A little more Union Oil
 

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics46/00057641.jpgLAPL

Olympic at Wilton Place, 1958. There is still a 76 station on that corner:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle


Is the apartment building appearing in the vintage shot but not in the current view still there?
I'm happy to say that it is, at 974 S. Gramercy:


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

Wow..this building is so impressive to me. I've looked at it five or six times since you posted it GaylordWilshire.
Instead of simply placing the enormous 76 sign on top of the building, the designer incorporated it into the building design.
Also the font used for the word RESEARCH is beautiful.

This is top-notch any way you look at it! I lament its demise. :(

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Welcome to the thread Mayor Shaw! Your many views (several times a day) have helped keep noirish Los Angeles alive.
I appreciate the link to the L.A. Free Press. I look forward to going through their archives.

Also, if you have any difficulties posting we'll be happy to help.

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That Union76 Research Center was impressive! I made a presentation there when I worked for Unocal in 1991. Got to tour the facility. First class all the way. I believe the center was later named after Fred Hartley, former CEO of Unocal.

Indeed, although Kubrick's camera shows more of the surrounding neighborhood than it does the depot. (Not that I'm complaining!)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...75/Kill-01.jpg
[source: The Criterion Collection]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r...75/kill-03.jpg
[source: The Criterion Collection]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Z...75/kill-05.jpg
[source: The Criterion Collection]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...75/kill-06.jpg
[source: The Criterion Collection]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1...75/kill-07.jpg
[source: The Criterion Collection]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...75/kill-08.jpg
[source: The Criterion Collection]

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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520AM.bmp.jpg1956
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U...dixonredux.jpg1958
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...dixonfedex.jpg2011


Great to see Clarence Dixon Cadillac in your screenshots, HS. Above, a little consolidation of images from your post and a previous one of mine, q.v.




Noirish Los Angeles/Noirish Los Angeles/Google

:previous:
Wow, is that FedEx Office really what was once a Cadillac dealership? That is awesome.

My sentiments exactly. And I totally agree with your critique of the building design.

I liked this picture so much that I shared it on my facebook, hehe.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520PM.bmp.jpgAlden Jewell

A 1939 DeSoto

Gaylord!
 

You make life worth living......:)

OK......maybe I am overdoing it a bit........lol.....

but your last two posts were upper-deck homers in my book.

First Unocal. My uncle (my Dad's younger brother) was a Research Chemist and later a manager there for 20 or 30 years. I never visited the place, but I knew he worked there. That's a stunning piece of Mid-Century architecture.

And then you follow with The Killing......what a great and overlooked movie. Ted Turner may indeed be a top-notch d-bag, but he singlehandedly created Turner Classic, without which I would have never seen The Killing or a host of other noirs.

As we mourn the loss of the Union 76 Research facility (below)

http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/8...earchsspgw.jpg





...we should praise hallelujah that the Union 76 structure (below) at 'little' Santa Monica Blvd. and Crescent Drive
still stands and is open for business.



http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8...verlyhills.jpg
http://you-are-here.com/modern/76.html





below: The sight-lines are extremely graceful and beautiful (this view reminds me of a scene from Jean Luc Goddard's ALPHAVILLE).

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/9ysecL.png
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lawren...ream/lightbox/

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below: The Union 76 service station in bright daylight.

The space-age canopy was designed in 1965 by Gin Wong of Pereira & Luckman Architectural Firm
for the 1965 redesign of LAX (Los Angeles International Airport).

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3...hugeflickr.jpg
unknown



LAX declined to incorporate the canopy into it's new design...so Union 76 went ahead and built it
at Jack Colker's service station at 427 N. Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.

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Ho hum.......yet another "mixed use" project.

Translated: homes, apartments, senior living, retail, perhaps a school. Every former industrial, manufacturing, or commercial site is "redeveloped" with a similar mix....

Does anyone wonder why you rarely hear about projects where people will actually DO something? (e.g., a research facility)

For a while we thought we could create an economy where we just sell mortgages back and forth to one another.

Now it seems our economy is based on walking each other's dogs and do each other's nails.

.....climbs down off soapbox.

A couple more photos of Jack Colker's Union 76 Station.

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/4...dotfilesdo.jpg
http://www.i2iart.com/




These photos come closest to how I remember it.
It actually felt 'other-worldly' under that glowing canopy.....it was almost like an.....ethereal.......reality. ;)




http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/4...dotfilesdo.jpg
i2iart


I wouldn't want to be under this thing during an earthquake.
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Mid-20th Century architecture--I've really come to appreciate it. I actually didn't like it 25-30 years ago, but I do now; well, a lot of it I like. There are still some examples that I don't like.

Anyway, going on that theme, and on the eve of this year's Oscars, here's the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, built in 1958 and designed by Welton Becket. I recently learned that a whole African-American neighborhood, called Belmar Triangle, was destroyed to build the Auditorium and its adjacent parking lot. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was the venue for the Academy Awards from 1961 to 1968.

I think I posted a few of these pictures before in this thread:

1958, shortly after its completion.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6...n123610095.jpg
USC Archive

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1...n123610093.jpg
USC Archive

The Academy Awards held in 1968.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5743/picture4isq.png
oscars.org

Sonny and Cher on the red carpet, 1968.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9955/picture3yr.png
corbisimages.com

Angela Lansbury performing Best Original Song nominee "Thoroughly Modern Millie" at the Academy Awards, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1968. She really hoofs it up!
• Video Link

:previous:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520AM.bmp.jpgAlden Jewell
Once at 1225 S. Brand, Glendale.

sopas... seeing the grillwork of the SM Civic Auditorium reminded me of this Cadillac dealership--at least, there appears to be some sort of screen on the second floor.

A boring Lexus dealer now occupies the site. I wonder if its architecture will ever inspire good feelings the way midcentury design does now? If the design of cars themselves these days--pretty much the same "jellybean" styling for nearly two decades--is any indication... I doubt it.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

KMPC studios
 

I've been reading this thread, literally, for years trying to catch up, so I haven't posted anything. That said, I'm a former radio guy (not in L.A.) so I was browsing a KMPC history website and ran across a few pictures that I wanted to share.
http://www.710kmpc.com/Large%20Photo...erly_Hills.jpg
KMPC Studios & Transmitter 1930's
9631 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA
(Front View)
From www.710kmpc.com

http://www.710kmpc.com/Large%20Photo...C-BH-Tower.jpg
KMPC Studios & Transmitter 1930's
9631 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA
(View from Corner)
From www.710kmpc.com

Not really noirish, but pretty cool anyway. There are many others, into the 70s and 80s, but I figured these were closer to the thread than the others.

David

:previous: Welcome to the thread Notinkeys!

Those two photos are great. You should go ahead and post the other ones well. :)
The thread started out as 'noirish'...but as you've probably noticed the thread now pretty much encompasses 'anything' L.A.

Since you were in radio you would also like this site: http://www.radiocityhollywood.com/

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http://www.oldradio.com/archives/sta...la-ElMonte.jpg
The original site of KRLA/1110 at Lexington and Gallatin Roads, in El Monte, CA. This is unrelated to the modern KRLA/870, which is the former KIEV.

This photo is from the days 1110 was known as KPAS/Pasadena, and predates 1940.

Photo from www.oldradio.com

Thanks, Ethereal. You and many regulars here are old friends, even though you don't know me. I'm still WAY back in the page 115 range. Although I have only had a short time living in L.A., I love the historical aspects of the city, and have spent many hours looking into it.

I do have more broadcast related pictures I'll share, including a few more KMPC ones, along with KFI, KHJ, KRLA and others.

KEJK Remote truck, 1920s
 

http://www.710kmpc.com/Large%20Photo...te%20Truck.jpg

from www.oldradio.com

Before becoming KMPC, the station was KEJK. This is their remote broadcast truck, from the 1920s. No exact date is given. but since it became KMPC in March of 1930, this was clearly from the 20s!

Baseball!!!
 

http://www.710kmpc.com/Large%20Photo...BaseballBW.bmp

from www.710kmpc.com

Baseball at the old L.A. Coliseum! Sorry for the small size...

Station of the Stars
 

http://www.710kmpc.com/KMPC%20Board.jpg
From www.710kmpc.com

(L to R) Bing Crosby, Freeman Gosden, Harold Lloyd, and Charles Correll
Photo Courtesy Annette Lloyd
Richards brought into his corporation, as stockholders, Bing Crosby, Paul Whiteman, “Amos & Andy” (Freeman Gosden & Charles Corell) and producer and silent film comedian Harold Lloyd, who had not only a strong interest in radio, but his own radio show, "The Old Gold Comedy Theater" on rival station KFI (640 AM). They renamed the station “KMPC the Station of the Stars.”

1938 Flooding
 

Let's see if I can resist the urge to post before I've inserted several photos.
http://earthsignals.com/Newcomb/ONLY...l_231dde15.jpg
Jay Tapp, CE of KGER reports from the flood trashed Beach at Long Beach.

(All Photos From earthsignals.com)

http://earthsignals.com/Newcomb/ONLY..._m21609a87.jpg
This is Clinton Twiss, NBC Reporter. He is speaking from Venice Beach; standing at the edge of the brown, flood of 38 He is interviewing this boy who has just used a raft to rescue his cat.

http://earthsignals.com/Newcomb/ONLY..._m3acbfa8e.jpg

KFI Special Events Dir Jimmy Vandiveer is interviewing a flood refuge. This man has lost his home to rising water.

93khj
 

http://www.johninmontana.com/california/khj.jpg

Old days at KHJ, before the Feds stripped the licenses from RKO General. from www.johnmontana.com

http://www.93khj.com/KHJBook/images/...KHJ_VineSt.jpg

From www.93khj.com
KHJ AM-TV site between 1950 and 1961

KFAC Man on the Street
 

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2...dioprogram.jpg

Year is unknown, but looks like the late 40s/early 50s.

From USC Digital Archives.

Sunset Bowling Center
 

... at the Warner Brothers site. Photo is undated, from www.710kmpc.com
http://www.710kmpc.com/Large%20Photo...g%20center.jpg

Thanks for sharing these great details with us BDiH.

You mentioned the Tick Tock Tea Room....

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6...zabethfull.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zilf/771414841/



http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/3...ktockwmark.jpg
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/



below: The Tick Tock building today at 1716 N. Cahuenga...now Sharkey's.

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/1224/35632654.jpg
google street view

Notinkeys, welcome to the thread. I really enjoyed your radio station photos and look forward to seeing more of them. I've got a few tucked away somewhere and will try to contribute a few.

Would enjoy seeing any old L.A. radio towers, broadcast remotes, transmitter buildings, any of that good stuff.;)

My nickname here is a radio reference. The 39-40 was a console set made by Philco in 1939. DXing (as you probably know) is listening for distant radio stations.

http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Philco_1.sml2.jpg
(my photo)

Anyway, good to see you here.

Also, sopas, thanks for the Academy Award photos, I enjoyed them.

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...rpetworks.jpg/[/IMG]I admit, I've been a lurker. Not that I don't have anything to say, but I think the "regulars" are way beyond my knowledge of the LA area, especially being in the Midwest (Purdue U area), although I did live in Thousand Oaks awhile back. So I just enjoy. I am mesmerized by this forum and all the info that comes from it. Anyway, this forum got me to thinking about my Aunt Gladys' business in Santa Ana. I wondered if the building was still there. Lo and behold, it was. The first pic I will post is her standing in front, in the early 1940s. The second is from Google Map. I know it's not quite as old as some of the structures you've posted, but it still seems to be in pretty decent shape.

OK, guess I can't figure out how to post a pic! Oh, for just a "browse" pic feature! I will try and work on this.

:previous: Welcome to the thread PastPresent!

I'm not the best at explaining the ins and outs of posting photos. I host my photos at http://imageshack.us/ (basic service is free)

After I upload a photo and choose 'share a photo', I have to change, for some unknown reason, the upper case [IMG] to lower case.

....like this [IMG] [/IMG] to [img] [/img].

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Does anyone else have some helpful hints?

This really shouldn't be that hard...but....when I go to change the IMG to img, it will highlight the whole thing and won't let me edit. I will try and reupload the pic and see if that works. But thanks for the info. And yes, I'm using image shack.

PastPresent, copy and paste your image into the 'noirish Los Angeles' thread and THEN change from upper case to lower case.


When you chose to 'share' your uploaded photo...this box will come up
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3...ageshackrx.jpg

...working your way down..left click...left click...left & right click (right click is 'copy').

go to 'noirish Los Angeles' and 'paste', which is left and right click....
then change [IMG] to [img] once the address is inserted into 'noirish Los Angeles'.

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This seems so archaic. Can anyone help us here? :)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520AM.bmp.jpgAlden Jewell

Before every, say, Chevrolet dealership (and every Ford, VW, Lexus dealership, etc, as well) had to have identical corporate looks,
their buildings had personality, just like the cars they sold.... Bitner Pontiac was at 270 N. Lake Ave. in Pasadena--replaced by a very,
very boring and utterly charmless office building. (Architecture schools seem to exist in name only these days.)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-C...s601/stude.jpgAlden Jewell

A 1942 Studebaker, pictured moments before Pearl Harbor at...

http://www.uclaphotography.com/UCLAP...Hall-021-L.jpgUCLA


UCLA's Royce Hall. And then there's this shot. I'm always stunned by pictures of L.A. in the snow... turns my SoCal nostalgia on its head.

http://www.uclaphotography.com/UCLAP...all-1932-L.jpgUCLA

I'm a Mac guy so the steps are a little different for me, and I can't give 100% specific instructions. But PastPresent, if you still have trouble, why don't you just post the test string that you tried to use, and we can probably de-bug it fairly easily.

Keep in mind that your posts here can be edited over and over, so once you've finally got this sorted out you can go back and fix previous attachment problems, add more photos, etc.

The main thing is you need to host your photos someplace else, first. Once you have done that, it should be fairly easy to capture the image URL and paste it into your reply, with [Ximg]http://blah.blah.etc[/imgX]. (Ignore the two X's, I just added them to make the rest of the string visible.)

Another trick is, if you click the quote button on some other post that contains images, you will see the exact text string that that person used, which can serve as an example of what you need to do.

If you still have trouble, you could go ahead and post with errors, then give me or someone else here your log in info and we can go in and fix it for you.

Don't give up, you're probably very close already.

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3...mcarpet001.jpg

Early 1940s, 1622 S. Main, Santa Ana. My aunt is standing in front.

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/995...arpetworks.jpg
Shot at 2012-02-26

Present day pic. 1622 S. Main, Santa Ana.

aaaggghhh

http://https://plus.google.com/photo...20636660259569...Tried using Google and Image Shack to save images, but still not working. I think I'm going back to being a lurker. This is probably simple but it's too stressful to try and figure out without me having to post something 100 times before I get it right. And there's no delete or cancel button to get rid of all my mistakes. I fear I will just irritate you all with my attempts. The photos I have to share aren't that great anyway as compared to yours. But I can still enjoy what you guys post by lurking. Am I the only one that has had trouble with this forum in regards to posting things? I can't imagine I'm the only one. I hate to think you have "lost" members due to this issue. Anyway, keep up with your work. I thoroughly enjoy the forum!!

Okay, as seen from my above posts, I have finally been able to insert pics, albeit they are small. (why !!!????) Whether or not I can do this again, it's up to the internet gods. :) Thanks for your help everyone!!

It appears that the two url's you posted and not valid image url's or links, for whatever reason.

Have you already uploaded your images to some hosting site? Usually these sites will display a box, like the one e_r posted last night with "ready to go" url's. Are you able to navigate to that type of box?

Yet another way is, view your picture as a full size image, then right click the image itself. This should copy the image url to your clipboard (or whatever they call it in PC land) and then you can paste it into your forum reply, after clicking the "insert image: button (the one that looks like a yellow postcard).

You can always test the image url before posting it here. Just open a browser window and paste the url into the web address box. If your photo opens in the page, all by itself, the url was good. If it doesn't, then the url was not good.

I don't mind continuing to help you. But rather than adding any more new replies, just go back and edit your old ones. On the old posts you can delete all the text and totally start over if you want. (When all this is sorted out and you no longer feel frustrated, the "aaargh" post could be replaced with a photo or two, and some comments etc. ;) )

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

It's always great to see a building in L.A. survive, even if purpose or signage has changed. But the First Baptist Church is not only still at 8th and Westmoreland--its purpose and even signage is almost the same as it was in 1927.

The First Baptist Church had two prior buildings...
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00076/00076399.jpgLAPL
6th and Fort (later Broadway), 1884-1898


http://jpg1.lapl.org/00076/00076389.jpgLAPL
725 S. Flower, 1898-1927

My father's in the hospital so I'll be gone for a few days. See ya when I get back.

North of the Stack
 

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520PM.bmp.jpgCalisphere
The Mayo Motel was at 840 N. Figueroa, now the corner of Figueroa Terrace and New
Depot Street. Great banner.


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-K...2520AM.bmp.jpgEbay
Card dated 1954. Not sure how even numbers
came to be on the west side of Figueroa Terrace.


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
The Mayo Motel was on the site of the apartment building at left (addressed for its main entrance around the corner
on New Depot Street). The house just to the Mayo's north appears to still be there:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
Dang those trees.


We're in the Teed Street neighborhood we looked into not too long ago. Here are some other
domestic remnants, some of which seem very old indeed--possibly even as old as the vanished
J.W. Robinson house:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3...2520AM.bmp.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
The house on the left is on New Depot; the one on the right, across from the Mayo site, practically hangs over the freeway.


:previous:
Sorry to hear about your dad, e_r. Hope he'll get well soon.

Edward Weston
 

Since I posted Ansel Adams earlier here are some Edward Weston prints of LA:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7185/6...a09223e2_b.jpg Edward Weston, Plaster Works, Los Angeles, 1925

Edward Weston
 

Another Edward Weston:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6...40eebf27_b.jpgEdward Weston, Factory, Los Angeles, 1925

I was looking for a picture of Eastside Market and came across this funky looking building on the SW corner of 8th and Olive

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067457.jpg
1927 LAPL

I'm new to this forum but would like to chime in from time to time. I have been to this spot, the ruins of Echo Mountain Resort. Not much to see there now except it is at the top of the incline, which you can see down the path toward the bottom. It is not near the top of Mt. Lowe, that is probably another mile and a half up. Never made it all the way to the top. Amazing that tracks used to go all the way and hardly a trace left these days.
PS, Well as I said. I am new and my comment didn't land anywhere near the Echo Mountain page where I wanted this to go. If you can give me some pointers I'd appreciate it. And why does it say I am posting at 5:10 AM when it is 9:10 PM Pacific Time when I am posting this?

Oscar winners, March 2, 1944, Grauman's Chinese Theatre (the first year that the Oscars were held in a theater as opposed to a dinner banquet format).
Left to right, Best Actor Paul Lukas ("Watch on the Rhine"), Best Actress Jennifer Jones ("The Song of Bernadette"), Best Supporting Actress Katina Paxinou ("For Whom the Bell Tolls"), and Best Supporting Actor Charles Coburn ("The More the Merrier").
http://www.oscars.org/awards/academy...944_header.gif
oscars.org

Here's a radio transcript of that night. Very interesting.
KFWB's 1944 Academy Awards Broadcast, from Grauman's Chinese Theatre, honoring movies released in 1943.

Greenwich Mean Time. Pretty sure Skyscraper's default is GMT.
I gave a cursory check to see if the user can change it. I didn't see it.

Wouldn't worry about it.

Los Angeles High School, under construction and finished, ca. 1917
 

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520PM.bmp.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8...11/lahs911.jpg


And finished once again--April/May 1971:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-V...2520AM.bmp.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520AM.bmp.jpg
4650 West Tenth became 4650 West Olympic in the late '20s. Not new pics to the thread, but
I'm hoping that their drama will excuse the repetition....


And the infamous, architecturally heinous replacement:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
Only the lamppost remains [more or less] the same.



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