:previous:

Could this be the same building today? I can't see any demo permit for that block since 1935.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...n.jpg~original
GSV

From 1914 until the early-20s, the Splitdorf Electrical Co is listed in the CDs at 1215 S Hope Street. Going by the number over the door, I'd say that we're looking at that address here.

Interesting article on LA in the early decades of the 20th Century from the SF Chronicle public site: http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/...php#item-44548

:previous: thanks.

Addresses culled in haste. Somehow overlooked '14CD and focused on '13 and much later. Post amended.









Cinder blocks are not particularly good for transmitting light yet given the state of the rooftip sign, maybe concrete windows are understandable. :uhh:

For those of you who enjoyed last week's Julius Shulman post "Job 0127: Bubeshko Apartment, Exteriors", here's the sequel (or possibly prequel as the job number is one lower). This is "Job 0126: Bubeshko Apartment, Interiors (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1945". The exterior photoset was undated, but it's probably safe to say they were taken at the same time (MichaelRyerson dated a license plate in the previous images at 1945).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

I initially couldn't work out the layout at the right of this picture. Luckily, all becomes clear below.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

An article at dwell.com has an early blueprint for the apartments, as well as the text and image below:

Rudolph Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments are legendary in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, their white stucco terraces spilling down the hillside like a chest of drawers pulled ajar. When the 5,000-square-foot apartment complex went on the market in 2004, filmmaker Joe DeMarie finally got to step inside, where he remembers being transported by its simple beauty. “I don’t throw around the word ‘genius,’” says DeMarie. “But Schindler was a genius.”

He wanted to buy it, but Luby Bubeshko, who’d owned and lived in the five-unit building for 66 years, was reluctant to sell to just anyone. In 1938, the 20-year-old Bubeshko had worked closely with Schindler on the building’s then-radical design and was adamant about protecting its legacy. If she didn’t find the right buyer, it was said, she would tear the complex down.

Luby Bubeshko eventually accepted Joe DeMarie's offer, and the rest is now history.

Here's a different angle on the shelves in the second picture above. The layout makes a lot more sense from this side.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
www.dwell.com

I was walking past 514 S. Spring the other morning so I popped in for a peek. It's changed a little since Mr. Shulman's photos. At least the classic bank clock is more visible on the back wall without the staircase in the way but now you can't see the other arch.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...20spring_1.jpg my photo

:previous: Sorry to hear about your accident HG.

Do you still have a photograph of you & your Harley tooling around Los Angeles? (perhaps you could share it with us)

Oh, and thanks for the info. on the obsolete tracks crossing Fletcher HenryHuntington.

hmmm...maybe the old tracks are what caused HG to crash. (yes, that's how my mind works ;))

Vintage Race Car ID
 

http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psq0h4raho.jpg

Since we briefly entered the world of LA area vintage auto racing with BifRayRock's posting above, I thought I would see if I any of the NLA audience might recognize this car and or it's owner. I discovered the photo among several boxes of 8 x 10 negatives discarded behind NorthHollyood Photo (Later Paxton Camera shop) back in 1959. I will expand on that in some later postings.

I have this much information: The location is the former North Hollywood Ford, later to become Huffaker's Auto Supply when they moved up the street, The building shown is long gone. but was on the corner of Lankershim Boulevard and Cumpston street.

I am almost certain the car is a Miller There was no information or date on the negative sleeve but other salvaged negatives appear to have been taken in the late 1930' and early 40s.

My internet searches have been in vain.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers
Jack

Thank you for the interior picture of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, NCD. Personally, I prefer the old staircase, even if it did hide the clock!


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We've seen the General Petroleum Building many times, but have we ever looked at its garage? Here are two pictures by Julius Shulman. This is "Job 894: Welton Becket and Associates, General Petroleum Building, garage (Los Angeles, Calif.),1951".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

The second shot is slightly wider. On the right is the Western Union building which I posted Julius Shulman pictures of in post #33691.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

The garage still stands on the corner of 8th and Flower Streets, a couple of blocks from the building it originally served.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original
GSV

:previous: Shulman is a genius. I mean, just look how good he made that parking garage look.

WW: I am unable to confirm much about your pictured car. FWIW, below is pictured a 1931 Miller Special coincidentally pictured with Bill Froelich of Froelich Ford fame.:previous:

For those keeping score, location appears to be 1222-1228 S. Hill Street. https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/py488tw7487


http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...s.png~original


http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...7.png~original


http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...u.png~original

HTH




Here is another in a continuing series of Richfield advertising statues, of which very little is known, including location and model identity.
Source lists Ted Wilson as photog. https://purl.stanford.edu/gf567vp2475

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...d.png~original

Here's a 1940s bar that could be straight out of a film noir.

Tony's Nightmare at 6300 S. Broadway, Los Angeles Calif.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/UBJdKm.jpg
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/iZgQtc.jpg
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Here's how the building looks today.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/zKZM5f.jpg
gsv






I believe the illustration on the matchbook shows this area. (as you can see the left side has mostly been filled in)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/3sACAZ.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/UBJdKm.jpg

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I hope one of you NLA sleuths can help me figure out the location of this photograph.

"1935 Packard with four baseball players getting ready to lead a Flag Day parade which opened the baseball season in Los Angeles."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/Mf6xUB.png
http://digitalcollections.detroitpub...ndora%3A152664

Initially, I thought the small structure on the right was a parking attendant booth, but now I am pretty sure it's a replica of the Wrigley Field clock-tower.

Does anyone recognize the four players?
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We've touched on this before but her face is captivating in a negative manner.

Murderer.....Ruth Snyder, wearing a dead animal.....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psreij3yfo.jpg
oldhollywood

Lots more about this woman and her torrid sex life here:
http://www.oldhollywoodfilms.com/201...ed-double.html

We've seen this picture a couple of times before. Here's the reply I wrote in February 2014.

:previous: oops. thx Hoss. I'm still curious about the mock-wrigley field clock-tower. -was it discussed?

I don't believe we've seen this one.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/lmgFQS.jpg
http://digitalcollections.detroitpub...ndora%3A153700


"Packard Co. file photograph of a caravan of early 1900s Packard trucks fully loaded, pulling extra trailers, sign on side of front truck reads "First Direct Shipment of Sunkist Oranges & Lemons Los Angeles to London," on road next to railroad tracks, two men in front cab, front truck as an American flag attached to radiator. Inscribed on photo back: "Packard trucks,
post World War I, transporting California "Sunkist" oranges & lemons."
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I'm not sure if this is San Pedro harbor or England, but I believe the lettering on this building (circled) says L.A. something.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/LWcOuN.jpg
detail

I can't tell if they're driving on the left or the right...........:previous: hmmmmmm....actually, I don't see any steering wheel.

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"Hupmobile in Pasadena, California [1917-1919]."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/Mr9Bm4.jpg
http://digitalcollections.detroitpub...ndora%3A218352

Details:

View of a circa 1917-1919 Hupmobile automobile in Pasadena, California, owned by James S. Booth. Typed on back: "Subject: Automobiles owned by James S. Booth
(Hupmobile, ca. 1917-1919). Collection: MS10/James Scripps Booth Collection. Date: ca. 1917-1919. Location: Pasadena, Calif. Photographer:
Probably James S. Booth. Source: John M. Booth. I.D.: Body by James S. Booth; chassis by Boman & Schwartz of Los Angeles."

Notice how the rear view consisted of the two oblong ovals, and...I don't see any side mirrors.

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prior on Hupmobiles

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24314

originally posted by Godzilla
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/wkZuhy.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/dbtde8.jpg

AMAZING photograph:previous:. (it was taken 10 years after my top photo)

My god, look at those solid tires. I don't even want to think about what a rough ride that must have been. You'd never have to change a flat, at least.

Another image from the same shipment. The location is only given as California, but the text at the bottom says Keystone Photo Los Angeles.

"Group portrait of the workers of Sunkist Growers, Inc., in front of a truck loaded with crates of oranges."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

When I was a kid, the Tilt-A-Whirl was always my favorite ride. Happily, working examples still operate at the Redondo Beach and Santa Cruz piers.

:previous:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/ydSRvC.jpg
http://www.redondo.com/rff/

The Tilt-A-Whirl at Redondo Beach (above) has a great paint job. (the one at Indiana Beach, that I mentioned earlier, is white and purple. :()

Great to hear from you David!
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It says:

L. A. [unintelligible]

[unintelligible]

Dry [Storage?]

Lifting &

12,000

So probably some kind of warehouse.

Cheers,

Earl

:previous: Thanks Earl.


detail of photo originally posted by HossC
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/nfTqCt.jpg

I wonder if the shorter guy in the white suit with the oranges on his lapels was sort of a 'mascot'? (for lack of a better word)

I first noticed him in my photo, and wondered what he had around his neck. -now I know!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/E3Qc0y.jpg
detail


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:previous:

I didn't even notice the guy with the oranges on his lapels.

GW said "Now I'm thinking that the tower belongs to a large model of Wrigley Field" in post #19354 - a good guess considering the much lower resolution of the image.

Here's an enlargement of the tower from e_r's link. I think the sign on the truck's door says "WRIGLEY FIELD" "BASEBALL PARK".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...l.jpg~original
detroitpubliclibrary.org

I posted this detail view of the clock in reply to GW's post.

The Tilt-A-Whirl was always a favorite! Now i'm recalling the names of other rides like that I remember: The Whip, The Paratrooper, The Octopus, Dive Bomber, Scrambler...

:previous: and the Rock-O-Plane and The Bullet. :)

Hoss, I may have noticed the oranges on the man's lapels, but I didn't realize the mock-tower was in the back of a truck!
I thought it was further away, towards the parking lot. Thanks for the clarification.
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note the man sitting on the ground behind the car. (I hadn't noticed him either)

Same location as Hupmobile balloon - other direction. :)



1963 - Betty White, 75th Tournament of Roses NBC Host. (Before the tilt-a-whirl causes riders to trash the street. :koko:)
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id466827623http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/...re-id466827623






http://www.aolcdn.com/photogalleryas...6bes092210.jpghttp://www.aolcdn.com/photogalleryas...6bes092210.jpg



Betty provides play-by-play narrative.
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This is the Southeast District Health Center, as photographed by Julius Shulman in 1946. It's "Job 032: Adrian Wilson and Associates, Southeast District Health Center (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1946".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

Here's a closer view of the entrance.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

The Southeast District Health Center was at 4920 Avalon Boulevard. I say "was" only because it's now the Avalon-Carver Community Center. The location means that Mr Shulman's first picture was taken from the foliage of South Park. It's a shame that they've had to add all of those fences and grilles.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original
GSV

I found the heads!




Yesterday I posted a gsv view of the building that used to be Tony's Nightmare Bar.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/jghdrT.jpg
gsv




Today, while I was driving the google-mobile downtown this second-story window caught my eye.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/IQDHkM.jpg
gsv /detail


You see where I am going with this don't you?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/7kzv5z.jpg
gsv/detail

;)











eerie coincidence wouldn't you say?


Northeast corner of Broadway and 4th

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/yOClBF.jpg
gsv

Heads; first window on the left:previous:

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Thanks for pointing that out Godzilla. I hadn't noticed it was the same block.
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We've seen this early view before on NLA, but I believe this is the first time it's been tinted by hand.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/RaBraD.jpg
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Here's the reverse.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/SUsUtj.jpg

Colored by
Acme Transparent Water Color Co.
84 E. Adams St.
Chicago, Ill.

Betty White was semi-famous long before her more public entrance.
As an ingénue in the 1940s Hollywood she tried all sorts of marketing avenues.

Google Betty White nudes if interested in more views. Noir? I'd say so.

Don't worry, they're very tastefully done.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psblqymx7z.jpg
CDfiles

"Iron bars do not a prison make,"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/o0PwF2.jpg
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....at least not at the new Los Angeles Police Facilities Building.

The architects eliminated the grim, prison-like aspect of the building when they specified perforated Fenestra panels for use as the restraining barriers in the jail section.
The ribbed, sheet steel panels can easily be seen through when looking out of the newly completed building but outsiders can not see into the jail cells. [1955]
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:previous: I've never noticed the Fenestra panels before.








Here's the building pretty much dead-center in this aerial.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/zsjnyp.jpg


The aerial is from this 1969 cover (when the facility was renamed the Parker Center)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/tDMVMy.jpg
http://www.laphs.org/news_nov_09.html



Added bonus photo:

1958 Chevy Delray patrol cars parked at the Los Angeles Police Facilities Building.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/4Mo0vu.jpg
www.policemag.com

Today, Welton Becket's building sits empty. Rumor has it, it's going to be torn down for a 27 story tower.

http://la.curbed.com/2014/5/1/101060...laced-by-tower
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FWIW, Betty suggests the photos are not her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CV4P4Fu3uA :shrug:

Yeah, I've heard that. If not her, then who is it??? :D:D:D
It's her or her twin sister. The facial features are identical....even the cute dimples.
:previous:

FWIW, no one else seems to have commented it isn't simply a model of the tower. If you look behind and a bit lower than the cab of the truck, I think you can see it is a model of the entire park. Would have liked to have seen that. Wonder where it ended up.

Good eye M_R. I've been trying to find another photograph of the 'Wrigley Field 'float' in a parade or parked in front of the ballpark, to no avail.
You just know there has to be other photographs (it's so damn cool)


A Before & After that never happened.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/I7imqN.jpg
lapl




Here's the ballpark enlarged to a total of 60,000 seats, and look at all that additional parking! Destroying the neighborhood feel in one fell swoop.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/57a8Zu.jpg
http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/922790.html


HossC posted an interesting postcard of the expansion, but it didn't show the massive parking lot.
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=20170

Otis Criblecoblis commented on the temporary bleachers that were set up in the outfield for special events.
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=32182


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Saturday morning 'mystery' photo #1.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/xDph0q.jpg
eBay

Does anyone know the location of this photograph?
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Los Angeles policeman posing by 'mystery' car.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/eq4ot4.jpg
eBay

Does anyone recognize this precinct? -or the make of the sexy policeman.....er...I mean sexy car.

-the flags are half-mast. makes me wonder what tragedy has occurred.
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Dunno about the cop, but the car is a 1956 [ish] Austin Healey 100.

Cheers,

Earl

The Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company was on the corner of Alameda and Macy Streets. Flyingwedge previously posted the image and map below:

:previous: Thanks Hoss, that helps a lot.
I mistakenly searched for Cozner instead of Cuzner.


Thanks Earle!


Here's another great photograph of an Austin Healey.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/1s9JKz.jpg
http://cdn.silodrome.com/wp-content/...tin-Healey.jpg

Does anyone recognize that blonde guy in the back?
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1956: Clint Eastwood, age 26, sits astride his British-made Austin-Healey convertible in Los Angeles sporting the latest in beachwear."

:previous: Yep, you got it CBD.


We've seen world famous Ciro's many times on NLA, but this amateur slide is a first for us.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/0I1Fu2.jpg
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Here's Senor Wences with his smoking hand puppet. (and by hand puppet, I mean hand puppet. ;))

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/jIh0ZV.jpg
https://classicmovienight.files.word...wences1935.jpg









http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/wFmign.jpg
http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.co...es-comedy.html

:previous: If that doesn't give you nightmares, I don't know what will!


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I saw Sr. Wences at the Hollywood Bowl in '57-'58. He was an opening act for a Danny Kaye show. He used to be a fixture on the Ed Sullivan show.

The policeman is posing in front of the Torrance City Hall. The officer's arm patch appears to be Torrance PD.

For today's Julius Shulman post we have an unidentified Van De Kamp's Bakery. This is "Job 946: Welton Becket and Associates, Van De Kamp's (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

And here's the dining area.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

The information for the set above doesn't give a location, but it does say "See job 1201". Here are the two images from that set which show the kitchen area. I assume they were taken at the same place. This is "Job 1201: Welton Becket and Associates, Van De Kamp's (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

The big house behind 3320 N. Griffin Avenue
 

The big house behind 3320 N. Griffin Avenue was the Von Keith residence:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original
November 3, 1889, Los Angeles Times @ LAPL

The Von Keith home was located about where the tree in the center of the photo is; I think below the tree is where the short stairway under the
central tower is in the 1888 photo. That's 3320 N. Griffin Avenue in the lower right corner:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original
Bing Birdseye View

If you ever wondered where the neighborhood's E. Von Keithian Avenue (upper right corner) got its name from, now you know:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original
Google Earth

John H. Von Keith was a landscape painter and author of Von Keith's Westward or 1,000 Items on the Wonders and Curiosities of Southern California (1887),
copies of which are available at these locations. When he registered to vote on September 24, 1888, the 51-year-old, Massachusetts-born Von Keith listed
his occupation as "Artist" and his home as "N. Griffin Ave." His daughter Wallula married pioneer Los Angeles grocer George A. Ralphs.

Von Keith apparently lost the home due to financial difficulties before it burned down:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original
December 23, 1890, Los Angeles Times @ LAPL

It could be the one at 6556 Wilshire @ Masselin in the former Slapsy Maxie’s. It was under construction as of Feb. 15, 1951 and open by the end of June. Welton Becket & Associates did the remodel, in “contemporary California style.”

Capable of serving 13,000 people a day, it had an 85-seat counter in the main dining room, a “sidewalk café” separated from Wilshire Blvd be a glass wall, a bakery department, take-out food bar and public lounges.
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...p-wilshire.jpg 2-15-51 lat


Van de Kamp's ad for their Wilshire Coffee Shop, June 1951
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...andekampad.jpg 6-25-51


http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...-lapl-1969.jpg
lapl http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics25/00062149.jpg (seen on NLA before)

Excellent sleuthing Flyingwedge! So the 'Show' house turned out to be the Von Keith residence.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/Qsw7uB.jpg
CA State Library / detail

Do you think that's Mr. Von Keith and Wallula up there? ;)



:previous: I think you're spot-on FW.

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