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...and welcome to NLA ! __________________ UPDATE: *There isn't a sign on the building. Are you sure you're looking at the right address robeach? The building in question is at 21922 S. Main St.....not 29122. _ |
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As a reminder: The shortest street in L.A. is Powers Place. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/Xm88W7.jpg lacurbed It is 13 feet long. If you like, you can check it out HERE |
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1957 slide of the Hall of Justice Building, Los Angeles CA
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VzI6jc.jpg EBAY You can also see one of the temporary court :previous: buildings. And if I'm not mistaken, this 1957 slide includes a glimpse of the old Amstoy Building. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/MbFIt8.jpg EBAY And as most of you already know, the large building on the right is the north side of Los Angeles City Hall. (looks like the gardeners/landscapers are hard at work) _ |
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WOW Scott!! You did an amazing job with the aerial maps. Anna lived at the Figueroa address beginning around 1910. Lived in a few different places after her movie career began. But moved BACK to Figueroa at some point. I believe her father had a separate building made for her (or an existing structure modified) when she returned to that home. In the late 20's, she went to Europe. Her mother was hit and killed by a car in front of the home in 1930. The Sam Kee laundry was operated by her father until 1934, when he left for China. |
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I'm thinking the same thing. Right above the 'S'. Would be fantastic to find street level photos, too! The closest thing I've found is this spectacular drawing. https://ladailymirror.com/2013/12/03...m-kee-laundry/ |
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In case you missed it, there are a couple of mistakes on my images - one, "Fremont" is spelled with only one E. Two, the street I labeled as "Mignonette" is actually Diamond Street. Thanks to Hoss for bringing those mistakes to my attention! Also, the drawing in your post doesn’t show up on my computer, so here it is just in case: https://i.imgur.com/UjiEKTo.png |
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Yes I did see those street mistakes. Again, thanks to you (and Hoss!). For the 351 S. Flower address, it may be an underpass now? It's quite confusing as so many years have passed and so many changes. I'm about 12 miles south of downtown in the South Bay area. I need to get to these areas on foot! |
Thanks for finding the location Orth's Mayflower Warehouse Henry_Huntington and Noir Noir. I really appreciate it.
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#1 Hub Cap Annie I spotted this Quonset hut at 1446 E. Walnut St. I imagine this is one of the hundreds of thousands of surplus Quonsets the government sold after World War II. The V on front of the Qounset stands for Vapemastaz https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/32TKdG.jpg GSV "By the end of WWII, an estimated 150,000 units had been built around the world. Designed to serve 86 official uses, two basic sizes were offered: the 20 and the 40. The 20 measured twenty feet by forty-eight feet, while the 40 (also called the “Elephant Hut”) stood forty feet wide by one-hundred feet long." from DAHP This particular Qounset previously housed Hub Cap Annie. Here it is in 2009. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/hr0ycI.jpg gooddayla.blogspot and again, in 2011. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SqV0lI.jpg gsv I'm snoopy curious, did any of you fine Pasadenians ever buy a hub cap from Annie? #2 'Ghost Spur' I couldn't help but notice a distinctive angle running southeast from the Hub Cap Annie Qounset. (it's quite short...pretty much ending at Marion Ave.) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LrMnGe.jpg google_earth Does anyone know if this was, in fact, a rail spur? ...and if it was [a spur], what R.R. used it? __ |
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Apartments appears to be just north of 351, and the Herman Apartments are across the street and up the block a bit. It looks like there is laundry hanging at the rear of the second story of 351 S. Flower: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original CHS-5790 @ USCDL |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...risLariat1.jpg GSV Here's a closer look. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...risLariat2.jpg GSV The other typo was the name. It was actually Henri's Lariat. Here's an advert from the March 10, 1960 edition of the Torrance Press... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...risLariat3.jpg libarch.torranceca.gov (PDF file) ...and another from the April 21, 1966 edition of the Palos Verdes Peninsula News. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...risLariat4.jpg California Digital Newspaper Collection The earliest mention I found of Henri's Lariat was an advert for a cocktail waitress in the May 13, 1957 edition of the Press Telegram - apply in person and see Bob after 8pm! I also found a passing mention in a 2011 article which was originally published in the LA Times Magazine. You can read "When Country Was King" at tksmith.net. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library I went through the 1931 CD to try and indentify the businesses we might be looking at. If you count four utility poles from the right, the sign behind it is for [John M] Foy's service station at 211 N Figueroa (more below). Next is the Pacific Peerless Weighing Machine Corp at 227 N Figueroa, before we get to Sam Kee's Chinese laundry at 241 N Figueroa. The 1930 CD lists 241 as Sam S Wong's Chinese laundry, which is the name of Anna May Wong's father. Moving right, we have the Claremont Apartments at 253 N Figueroa, Humberto Celaya's grocery store at 257 N Figueroa (I'm guessing that this is the building with the Coca-Cola sign behid the right-most utility pole), the Raymond Apartments at 259 N Figueroa and the Raymond Inn Hotel at 301 N Figueroa. Just out of sight are the Reh Apartments at 317 N Figueroa. I said that I'd return to Foy's. Here's a much better picture from 1931. It's been posted before, the last time being FredH's post #22139. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library I can't find a demo permit for the laundry, but the current 241 N Figueroa, the Central District Health Center, was built in mid-1951. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...NFigueroa1.jpg GSV |
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As ubiquitous as refrigerators are today, this was not always the case. When first introduced, refrigerators were not the most affordable appliances and often bought on credit. Exactly when they became "affordable" and "mainstream" is blurry, similar to the practical extinction of daily horse and buggy use. Not that I disagree with your guess, but one of the set pieces on the early '50s Honeymooners sitcom was . . . an icebox. This prompted the question of Los Angeles' last commercial ice delivery service. Considering that ice is still commercially available today, albeit in bags, one supposes that there may be an icebox still in use along with a swamp cooler and crystal radio set. :shrug: Somewhat related, I recall seeing a 1930 advertisement for an apartment that was equipped with a central refrigeration unit and presume that was a "built-in" feature. Quote:
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You are correct! My bad. It's 21922. The sign is STILL standing just a few feet south of the building. https://goo.gl/maps/nzx6svtduP92 google maps |
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You guys are truly phenomenal. That would be the house Anna was born in. The Wong family moved about two years later to 117 Marchessault Street in Chinatown. Before heading to the Figueroa address in 1910. The Marchessault location may (or may not) be still standing at 117 Paseo De La Plaza, right by the Old Plaza. |
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