Here's a place we haven't seen on NLA.

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It still looks like that on the Streetview images up to November 2011, but the August 2014 image looks like this.

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I tried to get a better view of the old picture on the fence, which turned out to be the one below. It's part of a 31 image slideshow of the restoration at wadecodesign.com.

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Love the billboard for the 1932 Olympics.

I remember those counter cards growing up, probably because my mother had polio and spent several years of her childhood in hospitals. She had a spine deformation and a hard life to go along with it.

Los Angeles County Hospital polio ward c. 1950.

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Virtual Museum of the Iron Lung

According to a news item I saw relativly recently the Tail O' the Pup has been sitting in a storage facility, but has been recently transported somewhere to be refurbished/restored and the owners hope to find a location where the establishment can reopen.

From the wikipedia entry:

Designed by architect Milton Black, the stand opened at La Cienega and Beverly boulevards in June 1946 to luminary-studded, searchlight-lit fanfare. Eddie Blake purchased the Pup in the early 1970's from its celebrity owners, the dance team of Veloz and Yolanda.

Despite its appearance in countless movies and commercials, the stand faced demolition in the mid-1980s, creating an outcry that resulted in the stand being moved from its original location at 311 North La Cienega Boulevard, to 329 North San Vicente Boulevard.

In December 2005, the Pup was evicted and it moved into a Torrance warehouse.

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The picture below is from an article on www.nbclosangeles.com. It looks like the Tail o' the Pup was moved in February this year, and is headed for restoration in Las Vegas. The restoration is said to feature in a History Channel program, although I can't find any info about it on their 'American Restoration' episode guide. The picture is by Alison Martino.

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Vintage Los Angeles/NBC Los Angeles

Alison Martino has also made a video about Tail o' the Pup which includes a meeting with 93-year-old Eddie Blake:

VLA TV Episode 1 Tail O' The Pup

Anyone for a nice fried squab?
 

Squab at Ferncroft's......

I've eaten a few squab but you just don't see that too often these days. Squad is really just a well fed pigeon....all dark meat.

Squab...almost ready for eatin. At the right...how they look in the fry pan.
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Vulcanization with a smile!

Hard to compete with the likes of Al Monroe!

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Address is elusive. 918 _ _ _ _? Alt listings for Al Monroe: 761 S. Central? 1158 Vine Street? One residence is listed as LA Athletic Club.

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1925 Al Monroe
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Al Monroe 2
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Al Monroe as the Clark Kent prototype
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Al and Tire
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Tire
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Ta da! Raised letters.
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916 - Kokomo Checkers - With the red cap. Check the rebound!
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By 1930, Al had a gas and tire station at Lakershim and Victory. Evidently sold postage stamps too!
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Apparently, well before "Murph's" Union "76" ads (Go with the spirit, the spirit of '76):whistle:, there was the little known or almost forgotten team of "Black and Harris." Could they have peaked too soon?



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1932 (recognizable tower in right background?)
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Here is 1800 E. Ocean Boulevard today.

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It's hard to tell if this was the Army Navy Club or not.
-the style of architecture is hard to date. I think it might have been updated to appear more mid-century modern (but then again, what do I know;))
What do you guys think?
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While I was turning the google-mobile around, this building directly across the street caught my eye.

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but that isn't the front. It's especially impressive when you view it from the side street, Hermosa Avenue.

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I really like this building.


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The Cornitius Bros were realtors who appear at 7029 Melrose Avenue in the City Directories of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Strangely, those City Directories list a shoe repair business where the bakery is in the picture. The buildings west of 7025 Melrose (the one with the cartouche) have since been replaced with a Jiffy Lube. This is as close as I could get to the original camera location with the Googlemobile.

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The structure on the right is the La Brea Building. Property websites list its build date as 1925, with propertyshark.com saying it was last altered in 1973. That means it's likely to be the same building that appears as Taylor and Sons in the original picture. I think I prefer the lighter color below.

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Upcoming remodel for 7024 Melrose?
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Cosmopolitan Book Store
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According to the 1927 CD, Al Monroe was selling tires at 918 South Flower Street.

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I really like this building
 

The spirit of the Prairie Houses by Frank LLoyd Wright came to California.