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here's another Chinatown slide for you.
"Soochow Restaurant in Chinatown Los Angeles CA, 1950s Original Slide" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/EXpGMD.jpg EBAY I don't know the address but I see a 455 in the reflection. __ |
I'll say goodnight with a 'mystery' location.
"1931 Cloudburst Damage, Los Angeles CA, Press Photo" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/oSQqjN.jpg EBAY I wasn't all that thrilled with this photo, but then I noticed some fairly interesting buildings in the distance. here's a closer look https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Sbe3cr.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/600zsU.jpg EBAY __ |
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https://assets.atlasobscura.com/arti...0551/image.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...06/Mlr_map.jpg https://assets.atlasobscura.com/arti...0551/image.jpg On the way to Mt. Lowe http://cdn.lamag.com/wp-content/uplo.../04/MtLowe.jpg http://cdn.lamag.com/wp-content/uplo.../04/MtLowe.jpg |
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A lifelong love of Catalina prompted me to start collecting old postcards of same. In due course I thought that it would be fun to make a site showing early Catalina, via a fictional story. I then thought, "Well, I have to get the visitors to Catalina, don't I? I could have just a little bit about the part of their visit before they got to Catalina." And then the "little bit" in Los Angeles turned into the lion's share of the site. In researching the L.A. views, at length I found myself repeatedly googled over to Noirish L.A. . . . and spending hours reading post after post. On the encouragement of our colleague Alvaro Legido, I eventually joined . . . which however put me into a cyber holding pen for about a year, a sort of limbo in which I could neither post nor re-attempt to join. One day, I somehow was released from limbo, and . . . here I am. Such familiarity as I have with metropolis L.A. derives from these turn-of-the-century postcards I've collected, and the research I did when putting them together and writing the story for the site. I have a further familiarity with pre-Yankee L.A., and L.A. up to about 1875; but sadly or happily that doesn't much come into play here. Perhaps most importantly, another keen lifelong interest of mine is horticulture, and so I'll often have something to say about trees or flowers or whatever. I'll (nearly) end by saying that NLA posters compose the most good-natured and well-behaved group of people I've seen on any forum (and I'm on a good number of forums), our spirited, knowledgeable, and gallant preceptor e_r leading by example. And so, welcome to NLA, and, um, Hurrah for us! That is all. :runaway: |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV |
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https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1660/...2a2d3b90_b.jpg_3310021 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr ...and the remains of Ye Ol' Tavern(aka Alpine Tavern). https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1707/...4a2e6959_b.jpg_3310046 by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr |
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Torrance then and now
Several of Ralph Morris's commercial photographs have been seen here before. Here is an undated one captioned: "Caputo's Floor Covering store seen from across a street." It almost looks like there's a man perched on top of the roof sign...
https://i.imgur.com/JzrsUjv.jpg lapl via Calisphere No luck in the city directories, but I found a display ad in the LAT for Caputo's at 18814 Crenshaw in Torrance. Surprisingly the building is still there and is in the same general business: https://i.imgur.com/WmSPsNM.jpg gsv The assessor dates the building to 1964. Sorry about the composition of the shot :shrug: |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original This is a scaled-down version of the whole image. Some of the nearby streets were fairly sparsely populated, so maybe the damaged building in e_r's photo was on one of them. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from mil.library.ucsb.edu Flight: C_236, Frame: E-7, Date: June 26, 1928. |
Almost identical Building
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These Buildings are very Similar to a very intact Apartment House w/o Frieze on the Central Coast Address is at 332 E. Lake Ave. Watsonville,Calif. Build Date of 1934 Attached is a link to the google street view http://https://www.google.com/maps/p...2c9b00088cff32 |
Almost identical Building
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These Buildings are very Similar to a very intact Apartment House w/o Frieze on the Central Coast Address is at 332 E. Lake Ave. Watsonville,Calif. Build Date of 1934 Attached is a link to the google street view www.google.com/maps/place/332+E+Lake+Ave,+Watsonville,+CA+95076/@36.9158301,-121.7526101,3a,75y,145.63h,93.29t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOiC1-IeP-mR65fVNoVJNAQ!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x808e1b3d3f76819b:0x8c2c9b00088cff32"]http://https://www.google.com/maps/place/332+E+Lake+Ave,+Watsonville,+CA+95076/@36.9158301,-121.7526101,3a,75y,145.63h,93.29t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOiC1-IeP-mR65fVNoVJNAQ!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x808e1b3d3f76819b:0x8c2c9b00088cff32[/URL] |
In this photograph, the building with the sign is mostly hidden behind the people on the Rubio incline car.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/L6Svsb.jpg The man and woman in the middle row on the left of the picture could very possibly be my maternal grandparents. He is in a light suit and she is much shorter and wearing a dark dress and a hat that looks like she has a cake on her head. I have some pictures of her in a hat just like that and my grandfather had a suit like that. |
this couple oldstuff?
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/AeukiF.jpg let us know if it's them! (I have a doppelganger on the trip. He's the short guy directly above your 'grandmother') ____________________________________________________________________________--- In appears the incline hit a bird and the poor thing got tangled in this lady's hat. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...922/WPDAZZ.jpg ;) |
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update: NEVERMIND. I think I got it to work. nope :( |
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Type "los angeles" in the search box in the top-left corner and press "Enter" to reposition the map and then drag/zoom to the desired area. Each colored dot indicates an aerial photo, with the darkest red being the oldest (circa 1928), and the lightest yellow being the most recent. Click a dot to see the details. If the box says "Scan: Download", just click the "Download" link and choose how you want to open/save the file. If the image isn't yet available, it will say "Scan: Request Scan". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...A4/LAUCSB1.jpg A couple of words of warning. All of the files download as TIF images, and some are multi-layered, so check that you can open them. Secondly, file sizes vary considerably from around 20Mb to over 250Mb. Finally, the images don't give any indication of orientation, so you'll have to work out the correct rotation. |
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Here's the Sunset and Main St. location you mentioned. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/rh0vq4.jpg posted HERE by westcork any idea what that little 'dome' is on top? __ |
I just realized there's a second view of the Soochow as well.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/jgmIi1.jpg westcork check out the link...there's a third photo. |
remember this old request:
______________________________________________________________________________________________ "Can you help me find old photos of 4236 Griffin Ave in Los Angeles We’re trying to restore the site of an old signal gas station but we would like to restore it to its original Art Deco style and the noirish Los Angeles thread seem to be the authority when it comes to L.A. history any help would be greatly appreciated." my name is Fred ______________________________________________________________________________________________ I wasn't able to find an old pic of the 4236 Griffin location, but here's a Signal station that has art deco elements. somewhere in Los Angeles https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/aXPxkX.jpg PICTIFY As a comparison here is Fred's station on Griffin & Ave. 43 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/GoYKOY.jpg GSV note the curved canopy and hexogonal window :previous: view from Ave. 43 (before the white paint job) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/0OaWms.jpg GSV red arrow pointing to painted-over hexagon _ |
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No longer Sunset and Main. That's the Simpson-Jones Building at the Plaza. The dome is the Methodist church. |
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