|
TV in 1949
Quote:
Here are the old Kaye-Halbert TVs that were sold mostly in Los Angeles around 1949. KH stopped their LA production of TVs in 1956. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps542e9192.jpg radioguy 1952 ad for the KH TV. That price would be $2,200 in 2014. A lot of money for a little B/W TV. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps4b85eca7.jpg newspapersonline |
Gibbie's Seaside Inn, 1314 West Sixth Street, DRexel 0904. Thursday, August 22, 1935.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/6iiUVC.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/BQCyxK.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/905/gC2bD8.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/AzUZkI.jpg ebay As far as I can tell, Gibbie's location is now a parking lot for the Pacific Dining Car. I'm not sure why it was named Gibbie's Seaside Inn....the nearest body of water is a good distance away. __ |
Los Angeles 1920
E. Burton Ceruti, NCAAP founder, L.A. Branch, Los Angeles Calif. 1920. 421 W. 7th St., Orpheum http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/sZUE1c.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920-LOS-ANG...item566ef579e9 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/05HPOV.png I found a Buster Apts. at 141 1/2 N. Broadway in the 1923 city directory. (I've never seen a apt. building with a 1/2 address before) In the same directory: Mr. Ceruti's (attorney) office was at 132 N. Broadway, RM 501. His home address was 1300 W. Florence Ave. The date (1920) of the RPPC predates the Orpheum at 636 S Broadway (it opened in 1926). Then there's the address 421 W. 7th St. Is this the location of an earlier Orpheum? -I'm a bit confused...can you tell? Help! __ Also...there are some interesting things going on back toward the Hotel Buster apartments. There appears to be a lighted billboard in front of a sloping hill ...and there's another billboard on top of the hill. And what's that to the right of the billboard? It looks like a white statue to me. |
Yeah, it would cost an arm and a leg to get custom-made curved glass. Why pay $3,000 for a window when you can pay $300 for it? But, yeah. It does look cheap.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps91dad7f7.jpg Images: as noted or Chester Williams Bldg.[/QUOTE] |
NB. I've cropped e_r's images as they originally came in threes.
Quote:
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ttGrocery2.jpg GSV On the other side of the parking lot is this structure. I can't find a build date, but I'm wondering if it's the building with the cafe on the left of e_r's picture. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ttGrocery3.jpg GSV A 2012 article in the LA Times details a $100 million apartment and shopping complex proposed for this block. |
:previous: Good eye HossC. That building certainly has the same proportions as the café building in the 1920s photograph.
__ |
|
I just found this group of six slides, dated 1966. A majority of them show a building being demolished by the Cleveland Wrecking Co. I was hoping someone could tell me what building is coming down.
Here's the building in question. (with the Chan Co. sign) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/901/PgnWtA.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966...item20f3d4205d Here you can see the 'Cleveland Wrecking' sign. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/yAcHXR.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966...item20f3d4205d http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/HLglFC.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966...item20f3d4205d http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/lFBCoZ.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966...item20f3d4205d __ ...and here are the last two slides. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/ysErjp.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966...item20f3d4205d http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/bK8Jak.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966...item20f3d4205d __ |
Quote:
But today in 2015 a ''penny'' post card actually costs you $.34. I wonder if he got his dog Scraps back. |
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...usterApts1.jpg So far, this is the only other picture I've found of the Hotel Buster/Buster Apartments - it's just across the street from the top of the Times tower. The plot next to the Buster Apartments would soon be filled with the Law Building, so maybe that's what the billboard in e_r's picture is advertising. I can't see the Buster Apartments in any of the pictures of the Law Building that I've come across so far, so was it knocked down when the Law Building was constructed? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...usterApts2.jpg LAPL In the early 1920s, 421 W 7th Street was one of the addresses of Earl V Lewis, the photographer/Kodak dealer. Could this be why the address appears on the postcard? |
Quote:
That captured my attention tout de suite. I have never heard of this place. Has this really escaped everybody's attention? I don't recall it. These gems just keep turning up... http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...tream/JPG/viewhttp://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...llpapers%3A349http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...tream/JPG/viewhttp://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...llpapers%3A350 Quote:
Squab again.... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-7eONBDMRL...ffDwellers.pnghttp://laheyday.blogspot.com/2010/10...s-part_31.html http://cdm16693.contentdm.oclc.org/u...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://cdm16693.contentdm.oclc.org/c...18/id/10/rec/6 |
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...zFlats1965.jpg UCLA Digital Repository |
Quote:
1936 - More of widened Wilshire west of Lucas Street http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092831.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092831.jpg 1936 - Same view, a little cleaner. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092830.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092830.jpg Possibly worth noting that an original Wilshire street light may still be standing proud near the "Lucas" street sign. |
Red Car
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6863375]I just found this slide a few minutes ago on ebay. (love that red car!)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/51sOFk.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-195...item339b85859d ER, your red car is a 1941 Pontiac Streamliner "Torpedo" coupe. Pretty rare these days as there are very few even in the Pontiac-Oakland Club International, of which I am a member. That lovely red is "Parma Wine" As to Mt Lowe in the snow, those are rare also. Nice find! Cheers, Jack |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
[QUOTE=Wig-Wag;6863655]
Quote:
That appears to be Tilfords Coffee Shop at the left with the neon sign. Click the link below. http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=10751 |
HossC, thanks for figuring out the location of my 1920 Ceruti postcard.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/sZUE1c.jpg ebay If you look closely, you can clearly see that it's the same building. What a sleuth you are. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/LCeSxA.png I also like how the peaked roof of the Hotel Buster/Apartments is situated in the middle of the building. (quite unusual). |
Wig-Wag,
Thanks for identifying the 1941 Pontiac Streamliner 'Torpedo' coupe Jack. 'Parma Wine'....what a color! ...and that light green car across the street is nice looking as well. Quote:
__ |
All times are GMT. The time now is 10:12 PM. |
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.