I remember it now Casey.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...908/vBOaRu.jpg

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24591

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It looks like e_r and myself posted at the same time.

We discussed the YMCA in Pasadena last November. Here are two follow-up posts I found, although I thought someone had posted current pictures as well:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24591

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24643

I came across this oddity a month or so ago while searching for vintage motel signs in the Anaheim area.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/KYanHk.jpg
GSV

-note the llittle animal standing on his head with his legs spread in the doorway beneath the bee-hive.


...& in this wider view there appears to be a replica of the White House as well. Huh?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/bBLPox.jpg
GSV / S. Beach Boulevard

Is anyone familiar with this place?
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* lol. I just realized that's not an animal standing on it head. It's a cat sitting in a chair.

I just came across this slide on eBay.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/3AG9ct.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCRTD-LOS-AN...item19fc1c1a68

What interested me most about the slide is that interesting building on the right, with the 'lighthouse-like' tower on top. Is it a drive in? -and what does that sign say? _ _EANT SERVICE

I found a couple Sam Slater locations
5851 W. Adams Blvd. in the 1956 city directory
5850 W. Washington Blvd. in the 1960 city directory.
(which are like a block apart)

...but no vintage square building with a tower. :(
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...I just came across this great image as well.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/6q1iId.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-LAB...item5d5598477a

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is a close-up of a shanty that appeared in a photograph I posted a month or two ago that showed Phillippe's across the street?
(of course I can't find the other photo at the moment)

* ok, I just found the photograph. Here it is:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25431

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I remember the Broadway building too, vaguely - I was just a lad in the 80's. Broadway ended up moving across the street to the Plaza Pasadena, a hideous and poorly planned mall that cut the Pasadena Civic Auditorium off from the rest of civic center when it was built directly over Garfield Avenue (it covered Euclid as well). It was torn down in 2000. I remember specifically because that's the year I graduated from high school and, while it was coming down, I was across the street at the civic auditorium for the graduation ceremony (think I have a few photos somewhere of myself with the old mall coming down behind me). It was replaced with the Paseo Colorado, an open air mall that was designed to harmonize more with the buildings in the civic center. The article about it on Wikipedia makes a brief mention of its predecessor.

Here's the NW corner of Los Robles Avenue & Green Street in 1986. This is the east end of the Plaza Pasadena, just one block down from the newer yellow building e_r posted the GSV of.

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...pspoglelfe.jpgmy file

And, the same corner circa 1930 when it was occupied by the Pasadena Athletic Club:

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psepat640q.jpgPasadena Digital History

Sadly, this unique and imposing building had to come down in 1974, for the monstrosity of a mall that replaced it. :yuck:

Here's a shot looking down west down Colorado Boulevard from Oakland Avenue in the 1940's. We see the Broadway at left, and the parking lot that the photographer of e_r's shot must have been standing in. The Athletic Club and future site of Plaza Pasadena/Paseo Colorado is at left of the Broadway, just out of frame. I think I got this photo from here on NLA but I can't remember for sure.

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3werc0nv.jpgmy file

One other little tidbit to share: After the Broadway building was torn down, the site was a parking lot for many years, before that newer building was constructed. The city either owned the lot or rented spaces from the owner for their employees. In the early 2000's I was working at the Pasadena library, which you can also see (barely) in the 1940's shot. In the upper right of the photo, the grouping of three palm trees is located in the library's courtyard (still there to this day). So, every day I would walk from that parking lot to the library. It wasn't a fun walk on hot summer days...lol.

:previous: Thanks for the helpful information Tetsu.
I especially like that last photograph / I don't remember seeing it before. (but then again, my memory is shot. ;))
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Plaza Pasadena
 

As I recall, not all of the former mall was leveled. Everything west of the Broadway portion was leveled. Probably due to the pedestrian bridge for the parking structure across Green St. They took out the dark colored windowed entrance seen in the 1986 view, and added the small shops that jut out along the Colorado Blvd side.

Another great find, ER but it is not the same location or shanty seen in your earlier picture. In this view note the presence of a (drum roll please) Wig-Wag to the left of the crossing watchman. In addition, we have a very good clue in the block number on North Main as seen in the street sign, and we were able to match the building in the background in Google Street View.

The LATL streetcar must now cross the LA river and trundle a few more blocks south to reach our previous location and Philippe's.

http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psvh1zuqtk.jpg

URL=http://s1315.photobucket.com/user/jgn151/media/1700%20No.Main%20Street_LA_2A_zpsjeccdmrs.jpg.html]http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psjeccdmrs.jpg[/URL]

Cheers,
Jack

Oh heck yeah I remember this place! It is (was) called Hobby City; its on Beach Bl. in Anaheim a couple of miles south of Knott's BF. Back in the 1970's-80's it was a complex of small shops for all sorts of different kinds of hobbies; there was a gem shop, a coin collector's shop, a model shop, even a vintage firearms shop. The White House replica houses a doll museum, which was and still is every bit as creepy as it sounds with all those beady little eyes staring at you. :runaway:. Each shop had a "theme" design that tried to match what it sold. I can't recall what the building in the picture housed.

It was one of the first places I went after I got my driver's license in the 1970's--the model shop stocked all sorts of plastic models, which I was very much into back in the day. I must have went there close to 100 times. In fact, one of my last visits was in the late 1980's to buy a model of the Titanic, which took me many hours to build, and which sits in a niche at the top of our stairs to this day. :titanic:. Some time ago, they added a cheesy little amusement park called "Adventure City" to the frontage along Beach Bl, trying to cash in on the traffic between Knott's and Disneyland. It looks like its maybe one notch over a travelling carnie circus. Its just to the right of your photo.

I think most of the hobby shops have closed, but the creepy doll museum and the amusement park live on. Wow, I haven't thought about that place in years This makes me want to hop in the car tomorrow morning and check it out--I live about 10 miles away!

More 324 Clay
 

After Beaudry identifed the twin-towered building as 324 Clay, I got intrigued and decided to look into it further.

This c. 1890 view from next to the Crocker Mansion reveals a third tower atop 324 Clay . . . .
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/2922/rec/5

But it actually had four towers! If you look closely at 324 Clay in this SW-facing photo (with twin-chimneyed 320 Clay to the right), the exterior walls are all the same, except for the north side of the first floor. See how the wall changes right above the edge of the foundation?:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/2914/rec/74 (USC says c. 1895/1905, but my hunch is c. 1889)

I think that explains this c. 1886 photo looking NW from Hill Street up at Clay Street and the Crocker Mansion (1886) at 3rd and Olive. We see 320 Clay below and to the left from the Crocker Mansion, but the building next door at 324 Clay is not our multi-towered boarding house. The roof must have been removed and the building remodeled around 1886-87:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original
CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IY89TLI8RV.jpg (CA State Library says 1887; LAPL has the same photo [00068195] and uses the 1886 date written on the photo)

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original
June 27, 1894 LA Times

324 Clay seems to have begun life as 22 Clay (below, next to the big 34), first appearing in the LA City Directory in 1884 as the home of Azel Farnsworth. By 1886, widow Mrs. A. K. Farnsworth is living there with seven Normal School students. In 1887, Mrs. Farnsworth is gone and George Roughton, among others, resides at 22 Clay. The change from 22 to 324 Clay was due to the change in street numbering that LA put into effect in 1890:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original
1888 Sanborn Map at LAPL

Trivia Question: What was the name of Clay Street before it was changed to Clay in June 1883? (answer at bottom)

If you see multi-towered 324 Clay in a photo, you can be confident that photo was taken no later than July 1, 1894. Because on the morning of July 2, 1894 . . .
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original
July 3, 1894 LA Times

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original
July 18, 1894 LA Herald

Trivia Question Answer: Polyxena Street

I discovered this forum only a few weeks ago and got hooked. You've created such an interesting and exciting collection of photographs and discussions. I began to read the whole forum step by step and am currently on page 745. Thanks to everyone for their great work.

I jut saw ethereal_reality's interesting post about CBS Studio Center, which was previously Rebuplic Studios (post # 14809 - page 745):

I was wondering if there are any other historic photos of the development of the studio and its history over the last couple of decades.

Totally forgot - you're absolutely right, they kept the east end of the mall and remodeled it somewhat. Thus, what we see in the 1986 shot still stands, pretty much. At the time the Paseo was built, it was a Macy's, though it closed recently - last year I think.

I just happened to have the 1960 CD open myself when I saw this picture. As e_r said, Sam Slater Lumber and Hardware was at 5850 W Washington Boulevard, while just across the street at 5835 W Washington Boulevard was the Culver Infant Service.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...SamSlater1.jpg
LAPL

Here's roughly the same view today. I've checked Historic Aerials, and the current building on the right appears to be the old Sam Slater building, which has been there since sometime between 1952 and 1964 when Adams was realigned. Seeing as e_r found Sam Slater at 5851 W Washington in the 1956 CD, it was probably built between 1956 and 1964.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...SamSlater2.jpg
GSV

Here's a better view of the Infant Service building. The square-roofed building behind it is also still there, but the "lighthouse-like" tower has gone. From a distance I thought it was still standing, but it turned out to be a cellphone mast a little further back.

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

:previous: Good sleuthing HossC. ....but what the heck is an Infant Service?
Would you pull in and they'd change your baby's diaper for you? ;)
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Take your camera if you go Mstimc, I'd love to see some close-ups of that 'tree-trunk' building. (it looks like it could be pretty old...maybe 1950s?)

Oh, & thanks for sharing your memories....t's always great to hear first-hand experiences.
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That is a great discovery FW! This building is so amazing....I'm glad you looked into it further.

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Welcome to noirish Los Angeles T.J.P. You're the Falcon Crest guy right?
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(here's the link to the post T.J.P. mentioned)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14886

This amazing photograph from 1935 wasn't in my original post.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/up49Qt.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/yK8jUV.jpg
http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...udios_1935.jpg


and one that was.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/8Rg5dt.jpg

" The land was owned by Harry Merrick of the 'Central Motion Picture District' land syndicate. The syndicate acquired over 500 acres of former Lankershim Ranch land
stretching from Tujunga Avenue and Pacoima Avenue (later Laurel Canyon Boulevard), Ventura Boulevard to Chandler Way in 1926,
envisioning it's own little city (eventually 'Studio City')."

T.P.J., now that I reread your post, I believe you're interested in the more recent history of CBS Studio Center (like when Falcon Crest filmed there).
Does anyone have the more recent history and photos of CBS Studio Center (to help out our new member?) :)
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p.s. I worked for Lorimar, but I worked at MGM where we filmed 'Dallas" and "Knots Landing", so I have less information on 'Falcon Crest' (since they filmed in the valley and Napa Valley)
The closest I got to Falcon Crest was a gala at the Biltmore (downtown) celebrating their 100th (or was it 200th) episode. I knew Jane Wyman because she was close with my boss, the head of publicity for Lorimar. One day he had me ride with Jane Wyman to LAX (in a limo!) to help with her luggage and such. She had sunglasses on and a ''turban' on her hair and was very nice and very fragile even back then. I helped her to the lounge where she introduced me to Bob Newhart (he was the only one in the lounge). When she introduced me, she made it sound like I was her good friend even though I had just met her.

I also attended a function for Falcon Crest at some mansion above Sunset Blvd. (I wish I could remember which mansion). I rode with the publicist for Falcon Crest and we picked up
Susan Sullivan on the way, and took her home afterwards. The party was mostly around the pool.
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mystery location. -3 slides.


Playground/basketball court being used for roller-skating, los Angeles, 1950s.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/O2VhQi.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Photo-Sl...item46353fecd9

Interesting houses across the street.




In this view we get a glimpse of the street corner (white building), and next to the play area is a large dark house with what looks like an impressive front porch.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/8Imj2I.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Photo-Sl...item43d8328fcb





And finally, in this last slide we get to see a portion of the school. (looks like it might be parochial)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/9evHwY.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Photo-Sl...item46353ff364

Think we can figure out the location? :)

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My follow-up to e_r's post is here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14890

My ex worked there in the late 70s. I knew it well then, but after he moved to The Burbank Studios to join Lorimar, I did not visit again. I only know the more recent history from their wiki page