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:previous: Whoa, good eye HossC on noticing that Sam Seelig store.
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Isn't it unusual for a smokestack to be lit with neon? It must have looked great in the night sky. (that's some ominous looking black smoke..makes me wonder what ingredients are in Formay) Tires?;) __ |
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Thanks for the correction. Post has been amended. Address ID obtained from Source. Although I had my suspicions, the Source tends to be accurate more often than not. The primary focus was on the street tracks and overhead electrification. A few prior posts made observations concerning what appeared to be an absence of graffiti. With all of those overhead wires and shoes with laces, I still wonder if "shoefiti" is also a relatively new (post War) phenomenon? Disposable sneakers/running shoes? http://sowooisnevertoofar.files.word...pg?w=300&h=191http://sowooisnevertoofar.files.word...pg?w=300&h=191 |
-remember this from a few weeks ago?
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...539/ZgsFLv.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/SEsPG5.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/7xAm6D.jpgebay _______ I'll add this view of the quad as well. (notice the light blue car parked in front of the building in the background. That's quite an elevation change) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/F2xlgt.jpgebay If you like these I have more. __ |
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Another view of the Huntington cottage, now with a library, which some sources suggest was constructed post 1920. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Library In this instance, "the" source, Huntington, provides date, circa 1918. :shrug: http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/107/rec/40 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...ama&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...ama&DMROTATE=0 |
Billboard Refrigerator Cars
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"The practice of painting advertisements on the freight cars of shippers and car owners dates well back into the 19th century. But in the 1920s, leasing companies realized they could contract with shippers to pass back usage payments beyond some agreed minimum. This led to an explosion of car leasing and, as this book amply demonstrates, a corresponding explosion of billboard decoration of refrigerator cars. Railroad objections, especially to the usage payment rebates, led to hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission, which, taking effect in 1937, banned most of the leasing practices which had generated the car leasing bonanza. After World War II, a restrained billboard style made a modest comeback. Car-side advertising was only a detail of that ICC decision. But because it was the basis for a remarkable diversity of refrigerator car paint schemes in the era, the photographs of these cars have long held an interest for historians, railfans, and model railroaders." - From: Billboard Refrigerator Cars by Richard H. Hendrickson and Edward S. Kaminski, Signature Press, August 1, 2008. Swift reefers were typically painted white with red lettering or Yello-orange with red lettering. This one looks to be white. Cheers, Jack |
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...c_Pictures.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...c_Pictures.jpg Love the detail. Anyone parched? Harry Carroll's "Tin Pan Alley Cafe?" Within stumbling distance from the studio. (Have no idea if Harry's place had a liquor license.) Expect there was an upright piano nearby? Harry produced more than just sandwiches. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8aYRXzCEYZA/0.jpghttp://i.ytimg.com/vi/8aYRXzCEYZA/0.jpghttp://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib...r_largejpg.jpghttp://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib...r_largejpg.jpg http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
The Beverly Hills Hotel addition, 1950.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/Xe5GqT.jpg http://marinachetner.files.wordpress...elexterior.jpg The best part of this photograph are the parked cars. They're pretty snazzy looking. __ |
Colegrove Memories
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It was Security Pacific National Bank when I worked there, but we had equipment that still said "Security Trust & Savings Bank" on it, and I once found in the supply room a box of 100 pen nibs! I guess pen nibs could be noir. . . okay, no. We had a lot of elderly customers who had been there for decades. I got a real taste of the old Hollywood from talking to them. |
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I didn't recognize the location, but it looks like a dry cleaners. In the 1956 CD there's an entry for 'George's House of Dry Cleaning' at 8887 W Pico Boulevard. The building currently at that address looks consistent, and is still a cleaners. In place of the plain window on the right, there's now a nail store, but there's no business listed at 8885 W Pico in the 1956 CD, so I'm guessing it was all part of George's House of Dry Cleaning back then. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...enCleaners.jpg GSV I tried to confirm the location by identifying the building in the background. If I'm right about the address, then in 1956 it was still the Citizens National Trust and Savings Bank Pico & Swall Drive branch at 8901 W Pico Boulevard. The 1928 picture below is from my round-up of Citizens Bank branches (full post here), but I'm not sure if it's the same building after a makeover. The building has since been replaced by a much more modern branch of Wells Fargo Bank. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...PicoSwall1.jpg USC Digital Library |
Bright colors....no more.
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:previous: You da man HossC. ;)
I searched and was unable to come up with the location. I have to agree CBD...those colors are eye-popping. Anyone notice the number 16776 on the bench? Were all of L.A.'s bus-stop benches numbered like this? __ |
Billboard Freight Cars
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And I correct myself on the reefers in the overhead shot. I can see now they are lettered "SWIFT" on their sides, just in a different style from the single car pictures added by Hoss C. All's well. |
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Labor Dispute
Here is a (very) minor puzzle.
http://i.imgur.com/FUmzVRL.jpg' http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0027xpz7 The only information associated with this photo is a date, 1937, and a caption: "Crowd of Workers Gathered for a Strike." I wondered if it were possible to figure out what strike it was? The photo comes from UCLA's digital collection of newspaper photographs from the Los Angeles Daily News. [The Daily News, no relation to today's SFV-based Daily News, was founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt IV in 1923. After an early bankruptcy, it was acquired by newspaperman Manchester Boddy and operated as a moderately pro-labor and pro-Democratic paper in a media environment dominated by the far right-wing Times and Examiner. It continued until 1954 when ironically it was acquired by the Chandler interests and merged into their tabloid Los Angeles Mirror.]In the foreground we see an ambulance (?) occupied by an attendant and what might be a customer loaded in feet-first. There are three policemen and an all-male crowd of workers who don't exactly look like they have white-collar jobs. An apparent gasometer looms in the background, and a few names of businesses are visible: "Commercial Super Service Associated," "Tarps-Rope[-ated?]," and furthest, "Newman Bros." The 1938 city directory shows: http://i.imgur.com/nPeOHtF.jpg lapl and a Sanborn map: http://i.imgur.com/4XmRJHB.jpg lapl ...confirms the presence of a gasometer at the SE corner of Alameda and E. 7th. So it seems we're looking east on E. 7th street towards Alameda from Central, although I could be fooled by the perspective. At the SE corner of E. 7th and Central is the Los Angeles Union [Wholesale] Terminal Market (mentioned back on page 747 in the thread), which would be a plausible locus for labor disturbances. The closest thing to a vegetable workers' dispute I could find in the Los Angeles Times was this from April 18, 1937: http://i.imgur.com/9YP4cSE.jpg The next time I'm at the Central Library, maybe I'll take a look at the microfilm and see if the Daily News ran the photo...(well I did say it was a minor puzzle :rolleyes: ) |
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Very meta, with a photo of a photographer taking a photo of a camera shop ad. And the model appears to be holding the camera bag. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV A smaller version of the aerial below has previously been posted by e_r. It shows the warehouses on E 7th and the gasometer on Alameda circa 1930-1935. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
Aren't those the old Nabisco buildings?
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