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We've covered the NBC Radio City Building on Sunset and Vine many times.
Here's a few photos of their NBC Color City Studios in Burbank. http://www.scottymoore.net/images/NBC/1958.jpg Photo by Frank Thomas 1958 http://www.scottymoore.net/images/NB...9e03e778_z.jpg NBC Color City on Alameda Ave. in Burbank - ca. 1960 http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...x/audition.JPG The Monkees in front of NBC, from episode "The Audition" 1966 http://www.scottymoore.net/images/NBC/ebay1.jpg Postcard Photo by Ellis-Sawyer 1968/Ebay |
Inflation or Devaluation....which is it?
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These nice little houses, in 2014, are now selling for around:.......$500,000. ......My aunt owned one like these from 1948 till it was paid off in 1978. Her monthly payment was about $50. We sold it in 1987 for $110K and divided the proceeds 5 ways. The neighbors thought our selling price was outrageously high. I wonder what they think now? These late 1940s tract homes were very nice. They were all lath~plaster with beautiful hardwood floors. They had large garages with storage space. For their time and day, they were modern and up-to-date. As my mother once said, '' those houses are like pearls on a necklace." |
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Looking for some vintage photos- 3rd & Main
Does anyone have, or remember seeing on this thread or elsewhere, any vintage (really any time period) of the corner of 3rd Street & Main? There are many impressive/historic buildings around this area (Bradbury bldg & Douglas bldg to the West, St. Vibiana to the North, etc). There is a small one-story building on the NW corner, with some dive bars and a Mean Streets Cross-Fit gym in it that has so far escaped the areas' gentrification.
Walking around the building the otherday, I could see traces of mosaic tile floor and a more impressive facade that's been covered up with ugly 70's aluminum slats. It appears the building might have been something bigger and more impressive back in the day, and was wondering if anyone knew anything about it? |
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Flyingwedge wrote extensively about that building at 3rd and Main in post #21015. It also quotes a previous post by Noircitydame. |
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Curious if anyone else was able to dig up anything since Flyingwedge's post. |
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/...aff58f9a_o.jpgLooking north on Main Street from 3rd, 1939 USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 |
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Westwood Hills/University Entrance Park Advertisement, 1925. This advertisement about "Westwood's Crowning Glory" - the development of the new UCLA campus - warned potential buyers that Westwood property was selling out quickly. Note the drawing of the Westwood Observation Tower (above center, far left). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...odTowerAd1.jpg books.google.com University Park Unit, East, 1929. This advertisement announced that the east end of the University Park Unit was 50 percent sold out. Located across Wilshire Boulevard from the Country Club, both units were adjacent to the Los Angeles Country Club, making them highly desirable. Note the Westwood Observation Tower prominently featured at left in the advertisement. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...odTowerAd2.jpg books.google.com I'd love to see a picture of the tower at night ;). |
1930 - XMAS-Holiday Season Garnished Oil Derrick ("Ho Ho Uh Oh" - No obvious fire hazard?)
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ndependent.jpg avanteur.com |
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And the answer was . . . Dolores. http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=15330 http://www.wehoville.com/wp-content/...5602854_n1.jpghttp://www.wehoville.com/wp-content/...5602854_n1.jpg Was this stretch of Sunset Blvd. ever officially marked: "Sunset Strip?" "Sunset Strip or The Sunset Strip?" Next to Book Soup was once a mortuary owned by Mickey Cohen 8814 Sunset http://www.playgroundtothestars.com/...-sunset-strip/ 1961 - Above the Sunset Strip. (Bottom left corner would have been 8844 Sunset Boulevard (Jerry's; Classic Cat; Tower Video) Hard to tell if the area is all parking lot - before construction - or "rooftop" parking.) http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/21825/rec/1 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/21825/rec/1 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...rip&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/21825/rec/1 Tower Video http://s.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...a5d7a10ecc.jpghttp://s.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...a5d7a10ecc.jpg http://blog.wfmu.org/.a/6a00d83451c2...9d5c9f2970d-pihttp://blog.wfmu.org/.a/6a00d83451c29169e2014e89d5c9f2970d-pi |
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Recent LAT article on LA street sign history: http://www.trbimg.com/img-53eeca18/t...15/700/700x394 http://www.trbimg.com/img-53eeca18/t...15/700/700x394http://www.trbimg.com/img-53eeca18/t...15/700/700x394 A bona fide old time Angeleno was reminiscing about semaphore traffic signals and also mentioned blue street signs with yellow lettering, similar to California's yellow-on-blue license plates and the LA Rams uniforms. Could I have seen them too, perhaps in the once unincorporated, West Hollywood, or maybe some other LA County community? Or perhaps the signs were temporary props, or they appeared in other areas of the State or Country? Surprisingly, there seems to be a dearth of yellow-on-blue street signage. :shrug: https://foreshock.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/432.jpghttps://foreshock.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/432.jpg Pacific Fence, circa 1938 (previously at 1223 N. Highland; eventually moved to 2840 San Fernando Rd ) http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjEzWDE1OT...UREUs/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjEzWDE1OT...UREUs/$_57.JPG http://www.antiquesnavigator.com/eba...0791203586.jpghttp://www.antiquesnavigator.com/eba...0791203586.jpg http://saferoutescalifornia.files.wo...pg?w=232&h=139http://saferoutescalifornia.files.wo...pg?w=232&h=139 http://www.davesclp.com/39ca.jpghttp://www.davesclp.com/39ca.jpg http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.6080...214387&pid=1.7http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.6080...214387&pid=1.7 |
Could have sworn I'd seen both images on NLA. Hiding in plain sight?
"Better than some and as good as the best." Per source -1910 - The Vendome Movie House (Somewhere on or near Vendome Street, in Silverlake? Not to be confused with the Vendome Hotel? 364 E. First Streethttp://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=2699, nor The Vendome Cafe on 6666 Sunset? :no: ) (1912 - Young Wild West from the Nestor Co. ??) http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics42/00040820.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics42/00040820.jpg 6666 Sunset Blvd. The Vendome Cafe - http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...=0&w=797&h=491http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...=0&w=797&h=491 |
Lighted Stop Sign And Street Signs
[IMG]http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/t...psa1fe8b9b.jpg[/IMG]http://s597.photobucket.com/user/cal...tml?sort=3&o=3 federal government regulated the use of signs for traffic including street name signs. All new signs must have reflective material n them and the font must be a certain size. For a city like L.A. to change all of their signs would cost millions. When the economy tanked it was near impossible to do it but it is getting back on track. As far as the lighted stop sign pictured on the Sunset Strip it is in the county and they differed from the city in lighting stops. Pictured here is a Stop that was located in front of the Ambassador Hotel and has street directions on the back. The lighted front was fairly common along with another style in the city.
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Back Of Ambassador Stop Sign
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Anbody have photos of this sign when it was posted in front of the Ambassador? |
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