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I made it through your MONSTER PARAGRAPH odinthor https://imageshack.com/a/img923/6445/HK8q5C.gif ok, not funny I found a highly detailed article [c.1888] that recounts the history of the Coronel Abode, ground zero for the Chinese Massacre. (the adobe was being torn down at the time) The author even talked to participants in the massacre. [that's possible since it was written in 1888 ;)] Just so you know odinthor, your information is pretty much spot on. (except for a few small details) Quote:
Or you can read it below (it's a tad bit blurry to my eyes) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/QKXkjC.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/f20zEn.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/I5sE7y.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/5FO5di.jpg The Coronel Adobe. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/NqcPWU.jpg Photo by Godfry / water & power _ |
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I wonder why there are so many Ionic and Corinthian capitals, and no Doric capitals (other than, perhaps, the Maxine) - perhaps the architects felt that Doric columns were too "plain"..? How many buildings are there still standing in LA that feature columns like in the photographs above? I mentioned the Farmers and Merchants Bank, but to perhaps be a bit pedantic, those are engaged columns, not free-standing columns. And I'm not talking about modern "McMansion" houses with ugly, horrific, tacky, fake columns, either. The following buildings are all still standing - There's the Hollywood Masonic Temple, now home to the Jimmy Kimmel Show: https://i.imgur.com/j3K9hvc.jpgLADWP And of course, there's the Getty Villa, in Malibu: https://i.imgur.com/D74pdr3l.jpgWikipedia If you head out to Pasadena, there's the old B.P.O.E. on Colorado: https://i.imgur.com/IfzJDgl.jpgLADWP There's the old Masonic Temple, also in Pasadena: https://i.imgur.com/RnyjEAbl.jpgLINK And there's the Christian Science Church located at 946 West Adams Boulevard: https://i.imgur.com/L5vH26a.jpgLADWP There are probably more that I don't know about/can't remember. But as to the buildings above, all of them are for public gatherings, not like the beautiful old residences on Bunker Hill. |
Corner turrets
It's so sad that LA seems to have no respect or reverence for its history. At times, it seems like entire schools of architecture have been completely eradicated - look at one of those late 19th/early 20th century photos of Broadway - there's nothing that looks like that anymore!
Recently, I started thinking about corner turrets. They used to be ubiquitous in LA. But where can you even see a corner turret nowadays? These are the only remaining ones that I can think of: There's the old Charnock Building at Fifth and Main: https://i.imgur.com/7ET4WSSl.jpgLINK https://i.imgur.com/E3PZtlpl.jpgLINK There's the Boyle Hotel at 101 North Boyle Avenue: https://i.imgur.com/vjVBC1j.jpgLINK and GSV And then there's Frank Sabichi's Cast Iron Commercial Building - I couldn't find a vintage photo of this building, but here is its location on Google Street View: https://i.imgur.com/Ljr5Lqe.jpgGSV Frank Sabichi has been discussed earlier in this thread, but I think(?) that this may be the first appearance of the Cast Iron Commercial Building on NLA. Here's an interesting web page about the Cast Iron Commercial Building: http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.com/ Are these the only remaining corner turrets in the downtown area? (not including the number of Queen Anne Revival style houses that are somewhat nearby) I haven't given the question any serious thought, but the examples above are the only ones that come quickly to mind... I may be forgetting some really obvious ones, which would be embarrassing... PS: What kind of JERK would climb up on the top of the turret to spray paint some meaningless garbage on it? You'd have to tiptoe around the thing like Obi Wan Kenobi shutting down the tractor beam on the Death Star! I hope the idiot tagger fell off the roof and into a truck full of dung! https://i.imgur.com/zglU6dbl.jpg20th Century Fox |
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The main entrance of the corral question is a good one. Though, considering where the "doing stuff" part of town was, it would make sense for the corral entrance to be on the east, the main entrance could be the west entrance (across from the Bilderrains') if the east edge of the corral backed on town structures. I wonder how far to the east (i.e., towards Main St.) the corral extended? edit add: PS: Yes, right about eyes. I couldn't even force myself to read it to edit it as I usually do with such snippets from my Notes. :eek: |
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Have you ever seen PBS's American Experience episode about the Zoot Suit Riots? If so, I wonder how it compares to this one? I believe PBS has it available on their website, but someone also posted it on youtube: |
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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8127001]mystery location
"1940s RPPC (real photo postcard) Presbyterian Conference Grounds, Pacific Palisades CA" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/gdGi5X.jpg EBAY This is absolutely Temescal Gateway Park. My wife and I got married there 25 years ago under an Oak Tree and I recognized it immediately. |
:previous: How romantic KevinW :love:
'mystery' location(s) "3 Original 1953 35mm Kodachrome slides - Unknown Los Angeles residential street scenes" EBAY #1 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VkA4vB.jpg EBAY #2 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/lZkOlx.jpg EBAY #3 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/0u9Imy.jpg EBAY I believe this is a badly framed view of a Christmas Tree lot. (I'm not sure what that dark shape is :previous: (to me it looks like a DoDo Bird) :shrug: _____________________________________________________________ This slide is being sold separately. "Orig 1953 35mm Kodachrome slide - Young man with car in Los Angeles" EBAY https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/TK4HJE.jpg EBAY As you can see; the building in the background is the same building that appears in slide #1 Does this area look familiar to anyone? __ |
^^^Somewhere on Burton Way within LA city limits... I can't read the block number on the street sign.
Ah, Burton and Willaman. :) https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0721...2!8i6656?hl=en |
:previous: Thanks sopas ej. Good Eye buddy.
Here's the front of the building facing Willaman Drive. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/9LubOg.jpg GSV It's much more interesting than I was expecing. A mid-century streamline moderne building? (the slides were 1953) update: The property was built in 1948.redfin |
330 S. Almont Drive
:previous: Seven blocks to the west, on the NE corner of Burton and Almont, we have a twin to the building at Burton and Willaman:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original Mar 2015 GSV The Certificate of Occupancy for 330 S. Almont Drive is dated January 3, 1948. Hannah Schwartz is the owner. I notice now that the windows on Almont/Willaman are a little different, but those facing Burton Way look the same on both buildings. Here is a building permit apparently dated Oct 7, 1946 (it's listed at LADBS as Oct 8) to change the stairway at 330 S. Willaman. There is a BP definitely dated Oct 8, 1946, to change the stairway at 330 S. Almont, also by architect Paul R. Williams: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original LADBS |
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Oddly enough, my old man was a sailor in L.A. in WW II. But he has an alibi. He married my mother on Valentine's Day 1942 and was basking in an all-expenses paid cruise of the Solomon Islands during the murder and riots, courtesy of the U.S. Navy and Japanese Fleet. Good thing, too. My mother had no tolerance for racial prejudice and would have smacked the crap out of him if he joined in. |
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From the application for HCM - "While not the subject of the application and request before the Commission, Paul R. Williams also designed a nearby building at 330 S. Willaman Drive. It appears to be the same design; however, it has had some original windows replaced and does not appear to be as intact as the subject property. " http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/...chc_4-5-11.pdf |
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:previous: That's very kind of you to say sadykatie2. I'm sure you're a great mom. :)
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Here's one more 'mystery' slide before I call it a night.
"Original 35mm Slide - Man with Movie Camera, Santa Monica, Southern California 1964" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/d2wqbP.jpg EBAY At first I thought the building under construction was the apartment building just north of Santa Monica Canyon but then I noticed...through the girders of the highrise...what appears to be a building with a large dome. (an old bath house near one of the old piers??) Here's a closer look. (is that a domed building or am I seeing things?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/kyV1jn.jpg EBAY That guy is the typical Dad on vacation in the 1960s. I think he's pretty cool looking. (my dad did the exact same thing with his 8mm movie camera) - __ |
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