Today's Julius Shulman post takes us to Hollywood - well, where else would you put a film library? It's "Job 4403: Leroy B. Miller, Evco Film Library (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1968".

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Mr Shulman was obviously quick, as the lady in the white dress didn't even make it to the top of the stairs before the second shot!

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Both from Getty Research Institute

The building is still standing as 838 Seward Street, although I had to go back to 2011 to get this view of the building in original condition. A sign just out of shot to the right says FilmCore Film and Video Storage.

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GSV

Also from 2011, here's the street number still on the small brick wall by the sidewalk.

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GSV

That's all changed now. In the last few years, all the brickwork has been covered, and the open fence has been replaced.

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GSV

Just across the street and slightly to the south I spotted this building at 823 Seward Street. The property sites say it was built in 1927. The historic street views show it's been cleaned up fairly recently.

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GSV

The frame at the top of the pole looks like the mounting for an air raid siren

Three Wheel Motorcycle.
 

If that is indeed a Harley-Davison it is called a Servi-Car. Servi-Cars were used for parking check and their supervisors. This is not a LAPD Parking Checker as they were black and white. The Servi-Car was popular with some dealerships who delivered the customers car after servicing. Thomas Cadillac was one I can think of offhand for sure.

French Consulate
 

French Consulate building at 445 East Aliso Street, undated from LAPL

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I'm having trouble figuring where this building actually stood. By its address it would seem that it should have been on the south side of Aliso near the corner of Alameda, but I'm not sure. I have also panned through resources and could night find any other definitive images, or any reference to this location online.

I thought maybe the French quarter might have been discussed or perhaps someone here knows something about the history pertaining to this building, and to the French quarter in general.

Thanks.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed the a Steeple of Light for the Community Christian Church in KC, MO, in 1940. The "steeple of light" did not actually materialize until rather recent history but I don't know if it was a hot topic at the time. Additionally, the use of searchlights as advertisement was all too common even until the '70 as these lights were permanent fixtures at most major auto dealers.

The Community Christian Church in KC, MO:
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Old WW II Search lights, which were electric carbon arc, were a big part of Hollywood movie premieres. That's now a bygone era.

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'Bout six months ago I was going on about the Angels Flight Café, and then I got this slide which I realized was showing just that corner, so I thought I'd share it:

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Note, from left, the position of the lightpost and the hydrant. There's the empty space left by the AFCafé, La Loma, and Cumberland. Then therefore that house next to the Canary Island date palm is 221, noted in the Palmer Conner shot as "The Last Old Bunker Hill Mansion on Olive Street."

Thanks, Beaudry...I have the second photo...always wonder what floor my mother lived on (in 1934) and can picture her walking up and down Hope Street...

116 South Hope Street...
 

I would love to see 116 S. Hope from the back sometime to see how big the building was...

Hi Green Cat!

I believe that building is shown below as 447 Aliso, with LODGINGS written on it, just above the street name ALISO.
On the map the building has a porch all around, and in the photo -- based on what's between the first and second
floors -- the building looks like it might have had a porch removed:
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1906 Sanborn Map @ LAPL

It looks like by 1921, the building was renumbered to 451: http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/19410/Plate+004/

Anyway, I went back as far as the first LA City Directory (1872), but did not find 445 Aliso (or any address on
Aliso) as the location of the French Consul. However, the first French Consul, Jacob Moerenhout (or Morenhaut,
or a few other variables), who served from 1859-1879, may have lived there prior to 1872.

Don Louis Sainsevain, a prominent member of the French community in Los Angeles, and the Sainsevain Winery
were across the street from 445 Aliso (the view out the front of 445 would have been right at El Aliso), so I
would not be surprised if the French consul once lived there.

History of the French Community in Los Angeles: https://web.archive.org/web/20060811...id_article=304
Jacob Moerenhout in the 1872 LA City Directory (right-hand column, about halfway down): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....melton/la8.jpg
Jacob Moerenhout's 1859 arrival in LA as recounted . . .
[a] in the November 5, 1859 Los Angeles Star (pg. 2, col. 2, below the notice about the death of Don Juan Bandini): http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...9coll68/id/267
and [b] in Harris Newmark's Sixty Years in Southern California: https://archive.org/stream/sixtyyear...e/254/mode/2up



2021 Update: This building, numbered 447 Aliso, was also an early home of the USC College of Medicine. A drawing
of the building is in the 1891-92 USC Yearbook (at the link, go back one page to see the address).

:previous:

In the late 19th century, the French Consulate seems to have been at 86 Temple Block. Anyway, here's the building in question in 1934.

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Detail of picture in USC Digital Library

The full picture shows construction of Union Station well under way.

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USC Digital Library

USC also has a trio of 1932 images showing the intersection of Lyon and Aliso Streets (the lower left corner of the picture above). It's good for context, and shows several buildings which have been cleared in the image above, but 445/447/451 Aliso is hidden/out-of-shot in all three views.

Or maybe mostly black.;)

1959 Husband and Wife parking enforcement team.
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1965 "Ready for duty."
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"OK Wig-Wag, put that aeroplane exactly where you found it!" :P

1962
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Speaking of the LAPD, Comedy Department

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1958 Burbank PD
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1960 - West Valley Police Pursuit Car
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1963
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:previous: "Whoa, Nellie!"

Dick Lane
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1963
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Just a single picture from Julius Shulman today. This is "Job 288: Matcham and Heitschmidt, David Barry Shops (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1948".

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Getty Research Institute

I could only find Polaris Pictures Inc in the 1956 CD. That gave me an address of 5859 W 3rd Street, which is opposite the northeast tip of La Brea Park. Here's the new construction permit from 1945.

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Online Building Records

I couldn't see a demolition permit, so, despite the changes, I'm assuming that the original building is behind the updated frontage. At least there's still a cleaners next door.

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GSV

:previous:


One occupant before Polaris, one after:


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...5%252520PM.jpgLAT Feb 7, 1947


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...2520PM.bmp.jpg Feb 5, 1967

For some reason, the store's name doesn't appear in the ad...


David Barry Jr was the son of David Barry Sr, one of the developers of Fremont Place: fremontplace.blogspot.com


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Interesting photo, Tourmaline. I was working at Pacific Airmotive's Burbank Airport facility at the time but do not remember the incident. However, I find it interesting that the two prowl cars blocking the street to the rear of the aircraft have their hoods up!

Pacific Airmotive marketed a tricycle landing gear and single tail conversion of the Beechcraft Model 18, commonly called the "Twin Beech" as their PAC Tradewind. One day our company VP belly landed the demo A/C at the airport, with the plane stopping almost opposite the hanger from which it departed. The maintenance boys charged with the repairs asked me to do a cartoon showing a burly mechanic with his arm around the plane and a comforting caption reading "Never fear, Captain Flexible is here". It eventually found its way to every building in the PAC Burbank complex.

Cheers,
Jack

:previous: Thank you for the story Wig-Wag!



Could the addresses have been renumbered? Although this would not seem to explain an apparent inability to find permits for the adjoining structure and others on Third Street. For example, at 5850 there was a service station according the the '56 and '73 CD but it clearly was replaced. It also appears from the 56 CD that Earl Francis Cleaners was at 5855 1/2, yet at the corner (5851) there was Chuck's Liquor Store. Not sure how both businesses would fit in the single structure. Notice that present occupant, Pride Cleaners apparently moved from the western end of the same block (5867).:shrug:





An unrelated "Secret Weapon" against sidewalk impregnated chewing gum.
Something says not-so-secret with that engine running.

1961
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August 15, 1945
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1939 - Aloha Cleaners on Vine Street. (Hidden below Hiram Walker sign)
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Red Skelton! (If it's not it sure looks like him!)

1922 - Corner of Broadway and 61st Street. (6026 S Broadway)
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Undated - Corner of Broadway and 61st Street
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HossC posted about Easton's Restaurant in Studio City.
Many photos are included in his post:


After it was Eaton's Restaurant, the Critiki site says that in the late 1950's it became:

THE TAHITIAN
12010 Ventura Blvd.
Studio City, CA.

https://critiki.com/images/locations/732/5272_jumbo.JPGCritiki
Detail from a postcard.

The site states: The Studio City location was the second one. The first one opened in Pasadena.
Address: 137 So. Lake Ave., Pasadena, CA. The Royal Tahitian in nearby Ontario, CA had identical
lettering, and may have been related. (It was located within the city's municipal golf course.)


https://critiki.com/images/locations/732/4479_jumbo.JPG MATCHBOOKS https://critiki.com/images/locations/732/5296_jumbo.JPG


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This is a candle lamp (by Bumatay) from The Tahitian in Studio City.
You can see them on the various tables in the postcard images below.


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A postcard showing six views of The Tahitian in Studio City, including the luau spread,
the bar, the banquet room and the fireplace room.

The book "Tiki Road Trip: A Guide to Tiki Culture in North America" by James Teitelbaum
has a paragraph that says "it" closed shortly after 1967, but it's not clear whether he's
talking about the Studio City location or the Pasadena one, or both.


HossC, I think we can be sure it is the same restaurant because look at the photo below of The Tahitian,
from the top left corner of the postcard shown above. You can see they kept same "tree" design that is in
the photograph above and the booths are certainly the same.

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I've seen many V-J Day celebration photos, some video, and read things about it, but this is the first I've heard that bonfires were lit for celebrations!
Who knew!


Is this the photo you meant to post, Tourmaline? I don't see "Aloha Cleaners" and this is "Vine Street." :shrug: I like the photo
anyway, especially the north end of the street where you see the "double hills" where the Hollywood Freeway is now located.