Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm (Post 6633994)

I never knew about the Kiddieland in Silver Lake, we always used Kiddieland to mean the little amusement park that used to be about where Beverly Center is today. It wasn't until considerably after I'd outgrown it that I realized it was officially known (or had been known)
as Beverly Park.

Originally Posted by ProphetM (Post 6635745)

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-x...s_angeles2.jpg
LA Daily Mirror

The State Building is under construction while the Times Building sits on the corner, with other smaller buildings next to it filling out the rest of the block along 1st Street. The Times Building is clearly shaped just like that basement in the modern photo, including that extra chunk protruding in the back corner.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6635695)

Remember the goat-gland doctor?

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9...COMPLREVSh.jpgLAT

Originally Posted by DTLAdenizen (Post 6635757)

Whoa! Great detective work, it seems like it could be.

Glad my images could be of help guys, feel free to use them on this thread (with credit) anytime:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hunterkerhart/

Originally Posted by ProphetM (Post 6635800)

I submitted the info to the LA Times with a link to your Flickr, in case they might actually want to check it out.

Incidentally, I hope I'm not the only one who thinks the new LA Times site design is absolute garbage. It's irritating in the extreme, with dead space on the sides, stuff popping out at inopportune times just because you put your mouse cursor in the wrong spot, and a never-ending scroll that adds to the bottom and subtracts from the top so you never get to the bottom of a page, among other problems. It took me several minutes just to figure out how to contact them to tell them something. :hell:

Originally Posted by ProphetM (Post 6635800)

Incidentally, I hope I'm not the only one who thinks the new LA Times site design is absolute garbage. It's irritating in the extreme, with dead space on the sides, stuff popping out at inopportune times just because you put your mouse cursor in the wrong spot, and a never-ending scroll that adds to the bottom and subtracts from the top so you never get to the bottom of a page, among other problems. It took me several minutes just to figure out how to contact them to tell them something. :hell:

Originally Posted by esotouric (Post 6635814)

Current photo, just tweeted courtesy of the Times' historic Tumblr blogger Matt Ballinger. Looks like some bites have been taken out since Hunter took his aerial photo on Thursday.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrQoPe1CIAASYp_.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6635692)

There's been progress at the former California State Building site.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/834/bi6fg.jpg

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Originally Posted by ProphetM (Post 6635745)

That's a strange angle on the remaining structure, more akin to the alignment of the old hall of records and the funky-angled streets that once ran nearby, than the State Building. That corner of the State Building property was mostly lawn. Could this be the remains of an earlier building?

I've been Googling for a good picture and this is what I came up with:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/...de7a363c_o.jpg

From a gsjansen post WAY back in the thread.

Looks like the third Times Building was on that corner spot, from 1912 to 1938.

So, what do you think? Is that the basement of the 1912 Times building in the new photo? I'm thinking that it is. I guess they just tore it down to ground level in 1938 and left the rest!

Edit: One more photo:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-x...s_angeles2.jpg
LA Daily Mirror

The State Building is under construction while the Times Building sits on the corner, with other smaller buildings next to it filling out the rest of the block along 1st Street. The Times Building is clearly shaped just like that basement in the modern photo, including that extra chunk protruding in the back corner.

Originally Posted by esotouric (Post 6635814)

Current photo, just tweeted courtesy of the Times' historic Tumblr blogger Matt Ballinger. Looks like some bites have been taken out since Hunter took his aerial photo on Thursday.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...sorgarcirc.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6636075)

FredH, I never noticed that 'Love Nest' sign. -perhaps it's a movie advertisement. -good eye.

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 6636020)

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original
Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1938

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6624881)

A souvenir lighter, from an earlier era when the whole world seemed to smoke.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800.../841/5e1sr.jpg
ebay

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/840/3mr1.jpg

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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6636137)

There must've been dozens of proposed schemes for the Civic Center over the years, and I'm sure we've seen most of them here. This one from 1950 (previously posted by westcork in post #3062) shows a virtual twin for the State Building. The full description is:

Photograph of a drawing with the caption "Sketch showing unification of Superior and Municipal Courts as proposed by Supervisor Leonard Roach". "Civil Center pattern -- Supervisor Leonard Roach will submit plans for a 20-story building (A) to house Superior and Municipal Courts and a Law Library. Also included in his plans, the Hall of Records would be razed and replaced with a $5,000,000 county administration building (B). Existing buildings are Hall of Justice (1), Federal Building (2), City Hall (3), and State Building (4). Building A would cost $14,650,000 instead of 17,453,809 for three separate buildings" -- clipping dated "Apr. 27, 1950" attached to verso.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...l.jpg~original
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