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609 1/2 N. Spring St., Sunset and Spring?
Hello, am seeking a photo for the period 1930s-1940s for 609 1/2 N. Spring St., off Sunset Blvd., for years 1935-1940ish; my mom's family lived there in the 1930s/40s. It was across from the Bamba Club (have seen several photos of the club, which was pretty famous at the time, in several noir movies, Criss Cross & Kiss Me Deadly).
There is a 1915 photo of the same corner in the Seaver Collection General Photo File GPF_3930 ), Natural History Museum. Photo caption says: “NW Corner North Spring and Marchessault (it was Sunset later), 1915” – and 609 ½ is identified at that time as “Campi’s Café.” Sorry I'm a first-time user here, I don't seem to be able to paste the image onto here. But see the link below. Also am seeking photo of 304 Marchessault, site of the store Foo Lung, from 1914-1938 (listed in all city directories at that address for those years). Not sure when 304 Marchessault was torn down for Union Station. Neither of these buildings exist today (areas torn down). Thanks if anyone can help!Seaver Center Collection Details | NHM |
CareyG, there was photograph but all of Michael-Ryerson's photographs are missing from the thread. :(
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/7ngK2r.jpg :previous: Thanks for this, Lorendoc. Here's Tony Melendy posing with some of his artwork. (his "large translucent plastic sculptures" are mentioned in Lorendoc's newspaper) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/JvWUqR.jpg martcollective The photograph was taken by Tyler Thornton in 1968. detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/8L5lfr.jpg um. .interesting base. :no: Here's the lower right, the photographer's signature & the date it was reprinted. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/AqaSSg.jpg . |
That base looks like it could be "dump glass."
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I was born in L.A. area (Pasadena) in the early 1950s and lived there (mostly SF Valley) until 1988. I used to recall seeing Angelyne billboards in the Hollywood and/or Sunset Strip area. Are these billboards still there? Who put them up & why? Did Angelyne the ever achieve success?
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I'm afraid we're conflating the name of LAP's excursion car "Hermosa"* (a fixture on the Balloon Route trips for many years) with the location of the photos: Redondo Beach. The building and storage tank shown in the image which Odinthor so helpfully flipped is the Pacific Light & Power steam generating plant at that location. https://calisphere.org/item/417782bb...2664bb3ba8f9b/ * In those days, some parlor cars were given names instead of numbers to emphasize the de luxe nature of the service. For example, LAP's fleet also included "El Viento" and "Mermaid". Perhaps we've lost something over the decades... |
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Please calm down everyone. ..Let's not derail the thread. Thanks for the correction, Henry Huntington. The trolley car was named 'Hermosa' but the location was Redondo Beach... Got it. :) Here's the photo at your link. The principal steam power plant for Henry Huntington's Pacific Light and Power (PL&P) system at Redondo Beach. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/gsMlah.jpg huntingtonarchives For comparison - the view from the ebay panorama. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/3sImaT.jpg . |
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It's like all the comments one reads on the youtube videos people have linked of various L.A. streets of the past. So many comments are that the past was better. It was cleaner. The people were nicer. This location or that location was still there. There apparently was no homelessness or disease or anything else back in the day that happened. People were nicer. Etc. Every time photos of famous restaurants of the past are posted on NLA I think how nice it would be to have been there and eaten at all those places or gone to those nightclubs. Then I think that I don't do much of that now over the decades. I've been wanting to go to Dan Tana's since I don't know when, for example. It's still there, but I haven't. I mean, I think if people went back in time at most points in the past, they wouldn't want to eat anything. And can you imagine saying something that no one now would blink at today, but not in year's past? |
The fantastic Cordova Hotel, Los Angeles, once stood on 808 S. Figueroa. This lovely 4 stories building was opened in 1913.
Architect: Neher & Skilling Builder: Barkelew & Gould https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...hi9b4Jd=s16000 Anyone knows when and why it was demolished? |
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Actually, the "good old days" was anything before 2020, when you could go outside and mix with people without worrying about breathing. When you could have Thanksgiving with relatives and not worry if any lied about being vaccinated, and wonder why your cousin was coughing. Those were the carefree days, before 2020. These days are the real noirish days for the world. But maybe it is darkest before the dawn. Let this is the year we climb out, a return to "normalcy", like a 100 years ago after the " Spanish" Flu vanished or lost its bite. Let the Twenties Roar Again :wiseman: |
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