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This image--an LAPL shot via a 2012 post by sopas--shows the bridge and what lives under it, this time looking west...so at far left is the same end-section and lamp/streetcar-wire standard seen in HossC's views. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073833.jpg More views of the 9th St/Olympic bridge are in this extensive 2013 post of westcork's. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/MKq0qKb2/50ford-bmp.jpg So...the billboard was probably changed very soon after the bridge image was taken. |
I don't believe NLA has seen Haller's Cafe (Haller also being called Heller in some newspaper articles), located for a very short time (ca. 1908-1909) at 517-519 W. 7th.
https://i.postimg.cc/mD4Qbsgf/Hallers-Cafe001.jpg odinthor collection I'm sure that the private dining areas towards the back were conducive to good noirish times. https://i.postimg.cc/2yhy3qc0/Haller-LAT-10-26-09.jpg LA Times, 10/26/1909 Haller's "same offense" arose out of it having been "proved that boys and girls under age were in the habit of securing beer and wine there" (from an earlier paragraph in the same article, the parallel allegation being made concerning "the typical Chinese restaurant, the Shanghai Cafe," which was at 429 1/2 - 431 1/2 S. Spring). |
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http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays...Studio0001.jpg ..Barrier https://cartoonresearch.com/wp-conte...n49_WLantz.jpg (scrappyland.com) I worked across the street from their second location, 861 Seward for four years. The building is now occupied by Technicolor. There was a character in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons named Inspector Seward Willoughby after the intersection where the studios were located. https://i1.wp.com/www.scrappyland.co...g?w=1000&ssl=1 (cartoonresearch.com) |
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Related... we've seen aerial and long distance photos of the Wong's Figueroa laundry. I refuse to believe there aren't better pics out there somewhere. Newspapers, magazines, fans knew of the place. NO ONE took a clear, up close shot?? |
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mystery location. Car Drop 1966 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/T5Rv77.jpg eBay It's hard to believe this rather archaic experiment occured when we were on the cusp of sending a man to the moon. Wasn't there a better way to get the same results? I can't imagine that too many building owners would allow this experiment to happen on their property. I thought a city building was used, like a municiple parking garage, but then I noticed the LOFTS sign in one of the windows. Here's a closer look at the street & the information. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/mPkwEr.jpg detail I imagine it left a crater in the parking lot. . |
Here's one of my favorites. For years I've driven up Washington Blvd through Culver City and at 8641
there's a restaurant named El Baron Nightclub and Restaurant that I guess has been recently rebranded Club Tropical. It has a really cool tower and looked quite old. https://images1.loopnet.com/i2/Pqw2P.../112/image.jpg loopnet.com and after doing a little research, discovered it is quite old and started life as the Ham Tree Inn. http://www.culvercityhistoricalsocie...e-1024x676.jpg culvercity historical society I loved this piece by Julie Lugo Cerra from the culver city historical society: In July, an inquiry came in from a woman afar looking for information about a 1920s restaurant called “The Ham Tree Inn,” at 6139 Washington Boulevard. Her grandmother worked there as a waitress when it re-opened in the late 1920s. She had bits and pieces of information and a few photos including one that pictured the building with its “Ham Tree” in front. A second inquiry came in the same week from a long time Fay Avenue resident. Her mother also worked at “The Ham Tree Inn” and across the street at Chris’s Market. Historic Sites Chair, Jeanne Conklin, went to work! She spread the word, and we used local directories, which provide listings by street address as well…but we did not have access to one for that period. There were other complications. Some street addresses changed over the years, just like Main Street carried numbers in the 7000s early on—only to become the 3000s in more recent times. No luck on the first address. We used our ties with the city to check old files. People talked to people. Using the photo sent by the the woman, Jeanne and Tami Eskridge (another CCHistorical Society officer and super volunteer, who you have probably seen taking their morning walks Page 3 F15n waitressaround our fair city) headed east one day and kept searching. In the meantime, we learned it was near Fay Avenue across from Chris’s Market, which is still there. The answer was getting closer. We cruised neighborhoods, and found a building on the 8000 block of Washington Boulevard at Fay. It looked SO familiar-for good reason. Ten years ago, our Culver City Historical Society celebrated its 25th year with a historic car rally that ended at that vintage Culver City night spot. Today, it has a different name, but THAT WAS IT!!! Needless to say, there were some rewarding ties formed between the inquirers and those who helped solve this mystery! And your society is the beneficiary of some added information and vintage photos. http://www.culvercityhistoricalsocie...s-683x1024.jpg culver city historical society http://www.culvercityhistoricalsocie...u-1024x638.jpg culver city historical society |
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From the LAT Feb 1, 1966--not sure if the building pictured is a clue: https://i.postimg.cc/JzGT7sRd/10building1.png |
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The building to the right of the car in e_r's picture appears to be part of the California Market Center (aka California Mart) at 9th and S Los Angeles. The first two buildings were completed in 1963 and 1965, so the one in the picture could be either. I'm still trying to identify the building on the left - the California Market Center doesn't appear in the background of the impact pictures, so maybe the main image is some sort of composite. |
To quote a Twin Peaks line about our Los Angeles...
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We have seen the Nobby Knit Shop on Wilshire HERE and another in Westwood HERE. But I don't believe we have seen this Nobby Knit Shop location on Hollywood Blvd. [1963] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Le3tts.jpg eBay I believe this location is near Hollywood & Vine. .....Note the two identical.. umm . .adult boyscouts(?). These two. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/zkbZLc.jpg ............................................................................................:shrug: . |
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https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...SBroadway1.jpg GSV As the building has now been repurposed into accommodation (see urbanize.la), many of the windows have been filled, and the side looks totally different (hence why it took me a while to find it). The view to the California Market Center has also been blocked. https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...SBroadway2.jpg GSV I can't see any obvious craters in the parking lot :). |
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odinthor collection Though we've had 3716 Wilshire mentioned at NLA as an A&P market, we haven't had that address's Premiere Cafeteria, floruit 1947 when the Mineralogical Society met there on September 15 at 6:30, according to Mineral Notes and News of that year. |
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I believe I spotted the crater using Bing Maps. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/Bwq41S.jpg ......................................................................................kidding Very good post on the Ham Tree Inn, KevinW. I didn't think the Club Tropical building was that old. The bell tower slash chimney thingy threw me for a loop. :eeekk: . |
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You're in for a treat, BDiH, because I just found a 2nd slide from 1963 that also shows the Nobby Knit Shop. . .& this time the sign is lit up! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/u6jSiz.jpg eBay As you can see; four lovely ladies are walking down the street (two with a guitar and one with a purse) & judging by the people lining the street I'd say they were part of a parade of some sort. - - -a parade would help explain the twin dudes, with the hats and leis, from the earlier slide. . |
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