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Yep, you nailed it Hoss. I visited that intersection (in the google-mobile) but didn't see the diagonal cross tracks so I moved on. I didn't think to check the past views. __ |
Today, Julius Shulman gives us before and after views of a remodel at Republic Savings. It stood at 729 S Flower Street. It's "Job 4100: Republic Savings Building, remodel (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1966". I'm assuming that this is the 'before' picture as the lettering seems to have been removed from the front.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The second and third images are nearly identical, so I've omitted the third one. After the remodel, the second floor has been opened up as a balcony, and small balconies have been added to the third floor. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute I think that 729 Flower Street was built in 1926, and that the demo permit was issued in 1991 (there are no digital images of either document online). The whole block now just seems to be used for parking. The parking garage at the right has even had an extra level added. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV I'll finish with a view of the same section of S Flower Street in better times (architecturally speaking at least). This image is from 1937, and shows the Machin Shirt Co at 729, just to the right of the large "Music" blade sign. I can't see the lower floors too clearly, but it looks like the building originally had balconies on the third floor, as it did after the remodel. To the left is the Los Angeles Music Co at 733 S Flower Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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Here's the section you're talking about, AlvaroLegido. I've inset the relevant section of the key. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Detail from image in Library of Congress Here are a selection of posts covering some of the locations. It's worth clicking the links as each post contains more pictures and information. From post #4115, the Capitol Milling Co and Cable Railway Viaduct. Quote:
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I'm currently reading "The Life of Raymond Chandler", good stuff and others here might enjoy it too...much of it is about pulp fiction, L.A., film noir, Hollywood etc...
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Myron T. Hunt was the architect. It was under construction in late 1926, built for Ransohoff's (ladies clothing shop) and had its grand opening Jan 10, 1927. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...9-2-flower.jpg The interior was art moderne. It closed in May 1933 when the owner retired. Oct. 9. 1936 Machin's (custom shirts and apparel) moved in; they were there 'til Nov. 1945, when they moved across the street to 716. 733 opened a few days earlier, Jan 2, 1927. Felchin, Shaw & Franklin, architect. Built for Myer Siegel ladies' clothing store. M-S were there until they moved into the former B.H. Dyas store at 7th & Olive in September 1934. Los Angeles Music Co. moved in to 733 after that, by 1937 for sure. *I forgot to add, on the other side where the garage is in the Shulman photo, would have been the Abigail Stark house at 723. |
Since we've been sleuthing around the San Fernando Road area I thought I'd finally post these screen-grabs taken from a train in 1946.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...903/ghhXOX.jpg https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-5# http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...903/ucYE9r.jpg Video here: https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-5 I thought it might be fun to try and locate the buildings today. I've placed them in order. #1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/9m1M7v.jpg SOIL OFF (with giant blinking can) #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/dpu1hc.jpg below: neighboring building on street corner. (SOIL OFF sign at far right) #3 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/uIxAIS.jpg below: passing through an intersection / gas station visible. (in the video you'll notice a blinking two-tiered sign behind the gas station) #4 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/xY7YEg.jpg below: same gas station, behind a bunch of signs I wish I could read. ;) #5 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/1bkjQw.jpg below: A second gas station. (the other station is on the right) #6 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/LPt8X2.jpg below: Standard of California. #7 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/oLF8w2.jpg below: silvery tanks (part of Standard of California?) #8 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/hi7wgS.jpg below: factory building (same complex?) #9 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/1fvjbG.jpg below: another substantial industrial building with writing on the left side. #10 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/cezvxc.jpg below: various buildings, one with a shiny rooftop billboard. #11 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/aUpFQ6.jpg below: a cafe? (and a cool car...maybe a taxi) #12 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/zkRaEy.jpg below: a tiny business that looks like a drive-through espresso place ;) #13 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/7p9hzn.jpg below: passing through an intersection. #14 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/TdWmOJ.jpg below: a bus waiting at that intersection. (with it's door open) #15 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/e8qocG.jpg below: Storybook Dress Company #16 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/l0aTj0.jpg below: a bar/cafe (lighted Pabst Blue Ribbon sign?), and auto wreckers yrd. #17 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/mqRYrf.jpg below: a large, rather nice looking building with various signs. #18 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/AHdE3z.jpg below: An ice company (and a liquor store next door) -very convenient #19 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/VV0UTP.jpg below: "Turn Here-California Hotel" LARGE sign. (on the right is the liquor store & ice co. from the previous screen-grab) #20 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/GJpvyU.jpg below: a couple of impressive buildings. (the one on the left might be a garage) I really like the building on the right. #21 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/fLsiOK.jpg below: gas station? with a large truck parked under the canopy. #22 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/9QVHn8.jpg below: General Aircraft Company #23 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/IEachU.jpg below: interesting sign with arrow (but I can't make out what it says :() #24 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/Y334lo.jpg below: nice building with pointy arched window (Fence Co?) #25 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/XIxkDT.jpg below: Texaco Station #26 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/oYqlHk.jpg below: Nursery building with nice lighting on the facade (it's blocked by a semi hauling a giant pod ;)) -spooky #27 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/e5e44q.jpg below: nice deco building on corner #28 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/KwJggX.jpg below: a bridge (for reference) #29 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/tuRJIA.jpg below: car lot with intriguing 'towers' outlined in lights in the background. #30 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/CXWUEi.jpg p.s. I think I've gotten out of order somewhere in this area. -sorry below: A semi, a bus & a cafe. #31 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/b18nX7.jpg below: a better view at the Greyhound bus.:) #31 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/BzgQyR.jpg below: an attractive bar/cafe open for business. #33 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/irtmT6.jpg below: yet another interesting sign, this time the arrow's pointing the opposite way. #34 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/p5Qbtl.jpg below: looks like a converted streetcar (diner?), and a garage #35 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/b2z6ds.jpg below: at first I thought the sign said BOOKS, but I'm not sure. #36 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/gkgnVf.jpg below: Valley Wrecking and Lumber Company #37 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/nU43HT.jpg below: Bar-Eva Nurseries #38 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/jn6K60.jpg __ OK, I just realized I've gotten out of order, and that I've missed some choice buildings. So I am going to end it here, and let you go watch the video. Watch the video here: https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-5# OK, I just realized there are two videos. In this one the train is really hauling ass. https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-3_LA :previous: The film-makers were probably sent back out and told to get on a slower train. lol. :) __ |
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Wow, ER, that night train b/w film is noirish to the max. I can remember those old cars with their tiny red glass rear panel lights...smoking in the cars and no seat belts. Sigh...now everything is plastic. Plus there's another thing about those old cars....they reeked of oil and gasoline, plus the smell of dilapidated cloth upholstery. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original archive.org ... but it's now the Mt View Motel at 8065 San Fernando Road. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV A block north, and about 20 seconds later, the train passes Roscoe Hardware and this corner drug store. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original archive.org Roscoe Hardware is still listed at 8165 San Fernando Road in a 1980 issue of Field & Stream. This must be the same building as the screengrab above, although I was disappointed to see that the tower is missing. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV I also found a page about these videos by Wes Clark called 1946 Railroad Film Footage. It says there are a total of four train films and one shot from a car. They were filmed to be used as back projection for the 1947 Rita Hayworth movie 'Down to Earth' (see the board in e_r's screengrab above). It's a color movie, so the train films had to be tinted. Wes also included a link to a clip from the finished movie: |
:previous: Good job Hoss.
I don't know how I missed the Roscoe Hardware building in the video. (are those diagonal braces holding up that small 'tower'? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/JmybXg.jpg detail |
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I just came across this photograph on eBay. "1946 Los Angeles Transit Railway CA #2501 Special Car." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/KjRx9f.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/5C212-RP-194...cAAOSwZd1VXSaN :previous: Did that kid in the white shirt just fall down in the gutter? -also note the guy in the dark hat and coat exiting the street car from the back. ______ I thought the buildings in the distance along the curve were associated with the railroad, or perhaps industrial buildings. So I was surprised to see that one is a Grace Nazarene Church. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...903/qOX8x7.jpg detail Does anyone recognize this area? __ |
Just a quick Julius Shulman post today. This is The Powers Regulator Company at 3200 Temple Street. It's "Job 1681: Powers Regulator Company Office Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1954".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute The building survives pretty much intact as the Temple Gateway Youth & Community Center. The palm tree by the entrance has grown well. Although not visible in the view below, the house on the left of the image above is still standing. The same can't be said for the white building behind the car on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV Directly behind the community center on Robinson Street are these two buildings. On the left, 246 Robinson Street dates from 1924, while 240 Robinson Street was built two years later in 1926. It makes such a pleasant change to see buildings of this type which haven't been molested, and aren't surrounded by high fences with metal bars on the windows (OK, the side windows on the first floor of 240 have grilles). I quickly checked the older GSV images, and found that 246 had two large trees hiding the entrance until at least February 2014. It looks much better now. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: Good find Hoss, -and a good point about the lack of metal bars and security fences. If the gsv view was in black & white it would be hard to tell the date.
__ Here's another 'mystery' location. This shows a very tight squeeze on a slight curve. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/gOh20L.jpg eBay "RR Traction Print Pacific Electric PE LA Combine Car #498" __ |
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Anyone who found themselves trapped in the middle of a freeway traffic jamb certainly remembers the God awful smell of crankcase fumesl and half burned gasoline coming from exhaust pipes made even worse by many mostly used up engines needing a rebuild or replacement burning oil. Yukers! Guaranteed to give anyone a spitting headache in a matter of minutes. Ah, the good old days when some moron with one of those oil burning piles of junk pulled into the spot next to you at a drive-in and kept their engine running because their battery wouldn't hold a charge and killing the engine required a jump start. :( |
I'd say this would be around 1947. ;)
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