Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6960062)

CBD-- Interesting that this same picture with your family car etc was on ebay a few years ago (or at least that ER posted it here then)--

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13054

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13057


PS Hello unihikid, HossC, Michael Ryerson & all--

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5987940)

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6960159)

In April '32, Fletcher Drive looked almost as rural as Hoover Street and Florence Ave.

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Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6960159)

Finger Waving or Waxing????
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Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6960159)

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Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6960159)

Not that anyone should care, but if asked, I prefer my Langendorf's unsliced.
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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6960166)

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6960171)

Another compressed glimpse of one long Boulevard, Wilshire, circa '30

Was this a driving range, or just an orderly set of billboards?
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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6960222)

:previous:

When I took another look at the image below, I realized that it was taken from nearly the same point as the image above, but looking to the left. When I zoomed in on the lamppost, I found there was a street sign for Weldon Avenue there in 1932. Maybe the intersection with Fletcher Drive has been slightly realigned, and this part of Ranons Avenue became Roderick Road.



It looks like the two houses in the picture above are still there.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...erRoderick.jpg
Google Maps



So are you saying that Langendorf's sliced bread is the best thing since Langendorf's unsliced bread? :)

I carried on looking down this section of Fletcher Drive, and I think this might be the building with the Langendorf's advert on the side. I found a build date of 1929. The most likely candidate for the house on the left of the picture above is 3562 Fletcher Drive, which was built in 1923. It last sold for $17,500 in 1984, and now seems to be valued at over $420,000.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tcherStore.jpg
GSV

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6960238)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-W...2619641644.jpg


Not one, but three Wilshire Boulevard houses are seen together in this shot, one still standing--the famous Higgins-Verbeck moved from 2619 to 637 S Lucerne, where it remains (the one with the turret near top center); the Jenkins/Getty house (no longer) at 641 S Irving, more popularly known as Norma Desmond's 10086 Sunset Boulevard--seen just to the right of the Higgins-Verbeck in front of the Los Altos; and, just below that, perhaps the strangest of all, the stark white Colonial of the "Richest Indian in the World," Jackson Barnett, at 644 S Rossmore.

Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham (Post 6960398)

Godzilla I have one of those Call Box pedestals next to the Acme at Florence and Hoover. They were not very common in L.A., the only other one I have seen a picture of was at 1st and Spring 1920's. Mine has had the lettering ground off and am looking for one that has not been ground off to see what it said on the door. I was hoping this photo would divulge it but alas no. Thanks for posting it.

Originally Posted by Tourmaline (Post 6960447)

1945 - Seventh and Broadway. Morning of VJ Day Aug 14, 1945
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00106/00106102.jpg
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Originally Posted by Tourmaline (Post 6960447)

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Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 6432237)

:previous: I thought the same thing when I saw the pic, and now that I really study it, I'm sure you're absolutely correct. You would have to have one at Go and the other at Stop: you can only make the right turn from "Upper Fifth" (where Hope loops around the Engstrum atop the retaining wall) and because of the jog in the street between you and the continuance of Fifth -- with the Biltmore Garage staring you in the face -- there's no way you could make the turn in the path of all the oncoming traffic. And that's four lanes of one-way traffic coming at you westbound on Fifth (it was made a one-way in Oct '47).

I think what they were trying to say is, look, here's a guy who's pulled his fastback too far into the intersection and he's going to look at the semaphore across the street for his direction? The title of the article should be Don't Pull Too Far Into the Intersection.

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Aerial view of the area -- note the retaining wall under construction, which dates the picture to the Spring of 1930.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3674/1...ed89d2a2_b.jpgUSCdl

More images of said retaining wall here and here ...I did a little more digging into the retaining wall (so to speak) and discovered that it was designed by none other than the great Carleton Monroe Winslow, who, although Goodhue is generally known as the architect of the Central Library, Winslow had a mighty hand in its completion. As such, Winslow purposely conceived the wall's severe pilasters, arches and clean Egypto-Deco lines to complement the library across the street. I always thought it was a particularly effective and handsome structure; more's the pity it lasted just until the time -- early 1980s -- it could become appreciated.

One bit of it survives, of course -- I suppose most people think it's part of the Edison Bldg and thus was drafted by the hands of Allison & Allison. Ha!

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6959410)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...plexforNLA.jpg


I've been working on another house-history site to go along with those on Berkeley Square, Wilshire Boulevard, and St. James Park--this one, on Fremont Place. There are now 19 in the "inventory," more to come: fremontplace.blogspot.com

Facebook page HERE

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 6960516)

Because of the lighting in the photograph, the man on the corner (lower right) facing left (head near street sign) looks like his derriere is in public view. :)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6960845)

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On the previous page (#1355) there are several photographs by Godzilla (re: Sanders photos) and a bunch by Tourmaline (re: Anna Mae Wong) that are not showing up.
Is anyone else having trouble seeing them? -or is it just my computer?

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6960988)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/9q7XiH.jpg
eBay

:previous: Does anyone recognize any of these fine folks?"

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Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 6961125)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...74236%2BAM.jpg
ebay via e_r

Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 6961431)

"Remodeling would do wonders. Take off some of that gingerbread and redecorate the inside..."
--Mildred Pierce

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6960923)

below: I found this postcard on ebay about a month ago. (perhaps we've seen it before, but I couldn't locate any previous posts)

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eBay

Laura (at pinterest) wrote this:
"A much older Victorian house was moved to build the Durand residence in 1905.' -interesting. I wonder what that house looked like?

about the Durand House: "50 rooms, razed in 1962, three remaining acres of the site are now Arlington Gardens."
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Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham (Post 6960864)

http://s597.photobucket.com/user/cal...rdpi7.jpg.html
The pedestal call box at Florence and Hoover is a single door police box. You needed a key to access it, it was not for the public. As you see on the one I have the door words were ground off so they could repurpose the box.
The blue Cannon Electric box you posted a photo of was primarily used in the Eagle Rock area. It is aluminum and was painted blue at one time, silver another, depending what paint was on the truck.
Acme Semaphore signals had one red, one green light. The yellow light was flashing at night after the signals were shut down (mot much traffic then so the stopped operating and went into a caution mode. Some did have a Blvd. Stop Sigh with a flashing red light late at night. There were no other lights on an Acme. Acme did make a conventional tri-light after semaphore fell out of favor. http://http://s597.photobucket.com/u...rdpi7.jpg.html

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 6961624)

I don't believe this color photo has been posted here previously:

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/hollyvd.jpgRense

This is Hollywood Blvd. looking east. The tree on the right is in front of the Hollywood Hotel. Two Pacific Electric red cars are featured, one on
the cross street at Highland Ave. We can see the Bank of America building on the corner. Next door is Coffee Dan's, with it's great neon sign,
the flashing arrow blade sign part of it is lit at the top, and the Hollywood movie theater is visible. In the background is the Hotel Drake, formerly
the Hotel Christie. Date listed is 1950's.

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 6961782)

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/...697ac6bc_o.pngIntersection 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 with it and the corresponding painted auto limit line both well short of the intersection allowing for the turning radius of the streetcar tracks. The fact that the Acme is showing neither the 'stop' nor 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. At intersections where both intersecting streets were relatively major roadways the little light would flash red indicating a boulevard stop for all cars. In the case of an Acme controlled intersection of a major roadway being crossed by a secondary road the little button light would show red for the smaller street and simply yellow/amber (or slow-down caution) for the bigger roadway. The Bank of Italy/International Bank Building stands out down the street with the squat old post office just to its left.

USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6961817)

:previous: Toumaline, your bottom photo is missing. _

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6961700)

Interesting. In revisiting some of my missing posts, including one I posted on yellow on blue signage http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24558, I also noticed your prior post with part of an impressive "street" related collection, including many examples of call/signal boxes. Bravo! http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24560

I vaguely recall watching what may have been a rehab of an old E. Hollywood home, the address of which has been long forgotten. Workers were removing all kinds of remnants, including striped posts. In retrospect, I am guessing they may have been once intended/used to support street signs pictured so many times on NLA.


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I alluded to this previously, but the more I think of it, this was where I may have seen one or two porcelain / enameled street signs with yellow lettering (rather than white) on a dark blue field. I mentioned this to someone who has long since passed and he said he remembered the colored signs, because they reminded him of the UMichigan colors (darker than UCLA's). Still, I can't seem to locate any photographic evidence of their existence. In my mind's eye the signs were too solid to have been props and they bore local LA Street names. Do you or anyone else recall (or have examples of) blue shotgun-style street signs bearing yellow (not off-white) lettering?






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Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham (Post 6961882)

i have never seen a blue with yellow lettering street sign in L.A., maybe it was in a bordering city that had it. I have seen street signs as far back as wood ones and they have been blue and white. The stripped post you mention were very common even to the 50's. They were not alone many signal poles had stripes also. I have seen a promotional photo (?) showing a spotted post with a lady in a spotted dress next to it.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6961998)

I've had this photograph in a file of mine for quite some time. Could one of you rail-fans tell me what's going on?
There appears to be a gap between the street-car and the tracks nearer the camera.

Whatever they're doing, I hope they pick up some of that litter. ;)

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