I think we're looking at the west side of S Main St. just above Jefferson.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1696/...3b41bf9b_b.jpg
GSV

Note the details in the moulding on the building on the left. And the cornice of the building at middle that is raised slightly (and just barely appears over the streetcar). Finally even the fire escape and telephone poles still look the same! I think that hardware store might have survived as well; pretty nice to see nearly a full block still standing...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1562/...e3688da9_b.jpg
Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 10.16.38 PM copy by broadway_central_building, on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1472/...6d5bbb78_b.jpg
Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 10.29.39 PM by broadway_central_building, on Flickr

Here's an aerial showing your Beaudry/Angelina building, Jack. It's fairly prominent slightly left and above center...


https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1642/...4569e785_o.pngAerial of Temple and Beaudry, 1948


UCLA Special Collections (detail)

:previous: I was wondering about Wig-Wag's building.

You're talking about this building, right M_R? (red arrow

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/PO4v6M.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/michae...n/26159694462/




"We're looking at the west side of S Main St. just above Jefferson." -broadway_central_bldg.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1562/...e3688da9_b.jpg
Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 10.16.38 PM copy by broadway_central_building, on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1472/...6d5bbb78_b.jpg
Screen Shot 2016-04-04 at 10.29.39 PM by broadway_central_building, on Flickr[/QUOTE]

:previous: Bravo! Excellent sleuthing bcb. I'm impressed.



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Yes. Posting from my phone have to be unusually brief.

:previous: Thanks :)


I appreciate the clarification Hoss. I wasn't quite sure.



Here's another image of a streetcar traveling on Marmion Way. (with a spiffy red automobile)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/RafI0o.jpg
http://www.flickriver.com/groups/perr/pool/random/

Very interesting questions Martin_Pal. I've had similiar questions whenever I come across photographs like the one below.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/8rsi04.jpg
www.davesrailpix.com

This is the recently discussed H Line again, this time at Bimini Place. [1940s]




Here's pretty much the same view today.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/VtW2Jo.jpg
gsv


At a different angle I noticed that someone had painted faux-tracks where the H-Line used to run.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/78L5C8.jpg
gsv

But then it gets even better. There are actual honest-to-goodness tracks left in the ground on the opposite side of that parked car :previous::previous:.







Now for the confusing part (for me anyway ;)), when I pulled back from my top gsv to get a better angle, I noticed there are tracks curving away from the apartment building.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/10fZmv.jpg
gsv

This set of tracks veering north are missing in the vintage slide (my top photo). Does anyone have an explanation?



Here's an aerial:
I've placed some arrows where there are still r.r. tracks in the ground.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/cp9vAd.jpg
google_earth
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Added Bonus:


The H car in the color slide is a couple dozen feet from this second curve and will eventually cross that trestle at far right.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/py2Yrg.jpg
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011865.jpg


*maybe all this has been covered before on NLA. Even if it has, I had a great time discovering it all over again. :)
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One of the the most memorable things about growing up in New Orleans along the St. Charles Ave line-- still running streetcars similar to those in the picture-- is the sound of the wheels grinding along the rails and screeching on curves, which you can hear from blocks away. And-- distinct loud click of power being applied to the motors and withdrawn... and the particular electrical smell of the mechanisms. Good for nostalgia, but probably not much fun to live practically on top of the tracks as in the pic...

The building in the picture is the Northwest Apartments at 327 North Beaudry Avenue. The name seems to have remained the same throughout its life. The new building permit is dated 1907 ...

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

... while the demolition permit is dated 1974.

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

Both from Online Building Records

Here's the same corner with all that's left of Angelina Street (misspelled Angelian Street on the 1910 Baist map). Going by Historic Aerials, Angelina Street was only truncated sometime between 1994 and 2003.

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

Can you see any bricks? ; )

Have y'all seen this image before?

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...psir5wef2x.jpg

From my personal collection, and originally obtained on eBay some years ago. The original piece is a four-in-one image, the four at artistic or non-artistic angles and jutting into each other to some slight degree. I've re-angled, or un-angled, this quarter of the quadruple image, banished the intrusive corner of another of the four images, and enlarged and sharpened it just a touch (though it's doomed to be ever a little fuzzy). As I'm sure you already know, we're looking south down Broadway to the northwest corner of Broadway and Temple, and the adjacent stretch of Broadway north of that corner, the photographer standing I think above and a step or two to the east of the south opening of the Broadway tunnel. If we'd pivot to the left, we'd see the Court House. The caption to the original would have it that we're looking north from Broadway and Temple; but t'ain't so. I unfortunately can't tell you the names of the horses.

I've posted a picture of those tracks in the sidewalk before. It was a reply the picture below in post #23309 - the 'chophouse' was where the Teriyaki House is marked on the Google Earth map.

I think we visited the site again a little later, but I can't find that post at the moment.

Thanks for the other pictures though. I've been studying the views at Historic Aerials for a couple of days trying to figure out where the H-Line went when it got to the Bimini Baths side of the creek.

Thanks for your personal recollections of 3424 Wilshire Boulevard, lemster2024.


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Today's Julius Shulman post features the same architects and same street as the IBM building. We've seen the Signal Oil and Gas Company Building before, but not in this much detail. This is "Job 3362: Charles Luckman Associates, Signal Oil and Gas Company Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1962".

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

I've said this before, but it makes my research so much easier when the address is on the building. In this case, 1010 Wilshire Boulevard.

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

Here's the back of the building.

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

An angled view. NB. I've omitted a similar but darker shot.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

And the obligatory arty shot to finish.

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

All from Getty Research Institute

Just a quick reminder - you can see the Signal Oil and Gas Company Building fully illuminated in a 1967 Julius Shulman image I posted in post #32200.

Now complete with rooftop swimming pool, the building has been transformed into TenTen Wilshire. I think I prefer the original design.

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

If, like me, you were wondering about the identity of the lost Art Deco building on the corner of St Paul Avenue, it was the 1936 Claude Beelman designed Woodbury College at 1027 Wilshire. The college moved out in 1987, and the building was demolished soon afterwards (there appears to be a demo permit dated 1989, but it's not available to view online). The destruction of the former college building seems rather ironic considering they added architecture as a major in 1984! Woodbury College has been mentioned a couple of times before on NLA, but I think this wonderful night shot is new to the thread.

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

Bauhaus type
 

No, it isn't new ! This perfect noirish photo and a building like this one (very Bauhaus) are unforgettable. I'm not able to locate it on NLA but there were several others of the building and the neighborhood.

Smog in a Can....1950s era for that noir look.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psuej9folp.jpg
photos of yesteryear

Here's another image shot from basically the same angle, just a couple of years earlier...


https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1696/...e826d403_o.jpgV line 286 and R line 1375 pause on the Vermont and 1st Street loop, 1948


Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.286 on Line V and streetcar no.1375 on Line R at the 1st and Vermont Loop, August 31, 1948. The street that crosses down there behind the streetcars is Bimini Place, 1st Street runs essentially parallel to the streetcars (away from the camera, to the left of the Chop House) and Vermont runs parallel to Bimini Place but behind the camera. And I love the chop house.

photo by Alan Weeks
pacificelectric.org

Northwest Apartments and LARY H-Line
 

ER, HossC and Michael, Thanks for all the excellent supplementary information on the Northwest Apartments building. Great work, all!

HossC, here is a link to an H-line route description. Hopefully it will help your trace of the route which has been all but obliterated over the years.

http://www.erha.org/lary_h.htm

Cheers,
Jack

Noir city hollywood
 

A chance to see some Noirish LA on the big screen.
Starts Fri, Apr 15, 2016 to Sun, Apr 24, 2016
At the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard
(I'm not affiliated with the event)

Two of the films scheduled have an LA setting and both premiered in the city in the summer of 1949

Sat, Apr 16, 2016
TAKE ONE FALSE STEP, 1949,
William Powell (in his only noir), Shelley Winters
Intro by Eddie Muller
[Playing with ALL MY SONS (1948), Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster.]

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/6-3-49.jpg

originally opened in LA June 3, 1949


Sun, Apr 24, 2016
TOO LATE FOR TEARS, 1949
Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea
Celebrating its DVD release next month.
This is the one with the scene of the boat rentals on West Lake.
(Lizabeth Scott & Bogie's film Dead Reckoning is also showing earlier in the festival)

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/7-27-49.jpg

Opened in LA July 27, 1949

Also showing, with an LA setting,
Sat, Apr 23, 2016
HOLLOW TRIUMPH, 1948
Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett
Henried’s daughter scheduled to be there along with Eddie Muller.
[Playing with DECEPTION (1946), Bette Davis, Paul Henreid.]


Full schedule: http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/noir-city-film-noir-festival-2016

That's a great shot of the Rochester house at 1012 W Temple St.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_p9IsUrNH-mA/...+Rochester.jpg
Big Orange Landmarks

http://bp1.blogger.com/_p9IsUrNH-mA/.../Rochester.jpg
Big Orange Landmarks

Teenagers having fun watching the old house being moved to its final destination and ultimate fate. It was demolished in 1979. By that time is was beyond repair. It would be cheaper to have built a new replica.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psmk5ycmyd.jpg
bigorangelandmarks

here you go...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1503/...f6f7a260_o.pngRochester House, W Temple Apartments, 1012 W Temple Street, 1948

The ill-fated Rochester House, larger of the two with the mansard roof.

http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...rochester.html

UCLA Special Collections (detail)