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I found this 1923 advert for the International Harvester Company on eBay recently. I'm only posting the top half because the lower half just contains a load of boasting about their trucks that has nothing to do with Los Angeles. I didn't immediately remember the Simons Brick Co, but the name has come up a couple of times before. MichaelRyerson mentioned "the arrival of the three Simons brothers in 1880" in post# 14216 and tovangar2 even posted a picture of one of their bricks in post# 12443.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...monsBrick1.jpg eBay The advert below is from the 1923 CD, the same year as the advert above. It publicizes the "Simons Vacuum Wall System" and their hollow tiles. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...monsBrick2.jpg LAPL I'm guessing that the Simons brothers were part of Simons and Hubbard. This is their listing from the 1886/87 CD. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...onsHubbard.jpg LAPL The first mention I found of the Simons Brick Co is in the 1900/01 CD, where their address is listed as 223 Stimson Block. By 1909 they were at the 125 W 3rd Street address as seen in the 1923 CD advert above. By 1927, their advert lists these plants. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...monsBrick3.jpg LAPL By 1932, the Simons Brick Co had moved their main office to 1195 S Boyle Avenue. They were still there in 1942, the last listing I found. |
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:previous: As MichaelRyerson mentioned in his post you referenced above, William Deverall's "Whitewashed Adobe" has an excellent history of the Simons brickworks.
Nice bit of info re Simons here The documentary ("The Brick People") referenced in the article is here https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...805%2520PM.jpg http://calbricks.netfirms.com/brick.simonssimons.html P.S. Simons ceased operations in 1952, leaving a rather large hole in the ground at Plant No. 3 (formerly Simons, California). How it was filled is described below (I assume this is LAT, it wasn't identified): https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7...60516%2BPM.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-A...60701%2BPM.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...60910%2BPM.jpg http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....-co-album.html Tourmaline gave us the visuals on the Stanley Mosk County Courthouse here |
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My files show a Frolics Garden at Washington Blvd. in Culver City opening May 24, 1932. Very popular with movie stars.
Stark's Bohemian Cafe also featured drag shows with Francis Renault in 1932. He was known for his lavish gowns and was billed as the greatest female impersonator since Julian Eltinge. Fanny Brice was a frequent visitor at Stark's. Stark's opened in 1928 as the Pom Pom Cafe, became Stark's in 1930 and closed its doors in November, 1932 due to the declining health of Eugene Stark. The club had its share of troubles including police raids in June 1932 claiming the club violated a "county dance ordinance." |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...n.jpg~original Wikipedia -------------- Thanks for the interesting article on the earth removal from Bunker Hill, tovangar2. |
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On another note, I think that the beautifully carved scroll and lily pattern on Zobelein's tombstone is every bit as beautiful, if less pretentious as Maier's. The stone carver who did Zobelein's was truly an artist. |
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That was a good one, wasn't it?. Part of Bunker Hill may have ended up in Montebello, but bricks made of Montebello clay built much of LA, even including the paving at Olvera Street. Plus millions of Simons bricks (3,800 tons) were shipped north starting in 1906 to rebuild San Francisco after the earthquake. It was the 1933 Long Beach quake that finally put an end to using bricks as a building material in an earthquake zone. Simons went out of business less than 20 years later. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r...04331%2BAM.jpg http://simonsbrickyard.blogspot.com/...-is-my_26.html |
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I found the following text and image at folklore.usc.edu: "When they were building Student Union back in the early 1900s or whenever it was that it was being built, the architect had a certain way he wanted it to be built. He wanted the main entrance to open up towards Tommy Trojan, but the president at the time wanted a convenient entrance that he could park his car in front of, so he demanded that the front entrance of the building opened towards like Trousdale. The architect got mad and up at the top of the building there are little gargoyles like every like three spots in the design and right over the main entrance to the building he put, he made a gargoyle of a monkey thumbing his nose, which back then was the equivalent of sticking your middle finger out at someone." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AUSCMonkey.jpg folklore.usc.edu Although the articles I checked all seem to refer to the monkey as a gargoyle, I think it's actually a grotesque. Gargoyles are decorative waterspouts. |
:previous: I love that cheeky monkey. ;)
We've located numerous 'Hollywoodland' homes that date from the original housing development, but I don't believe we've seen this particular one on NLA. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/iOEp73.jpg originally from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner This charming 1926 home stills stand at 3358 Deronda Drive. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/rDxA1c.jpg GSV If you like, you can see the interior here: http://modernlivingla.com/2014/08/ex...anyon-spanish/ While I was up on Deronda Drive, I drove the google-mobile a bit further and was somewhat surprised to run into, not one, but two gates. I've marked the gates with red lines. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/84Xu5r.jpg There is a very nice looking two story home directly behind the gate on the left. (and numerous other homes...as seen in the aerial) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/XxHURf.jpg GSV On the right there is a much larger gate. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/wQA5JG.jpg GSV ...and in-between the two, there is a Mulholland Hwy. street sign (even though you're unable to go there) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...633/t7Pgmu.jpg detail / gsv So...I'm a bit confused how a street can be blocked off like this. What if the drive had been blocked off a half mile down the hill? Would that have been allowed? -even though it's a public street __ lemster2024, thanks for identifying the mystery building in my 1931 snapshot. I always forget about the many fine buildings that are on the USC campus. _ |
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This is an interesting photograph that I recently found in an old file of mine. (an enlargement of a photograph found on http://waterandpower.org/
"Ducommun Street Yard, 1930" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/uVGhyY.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/JgFMj0.jpg There are several interesting details: #1 The tall smoke-stack at far right. (at first glance I thought it might say "Soap King', but the first word doesn't appear to be 'Soap') #2 The attractive building with the belfry-like 'turret'. The only thing I could think of was the Amelia Street School. ...but the building doesn't match the Amelia School (see the Amelia School here) http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=23757 |
...and in the same area.
"(1953)- Overall view of Water Yard at Ducommun Street." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/CgKpGY.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/NBTrx4.jpg http://waterandpower.org/ What pray tell is a Water Yard? __ |
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Name on the smoke stack was White King, a large selling soap in L.A..
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Soap and water, both good reads. Thx!
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You don't find many vintage images of Los Angeles with an advertisement for Falstaff Beer.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/lWOKzi.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Falstaff-Bee...-/111612587104 ...but here's one. ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/ssAw7t.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/30993133@N04/ "J-line southbound on Seville Avenue somewhere in Walnut Park (looking north)" This is interesting....I've never heard of 'Walnut Park' before. __ |
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