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When I first saw this rppc I thought it was a building from the recently discussed Pacific Southwest Exposition in Long Beach.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/ACmnEt.jpg Angeles Abbey, Compton, Cal., # 107 The same building can be seen in this aerial of Compton in 1928. & note the large onion dome (it isn't visible in the sepia photograph) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/AU3P8z.jpgLooking north on Long Beach Boulevard, but I'm not sure what cross streets are visible. I don't recall if we have seen this building on NLA. (I searched for past posts) __ |
Angeles Abbey
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google maps Lindsay at IAMNOTASTALKER.com has a good post on Angeles Abbey with info about it's use as a filming location and a link to images of the interior: ETA: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/er...o=w462-h571-no plan-it locations 1515 E Compton Blvd: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FO...=w1072-h445-no gsv |
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I wished I lived during the time bread and pastries (and milk in glass bottles) were home delivered. Sparkletts just isn't the same.
Helms worship always depresses me. |
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Milk in glass bottles was a little before my time. Are you allowed to be nostalgic about something that took place before you were born? |
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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/389772542725836227/https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2b/0f/55/2...d86c753bf0.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/pin/389772542725836227/ Being nostalgic for something that was before your era does not seem to make sense to me. :shrug: |
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1937, Culver city aerial view...MGM Studio....now Sony. This is where I used to make late night deliveries of film cans
of new movies after a preview. It was kind of a chore actually but I was paid for car mileage and time....plus I was only 17 years old at the time. http://www.sonypicturesmuseum.com/pu...lot-aerial.jpg http://www.sonypicturesmuseum.com/pu...lot-aerial.jpg 1950....work day at MGM, 5,000 employees, who made 50 films per year. http://www.sonypicturesmuseum.com/pu...1-building.jpg http://www.sonypicturesmuseum.com/pu...1-building.jpg |
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Cheers, Earl |
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(Don't look at me like that. The cheap places are the fun places on Catalina.) :daz: |
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Photo shows 4th Degree Members of the Knights of Columbus each wearing a plumed hat (or as they call it, a "chapeau.") |
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Here's the view from Mt. Lowe: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4517/...13c2bd79_k.jpg_B230126_PTGui Panorama_small.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr |
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[QUOTE=BillinGlendaleCA;8008326]I'm wondering where that was as well, I've been hiking up there recently, I did the Mt. Lowe summit hike Thanksgiving morning(incredible view, 100 mile visibility). I know most of the canyons up there and Sycamore Canyon doesn't ring a bell. There is one in the Santa Monicas(Mugu State Park) that my dad and I used to hike in when I was a teen.
I agree with you Bill, the only Sycamore Canyon I know of is in the San Rafaels; its name was changed to Chevy Chase in 1926. From back in the day: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4564/...455168fc_b.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4559/...ea892708_b.jpg https://www.chevychaseestates.us/his...s-association/ That being said, ER's picture doesn't say "Sycamore Canyon".....so we remain in the dark (shade). |
Thank you for the address of Angeles Abbey tovangar2 [1515 E. Compton Blvd] I really appreciate it.
This afternoon I found a 1920s photograph of the abbey. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/s7op9F.png ucla archive but then I was like, WAIT...this building doesn't match. :shrug: for comparison / here's the photo from yesterday http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/ACmnEt.jpg original post HERE It turns out, the building in the black and white photo is a separate mausoleum located behind the building shown in the sepia above. Here's a pretty good view of it from Palmer Street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/lwZnxb.jpg gsv The residents on the other side of Palmer Street were given a much less charitable view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/YpVb6a.jpg gsv Those poor people in that little blue house. :( If the abbey owners had left enough room, a nice row of trees or bushes would have been nice. ___ I'll end my post with this close-up of the dome. [taken from a drone] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/83Lj8M.jpg video HERE __ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pI...0=w381-h587-no google maps Boston ivy grows extremely quickly: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/75...U=w424-h543-no It changes color in the autumn and drops it's leaves (keeping the compost fed and happy), leaving a pretty tracery on the wall: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dH...M=w675-h449-no Boston Ivy isn't dormant long in Southern California. It greens right up again, often starting before the previous year's leaves have all dropped. There's a somewhat similar missed opportunity near me: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Jf...Q=w993-h544-no gsv westwood and olympic Jeepers creepers. Does Boston ivy have any drawbacks odinthor? |
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That photograph you took on your recent hike was amazing BillinGlendaleCA. Thanking for sharing it with us.
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I didn't know this: "Sycamore Canyon was a private game preserve for the wealthy Doheny family, and locked gates once barred entry to the canyon." link Have we discussed this on NLA? & imagine being rich enough to block off a whole canyon. (I think it sucks) _________________ The game preserve is also mentioned in this second passage. "It was originally named Canon de Sicomoro and was part of the original Verdugo Land Grant from the King of Spain. In the early nineteen hundreds, the canyon was a private game preserve for the Doheny family and the last bear shot was in 1906." Surely there's a photograph somewhere (online) of the Doheny's hunting on their private game preserve. (if there is....I couldn't find it) ___________________________________________________________ I'll end with this photograph of a young man posed on a Sycamore tree in the Verdugo Park area. (that's close to Sycamore Canyon, right?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/D1DUGs.jpg New York Public Library __ |
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