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Martin Pal May 1, 2014 9:49 PM

I saw an interesting article from a month ago titled:

Why Isn't There a Freeway to Beverly Hills?

In various stages it was called the Santa Monica Parkway, West Hollywood Freeway and ultimately the Beverly Hills Freeway.

The proposed route:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...x301-71176.jpg
Metro Transportation Library and Archive.

An oddity:
In West Hollywood, the freeway turned to the southwest and followed the path of Santa Monica Boulevard, plunging below grade into a submerged trench. In Beverly Hills, the city considered capping the freeway with parking and surface street lanes.

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...%20section.jpg
Metro Transportation Library and Archive.

West of Beverly Hills, it emerged from its trench and passed by Century City before finally ending south of Westwood at the San Diego (I-405) freeway.

The 101 (Hollywood) Freeway’s wide median at Vermont is a remnant of the Beverly Hills Freeway interchange that never materialized.

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041137.jpgLAPL c. 1951

(If that’s smog in the above photo, consider there aren’t even any cars on the road yet!)

The article has other maps, links and information:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...rly-hills.html

Flyingwedge May 2, 2014 12:16 AM

More Ville de Paris
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6556848)

The Ville de Paris department store has been briefly mentioned before on NLA. Here's their advert from the 1921 CD.

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6559238)
:previous:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JMYobNyYD7...w/21VDPrev.jpgBSLA

There is a connection via the Fusenot family...check it out here:

http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles....fairchild.html

Prior Ville de Paris:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11167

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=5153866

LAPL also has this staff photo (http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059281.jpg) and dates it 1901:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original

A slightly larger version of GW's photo with Laughlin over door at right:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
Los Angeles, The Old and The New (J. E. Scott, 1911) at HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=81

Below is an undated interior photo of Ville de Paris store "between Broadway, Hill, 2nd and 3rd":
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1765/rec/1

Looking north on Hill St., 1905; the Ville de Paris building is across the street with the awning:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068227.jpg

Homer Laughlin Annex on Hill Street, 1907:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original
CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...QQHRA5G4GK.jpg

Broadway side, February 21, 1913:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original
Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/13511/rec/1

SE corner 7th and Olive location being built. Source says 1920/30; LAPL has same photo (http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059133.jpg) and dates it 1917:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/8258/rec/5

1940:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032550.jpg

Undated:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068350.jpg

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original
GSV

ethereal_reality May 2, 2014 1:16 AM

:previous: -excellent post FlyingWedge. -very interesting.
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originally posted by HossC
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../843/3lvz3.jpgebay
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/834/xr4x.jpg


I wonder if Jennie ever crossed paths with Paul Chomistek down on 7th Street?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/836/4q0q.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/ebeu.jpg
ebay
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/836/pw2d.jpg

X-ER-VAC!! It looks like an early IBM with a snozzle. suuuck..pressure..grow. suuuck..pressure..grow.
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Tourmaline May 2, 2014 1:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6404005)
While looking for pictures of the elusive shoe store and cleaners on Santa Monica Boulevard yesterday, I stumbled across this picture of the Santa Monica Freeway under construction - I don't think we've seen it before. Just left of the construction zone, about halfway down, is Dr. Kurtz's house on Toberman Street. On the right, just above the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, is the Young Apartment building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

Looking a little closer, we can see the subjects of a few more posts. Near the "Weber" sign at the top, left, and partly hidden by a tree, is the Otsego Apartment building. I posted a picture of the unfinished sections of road across the Harbor Freeway in post #17868. The large building near the bottom is the Odd Fellow Temple on Oak Street. I think we can even see the rooftop radio station that e_r mentioned in post #16718. The dark mound above the Odd Fellow Temple marks the future home of the CHP building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
Detail of photo above.

A couple of previous posts with pictures of the Santa Monica Freeway being built:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3026

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13772

Circa '25, An imposing Patriotic Hall
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IJJI2SE6J7.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IJJI2SE6J7.jpg

ethereal_reality May 2, 2014 2:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oviatt Building Fan (Post 6560936)
Well, thanks largely to the good people here at Noirish Los Angeles, I've been able to piece together this remarkable building's story. So much so, in fact, that I'll be giving an hour-long slideshow talk about it this Saturday, at the Los Angeles Central Library.

Good luck with your talk Oviatt. I wish I could be there.
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ethereal_reality May 2, 2014 2:31 AM

1905
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/838/55kl.jpg
ad/ebay

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FredH May 2, 2014 4:39 AM

I don't recall that we have seen these

March, 1955
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6610e715.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/8755/rec/61

08/15/1955
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps55bbbae7.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/8753/rec/80

01/16/56
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps8297cd56.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8779/rec/183

12/20/56
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps15972b1e.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8874/rec/200

FredH May 2, 2014 4:50 AM

The Title of this photo is: Old Barn on Bunker Hill Avenue near 2nd Street

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psa4b3b55e.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8821/rec/172

Can this really be a barn?

FredH May 2, 2014 5:10 AM

02/01/1957 - Courthouse being built along 1st Street while a South Olive Street housing structure has been demolished.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps9bc05da5.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8688/rec/209

JScott May 2, 2014 5:12 AM

.

FredH May 2, 2014 5:20 AM

March, 1966

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps0603fbad.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8727/rec/261

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps0468ae11.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8727/rec/261

Flyingwedge May 2, 2014 6:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6561515)
1905
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/838/55kl.jpg
ad/ebay

-no address included in the ad.
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The same photo was used in an ad that ran in the Los Angeles Herald on September 3, 1905:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original
Library of Congress -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...d-1/seq-83.pdf

We just read about another of Louis Lichtenberger's buildings: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21009

Tetsu May 2, 2014 6:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6561515)
1905
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/838/55kl.jpg
ad/ebay

-no address included in the ad.
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One more photo of the building, second from the left, and its neighbors in 1950.

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psac020bea.jpgfrom my files

Tetsu May 2, 2014 7:00 AM

And what a coincidence! Curbed LA just posted another pic of the building (really meant to show city hall & the work of John Parkinson but it's an even better shot than the one I just posted).

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs...ity%20hall.jpgLAPL

ethereal_reality May 2, 2014 2:18 PM

:previous: That is a coincidence Tetsu.


Quote:

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 6561691)
Old Barn on Bunker Hill Avenue near 2nd Street

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psa4b3b55e.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8821/rec/172

Can this really be a barn?

I'd say it was the carriage house,with space for hay, to the building next door. The decorative element about the "barn's" center entrance mimics
the decorative element atop the building to it's right.

I guess you could call it a quasi-barn. :)
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Oviatt Building Fan May 2, 2014 2:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6561508)
Good luck with your talk Oviatt. I wish I could be there.
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Wish you could too. It would be wonderful if some people from Noirish Los Angeles could come. :tup:

ethereal_reality May 2, 2014 2:55 PM

rescue squad 1931

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../841/exsgi.jpg
ebay

That is one loooong car.
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ethereal_reality May 2, 2014 6:46 PM

Surprisingly, we haven't seen the Lido Apartment Hotel on NLA, except for a brief mention here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7861



I came across this postcard a day or so ago.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/842/txsg.jpgebay

the same view today
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/842/ks0s.jpg
GSV




reverse/postcard
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/05x1.jpg



With the corner entrance closed, there is an entrance on Yucca Street
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800.../836/tl37k.jpg
GSV

and on Wilcox.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800.../845/86tu1.jpg
GVS
-what's that I see up there on roof?


could it be..?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/838/7ygd.jpg



Yes!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/835/pbj0.jpg
GSV
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ethereal_reality May 2, 2014 7:03 PM

I just noticed that there's another rooftop sign in this aerial of the Lido.

Can you see it?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/838/7ygd.jpg
google_earth







There it is across the street. (looking north on Wilcox)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/835/pwj8.jpg
GSV




-the Mayfair Apartments (1925) at 1760 N. Wiclox Ave.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/tfsb1.jpg
http://www.you-are-here.com/hollywood/mayfair.html



a noirish view.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/843/08kb.jpg
Corey Miller at https://www.flickr.com/photos/toomuchfire/5177112354/

It looks like the neon is still in place. I wonder if it still lights up?
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Silverlaker May 2, 2014 7:25 PM

information
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/05x1.jpg

I love this card....My grandmother was another "Vivian" of that same era. She came out here as a young girl in the 20's from Minneapolis on vacation and never left - eventually drawing the rest of the family to join her. First living in the Westlake area then to Windsor Hills. She loved every day here and even 50 years+ after leaving Minneapolis still called Los Angeles a "fairyland" (in the old sense) that was every bit as wondrous and magical to her the day she arrived in the 1920's as the day she passed in the early 90's.
:)


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