I can see lots of covid broke unemployed moving out to "Slab City", at least when it cools down. Free rent. Is the place open to anyone who wants to live there? Is it dangerous to live there? Any policing? Are there cliques, like bikers, Canadians, old, young? Are there vacant spaces? Are there services, like stores, mail delivery? Just curious, not planning a move. Does the place have a "Mad Max" vibe, or just Sad Max?

The boys' car is a very rare '40 Buick phaeton, aka a four-door convertible. I was curious about Burleigh's, but only came up with with a story bylined Irv Burleigh...

https://i.postimg.cc/0NFhJxNT/toplessbarmaids.jpg
LAT April 3, 1967

https://www.classiccarcatalogue.com/...40Buick-14.jpg
carcatalog

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I like that sage color.

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DAY & NIGHTcomparison photos.






Mystery vantage point.

"Santa Monica, Day & Night Original Photographs" .... eBay


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LgzQyS.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/PFQyeM.jpg


The two photographs were probably taken by a tourist from their hotel room but I can't quite figure out where exactly.

So. . .umm. . what's the large building in the middle distance that resembles a GIANT theater? ....Is this really Santa Monica? :shrug:



Here's how the photographs appeared on eBay.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/672SuA.jpg



LINK

To answer your last question first, more like Sad Max. There are no services(electricity, police, etc.) and for the folk there, that's one of the reasons they like the place(Ya don't have to listen to Dah Man). However this may be short lived, the state owns the land and there's been some talk of selling it, probably to a power generation company for solar.

Here's another "then and now" with a Bevan Davies photograph. This time the subject is the 1956 Aqua Apartments at 219 S Alexandria Avenue, seen here in 1976.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...AAquaApts1.jpg
www.artsy.net

Even in the picture above, the "S" was missing from the "APTS" part of the sign, and I can't see the name listed in the CDs. The 2009 GSV image shows the original number still present, but no text. The current number appeared by 2011, and the black fencing as recently as 2015/16. It looks like the original design had colored squares on the front, but these have gone over the years.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...AAquaApts2.jpg
GSV

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Here are three curious negatives that I happened upon at worthpoint


#1
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/YvHgR3.jpg






#2
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/it5Wjs.jpg







#3
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/8IREDY.jpg



As you can see, the three negatives show a hotel, pedestrians on a sidewalk and a circus (or midway).

The way the negatives were posted on worthpoint suggests they are from the same strip of film. (see below)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/3PX8j3.jpg

Link


At the moment I don't have the means to transfer the images to positives. :(
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Happy to oblige, e_r!

https://i.postimg.cc/HsV9gVzm/Neg-Yv-Hg-R3.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/wBchVJqX/Negit5-Wjs.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/bJm1Xh2d/Neg8-IREDY.jpg

So, basically just a big homeless encampment in 120 degree summer heat? Very noirish in solar glare.

318 S Los Angeles St / 215 Boyd St
 

https://i.postimg.cc/HsV9gVzm/Neg-Yv-Hg-R3.jpg

The 1896 Sanborn puts the Hotel Los Angeles at 318 S Los Angeles:

https://i.imgur.com/Bjk5j5h.jpg
lapl.org

But curiously the hotel seems to have migrated 90 degrees and a few lots over onto Boyd Street. The CDs put this move around 1902, just before the LADBS records start :(

https://i.imgur.com/naPDN1v.jpg
historicmapworks.com

A parking lot by the mid 50's, says the LADBS. Now, hard to say what it is:

https://i.imgur.com/w2xpkZv.jpg
GSV

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The Hotel Los Angeles is at the center of this 1934 aerial view. The three buildings to the left on Los Angeles Street and the wedge-shaped building on Wall Street appear to still be standing.

https://i809.photobucket.com/albums/...osAngeles1.jpg
mil.library.ucsb.edu

There was a pretty big boom down there(300 block of Boyd) last night and the news said several buildings were destroyed.

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Thanks for switiching the negs to positves, odinthor . . .and thx to Lorendoc and Hoss for the information, and aerial, of the Los Angeles Hotel.

Unless I'm mistaken we haven't seen this building on NLA. (I could be wrong)


Here's a somewhat larger look at the Los Angeles Hotel with the contrast adjusted.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/PglohZ.jpg
worthpoint





My kingdom :pimpdaddy: for anyone who can find out what's written on the plaque at the top of the building. [see below]


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8Rva1W.jpg
DETAIL

And I won't mention the ghost child in the window on the right. ..(he appears to be resting his cheek on his clenched fist)




And before I go; here's a closer look at the hotel sign.... (why not)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/TUQqId.jpg

No ghost child. . .but I do see a sheet doing double duty as a curtain.



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Here's an interesting rppc (c.1911) I recently happened upon at eBay. Link


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/sJxU76.jpg
eBay

update: I believe we have seen a different angle of this LAFD demonstration several years back but we weren't able to figure out the location.

Here is what's written on the reverse.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/5ozKGi.jpg





A closer look at the action.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LA9SGc.jpg

18,000 people. . .hmmm. .the bleachers look empty to me. Maybe this is a practice trial.


I'm still trying to find the location of this fire department benefit. The seller sets the date as 1911 but that might be a guess.

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Notice how the cars are parked. You had to leave your car keys with the Attendant. If you wanted your car, he had to move several to get your car out. Parking in downtown L.A. was hellish. I can remember it when I was five years old.....even in the 1950s.

When I was working as a gofer and sweeper at a car dealership in the late 1950s, I learned how to bounce cars in and out of a tight parking spot.

Let's say you had a spot that was just long enough for the car and open on one long side, like a parallel parking spot that was long enough for the car but not long enough to maneuver into. You back the car in all the way at the closest angle you can. Then you and two buddies start pushing down on the front in a rhythm, getting the car to oscillate vertically on the front springs. You keep at this until the front is really bouncing in the air, and then on a signal when it is at the top of the travel, you all shove the front of the car to the side. With the weight partially off the front wheels from the bouncing, and good timing, you can move the front a foot or so sideways. Repeat until car is nicely tucked in.

Another lost art.

Cheers,

Earl

:cool:

11 Firefighters Escape Through Ball of Fire in Explosion at Downtown LA Building
Some of the LAFD firefighters injured in Saturday's fire and explosion suffered critical injuries, but all are expected to survive.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...re_3471jpg.jpg

NBC news link and videos HERE.


300 Boyd Street later in the evening...

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos...e-id1225312690

Nobody in the car. Driver gets out before the bouncing starts. In those days it didn't matter which side had a door that could be opened because all the cars had bench seats (of fond memory :-))

Cheers,

Earl