:previous: Fantastic set of Shulman photographs Hoss. Beautiful color.


originally posted by HossC
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google.books


Here's a layout from the 1950s that shows where the Rendezvous Ballroom was located in relation to Balboa Pavilion.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/DHXP9a.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/496897...3843/lightbox/




below: "Late 1930s Early 40s aerial of the Rendezvous"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/d2PTem.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/496897...3843/lightbox/

"Something is going on as all the parking lots in the area are full. Even the gas stations seem to be parking cars.
So this had to be pre Dec 1941 or post Aug. 1945. The cars look late 30s but I can't be sure."
-Barry Kazmer-flickr

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My mom has the beach photos of that day blown up to poster-size and framed. I've always loved them.

My Grandmother, Lorraine, is on the right end, in the hurraches. I wish I knew the names of the other gals. They stayed in touch for years, though scattered abround LA didn't see each other very often. They had a nickname for themselves that I can't remember, the "[Something] Gang."

The top of Bunker Hill
 

A twofold answer to the old question : where was the top of Bunker Hill ?
Without the Victorians and apartment buildings, I see two competing tops : at Third and Olive (Angels Flight Station) and at Second and Grand.

Congregational Church, Vine Street
 

That little building you pointed out, with the north facing steps, was actually part of the Union Congregational Church complex, next door to the Vine Street School (formerly "Colegrove School").

John Bengtson, in his book "Silent Echos", identifies it as the Congregational Sunday School building and mentions that it appears both in Chaplin's "The Fireman" (1916) and Keaton's "One Week" (1920)

Here, the subject building is on the left margin. The camera is looking south down Lillian Way from just below Eleanor.
The Lone Star Studio, such as it was then, is on the right:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...8%252520PM.jpg
The Fireman (1916) Lone Star Studios

The building later played Buster Keaton's wedding venue. The camera is facing south:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...1%252520PM.jpg
One Week (1920) Metro/Keaton Studios

Union Congregational Church bought the facility from the Episcopalians:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...2%252520PM.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...3%252520PM.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...8%252520PM.jpg
cdnc / la herald, 31 january 1908

Yeah, it's commonly known as the Hyperion Bridge. I used to live in Atwater (Village), which is off in the distance in this postcard, and walked the Hyperion Bridge daily for three years while attending Marshall High School in the 60's.

Andys

It's too bad that throughout the film noir genre, it often seems that Greyhound buses are the only type of intercity transportation in existence. Not always, of course, but in quite a few of those films for sure.

Union Station arrivals
 

:previous:

"Cry Danger" doesn't disappoint:

More Woolen Mill
 

That might be a flume carrying water to the big tank. The map below appears to show the flume,
along with what I guess is Woolen Mill Creek in the little ravine immediately south of the mill.

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original
1875 Map of Canal and Reservoir Company Land @ Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/12985/rec/11

Chapulín is Spanish for Grasshopper.

That's a postcard image from 1925 by an unknown photographer.

The plane is a Curtis JN-4 "Jenny", cruising speed, 40-60 MPH.

The man in the foreground is Ivan Unger.

The woman in the high-heeled boots is Gladys Roy.

The pair were members of the "13 Black Cats" famous wing-walkers of the 1920s. There were many other troops, including "The 5 Blackbirds" (all African-American) and "Mabel Cody's Flying Circus", headed up by Buffalo Bill's niece. Charles Lindbergh was a wing-walker.

Roy (née Smith), from Minnesota, moved to Los Angeles in 1921. She also maintained a residence in her home state. All three of her siblings were flyers too.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...2%252520AM.jpg
air&space

Roy was killed in 1927, at the age of 27, when she, apparently momentarily distracted, walked into the spinning propeller of a parked plane she had just exited after a photo shoot:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...4%252520AM.jpg
findagrave

Gladys Roy's IMDB page is here

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...8%252520AM.jpg
slideshare

I couldn't find anything else on Unger.

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They're delicious fried, but I've been vegan for a long time now, so haven't indulged lately.

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Down by the old mill stream...
 

"Mr Coulter had a woolen mill over the hill near the present corner of Figueroa and Fifth Streets. The old brick walls of this factory may still be seen
- the main part of a modern-fronted garage. There was a little stream there called Los Reyes"

Bixby Smith's quote from "Adobe Days" is wonderfully confirmed by your photo. I am so pleased to see it. Such a handsome building.
Your series of images, showing the mill transitioning from rural outpost to an urban setting, was both typical for LA and totally astounding.

e_r tells us that the Bernard Bros built the mill in 1872.

I was delighted to see "Mill Street" on your plat map. Other blocks, from the same series show, "Canal St" was the next
street west of Mill St:

:previous:
As you indicated, the flume entered the back of the mill (#3) on a trestle. The waste water exited at the front of the building,
and, after being piped under Pearl St, continued on its way, together with the stream.

Woolen Mill Ditch, in those days, carried the waters from Los Reyes (together, apparently, with LA River water captured at Elysian Park), which started above Echo Park Lake,
and, after filling that (and a swimming hole at 2nd and Beaudry), made its way down through the hills to sometimes cause flooding havoc at 5th and Flower.
The Los Angeles Canal and Reservoir Company made these changes, in part, to power industry.

I'm guessing that the trestle delivered water to a wheel to power the mill to spin the wool (?) I can't quite work that out.
LOL, the technology is lost on me.

Glover, 1877:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...6%252520PM.jpg
loc

After the mill ceased operations, the facility became an ice company. By 1909, the building was a garage (it got a concrete floor that year and "two new openings").

In 1919, the garage (still owned by the BF Coulter Association) got the "modern front" that Bixby Smith mentions and the photo above shows:
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...9%252520PM.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...3%252520PM.jpg
ladbs

I wasn't able to locate the demo permit.


The mill must be just out of shot to the right in this post-1886 view (I think the shed, south of the mill, and the tank are just in view though). I kept missing it:
:previous:
Note the little arroyo (behind the dark house in the center foreground at the NW corner of 5th and Flower), which carried Los Reyes and the
waste water away from the mill. The waste water was piped under what-was-then Pearl Street (as shown) before being, once again, exposed to the air.

Note that the water was piped under Flower St too.

5th and Flower today, now Ray Bradbury Square:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1m...366-h768-rw-no
google maps


1876: The shed and tank on the south side of the mill and the flume on its trestle. The stream is hidden by the berm in the foreground:
One memory of Los Reyes' course. I've read others:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...0%252520PM.jpg
LAT via creek freak



Thank you again so much.


P.S.

Here's the info I was looking for:

"Echo park, containing thirty acres, is another park evolved from the city’s refuse lands. In 1868 the city council contracted with the Los Angeles Canal & Reservoir Company,
a corporation, with a capital of $200,000, of which George Hansen was president and J. J. Warner, secretary, to construct a system of reservoirs and canals in the northwestern
part of the city. The reservoirs were to be filled by water from the river conducted in a canal. A dam, twenty feet high, was built across a canon near the head of the Arroyo de
Los Reyes and a ditch following the canon of this arroyo down to Pearl street, now Figueroa, was constructed. This zanja in later years was known as the Woolen Mill ditch.

Los Angeles had an ambition to become a manufacturing city. The water brought down by the ditch could be used for power to propel machinery and for irrigation. The ditch was
extended down to the southern part of the city. For this improvement the company was to receive several thousand acres of hill land in the northwest part of the city. In 1873
a woolen mill was built on the line of this ditch near Figueroa and Fifth streets, and for a decade or so manufactured a fair quality of blankets. Then it was turned into an ice
factory. Competition froze it out. The Woolen Mill ditch disappeared before the march of improvement and all the city has left for its leagues of land is a pond or reservoir now
known as Echo Lake. The other reservoirs that appear on the old maps as reservoirs 1, 2, and 3 were never completed. The land surrounding reservoir No. 4 (Echo Lake) was
converted into a park and the land below the dam—about four and one half acres—belonging to the city was converted into a children’s playground. Echo Lake is the largest
body of water in any of the parks."

-A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs by James Miller Guinn (1915)

Also this.

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Also the origin of the name Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, the famous "Halls of Montezuma" of the Marine Corps anthem. It's Nahuatl for "Grasshopper Hill."

Didn't know that Lindbergh was a wing-walker. But I do know that he was a man of considerable controversy. At least his trip across the Atlantic was not faked.

That's a neat bit of unforgettable info. Thank you.

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dronestagr video link

That's come up on the thread before. The story is told in "Charles Lindbergh, Groundbreaking Aviator" by Rebecca Rowel. The ebook preview is here. And also in "Lindbergh, a Biography" by Leonard Mosely. The ebook preview for that one is here



P.S.

The Lindbergh Memorial in Americus GA shows Lindbergh in a wing-walking pose


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This Julius Shulman photoset is vaguely labeled "Job 5051: Miscellaneous Los Angeles Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.),1973". The six pictures seem to cover three different buildings, two of which I've identified.

Initially, I couldn't see any clues to the location of these apartments.

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

Then I spotted a name on the wall above the Beetle. Even at full-resolution, it's still hard to read, not least because the script is very similar in color to the background, and the shadows don't help either.

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

By comparing the view above with the one below, and with some Googling, I managed to read "Château Brentana". That led me to 11666 Montana Avenue in Brentwood. The number 11666 is just visible in the shadows of the trees in the view below. I assume that "Brentana" is just a simple portmanteau of Brentwood and Montana.

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

With the help of GSV to study the building opposite, I'm happy that this is the entrance to the Château Brentana apartments.

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

This location was considerably easier to find, mainly due to the street name being part of the apartment name, and a visible street number. The address of the Bedford Terrace apartments is 1054 S Bedford Street.

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

The last picture in the set is a mystery. I can't see any clues to narrow my search. Does anyone recognize it?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

Today, it's very hard to see Château Brentana behind the trees, although the street number is now more prominent. The property websites give a build date of 1969. I like the little green Triumph TR250 at the front.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
GSV

Bedford Terrace is equally well hidden. This is the only view I found where some of the name is visible. It seems to have been built in 1965.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
GSV

I was delighted to see this picture of the old German church. Usually just get glimpses of parts of it in the corners of some other photos and have not seen one as full as this. Went there a few times in the 70s/early 80s with my grandfather as they still had a German language service there on Sundays. I wish I had brought my camera and taken photos of the inside and the stained glass windows! It was kind of a dodgy area then and the front smelled like urine sometimes, but inside was really cool and moody.

Here's a better view of the First German United Methodist Church from the mid-80s. It also shows the San Carlos Hotel and Googies. The Biltmore Tower is under construction in the background.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...h.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/7vKAIz.jpg

I did a total spit-take when I saw this. Felt like Danny Thomas.

And Silverlaker, what a wonderful recollection!

The best color shot I'd seen so far was this:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5829/...0a3a9ef9_o.png
which I'd found here

...on a site in which they say the image is from 1995; I reckon one of these Zschorlauern just have their memory off by a few years, as the demo permit is pulled in '88 and the Gas Tower was undergoing construction soon after. (That neon sign with the cross was added in 1959, btw.)
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Here's the original plan for the church, from February 1910,

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(Walker & Vawter)

but after the Auditorium Hotel was built,
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"the designs first prepared...have been altered with the view to making the architecture of a sturdier type to harmonize with the new Auditorium Hotel building a the northwest corner of Fifth and Olive and with the Clara Barton Hospital, immediately adjoining the church site on the north." (LAT June 12, 1910) They lay the cornerstone in August.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3183/...8c8c0431_o.gif

Of course it had two taller towers
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3235/...d32ef8c49a.jpg
but they were removed after Sylmar.

Someone out there's got a first-rate image of the pre-Sylmar (and pre-1950 removal of the gable ends) 449 Olive German ME. I'm going to have to start knocking on some Methodist church doors around town. In the meantime I've got a fat bid in on that eBay slide!

LAPL has a couple of shots of the First German United Methodist Church. It's only in the background of this 1958 picture.

"View of the Pacific Telephone Mobile Emergency Service trailer switchboard, which is parked at 433 S. Olive. The mobile switchboard unit can move right into any disaster area and save hours of communication failure time. Photograph dated October 7, 1958. In the upper left is the First German Methodist Church, later demolished."

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

Here's a slightly better view of the taller towers from 1928.

"Olive Street between 4th and 5th Streets in 1928, looking south toward Pershing Square and the Biltmore Hotel. Cars are seen, and a Savoy Auto Park is at right. Also at right is a small German-speaking church, the First German Methodist Episcopal Church (later United Methodist), founded in 1876."

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

The church and San Carlos Hotel were gone by 1989.

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

Hoss & Beaudry, have I ever mentioned that you guys are amazing? :worship:

My father was the daytime parking lot attendant at 447 S. Olive ca. 1954-61. During summer vacations, he'd occasionally give my mom a break by taking me to work with him, so to some degree I grew up on that block. Some of the fondest memories of my childhood involve breakfast at Googie's (short stack, glass of milk), playing handball off the building at the back of the lot, wandering through downtown and especially watching my dad and his evening relief dig cars out of the back spaces with stunt driver skills for early-departing commuters.

As the lot was near the Philharmonic Auditorium, he took care of a variety of celebs from the era - though they didn't always take care of him. I could name a few names, but they're all gone now and no point taking shots.

Thanks so much for those photos, even though the church isn't my personal focus.

The water from the area of Echo Park Lake came down to power the woolen mill and also because wool has to be washed a lot before it is spun, it would take a lot of water. The name "woolen mill tract" remains to this day in the property descriptions which are filed with the County Assessor's office.

Hello Lorendoc,

I would be interested in more information regarding Larry Potter and the Jade. Would you be able to send me excerpts from the FBI file as it relates to this?

Thanks!

The structure, south of the mill, with the tank:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-f...2%252520PM.jpg
lapl (detail from top image)


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Right angles
 

After this stretch of Julius Shulman provided by Hoss, I eventually happened to think : J.S. is the Piet Mondrian of the photography.
In the noirish background, this looks more « Kiss Me Deadly » than « Double Indemnity ».

I can't find any previous mentions of today's Julius Shulman subject, the El Greco Apartments at 1028 Tiverton Avenue in Westwood Village. Just like Echo Park Court, these apartments were photographed to appear in 'Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles' (pages 116-117 for anyone who has a copy). Another note says that photography credit should go to Carlos von Frankenberg. This is "Job 5659: F. Pierpont and Walter S. Davis, El Greco Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1979".

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

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

And here are a couple of shots of the courtyard and central fish pond.

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

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

All from Getty Research Institute

This is the new El Greco Apartments at 1030 Tiverton Avenue.

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

But that's not the end of the story. The original El Greco Apartments are alive and well, and living at 817 N Hayworth Avenue. The following is slightly abridged from Wikipedia:

The Spanish-Mediterranean style El Greco was built from 1929 to 1930 and was one of the original buildings in Westwood Village. The two-story, 12-unit structure was designed by architect Clara Bertram Humphrey, and modeled after the home of artist El Greco in Toledo, Spain. The structure is credited with having strongly influenced the architectural style of Westwood Village, with its elegant, Spanish-style buildings. The red tile roof and brick courtyard of the El Greco became a trend that was followed in many other structures in Westwood Village.

Once located in the heart of Westwood Village, the El Greco was the first hotel in Westwood Village and was reportedly the home to international film personalities, including Erich von Stroheim, Michael Curtiz, and Joel McCrea.

By the end of the 1970s, many of the old Spanish-Mediterranean style buildings in Westwood Village had been replaced with high-rises. Accordingly, controversy arose when the owner of the El Greco announced plans in 1979 to demolish the structure and replace it with condominiums. Tenants of the old building, who were served with 60-day notices to vacate, led the preservation effort. Tenants including Leonard Nimoy's son Adam Nimoy and James Davidson, with assistances from City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, led an effort to have the building declared a historic monument by the city's Cultural Heritage Board. In February 1980, the building was declared a Historic-Cultural Monument (#231), putting demolition plans on hold.

In September 1985, the El Greco was carefully carved into four pieces and hauled from its original site in Westwood to its new location in the Beverly-Fairfax district.

The relocated El Greco opened in December 1986 as housing for senior citizens.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original
GSV

http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...tream/JPG/view
Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Title: "Artist and restorer Alver Regli sitting in front of a painting he's restoring in Los Angeles, Calif., 1931"

Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.,

Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. Coverage Los Angeles (Calif.)

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I happened across this brief description of the woolen mills on Pearl Street.

found under the heading "Manufacturers (1871-1880)"
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...910/BTQwd7.jpg
"History of Los Angeles County" copyright 1880. https://archive.org/details/historyoflosange00wils

In this description 'ditches' are used to transport the water. -no mention yet of the elevated flume visible in FW's photograph above.
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:previous:
"delivered water to a wheel to power the mill"

"Los Reyes and a ditch following the canyon of this arroyo down to Pearl street"


So you were correct on both accounts t2.
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Woolen Mill on Grasshopper/Pearl/Figueroa at 5th
 

Thx e_r. I knew the Bernard Bros first operated the mill (but not anything else about them). I never heard of Torr and Horner or the "several parties" that were unsuccessful. There's always more to know.

"In the autumn of 1873, Barnard Brothers set in operation the first woolen mill here, built in 1868 or 1869 by George
Hansen and his associates in the Canal and Reservoir Company. It was located on the ditch along the canon of the
Arroyo de Los Reyes now Figueroa Street; and for fifteen years or more was operated by the Barnards and the Coulters,
after which it was turned into an ice factory. "
-"Sixty Years in Southern California"/Harris Newmark, pg 450

:previous:
(Geo Hanson was a surveyor who came to LA in 1850. He was president of the Los Angeles Reservoir and Canal Company)


"Reverend Coulter, father of Frank M. Coulter, brought his family to Los Angeles on September 17th, 1877, and after a short association in the hardware firm of Harper & Coulter, he entered the dry goods field as B. F. Coulter, now the Coulter Dry Goods Company. In 1878, Coulter bought the woolen mills on Pearl Street near Fifth."
"Sixty Years in Southern California"/Harris Newmark, pg 511

Thanks so much for sharing your memories with us Silverlaker.

What would you say if I could take you someplace to see those same stained windows you saw with your grandfather?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/yef1J3.jpg
eBay / detail


You see, earlier this evening, I happened across this rather touching article from the Los Angeles Times [c.1988].
Towards the end of the article it mentions that the stained glass windows and pews (and even the pipe organ) were going to be put into storage
until a new home is found.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/RNcO9e.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/r0hH7k.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/903/NuXfVB.jpg
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-...3_1_high-notes


Well it turns out the new home of the German church is just north of downtown Los Angeles in Glendale..

But my heart sank when I saw that every wall of the new church is curved. (how could the old stained glass fit into this design?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/8qzn3E.jpg
google_earth


street view
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/Dam9S3.jpg
gsv


But take a closer look at this window.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...910/KWUWRr.jpg


That certainly looks like one of the old stained glass window from the German Methodist church on Olive Street!





After a half hour or so of googling I finally found an interior view and it's quite stunning! -it's actually mounted a foot or so away from the outer window.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/k15VCp.jpg
http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/chris...le/Interesting

:)





But this needs more research:
Are the pews also from the Olive street church?
What about the 1,000 pipe pipe organ? Was it saved?
And I'm not sure if there are two or three separate vintage windows at the Glendale site. (there are two different images of Jesus)

Also, one of the 'old' windows has "Look Up. Lift Up" written in English (see below).

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/S3tvqI.jpg
http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/chris...le/Interesting

Why isn't this in German?

detail
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/QzX4nv.jpg

-not sure what the large E and L stand for.

I've typed "Strathmore" numerous times (diff. variations) into the search function; surprisingly 'no results' were found.
-and yet the apartment building looks very familiar.

Perhaps we've seen it by a different name?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/5IYWMc.jpg
eBay

-note the three xs on three windows on the second floor of the apt. bldg.

Anyone recognize the church next door?

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just for fun, here it is enlarged.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/EeIDkY.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/9SPV7Q.jpg

the cross on the church appears to have a large 'crown'.

:previous:

The church looks very different, but the old Strathmore apartment building is still standing (minus a few details) at 910 S Grand View Street.

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

:previous: That's it! thanks Hoss.

I wonder if the old church is under that major make-over? (I doubt it)

:previous:

The church seems to be the Grand View (or Grandview) Baptist Church, and the number on the front is clearly 914, but I'm having trouble finding extra information.

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

Looking at Historic Aerials, the old church building is visible up until 2005. This July 2007 GSV image shows the new building under construction. Sadly, I doubt if much of the original is in there.

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

:previous:

I believe this church is Korean and appears to be standing behind a fortress of fences and locked gates. There's no sign on the building and Internet information is well hidden from the public. I think they have another church building nearby.

Strathmore Apartments / Westlake Presbyterian Church
 

The Westlake Presbyterian church went up in late 1909 (it cost $25K on a $7K lot). The Strathmore Apartments were built in late 1910.

Baist 1914, plate No. 15:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C...6%252520PM.jpg
historic mapworks (detail)

These two buildings are just across W 9th St (James M Woods Blvd) from the Susana Machado Bernard home and barn.



This murky image is the only photo I could find of the church:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...3%252520AM.jpg
cdnc / Los Angeles Herald , 19 February 1910

The accompanying article, re the church's 1910 dedication, is here


Los Angeles Herald, 12 July 1915:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P...9%252520AM.jpg
cdnc





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:previous: Thanks for digging up this information tovanger2-& for posting that Baist map detail. -very interesting.

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"Unidentified man walking in downtown Los Angeles" (1940s?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/UOxQea.jpg
eBay

Behind him you can see the entrance marquee to Desmond's Dept. Store (616 S. Broadway).



...and today.

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gsv

The old Desmond's marquee is still in place, and in good shape.

I just noticed the circle with 618 used to have an architectural element in that spot (look at the vintage pic again)

Just a quick Julius Shulman post today. The index numbers on these photos suggest that the original set may have been bigger, but all we have is the three I'm posting here. These wonderful shots of the Los Angeles Convention Center were taken in 1971, the year it opened. It's "Job 4775: Charles Luckman Associates, Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1971".

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

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

And finally, an interior shot.

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

All from Getty Research Institute

The last time we discussed Schaber's Cafeteria it was Les Noches du Figaro.
I guess it didn't last.

Schaber's:

:previous: Oh my, I had forgotten about that interior view of Schabers I posted years ago. What a beauty!
I believe the curved steps and mural are still in place.

The steps are, but not the Einar Petersen (1885-1986) mural


"Schaber’s Cafeteria and Einar Petersen" from the Daily Mirror


1940s. Just look at that terrazzo sidewalk:
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"The Store of Happiness" ca 1940s:
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Before Schaber's was Figaro's it was a Carl's Jr for years.

August 2014 as Cafe Figaro. So much of the beautiful ironwork went missing, inside and out:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9...0%252520PM.jpg
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P.S.

I remembered Schaber's b/c I sent Figaro's a bunch of photos from back in the day. They said they had them printed up to give to customers.
Too bad they couldn't make a go of it.

The listing to sell the restaurant is here

Here's the 1928 building permit. Charles F Plummer was the architect:
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For pix of other Charles F Plummer buildings click HERE

Before we move too far from Hoss' Chateau Brentana post, I feel compelled to comment on this lighting fixture.
(there were actually two of them in the original photograph)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/b0H5sB.jpg
detail / Shulman photograph

This has to be one of the ugliest designs I have ever seen (is that hammered copper?)
And if that wasn't bad enough, faux-icicles were added to the bottom.

This is what my mom would call "a conversation piece". ;)
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'mystery' location.

Los Angeles Motor Coach Co., Bus #3702.

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I can't tell where this bus has stopped.

-perhaps someone here recognizes the impressive house in the background? -maybe GaylordWilshire? (our in-house house expert)




here's a detail that's actually clearer
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/DStcf3.jpg


The "Los Angeles 5th & Hill" sign on the side is the final destination, right?
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Metro Library and Archive have this larger version of the whole picture on Flickr, in case it helps. I think the house on the left is clearer.
Their caption says "Los Angeles Motor Coach bus no.3702 headed to 5th and Hill in downtown Los Angeles, circa 1930."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
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My morning stop for years.

The sign indicates the destination.

That's the Adolph Ramish house at the NE corner of Wilshire and Kingsley:

http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html


At left is a glimpse of the George Getty house:

http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html

:previous: Thanks GW!


"Car and Alpha Beta truck mishap, 1970. Los Angeles.

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From a San Francisco 1902. Mr. Ramish says he wants the diamonds back and pronto!!
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THERE IS NO COMPROMISE
Miss Blanche Douglas and Adolph Ramish are Still at War

It is war to the knife over the diamonds for which Adolph Ramish, a few days ago, brought action In the Superior Court, making Miss Blanche Douglass, of the Harrington Reynolds company, defendant.
In speaking of the matter yesterday , Miss Douglas said: "No, indeed, there has been no compromise, and I most certainly will not return the jewels which Mr. Ramish gave me (There was an especial emphasis on the 'gave') until the court orders me to do so and I scarcely think that Is probable.
I did not think my friends would stand by me as they have. They have simply taken the matter out of my hands and are fighting it for me.''

Attorney John G. Mott has been secured to defend the case." Mr. Ramish Insists that he only loaned the jewels to the pretty actress and that he has proof eought of this to secure the Jewels.