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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ridlePath1.jpg LAPL This undated photo shows the lower end of the bridle path from the picture above. The little building on the left is still there, but the sign and stairs next to it have gone. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library I think this is the other end of the same section of bridle path (the Beverly Hills Hotel would be off to the left). This one is dated 1930-1940. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ Amazingly, the building was restored and still stands. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/849/o384.jpg GSV Vacant store-fronts along Kenmore. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/89/46x3.jpg GSV aerial http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/850/21c1.jpg google_earth Did you notice the white stretch limousine levitating above that parking lot on the right? ;) __ |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original 1909 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com The LA County Assessor says the building dates to 1908, which dovetails nicely with this July 26, 1908 Los Angeles Times article; are we familiar with the Visintini Truss?: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original [The two photographs with the article are too badly washed out to bother with reproducing here, but you can tell that one of them shows the outside of the building.] http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original |
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An shot dated 1932: http://i.imgur.com/hfXhnbY.jpg?1?4328 Hollywood Photographs |
:previous:That's great GW!
and thanks for the information on the C. Leonardt built Hygienic Laundry Flyingwedge. -much appreciated. __ Here's a great photograph of the coffee shop at Mission Village. (5675 W. Washington Blvd.) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/89/wuu3.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/35/pt68.jpg Here's an earlier Mission Village post, complete with map! http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19916 __ |
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FW, here's an earlier view along Spring Street. (before the Hollenbeck Hotel site became a parking lot, obviously) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/853/hkwa.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/62/3hx0.jpg -from the Los Angeles Evening Herald. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/845/atx0.jpg LARGE size for the details. "$1.00 and up." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/853/hkwa.jpg ebay __ |
Lighting grants were awarded to 13 buildings along Broadway today. (total $750,000)
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A long way from Malibu
I thought we must have visited the 1937-1972 campus of Pepperdine before--but looking back on the thread I didn't find anything on it (although I know we've seen its benefactor's house before in post #13381). https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V...2520AM.bmp.jpgebay Came across a shot of "Marilyn Hall," and then one of it under construction. Apparently it was wasn't ready on opening day, September 21, 1937: according to the college magazine, "The only building ready was the administration/classroom building in so-called 'Streamlined Moderne' style—all rounded corners in the exterior architecture. It leaked when it opened and probably still does. There were no dormitories; students were housed at the William Penn Hotel and shuttled to and from campus in a chartered streetcar. A dining hall, a gymnasium, the library, two dormitories, an auditorium, fine arts complex, home economics building, and business classroom building were opened between 1938 and 1946." https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520AM.bmp.jpgPDC https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520PM.bmp.jpgPDC The campus was sold to the church whose name is painted in the parking lot at left below. Marilyn Hall and other leaky Moderne buildings still stand, Marilyn facing the center parking lot in the pic below. The Pepperdine library also still stands--it's next to the upper right quadrant of the green space. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f...2520PM.bmp.jpg PDC Exterior and interior of the library, and a shot toward the south... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520PM.bmp.jpgPDC Here's a surprise--Pepperdine in the old Hattem's, which we've seen here before. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520PM.bmp.jpgPDC A couple of prior posts on Hattem's: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ms#post5176249 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17715 |
Film Noir On The Big Screen
Here in LA, the annual Film Noir Film Festival is underway at the American Cinemateque at the historic Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Blvd.
This Saturday, March 29, they're showing a double feature of SOUTHSIDE 1-1000 and ROADBLOCK, both of which feature plenty of LA locations circa 1950. SOUTHSIDE stars Don De Fore, later of "Hazel" fame and okay, maybe De Fore's not the most noirish of noir anti-heroes. But rock-jawed, gravel-voiced Charles MacGraw more than compensates in ROADBLOCK. |
Beverly Hills Hotel Station/Shelter
[QUOTE=HossC;6511336]Here's the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1924. At this point, the bridle path runs along the center of Sunset Boulevard.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ridlePath1.jpg LAPL This undated photo shows the lower end of the bridle path from the picture above. The little building on the left is still there, but the sign and stairs next to it have gone. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library HossC, The little building the left is is a former streetcar station/shelter and true survivor as it was once the terminus of the Pacific Electric's service to the Beverly Hills Hotel. The following description comes from the Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California web page: http://www.erha.org/pewcc.htm "COLDWATER CANYON LINE ROUTE: From Santa Monica Boulevard. & Rodeo Drive via Rodeo Drive. to Sunset Boulevard., and on Sunset Boulevard. to Beverly Drive; all single track; total length, 1.38 miles. HISTORY: This line was constructed by LAP in 1907 and was standard gauged the following year. PE took over the line in 1911 and operated it until abandonment, which occurred on January 15, 1923. OPERATION: For most of its life this line was a shuttle service, running from the PE Beverly Hills Station to the Beverly Hills Hotel. However, from 1913 to 1916, through service to Hill St. Station via West 16th St. was provided; cars left Hill St. Station on an hourly schedule from 7:05 AM to 12:05 AM and returned from the Beverly Hills Hotel each hour from 7:08 AM to 11:08 PM. Effective on October 25, 1916, shuttle service from the Beverly Hills Station was resumed. As of late 1919, shuttle cars ran every half hour between 6:30 AM and 12:20 AM. EQUIPMENT: Records are vague as to type of equipment assigned to this line. However, photos show cars of the 170 Class in service here, plus little single truck, wood, closed, one-man car 20. The latter was scrapped in 1920, leaving one to suppose that the final years of this line witnessed Birney equipment. It is probable that during the three years of through service to Hill St. Station that the same type of cars were used here as were assigned to the Hollywood Boulevard. Line: 200s, 400s. TRACK: Old records show this line to have had 60 lb. T-rail, redwood ties and gravel ballast. ELECTRICAL FACILITIES: Power for this line came principally from the Sherman Substation. Cheers, Jack |
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1939 - Rita does more of Beverly Hills - ? (Several sources misidentify this location as Burbank) http://media1.artspace.com/media/fra...8_1024x768.jpghttp://media1.artspace.com/media/fra...8_1024x768.jpg 1965 - Wilshire and Beverly Drive http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...46f43b21e2.jpghttp://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...46f43b21e2.jpg 1930s - Canon Drive meets Wilshire http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2...iyno1_1280.jpghttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2...iyno1_1280.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...7BV2NSNIE6.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...7BV2NSNIE6.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...XT93EHCQV6.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...XT93EHCQV6.jpg |
1885 - The "other" Warner Bros. had a grocery store in Pasadena.
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ETA: I put the "angry" smiley on here just in reference to Flickr, and definitely not in regard to Martin's post generally. Apparently if you add an emoticon here it comes at the top of your post.
I don't think it was ever Beverly Boulevard, but it was possibly Beverly Drive. I know personally of one family who lived a little north of Sunset, close to Lexington, and back in the day they could ride their horses all the way home, where the horses were presumably stabled somewhere on the same property. Beverly Drive/Sunset Boulevard is just about within touching distance of the actual hills anyway, so it would make sense. Actually, I just went and looked at the area in both Google Earth and Bing Maps; now it's all coming back to me. I grew up a couple of miles farther north, on Cherokee, but I remember now that there was supposed to be a former bridle path that you could see starting south from Lindacrest Drive, just off of Coldwater Canyon Drive. By the time this was pointed out to me, in the 1960s, nobody had ridden horses on it in decades, but the path remained clearly visible. I'm pretty sure this path must have led to the one along Sunset Boulevard, without doubt meeting it somewhere near the BH hotel. Apparently some traces of it are still visible in the area just south of Lindacrest Drive: Well. I was going to post the URL of an image right here, but Flickr seems to have gone and got itself all pear shaped. It now looks completely different and I can't get to the link where you can choose differently sized versions of your pictures. Does anyone know how to do this? ETA: Here's the photo: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/...87f07d_z_d.jpg Google Maps Quote:
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By 1934, the end? Wilshire Links looks to be a shell of its former self. Depression. Low cost excitement can now be found at the Fox theater or on the street, if you know where to look. Bang! :no: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tGMYJl-pDG...vewilshire.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tGMYJl-pDG...vewilshire.jpg [/QUOTE] |
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Returning to that image I noticed what appears to be a large Ford Dealership, "Sam Bennett Ford." Have there been any other posts of this dealership? Note the sign for the Fox Carthay. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ont&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ont&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ont&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ont&DMROTATE=0 |
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Back in mid-July 1893, Vice President Adlai Stevenson stopped by the Hollenbeck: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original Vistas in Southern California (A. C. Bilicke & Co., 1893) @ HaithiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=47 The above photo may have been taken shortly after 7:30 a.m. on July 15, 1893: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original July 16, 1893 Los Angeles Times In the 1893 photo you can see a little bit of glass roof, and you can see the sign for the Cafe as well. If the "Hotel Dining Room" on the 1894 Sanborn Map below is the same as the 2nd-Street-accessible Hollenbeck Cafe referred to above, then the Rotunda might be the "Glass Roof Conservatory" shown on the map, although I thought rotundas are supposed to be round . . . . http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original LAPL |
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YouTube link: Warner Theater groundbreaking in 1931 (1995) Title screen. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eatreFilm1.jpg YouTube The man with the spade is Jack Warner Jr. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eatreFilm2.jpg YouTube ---------------- Wig-Wag, thanks for the identification of the shelter at the Beverly Hills Hotel and the streetcar info. |
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As Hoss showed us recently in post 20483, the bridle path ran along Sunset...the official name of which, well into the '30s, was Beverly Boulevard. It seems that while "Sunset" was in use for the full length of the modern roadway before 1934, when the City of L.A. renamed its westward continuation of the road from the BH border and before any official renaming by BH of its segment, maps and references such as MT's vary into the '30s. A few posts on this: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20229 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20242 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20267 |
Any of you car connoisseurs want to wager a guess on this one? :)
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