Carls Restaurant at Flower and Figueroa
 

There was a Carls Restaurant at the intersection of Flower and Figueroa in the 1930's:

http://imageshack.us/a/img196/1060/kgjr.jpg

Source: Ebay

Lemster reminded me that on the east side of Figueroa going south from Exposition was a USC parking lot, then two homes that served as USC offices, Julie's Restaurant (old USC hangout especially after football games), then Margarita Jones Restaurant. Then crossing Flower, was a parking lot for a medical office/clinic, then a row of apartments (perhaps this is where your Aunt Rose lived across the Sports Arena) and then when you reach Santa Barbara Ave (now MLK Blvd) was the Hotel Coliseum:

http://imageshack.us/a/img703/8486/uasu.jpg

Source: LAPL

Here's an aerial picture of the intersection from 1936:

http://imageshack.us/a/img856/3463/1bff.jpg

Source: USC

A recent picture of the intersection:

http://imageshack.us/a/img32/5513/5fnr.jpg

Source: GSV

There are many aerial photos of "Exposition Park" and the "Coliseum" at the USC and LAPL sites that you may want to check out. If your photo of Carls Restaurant differs from the match book, please scan it and perhaps Lemster or I could try to identify it since we are familiar with the area. Hope this help.

I am waiting with bated breath Beaudry. :)
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-notice that the basement windows facing 9th street are cemented over.



The Glen-Donald Apartments
http://imageshack.us/a/img832/6581/oue3.jpg
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/


Something extremely noirish happened here a few years back.

remember?
http://imageshack.us/a/img15/7338/0xvn.jpg
http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf...2_fetuses.html

-could this explain the cemented windows? (cue spooky music)

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Tetsu, I loved your post on the surviving remnants of Adoph Busch's sunken gardens. Wouldn't it be fun to wander
around in the neighborhood and see if there are even more to be found.

originally posted by Tetsu
http://imageshack.us/a/img716/6734/6gnq.jpg
The Mystic Hut, and it's surviving foundation.

I take it this is in somebody's backyard. I wonder where all that kitschy statuary that dotted the gardens ended up?
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Thanks for the information on Deadman Canyon Andys -much appreciated. -Bruce
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Ah, yes... the Barrie babies. A few priors:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1681

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2005

:previous: I was so excited when I realized the before/after pic you posted was the 'babies in the basement' building
I forgot to include those links. (I was playing up that cemented windows angle ;))
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International flags/Olympic banners 1932
http://imageshack.us/a/img845/4954/i3d4.jpg
ebay
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GIANT image showing the Los Angeles Public Library rotundra. (found on ebay)
http://imageshack.us/a/img823/91/txrk.jpg
ebay

Look how tiny those desks and file cabinets seem. (it looks like a scene from the movie 'Brazil')

Brazil 1985
http://imageshack.us/a/img198/1756/868p.jpg
http://verdoux.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/brazil-1985/

This looks like it could have been filmed in Union Station. Does anyone know if Brazil was filmed in L.A.?
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here's another showing the Flower Street entrance...
http://imageshack.us/a/img713/2615/n6bk.jpg
ebay
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I've heard of a flea circus, but a mouse circus?

Los Angeles County Fair 1937
http://imageshack.us/a/img94/9660/lmvd.jpg
Herman Schultheis/found on an old cd of mine

...and not just any mouse circus, this is an international mouse circus!

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-n...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL
Carl's address in 1936 was 3760 S Figueroa--as bighen says, at the intersection of Fig & Flower. Flower would be at right... note the
Shrine lurking in the distance, just about due north. It looks like Carl's moved to Leimert Park by 1939--3414 W Vernon, addressed
4401 Crenshaw by 1942.

From this 2010 post by sopas: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1623

Curries at the Coliseum Hotel.
http://imageshack.us/a/img41/7154/5q3f.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5287

gemnewt, I bet your Aunt Rose stopped here for ice cream back in the day. :)
Maybe that's her, getting ready to cross the street with a friend.



below: And don't forget about the 1,470 seat Fox Figueroa Theater katty-korner across the street.
http://imageshack.us/a/img694/5633/zxgf.jpg
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/2043/photos

The Coliseum Hotel is visible upper right. This is the intersection of South Figueroa & Santa Barbara Blvd.
(Santa Barbara Blvd. is now MLK Blvd.)

mystery slide

Wilshire fence/no date
http://imageshack.us/a/img543/677/oq2t.jpg
ebay

Anyone want to wager a guess?
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Thank you! I'm sure there is more to be found. I think Huell Howser did a piece on the site some years ago. I'm actually local (Pasadena born & raised) so maybe a photo expedition would be in order one of these days.

Love this great Victorian and I know it well! It's the only one in that part of Monrovia so it really stands out. Monrovia has a surprising number of well-preserved Victorians all over town. Really love the black & white photo of the house too. Looks like it must've always been pretty well maintained. There's something I love about photos of older houses with (slight, not major) changes from later eras. Thanks for the info on the house's history.

I've also been interested in that little building, which is now 410 S. Main. If I'm reading the LA County Assessor website correctly -- and if the Assessor is right -- it was built in 1950. Here's the building in June 2013:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0b6d7d04.jpg

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps796d3480.jpg
Photos by me

The SE corner of 4th and Main, c. 1906. We see the future site of the San Fernando Building (where the wooden structure is being dismantled), with the Hotel Alcazar on the NE corner of Main and Winston. The building in the middle seems to match the building in Beaudry's 2nd b/w photo above:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psb6fab148.jpg
CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...GBGL2N41C9.jpg

This undated (early 60s?) photo looks SE at the San Fernando Building on the SE corner of 4th and Main. The little 410 S. Main building is next to it on the right/south side, but the Alcazar has been demolished:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6498d3c2.jpg
LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics08/00013831.jpg

But in this photo, dated 1938, little 410 S. Main doesn't seem to be there, although it looks like there might be a fence in front of where it will be:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8a234c76.jpg
USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/20519/rec/11

The 1st b/w photo of the Alcazar that Beaudry posted is dated c. 1950 by the CA State Library. If that date is correct, then the USC photo above can't be 1938, because the Alcazar is missing.

Anyway, my hunch is that the building now at 410 S. Main is not a cut-down version of the three-story building formerly at that site, based primarily on the photo immediately above. Also, that earlier building -- the upper part, at least -- looks more like wood than brick, and the storefront in er's photos looks a little narrower than what's there now.

Hey all, its been awhile...

I am somewhat surprised that there are no mentions of the recent Alexandria Hotel suicide, where a man jumped from (some say 4th, some say 3rd) floor and hit in front of the entrance on the Spring street side.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...witnesses.html

Yet another dark chapter in the never ending book that is the Alexandria.

Curries at the Coliseum Hotel
 

[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6231589]Curries at the Coliseum Hotel.
http://imageshack.us/a/img41/7154/5q3f.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5287

gemnewt, I bet your Aunt Rose stopped here for ice cream back in the day. :)
Maybe that's her, getting ready to cross the street with a friend.



I also bet Aunt Rose used the street cars to travel. Here is a picture from 1955 of a street car making the turn at Grand and Santa Barbara in the area that e_r described. Several lines shared the tracks so Aunt Rose could do her commuting. A great summary and map of the lines is at the source of this picture.

http://imageshack.us/a/img844/4095/62e7.jpg

Source: http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/lary.htm#map

Here is a street car traveling on Grand just north of the Hotel Coliseum next to the construction of the Harbor Freeway:

http://imageshack.us/a/img16/8574/mwxi.jpg

Source: USC

I wonder if he's gone because he was wearing a Zoot Suit?

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Could it be fencing showing the train stop on some city route? They will do repetitive typography to get the message to you no matter where you sit. :shrug: