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The photo above is reversed. Here is the corrected image. http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...a-UCLA_rot.jpg |
:previous:Glad you're here HenryH! :previous: Nice save, JScott! 4101 West Third Street - Business Exchange Corporation Did the original building use such distinctive lettering? http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7...1a5281cc_b.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7...1a5281cc_b.jpg Maybe someone is interested in a discount for an overnight stay at the Alexandria Motel? Will double beds be acceptable? 4562 North Figueroa, LA 65 50 Units http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8423/7...c8be443c_b.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8423/7...c8be443c_b.jpg |
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It is amazing, I can still remember getting on the Crown Coach bus parked in front of my Elementary School in Pasadena; as well as the trip, and most of the shops we toured, as well as the Plaza. It was part of the third grade, Early CA History lesson plan. :) |
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Macabre. While viewing your post, I hear a song, "Highwayman", with the following lyrics: "I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide Where steel and water did collide A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and around and around" Coincidentally, Jimmy Webb, who wrote the song evidently in the '70s, grew up in So Cal. I wonder . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsUM7V6Ku_8 |
Pershing Square pocket mirror - 1.75" x 2.75"
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...14024%2BPM.jpg eBay (After 1918) Note RB Young's Broxburn Hotel and his A. L. Bath Building at far right on either side of 5th. The Auditorium Building and the California Club at the top of the Square A similar view, 20+ years on. The Biltmore's in on the left, the Auditorium has been streamlined, the Edison Building has replaced the California Club and the Broxburn fell for the Pershing Square Building. Only the AL Bath Building is unchanged from the previous view: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2...21813%2BPM.jpg uncanny.net |
If Wing Co. is too busy, Knight's is the place, since 1928! "Where guaranteed service is fact not an unfulfilled promise" 8606 S Western avenue (near Manchester) http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7...cc8f131e_b.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7...d0b0c89a_o.jpg known to Philo Farnsworth? |
Here's one last shot of the AL Bath Building/Willoughby Hotel looking SW from 5th St. It gives a good view of the next-door building with the BBQ place and bookstore. Compare with the earlier shot below:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k...23230%2BPM.jpg http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/subwayarea.htm Looking SE cira 1905: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1...55255%2BPM.jpg flicker via Beaudry These pix have now been added to my original post |
Does anyone remember a coin shop on Hill Street in the late 1960s? In my dim recollection, it was one block north of Pershing Square on the east side of the street. The proprietor got very upset with my mother for leaving me there for over an hour while she went shopping. "This is not a baby-sitting service, Madam!" Anyway, just a random Downtown memory!
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Thanks for posting the photo of the bookstore. In the 60s I got off the streetcar or bus on Broadway and walked out 5th to the Central Library many, many times. I always stopped at the newsstand/bookstore. Don't remember the name of it, though. Here are a couple more shots of the Willoughby Hotel from 1913. http://imageshack.us/a/img19/5540/willoughby19131.jpg USC Digital Library http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...hterm/CHS-5822 http://imageshack.us/a/img18/972/willoughby19132.jpg USC Digital Library http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...hterm/CHS-5819 |
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Interesting photos!! The first one, in which the street is obviously unpaved, has a street scene feel, right out of the Grapes of Wrath; it looks like a lot of newbies to SoCal in the immediate area? The next photo, at least several years later, the street appears to be paved? Question: Is that statue of what appears to be a soldier, still in the park? I have not been to downtown on foot for many years--my ankle bracelet seems to limit me to Pasadena/Altadena. LOL |
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In addition, banning backyard incinerators brought the smog war to the home front and the campaign against smoky orchard "smudge pots" eliminated a highly visible source of pollution. In 1947, more than 300,000 backyard trash incinerators puffed out white plumes -- and black soot -- across the city. "People would complain -- especially women hanging up their washing outside -- that the ashes and soot from the incinerators would soil their freshly laundered clothing before it got dry," Brunelle said. Many residents fiercely opposed plans to ban backyard incinerators, believing that oil refineries were the true cause of smog, and that refineries should be regulated first. More than a decade after the problem was first identified, trash collection programs were established and backyard incinerators were finally banned in 1958. http://www.aqmd.gov/news1/Archives/H.../marchcov.html |
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I think the photo I posted of the bookstore next door was from the 50s. The vertical sign said "Bar-B-Q" then. I miss little hole-in-the-wall shops like that. |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-D...31211%2BPM.jpg http://www.shorpy.com/node/13244?size=_original#caption (detail) The story behind the memorial: http://www.publicartinla.com/Downtow...ican_war1.html https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1...32120%2BPM.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...ing_Square.jpg LA Historical-Cultural Monument #480. Oldest piece of public art in LA. |
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All very interesting and informative!! I do not care for the 'coldness' of the new park scheme. I think this was the best looking version; before they scraped the ground clean! :rolleyes: The older version was so appealing. http://i49.tinypic.com/209k0et.jpg I am trying to get the right perspective, which corner was that statue on, in the early 1900's? I am assuming it was Hill and 5th, but not sure of the direction on the compass as to which corner it was at? S/W corner of Hill St. and 5th St.?? |
Source: Circa '30 - '45 :blink: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7...79a45d05_b.jpghttp://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7...79a45d05_b.jpg |
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I don't like the "new" Pershing Square either. I was appalled when that went in. No one seems to like it. There's plans afoot to redo it again. 20 years is enough already. "In 1992, the park was closed for a major $14.5-million redesign and renovation by architect—landscape architect Ricardo Legorreta of Mexico, and landscape architect Laurie Olin of the U.S. The new park opened in 1994 with: a 10-story purple bell tower, fountains, numerous public artworks including a walkway representing an earthquake fault line designed and executed by artist Barbara McCarren, a concert stage, a seasonal ice rink, and small plazas with seating. It is now predominantly paved expanses, with small areas of trees in raised planters.[1] The park faces criticism from what many believe to be a poor design.[5] The walls along the sides and the raised entryway on the corners keep people out rather than invite people in. The arched seating and railings are intended to deter the homeless from laying down and sleeping causing the area to feel uninviting. The locals call the palm tree lined area near the Northeast corner "urinal alley" citing disgust over the frequent urination from the homeless. The artwork and fountain on the South end created by Ricardo Legorreta often goes misinterpreted even though it was created with good intention. The purple bell tower, aqueduct, and orange concrete spheres are meant to symbolize the water flow from the California mountain ranges to the citrus farmers. However, most visitors misinterpret this as just being ugly without any meaning or significance. Visitors only see orange concrete spheres, uncomfortable seating, a fountain, and an abstract purple triangle-like structure with a bell inside without any further interpretation. The "Cheese Wedge" structure that houses a closed snack bar also has significance and meaning, none of which is known at the time of posting. AEG, the corporation currently operating the Staples Center and L.A. Live complex is currently sponsoring a $700,000.00 re-design of the Pershing Square.[6] Efforts are currently underway to re-envision ways to improve the current park" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershin...e_(Los_Angeles) |
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