Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7680171)

Thanks Michael_Ryerson and HossC for responding to my question earlier today.

I have more question if you don't mind.


There appears to be a small east-west street to the left of the house with the arrow.

You can clearly see two smallish streetlights to the left of the house.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/2S03OP.jpg
detail / MR's 1951 photo is dated 1951

1954 aerial / usc
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/2iD9Gw.png

Did that little street have a name...or was it more like an alley?


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Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7679956)

This brought to mind the question of whether many average families still buy and use sewing machines? When I was growing up it seems to me most every one of my friends mothers had a sewing machine, not only to repair a tear or sew on a button, but many made a lot of clothes, including my own mother. A trip to a Singer store to pick up and view new "patterns" was not an uncommon occurrence on the weekends. I even recall television ads for the latest model of sewing machines and I can't remember the last time I saw one of those. I remember my mother often sewing late into the evening when I was watching tv. Or, as my father would say when he came in, "What is your mother building now?" Anyone else remember sewing machines in the house?

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7680326)

Bus bottoms out on Baxter Street. Call the tow truck.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psgmzepiqj.jpg
the eastside

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 7680326)

Bus bottoms out on Baxter Street. Call the tow truck.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psgmzepiqj.jpg
the eastside

Originally Posted by Lorendoc (Post 7680472)

Driving into work today, I encountered the following:
http://i.imgur.com/ahcZjql.jpg
...which is looking south just past Laurel Canyon and Kirkwood. Someone's back yard, patio, and retaining wall slid 100 feet down to the roadway, which was only partially re-opened this morning. Southbound traffic has been rerouted into the northbound lane, northbound traffic has been rerouted to "Little Laurel Canyon Blvd."

http://i.imgur.com/5DeCisB.jpg

The source of the slide, 8189 Gould Ave., was red-tagged. It was built in 1926/9 says the assessor.

Easily the worst thing about living in the canyon is the traffic on LCB. (Houses lost to landslides are relatively rare, right?). I had heard of plans for a Laurel Canyon Freeway, but thought it was an urban legend. http://www.calhighways.org begs to differ:

There was also an unconstructed [freeway] that ran along Crescent Heights/Laurel Canyon Blvd between Santa Monica [Blvd?] and US 101 (in the San Fernando Valley). This was never constructed, although it remained proposed for a long time. Had [this] routing been constructed, it would have been named the "Laurel Canyon Freeway". Maps based on the 1956 freeway planning maps show this as continuing N from US 101 to I-5, joining at what would have been a hell-of-an-interchange: the Laurel Canyon freeway, the Sunland Freeway (see Route 64), the Hollywood Freeway (present-day Route 170), Golden State Freeway (I-5). Laurel Canyon refers to the canyon in Hollywood Hills; the portion in the flats was originally called Pacoima Avenue.

It also mentions the reason for the large separation between lanes landscaped with ice-plant on the Hollywood Freeway near Vermont as discussed by resident horticulturists here a few days ago:

Take that big chunk of land that sits between the north- and southbound lanes of the Hollywood Freeway near Vermont Avenue. It was set aside for a massive interchange of the Hollywood, Glendale and Beverly Hills freeways--one that was never built.

Originally Posted by Bristolian (Post 7680296)

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original
408136 @ Huntington Digital Library

This photo is dated June 10, 1966 so it was taken very close to the time of the filming of "Angel's Flight". The benches as well as the yellow diamond shaped sign with the reflectors are a match. Has the McBurney house been leveled by the time of this shot and we see the vacant lot next to the red and blue mailbox? That would seem to make sense when you consider the angle of the screenshot.

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 7680360)

Yeah, I'm not getting anything on any of my maps. I think an unnamed alley. Here's a detail from a much larger image I've posted before...


https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/594/32...5a7cff20_o.pngdetail, Figueroa north of Temple, unnamed alley, 1948

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7680431)

Wilton Hotel & Sky Room, Long Beach.

#4
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/Sv0IPR.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/MZ2Oau.jpg
ebay

I don't recall the name of this cafeteria :previous:

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7679899)

When I saw the first thumbnail of this Julius Shulman set, I thought it was the Lytton Savings Bank on Sunset Boulevard. It's actually "Job 3791: William H. Harrison, Monte Vista High School (Whittier, Calif.), 1964".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

This appears to be a different building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Now the black & white images. I've left out a different angle on this corner. The only extra information it gives is that the little object at the front of the roof is a cluster of lights.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

There's only one interior shot.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

As far as I can tell, the Monte Vista High School was only open from 1964 (Wikipedia) or 1965 (article below) until 1979. The following is from a blog post at My Whittier:

Back in 1978 the Whittier Union High School District’s board of trustees met and made a landmark decision that would change the landscape of Whittier forever: the closure of Sierra High School and Monte Vista High School.

This decision completely changed the make-up of the district forever. Sierra High School, located at 9401 Painter Avenue, was only open from 1957 – 1979. It will always be linked forever with Monte Vista High School, located at 11515 S. Colima Road which was open from 1965-1979.

[...]

Monte Vista High School, whose school nickname was the “Mustangs”, was located on the south side of Whittier. It was eventually sold to the Los Angeles County and is the location of the Sherriff’s [sic] academy.

I've compared the current buildings to those that were there in 1973 (the first Historic Aerials image after 1964), and they all seem to be original. The site still appears to be the Explorer Training Academy at the Sheriff’s Training Academy and Regional Services (STARS) Center. Unfortunately, the building with the zig-zag roof is now hard to see from the road. Where's that chainsaw, GW?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
GSV

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7679899)

When I saw the first thumbnail of this Julius Shulman set, I thought it was the Lytton Savings Bank on Sunset Boulevard. It's actually "Job 3791: William H. Harrison, Monte Vista High School (Whittier, Calif.), 1964".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

This appears to be a different building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Now the black & white images. I've left out a different angle on this corner. The only extra information it gives is that the little object at the front of the roof is a cluster of lights.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

There's only one interior shot.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

As far as I can tell, the Monte Vista High School was only open from 1964 (Wikipedia) or 1965 (article below) until 1979. The following is from a blog post at My Whittier:

Back in 1978 the Whittier Union High School District’s board of trustees met and made a landmark decision that would change the landscape of Whittier forever: the closure of Sierra High School and Monte Vista High School.

This decision completely changed the make-up of the district forever. Sierra High School, located at 9401 Painter Avenue, was only open from 1957 – 1979. It will always be linked forever with Monte Vista High School, located at 11515 S. Colima Road which was open from 1965-1979.

[...]

Monte Vista High School, whose school nickname was the “Mustangs”, was located on the south side of Whittier. It was eventually sold to the Los Angeles County and is the location of the Sherriff’s [sic] academy.

I've compared the current buildings to those that were there in 1973 (the first Historic Aerials image after 1964), and they all seem to be original. The site still appears to be the Explorer Training Academy at the Sheriff’s Training Academy and Regional Services (STARS) Center. Unfortunately, the building with the zig-zag roof is now hard to see from the road. Where's that chainsaw, GW?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
GSV

Originally Posted by rick m (Post 7677753)

Okay! This is of the McBurney house at 256 So. Bunker Hill Ave-- Used in a late scene of Angel's Flight with a frantic old coot landlady reacting to murder at the benches across the street.. My latter day images show it to be modernized from it's 1910 appearance a wee bit- such as stripping away the porch to it's basics and some simpler siding treatments.. The lead Liz (Indus Arthur lodged in this rooming house in the film.

Originally Posted by rick m (Post 7677753)

Okay! This is of the McBurney house at 256 So. Bunker Hill Ave-- Used in a late scene of Angel's Flight with a frantic old coot landlady reacting to murder at the benches across the street.. My latter day images show it to be modernized from it's 1910 appearance a wee bit- such as stripping away the porch to it's basics and some simpler siding treatments.. The lead Liz (Indus Arthur lodged in this rooming house in the film.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7680431)

I found these four Kodachrome slides as a group on ebay. (there were 5 actually; I posted the fifth a few months back)



Olive Street, Pershing Square.

#1
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/iG0NiI.jpg
ebay

The square looks wonderfully lush. odinthor, do you recognize any of the flora?

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 7679949)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Xl...DLw=w1366-h768


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U9...ucw=w1366-h768



Seems amazing that this building still exists...including a northward wing that was added after the 1925 image was made...and not only that--it's still an animal hospital.


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Us...MqQ=w1366-h768


Dr Shipp’s Animal Hospital


PS Actually, the attached "wing" I mentioned seems to be a whole complex--not sure if it's part of the vet clinic or not

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qu...Tig=w1366-h768