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Photo of the above sculpture being created. Here's an earlier sculpture on the same plinth: https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll...hotos/id/36053 |
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"Here's an earlier sculpture on the same plinth." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/aHIGSv.jpg um. . .not to beat a dead horse https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1848/kIknRh.gif -but now I'm curious about this statue. ...Hopefully it was moved inside the pavilion. . |
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Here are a couple of intriguing 'mystery' photographs I came across in one of my old files. #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/KKQmjs.jpg eBay #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ctlcPW.jpg eBay Hopefully one of you slaves noirishers will come to the rescue and help me figure out the 2 locations. . |
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e_r, you posted those two photos here last year on May 23 (page 3016). They look north from 6th Street between Flower and Figueroa. :) |
I haven't seen this hotel before and it's so difficult to google something like "Southern Hotel."
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...293786a1_b.jpg Southern Hotel, 2829 E. Anaheim Road, Long Beach Part of the W.E. Nettz building AKA Hotel Southern 20 rooms and 4 apartments Operated by F.W. Parsons The Long Beach Telegram and The Long Beach Daily News 10 Jul 1924 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...34ae7b0d_b.jpg The hotel was taken over very quickly by the manager, now "E.W. Parsons" Long Beach Press Telegram 7.6.24 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f36b6fd0_b.jpg Of course it became a speakeasy during prohibition. It was raided two months after it was discovered and shut down. Long Beach Sun 17 Jun 1932 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7fec5f12_b.jpg The Long Beach Sun 17 Aug 1932 By 1965 it was known as the Congress Hotel The current hamburger stand on the site dates to 1974 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6ed9dbcc_b.jpg GSV |
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Here's something I hope to god haven't seen before. A horse ride at Griffith Park in the 1950s.... As you can see there's a Disneyesque tunnel with faux icicles. . How cool is that. Seller's description:..."1950s kodachrome Photo slide Griffith Park Los Angeles CA #9 Horse ride" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/9owMLo.jpgeBay So I take it the cart runs on the rails. ...*scratches head* My guess is; the ride was either at the Griffith Park Zoo or Transportation Town. :shrug: Does anyone who grew up (on visited) in Los Angeles remember it? P.S. I realize those ain't horses. . |
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I think this is the first time I've seen a handwritten MENU from the Ye Alpine Tavern on Mount Lowe. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/iaBF4I.jpg eBay August 22, 1903 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8318Xp.jpg Time for lunch. Have a good day noirishers. . |
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I'm baaack! Here's an intriguing mystery location. "1910 California Los Angeles Mother Child Skyline View RPPC Photo" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Ko2vbl.jpgeBay Clara & Margaret - At Los Angeles. Spring 1910 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/QQ8S7Q.jpg If only a last name had been included. :no: , |
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Over the years we have seen quite a few photographs of Cawston's Ostrich Farm and I hate to say it the majority of them are rather boring. (I'm afraid of Ostriches) - This RPPC is interesting because of the brick buildings just beyond the wood fence. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Lx7oRV.jpg eBay I can't decide if they're commercial buildings across the street or part of the farm. :shrug: What do you think? . |
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The reindeer ride reminds me of the old Santa Village in Sky Forest in the San Bernardino Mountains. The original Santa Village was shut down many years ago, a new company has reopened it. |
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re: The brick building at Cawston's Ostrich Farm. Once more. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/Lx7oRV.jpg Here's an interesting photograph taken just outside the ostrich farm that I don't believe we have seen before. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/qHr2Tt.jpg metrolibrarylibrary But no brick buildings in sight. :brickwall: Does anyone know why there would be a scale at the train stop? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8DLnID.jpg :shrug: . |
Look what I just found!
A plat map of the Cawston Ostrich Industrial Tract. It's not the farm itself but a planned industrial tract nearby. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/CJSbaq.jpg southpasadenaarchive Could this be where my brick buildings were (are) located? smart alecks can file this under 'beating a dead horse'. . |
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Take a gander at this unfortune crash involving a police car and a lamppost. 5/5/48 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dvJH3x.jpg eBay If you're wondering... the cross-street with 6th is Alvarado St. (it's a bit hard to see in the complete photo) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/Fob3QH.jpg I'd be remiss if I didn't point out Bruce's Mens Shop. ..(my real name is BRUCE) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/UUjxNz.jpg You're welcome. :) . |
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I found it! https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...nd_block_1.jpg Looking west on Macy from east side of Alameda, c. 1890s. UCLA/Hazard-Dyson Los Angeles Photograph Album (Page 73) |
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Impressive sleuthing, Flyingwedge. :) . |
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YES! And there's the original tower of the commercial structure, too! |
OK! So now I'm going to be really annoying and just PILE on the asks. I only do it because I know y'all are the best and the brightest when it comes to this sort of thing...
So, here goes nothin': Noirish Attribution Needs! 516-526 N Los Angeles St, with the Dragons Den, did we ever get a year built and architect? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...546e2660_b.jpg 306-308 north main, year and who did that? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...be82c8bc_b.jpg 229-231 Los Angeles, aka 120-130 E commercial, by whom and for whom, etc? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...74605af1_b.jpg Oriental Hotel, AKA Alameda Building, built between 1888 and 1894, corner of Alameda and Commerical https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e9a6dd59_b.jpg Spence Block, 601 North Alameda, 1885. Architect? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6b9fe41a_b.jpg What is that at left, 134 North main? Architect? And next to it is the McDonald Block, for E N McDonald, 1892, 132-124 N Main, can’t figure out the architect. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f2c453ba_b.jpg 100-106 N main, the German-American Savings Bank built in 1894, who was the architect? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f8567f26_b.jpg This one, once adjacent to the Lyceum theater, 221-23 S Spring: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b0f6ba12_o.jpghttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...36e45dc5_o.jpg The Claremont Block AKA Claremont Hotel, I think is about 1888, 321-23 W 4th, architect? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0c5e586a_b.jpg Northeast corner of 6th & Fig, Hotel Clinton, went up in 1902 from what I can tell, I can’t believe a major structure like this doesn’t have a smoking gun telling us the architect https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3baf5132_b.jpg the house at 533 South Fremont was built by noted philatelist William A. H. Connor, in 1895, who was architect?? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...66e5e738_c.jpg Mechaelis “Michael” T. Herzog came to Los Angeles from Prussia in 1875, and built this house in 1892, architect unknown, which bugs me mightily https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e43f5f45_b.jpg Thanks in advance!! |
Wait, I've got another one beside the previous dozen I need sleuthing on:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...fe17188c_o.jpg Third and Fremont, the Quaker Friends church built in 1901, and I'm dying to know who the architect was but can't figure it out! |
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