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Before I saw today's picture of the Chevron Station, I kind of figured it was that corner. It's interesting that Standard/Chevron still maintains a station on that site today, but not all that uncommon for oil companies to hold onto a piece of land like this for decades. I like old station better, by the way. |
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Undated. 2432 Hyperion Avenue. Exterior view of the 'Good Ship Grace,' the offices of Haven of Rest Radio Studio.
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Here's an intriguing glass negative/Los Angeles.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../837/326ra.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...0/850/hmai.jpg Note the street sign at far left. As hard as I try I can't make it out. Here's the duo, a bit closer http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/837/0iw8.jpg below: Here's the best clue....there's a name on the cowboy's waist band. Happy William? Happy Willie? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/834/g4b3j.jpg detail ..and here's the woman up close. She doesn't appear to be too thrilled at being lassoed. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/856/yu1e.jpg detail And here's the street sign again, slightly larger. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/820/5tld.jpg __ |
Maxine, Chiquita and Shirley
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Hello wonderful noirish Los Angeles Forum! I discovered this thread weeks ago with a Google image search and have been slowly making my way from page ~180 to 400 and have realized it will take months to get to the current postings this way so I will join you on page 1112 now and begin working my way backwards while staying current hoping to eventually read every post and view every picture.
I was born in Los Angeles but only spent my teen years on the West Side. I unfortunately have no personal pics to share, but I have a keen interest in the entire history of LA, the movie industry, and the noir era. I hope to eventually make some contributions here. I'm very impressed with what I've seen so far. :) Andrea |
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In more recent films and commercials I've seen the Metro quite a bit, although here too this often happens mainly because it's needed as a plot device (e.g. Speed, Collateral, etc.). |
I never knew about the one in Silver Lake, but we always used Kiddieland to mean the little amusement park that used to be about where Beverly Center is today. It wasn't until considerably after I'd outgrown it that I realized it was officially known (or had been known) as Beverly Park. BTW, Beverly Park is now the name of a very expensive gated community near Mulholland Drive.
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There was a guy who said he was archiving all the pages, files and photos on his local machine. Is that still being done? Is there any way to access this or is it uploaded to a cloud anywhere as a back-up to the back-up? I understand there would be copyright issues if it were on the web where it could be indexed by search engines but if it were stored as data that wouldn't occur. Long ago as a child, even before the internet was a part of the public consciousness, I envisioned an archive where all photos could be accessed by location and date and that Los Angeles, because it was so commonly used as a movie location since 1913, would be the richest such place. Now it seems likely that such an index is not only likely within my lifetime but that this very thread would be a part of it and that ethereal_reality and others here were dreaming similar dreams to mine. Certainly powerful bots will exist in the future that can fill in the blank spaces with likely images and a visit to the past will be possible. Is such a project happening now? |
Here's a Downtown building which I don't think we've seen before. USC call it "The old Pacific Indemnity Building at the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Hope Street", but I think that's the company that owned it. The City Directories list it as the Pacific Finance Building at 621 S Hope, and signage seems to back up this name. According to emporis.com, it was finished in 1925 and had 13 floors above ground and 2 below. To the left is the 1949 General Petroleum Building/Mobil Oil Building. On the far left is the Rex Arms. The picture is fairly vaguely dated at circa 1950/1969. I think I can spy a 1956 Pontiac and a 1959 T-Bird among the cars parked outside (I know someone will correct me if I'm wrong :)).
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...y.jpg~original USC Digital Library I had to go for an aerial view to do justice to the building that stands on the site today: the AON Center. Returning to emporis.com for information, the new tower was built in 1973 and has 62 floors above ground and 5 below. At over five times the height of the old building, it rather dwarfs its neighbor which is now known as the Pegasus Apartments. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...r.jpg~original Google Maps Returning to the first picture, the building on the right is the Acacia Hotel with the California Club just peaking out behind. FredH posted a color picture of the Acacia looking down 6th Street in post #19311. Here's a better view of the hotel's front from 1965 (the Pacific Finance Building would've been just off to the left. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library HDL also has this shot of the Acacia with an advert for the S.S. France on the side. This was taken from a similar angle to the black & white picture above, and includes a bit of the Pacific Finance Building on the left and the California Club in the background again. Immediately behind the lamp post on the right is the University Club which I covered in post #20363. The first picture in that post also includes an overhead view of the Acacia. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library Finally, USC has a small photoset of a damaged 1939 Plymouth coupe (their identification). The pictures were apparently commissioned by Pacific Indemnity and were taken in the parking lot between the Pacific Finance Building and the Acacia Hotel. A portion of the Richfield Building is visible in the top left corner. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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