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Union Station parking lot, 1943 (3)

I don't know about the rest of you but I'm heading over to Wrigley Field for the Thrill Circus and Rodeo.

So many of these old photographs are a reminder that at one time, advertising billboards stood at ground level, often surrounded by shrubs and flowers.

Excellent follow up post on the Potter Park area FlyingWedge.

I don't recall seeing a photograph of the 8th Street School before. -nice find!
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originally posted by MichaelRyerson
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I never knew they held rodeos at Wrigley Field.

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It was also great to see the White Log Coffee Shop across from Union Station.
As most of you know, the one at 1061 S. Hill Street, built in 1932, still stands. A remarkable survivor. :)

1301 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica
 

Here's one for all you guys that have done such great research. 1301 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica is a wonderful example of Streamline combined with Art Deco. It was built in 1939, but by whom? Remodeled in 2008 at a supposed cost of $30 million (I suspect a questionable figure). In 2010 it gained somewhat Noirish status by virtue of an incident involving a number of individuals of the Jewish faith.



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For 2010 story go here: http://www.jewishjournal.com/thenon-...wsuit_20120815

Note the differences in the signage the photo in the article, as well as the removal / addition of shrubs.

Shulman's take in '39
 

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Shangri-La Hotel, Julius Shulman, 1939

Robert Berman Gallery

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by Chuckaluck
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Surprisingly, especially for 1939, the rear of the Shangri-La looks more International Style (mid-century) than Streamline Modern.
When I first saw the postcard below, I thought they had the wrong building!

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plus: Isn't this where they found Whitey Bulger and his moll?

[QUOTE=Retired_in_Texas;6245927]Here's one for all you guys that have done such great research. 1301 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica is a wonderful example of Streamline combined with Art Deco. It was built in 1939, but by whom?

The hotel was designed by Beverly Hills architect William E. Foster. He did lots of apartment buildings, churches, larger homes, etc in and around Santa Monica and Beverly Hills...

[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6245988 plus: Isn't this where they found Whitey Bulger and his moll?[/QUOTE]

Nah, too stylish for Whitey. He (and his moll) were arrested over at the Princess Eugenia apartment complex, a non-descript joint if there ever was one.

If I remember correctly, that building almost came down in the Northridge Earthquake in '94.

:previous: -I hadn't heard that. -interesting.



The Hotel Stratford, circa 1942
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-located on the northeast corner of 8th Street and Hoover. (S. Rampart Boulevard ends at the Stratford)
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If you look closely, you can see where the vertical sign used to be by the discolored (darker) bricks.
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-some really nice architectural elements. Too bad Pepe decided to place his sign in front of the arched windows. He should have taken
his cue from Karen.
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:previous: There are the discolored bricks again, directly above the two arched windows on the left.




-the 8th Street 'entrance' with it's two elegant cartouches. That said, how bad is this neighborhood? That fortified 'caged' entrance is horrendous!
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The Hotel Stratford/Stratford Apartments...not to be confused with the tragic Stratford Arms.
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Nope, that is if you accept the L.A. Times article and photo of the arrest site as being accurate. I haven't been able to find a name for the apartments where the Bulger arrest took place.



http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...ey-bulger.html

Michael Ryerson places the arrest at the Princess Eugenia Apartments.

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Always with Chinatown on the brain, I am reminded of Jake Gittes breaking one of the taillights of Mrs. Mulwray's Packard to make it easier for him to follow her.... The sound of breaking glass accompanies the shot above.

June 24, 2011 at 03:46 PM.....James "Whitey" Bulger, the alleged mob boss and Top Ten Fugitive who has been on the run since the mid-'90s, was arrested Wednesday night at the Princess Eugenia apartment complex in Santa Monica. His longtime companion, Catherine Greig, was also arrested.

The Princess Eugenia is located at 1012 Third St., just south of Washington Avenue.

On Thursday morning, media swarmed the apartment complex, trying to gather information from tenants, including in which apartment Bulger and Greig had been staying. Police officers were still stationed outside the complex as well.

Ref:Santa Monica Patch

I think you're onto something here. I went back today and got this shot:

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The track for the aluminum door actually goes a couple of feet below the present level of the sidewalk, so at the time of construction it was probably level with the street and intended for cars.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...2520AM.bmp.jpgderangedlacrimes.com


The never-ending Dahlia story...


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I was wondering when Larry Harnisch would respond to the Son You Would Never Want to Have: http://ladailymirror.com/2013/08/25/...del-franchise/

In it, Harnisch is funny and logical about it all, as usual.

To quote a commenter to the story:

"[Steve] Hodel is in a dream world and it actually frightens me that he was a cop. If he is this terrible about putting the pieces of Beth’s murder together, I am afraid to know the mistakes he made as a detective." Indeed.

Another commenter introduced me to a word I'd never heard-- Apophenia--which is defined as "the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data."

Much has been written and told of Sister Aimee's meanderings. Noticed a recent posting of a Manhattan Place home in which she may have set foot. One source supposes that home was "south of Venice Blvd. and within West Adams." http://www.westadams-normandie.com/lapl/old_houses.php But I wonder if the same house wasn't in the Hancock park area. Don't know much about Aimee's choppers, but a Mid-Wilshire location would have made a dental consultation "just around the corner" http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16337 . Maybe someone here has a more definitive answer regarding the location of the Manhattan Place home?



In no particular order, some of the LA/SoCal residences with a Sister Aimee connection. (Excluding the Lake Elsinore castle-cottage and Palm Springs locale).

Sister Aimee's parsonage
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1932 - Proposed "Temple Towers" (Would have made a great Elks Club Annex)
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April '27 - The "late" Nat Goodwin's home in Santa Monica, where Aimee allegedly spent some time. Nat died in '19, so his connection with Aimee was extremely attenuated. http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=3619,4351374 Exact address unknown.
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'14 - For no particular reason
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1926 - 4505 Gramercy Place - Purported kidnapping evidence was found here. Her green bathing costume. Comparing this photo with contemporary location suggests that the structure still exists, although this older image/negative was be reversed.
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"Relaxing" rest provided by mattress found in house with - narcotics!
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1932 - 2210 W Temple Street. Aimee's free mess hall.
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The address for this house given in news reports was 333 S. Manhattan. An apartment building is there now. What is curious is that the house in the pic above appears to have had a peaked roof and other items airbrushed in--although the short tower at left appears in the pic below as though it must have been original. It looks like there was another peaked-roof house on the north side of the one purported to be Aimee's... and, as you can see in the GSV, there is an old apartment building to the right of 333 S Manhattan now. Perhaps it was built just after the LAPL shot below...



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Thank you for that info. Having spoken with at least one person who grew up in the neighborhood, before WW2, it was a baffling composite of apartments and homes and businesses in the homes and Churches. It remains that way still.

There clearly are apartment buildings on the 300 block of Manhattan Place that look like they are from the '30s or later. (E.g., "320 S Manhattan Place) This means the "Aimee" residence and others like it could have been demolished or moved to make way for those "newer" buildings.

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If you noticed the parsonage for the Church on Manhattan Place, I wonder if it was originally just another residence - with no connection to the place of worship other than geographically. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16337 After all, there appears to have been a home on southern side of the Church that fronted Wilshire. I am guessing it remains an example of many homes in the neighborhood, including those that once fronted Wilshire. Come to think of it, I wonder why a building as splendidly large as that Church was not built on Wilshire?


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There's a lot curious about this particular house.

Are those slit shades/screens in the upper windows or worn fabric often found covering organ speakers? Custom leaded windows in a bamboo pattern on second floor?

Top left corner shows evidence of cut-paste-airbrushing. Must have been a nasty looking cloud, or out-of-place zeppelin. Guessing that the overgrowth of ivy (or similar botanicals) made for a disturbingly fuzzy print image, which could have been part of the reason for correcting. Despite his/her intentions, someone's photo correction efforts may not have been an improvement.

Why would the man reading on the stoop not be sitting in one of those more comfortable wicker chairs? Poor lighting? Chairs reserved only for Aimee? He's a burglar trying to avoid drawing attention to himself? :shrug: