Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6336448)

This is (was) the Grand Central Hotel on Main Street in a photo dated 2/1/57.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ndCentral1.jpg
Huntington Picture Library

Grand Central Hotel in better times.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ndCentral2.jpg
USC Digital Library

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6336448)

:previous:

I'm afraid Beaudry beat you to it:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16322

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6336385)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AWestmoore.jpghttp://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4402/rh99.jpg
Detail from photo at USC Digital Library

Originally Posted by Tetsu (Post 6335409)

I know you guys have covered the Victorians of Angelino Heights before on NLA but I don't think anyone has ever mentioned the Stilson-Botsford House. It was probably one of the grandest in the neighborhood, with thirty rooms including a ballroom on the third floor. It was built for William Stilson, one of the original developers of Angelino Heights (along with Everett E. Hall, who jointly filed for ownership of the tract. It was then spelled "Angeleno Heights.") He built his own house on the northwest corner of Carroll Avenue and Edgeware Road in 1887, but died in the 1890's. The house was then purchased by California Bank president William Botsford. Here's a few photos of the place from the 1890's:

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps36dd5c2c.jpgLAPL

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7cac7270.jpgFlickr


Tetsu - Thanks so much for posting these two great photos of the Stilson house. I have never seen closeup photos of it until now. I have often wondered how much of the original structure is left under that remodeling and whether the house could ever be restored.

I discovered Angeleno Heights in 1966 and at that time met Charles Pinney of 1355 Carroll Avenue. Pinney gladly showed me the ground floor of his home and also the garage where he had his early 1950s Cadillac stored. He told me he was 93 and had lived at the house since 1887. I'm thinking he may have moved away and moved back, but I'll never know. Pinney lived to be 106. His father, Henry, had bought their house at the northeast corner of Carroll and Douglas as well as the adjacent lot because he did not want a neighbor abutting his property. That lot now contains a huge tree.

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Originally Posted by oldstuff (Post 6336681)

While I am not as good as most of you with finding old pictures, I am better with people. I did some background research on Charles Pinney.

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 6335606)

These stairs are at Beechwood Drive and Woodshire Drive, and lead up to Belden Drive. This is a 1929 photo:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa7715b46.jpg
USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/4254/rec/473


November 2013, from the bottom up:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps26678331.jpg
Photo by me

From the top down; you can see repairs where the water used to flow:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps87251fab.jpg
Photo by me

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6336760)

bungalow court on steroids

I'm unsure if this was built during the post-war housing shortage or decades earlier by a overly greedy developer.

S. Burlington Avenue and 5th Street
http://imageshack.us/a/img62/5431/n7kd.jpg
google_earth

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6336769)

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7776/lg9e.jpgArclight Cinemas

The Cinerama Dome under construction, 1962.

Originally Posted by Tetsu (Post 6335409)

I know you guys have covered the Victorians of Angelino Heights before on NLA but I don't think anyone has ever mentioned the Stilson-Botsford House. It was probably one of the grandest in the neighborhood, with thirty rooms including a ballroom on the third floor. It was built for William Stilson, one of the original developers of Angelino Heights (along with Everett E. Hall, who jointly filed for ownership of the tract. It was then spelled "Angeleno Heights.") He built his own house on the northwest corner of Carroll Avenue and Edgeware Road in 1887, but died in the 1890's. The house was then purchased by California Bank president William Botsford. Here's a few photos of the place from the 1890's:

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps36dd5c2c.jpgLAPL

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7cac7270.jpgFlickr

While I am not as good as most of you with finding old pictures, I am better with people. I did some background research on Charles Pinney. He apparently did not move away and come back. Here is what I found:

Some Census and other research reveals that Charles Lee Pinney was born on November 18, 1872 in Connecticut. He is listed on the voter registration at the Carroll Avenue house in 1896 along with his father. Charles is listed in that registration as being employed as a machinist.
His family appears in the 1900 Census at the Carroll Avenue address: father Henry, mother Emma, and three children: Louise, Charles and Frank. Two servants also are listed as living in the household in that Census. Henry Pinney is noted as being a “capitalist”
Charles is listed as living in the Carroll Avenue house in 1910 with his sister Louise and a housekeeper. At that time Charles is listed as being the proprietor of a Metal Works.
Charles married between 1910 and 1920 and is in the 1920 Census with his wife Bertha. When he filled out his draft card for WWI he was living at the same address. They apparently did not have any children.
They are in the Carroll Avenue house in 1920 and 1930. Voter Registrations in 1924 show Charles as being retired. In that year, he and Bertha took a trip to Cuba. They are listed as returning to San Pedro aboard the SS Finland. Their address is the same.
By 1940, while Charles is still living on Carroll Avenue, he is widowed. His wife Bertha died in November of 1935. Living in the house with Charles is his sister Louise, who is also widowed.
Charles died in Los Angeles on October 1, 1978. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale.

Originally Posted by Otis Criblecoblis (Post 6335807)

Tetsu, please say hi next time you see me working on the house (I'll be up on the veranda roof).

I'm happy to see a reference to Jennie Keil, because we've always found her to be quite an interesting historical figure, and have been dismayed at the way she's been ignored by the local historical cognoscenti. It seems to us that any woman transacting business on her own initiative in late Victorian times would merit a closer look than has been accorded Mrs. Jennie A. Keil.

She built this house in 1885 as an income property on an acre of land, specifically as a rental unit, according to tax documents. I don't have my documentation handy, but I believe it was at the corner of a 600-acre tract. In any event, I know that we are at the corner of what is now known as "Keil's Lakewood Tract."

You can find a lot of information about the house at the blog.

Originally Posted by WS1911 (Post 6335608)

While I am not as good as most of you with finding old pictures, I am better with people. I did some background research on Charles Pinney. He apparently did not move away and come back. Here is what I found:

Some Census and other research reveals that Charles Lee Pinney was born on November 18, 1872 in Connecticut. He is listed on the voter registration at the Carroll Avenue house in 1896 along with his father. Charles is listed in that registration as being employed as a machinist.
His family appears in the 1900 Census at the Carroll Avenue address: father Henry, mother Emma, and three children: Louise, Charles and Frank. Two servants also are listed as living in the household in that Census. Henry Pinney is noted as being a “capitalist”
Charles is listed as living in the Carroll Avenue house in 1910 with his sister Louise and a housekeeper. At that time Charles is listed as being the proprietor of a Metal Works.
Charles married between 1910 and 1920 and is in the 1920 Census with his wife Bertha. When he filled out his draft card for WWI he was living at the same address. They apparently did not have any children.
They are in the Carroll Avenue house in 1920 and 1930. Voter Registrations in 1924 show Charles as being retired. In that year, he and Bertha took a trip to Cuba. They are listed as returning to San Pedro aboard the SS Finland. Their address is the same.
By 1940, while Charles is still living on Carroll Avenue, he is widowed. His wife Bertha died in November of 1935. Living in the house with Charles is his sister Louise, who is also widowed.
Charles died in Los Angeles on October 1, 1978. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale.

Originally Posted by Otis Criblecoblis (Post 6334594)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4339106...3093/lightbox/http://www.flickr.com/photos/4339106...3093/lightbox/
from Pasadena CHRID database
(My first time linking an image here; I hope it works)
[edit] Well, the link did not work per se, but at least you can click on it to see the picture. If one of you can smarten me up as to what I did wrong, I'd sure appreciate it.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6336760)

bungalow court on steroids

I'm unsure if this was built during the post-war housing shortage or decades earlier by a overly greedy developer.

S. Burlington Avenue and 5th Street
http://imageshack.us/a/img62/5431/n7kd.jpg
google_earth

-their basic shape makes me think of the wooden bungalows of the 1920s & 1930s.

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6336873)

LAPL has quite a few pictures showing the construction of the Cinerama Dome from different angles in black & white and color (including the one above). I came across them looking for pictures of the Vine Street Coffee Dan's a couple of weeks ago. Note the NBC building on the left.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LACinerama.jpg
lapl.org

Their notes put the date at 1963:




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