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Swift Refrigerator Car
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To ad a bit to Earl Boebert's comment for the non-railroaders who visit NLA,the identifying features of a refrigerator car are the hatches on the roof for loading ice, and the hinged doors as opposed to the sliding type seen on a boxcar. Today's reefers use mechanical refrigeration units that typically run on diesel fuel. In addition they have a modified version of the sliding boxcar door. Cheers, Jack |
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H.P./Torrence This 1926 photo was taken on the Pickford-Fairbanks studio lot on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, showing the nearby gasometer towering in the background. |
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For example, I read that from start to moving in, the Empire State Building was completed in one year. A 4-story condo building near me took three years to complete. __________ The Republic Pictures panoramas are great, too. I can almost see the East Side Kids, aka the Bowery Boys, running around there. |
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In 1913, pioneer modernist Irving Gill designed this Pacific Electric bridge in Torrance.
(this photo around 1921) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/631/jkjVDs.jpg http://www.chattelblog.us/2013/06/to...-new-name.html ...and it still stand today in it's original form. (plus the wooden railings) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...674/G8snXz.jpg http://www.chattelblog.us/2013/06/to...-new-name.html below: Here's a noirish view of Gill's Torrance bridge taken in 1937 by photographer G. Haven Bishop. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/JzD07T.jpg posted by Jamie Watson on pinterest.com -contemporary noir/Torrance Bridge http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...539/2so5iR.jpg lak991.tumblr.com |
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:previous: I'm not sure of the chronology of the last two photographs R_I_T. To me, the last photograph definitely seems contemporary (recent).
But your question is a good one. I'll have to check the bridge out using Google-Street-View. __ Architect Irving Gill also designed the Torrance Pacific Electric Depot the same year as the bridge (1913). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/bTI9Dt.jpg http://www.pinterest.com/rebeckahrut...rrance-bridge/ Here's some history http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/ye44TB.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/yNdV7Z.jpg http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...rrances-depot/ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/KRiY7b.jpg http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...rrances-depot/ below: The depot as it appeared in 1937. (where's the dome?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/745/XNUKc4.jpg http://www.pinterest.com/rebeckahrut...rrance-bridge/ via lapl ...very forlorn in the 1970s. :( (still no dome) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...539/dxHRry.jpg http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...rrances-depot/ Great news noirishers :), the 101 year old depot has survived! -as a restaurant, with a dome. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...539/ekz4CH.jpg http://www.depotrestaurant.com/home.html __ side-note This is the article that brought my attention to Irving Gill's association with Torrance. (it's really interesting) http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...nce_utopia.php entitled: The Rise and Fall of One Architect's Modern Torrance Utopia. __ |
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Irving Gill is aptly credited with creating the basis for what would later be known as Streamline Modern. Way ahead of his time much like Frank Lloyd Wright. |
His friends called him ''Jack".
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Gill discussed his '' ideal of simplicity'' in his 1916 essay, "The New Architecture of the West." For him, "the source of all architectural strength" emerged from the straight line, the arch, the cube, and the circle in combination. Trained in the office of Louis Sullivan of Chicago, Gill spent most of his career in southern California where in the early 1900s he developed an original and radical simplification of Mission style architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Gill http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps75455c12.jpg wiki |
Irving Gill
I thought it appropriate to note other works of Irving Gill that better illustrate his giving birth to Modern and/or Streamline Modern.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rving_Gill.jpg Dodge House, West Hollywood, circa 1915 (demolished) Wikipedia http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...a%2C_CA%29.jpg La Jolla Woman's Club (photo taken 1971) Wikipedia http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-03/52752344.jpg House on Little Balboa Island L.A. Times Photo You got ahead of me Doug! |
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Torrance Railroad Bridge Video
Watched this a few months ago and remembered it just now. Filmed a couple of yrs ago, during Torrance's Centennial.
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Erection of "first" power pole Pasadena Ave. " (now North Figueroa Street) and Piedmont Street, marking the beginning of municipal distribution of electricity. View made from the roof of the Arroyo Seco Branch Library on March 30, 1916."
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009493.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19 /00009493.jpg Santa Monica Blvd and Western (Mid '20s?) http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics03/00011388.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics03/00011388.jpg 1905 - PE Glendale Line (between Lakeview Avenue (on left) and Corralitas Drive (on right) Silver Lake. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics14/00006884.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics14/00006884.jpg 1930 - Vermont Ave and Sixth Street http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068472.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068472.jpg 1935 - Pacific Dining Car 1310 W. 6th Street http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics18/00008732.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics18/00008732.jpg 1936 - unknown street, possibly Venice Blvd? http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104392.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104392.jpg 1937 - Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104361.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104361.jpg 1938 - Highland, south of Fountain http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104363.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104363.jpg At the risk of going too far off the beaten path, I have a couple of questions concerning LA’s electric street cars. Did LA ever try an electrified “third rail” system, and/or was all electrification accomplished by means of overhead wiring? Tying the questions closer to the noirish LA subject matter, with all of the electricity above the miles of street car tracks, have there been any NLA postings concerning the potentially tragic consequences of humanity contacting those live wires or other portions of street car live electrical apparatus? I would guess it was not a popular subject for the public utilities, but even today, downed electrical power lines still seem to make the news. http://meeshamishmash.files.wordpres...ric-shock.jpeg |
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1940 - http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104581.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104581.jpg |
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As for age, I also think that last photo in the series is fairly recent. The streetlights beyond don't look like sodium vapor types and are way too bright for incandescents even with a time exposure. The restoration only started sometime after August 2011. |
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Hmm. Are those Christmas decorations on the pole at lower left? EDIT: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0906...pPjFoVYS5w!2e0 Google Maps This is Western and Santa Monica! In both old and new, we're looking north, along Western. There's the Security bank building in pretty good shape. Plus the Be-Hannesey business is in the 1923 and 1926 city directories at 1122 N. Western. |
Seeing as we've had "A Carload of Parfay", I went back to USC and found "A Truckload of Formay" - the product that started the Swift & Company discussion. I Googled "Wolf & Burk's Market Spot", and searched the City Directories, but got no results. The image is dated 1933.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wiftAndCo6.jpg USC Digital Library For e_r, here's a better picture of the Formay smokestack. It's part of a set of five photos called "View of refinery exteriors, Southern California, 1934". The letters appear to have neon tubes, so it must've lit up at night. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wiftAndCo7.jpg USC Digital Library And for Earl Boebert and Wig-Wag, here's another Swift refrigerator car. This one's got a "Carload of Swift's Brookfield mayonnaise for Peninsula Stores". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wiftAndCo8.jpg USC Digital Library Just be careful your interest in refrigerator cars doesn't go too far - it could end in ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ferMadness.jpg ziffdavisinternational.com from L.A. Noire. |
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