A little closer to home, maybe?
Most likely Depression era images. Hoover Town (below) could have been somewhere in LA County, or elsewhere.



Undated - San Gabriel Canyon Squatters
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Then there's the Hoover town Squatters. (Not clear exactly where this was, if in fact, it was LA County. Suffice it to say its part of LAPL's archives )

Perhaps some astute NLA'ers will note some location earmarks.


Hoover Town Images vvvvvvvvv

Does the crate say "Angeles?"
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California Hospital
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Please accept my heartfelt apology AlvaroLegido.
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Lunch, then sightseeing?
 

Just a couple of questions:
In the top pic, any idea what the event was? It seems unusual that the bus was full of only women. Maybe a VFW Women's Auxiliary? (Did such a group exist then?)
Also, does anyone know the name of the cafeteria to the right of the Disabled Veterans building?

And about the bottom pic, I love the "Microsoft Windows" hand, in lieu of a simple arrow, to point out the driver's intentions. And a beautiful early image of J. Edgar Hoover, too!

Depression-era tent cities, dust bowl, Grapes of Wrath, etc - that's a different genre of photographic history, and should IMO be the subject of their own thread.

Carry on.

1925 Asbestos ad.

-the Pacific Finance Building. (...and I spy the Hotel Sequoia)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/FNwmCz.jpg
ebay

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"Cactus garden in Santa Monica, 1902"

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ebay

I'm thinking this might have been at the Veteran's Home. What do you guys think?
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246 South Hill Street was the Independent Foresters Building (seen here in the foreground almost directly below the tower of City Hall). e_r wrote about it a few weeks ago in post #24031. I can't seem to find when it was built - e_r's post contains a sepia picture from before the Independent Foresters Building was built, and it's dated 1905, yet the image below shows the completed building, but it's dated 1902. The large building in the center is named as the Exchange Building on the 1910 and 1914 Baist maps, but it becomes the Western Mutual Life Building by 1921. It's this building that housed the cafeteria, although I haven't tracked down a name for it yet. Just like in e_r's picture, the Bradbury building can be seen on the right.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...geBuilding.jpg
Detail of picture in Huntington Digital Library

:previous: Thanks for the excellent information HossC. I didn't realize it was the Independent Forester's Building.


Here is an extremely rare view of the newly installed 60-inch Hale telescope on Mt. Wilson, circa 1908. [WRONG: see next post]

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ebay

"In 1904 George Ellery Hale received funding from the Carnegie Institution to build an observatory on Mt. Wilson for a 60-inch telescope. Grinding of the lens began in 1905 and took two years. The mounting and structure for the telescope was built in San Francisco and barely survived the 1906 earthquake. Transporting the pieces to the top of Mt. Wilson's 5,710-foot peak was an enormous task. "First Light" was December 8, 1908. It was at the time the largest operational telescope in the world".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Wilson_Observatory

The 60 inch reflector became one of the most successful and productive telescopes in astronomical history.
Though surpassed in size by the 100-inch Hooker telescope installed on Mt. Wilson in 1917, it remained one of the largest in use for decades.

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google_earth

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I believe that the photo actually shows the Mt. Lowe observatory, as there was never an electric railway (or any railway) completed to Mt. Wilson.

Also, there's this photo of Mt. Lowe: http://www.mountlowe.org/mlpsi-colle...-and-darkroom/

Well, that's about the best damned piece of Raymond Chandler-esque exposition since Double Indemnity! Nice turn of phrase Mr. Ryerson!:cool:

LA in 1934
 

The LAPD pistol team puts on a demonstration at the Auto Club headquarters in 1934. Looks like the audience is having some laughs.

The cop was aiming at the saucers the man is holding. I wonder if they do this stunt today?

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SCAC

Did somebody mention the Mt. Wilson Observatory?
 

And the 60-inch is still operating! It's available for hire in half-night increments, an excellent opportunity for amateur astronomers to get a direct look at the heavens through what is still a pretty darn big telescope. My good friend is one of the operators on the 60-inch.

He is also head docent for the Mt. Wilson tours that are conducted every Saturday at 1 PM from March through November. His last tour for the season is this Saturday, in fact. He makes sure you leave with a good understanding of just how important Mt. Wilson and its Observatory have been to the history of the Los Angeles area, and to the advance of scientific knowledge.

Not only is the Mt. Wilson Observatory one of the most significant historical sites in California, it is also still a working facility, and it still has the best viewing conditions in the Northern Hemisphere. It is in fact still making important contributions, with its new interferometer.

So go up there and take the tour sometime. Bring your walking shoes and your camera, because there as a lot of walking involved through some very beautiful forest, complete with friendly gray squirrels.

Somebody's always giving me guns.
 

Here's the 60-inch Mt. Wilson telescope as it appeared in 1908.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/4wlz60.jpg
http://www.astrosurf.com/re/history_telescope.html
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I came across this advertising 'dollar' a week or so ago on ebay.

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back
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I don't believe we've seen the Hotel Imperial before on NLA. Here it is near the corner of Grand and 9th in 1931.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/631/SULnaA.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=71444

Does anyone have any more information on the Hotel Imperial?

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Sorry, I misread you as well.

Martin's Guns, 5816 S. Broadway, Los Angeles CA

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http://memoriastoica.tumblr.com/tagg...ngeles+history


I drove the google-mobile down Broadway to see what the gun shop looks like today.
Alas I couldn't find the gun shop, but while I was in the area I noticed this interesting building on the nw corner of S. Broadway and W. Slauson Ave.

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GSV

Had we seen this building on NLA?

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I came across these two items the night before last on ebay.
The seller describes them as 'Victorian Trading Cards' from the 1890s. They're blank on the reverse.


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Hmmm...I thought Grange stores were mostly in the mid-west. Isn't a Grange like a co-op or farmer's association?
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This post has been on the back burner for a while now, and I can no longer remember why I didn't post it earlier.

I was watching some old videos of Los Angeles on YouTube a while ago when I came across a color film of downtown LA in 1946. Wondering if we'd seen its brief shots of Coffee Dan's before, I searched NLA. Post #17336 by Martin Pal had one view Coffee Dan's and a link to an L.A. Daily Mirror article which in turn linked to a better quality version of the color film on archive.org. The screengrab below is from later in the film, and shows Coffee Dan's from a different angle as the camera car retraces its route.

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archive.org

This is the Coffee Dan's at 406 West 8th Street. The location is given away by the fact that it's in the RKO Theatre building (its entrance is seen on the film a couple of seconds later). I did another quick search of NLA and found that after sopas ej's post back on page 10, the RKO Theatre only seems to have been mentioned a few times, mainly when its dome appeared in wider shots. The picture below comes from sopas ej's post, but it's the best I could find.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...KOTheatre1.jpg
LAPL

The caption for the picture above says; "It was originally built by the Orpheum Circuit and opened in 1922. It reopened as the RKO Theatre in 1929 but popular usage of its earlier name led to it being renamed the RKO Hillstreet Theatre. The original architect was G. Albert Lansburgh." Here's the view from Hill Street (previously seen in post #2435 by e_r and post #17116 by CityBoyDoug).

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USC Digital Library

This is the entrance in 1931. The hanging 8s are a promotion for their 8 RKO vaudeville Acts program.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...KOTheatre3.jpg
Huntington Digital Library

USC has a billboard for the same promotion.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...KOTheatre4.jpg
USC Digital Library

I found some more interior shots at LAPL. They all seem to date from around the opening in 1922. The first shows the mezzanine.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...KOTheatre5.jpg
LAPL

This is how the stage looked.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...KOTheatre6.jpg
LAPL

And the view from the stage.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...KOTheatre7.jpg
LAPL

The LAPL captions say "It closed in 1963 and was demolished not long after." Today you'll find a bunker-like nightclub and a parking garage in its place. I guess that's progress!

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...KOTheatre8.jpg
GSV

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3939/...3ab38263_o.jpgThe Hotel Imperial, Ruud Water Heaters and the A. Lietz Co., 900 block of South Grand Avenue, 1930

USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987