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Boy, I loved those Clifton's shots! I thought it was all in good taste...but I grew up in Cleveland, so what do I know.

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Thank you for volunteering Rick_M.

Teed Street Obsession
 

O.K., let me get this out of my system

Look at the house on Teed Street right in the middle of the picture

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg684...jpg&res=medium
Los Angeles, California, 1894. Drawn & lithographed by B. W. Pierce.

Looks like the J.W. Robinson mansion


Now lets go back a little:

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Los Angeles, California, 1894. Drawn & lithographed by B. W. Pierce.

The street that runs right under the mansion is Belle Vue

Now in 1909:

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Los Angeles 1909. Compiled by Worthington Gates. Western Litho Co.

It looks like Belle Vue has been changed to Sunset

So, the mansion being located at the corner of Teed and Belle Vue makes sense.

One more:

Could this be where Teed Street used to come out on Ord Street?

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg207...jpg&res=medium
Google Street View

O.K. that's it... :whip::slob: I deserve it

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L.A. Times May 16, 1941

Thanks for the pics, FredH!
Glad you enjoyed the Crimson Kimono shots!

thanks 3940dxer for the Mcafee clip - I am surprised anyone noticed - I thought his nose always looked like that !!

I second that emotion, Rick, re OneArchives. I keep a file on each house I find reference to on Adams Boulevard, demolished and extant, from about Main Street west. One corner that has always proven elusive photographically is the northwest of Adams and Scarff.... The insurance maps I've seen indicate a small house or structure set well back from Adams, apparently built sometime after 1909. There are some photos of small houses from various sources that are possibilties, but I've never seen anything definitive. Now I know you don't spend your Sunday volunteer time at OneArchive doing urban archaeology--and not that I think you'd be able to turn up any evidence of the former occupant of the site there--but maybe one Sunday you could catch a cellphone shot of the newly denuded Teed house on Scarff for us....

The contagious Teed Street Obsession
 

As for the Robinson house on Teed Street... I can't let go.... Here is an 1891 aerial map. (It depicts the house in the few years between
Robinson and Ford versions, as FredH's 1894 map appears to show the latter's round turret--see bottom pic here.)

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C...eredcircle.jpgHistoric Map Works
Also notice some of the old street names--Montreal, Philadelphia, etc.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-T...mapdetail3.jpgHistoric Map Works


And...
Thank you FredH--now we've found Rosas Street. Looks like it eventually became N. Hill Place.

http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...existscopy.jpg

The line on the map for Teed St. appears to be dotted. This suggests to me that at some point in the past, its legal status was changed from a public road to a private easement. It may be that underground utilities still exist along the old right of way, and an exclusive easement was created to maintain DWP access to them after the adjacent properties were redeveloped.

-Scott

What is that diamond shaped object near Temple and Custer?

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It's either someone's garden maze or the portal to the underground space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Very strange.

A baseball diamond for giants.

I somehow missed this great photo & post the first time around. I had to laugh out loud at the house "loaded with gawkers".
I never would have noticed them without you pointing it out.

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http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2763/70077099.jpg





This is the house FredH highlighted above. It is the only house in the area that could be a contemporary to the J.W. Robinson House.


http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/7...acouldbeco.jpg
google street view








Most of the area is full of horrific buildings like this. This is just across the street (to the west) from where the J.W. Robinson house once stood. :(

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/922...eatodaysad.jpg
google street view

It's hard to imagine this area was once bucolic hills dotted with stately homes.

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I wish someone who has a copy of 'Cry Danger' would download the drive up to the Clover Trailer Park. After all this J.W. Robinson talk I'm dying to see what this area looked like in the 1940s.

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The 1909 map posted earlier by FredH.
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/7290/jwmap1909.jpg

above: It looks as if Ord Street used to continue up to Hill Street (now North Hill Place) instead of taking that severe right turn.




below: The view today with the missing segment of Ord Street.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/474/jwordturn.jpg
google street view



...and it looks like there might have been stairs at one point as well. Did these stairs parallel Ord at this steep grade?
(if you look closely there are three or four 'stepped' stones just this side of the more solid line)


http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6744/...ac2oldstep.jpg
google street view

....of course it could just be a property line, but that isn't nearly as interesting. ;)




below: The Ord Street Turn.

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8099/jwordturng.jpg
google street view

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics25/00047296.jpgLAPL

A member of the Junior League doing her volunteer work: she's apparently taking handicapped children for
a ride in her chauffeur-driven car, perhaps to the Junior League Home for Convalescent Children located
at 1153 N. Westmoreland Avenue--now the site of a school.

Cry Dander (1951)
 

etheral_reality:

That area where Ord Street extends up the hill is exactly where the Clover Trailer Park was located in the 1951 movie.

Here are screen shots of North Hill Place from Cry Danger. Unfortunately, all the shots were taken from across the street,
so you cannot see the houses on that side.

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg64/...jpg&res=medium
Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures

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Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures

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Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures

I think as ratty as that house across the street (the one with the gawkers) looked in 1951, it is probably long gone.


As long as I am started on Cry Danger, here are some more screen shots:

Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming drive past a gas holder...just for our enjoyment:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg444...jpg&res=medium
Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures

Third Street, up on Bunker Hill:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg213...jpg&res=medium
Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures

The Los Amigos bar, directly across the street from the Angel's Flight station on Olive Street:

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Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures

Across Third Street from the Los Amigos is the Angel's Flight Cafe:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg860...jpg&res=medium
Cry Danger, RKO Radio Pictures

The Angel's Flight Cafe was one of the main settings in the 1965 movie called Angel's Flight, staring Indus Arthur and
William Thourlby (the original Marlboro Man). This movie took place in the dying years of Bunker Hill and may have never made it to the theaters.

The Angel's Flight Cafe (sorry about the crappy image):

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg221...jpg&res=medium
Angel's Flight (1965), produced by John Bushelman

FredH this is exactly what I wanted to see!! (not the other side of the street)
I had no idea this house actually appears in 'Cry Danger'. I only mentioned it because of its age.



http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/7...acouldbeco.jpg
google street view

You can see the house in the three scenes below.


So I take it you knew all along that this house appears in the film FredH? I had NO idea since I haven't seen 'Cry Danger'.
It's so great to see a connection with a film noir from 60 years ago!! I would rent this place out in a minute.

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Gaylord W.- If you can attend our 60th anniversary event @ One in mid 2012 you'll get to see a 3 x 4 W.Adams map I recently whipped up featuring all the homes (and school and church) that comprised the street from Figueroa to Hoover -- including the Tudor built in 1909 by the De Camps -later held by the socializing Chester Brown family. In the 30s, #909 became (with its large gardens) the home of the USC sorority Alpha Delta Pi - by WW2 the Delta Tau Delta frat owned this property and either burnt the home down or raised funds to build the brick edifice as a replacement frathouse -- which today is where the One Archives exists. A grainy photo from L.A.Times archives (Aug 1, 1909) is all I've found. Contacting current sorority leadership hasn't produced a reply- surely they have preserved photo albums- not like the Delts who were banned from USC after a MAJOR "Animal House" period in the early 70s.Bad boys don't care for such history! .. The DeCamps probably first lived here in a smaller Queen Anne but got into the Tudor style when chafing over the old Victorian... I will soon shoot the Teed house---

Up close, it's either a baseball field or a giant fenced-in picture frame.

http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/2967/squarep.jpg
Southern California Land Co., 1891
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The lobby of the Halifax Apartments at 6376 Yucca Street.

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ebay





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ebay



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ebay detail





below: The Halifax Apartments as seen today. This view is looking south on Cahuenga Boulevard with Yucca as the cross street.


http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/301...ccastatcah.jpg
google street view




At far left you can see the iconic Capitol Records Building on Vine Street just above Hollywood Boulevard.

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/2...ifax6376y2.jpg
google street view

As always, I love the old sign on top of the apartment building.

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