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GW, it is unfortunate that we can't enlarge the photo enough to read the banner on the second car. I think that would give us the answer. The light traffic is consistent with a Sunday Rose Parade day. I checked the PERHS site to see if the photo might have been replicated there, but no luck. Cheers, Jack |
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8708/...8f42920a_b.jpgMike and the 'vette and the Clay Street steps, 1955
Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich (1955) https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7628/...9362c44c_b.jpgMike at the Hillcrest Hotel, 258 S. Olive Street, 1955 Mike has, unnecessarily, parked the 'vette down on Clay Street and climbed the stairs to the Hillcrest. He could have parked up here on Olive but it wouldn't have been as atmospheric. In any event, here he is entering the lobby of the Hillcrest looking for Carmen Trivago (Fortunio Bonanova) with the upper station of Angels Flight showing out the window and over his shoulder. 'No visitors after 10 pm' Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich (1955) |
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https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8030/...8d30fb88_b.jpgThe '99 Steps' from the palisades to the beach below, Santa Monica, ca.1898 Photograph of the "99 Steps" from the palisades to the beach below, Santa Monica, ca.1898. Two small wood buildings -- one storage shed or shack, the other a dwelling or business with a small covered porch -- sit on the adjacent beach. The wooden steps bifurcate near the top at a landing. USCdigital archive/Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r...90654%2BAM.jpg water and power We seem to have a kind of mixed bag of "thens" (here's a five-flight version of the steps): https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-g...21625%2BPM.jpg smpl |
:previous: That side view is amazing t2!
So is this a second design of the '99 steps' that MichaelRyerson just posted? It looks like they went to a lot of trouble in order to clear the railroad tracks and the new dirt road. __ |
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1946 Police Blotter.....
This is the way LA Police made a movie record of their activity in 1946.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pszm0xk4ir.jpg Today in 2015 they might use a tiny video recorder attached to their shirt. |
OK, the Santa Monica History Museum blog says the steps were constructed in 1875 and altered in 1893 to let the trains pass under it. The steps were built at the foot of Arizona Avenue, well south of the present California Incline.
You were right e_r. MR's steps were earlier. The Arizona Ave steps today: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H...21115%2BPM.jpg gsv |
I came across this interesting photograph on SkyscraperCity that I don't remember seeing on NLA. (I could be wrong, but I searched several times)
It shows an 'annex' behind the 409 room Hotel Figueroa that I hadn't noticed before. I just noticed there's an arrow on the main building pointing down to the 'Plunge and Gymnasium'. It also says the Y.W.C.A. entrance is on College Place. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/Vghj0Z.jpg http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=427 :previous: Did you notice the guy leaning on his wheelbarrow? Here's College Place today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/gyJagH.jpg google_earth http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...909/68MMMI.jpg bing_maps From the looks of things, the annex was torn down for today's swimming pool area. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/hClfXH.jpg http://weekenddelsol.com/our-favorit...n-tripadvisor/ Does anyone know when the indoor gymnasium and plunge portion of the Hotel Figueroa was torn down? -was it when it ceased to be a Y.W.C.A. __ |
As an afterthought, I decided to drive the google-mobile down College Place.
I came across this old neon sign for Figueroa Hotel parking!! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/wIjfZ9.jpg gsv The parking lot is across the alley from the pool area. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/kgd94L.jpg gsv I'd really like to know if the neon still works. Does anyone know? __ |
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Thanks for the photo e_r. I had no idea there was ever any building behind the Figueroa Hotel.
Do you know anything about the statue at the west end of the pool? I assume it's not Jose https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T...13453%2BPM.jpg photoboxinc I seem to recall that GW posted a fun ad for the hotel showing the back motor court entrance on Cottage Place, but now I can't find it. |
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That said, I think the lantern hanging from his arm was added later. It's much too large. __ |
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The YWCA built it (it opened in 1926) and lost it in 1929. History here. I don't know when the Y building got demolished. KCET dates your photo as 1940, but I think they're dreaming. Lobby (1926) https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...25825%2BPM.jpg dickwittington/uscdl via kcet |
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I tried looking at Historic Aerials to find out when the building on the right was demolished. I'm pretty sure it's there on the 1948 image, and probably on the 1952 image too, but I think it's gone by 1964. The images are a little blurry at that zoom level. Here's an advert for the Figueroa Hotel from the Hotel & Motel Red Book 1970. They used the same advert in 1965. It appears to show the Cottage Place entrance. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...d.jpg~original archive.org |
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Thx. That's the ad I remembered. It looks like Palm Springs. (And that's not how I say "Figueroa")
P.S. I wonder if the YWCA hung onto the Y building or leased it back. I can't imagine the hotel was using it (?) P. P.S. I couldn't shake GW's prior post out of the search function to save myself, but once I had the image, it was mine. |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/2tN4sM.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll44/id/90469 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/KqQXA3.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll44/id/90469 below: I've been trying to decipher what it says above this entrance. (I can read Hotel Figueroa and that's about it) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/OINYEE.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll44/id/90469 I couldn't quite figure out the parked car at far left (at first I thought it was a golf cart), then I realized it's a convertible parked in front of a small hut with an awning. -parking attendant? -magazines? __ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520PM.bmp.jpgTimes Aug 19, 1926 The opening was on August 14, 1926. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8438/7...f45119f1_o.jpg Previously posted by MichaelRyerson: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=9135 Yes, there is the suggestion of Palm Springs in the city--prior post:http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=4579 |
Here's something I didn't know.
The Roosevelt Hotel has a bowling alley! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/YVixYV.jpg http://spareroomhollywood.com/home#menu I went looking for the arched windows, lo and behold it says right there....'The Spare Room'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/G8R31a.jpg gsv One lane, per hour = a hundred bucks! $ $ $ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/pGLmPb.jpg http://spareroomhollywood.com/ __ |
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The post-parade photos of S. Fair Oaks Ave. that I'm used to seeing tend to show multiple PE trains strung out, but this one might've been one of the later departures. In any case, it's a nice window into a vanished world. Thanks again. |
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