^^^Wow! I am so glad that this beautiful house survives GaylordWilshire.

I have some then/now photos I'll post later today.

First of all, my knowledge of the residences of Los Angeles is limited....so keep that in mind.

I found this photograph on ebay of a beautiful house in Los Angeles, circa 1910

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/8...ckrindgere.jpg

Later I found out it was the Frederick Rindge residence at 2263 S. Harward.


below: Much to my surprise it still exists!

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/3...rvardblvdb.jpg
google street view

Most of you probably already knew it survived after all these years.
I didn't, so it was quite wonderful to discover that this imposing edifice has survived! :)





below: An aerial view from Google street view. This gives you an idea of how LARGE this house is.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/658...rvardblvda.jpg

A beautiful house at 501 S. Boyle Avenue.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/369...1sboyleave.jpg



below: I could not find this home on google street view. I believe this is what took its place.....the Puente Learning Center.
If I'm wrong...please let me know.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9...ntelearnin.jpg
google street view


This building is actually quite interesting with it's steel cantilever roof trusses.

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The Adolphus Busch residence in Pasadena (all three structures)

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/566...uschpasade.jpg
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below: The John P. Jones residence in Santa Monica (later the Miramar hotel).

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2...sresidence.jpg
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below: The Jeannie C. Carr residence at Orange Grove Ave. & Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, circa 1905.
This design is so Tyrolean I can almost smell the Edelweiss.

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/5...eccarrpasa.jpg
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below: The William Garland residence at 8th Street & Westlake Ave.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/OUlvVX.jpg
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Notice the engraved granite block at the foot of the steps.



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detail

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The M. A. Wright Residence at 1255 Westchester Place.


http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5...chesterpla.jpg
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This unusual architectural style is perfect for southern California. Who needs gables when you can have open air balconies. :)

I was ready to log out for the night and then decided to google '1255 Westchester Place'
This beauty is still there!

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/671...esterplace.jpg
google street view

The state of decay is especially intriguing. The overgrown flora..the makeshift ramp...the peeling paint...the obsolete television antenna.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/...fe820502_z.jpg

Hello, Sleuths of Los Angeles. So in tracking L.A.'s Historic-Cultural Monuments I was lucky enough to find photos through a variety of sources - about which most of you know - for nearly all the landmarks. However, I was never able to locate pictures of HCM No. 192, (the Site of) Franklin Garden Apartments besides this 1978 shot from the city's Department of Planning website. Until the late 1970s the building was next to the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Since discovering this thread, I've been thinking if there's anyone who could provide images of this long-gone complex, it's you lot. Thanks a ton.

And thank you for the information on the Broadway tunnel a few posts back.

:previous:

i'll keep looking, but there are these two aerials (the first from 1924, the 2nd from probably 1922, as the hollywoodland sign is not erected yet, but the whitley heights H is), of the neighborhood surrounding the Bernheimer Estate.

the franklin garden apartments are visible to the right of the magic castle. (as an added plus, another long lost historic apartment house, the garden court apartments is very prominent in the foreground)

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070807.jpg
Source: LAPL

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070819.jpg
Source: LAPL

here's a view looking east on franklin past orange, you can see a sliver portion of the magic castle on the far left. this image is from 1934, so that has to be the west facade of the franklin garden apartments.......(at least i think it is....)

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...CHS-36899?v=hr
Source: USC Digital Archive

i'll keep looking, but it wasn't easy finding this one.........

Garden Court Apt. Hotel close ups
 

As seen in the 1920's
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...TAVQ6994HF.jpg cal state lib

http://wikimapia.org/p/00/00/73/82/26_big.jpgwikimapia

http://wikimapia.org/p/00/00/73/82/24_big.jpgwikimapia


taken in the late 1970's
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...DTU4RJLTKA.jpg cal state lib

The last straw:(home to runaways and gang members
http://wikimapia.org/p/00/00/73/82/23_big.jpgwikimapia

a 1982 Time Magazine article talks about the heyday 1920s in these apartments when all 72 suites had a baby grand piano, and the likes of Laurel and Hardy, Louis B Meyer and John Barrymore lived there.It also tells of the battle between developers and those are trying to turn it into a museum, from the perspective of 1980's resignation over Hollywood's decay.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...950674,00.html

Damn those houses are amazing that etheral_reality posted! At least some still survive.

What's not to love about these colorful WPA land-use maps of Los Angeles?
 

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_d...60424%20PM.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_d...55420%20PM.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_d...53709%20PM.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_d...55142%20PM.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_d...61646%20PM.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_d...54405%20PM.jpg

All images: USCDL


ethereal: great house shots--my kind of thing

That's the best picture I have ever seen of Court Circle. Now the location of the Bank of America Data Center

WHOA..what a coincidence Gaylord Wilshire! I spent all last night looking through those same WPA maps from 1939.

I enlarged a few of the interesting things that caught my eye.



below: I found a good view of Court Circle which had been discussed a few posts back.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/805...ircle1939a.jpg
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below: I also noticed a heart shaped park in the Boyle Heights area.

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/8...dprospectp.jpg
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below: In the area east of Union Station (the location of the enormous gasometers)
I was surprised by the total land area owned by the Los Angeles Gas Co.

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/4...asco3areas.jpg
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below:
I thought it was interesting to see the boundary placing West Hollywood and the Sunset Strip outside of the city limits.


http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/8...ndriesweho.jpg
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"As the Strip lies outside of the Los Angeles city limits and was an unincorporated area under the jurisdiction of the County of Los Angeles, the area fell under the less-vigilant jurisdiction of the Sheriff's Department rather than the heavy hand of the LAPD. It was illegal to gamble in the city, but legal in the county. This fostered the building of a rather wilder concentration of nightlife than Los Angeles would tolerate, and in the 1920s a number of nightclubs and casinos moved in along the Strip, which attracted movie people to this less-restricted area."

__wikipedia



below: I thought it was rather curious that this oil field was also outside the city limits.

http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2...cityboundr.jpg
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http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/4...4boundries.jpg
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Photos......maps......and now artwork.

Something for the Noirish Los Angeles enthusiast.

http://www.californiawatercolor.com/.../emil_kosa_jr/

"Moore Hill"
http://californiawatercolor.com/wate...l_url=1&type=1

"Old Lugo House"
http://californiawatercolor.com/wate...l_url=1&type=1

Titled "L.A. Trainyard" (7th Street Bridge, perhaps? I'm not perfectly fluent in my LA River crossings.)
http://californiawatercolor.com/wate...l_url=1&type=1

:previous: Looks like the Broadway (fore) and Spring (rear) bridges/viaducts just northeast of where the Los Angeles Historic State Park now is. Also, I believe The Brewery and the County General are in the further distance. Awesome artwork malumot!

187 pages in, and this thread just keeps getting better?

Western & Slauson:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/...8fece568_b.jpg

(a Dick Whittington from the archives)

This thread is hands down the best thing of SSP. The posts are always interesting. The photos are so evocative The discourse is civil. I have always loved LA, and you guys that regularly post here just keep serving up good stuff. Thanks and please keep it up.

before the railroad crossing gate, we had the latest in modern safety technology........................a swinging pendulum Wig Wag!

looking east on market street towards pacific avenue in venice 1929

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-EN-29-62?v=hr
Source: USC Digital Archive

The Wig Wag was invented right here in Los Angeles by Albert Hunt, a mechanical engineer with the Pacific Electric Interurban Railroad.

looking east on ocean park boulevard across main street in santa monica 1929

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-EN-29-52?v=hr
Source: USC Digital Archive

a self standing wig wag in arcadia 1923

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-EN-209-5?v=hr
Source: USC Digital Archive

while i have railroads on the brain, (and also since E_R and GW have gotten me hooked on a new drug........................WPA Land Use Maps........like i needed another addiction.......sheeeesh) , thought i would find some photos of this locale;


the old LARR train barn at 12th and georgia street

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5229/...0bb4901d_o.jpg

now it looks like this, The convention center, and a portion of la live occupy the site now

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5190/...c902d284_o.jpg

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...492-015~6?v=hr
Source: USC Digital Archive


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...492-015~5?v=hr
Source: USC Digital Archive

looking north on georgia street past the train barn. the trains are lined up, after having halted service due to the "Battle of Los Angeles" the night before (February 25th, 1942)

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050978.jpg
Source: LAPL

looking north on georgia street past the barn from 12th 1924

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics07/00013167.jpg
Source: LAPL

the train barn at night

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics18/00028872.jpg
Source: LAPL