Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8305454)

:previous: That's it? No Statler Hilton? Hoss






What is in the back window of the car down the street? (circled in red above)



Is this the police car:shrug:.....because it looks like a BULLET HOLE.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/XIub3T.jpg
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or should I chalk [pun intended] it up to my noirish imagination again?

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8306235)

re: Catalina Incline

Now you've really picqued my interest odinthor. I wonder if any of those remnants [or foundations] are visible from Google Earth?

One problem: I'm not sure where I'm supposed to look.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/SGxPC8.jpg

GSV

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8305859)

. (did you know if you enlarge a PERIOD to make a dot it turns into a square?) I didn't either. . I just tried to do it again. the period does, in fact, turn into a square.

Originally Posted by Lorendoc (Post 8305032)

Having a few empty minutes at lunch, I decided to take a stab at finding the Auto Wheel.

I started with Noir_Noir's find of the parcel description from the Oxnard newspaper from a couple of pages ago. It connected Emma Diltz with land transactions from the late thirties, which contained two parcel locations: Lots 2 and 4 in Block 46, Thousand Oaks Tract.

I remembered the county property bureaucracy from when I was looking for the Lookout Mountain Inn, and hoped that Ventura County would have the same system. It does. After three phone calls, I reached someone in the map department at the recorder's office. They said that the county had been resurveyed and remapped many times since 1937 and would call me back if they found anything. I didn't expect a response, but 30 minutes later my cell's caller ID showed "Ventura County" was calling. The person couldn't find lot 4, but said they found that lot 2 corresponded to what is now 1350 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. They thought that Lot 4 would be nearby. This is a bit to the east of the area mentioned by Tourmaline, BillinGlendaleCAand Scott Charles a few days ago.


https://i.imgur.com/XTpNdo0.jpg
Google

I was able to find two UCSB aerials (from 1947 and 1952) of the general area. Each contains a light-colored building that might be a motel (or chicken house?)

1947:
https://i.imgur.com/F4ctubK.jpg
UCSB

1952:
https://i.imgur.com/OBUahWI.jpg
UCSB

Both show what is now N Rancho Road coming down from the top middle of the frame south to TO Blvd (then called Ventura Blvd). The Google map shows a gas station at the NE corner of Rancho and TO, I wonder if it is somehow a descendant of the Auto Wheel.

The deed index for Ventura County is online and there are about a dozen transactions between various Diltz's and banks, the state etc. between 1927 and 1944. I am sure these deeds contain enough information to locate the Auto Wheel beyond dispute; the person from the map office said it is indeed possible for title companies to find the modern parcel that exactly overlays those old lot descriptions. Just takes $ :D

Originally Posted by Scott Charles (Post 8306458)

Just do this, ER:

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To type a circle on the Mac, press Option-8.
To type a circle on a PC, press Alt-8.

See this website for all kinds of symbols you can type on your computer keyboard: https://typefacts.com/en/articles/keyboard-shortcuts

Here are a few more: ¡, ¿, €, ¥, ‰, ®, ™, †, ˇ, ‡, °, Æ, ÷, ∞...

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8305789)

:previous: Thanks for the correction flyingwedge....and the link (see below)

" Extremely little is known about this incline railway. The photo (the only one known to exist) tells the whole story."


excerpt: "(the only photo known to exist)" -I guess they're unaware of the photograph with the two ladies!

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8306414)

:previous: Thank you odinthor.

I can start snooping!

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 8306863)

This morning, before I read this post above I had looked at the link Flyingwedge included and saw the "only photo known to exist" notation and so I emailed them at EHRA and linked them to this discussion if they were interested and before a half hour was out someone from EHRA purchased the photo and sent me an email reply thanking me (you guys, really) for the referral and that depending on the quality of what they receive said they'd be posting it on the site!

So thanks E_R and Flyingwedge!

Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham (Post 8306367)

It is a red light.

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8307217)

Great fire of Avalon, 1915.

https://s26.postimg.cc/oathwc7qx/Av_Fire.jpg
pinterest

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8306523)

Thanks Scott Charles, I didn't know about the single- and double-digit Alt codes. I used to know a few of the handy four-digit codes for common symbols like ¼, ½ and ¾, but I've spent 10 years using laptops without a numeric pad, so they've been forgotten along the way.

Just to be clear to others: on Windows PCs, hold the Alt key, type the relevant number(s) on the numeric pad (with Num Lock on) and then release the Alt key. Alt-8 actually gives an inverse bullet (◘) on Windows computers, so you'll need Alt-7 for a normal one (●). Alternatively, use Alt-0149.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8307541)

Take a look at this amazing photograph that was recently listed on EBAY

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/v6eiwB.jpg
EBAY

"Early original vintage mounted photograph of employees of the Kaestner & Brown General Book Binding Company posing for a photograph outside their location in Los Angeles, California."


Does anyone recognize the building?

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8307541)

Take a look at this amazing photograph that was recently listed on EBAY

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/v6eiwB.jpg
EBAY