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The sailor suit I think is just a made up studio prop.These novelty picture cards were popular circa the 1910's. Two more from the Electric Studio, 240 S. Main Street, Los Angeles - https://i.imgur.com/OrHarLk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/L9wpf3O.jpg The first one dates from 1913. Bizarre Los Angeles |
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These days, I'd think that purchasing something and presenting it to a city government would hasten rather than retard something's destruction; but . . . those were different times. |
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A novelty photo taken at the Electric Studio at 240 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA. The writing on the back of the photo reads: Dedico Este Pequieno Recuerdo a mi hermano Encarnacion Montes. — Jose Montes. Dated September 28, 1913.I don't speak Spanish, but I believe Jose Montes is dedicating a small memory to his brother. With this 1913 date in mind, I found a photographer named Barzillai S Ansley at 240 S Main from 1911 to 1913. The address saw a lot tenants around this time, usually restaurants: 1910 Hoy Chong, 1911 [Martin P] Veselich & [Peter] Prokurica, 1912 Tony Aviani, 1913 John Carli and 1914 Harry F Westrem. In 1914, the restaurant shared the address with Scott Hardware. Barzillai S Ansley moved premises to 312 S Main from 1915-1936 and 233 S Broadway 1937-1942, although strangely he's listed as Jack B Ansley in 1937 and 1938. A wife, Nellie B, first appears in 1929, and it's the fact that Jack B Ansley was a photographer at 233 S Broadway (living at 1131 S Westlake Avenue) with a wife named Nellie that makes me think it's the same person as Barzillai S Ansley who has the exact same details in later CDs. |
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There is still a moderate demand for conventional and dry ice, whether or not anyone uses an old ice box for its original purpose is another question. Setting aside medical needs and occasional entertainment situations, both types of ice are used in connection with recreational purposes involving fish and game. There's also camping and old school "coolers" that are merely insulated containment vessels. Then there are those FEMA-emergency situations, e.g., no electricity post hurricane, fires, etc. The few times that I can recall purchasing ice in bulk, it was at a "convenience" store and not via a self-serve vending machine. The ice was also cubed and not in large blocks, obviating the need to carry a decidedly noir instrument, the ice pick, as used in a 1962 Valley ice pick murder. https://bizarrela.com/2016/12/morton...murderer-1962/ http://bizarrela.com/wp-content/uplo.../Icepick00.jpghttp://bizarrela.com/wp-content/uplo.../Icepick00.jpg And, on an unrelated note, NLA may not have seen the likes of Buster, the skating rooster.http://framework.latimes.com/2011/10...ating-rooster/ Quote:
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I know some people who have a house on Hollywood Blvd., a bit west of Fairfax, that have one of those doors. |
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https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/...ertisement.jpg >> https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/h..._campaign=kcet http://c590298.r98.cf2.rackcdn.com/SCA5_034.JPGhttp://c590298.r98.cf2.rackcdn.com/SCA5_034.JPG https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KD8AA...QB/s-l1600.jpg Ebay The door could have had several purposes, or "re-purposes." It could have been vestigial, re ice delivery or a logical repository for dairy and bread deliveries. (First milk expiration date?*) Other things teetering on extinction? I recently noticed some round tube-like containers rusting by the roadside. It now occurs to me that they were for newspaper deliveries and are understandably becoming fewer and fewer. So many houses and apartments had built in "nooks" for a hard wired "house phone." I specifically recall one under a stairwell. Hidden, but accessible. There was even purpose-built furniture for sitting while using the phone, sometimes called a telephone desk or "gossip bench." http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/...13dbe274e9.jpghttp://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/...13dbe274e9.jpg https://img1.etsystatic.com/019/0/81...12949_taeo.jpghttps://img1.etsystatic.com/019/0/81...12949_taeo.jpg https://www.vizimac.com/wp-content/u...-with-Seat.jpghttps://www.vizimac.com/wp-content/u...-with-Seat.jpg * Quote:
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While I was writing my post about the ice box yesterday, I kept changing the date to early 50's then going back because I kept thinking about refrigerators being more affordable later on. I should have stuck with that. |
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I'm thinking it's Andy Bartko in the picture on the card. The card was not stamped or intended to be mailed - no full address but just denoting who is pictured and kept by a friend. |
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https://i.imgur.com/BgZ9mFK.jpgLINK It’s a bit hard to see in the above image, so here it is zoomed-in: https://i.imgur.com/LCQeNKi.jpg The Magnolia Theater (at left) has been covered before on Noirish LA. |
Very interesting stuff about Al Capone - thanks Godzilla!
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the old Preuss Road
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Robertson red / Preuss Road yellow https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/JzITMq.png google earth Maybe alot of you already knew this...but it was a fun afternoon discovery for simple ol' me. :) and too... AND BANDITS! Los Angeles Herald - August 1, 1921 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/CMflIW.jpg california digital newspapers _______________________________________ info from my first post. "This magnificent eucalyptus tree estimated at fifty years of age and considered the finest example of its species in the state, stands on Pruess Rd. (Robertson Blvd.), near Beverly Hils. Its owner, Alfred H. Whitworth, has resisted all efforts by real estate interests to have it cut down. Celebrities, like Cecil B. DeMille have offered to purchase it and present it to the city rather than see it cut down." from lapl |
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For months, I had the exact same problem with the LAPL’s photo archive. It would always reject my card number. But one day, I found an passworded-entry link that DID work, so I bookmarked and have used it ever since. Thanks for your assistance, goodj037! I’ll find a way in some day! |
Oil in Salt Lake Oil Field near Beverly Center
While walking in my neighborhood known as Mid City West or Beverly Grove, I found at the corner of S. Flores Street and W. 3rd Street a pool of bubbling tar (research of the stuff from the 'net identifies it properly as asphalt). This piqued my interest and after doing some research, I found that my neighborhood was once a huge field of oil wells, sitting atop an old field called the Salt Lake Oil Field. And in fact, where the stuff is bubbling up is almost directly above an old plugged oil well. Made me think of that movie "Volcano" with Tommy Lee Jones. But various folks in my research have assured me this is quite common and is referred to as a "seep."
Anyone out there have photos of the oil fields in this area before it was residential? (pre 1936). Thanks! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater |
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