:previous: Thanks for the information Wig-Wag...greatly appreciated Jack.
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1927: Traffic policeman has a tea break at Broadway and 11th Street, downtown Los Angeles.
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We may have inadvertently stumbled upon the reason we so rarely see pigeons in these old photos.
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There must be a place here for Weegee!
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weegee and collaborator mel harris Weegee and collaborator Mel Harris combing through hundreds of photos for "Naked Hollywood." franklin avenue |
below: The slide enlarged and tweaked. An exceptional photograph of a natural disaster. Can anyone place the location?
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Floods make some of us seek higher ground.:rolleyes: Most of the views of T. Lowe's Lookout Mountain make it seem remote and rustic.
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto..._7167290_n.jpghttp://farm4.staticflickr.com/3217/2...4fbb6611_o.jpghttp://www.flickr.com http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/888...ailwaybanc.jpg http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9...weinclinee.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1953 When in reality, it depends upon your perspective. Can't recall seeing this particular shot on this forum. It appears that Lookout-ville was a tiny pastoral holdout under direct assault from a monstrous urban sprawl. Tremendous view nonetheless. ;) http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3172/2...bf524096_b.jpg |
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Map of the old portion of the city...(1873)
I hope we haven't had this on the thread before. I can't find it. If it's been here already somebody tip me off and I'll remove this one. I think it's a lovely map and I went big so that you could read all the notations.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7275/7...c7241753_o.jpg PlazaMap3LOC LibraryofCongress I think we may have seen this image before but I wanted to put it up with the map. I think they go together nicely even though separated by 23 years. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7275/7...366d3cb0_o.jpg aerial photograph of the lugo house, circa 1880 Black-and-white aerial(?) photograph of Don Lugo's townhouse on the Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. Historical Background: When St. Vincent's Select College for Boys opened in 1865, the first classes were held in a few rooms in a two-story townhome on the Los Angeles Plaza built by Don Vicente Lugo in the 1840s. Two years later, the school moved to a permanent building on Hill Street, and the Lugo Adobe became a Chinese restaurant. It was torn down in 1951. Although the LMU archives have this print identified as an aerial photograph, I can't believe it's actually an aerial photo. I think it's much more likely taken from the hill above New High Street. Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University |
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Westcork, I had completely forgotten about the first of the following two attached websites when I responded to Ethereal Reality's initial inquiry. The scene is virtually unchanged today with the exception of the underpinnings of the Figueroa Street bridge which were rebuilt with the cementing in of the Los Angeles River. http://lariverrailroads.com/laflood.html http://lacreekfreak.wordpress.com/20...gueroa-bridge/ Be sure to scroll down for the best of the pre and post pictures on the latter site. Cheers, Jack |
2nd St Tunnel and Hill St
Some pics maybe have been reposted yet or maybe not... 1- 2nd St and Hill, looking west. Uncertain date. http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2540/2ndandhill0.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us 2- 2nd street and Hill, looking west, circa 1920. http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4629/2ndhill1.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us 3- Works for the 'new' 2nd St tunnel, 1924 (?) http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9229/2ndandhill2.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us 4- Opening of the 2nd Street tunnel, 1924 http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/8333/2ndhill3.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us 5- 2nd Street and Hill and a glimpse of Bunker Hill. http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6619/2ndandhill4.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us 6- 2nd St Tunnel. The present day. http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8897/2ndandhill5.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us 7- 2nd St and Hill (then and now) http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4366/2ndandhill6.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us And finally, 2nd St and Figueroa during the works of the tunnel, 1924: http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/2...ndfigueroa.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us SOURCES: Pics 1,2 3, LAPL. Pics 4, 5, and 7 LA Times. PIC 6 found at Flickr. MORE info about the pic and about the topic: ON BUNKER HIL ( http://onbunkerhill.org/TheDirtPatchofSecondandHill )Please correct those soures if they're wrong. |
Hello all, I am newly registered but I've been following this thread for about a year - from around page 220 (and then reading all previous pages too, of course!). It's easily one of the greatest forum threads on the web. I finally registered because I thought the following was just a little too cool to keep to myself:
I have been having fun using Google Earth to load vintage USGS topographic maps, and then loading modern 3D buildings on top of them. This works especially well in the LA area as there are thousands of buildings rendered in 3D, and a large number old topos available for LA County. Here is an example of downtown: (Click image for full size) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...lesOverlay.jpg credit: USGS via Gelib (linked below)/Google Earth The USGS map used is from 1928. In this example, I un-checked most of the display options like labels, streets, etc., for the sake of cleanliness. To get the index for the topo maps, go here: http://www.gelib.com/historic-topographic-maps.htm Just open the .kml file link on that page using Google Earth and you will get outlines of the available topos, which you can then select to load by clicking its name on the Google Earth map. There are a few broken links but a large number of 1920s and 1930s topos available. The overlays' opacity can be changed so you can see the modern aerial imagery beneath a semi-transparent vintage topo. In my picture above, I have the Los Angeles 1928 topo selected in the Places window at left, and the transparency slider is just beneath it. You can also select to hide a specific 3D building by right-clicking it. (It will remain hidden until Google Earth is restarted.) It's very interesting to see the modern buildings laid on top of the old street grid - seeing what is different and also what is the same, and it's helping me to mentally place old images from the thread. Since I went ahead and registered I also decided to do a quick photo stitch of the two pics from page 428 that were taken from the county courthouse. None of the programs I had would connect these because they're too different, so I did it manually. It's rough because of the different resolutions but I think they really were taken from the very same spot so it turned out pretty ok: (Click for full size) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-R...0/LAstitch.jpg left side from http://www.skyscrapercity.com/ via post by ethereal_reality; right side from CC Pierce Collection via MichaelRyerson's post and Flickr stream Couple of comments that I've been sitting on while waiting for posting privileges: Quote:
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A second penny was left for several days and ended up as a squarish copper-colored blob spread so thin that there was a hole in it. RE: the railroad & bridge flood picture - Quote:
I drove over the 1939 bridge last Labor Day weekend as part of a Route 66 road trip. It is slated to be replaced and comments in the blog post above indicate that restrictions have begun, but I live in Vegas so I don't know if that project has fully closed the bridge yet. Any locals want to chime in? So, there goes my first post. Thank you all for such a fantastic thread! |
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Welcome to the thread, ProphetM and congratulations on a really good first post. Very interesting stuff. I'm pretty convinced the two pics you stitched together were taken from pretty much exactly the same place but separated by a couple of years. Which, if correct, is pretty amazing that the cameras were set up in so much the same spot. If I remember correctly ER's pic showed a part of Justicia Street as well. Some utility poles were apparent in his image but not in mine. Also there was some pretty noticeable growth in a couple of trees. But still the POV was pretty much identical. Anyway, welcome again.
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Hi, my first post here on this great forum and even greater coverage of Los Angeles, As for plastic models I feel the builder has nailed it.
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http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...elinpc_sky.jpghttp://losangelespast.blogspot.com/2...-postcard.html Graf Zeppelin at Mines Field, 1929 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...CDC9AF537?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1342730865153 http://www.airships.net/wp-content/u...angele004a.jpghttp://www.airships.net/lz127-graf-z...tory#weltfahrt Bullocks Wilshire Ceiling Mural http://martinturnbull.files.wordpres...ire-mural1.jpghttp://www.google.com ______________________________ And before GrafZ and the commissioning of the USS Los Angeles there was . . . the Altadena Float! Altadena apparently had a Zeppelin produced for its entry in the 1908 Rose Parade. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics28/00048789.jpgLAPL ______________________________ Slightly off topic and some distance from Wilshire Boulevard . . . the subject of Zeppelin Mooring Masts. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/...ep_mooring.jpghttp://blog.modernmechanix.com/build...asts-for-zeps/ |
Worth a second/third/eight look - or beating a dead horse?
Pan Pacific Park aka Gardener Park 1940. Auditorium is almost dead center. ~~Feel the vibe~~ http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...0-14-ISLA?v=hr USC Digital Pan Pacific 1955 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...10BF346A6?v=hrUSC Digital http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AbImehj4Li..._6091359_n.jpg http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...lvis_wally.jpghttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed...lvis-live.html Reporter-Columnist Wally George http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2295/2...ceec62f4ec.jpg Press Conference and Concert at Pan Pacific 10-28-57 Pics from:http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/...uditorium.html http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/...october_28.jpg http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/...ific_2_708.jpghttp://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/..._pacific_5.jpg http://www.ticketstubcollection.com/...7.8h5vbszq.jpggoogle |
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