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We've seen Angels Flight hundreds of times on NLA, but not this particular amateur slide from the 1950s.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/Lx0NnB.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Koda...item35e545bcab -here it is extra-large to savor the details. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/50ljCj.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Koda...item35e545bcab Can anyone read the blue sign a third of the way up the flight? I just realized the top line on the blue sign is the same as the name on the blade sign above it....Hulburt. __ |
Flying Wedge, thanks so much for the photos of Playa del Rey! Until his untimely passing last year, my brother lived in the condos built on the site of the old Westport Beach Club, and I've driven that stretch of Vista Del Mar a few hundred times.
We used to body surf there in the late 1960s, and I still consider it a tragedy that the neighborhood under the LAX flight path was taken out due to the runway extensions. Of course, much of that area was developed by real estate promoter Fritz B. Burns who IIRC helped develop mass produced housing after World War II. If I'm not mistaken, he developed Westchester and Panorama City. Yet he was nearly penniless during the early Depression years and actually lived in a tent on the beach at Playa del Rey for a time. |
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Hulburt Hotel Apartment and Rooms (small sign attached below is a Bell System logo sign and says 'telephone') |
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Cheers, Jack http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psjpthgjqc.jpg |
Here's another one of LA's miniature trains. This one operated at Venice Beach. Choo choo and clang clang all the way to the roundhouse....
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I rode the train when I was about ten years old...25 cents. I believe the engine was a GM gasoline car motor. Probably a Chevy. If I recall correctly, GM made the train in their Detroit shops. Here is a 60 year old photo of some kids riding the same train. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psiepf00fc.jpg malcombsblog |
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The oilfield at Vista del Mar bears little if any resemblance to that depicted in the original photo in this sub-thread (top). The derricks in the former are not nearly as dense nor arranged in such orderly phalanxes as those in the OP photo or the multiple images of the Huntington Beach oilfield that I posted previously. The PE trackways and coastal topographies in both areas are very similar, I admit, but I think the truly salient feature that's key to identifying the actual location of the original photo is the physical layout of the respective oilfields, and not the topographical characteristics of the coastline, which are virtually indistinguishable from the one location vs. the other. |
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Vegetarian must have been an alien concept back then.
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You are exactly right about that building. I took my photo looking west from the west side of the Metro Gold Line - Union Station boarding platform. As JScott's photoshopping revealed, we are looking at City Hall, the Library Tower, and Union Station's tower. |
:previous: That was a fun little challenge Lorendoc. You should do it more often.
____ "Operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreations & Parks The Famous Traveling Circus." 1971 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...631/zLANbK.jpg eBay Does anyone remember this traveling 'circus-mobile'? I wonder what was in the bottom part....animals? __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...wayBishops.jpg GSV |
:previous: Wow that was quick HossC. -thanks
Did you find anything about the Legle Bros. Coffee Co? I see that they had a roaster on the roof. (at least that's what I think it is) I believe the coffee co building is the white building in your gsv-, but I'm not sure. __ ...just for fun. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/zFSban.jpg ebay one more. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/L9XVtq.jpg ebay When I was a kid, my grandfather had a plumbing business and this is the kind of calendars he had hanging in his store. __ |
Thank you e_r and Godzilla for the Angels Flight photos. I was particularly enthralled by the C.C. Pierce one.
The details of people's dress, even the shoes of the ladies on the left was fascinating. Also, the design of the pentaglobe streetlamps, so much more elaborate than today's 'recreations' on W 7th Street. The Champ Clark for President placard in the window gave some context. Marsden Drug has postcards and a framed panorama for sale, probably at least some of them also C.C. Pierce's work. I was a bit horrified at how grubby everything looked in the 1950s. The columns of the lower gate of Angels Flight in particular. We seen them before, but I'll add a "before" and three "afters": 1885: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...15451%2BAM.jpg water & power 1966: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-D...04502%2BAM.jpg http://www.onbunkerhill.org/taxonomy/term/84 1968: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z...05545%2BAM.jpg William Reagh Today: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...23253%2BAM.jpg gsv |
Dark Canyon Road/Barham Blvd.
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When or why that name change occurred has not been mentioned yet. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17887 From the above post: Developer Earl L. White [...] first developed the area centered around Magnolia Blvd. Earl White graded the road between Burbank to the Cahuenga pass through what was then called Dark Canyon. It is now Barham Blvd. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17996 From this post: [From an] entry on a Yahoo group dedicated to the Pacific Electric Railway. [...] Raphel Long posted this [...]: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/P...ns/topics/4410 Monkey Island was located on the north side of Cahuenga Boulevard just west of Dark Canyon Road. The Cahuenga Parkway ended just west of the [Barham] Dark Canyon Bridge where it crossed the Pacific Electric at grade. |
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