 22--he was living in Santa Paula--no specific address given--with his parents, two bros, and a granddaughter of the parents (her parents not indicated). Could the house in riichkay's pic be theirs? (The family had come from the east, George having been born in Pa; his father was in farming.) By 1910 George was married and living in Ventura with his wife and two sons at 1111 Poli Street...there is no 1111 today, although there is an 1109...BUT it's not the house in the picture. Maybe a replacement. Farrand is first listed in the LACD in 1915 but with his residence as being Ventura. Same 1916; by 1917 his residence is listed as South Pasadena. 1918: he's living in LA at 525 S Kenmore. In 1923 he built 322 S Windsor Blvd in Windsor Square: https://i.postimg.cc/xC1zHqPG/WSQ322...or4-FB-bmp.jpg Farrand died here in 1954, his wife in 1958--the family appears to have retained the house until 2006. More here. . |
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The Huntington Library holds an extensive collection of George Farrand's papers, here is their mini-bio....
George E. Farrand (1878-1954) was born in Dogton, Pennsylvania to William and Jeanette (McKevett) Farrand. He moved from Pennsylvania to Ventura County, California in 1899. He served as Ventura County Clerk from 1900 to 1907. He married Alice Knox in November 1903. He was a founding partner at the law firm of Farrand & Slosson. His sons, Knox and Stephen, joined him in his practice. George E. Farrand served as the Chairman of the California Agricultural Legislative Committee and as legal counsel for farmers' co-operative organizations, including the California Fruit Growers Exchange and the California Walnut Growers. Herbert Hoover appointed him to the position of general counsel of the Federal Farm Board. George E. Farrand worked with his friend Henry Mauris Robinson on the merger of First National and Security Pacific Banks and subsequently served as a member of the executive committee of the consolidated bank. Turns out he was also something of a latter-day Samuel Pepys....from the Huntington... "The Manuscript series contains 20 journals written by George E. Farrand from 1915 to 1954 as well as two printed publications. The journals include daily entries regarding his law practice, the weather, his weight, as well as details regarding family matters and world events, such as the Great Depression, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, World War II and the start of the Cold War. At the end of most of the journals, he includes a brief summary of his year, including personal, business and world events. The later journals also include numerous news clippings. The Correspondence series is arranged alphabetically by author and predominantly contains letters related to business transactions such as the merger of First National and Security Pacific Banks in Los Angeles and the Julian Petroleum scandal as well as personal correspondence amongst friends." Unfortunately none of Farrand's papers are available online. I can't find a photo of Farrand....in the boardinghouse picture there is a well groomed/dressed young man at the extreme rear of the group, I'm wondering if that's him....it's unlikely that as a young attorney he was living in a boarding house, maybe he was otherwise involved with the place.... The Huntington references the "Julian Petroleum scandal", I'd never heard of it....a search of the forum turned up nothing....it is certainly a story befitting the Noir city, summarized here... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/julia...ndal_b_3606113 A victim of the con murdered a banker who was testifying in a civil case related to the fraud.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...720&fit=bounds |
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I think you might have got him in one. :tup: The picture I found is likely from the late 1920's - he was on the Advisory Committee On Preparations for the 1932 Olympic Games. He's much older and in profile but I'd have a decent bet it's the same man in both pictures - George E. Farrand. :) https://i.imgur.com/uKs4SEY.jpg digital.la84.org |
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I don't have to tell noirishers that a lot of good work gets done here (preaching to the converted). I'm just thankful it was NLA that started me five years ago picking at the whole Cooper Do-Nut riot thing, which has now resulted in this post. Viva NLA!
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Your comment reminded me of an old photograph of a young African-American couple with their two young children posing in front of their property in Los Angeles. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/DCtBn3.jpg eBay (no longer listed) Here's the same image larger. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/D6d1ox.jpg They have a nice amount of land. . .enough for a small orchard and, what looks like, a vegetable garden. Their rather small house can be seen through the vegetation. . . .and finally a close-up of the proud family. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/atNxBB.jpg Luckily for us there is an address on the reverse side of the photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/s8ySWM.jpg It's a bit difficult to read. Let's try this. . . https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/k3mEPR.jpg detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/4TTxr0.jpg detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/06h7Hb.jpg detail for search purposes:...merry christmas 1913 for mrs. garner......1822 e. 52nd st.......los angeles, calif. |
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Hulu's recent PRIDE series of documentaries talks about this particular event, using the same photo, and yet, although they do show a photo of the Black Cat riots they don't talk about that at all, which is heavily sourced. Again, thanks for the link! :goodpost: |
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I don't know who Mrs. Garner was, but if that's 1822 E. 52nd St. at Xmas 1913, I believe we're looking at: Theodore Wilkerson Brown (B. Kentucky Feb 15 1864, D. Los Angeles Oct 19 1948) and his wife, Lydia Melinda Bartholomew Brown (B. Illinois Sep 25 1871, D. Los Angeles May 8 1949). They were married in Illinois in 1900. We also see their son, Prentiss Bartholomew Brown (B. Missouri Aug 20 1902, D. Los Angeles Jan 19 1986) and his sister, Mozelle J. Brown (B. California Jul 8 1907, D. Los Angeles Sep 16 1991) I think their house in the 1913 photo appears on the 1920 Sanborn map below as 1822-1/2 E. 52nd St, and sometime between 1913 and 1920 the house marked 1822 on the map was built: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...E_52nd_St..jpg ProQuest via Los Angeles Public Library Here's Prentiss from the 1920 Jefferson High School yearbook: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...tiss_Brown.jpg Ancestry.com Theodore Brown's initial appearance in an LA city directory is in 1904. He seems to have worked mostly as a janitor and porter; in 1913 he's listed as a shoe salesman. He is first at 1822 E. 52nd St in the 1907 directory, and he is last there in the 1940 edition. In 1942 he is at 3522 S. Gramercy. There is a Sep 10 1941 building permit to move the house at 1822 E. 52nd St. all the way out to Northridge at 10131 Louise Avenue, where it still sat in October 2020. |
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Amazing sleuthing, Flyingwedge! :worship: Thanks for much. . |
Add re: Cooper Do-Nuts at 316 E. 5th, it appears again in this clip from "The Wild Party", a 1956 release....the narration is by Nehemiah Persoff (he's still with us at age 101), the sequence is designed to illustrate the seedy world his character once inhabited...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0S...GrubbyKowalski We get a peek into a bar adjacent to 320 E. 5th.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Then 320, which houses the A1 Cafe.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds ....then Cooper's at 316.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Later in the sequence this place appears, where the action was downstairs.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Then up to the Strip for a shot of the Melody Room, where Rae Bourbon, a female impersonator, is appearing.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Included in the sequence is a good look at this place, that I don't believe we have seen... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds ...the Near 'n Far....presumably this is in Hollywood....next door is Hollywood Exclusive ???....looks like it might be a dry cleaners. |
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The Acme brewery was extensively remodeled in 1957 (I'm going to imagine this is when they lost the lodge) and closed in 1973.
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https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ostcount=27854 Here's one of it from Mackerm's link: The neon sign info is enclosed in a neon "I" for Ivanhoe. Heh! https://filmnoirartblog.files.wordpr...9-15.jpg?w=840 Ivanhoe Motor Hotel, 11925 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA |
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And here's a big HELLO from everyone on NLA, Norton Manhattan.... Welcome! :) It's very cool that you found your Uncle Bill in the photograph. He looks rather suave. Also. . . I never imagined that there would be a foldout postcard of Acme's Sequoia Lodge. Good find Mackerm . https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Q84Csh.jpg detail But WHERE are the breweries that towered over it? ......I bet the postcard company was instructed to leave them out. AND, unless I'm mistaken, this is the first we've seen of the non-totem 'totem' pole. . |
Tilton's Trolley Trip - Sea to the Orange Groves
Somebody sent me these two photos from his grandfather's photo album taken, I assume, when grandpa took a ride on a “Tilton’s Trolley Trip – from Sea to Orange Groves.” We got curious about where the group was standing. I'm assuming that the building with the bell was the San Gabriel Mission but I've never been there. Does it look familiar to anyone? The location in the other photo could be pretty much anywhere, but if it looks familiar to anyone, we'd love to know where this lively group was standing.
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I have no pictures; but could this be some corner of the Foothill Inn of Azusa? I see "Tilton took a position as the manager of the Foothill Inn, a hotel in Azusa, and which likely was one of the stops for his tours, perhaps the Tally-Ho trip" (at https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2020/07...-23-july-1909/). The Los Angeles Herald of January 29, 1910, refers to "the new Foothill Inn at Azusa among the orange groves at the base of the foothills. Famous for the excellence of its cuisine." Plus the LA Times of February 15, 1910, tells us that "George F. Tilton is manager of the new Foothill Inn and the hotel offers every promise of adding to the attractions of Southern California, as well as to the charms of Azusa in particular. The interior is decorated in the best of taste and effective ideas in architecture and gardening are being carried out in the exterior." :shrug: |
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No, but I read a review of it yesterday in the nytimes. Here's a bit of it. "If his thesis is that Los Angeles is a city-state like ancient Carthage or modern Singapore, perhaps even more convincing is the idea he picks from the physicist and dedicated urban stair-climber Dan Gutierrez: that the megalopolis mirrors (or presaged) the internet, its “networks upon networks layered densely in a mesh,” where motoring from Point A to Point B “felt like social media’s infinite scroll,” human services thin as trapeze nets, full of holes." |
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A morning mini-mystery. A couple weeks ago when I was searching for the Acme Sequoia Lodge I happen upon this ad for the Acme Hotel in the 1888 Los Angeles City Directory. Frustratingly, the ad doesn't include the address. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/2UXjfp.jpg LAPL...PAGE 1020 I looked in a few other directories and found the Acme Hotel but still no address. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/a35s3k.jpg LAPL Somewhat surprisingly the hotel is listed as late as 1923. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/yX1zoS.jpg lapl / Paul is a lab so the hotel allowed pets. I know that the address must be in one of the directories but I didn't come across it. Does anyone know the street address of the Acme Hotel? Paul isn't really a dog. .... |
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Not being Catholic it was all new to me. My mother was born Catholic but she had long ago left that faith and my stepfather had very many negative reactions to that church, as his legal clients had complaints about priests offering healings for money. Healings can happen via sincere prayer but its not a good idea to involve money. I know....I've had it happen. One would be very surprised at what the Celestial Beings can do. |
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