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Interesting about the audio commentary! If they'd had "letter grades" back then...? |
Ticket to the 1933 National Air Races on July 4th (my birthday!)
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It was noirisher Flyingwedge who PM'd to send this image—pointing out that my li'l building was, in fact, at 1133 S Hope. Zooming in to the left of the water tank atop Western Auto Supply, there she is! https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7535/...1e7b4b11_o.png 1133 was known as the "Claron Del" apts. Built about 1913. Not in the 1910 Baist, but in the 1914 Baist, and here's an ad from September '13: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8597/...f0f2604a_o.png From what I can tell, she becomes a parking lot in 1980. The most interesting thing I found in researching her history—in the early '30s there was a series of "stench bombings" at theaters that hired nonunion projectionists. There had been twenty-two such attacks by February '32 when police arrested seven people, one of whom was Bejamin Stahl, taken into custody at his home in the Claron Del and booked for arson. Million thanks to all y'all! |
Soooo, because we're batting a thousand already, here's another mystery photo (heck, maybe this'll become a regular feature, like on Larry Harnisch's Dairly Mirror!)...
I picked this up with another image, probably taken at the same time (clipped from the same album, same paper and photography, etc.) and that image was of the oft-photographed 221 S Olive on Bunker Hill, so one assumes the image below is near downtown. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7564/...da2b0b98_o.jpg A million thanks (in advance) to whomever can help with this one. And two nights' stay in the Ambassador! |
The Sovereign Hotel & Apartments
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/mMJFu4.png ebay "On the Shores of the Blue Pacific" Two blocks north of Wilshire Boulevard. Washington Ave. at 2nd Street Santa Monica, California and she's still there :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/qwJTIq.png google aerial lookin' good! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/AowtWK.png GSV below: On Bings maps there's scaffolding up. (please tell me they're not painting it pink) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/903/369a58.png bing_maps __ |
Mobilgas Station 1956, Anaheim
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...743/ZKe34a.jpg http://anaheimhistoricalsociety.blog...tion-1956.html This Mobil station once graced the intersection of Harbor Blvd. and Katella Avenue in Anaheim, not far from the then new Disneyland. "Commissioned by Mobil Gas to do a mock up for a new type of design for the Mobil Gas image, including the flying horse! Mobil no doubt picked the team to design and build this station as a marketing scheme to impress the many visitor to Disneyland and keep them buying Mobil products on the trip back home and where they live." The Mobil station is visible in this 1956 aerial. (lower right corner) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/2Rw3lH.png http://anaheimhistoricalsociety.blog...tion-1956.html __ below: Julius Shulman photograph. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/KFTlzd.png http://anaheimhistoricalsociety.blog...tion-1956.html I'm not sure when this proto-type station was demolished. |
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:previous: lol. :) -well done HossC.
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Beaudry, I have a 'mystery' house as well.
I came across this beautiful residence on ebay a couple nights ago. The street sign at lower right says this is Flower Street. (..and I really like that cupola) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/746/tenxm0.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Los-Angeles-...item3f40d540a5 Maybe we've seen it before, but I can't place it. below: Here it is with the frame advertising a Los Angeles photography studio, 'Hardesty & Armstrong'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/nRLbz8.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Los-Angeles-...item3f40d540a5 __ |
Comet's Hot Dogs.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/1gbRJx.pngebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/Uoxbed.pngebay This is what's surprising....look at all the locations!!! -yet I don't remember ever seeing one in a vintage photograph. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/X6GqrS.png ebay __ |
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If this store is representative, it looks like Comet's were quite small, so maybe that's why we've missed them. This 1939 picture is titled "In Downtown Los Angeles facing north on Broadway from West Ninth Street", so I'm assuming that were looking at the 845 S Broadway branch of Comet's. Farley's Credit Clothes is listed at 837 S Broadway. The first listing I can find in the City Directories is for Comet's California Orange Drink Co at 704 S Broadway in the 1926 edition. By the late 1930s, it appears that they had changed their name to the Comet Citrus Co. Their store at 625 S Broadway is listed until 1965. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAComets1.jpg Detail of picture in USC Digital Library Here's the full picture. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAComets2.jpg USC Digital Library |
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Slightly noir?
This is from the movie ''Turning Point"...1952
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gasAnaheim.jpg Historic Aerials The aerial shot posted by e_r shows Disneyland in 1956. It hadn't changed much by 1963. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eyland1963.jpg Historic Aerials This shot is now 10 years old, but it shows how the park grew to cover the original parking lots and then some. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eyland2004.jpg Historic Aerials For comparison, here's how the area looked just three years before e_r's picture (and two years before the park opened). These are the orange groves and walnut trees that Mr Disney acquired to build his park. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eyland1953.jpg Historic Aerials |
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Here's the same view today. (replaced by a parking garage) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/CENrgL.png gsv At first, I thought this little place was the old Comet's.....but this is across the street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/3b32kb.png gsv Here's how 'Two Boots Pizza' looked in 2009. -goodbye Pastrami Dip. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/pz5g6P.png gsv -note the old 'GIRLS dance' sign in the alley. For that story go here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=15690 __ |
Here's an apartment building which I don't think we've seen before. It's 4203 South Olive Street in 1926.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...CarusApts1.jpg USC Digital Library There's no name in the description, but the sign over the doorway says "The Carus Apartments". This view also gives a better look at the balcony and the detail around the windows. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...CarusApts2.jpg Detail of picture above. So many of the pretty details have been lost over time, and even the original wall is partially hidden by a fence :(. I could've been worse - if it have been a couple of blocks north it would've been taken out by an access ramp for the Harbor Freeway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...CarusApts3.jpg GSV |
:previous: Nice find HossC. -I've never heard of the Carus Apartments.
Grand Central Market in 1964. -Broadway entrance. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/NtHqFE.jpg ebay and today (as you can see....they've ripped off all that blue paneling) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/3z9SYc.png GSV To be honest, I didn't realize there was a Broadway entrance until I came across that 1964 slide. I thought the only entrance was on Hill Street (shown below). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/eFjm7S.png GSV |
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