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Hoss, your Schulman series is great. Really love this TWA office. Turns out it has a cameo--well, barely even that, though I haven't watched the film lately--in "Pickup on South Street"--doubling for NYC: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0...6%2BPM.bmp.jpg This is a few years after the Schulman shots--the new models of the Constellation-- the Super Constellations--were coming into service. (Btw, I don't remember hearing of "Jerrem's" before.) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...4%2BPM.bmp.jpg This may have been earlier, but apparently from an LA publication. I think "Transcontinental and Western Air" morphed into the "Trans World Airline" after the war--eventually the plural Trans World Airlines was settled on. Pics from ScoutingNY |
"That's the Lincoln Heights Jail back there. This is the RR bridge that leads in and out of the Cornfield."
:previous: I thought it might be the jail but I wasn't sure. Thanks again M_R. Here's another pic I just came across on eBay. 1954 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/I19O8E.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/TROLLEY-NEGA...8AAOSwUdlWhCRm Am I correct in saying, the streetcar above is turning onto.............. this stretch of roadway/track? (that we discussed last week) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/k9EUsM.jpg posted last week / eBay __ |
Since we visited the Shrine Auditorium earlier this afternoon, I thought I'd post this intriguing view. (what's with the faux-minaret?)
That's the Shrine in the distance. [there's a good possibility that this has been posted before] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/84op65.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/usceye/usc-history/ At first, I thought the roof-top sign over there on the right------> said P For LAS..................................................................................:previous: but after I enlarged it I believe it says Phelps....but the second word is cut off :( http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/N8VXsU.jpg detail __ |
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below: The seller dates this original slide 1950. It's a color view from atop City Hall that shows the different detours. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/zTyVYo.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/TROLLEY-198-...UAAOSwr7ZW5Gqm detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/bVFEsR.jpg :previous: Isn't this a great view! I love it. enlargement / I placed an arrow at the Mexico City Cafe. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/d0iCs2.jpg sorry that it's blurry __ |
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Today we have some exterior and interior Julius Shulman photos of Silverwoods. This is "Job 470: Burke and Kober, Silverwoods (Los Angeles, Calif.),1949".
NB. There are several duplicated images in this set, so I picked a selection. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The blade sign on the extreme left is on the Union Oil Building, so this is the Silverwoods at 615 W 7th Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Now we get a look inside. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute I can't see a demolition permit for 615 W 7th Street, so has Silverwoods become the building with louvred windows in the center of this view? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV |
From this.......
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/yZENGP.jpg old file/usc to this. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/EptrdB.jpg originally posted by HossC I imagine the reason Mr. Shulman was hired to take photographs was because of this new facade. I also think the building there now is the same building. Could the art deco treasures still be intact after two modernizations? I'd love to find that 'frieze' along the top still intact. __ |
I noticed there's a survivor in your photograph MR.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/K0Jrxn.jpg Michael Ryerson Collection It's a gabled Tudor Revival, now home to Valhalla Motion Pictures. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/CVTGfG.jpg gsv I like the two tiny (arched) openings. here's a close-up of one of them. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/vUjwc2.jpg detail / gsv This plaque is somewhere on the building, but I don't see it in the gsv view. It must be around back where the people park and enter. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/TQoFEl.jpg https://foursquare.com/v/valhalla-mo...8ac2be3/photos (have I posted about this plaque before? It seems very familiar) Here's a view from the Burnham bridge. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/LPb0VY.jpg http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/0...d-sighted.html That 'My Little Pony' billboard caused fans (so called Bronies) to go ape-shit. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/biukXw.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/NjJrLZ.jpg There was also some concern about a missing leg. lol http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/XT1etS.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/IDTUcW.jpg Do yourself a favor & go through the rest of the comments. They're hilarious. http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/0...d-sighted.html __ |
I think that's the wisest use of "Änonymous" I've ever seen.
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In E_R's above photo, can anyone make out what's it says on the hand written sign attached to the light post? On a couple of occasions a long time ago I had some reason to walk across that bridge's narrow sidewalk. It's not a particularly soothing area to walk in, what with the freeway, Cahuenga Blvd. on both sides of the freeway, Barham Blvd. and the relatively new Universals Studio off-ramp, which I believe is being closed, or has closed, because they used land up there for the Harry Potter attraction which opens in April, but it unofficially is open off and on to tourists right now. Anyway, I wondered what could be important enough for someone to make a trek to the bridge and post a sign there. It's enough to make a monkey nervous. |
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'mystery' location.
Is anyone familiar with the YOUR ROOM Cafe? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/WpGjf1.jpg old 2008 file / possibly eBay* I thought perhaps this might be National Blvd. because of National Surplus...but I couldn't find any further information. Love that truck. -and the streetcar is obviously some sort of maintenance car. right HH? or Wig-Wag? The YOUR ROOM Cafe appears to be in a very cool art deco building. I'm not sure what you call the style of the Dentist building, but I like it a lot too. ___ *On 03/19/16 HossC informed me this photograph is from http://www.pacificelectric.org/los-a...and-jefferson/ Thanks for locating the 'mystery' location from yesterday Hoss. It was interesting to see the corner building in it's present shape. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/oTGH1U.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/KKEXm8.jpg gsv It looks much more 'noirish' in black & white. ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/rWFenZ.jpg I like this guy standing there with his daily newspaper. __ |
Here's a tourist snapshot that we haven't seen yet on NLA.
Looking northwest from the southeast corner of Hollywood & Vine.[1948] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/7LGMJ3.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE1948-...IAAOSwx-9W0cUN The seller is asking $399.99 for this photograph. Just for fun, here are a couple enlarged details. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/BC8J0S.jpg There's the keyhole shaped doorway we all love so much.................................:previous: The lovely blonde woman is dabbing her nose.....or smelling a carnation? Her friend appears to be quite a looker. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/Bo8OUE.jpg :previous: The man at extreme left is wearing a 'tank-top' advertising Ken Murray's Blackouts, which was showing just up the street at the Vine Street El Capitan Theater. -and what's the day's headlines? "NEW BALKANS BLOC PROPOSED BY TITO" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/LOqCco.jpg detail __ I thought you wouldn't mind seeing this excellent photograph-postcard again. Ken Murray's Blackouts of 1948 (the same year as the snapshot) at the El Capitan. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/cNln8i.jpg eBay / http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9861 More on Ken Murray's Blackouts here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9861 __ |
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Unfortunately the entire block is now occupied by the Jessie L Terry housing project. I don't even want to post a GSV screencap because it's kind of sad; nothing remains. What I can't figure out is where those streetcar tracks are curving off to-- presently that little street off of Vermont south of 31st is a dead-end. Maybe one of our RR enthusiasts can tell us if this used to be a rail service yard? Could explain the service-looking vehicle... EDIT: Maybe this is taken from the corner of Vermont and Jefferson (a little south of the addresses) and those tracks are turning on to Jefferson?) |
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