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Yes, they run from Alma to Soto. I've never seen that type before either.


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Thank you Flyingwedge for the history of 720 S Westlake. I'm curious as to how the relocated house lost its second story and whether the small house behind the Westlake Hotel pre-dates it:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AB...=w1092-h585-no
gsv

At last, a Julius Shulman photoset with a manageable number of images. This is "Job 2246: Harry MacDonald, Harry MacDonald Office Building, 1956". The set's prints and contact prints mostly duplicate each other, so I've picked the best six (IMHO :)).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

A closer look at the entrance.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

The corner, showing the State Farm Insurance sign.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

This must be the rear of the building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

A look inside the offices.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

I'll finish with this great shot of men with bow ties, and one with a pipe, looking over blueprints.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

The summary for this photoset says "Location unknown. Shulman note: Irving Meyers." They can't have looked very hard, because one of the contact prints has a sign for the 5700 block of Hillcrest Drive, with what must be the 3600 block of West something Avenue pointing the other way. The avenue is actually W Slauson Avenue, with State Farm Insurance at 3633, and the offices of architects Clifford K Denman and Harry T MacDonald at 3635 (from the 1956 CD). I originally thought that the building had gone, but I think it's still there behind the newer brick wall with the three holes. The rear is even more modified, and now has virtually no windows. It's now the Peoples Tabernacle of Faith Baptist Church.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
GSV

The white building on the far right of the image above also appears to be a survivor (see the far right of the third Shulman image). Beyond that is this vintage-looking car wash. Have we covered it before?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
GSV

You're welcome! The little house at the rear of 720 Westlake is not on the 1894 Sanborn, but two-story 716 Westlake is.

odinthor mentioned there used to be a diving bell near the spot where I was standing in the casino photograph.

Is anyone else familiar with the diving bell? (I wasn't)

Here's a snapshot of a couple posing on the 'diving bell platform'. (but no actual diving bell :()


September 13, 1950.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/3cll6K.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Avalon-Catal...-/361203361891

"Noah and I on the Diving Bell Platform. This is back of the casino."


reverse
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/cxIuoQ.jpg

"After this we left for the Airport in the Sky."

:previous: I had to giggle at this. (sounds like they passed away. ;))

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The white building, No. 3623 was built in 1947 as an "office". Its neighbor, now painted yellow, was erected in 1938 as a "real estate office". The car wash was added in the 60s.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7T...=w1237-h397-no
gsv

The two homes on Hillcrest (visible through the window in the quoted Shulman image above) are still there:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eh...Q=w826-h503-no
gsv

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I haven't found a picture of the Diving Bell e_r, but this little map shows where it was:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hp...w=w582-h558-no
timwagg

The underwater park is outlined with buoys and lines:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rZ...=w1010-h553-no
google maps

:previous: Thanks for finding this 'mystery' location Hoss.

Good job. :)

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They're still around in a few places. Highly over-engineered design, way stronger than they need to be. Probably why they stuck around. There's a whole line of them down Marengo St. in front of the new County-USC hospital complex. I used to stand out front and marvel at the labor that must have gone into assembling that intricate trusswork. Also surprised I never saw anyone climb one. They're practically a ladder, and there are some pretty crazy folks on Marengo...

http://i.imgur.com/Zg7a3dY.jpg
GSV https://goo.gl/maps/8F2EUcgZYHw

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psmi1lvy6p.jpg
gorillas blog

I suspect the Bell was gone by the time Bruce [ER] was visiting the famous art-Deco Casino.

The strip of shops south of the Larchmont Theater is still there (Balzar's later became Jurgensen's Grocery):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yj...w=w928-h370-no
gsv

The Larchmont Theater opened in 1922. Here it is in 1950 with an updated marquee:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U4...w=w799-h518-no
cinema treasures

The theater was replaced in 1960 by this (no longer a) bank building (I remember it as a Security Pacific). The old bank building , next door to the north is still a bank:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AY...w=w961-h406-no
gsv

The Safeway (which Chuckaluck mentioned), now a Rite Aid, was once a billiard parlor:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/h6...A=w493-h462-no
silentlocations

You've caught 410 N Rossmore, there on the right, in the midst of its confusion.

Thanks so much of those pictures of Larchmont, Ravenswood and El Royale. That's my 'hood. I drive and walk those streets every day.

My 90 year old neighbor recalls seeing many films in her girlhood at the Larchmont Theatre.

this

Now I realize the 'bat-shaped' light is the El Royale.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/5wD0Q2.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=41072

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George Raft posing in the bedroom of his penthouse apartment at the El Royale, 420 Rossmore

#1
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/pyBjFv.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/bizarrelosa...type=1&theater

"When I lived at the El Royale, there were two penthouse suites. Mack [Gray, Raft's bodyguard and close friend] and I had one and Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia,
had the other. He was separated from his wife at the time. Many times as a gag, we both left our front doors open. I used to watch the stream of broads
that went up to his place, and I found out later that he would check me out. Sometimes we would compare notes. I think between us we had every hooker
in town. But if I ever saw a broad I had been with go to his suite -- that would finish her with me." -- George Raft

from Bizarre Los Angeles






update:

Here's another.

#2
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/S1E5lf.jpg
http://sadhill.photoshelter.com/image/I00005Bp69v0GwgY

George Raft in the den of his top floor penthouse at the El Royale Apartments (450 N. Rossmore Ave) in 1936.

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#3
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/AwkRXu.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/bizarrelosa...type=1&theater

He has one of those Radiobars I posted about earlier.

Here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=40867


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Does anyone know when the "R" on the Ravenswood went away?

And did it really revolve?

:previous: I never knew where Mae shopped for groceries. (maybe she sent down her bodybuilders to pick them up ;))

Thanks for the info BifRayRock.

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Blaster, I don't remember where I learned that the R atop the Ravenswood revolved. -sorry.

(it was probably a video) I'll see if I can find it again.

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