HAPPY 240th NLA denizens!

Spectators light matches as part of a July 4, 1958 celebration at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

(...and "keep" lighting them?)

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...204%201958.pngUSC Digital Library

Also, check out this link/story, appearing two days ago:

Independence Day, 1847: How Los Angeles Celebrated Its First Fourth

https://www.lost-la/independence-day.org/

There's only one picture in this Julius Shulman photoset. I would have skipped it if it wasn't for the huge logo on the front. This is "Job 2438: North American Aviation, Inc., 1957".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

This detail view shows the sign of the Del Mar Motel in the background.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Getty Research Institute

I had a little trouble tracking down the building's location. North American Aviation had plants in Downey and Inglewood, and it seems that this was part of the latter. The site was just below Imperial Highway, between Douglas Street and Aviation Boulevard, to the south of Mines Field (LAX). The facility was apparently known as Inglewood due to its nearest post office.

I wasn't able to positively identify the building on the views at Historic Aerials, but I don't think it's still standing. I do, however, think I spotted it in this 1961 view of LAX.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

Can't see it? Here's a detail view of the right hand side.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
Detail of image above.

Great find, Hoss! That's quite a logo.

It looks like half of the old NAA building is still there at 1700 East Imperial Hwy., just west of Sepulveda:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original
GSV July 2015

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Thanks, FW. That's a little distance away from where I was looking, but I think you've found the old NAA building. I'm also glad you said "west of Sepulveda", because Google Maps took me to the wrong place! The left side iof the building looks new, but I think the original building is behind it. Here's a view from the above. The entrance in your GSV image certainly matches the Shulman picture.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
Google Maps

ETA. Here's a 2012 GSV image which shows the original shape of the building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original
GSV

Looks like a 50s Volvo...
 

It looks like a 50s Volvo to me...

1950s Volvo?

More '50s-early '60s South Central LA Exposition Park Memories:

Where the Sports Arena sits was a playground with a grove of trees that we used to climb on and we called The Monkey Trees. My sister used to take dance classes at the rec center in Expo Park. I swam a few times at the Swimming Stadium pool in Expo, but it was a vicious place to try to swim if you went by yourself - the thugs thought it great fun to pummel and kick me - and try to pull me - underwater.

I stood next to JFK's convertible pulling into the Sports Arena for the '60 Dem Convention, and also saw LBJ and Adlai Stevenson.

Our family used to attend the Coliseum July 4th fireworks shows. There were also stunt driving shows and LAPD motorcycle precision driving.

I remember the dinosaur skeletons and dioramas in the Natural History Museum.

On Santa Barbara Blvd., across from Expo Park, Hope and Fernando's had great burritos and at the Menlo Club before and after Rams, SC or Dodger games my dad would stop in for adult refreshments and to place - and collect or pay - friendly wagers on the outcomes of the games.

There was a big movie theater at Santa Barbara and Figueroa.

The houses next to the Sports Arena were built for the annual home shows.

Rodeo Road (Los Angeles)
 

The runner is at the intersection of Santa Barbara Avenue and Rodeo Road. In the background are the Thrifty Drugs and Hodys Restaurant on LaBrea and Rodeo Road.
The gasometer was located on Expostion Boulevard and 12th Avenue (?) just east of Crenshaw. The runner is near the intersection of Farmdale Avenue and Rodeo Road across the street from Dorsey High School where the last two pictures were taken. Thank you Tourmaline for the post.

The woman with the dark hair, seen in the top and middle "Blond Bonanza" pictures is Barbara Hale, "Della Street" in the Perry Mason series. I watched this episode a couple of months ago.

With regard to the Water Tower shown in the pictures of Huntington Beach. It was originally built in the 1800 to supply water for steam railroad engines. Rebuilt in the 1940's it supplied water for the area's water system until the 1970's when it was remodeled as a private home, according to an article in the Orange County Registered dated December 17, 2013. If you Google "water tower on PCH, you can read the article and see some pictures of the interior as a home.

IMDB lists a (made for TV) Movie that likely aired on January 29, 1956 called "Inside Beverly Hills." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024435/...f_=tt_ov_st_sm Not having viewed it, it appears to commemorate BH's 50 year anniversary. Since BH was incorporated in 1914, one presumes the anniversary refers to when the area was first formally named BH (by the Rodeo Land and Water Co.) in or around 1906. Below are some images from the production of the show entitled "Beverly Hills Anniversary TV show." http://images.google.com/hosted/life...994b3f245.html


FWIW, the 1956 CD has three listing for Romanoff's restaurant and wine/gift shop - all at 140 S Rodeo. This would have put it on the east side of Rodeo adjacent to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Some sources indicate Romanoff's was originally at 326 N Rodeo with additional and alternate addresses at 140 S. and later 240 S. Rodeo.



http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a639dc98b857a1fe_large




Romanoff's Wine and Gift Shop
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/9d028b50631e6032_large



"140"
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/7684d19b9a47cd1c_large







Beverly Wilshire Pool.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/0fdda5c7e56eedbf_large





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Prominent product placement.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d07294968c90d5f7_large





Did someone say "Dagmar?"
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b61220529b622be6_large




Some jaywalkers are just plain lucky.:)
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Probably should have spent less time at the Wine shop or could have gotten to the Shelter sooner.:previous:.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/102e6a232d3b84d8_large





George Raft telephoning the Sahara. Lawrence Welk probably not holding for Spade Cooley.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/ca67be74b085e19d_large





Beverly Hills' "South Side Story?"
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/29db4248e53cc12c_large






"The Derby House"
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c1f173ce775fafea_large

In the blink of an eye things change. With all of the recent construction, Old Hollywood is virtually no more.







1929
http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...eatre_1929.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/Historical_...eatre_1929.jpg





1938 (Al Levy's 2 hr. free parking. With validation?) Al's and the Broadway are across the street. (See http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5134)
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/9957f6272735a73a_large





1939
http://waterandpower.org/3%20Histori.../Vine_1939.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/3%20Histori.../Vine_1939.jpg






1945
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics03/00011276.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics03/00011276.jpg






Evidence that Packards don't leak? (Or that some garage attendant is good with cleaning rags.) From a series labeled Bev Hills California Science and [mis]dated 1936. http://images.google.com/hosted/life...64ef2b7db.html License plates appear to be 1938 issue.:shrug: Group of images seems fairly disorganized, but perfect for this thread.
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The "Bullock's Wilshire
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Parking behind Bullocks Wilshire
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Nice evening for the Derby
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/d97aeafa253de833_large







Ooooh. Brown Derby Bamboo Room
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/ac37bf774ac2be03_large










Hollywood Brown Derby (?) interior
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/9fa2d88167f9c537_large










Could this be part of the Farmer's Mkt.?
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/99ad5dcc5895c41d_large









When Waxed paper was king of the kitchen . . . and market. Notice watermelon halves.
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Location?
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Ready, willing and waiting.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/8c24eb5b123254ab_large

Carpenter's at Sunset and Vine. That's the NBC Studios in the background.

Thanks HossC :previous:




Circa '36 (but maybe '38.)
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/5db829ba033dc95c_large









Lower left corner, circa '36-'38
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The Palace is not in the pic, but the image is nonetheless remarkable.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/07a241503a7a434d_large
All from http://images.google.com/hosted/life...03a7a434d.html

Here are a couple of Julius Shulman pictures showing two different branches of Buffums' department store. This is "Job 3842: Buffums' Stores, 1965".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

I tracked the first store down to E 3rd and S Linden Streets in Pomona. The building now belongs to the Western University of Health Sciences. I went back a couple of years to get this GSV image with a wider angle. The street on the right is now closed to traffic and paved over.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original
GSV

The other picture shows the original store on the corner of Pine Avenue and E Broadway in Long Beach. We've seen the Long Beach store a couple of times before - check out Chuckaluck's post #9427 and BifRayRock's post #20378. A page on Buffums' at www.thedepartmentstoremuseum.org says that the business started in 1904. It dates the building on the right of the Shulman Long Beach picture at 1914, with the six-story addition added in 1925. It even includes a store guide. Sadly, these buildings have now gone.

originally posted by Tourmaline
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/LxPF89.png

:previous: Thanks for the information oldstuff. I wasn't sure if the watertower was still standing.



below: I was surprised when I came across this photograph from the 1970s.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/Ebgdw1.jpg
http://mapio.net/s/4138929/

Since the water tank is missing, the current 'home' on top was pretty much built from scratch (as opposed to a 'remodel')





Here's how it looks today.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/lhVhCP.jpg
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/337981147005091401/

Refresh my memory.

detail of LIFE photograph, originally posted by Tourmaline
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/68lBAN.jpg

I should know, but what is this large 'Tudor' residence? (red arrow above)

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I just happened across this photograph of Ceazan Tires on eBay. [dated 1937]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/1jFeSe.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1937-Commerc...AAAOSwMNxXXyo8



reverse / photographer's stamp
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/bzdzPT.jpg



We've seen a Ceazan Tires location once before on NLA.

It's in the background of a photograph posted by Godzilla back on Halloween of 2014.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24430

So my question is, which Ceazan Tires location is in the photograph I just found on eBay?
(it doesn't resemble the one in Godzilla's post)
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Believe it or not, I just found another Ceazan Tires photograph. This one of a Hollywood branch.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/wGNk0u.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1937-Commerc...3D112039789169

Obviously the street number is 1142, but I don't know which street.





The photographer's stamp on the reverse is the same as the previous photograph.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/bzdzPT.jpg

"George Armstrong's rebuilt water tower home was anchored to its base on July 3, 1984, as people gathered to watch, comfortably seated in their folding chairs."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...WaterTower.jpg
LAPL

The LA Times covered the water tower a few times:

A House That Rises Above the Rest
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-05-...1_1_ocean-view

SEAL BEACH : Beach Home Epitomizes the High Life
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-10-...6_1_seal-beach

SEAL BEACH : Meal Is Over for Tower's Termites
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-01-...0_1_seal-beach