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You can see my 2015 post on how the freeways took over the Sisters' Orphans Home/Los Angeles Orphanage/LA Orphan Asylum site here. |
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Orphans with Mickey Mouse dolls, Los Angeles [c.1930s]
#1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/o4xHma.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/shushm...7628208066431/ #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/nWOkZk.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/shushm...7628208066431/ But this orphanage doesn't look like the Gothic 'pile' out in East Los Angeles. "Los Angeles Orphans' Home, Dedication Day May 30, 1936" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/qLJ7Dy.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/shushm...7628208066431/ note the shirtless man watching the festivities from the roof of the building across the street http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/8lc3s1.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/IBnPT3.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/iVjHNW.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/ZVv4Sg.jpg Does anyone know where this school was located located? All from https://www.flickr.com/photos/shushm...57628208066431 __ |
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Here's one more from this same group of photographs. (if someone can make out the name of the cleaners, we might be able to use that as a clue) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/mMwJkQ.jpg unless they're on a field trip. (the young man wearing the white shirt & million dollar smile must be the leader) flickr http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/0MjxwD.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/shushm...57628208066431 |
Hollygrove
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That's Hollygrove, 815 North El Centro in Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe, then 9, was taken there in 1935. LAT article on its closing: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/dec...e-hollygrove20 P.S. The facility, now the Larchmont Charter School, backs onto Vine Street. The original buildings are long gone: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8G...A=w938-h558-no gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UD...w=w858-h552-no google maps Norma Jean Baker stayed at Hollygrove until June 1937, so, unless she was sick that day, she's in this photo: Quote:
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Hoss, thanks much! I knew there was an excellent post about its siting back there somewhere...
But back to garages. I wrote a bit about the Grand Central/Biltmore Garage at 5th and Grand; I sloppily thought the Stanton in Stanton, Reed & Hibbard was Jesse Earl Stanton, of Stanton & Stockwell fame; but it's Forest Q Stanton, and Lester Hudson Hibbard was the star of that group. A fine write-up of Stanton, Reed & Hibbard can be found here. As there were all these garages within a stone's throw of each other, I thought I'd investigate each a bit. Here's the three at Fourth and Olive, in a photo by Reagh, 1966: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2825/3...67cb0044_o.pnglapl The parking lot of course is the former site of the Fremont Hotel. At left, the Central Garage at 363 S Olive, designed by Lester H Hibbard (Stanton, Reed and Hibbard, contractors), erected in 1923, demolished 1989. Now, Central Garage was built in '23 by the Biltmore Corp. Looks like they built it but were eyeing the 1920, also Stanton, Reed & Hibbard-designed Grand Central Garage which was closer to the Biltmore. So they disposed of the one up on Fourth and Olive and took over the one at Fifth and Grand. The Clark Hotel had built their garage at 350 S Olive/425 West 4th in 1919. That's the one renamed the Center Garage, AKA the one with the elephants. The architect is Dodd & Richards, which is why it's so good. It is demolished in 1971. The Savoy Garage is 400 South Olive/430 West Fourth, designed by Curlett & Beelman, erected in 1923, still standing, miraculously. Curlett & Beelman, titans of LA architecture, are also known for the 1926 May Company garage at 6th & Hill. And while this article states the oldest remaining parking garage in LA is Norenberg & Johnson's 1925 Auto Center Garage at 746 S Hope, that is incorrect. The oldest extant garage built as a free-standing garage is Curlett & Beelman's Savoy on Bunker Hill, y'all. As long as we're on the subject—while researching these characters I came across this article on the Hotel Clark Garage. This may be more than you'd ever care to know about this garage, but hey, it's a lost Dodd & Richards. Also, insert obligatory scroll-warning here. https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2825/3...ecfc717c_o.png https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3725/3...c44ab1de_o.png https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3929/3...32ce0d06_o.png Here's the one that really grabbed me—I never thought I'd see an image taken atop the Clark Garage facing its rooftop carwash. There's the Fremont kittycorner across the street, the Rose Mansion behind it, the Zelda up at 4th & Grand, and across from the Zelda the little-photographed 355 S Grand, which in the early 1920s was the birthplace of the infamous Blackburn Cult. https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/665/33...07666c28_o.png (Oh, and the garage nearby at 343 S Grand which replaced the Brunson mansion in 1917? That was by John J Frauenfelder, who was an important concrete architect on early public mausolea, among other stuff.) |
Savoy Garage
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It's lost its neon (and a couple of entrances) since '82: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2y...A=w929-h516-no |
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Here's a quick reminder of how the Savoy Auto Park looked in 1926. Quote:
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Savoy Garage
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Back in 1910, the SE corner of W 4th and Olive was residential (these structures were still there on the 1921 Baist): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hg...g=w625-h471-no baist 1910, plate 7 |
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This picture of the Hotel Sheldon is in the same post as the garage picture above. The Mumford (which I can't find on NLA) had already made way for the Savoy Auto Park. Quote:
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Here's another Student Union building from Julius Shulman. Compared to the one in Whittier, this one looks more bunker-like from this angle. It's "Job 5209: Pulliam and Matthews, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Student Union (Pomona, Calif.), 1975". This is just a selection from the set.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original I'm mixing color with black & white today. This end looks like it should be a loading dock, but I can only see small doors. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Other than the arrow and the plant pot, the inside is all straight lines and right-angles. Even the clock appears to be a dodecagon. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original I'll finish with this glorious mix of '70s colors. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute California State Polytechnic University's campus is at 3801 W Temple Avenue, Pomona, but it took me a while to find the building above. The semi-circular towers from the second picture are gone, and the building has been extended. The few pictures I could find seem to show the new part at the left of the image below. The original part is roughly in the center. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV/Tracy Moore |
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"Tim" Matthews, as well as being an architect, became mayor of Pasadena. He built his own home in Arroyo Seco: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9g...g=w747-h495-no builderonline <--- more pix at the link The firm continues as Pulliam, Matthews and Associates |
re: Los Angeles Orphans Home (aka Hollygrove)
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re: Los Angeles Orphans Home, post #2
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undated http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/KKv0v7.jpg http://www.cursumperficio.net/CD/Hom/Orph/Orph4.jpg Today, the perimeter fence at Larchmont is almost completely covered in plants and shrubbery. (but maybe this section is somewhere else) the Hollygrove fence pic is from: http://www.cursumperficio.net/FicheAO6.html __ |
I forgot to mention this.
"Norma Jeane's room at the Orphans Society overlooked the water tower of the RKO studios." from: http://www.cursumperficio.net/FicheAO6.html I wonder if this could be the RKO water tower? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/3qFMo0.jpg detail / posted yesterday of a group of boys art the orphanage. It would be interesting to see a vintage aerial of the Los Angelels Orphans Society/Larchmont Charter School. [hint: ;)] |
Hollygrove
There's a similar sign north of the main entrance on El Centro e_r, it's the address:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IQ...=w1043-h551-no gsv Water tower: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Xg...g=w581-h609-no google maps Water tower and photo location: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qF...Q=w401-h496-no google maps The buildings across El Centro from Hollygrove. The one on the right may be newer, but the brick one on the left matches the historic photo: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tb...g=w766-h363-no gsv Bill Counter at Los Angeles Theaters has the whole story on the 1910 El Centro Theater |
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:previous: Hey, thanks oldstuff! That clears it up.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/DOSiy3.jpg 2011 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/00J2BO.jpg and today, with exposed brick http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/Wrbz36.jpg The 'mystery' cleaners building is to the right. (I think it's the same building in the vintage pic.....it's just been remodeled several times over) One last look at the complete pic. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/mMwJkQ.jpg flickr |
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