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MichaelRyerson Sep 25, 2015 1:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7176505)
Here's another Kodachrome that I believe is new to NLA. (by the look of the sun glare and shadows I believe this was taken during morning rush hour)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/nT8jQM.jpg
old file / probably eBay

I'm trying to figure out the model of car the person who took the photograph was riding in. The hood ornament looks like it might be a Ram; but that's just my uneducated guess. ;)
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A Dodge. 1952, I think.

tovangar2 Sep 25, 2015 1:51 AM

Sea Witch, Sunset Strip
 
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7176478)
I couldn't help but notice the 'SeaWitch' blade sign down the street. Does anyone know what this was?
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The Sea Witch has a facebook page

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...6%252520PM.jpg
pinterest

BifRayRock Sep 25, 2015 2:04 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6182789)
I just found this amazing photograph on ebay tonight.

http://imageshack.us/a/img16/2702/6g8e.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Photo-Howard...-/121136015114

HUGHES FLYING BOAT, LOS ANGELES HARBOR 1947
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From July '45 Time Magazine. Not one mention of "Spruce.":)
http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...ps5ru24gvb.jpg





sopas ej Sep 25, 2015 2:13 AM

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7176027)


This extant detail is visible near the right side of the bank in the first Shulman picture. Is it a shield showing the USS Portsmouth? This is the best view I could get with GSV. Would this be too far out of your way for a visit, sopas ej?

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

Here you go, HossC.

9.24.2015
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...81&oe=569A66AD
Photo by me

I thought I'd pull back and show the building in its contemporary context.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...5f&oe=569F7DF1

The building was divided in half on the inside, with the Starbucks occupying the front half and the B of A occupying the back half. Separate entrances for both of them. I say this because in South Pasadena, there was a combination Wells Fargo and Starbucks, with no divider. It's like you can see a bank teller and then walk across and order a Starbucks. I stopped banking at Wells Fargo around 9 or 10 years ago, so I don't go there anymore, but I believe that since then, they've divided the Starbucks from the Wells Fargo.

Mstimc Sep 25, 2015 2:26 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7176269)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/FIYtbC.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aquarium-HER...item33a9d62cff

What's with the pole with all the apparatuses? Are they weather-related instruments like barometers and wind gages, etc?
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Ocean Aquarium, Hermosa Beach California

The pole looks like the top-most part of a ship's mast, with the radio/communicaions array. Based on Tovangar's timeline (1947 to 1958), could be from a scrapped WWII-era ship.

C. King Sep 25, 2015 2:50 AM

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Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 7176571)
Here you go, HossC.

9.24.2015
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...81&oe=569A66AD
Photo by me

I thought I'd pull back and show the building in its contemporary context.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...5f&oe=569F7DF1

The building was divided in half on the inside, with the Starbucks occupying the front half and the B of A occupying the back half. Separate entrances for both of them. I say this because in South Pasadena, there was a combination Wells Fargo and Starbucks, with no divider. It's like you can see a bank teller and then walk across and order a Starbucks. I stopped banking at Wells Fargo around 9 or 10 years ago, so I don't go there anymore, but I believe that since then, they've divided the Starbucks from the Wells Fargo.

I can roughly recall when they added to Starbucks to the So Pas location. I was thinking back then, I wouldn't want to have someone posing as a customer of Starbucks, "enjoying their coffee or latte", while casing the bank. Used to work up the street, and was a Wells Fargo customer.

Casey

tovangar2 Sep 25, 2015 3:19 AM

signage
 
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Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 7176571)

That's nice, the ship is identified on this Mosler one, the Diebold hatch images that ProphetM and westcork posted didn't do that.

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Back on the 1400 block of W Adams e_r, next door to that pretty A.M.E. church you just showed us, is a reused, free-standing blade sign. I'm often fond of reused signs. Drilled for long-missing neon, it's now crammed with painted lettering on a mysterious shape:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...3%252520PM.jpg
gsv

It reminded me a little of the Gilbert Hotel blade sign on Wilcox in Hollywood. It originally (and somewhat perplexingly) said "Drive-In Hotel". Now it's just got strange spacing:

I'll be interested to see how they rehab it.

Graybeard Sep 25, 2015 9:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7176215)
Thanks for your post on Haddon Hall tovanger2.



originally posted by t2
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/D8h0ST.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31216

:previous: I'm curious about that white vertical rectangle on the building. I can't figure out why it's there.
If you look closely, there appears to be a border around it. (mostly noticeable along the bottom). So I think it was purposely drawn.

At the pixel level it appears to be damage or placed there by the seller. I doctored it up.
http://imageshack.com/a/img537/5918/VN8ECg.jpg

tovangar2 Sep 25, 2015 11:58 AM

:previous: Thanks Graybeard!

HossC Sep 25, 2015 7:12 PM

Thank you so much for your excursion to the Bank of America on Colorado Boulevard, sopas ej. I wasn't expecting you to go so quickly!

Today's Julius Shulman post is coming straight outta Compton, although the photos date from at least a decade before any members of N.W.A were born. Here's "Job 1031: Bank of America (Compton, Calif.),1951", showing the Bank of America on the corner of Compton Bouelvard and Tamarind Avenue.

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

On the far side of the bank, it looks like the stores were competing for the tallest blade sign.

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

Here's a close-up of the stores on the right. Security First National Bank also had an attractive building. Next to that was Florsheim Shoes and Nygard's gift and toy store.

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

Here's the view looking the other way.

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

I'm guessing that the car with the great roof rack belongs to the guy up the ladder. The stores here are Senit's (? apparel and accessories), Kirby's Shoes and Hart's Jewelers.

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

All from Getty Research Institute

This area has been drastically changed since 1951, and none of the buildings in the Shulman photos are still standing. So, with an absence of meaningful "now" pictures, I decided to show the changes with some aerial shots. Here's how the area looked in 1953, just two years after the pictures above. Notice that the buildings to the south of Compton Boulevard backed onto the slightly angled Palm Street.

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

Everything stayed much the same for about 20 years. The 1972 image shows the area between W Compton Boulevard and W Palm Street cleared, and the Compton Library under construction. The east section of Palm Street can still be seen on the 1980 image (below), but the first part of the west section has been wiped out by a new plaza between the library and the new courthouse (W Palm Street continues out-of-shot to the left). The area south of E Palm Street has been cleared of everything except a parking lot.

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

The area from the Shulman pictures now looks like this. Although the street below Compton Boulevard is still named E Palm Street, it is now further south. A sign at the intersection of Compton and Tamarind calls it "Compton Town Center". Personally, I think it looked more like a town center in 1951!

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
Google Maps

Although it's not visible in the Shulman photos, there is a survivor from that era. On the corner of Compton Boulevard and Willowbrook Avenue is the 1935 Compton Post Office.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original
Charles Swaney/livingnewdeal.org

ethereal_reality Sep 25, 2015 7:55 PM

:previous: The aerials are striking. What a loss.
That stretch of E. Compton Blvd. was so tightly packed with buildings, and know it's mostly parking lots with a few buildings scattered here and there.

So sad.

ethereal_reality Sep 25, 2015 8:15 PM

I happened across this interesting building while snooping around in the google-mobile.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/BW6muY.jpg

At first I thought it was an old hotel, something akin to the Mount Washington Hotel (which I believe is still standing), or perhaps a convalescent hospital.



street address #234 (look at that old front door)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/HmVh3G.jpg






And here's a wider view... that shows what I presume is a later addition on the right side.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/QH6ysE.jpg
gsv

Well, now I know what it is at least; the dark banner hanging on the building says it is the Los Angeles Leadership Academy. :previous:

It makes me wonder if it started out as an academy? or was it something before?
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I also bet this has been used as a movie location a time or two. -the palms out front are icing on the ice.




* I just noticed these old steps out back. (they seem to run into a retaining wall now)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/OCdz8L.jpg
gsv

ethereal_reality Sep 25, 2015 9:01 PM

I don't remember seeing this stunning night-time view of CBS Columbia Center.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/q1xs2V.jpg
eBay



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/02aCNQ.jpg

ethereal_reality Sep 25, 2015 9:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mstimc (Post 7176584)
The pole looks like the top-most part of a ship's mast, with the radio/communicaions array. Based on Tovangar's timeline (1947 to 1958),
could be from a scrapped WWII-era ship.

:previous: Thanks for your help Mstimc.


detail / mystery tower
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/xrM2zS.jpg

if you have a memory like mine; you can see the whole photograph here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31232

John Maddox Roberts Sep 25, 2015 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7177621)
:previous: Thanks for your help Mstimc.


detail / mystery tower
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/xrM2zS.jpg

you can see the whole photograph here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31232

I just noticed that rotating exit turnstile grate on the right. You used to see those everywhere. They were put at exits and only rotated one way to keep people from sneaking in through the exit. It's one of those "When did I last see one of those?" moments. They were probably banned because they might get stuck in a fire or other emergency, trapping people inside. Like railroad cabooses and airport life insurance machines, they just sort of disappeared without me noticing.

Earl Boebert Sep 25, 2015 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts (Post 7177713)
I just noticed that rotating exit turnstile grate on the right. You used to see those everywhere. They were put at exits and only rotated one way to keep people from sneaking in through the exit. It's one of those "When did I last see one of those?" moments. They were probably banned because they might get stuck in a fire or other emergency, trapping people inside. Like railroad cabooses and airport life insurance machines, they just sort of disappeared without me noticing.

There are still plenty of them left at the perimeters of classified government facilities.

Cheers,

Earl

ethereal_reality Sep 26, 2015 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts (Post 7177713)
I just noticed that rotating exit turnstile grate on the right. You used to see those everywhere. They were put at exits and only rotated one way to keep people from sneaking in through the exit. It's one of those "When did I last see one of those?" moments. They were probably banned because they might get stuck in a fire or other emergency, trapping people inside. Like railroad cabooses and airport life insurance machines, they just sort of disappeared without me noticing.

:previous:

I was scared to death of them as a child. (not an understatement)

They were at the exits of a swimming beach my family visited each summer in Indiana. When it was time to leave, I'd close my eyes and my Dad would carry me through.
I can still hear the clankity-clank sound it made.

*I just gave myself goose-bumps.

ethereal_reality Sep 26, 2015 1:00 AM

"Looking north on Figueroa, 1967."

I've never noticed the A-Frame before.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/PilNPQ.jpg
eBay

It seems out-of-place in relation to it's surroundings; but the mere size of it makes it impressive. (it's as tall as that three story building across the street)

I'm not sure of it's purpose. -my best guess is that it's an automobile showroom.

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Handsome Stranger Sep 26, 2015 1:17 AM

Local news is reporting that the reproduction Pacific Electric Red Cars in San Pedro will stop running after this weekend, due to an upcoming construction project. They may return in 18 months to two years...or they may not return at all. Last chance to ride them, if you're in the area.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5hYtxvQwoos/hqdefault.jpg

[image source: YouTube]

ethereal_reality Sep 26, 2015 2:20 AM

hmmm.....I don't believe I've heard the term "Airport Trailer Park" before.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/XjYIrL.jpg
old file / eBay
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