While we're at Alvarado and Temple, I have a more up-to-date question. Does anyone know the story behind the red and white road markings that form a square at the intersection? I haven't found any similar markings in the area.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...adoTemple4.jpg
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National Plumbing....either show..or convention, circa 1958
http://imageshack.us/a/img51/5715/5d38.jpg
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This is the masterpiece of the pair of slides. I love the guy's reaction on the right. -too funny!
http://imageshack.us/a/img10/7171/wkng.jpgebay

You gotta' love the models in their bare-midriff denim plumbers outfits! ;)
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Vilma Banky
http://imageshack.us/a/img849/6718/oaen.jpg
http://silenceisplatinum.blogspot.com/



The Magic Flame 1927
http://imageshack.us/a/img812/3912/tgft.jpg
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the above photo led me to this..
http://imageshack.us/a/img853/9523/dqmd.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img716/6131/74ce.jpg



I'd like to get my hands on some of these studio artifacts.
http://imageshack.us/a/img542/1055/11d0.jpg


accident, humorously told.
http://imageshack.us/a/img811/8130/cfjv.jpg
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2206 Echo Park Avenue, circa 1965
http://imageshack.us/a/img11/2558/d9cj.jpg
Ed Ruscha at http://www.liveauctioneers.com/searc...s=20&pagenum=7


2206 Echo Park Avenue today
http://imageshack.us/a/img823/898/4c7a.jpg
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5947 Carlton Way, circa 1965
http://imageshack.us/a/img703/6977/2wvl.jpg
Ed Ruscha at http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow...les-apartments


5947 Carlton Way today
http://imageshack.us/a/img534/9819/3o8p.jpg
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Wasn't this building later the home of A&M Records?

From about 1971 - 1974 I had music lessons next door (or possibly in another building that had belonged to the studio itself). I don't see the school from the old Google-mobile anymore, so I assume it's gone; does anyone remember anything more about it? I've forgotten even the name.

(Guitar, in case you're wondering, and I sucked harder than a vacuum cleaner. But later, in my college years, I took it up again and got pretty good at it.)

At first I was going to argue that this building must have been built decades before 1919, on the supposition that builders had long since stopped using such lovingly detailed neoclassical revival elements by that time. You might find simpler Doric columns, but even more likely just plain square posts holding up the porch roof, and that would be it. But that would be dead wrong; in early 2012 I posted about a building in Palms that is quite similar to the 1919 structure in this regard, and was built only a few years before.

A&M are definitely listed there in 1973. Here's a listing from that block from the 1973 City Directory - do any of the other names ring a bell?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LALaBreaAv.jpg
rescarta.lapl.org

ER - When I saw your post, I thought it was this house in Pasadena and said to myself "What happened to it?" Just me in my old age!

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/4807/b1va.jpg
Google Street View

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I see the rake used on the gravel too. I remember a discussion on the surfaces used at service stations in this thread. Sand, sawdust, or pea gravel and someone must rake it, creating the lines we see in it on old photographs.


http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...adoTemple4.jpg

On the subject of crosswalks, I can remember Winston-Salem (artsy city in North Carolina that I like to follow) commissioning a Canadian artist named Roadsworth to design interesting crosswalks a few years ago. His work had people talking. The crosswalk you see, in the link above, could be his work? I think someone has to commission him though?

I was intrigued by shots of the ordinary L.A. intersection of San Pedro Street and East 32nd, then and now:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Looking east on East 32nd Street


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520PM.bmp.jpghttp://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9437/f2pi.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Looking southwest across the intersection of San Pedro and East 32nd, with a small shot of the house still behind the corner store


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Another shot of the southwest corner


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520PM.bmp.jpg
And another shot of the sw corner--a closeup of the corner store. Could the grocery and the current building be the same, stucco now over clapboard?


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Looking south on San Pedro toward the intersection of East 32nd



All vintage USCDL; others GSV

Some vintage NLA on that house:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6770

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6774

Since we are in the area,a few years ago i asked if anyone knew what was at 2333 scout way before the Boy Scouts got the land. I know the former building was built around 1951 or so,it was torn down in 03 to make way for a mega-council center. I also asked what the street was called before Scout Way...thanks for answering that one.

A slightly larger version.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Linen-Post-Ca...oYg~~60_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/t/Linen-Post-Ca...oYg~~60_57.JPG

Three buildings over 11 floors gone from existance :/

2206 Echo Park Avenue, circa 1965
 

Wow! Rocket powered palm trees!

I guess it has been almost a half century between the two photos.

Cheers,
Jack

Thanks for your reply, Matthew. I checked out some work by Roadsworth, and it's really fun.

I carried on Googling, and think that the arty crosswalk at Alvarado/Temple was created using a product/process called DuraTherm. There's another, simpler example on Alameda at the and of Olvera Street. The same pattern was also used just along Alameda outside the entrance to Union Station.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...medaOlvera.jpg
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Apologies if this house has been discussed before, but I found the card on Ebay earlier, and would like to know more about it. It's titled "Vintage Los Angeles House Real Photo Card", but what caught my eye was the unusual wrap-around details on the roof. The seller dates it as 1930-1940, and the photo credit on the back is "Graham Photo Co., 110 So Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A.", but no location is given. The number by the door looks like 86, which may narrow down the possible locations.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAHouse86.jpg
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The City Directories give various addresses for the Graham Photo Co.:

1923 - 110½ South Broadway
1926 - 121½ South Broadway
1929 - 321 W 3rd Street
1932 - 2937 Whittier Blvd.

So it's probably fair to assume that the photo above may be earlier than the description suggests.