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Now CBD that your crystal ball said the probable reason for the sailor, what did you see in it for this one above which is much harder to explain ? I fail to understand. |
More Agricultural Park
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On the 1888 Sanborn we see the hotel before it was enlarged. Please note that it is on the north side of the grandstand: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL The hotel is still on the north side of the grandstand, but I've flipped the 1894 Sanborn below because it's easier to read this way. The map shows that the hotel has been expanded (and -- cut off at the right edge -- that a new grandstand is being built, which might also account for the lumber scraps in front of the hotel in e_r's photo above). Outside the entrance to Agricultural Park we see the Main Street and Agricultural Park R.R. Co. facility: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL Quote:
the photo above? Also, the 22-foot-wide Horse Car Line Roadway from 1894 has become a 30-foot-wide Electric Car Right of Way. I don't know if this will help date the above photo, but a Los Angeles Times article on May 5, 1897, notes that the Main Street and Agricultural Park R.R.'s electric cars stop at Jefferson and Grand; from there to the Agricultural Park entrance, "the clumsy little horse cars are used." However, rails that could support the heavier electric cars were to be installed and the whole line electrified by the end of May: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL The old Agricultural Park Hotel is on the 1906 map too (though not included above), looking much as it did in 1894, except the building is being used as a clubhouse and dwelling, and the bar is marked "Not Used." |
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The building on the map has the exact same dimensions (easy, since it's a square ;) lol) And the small front porch is there as well. (no doubt the house was switched to storage by the r.r. co.) __ |
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"Ranch on southeast corner of Imperial Highway and Alameda Street." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/LtCExQ.jpg California Historical Society note the dead tree is being utilized as a pole for electricity. here's a closer look / you can see the wires and insulators. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/S1D0uV.jpg I believe it's a dead Eucalyptus or Sycamore tree. (odinthor?) Wagner, Anton : Photographer 1933 January 11 |
I intended to post this map back when FW posted his D-DAY and Victory newspapers but I couldn't locate it in my messy files.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/KfzSzZ.jpg detail Unbelievably, the map is dated November 7, 1937! here's the whole page. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/160...924/BKWSDn.jpg If anyone wants to see the whole page LARGER let me know. (be forewarned...the file is HUGE) __ |
re: The C. W. Hollister family.
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And thank you and GW for the information on Cora Taylor Strout. from Cora's 1900/01 photo album. (the same one with the L.A.C.C. photos) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/tIoGz7.jpg Pasadena Country Club http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/bFP9vu.jpg mystery bldg (it was on the same page as the Pasadena Country Club pic) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/urw5On.jpg Cora has written something about golf clubs. (she's also in the photo) same page as well. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/gJ9WC5.jpg "E.A.S. putting" two mystery houses in Pasadena. (where Cora stayed on the left - E.A.S. sitting the porch at right) -or is it the same house in both photos? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/lXjg0b.jpg I'll finish with Cora's photo of an 'old settler' http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/k2lzyX.jpg note the 'platform' on the sidewalk. I believe it's to help mount your horse & get in a buggy, right? __ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/P5...w=w640-h489-no It's called a horse block...they were often personalized. Here's one that was in front of the short-lived 2520 Wilshire Blvd from 1902-1923, built by Scranton miner Nicholas E. Rice. (More here.) |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original The Official Golf Guide (1902) at HathiTrust The ninth hole, pictured above, was 220 yards long. After I saw the above photo, I realized that this unidentified, undated photo also shows the Pasadena Country Club. To the left of the clubhouse might be a tennis court: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original 486338 @ Huntington Digital Library Here's a slightly closer look at the clubhouse: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original ________________________________________ P.S. Thanks for the interesting and colorful invasion maps, e_r. FWIW, I worked with a guy who said his uncle was a general in WWII, and after the war he was on the team that examined captured Japanese military documents. Supposedly the Japanese had a plan to invade California by landing near Santa Cruz and then marching north to take San Francisco. |
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Well, I would like to. (Did you mean to answer here, or a PM?) Anyway... |
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Here's a bit more history.... Street view of the Lieberg Building at 911 East Colorado during construction. [2/4/1927] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/GCXMvK.jpg Pasadena History Archive Perhaps I'm naive but I was surprised to see how many companies were involved in constructing ONE building in 1927. (is it the same today?) here's a closer look. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/zbz2mo.jpg detail Please be sure and go HERE to see how the Lieberg Building looks today. (the metal screen that was added to the facade in the 1950s/60s has been removed :)) This afternoon I noticed the Lieberg Building has some very nice skylights still intact. (four small ones and a large one that might illuminate the stairwell) see below http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/p0xj4q.jpg one other small point: the building has an angled back wall.(enough of an angle that the alley takes a slight detour) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/88GJlA.jpg __ update: oops, I can't forget the architect. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/D10g1L.jpg Wendell W. Warren Architect - Pasadena, California I wasn't able to find any additional information on him. -sorry __ |
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Should I delete it? :shrug: Gargantuan Image removed Does anyone have a tip how I can find a suitable size between 1600 x 1200 and the 'Full Size'? ___ Click on link below / with help from Flyingwedge 1937 Invasion Map :previous: __ |
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I'm also impressed you were able to locate this photograph. The Huntington archive simply has it labeled "House with horse and carriage". (are you going to inform them of your discovery?) One more question if you don't mind: Do you know where this country club/golf course was located exactly? I've been going through old Pasadena directories and haven't found an address. __ |
I just found some additional information. (that I believe holds the answer)
Early golf in Pasadena: "Largely due to its luxury hotels, golf thrived in Pasadena from the 1890s. In 1894, E.H. Strafford, an Englishman who loved golf, carved out a few holes on the massive Campbell-Johnston Ranch, a property of 2,214 acres that now includes such landmarks as the Rose Bowl and Annandale Golf Club. Walter Grindlay, an Englishman visiting the Southland, described it in "Golf," an English magazine in its issue of July 15, 1898: "There was a private course on a ranch, but it was overgrown with ÔTurkey-weed' and the manager was waiting for the frost to kill the week and rain to bring up the grass." Conway Campbell-Johnston, owner of the ranch on which that course was situated, was one of the founders of Pasadena Country Club on July 7, 1897 and Strafford was one of the first members. The course was laid out in a tract known as Oak Grove in what is now San Marino and was frequented by guests at the Hotel Green and Raymond Hotel (see separate story). The first caddie strike in Southern California occurred at the Pasadena CC in July, 1898. The caddies demanded higher pay, and the Los Angeles Times reported, " . . . they claim that 15 cents a round is too little money to run all over a twenty-acre lot chasing golf balls and carrying the sticks. The price paid in Oakland is 10 cents a round, and the links are longer, but that makes no difference to the Pasadena youth, who is to heathy -- or to proud -- to work for anything less than what his conferees in other cities get." Many of the club's members joined Annandale Golf Club when it was built in 1906, and when the Midwick Country Club was founded in 1912, it sounded the death knell for PCC and eventually the club closed. But before that, it had played an instrumental role in founding and shaping the SCGA, and a club member, John B. Miller became the second SCGA president in 1900." from http://www.scga.org/about/scga-history/part-1 So it appears the original golf course was located somewhere on the 2,214 acre Campbell-Johnston Ranch. I wonder if Cora Strout knew the owners or was just visiting as a tourist? __ AND... I have one question for odinthor: "There was a private course on a ranch, but it was overgrown with ÔTurkey-weed." What pray-tell is O'Turkey Weed? :shrug: __ |
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That's a prescient if somewhat alarmist article four years before the war. BTW, an interesting follow-up. A few years ago, I saw an interview with the Japanese pilot who commanded the first attack wave on Pearl Harbor. He said he knew Japan lost the war as early as late 1942 when he saw ships he attacked at Pearl Harbor repaired and back in service in less than a year. He knew any country that had the resources and resilience to repair it's damaged ships and build an entirely new fleet at the same time was destined to win the war. |
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People here are always identifying photos or correcting false ID's . . . like the photo of the sailor that was supposedly taken in New York but showed Terminal Annex in the background. _____________________________________________________________ The site of the Pasadena Country Club is in the Oak Knoll area, south of Cal Tech. On the 1900 map below, the red dot in the upper left corner is California and Los Robles; the green dot is California and Lake. The Pasadena Country Club is at the end of a road just to the right of center: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original 248692 at Huntington Digital Library This is a 1906 map of Oak Knoll (I think the dots show oak trees). At the top, Lake splits into Oak Knoll (Avenue), Arden, and Kewen. The Pasadena Country Club is marked to the left of the text describing the Wentworth Hotel: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original 16036 at Huntington Digital Library Here's the area today. Near the center, Lake splits into Oak Knoll (Circle), Arden, and Kewen. The golf course was east of Kewen, which according to Googlemap is in San Marino, as the quote in your last post mentioned: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original Googlemap |
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