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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6379991)

http://imageshack.us/a/img440/3599/nxst.jpgebay
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There's actually a piece of this home still in existence - well, the guest house anyway. When this Fenyes mansion was demolished to be replaced by the one currently on the site, the old guest house was moved to 1212 Lida Street in the Linda Vista area of Pasadena.

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8a88da59.jpgGSV

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6380807)

More than wild animals in Griffith Park

Here is a new (to us at NLA anyway) photograph of murder victim Jean Spangler superimposed over Griffith Park's Fern Dell Canyon.
http://imageshack.us/a/img850/6924/oknx.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5201259

In re: Jean Spangler, has anyone here read Megan Abbott's "The Song is You"? She's a contemporary author who writes in the noir style, and at least two of her novels have been inspired by real-life events. ("The Song is You," of course, involves Spangler's disappearance, while her fourth novel, "Bury Me Deep," is sort of a retelling of the Winnie Ruth Judd case.)

I haven't gotten around to either book yet, but they're both on my holiday reading list!

I don't think we've seen this picture before. It shows a few businesses on the corner of South Central Avenue and E 50th Street. USC describes it as "Drugstore, beauty salon, and automotive garage on the 5100 [sic] block of Central Avenue, September 1933".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs1.jpg
USC Digital Library

Going through the 1936 CD yields the following details for the businesses:

Albert Baumann drugs 5000 S Central Av
Steve McKinney (tailor) 5002 S Central Av
Izola Beauty shop 5002½ S Central Av
Wayne A Safford (auto repairs) 5006 S Central Av
Philip Greenberg (second-hand) Furniture Store 5010 S Central Av
Andrew L Wallace physician 5010½ S Central Av

Here's a close-up of the drugstore.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs2.jpg
Detail of photo above.

Now :(.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs3.jpg
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Originally Posted by westcork (Post 6220842)

Arrow shows how 86-year old man, Frederick Morris, leaped to his death at Park La Brea Apartments. Suicide victim lays covered on the steps leading into the building. Photograph dated August 9, 1955.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics22/00045539.jpg
LAPL
LAPL

Isn't it odd there is a dead body laying there and yet not a single person (not even law enforcement) is anywhere to be seen?

None in windows or on ground seems odd to me

Today there would be crowds all over as we know

Wonder why??

Here's a close-up of the drugstore.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs2.jpg
Detail of photo above.

Now :(.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs3.jpg
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So many of the "Now" photos are so, well, sad. I lived on 106th Street near San Pedro in the late forties...would love to see some of the "Then" photos of buildings on San Pedro or Avalon, in that area, from those days...there was a furniture store on 106th and Avalon that I would be interested in seeing...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...addr.jpg?gl=US

Here's another Wilshire Boulevard house: fruit packer and inventor Edwin T. Earl, one of the biggest of BSDs of turn-of-the-century Los Angeles, hired Ernest Coxhead to design his new house in Gaylord Wilshire's original subdivision. The San Francisco architect designed a shingle version that burned before completion; he then redesigned it in brick. It stood at the northeast corner of Carondelet from 1899 to 1957.

The full story of 2425 Wilshire is here.

More here.

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6221455)

This is most amazing wojtko! I assume this is CGI or computer graphics.

That work is amazing!!!

Please do more :)

The march of time....

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Originally Posted by rbpjr (Post 6382102)

Here's a close-up of the drugstore.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs2.jpg
Detail of photo above.

Now :(.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannDrugs3.jpg
GSV

So many of the "Now" photos are so, well, sad. I lived on 106th Street near San Pedro in the late forties...would love to see some of the "Then" photos of buildings on San Pedro or Avalon, in that area, from those days...there was a furniture store on 106th and Avalon that I would be interested in seeing...[/QUOTE]

rbpjr....Many people are not aware that various and sundry parts of Los Angeles have decayed into Third World Status. We see it in this photo. I won't get into the reasons why but there's a reason.

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Originally Posted by rbpjr (Post 6382102)

No sign of the furniture store yet, but this grocery store stood on the corner of 106th and Avalon in 1928.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery1.jpg
USC Digital Library

The caption calls it '10525 Avalon Boulevard', but it was clearly 10599 Avalon Boulevard at some point in the past.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery2.jpg
Detail of photo above.

I wasn't surprised to see that it had gone.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery3.jpg
GSV

The caption calls it '10525 Avalon Boulevard', but it was clearly 10599 Avalon Boulevard at some point in the past.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery2.jpg
Detail of photo above.

I wasn't surprised to see that it had gone.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery3.jpg
GSV[/QUOTE]
In the late forties the furniture store would have been to the left...there was also a drug store next door (I think)...

I wasn't surprised to see that it had gone.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shGrocery3.jpg
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The concrete pad (in the "now" photo) fits the shape of the old store including the angled spot where the front door was. I did find (Google Street View) the (furniture) building, across the street, to still be there...but apartment buildings have replaced the drug store and other busineses that were there in the late 40's.

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/7432/soqe.jpg LAPL

A little more Avalon Blvd--closer to downtown. The nice little building above was at 4030 S Avalon, gone now. At the s/w corner of 41st Street is a survivor, despite once getting hit by a Dodge.... The apartment building behind 4101 is also still there.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520PM.bmp.jpg USCDL

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/7706/m8r5.jpg
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...446547&page=13

Three old schools, now in the path where a section of the Hollywood Freeway will be constructed, are being
razed on Fort Moore Hill to make way for the new thoroughfare. (1) is the Fort Hill School; (2) is the first high
school built in Los Angeles, and (3) is Central School. Everything between the broken lines will be cleared away
for the super-roadway, Photo dated: February 1, 1949.

Posted by BrerHair on www.jalopyjournal.com

RIP Hollywood Park 1938-2013

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Originally Posted by Lwize (Post 6371403)

Hollywood Park race track is shutting down in two weeks and will be demolished.

Any noirish historic images of the race track to post in its honor?

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6364998)

-another Los Angeles barber shop scene. -be sure to pan right to see all the reflections -->
http://imageshack.us/a/img542/6408/ftyo.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img560/996/9ey6.jpgebay

When I was a little boy my barber's name was Snuffy Bart. He was like 4 feet tall and had to stand on a box.
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Ethereal, that is funnier than heck. Had a good long laugh. Like something out of a Woody Allen book

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Originally Posted by GatoVerde (Post 6363978)

I see that the palm trees are still there in '68, although thirty years taller. I wonder if they are still there now.

What a travesty. Why?WHY?:uhh:

New member to the site. Found it while searching for the Portal Motor Motel.

Several years ago, I bought a framed picture in a junk store in Cayucos, CA. It is a b/w of a lady posing in the nude with a freeway in the background. Obviously from the 1950's because of the cars. In the background across from her is the Portal Motor Motel, arch readable with magnification. Freeway signs noting 'Hollywood Bowl' and 'Highland Ave.' are readable also. It was such an unusual photo, nicely framed, with this phrase on the matting below the photo "Let me sit by my house at the side of the road, And be a friend of woman.", that I had to buy it.

Have been trying on and off to figure out where she is posing. Now thanks to this post, I'm pretty sure I have it pinpointed. The key was the motel. I thought the Bowl was behind the photographer. Actually it is behind the motel and the view is looking almost perfectly due south. It is very close to the one photo here with the construction equipment in the foreground.

On the back is a photographer's stamp with the name Orman S Longstreet, 5453 Virginia Ave., Hollywood 29 California. It requests he be credited in any byline or use of the photo. I'll black out the lady's torso, credit Longstreet and upload a lower resolution scan of it later.

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Originally Posted by FredH (Post 6382446)

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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8353

Angel's flight is one subject with so much coverage here that I have dispensed with prior links. Suffice it to say, I have not noticed this celebratory image before.

1910 - per source
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...DTGQN7AIDL.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...DTGQN7AIDL.jpg

couldn't resist

http://postcardmemory.files.wordpres...els-flight.jpg http://postcardmemory.files.wordpres...els-flight.jpg http://postcardmemory.files.wordpres...els-flight.jpg

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