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Ben Blue's LA Times, Sept, 1959 Larry Harnisch's blog The Daily Mirror http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...nice_division/ |
From deep within the catacombs of the LA Metro...
Last fall my family and I took a Route 66 LA road trip, driving on every alignment of Route 66 there ever was in LA County. (And there were a lot of them!) I've been going over the photos my wife took with her camera and captioning everything before putting them online. Some of the stuff I have to Google to identify specifically - the proper intersection, the name of a building, etc.
In one of these searches, Google spat this .pdf out at me from some dark corner of the archives at metro.net: Master Plan of Highways - County of Los Angeles Regional Planning District - 1941 112 pages of soul-crushingly dry reading, punctuated by fantastic old photos and maps every 2-10 pages, including some before/after from the 1920s-1941. Here's an example from pages 81-82, put together with a modern Google Street View: (Click for full size) https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-y...eetcompare.jpg Metro.net/Metro.net/Google Street View Lots of other great pics in there, check it out! |
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Links below. Front: http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPG...it_company.JPG Reverse: http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPG...ny_reverse.JPG |
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:previous: BifRayRock, you need to reduce the size of the map you posted or delete it.
Most people will give up on the thread while waiting for it to download. Thanks for understanding. __ |
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(Click image for full size) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-X...0/IMG_5037.JPG This lovely art deco building sits at the northwest corner of Colorado & Verdugo in Glendale. The addresses are 1377-1385 E. Colorado and 237-239 S. Verdugo. The space on the corner is 1385 E. Colorado. What I've found out about it so far is slim. The LA County assessor says it was built in 1922. At UCSF's site there is a 1969 advertising proposal to the American Tobacco Company by Pacific Outdoor Advertising, which lists the huge billboard on the roof. The Glendale library has a a couple vintage pictures of the west end of the building - Henry's Malt Shop, date unknown Brown Owl Ice Cream, 1946 or 47 That's all I got. Anyone know anything about the history of this now 90-year-old building? It appears to have been kept up (or restored) quite well; Google Street View from last August shows it fully occupied with 8 different businesses. Exterior signage and awnings are wonderfully consistent, too. |
Need an address for this one...
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Hollywood_1916 (1916) - Exterior view of the L.A.F.D. Engine 27, and the L.A. Police station, sharing the same building in Hollywood. LAPL |
1625 North Cahuenga Blvd by the looks of it
http://lafire.com/stations/FS027/FS027_1913-1930.htm http://lafire.com/stations/FS027/pho...t5-001_816.jpg http://lafire.com Ironically destroyed by fire in 1978 Going forward in time, do those window at left match up?? http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Untitled-7.png https://maps.google.com/ Current building at right address is 1635 but looks like it could have been the replacement post '78 |
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Though LA County GIS lists year of construction on that building as 1922, meaning either they are wrong or the 1916 date on Michael Ryerson's picture is wrong. It seems to be the latter - your lafire.com link has the same photo as Michael Ryerson's post, but with a date of 1925. The assessor's parcel map dated 1960 does not list the owner of the FD parcel but it does say the Dept. of Water & Power owns the next parcel north (which is now a parking lot). http://maps.assessor.lacounty.gov/ma...p?val=5546-007 |
Cahuenga. I knew I'd seen it as a kid. Lost to a fire? They must have been out on a call. Yeah, that's it. Out on a call. Yes, the windows are, at a minimum, an echo of the original building. Could very well be the bones of the earlier station.
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As a kid I must have seen him a hundred times on the TV but I never remembered his name. Seems Ben Blue specialized in corny physical comedy. There's a few videos of him on Youtube. Here's a clever routine with Eve Arden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLXiuWtGSXo |
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Also there's a great view of the remnants of Calle de Los Negros. I wonder if people still referred to it in the cruder vernacular then. I imagine some did. Thanks for posting these Michael. |
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The timeline in Joe Gillis's lafire.com link indicates that the fire station moved to 1355 N. Cahuenga back in 1930, so assumably the old fire station was simply a normal commercial building at the time of the fire. |
Just when I think we've pretty much covered the 'fringe' religions that dot the Los Angeles landscape another one comes to my attention.
below: I have been trying to locate the address of this branch of the 'I AM Activity' (notice the 'I AM' sign atop the belfry). I thought perhaps one of you sleuths might recognize this building. http://imageshack.us/a/img341/516/aa...dationhuge.jpg press photo 1940/ebay below: Reverse side with info. -July 25, 1940- http://imageshack.us/a/img822/6420/a...tionhuge1r.jpg __ below: Guy and Edna Ballard (also known as Godfre Ray King and Lotus) http://imageshack.us/a/img13/3139/aaiamguyednafull.jpg http://www.wikipedia.org/ __ |
yes, perhaps but look at the size and location of the parking entrance relative to the equipment bay in the station pics and then look at the curb cut.
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These two make an interesting pair
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Aerial view of Los Angeles near the Plaza, circa 1950 DWP/LAPL http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8151/7...32fa3f46_b.jpg dick whittington, undated USCdigital image archive Distasteful though it may be, this third image probably belongs here. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8282/7...5ddcaf22_b.jpg plaza aerial, 1978 (1978) - Aerial view of the Plaza area looking northeast from the top of City Hall. The Plaza may be seen in the lower left of this photo, showing the rear of Pico House and the Garnier Building. (To be completely accurate, you're not actually looking at the back of the Pico House, you're looking at the side of the Masonic Hall and the Merced Theater and just beyond that the Pico House roof and atrium visible still closer to the Plaza) DWP/LA Public Library Image Archive |
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Those who could care less or are ignorant of L.A. history, now enjoy a little green park, a 101 freeway extension with convenient on-ramps and a little exclusive parking lot plus a clean and unobstructed view from Union Station to the Plaza. I get it. Time marches on. The present must be served. BTW What's shown in this photo as Aliso St. at the southern foot of Union Station's rail yard, is now called "El Monte Busway". There's a little strip of frontage road on the opposite, southern side of the 101 that got named "Aliso St" but it's inaccurate and out of geographical place. It's only a "nod" to the real historical street that's now a bus-way. They could have done better. I guess at least functionally, the 101 is Aliso St. |
L.a tunnels
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I was not aware of all these tunnels, that's great for my knowledges. Cool again to provide these all pixs |
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In the pic below, you can tell what portion was added back. This was once the central portion of the building, corresponding to the middle segment of the 3-segment roof. Look at the stone over the second floor windows. The stone to the left of the central window is new; the older stone from there rightward is worn down so it no longer has a nice face on it. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...0/IMG_4980.JPG Photo by me |
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