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Do-It-Yourself Speakeasy
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400 10-by-10 foot lots, eh? I wonder what that was all about? I guess it could have been simply for camping and the like, a little base of operations from which to utilize all the amenities available there. It is an odd arrangement, however. One question that immediately comes to my mind: if this was just for camping, why sell the plots? Who would want to buy such a tiny piece of land just to hang out on? This causes me to suspect that there was something more here than meets the eye. It occurs to me that there are two distinct features to this setup. Firstly, when the owner sets up a tent on his plot, once inside he would have the full protection of the Fourth Amendment: probable cause, search and seizure, all that good stuff. Secondly, whatever happens in that tent, Mountain Oaks is not liable for it legally. What I see here is a fairly safe place to indulge in a little illegal imbibing. It would have been a nice setup for this. Mountain Oaks would provide the place, the amenities, and I would imagine some advance warning of police activity. The property owners themselves would provide the liquor. Of course, this is just a supposition, but it's the only way this setup makes any real sense to me. |
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Here's the building on Beverly Boulevard - 7274 is directly under the "Poinsettia" sign. According to propertyshark.com, it was built in 1931. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...everlyBlvd.jpg GSV |
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Thank you for the followup HossC! I recalled discovery of one of the Beverly Blvd. addresses for Lewis in a catalog but could not confirm. Another site mentions a "Robert K Lewis" of Los Angeles. http://mb.nawcc.org/showthread.php?9...wis-Clock-Info Not knowing much about the subject, it seems each clock was assembled from available components with the addition of blown glass containing neon at the shop. Assuming Lewis used the location depicted, it would be hard to say his clocks were mass produced.:rolleyes: http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics30/00034849.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics30/00034849.jpg 6111 Wilshire - Fred W. Klein tells good time. http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4337/krandill.jpghttp://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4337/krandill.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098002.jpg http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=8396 I suppose we should also include Glo dial Clock Corp (922 West 23rd St.) and the Neon Clock Co. (1110 W Second St.) as part of the list of LA neon clock makers/ retailers. http://www.neonclock.org/images/Disp...ckcoofla1b.jpghttp://www.neonclock.org/images/Disp...ckcoofla1b.jpg Speaking of ubiquitous neon and clocks evokes this image with Gruen Time. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3392/3...8a7e6f84_b.jpghttps://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3392/3...8a7e6f84_b.jpg |
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Have you noticed that clocks of all kinds have practically disappeared from most businesses and new buildings and that you rarely see anyone wearing a watch? |
Time on my hands....
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I stopped wearing a watch when I got a cell phone. Yeah, most movies these days are a giant bore. I just don't bother anymore. |
Chandler
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16 Thornton Avenue
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...909/nMSuo8.jpg gsv Quote:
A group of neighbors posing on the curved steps of Thornton Towers, circa. 1970s. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/Yh7YvK.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1qBfouxIQA...nton%2BAve.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/zjZCk5.jpg reposted __ I still haven't found any proof that Isadora Duncan had anything to do with Thornton Towers. |
Here's an impressive photograph of the La Crescenta-Montrose Flood of 1934, showing the massive amount of stones (and mud) that was swept out of the mountains.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/aKCZe6.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/topFHK.jpg http://www.cvhistory.org/ |
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https://www.laconservancy.org/sites/...?itok=_yEJodcbLA Conservancy Also, FW, I totally remember your post on the Westbrook now! Saved the photos to my hard drive and everything. |
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La Crescenta Women's Club, 4004 La Crescenta Avenue.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/FtVkr3.jpg http://www.lacrescentawomansclub.org...department.htm It's still there today! -minus the wooden shingles; and the beautiful stone chimney has been decapitated (it's behind the tree). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/AQ1iAO.jpg GSV http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/31H9kU.jpg GSV |
Nazarene Publishing House, Washington at Bresee, Pasadena.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/jzrJBa.jpg eBay and today; all gussied up! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/WGGZCB.jpg gsv reverse of vintage postcard / with address http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...901/b88lnx.jpg ebay __ |
This is Grauman's Metropolitan Theater...
on the NE corner of 6th and Hill Streets. It will soon (after this pic) become the Paramount.
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I think this is the Metropolitan Building we're looking for... https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8847/1...b3e6ac7c_b.jpgThe Metropolitan Building, NW corner of 5th Street and Broadway, ca.1918 |
I think this group portrait is a great snapshot of 1930s Los Angeles.
"Walter & Bea's Wedding Breakfast at Eunice & Leo's place, corner So. Figueroa & 58th St. L.A., 1930." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/oDDciL.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1930...item2350cc5b57 :previous: I think there are some sexy people in this photograph ;). reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/6A6LA5.jpg One or more of Eunice and Leo's apartment windows might have looked out on this DWP building that was built the year before the vintage group photograph was taken. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/Cli56e.jpg gsv The DWP building is on the northeast corner of So. Figueroa and 58th Street....the southeast corner is a messy empty lot (former site of the apt?), while the southwest corner looks like it might have been a train depot (there are tracks next to it), and the northwest corner appears to be a more 'modern' apartment bldg. --check it out yourself if you like. (tell me if you think the southwest corner was a depot) __ |
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Walter, Bea, Eunice, Leo and friends look relatively prosperous during The Great Depression. Well dressed and stylish.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gueroa1963.jpg Historic Aerials The building on the southeast corner is gone by 1972, and the lot seems to have been vacant since then. The later images at Historic Aerials appear to show the yard on the southwest corner covered in grass in the mid-2000s, but it looks more like mud now. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gueroa1972.jpg Historic Aerials |
8100 Melrose Ave. - Mancuso Realty Evidently subsumed by the Fred Segal Complex at the same location. 1962 - 8100 Melrose Blvd. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070826.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070826.jpg Vine-clad Fred's https://chromelive.files.wordpress.c...al-melrose.jpghttps://chromelive.files.wordpress.c...al-melrose.jpg Mancuso Realty open house - 1962 http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070822.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070822.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/...f77395fdc0.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/...f77395fdc0.jpg Drug store in background (circa '62) currently houses a business known as Jonathon Adler. http://rumorfix.com/wp-content/uploa...than-adler.jpghttp://rumorfix.com/wp-content/uploa...than-adler.jpg Mancuso interior http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070823.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070823.jpg Cheerful and courteous staff. (Maybe one of them is thinking about designer leather) http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070824.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070825.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070824.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070825.jpg |
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