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"Mid 1950s Metropolitan Coach Lines Street Supervisor pulling out of Macy Street Yard, now Division 10."
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re: Mabel Normand residence.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/Mjd3cq.jpg http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/3b...hillshouse.htm Mabel Normand in front of her Beverly Hills home with driver, 1924. here's my postcard again / for comparison http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/7rMIgg.jpg __ |
After the Earthquake, March 10, 1933, San Pedro Calif.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/XMYF5R.jpg eBay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...905/bHSf7E.jpg I wonder what the "Sailors Steel Locker Club" was? (the word "Lockers" appears on three different signs) __ |
"The toughest bar in L.A. history, Shanghai Red in San Pedro"
"Around 1927, Charlie Eisnenberg, who'd taken on the moniker Shanghai Red, returned to San Pedro and opened a bar on the town's rather insalubrious Beacon Street called Shanghai Red. He was tough and quite capable of throwing out anyone who caused trouble (like he's doing in the photograph below)". http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/kckiC1.jpg http://www.chinarhyming.com/wp-conte...x485-61662.jpg -here's a view of the bar in color. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...908/AyuQDl.jpg http://photobuff2.tripod.com/collect/clock.html a postcard showing the interior bar http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/PfgGy5.jpg Signage is all that remains of the closed Shanghai Red Cafe at 5th and Beacon in this 1969 photograph. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/uAoTh5.jpg http://blogs.dailybreeze.com/history...ghaiclosed.jpg A screen-grab from a TV Movie of the Week called "The Old Man Who Cried Wolf" (1970) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/UDX5EO.jpg https://spbxb.files.wordpress.com/20...nghai-reds.jpg :previous: It's too bad it's so blurry. If anyone sees that "The Old Man Who Cried Wolf" is going to be on TV let me know, I'll get a better screen-grab. As far as I can tell, the only time Shanghai Red has been mentioned on NLA is in the post below from July 2010! Quote:
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1922: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...7%252520PM.jpg 1920s: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...6%252520PM.jpg both photos: "San Pedro" by Joel McKinzie You and Hoss have taken us here before: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=18567 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=18577 And now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...6%252520PM.jpg gsv |
Thanks tovanger2!
I really like the earthquake photo in Hoss' link http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=18577 His photo (below) was taken from the opposite direction of my sepia photo (so you get a glimpse of the Harbor Hotel) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/Ufzvp4.jpg |
This Julius Shulman photoset of the Aldama Apartments has both color and black & white pictures. Where they overlap, I've used the color image. We're looking at "Job 3681: Allyn E. Morris, Aldama Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1964".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original These kids must be in their late 50s now - I wonder if they know that these images still exist. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Some of the side details, and a hint at the view from the apartments. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original I sometimes tweak the colors of the images I post, but I've left these exactly as they were! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original The interiors are still quite striking in black & white. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original The black & white version of this image has someone standing by the unusual triangular hole. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original Here's the baby's room. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original And finally, the bathroom. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The Aldama Apartments are still standing at 5030-5036 Aldama Street in Highland Park. It looks like the original steps have been replaced, and the center flight has been straightened. The property websites give a build date of 1961. For anyone who's interested, there are some recent interior pictures in an article at la.curbed.com. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original GSV |
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gsv "Contributing to San Pedro's sense of being its own town is the fact that it has its own downtown, and that (even though it hasn't served as such for over a century) the John S. Gibson Jr. Municipal Building is still usually referred to by locals as San Pedro City Hall. On its seventh floor is the old jail, affectionately nicknamed "Seventh Heaven." On the bottom floor is Old Fire Station 36 -- a firefighters museum open only on Saturdays" - kcet Firefighter Museum: http://www.lafdmuseum.org/museum_sanpedro https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...0%252520PM.jpg gsv More info on "City Hall" here |
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Good question ER. The Navy did not allow sailors to have civilian clothes on Navy ships in those days. Therefore, the sailors kept their civilian clothes in a downtown ''locker club'' to wear when they went on Liberty. Every Navy port city had lots of ''locker clubs''. |
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I checked it out and you're absolutely correct (see below) -esp. the last paragraph. Marine Corp Chevron, 4 Oct. 1946 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/1WCqXa.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/WbdBgM.jpg http://historicperiodicals.princeton...--txt-IN-----# While we're on the subject here are two photographs I found earlier this week on eBay. below: Sailors arriving in Long Beach for law enforcement duties after the 1933 earthquake. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/95YkJH.jpg eBay -Two sailors on street patrol, W. Broadway, Long Beach http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/klo0Py.jpg eBay __ |
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Odessa Cox. :previous: Principal founder of Los Angeles Southwest College at Imperial Highway and Western Avenue. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/06/local/me-855 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00002/00002037.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00002/00002037.jpg |
:previous: I wondered who that was. Thanks Tourmaline.
I just happened across two rare 1928 snapshots of 219 N. Hill Street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/TGVRU2.jpg eBay "Where I lived over tunnel end." (I believe you can see the top of the tunnel at lower right) here's the second pic. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/O2b5pd.jpg eBay -just for fun, here's an enlargement. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/VyUZpO.jpg :previous: Is that a man with a hat over by the tunnel? -and what's that two story building behind the houses? you can bid on them here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1928-LOS-ANG...UAAOSw5VFWMWzX and here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1928-LOS-ANG...0AAOSw9mFWMXE~ * I just noticed the bidding has only 1 minute 23 seconds left. :( __ |
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Hill Street Tunnel, Rood house, Criss Cross, Octavius Morgan
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...3%252520PM.jpg historic mapworks, plate 7 Does that really say Lancaster Pl? LOL: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9...9%252520PM.jpg historic mapworks, plate 7 PS The Rood rental house, at No. 219, had an interesting owner's name on a 1916 permit: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...6%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...2%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-f...8%252520PM.jpg ladbs PPS Huh. Octavius Morgan is also listed as the owner of 215 N Hill (the Criss Cross house) with Morgan & Walls listed as architects on the 1906 building permit. Maybe he owned the whole block: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...1%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o...8%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...5%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...9%252520PM.jpg ladbs OK, No. 223 was also one of Octavius Morgan's (it's the other house pictured in e_r's Rood image), but not the other three on the block, further down the hill. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Octavius Morgan was into real estate development. Anyone with a little extra cash was. ____ |
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Locker clubs also did tailoring, sell uniforms and clothes etc. depending on the size of the club that is. |
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Just to the right in the photo is one of the Locker Clubs of Long Beach. There were about 6 or so of them. Most were in an area of Ocean Blvd., known as The Jungle. That's right...very sleazy area. I never used a locker club because I always lived in Navy barracks or in my own basic allowance apartment. The Navy gave me $230 a month extra for food and an apartment. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach ... I believe this has been seen before here. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psiuoyw5ot.jpg the pike dot com |
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(sorry, a bit off topic but does at least relate to southern California close to L.A....and the locker clubs/pool halls definitely had a noir vibe back in the day ;-) |
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