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First I looked to see if I could find a photo of the Officer's Club. When built, it was called the Allen Center. Roosevelt Naval Base - Long Beach Naval Station - Construction - Allen Center, Gym , Boating Center - Navy Yard under Construction - March 6, 1942 [Ocean at bottom.] [For closer views, click the photo below, and then click that photo again.] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...A_-_295525.jpgWikimediaCommons https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/p...shtray-USN.jpgPicClick A completed 1943 view: [Ocean at right.] https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org...u_1-thumb6.jpg Construction of this complex, named Roosevelt Base, took place between 1940 and 1943, and cost $18 million, funded by Congressional appropriations. Included were the gymnasium (Bldg. #23), squash/handball courts and locker rooms (#22), a swimming pool (#233) and tennis courts (#221), arcade (#234), lounge and bowling alley (#20), officers' club (#24), and fleet landing building (#10), administration building (#1), dispensary (#2), fire station (#3), central heating plant (#4), labor board building (#41), gatehouse (#40), and main gates (gate 1), and a net pier (pier 7, structure 126), and extensive landscaping. Roosevelt Base | Officers Club (Building No. 24) Corner of Pennsylvania Street and Richardson Avenue This photo below of the building is from the Historic American Buildings Survey done in 1996 when the Long Beach Naval base was being decommissioned. VIEW OF BUILDING 24, WEST AND SOUTH SIDES, FACING NORTHEAST - Roosevelt Base, Officers' Club, Corner of Pennsylvania Street & Richardson Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA https://tile.loc.gov/storage-service...s/325504pv.jpgLibrary of Congress Building 24, built in 1942 at the cost of $350,586, was designed for use as a recreational area with swimming pool, dining facilities, locker rooms, and lounges for officers. It is currently used as an Officers' Club. [1996] Its construction was part of a plan to provide recreational and administrative facilities for the Pacific Fleet anchored in San Pedro harbor. The construction of this complex was part of a nationwide military effort to replace deteriorating World War I temporary buildings with new permanent facilities to attract and retain post-war peacetime forces. Rather than using a standard design from the Bureau of Yards and Docks, the Navy, through Allied Engineers, hired local civilian architects Adrian Wilson and Paul R. Williams. As a result the buildings, designed in the International Style with Mediterranean Revival details, are unique to the Base. From: Bldg. 24/Historic American Buildings Survey Of the originally designed building, the survey concludes: Building 24, the original Officers' Club called the Allen Center, was once a dominant building in the recreation complex, but has been so remodeled that its original International Style attributes have been overwhelmed. The dramatic port cochere, now hidden by landscaping, the pool side door, set within window walls, and the entry door are the only original elements remaining with architectural integrity. The dramatic port cochere, now hidden by landscaping... https://tile.loc.gov/storage-service...s/325509pv.jpgLibrary of Congress The pool side door, set within window walls... https://tile.loc.gov/storage-service...s/325511pv.jpgLibrary of Congress The entry door... https://tile.loc.gov/storage-service...s/325510pv.jpgLibrary of Congress Here's a couple photos of interiors and exteriors taken from the Paul Williams Project Website gallery section: Interior, 1944: https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org...24n-thumb6.jpg Library, 1994: https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org...38n-thumb6.jpg Lounge, 1944: https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org...32n-thumb6.jpg One of the major features of the Wilson and Williams Roosevelt Naval Base design was the importance of landscaping. Created by Walter Hammond Sadler, a noted landscape architect, considerable funds were included in both the initial and continuing budget for building and maintaining the base grounds. ($175,000 in 1944) Roosevelt Naval Base was one of the last significant government sponsored landscape projects undertaken after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Basing his plan on City Beautiful movement principles, Sadler incorporated large-scale lawns, native plants (date and fan palms, Moreton Bay fig, olive trees, laurel fig, etc.) and over-sized concrete planters. His design gave the government facility a residential California flavor. https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org...6pu-thumb6.jpg https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org...3pu-thumb6.jpg |
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Welch's reminds me of a building near where I grew up in the 50s and 60s, the Woodlake Bowl as it was called then.
Here's a picture from the Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory. https://i.postimg.cc/FRvs4gw6/woodlakebowl.jpg http://historicplacesla.org/reports/...2-9cea2f1a7f0a When I was in Jr. High, my English teacher assigned the class to write an essay about a significant building near our homes. Since where I lived the Woodlake Bowl was the only building of any type other than houses, I chose it. Years later, after attending college and traveling through Europe, I remembered my essay with embarrasment. What a dope I was to chose such a cheesy ugly building to write about! Then came the 90s and mid-century modernism became the rage. Now I look back and think how prescient I was in writing about it only a year after its construction. As they say, I'd rather be lucky than good. |
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It looks like there were two of these neon signs, one on each side: https://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/17/91/41/66/69832610.jpgServimg Close up detail of the entrance...and vintage taxi. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7108/...1532d64671.jpg https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/17/91/41/66/69832611.jpgServimg On some further searching, in an article from On Bunker Hill, it appears the above photos were taken by George Mann. In that article it says they wished he'd hung around to capture the neon sign illuminated, but it IS illuminated here isn't it? The glass tubing isn't in color unless it's turned on. Maybe they meant they wished to see it at night. Wiki info: A neon tube is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number of gases at low pressure. A high potential of several thousand volts applied to the electrodes ionizes the gas in the tube, causing it to emit colored light. The color of the light depends on the gas in the tube. |
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Towards the end of its life, the restaurant was turned into a tacky smorgasbord place for local people. I went there one time in 1968....the entire place was a mere shadow of its former glory as a sophisticated eatery with the Welch family at the helm. :( |
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I don't think the neon is on in the George Mann photograph. hmm. . .I wonder who's idea it was to put the crab up in the palm tree? It seems a bit odd. I would have guessed the stylized shape was coral by how it looks on the matchbook. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/ZYdpbW.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/bFjkQV.jpg eBay I've looked everywhere for that damn fountain. . |
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In my search for the elusive Bixby Knolls fountain I happened upon this art deco maternity hospital a couple of block south on Atlantic Blvd. "1938 - Art Deco - Maternity Hospital at 3833 Atlantic Avenue." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/QqXc1v.jpg longbeachhistoricalsociety This building still stands, relatively, pristine. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/txl98O.jpg GSV Today it is a Dental Health Clinic. |
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mystery location. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/yLgwDh.jpg currently on eBay Does anyone remember this little drum store? (and Guitar Villa) There are street number but they're either hidden by signs or simply too diificult to read. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LTuvV0.jpg detail "Hootenanny Headquarters" -sounds like fun. :farmer: I realize politics is anathema to this thread but I have to say I am heartbroken by what is happening in our nation's capitol, today. . |
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I used to frequent the Long Beach Civic Light Opera productions. When the Navy moved out, so did half of their military audience, and they unfortunately shut down. Long Beach Civic Light Opera Hears the Music, Calls It Quits by DON SHIRLEY (From Green Book? ;)) APRIL, 1996 Long Beach Civic Light Opera (at the Terrace Theater), a 47-year-old institution that grew from modest community roots into the most prominent musical theater company in Southern California, is going out of business. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...724-story.html Terrace Theater: https://www.nguoi-viet.com/wp-conten...hat-nghiep.jpgLongBeachConcertVenues Long Beach Arena in the background, on left. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/vHb1mxyj/Guitar...AT-78-1-22.jpg LA Times, 1/22/1978 6122 Santa Monica Blvd. (from your photo) is a survivor . . . https://i.postimg.cc/4dvfCwY3/6122-Santa-Monica.jpg gsv And it seems that the 6226 Santa Monica Blvd. address of the ad is also perhaps a survivor: https://i.postimg.cc/QNb804L4/6226-Santa-Monica.jpg gsv |
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The Pacific Jazz blogspot says this: Frequent visitors to this blog will have noticed a variety of addresses for Pacific Jazz / World Pacific on the backs of the EP covers and catalogues. The first location was at 6124 Santa Monica Boulevard above the retail space for Roy Harte’s and Remo Belli’s DRUM CITY. The space was an apartment that Roy and Dick converted to offices. Dotty Woodward was in the front “living room” area that looked out on to Santa Monica Boulevard. Charlie Emge occupied one of the bedrooms where the west coast office of Down Beat was located after Charlie relocated to 6124 from his former address at 6110 Santa Monica Boulevard. Other rooms held the offices for Linear Publications and Nocturne Records. The building has changed little since DRUM CITY and Pacific Jazz were located there. The exterior entrance to the apartment upstairs seen at the far right in the photo below framed by tile work can still be seen in the contemporary photo from the mid 1990's. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7RXrP5GK1...ONT®72DPI.jpgPacificJazz Mid-90's view: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NKwhRio5lL...T+LOCATION.pngPacificJazz Note the bees! |
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:previous: Thanks for finding the Drum City location, odinthor & for the follow ups Martin Pal. I appreciate it. :) I didn't realize the importance of the building (the offices upstairs as well as the store fronts). That explains why someone took the photograph. It appears that 'Aunt B' painted the bees. (the artist's signature is at the top) . |
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The main problem is that the Base property is smack dab in an industrial area. This was considered a bad location for a civilian recreation site. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...McB0A&usqp=CAU Chapman U. |
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______ CBD, thank you for bringing him up because I then looked up on youtube and found out that he did a rare hour long program on this very location and chatted with people who wanted to save the place like you described above and those who thought it might be a done deal already that it was to be made into a container port. He urges people at the end of the program to contact the then current Mayor of Long Beach with their opinions. I so far have only checked out portions of the program, but it includes historical photos and film footage as well as then current views of the place, including aerials. It does seem a shame that many of the wonderfully designed historical buildings and beautiful ocean settings had to give way to something rather heartless and soul crushing. The program is from 1996. (It was only posted to youtube three months ago.) Visiting With Huell Howser- Long Beach Naval Station He also did a half-hour 1995 program about the shipyard itself. Visiting with Huell Howser: Long Beach Naval Shipyard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io9D7Fp58JQ There is also a 39 minute documentary produced for The Port of Long Beach in 1999, filled with lots of historical information and footage: A Tale of Two Bases: The Long Beach Naval Station and Naval Shipyard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ai0JA1hUY I suppose the Port of Long Beach commissioned a documentary to remember what they'd gotten rid of. :rolleyes: |
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Barracks were built on the blank land in the middle of the photo. That was my home. Bob Hope's son had a room above mine and he like to bounce golf balls on the floor. I finally went up there and politely asked him to stop the noise....he did, thank you. He usually denied who he was but everyone knew the truth. He had one friend and mostly kept to himself. This was 1968. By the time I arrived at this Base many of the buildings we see in this photo were long gone and had been replaced by new construction. At the far left there are two sand parking lots for sailors who were at sea on ships or stationed at the Base as I was. The last time I was on this Base was when Royal Yacht Britannia docked there. Nancy Reagan wanted to ride the yacht up to San Francisco. She was denied this glory because of bad weather on the route. Even the Queen took to the air for the trip north. Thanks Martin for your research, great load of photos and videos.! |
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