I used to change buses at that bus stop (in the 1979 view) every weekday to go to school (& work) at USC! Lived at 4th and Hobart, would walk one block north to 3rd St, catch the 28 bus eastbound, ride to Vermont & Wilshire, get off, and wait for the 95 at the same stop to get to USC. Even though I could have changed at 3rd/Vermont (or 4th or 5th or 6th), I learned early on to got to Wilshire, as half of the people on the 95 coming from East Hollywood would get off at Wilshire to connect to the Wilshire bus either eastbound to downtown, or westbound further along the Wilshire corridor.

If that picture was taken on a weekday before mid-August in 1979, I probably had already been by there that day! :D

Old lenses again !
 

You're right HossC.
I was deceived by the old trick : the vintage lenses in black & white. Mateo Street is broadened in the vintage photo and I couldn't picture the cars parked on the right without somewhat obstructing Dall and Cummins on the Google maps photos where the street is tightened.

The Gun Crazy filming locations blog posted by E_R mentions the Department of Water and Power building - it's on the east side of Mateo, just south of the Santa Monica Freeway. When I saw a frontal view, I thought we'd seen it before.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LADWPMateo.jpg
GSV

Tell me if it has been posted already, but I think my feeling of déjà vu is down to several features in the central section being similar to the DWP building on Vine that E_R posted back in post #12919. By the date on the front, it was built two years before the one above.

http://imageshack.us/a/img11/4717/aa...eatromaine.jpg
E_R/GSV

Storage Tanks?

What exactly was being stored? Liquid or gas? Understandably, different sources use the term "gas" without distinguishing between natural/liquid/compressed gas, e.g., propane and gasoline for auto consumption. I understood that the tanks downtown, and the one pictured above, contained liquid/compressed natural gas. http://americanfilmnoir.com/page21.html Beaudry's post seems to confirm this. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3592 Notice, thank capacities were measured in cu. ft. versus gallons.


http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009375.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009375.jpg

Were these tanks ever used for home heating oil or other fuels? Maybe the answer has some shades of gray? vvvv


Per the source, this "1930" image includes another view of "a gasoline storage tank." (Original focus was on storage building's advertising. :shrug: )
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071649.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071649.jpg


Storage - 1025 N. Highland
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073541.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073541.jpg



Warm - but not one of these. NRA = '33-'35; RKO = '36-'55
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...NewDealNRA.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...d8/RKOlogo.jpg

Not that I recall, but here's a picture I took of it last year:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-w...0/DSC03806.JPG

It looks the same, except for a bronze plaque on the side. It's a monument to Frank Putnam Flint, US attorney and Senator.

I noticed that gas was going for 9 cents a gallon, and there were very few pedestrians even though car ownership was so much lower.[/QUOTE]


Have we seen any photos of the Coca Cola sign illuminated?

Undated photo of Wilshire looking toward Beverly Drive.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics01/00020218.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics01/00020218.jpg

Mt. Vernon on Sunset?

Does not seem like the typical service in or to your car. Looks like orders could have been placed or received under the awning. Early version of take out food? Inside seating?

6429 Sunset Blvd., the long-gone Colonial Drive In, circa '33

http://www.hpoliver.com/FEATURES/LA3...A/LA30S_13.pnghttp://www.hpoliver.com/FEATURES/LA3...A/LA30S_13.png

More Wilshire and Vermont area



Aug '36 - Wilshire looking west from Vermont. Looks like the moorish Texaco on the north side of Wilshire near New Hampshire.
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104334.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104334.jpg

'36 (Previously posted on this thread)
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104259.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104259.jpg





Undated, Wilshire looking east toward Western

http://www.ericdatz.com/e34492.jpghttp://www.ericdatz.com/e34492.jpg

The Little Rascals became Our Gang or vs.
 

Carl was well known around the movie studios for being difficult to work with. Sadly, his life after the Our Gang series was difficult at best.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psdbd6aeb9.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps919d8d9e.jpg
AP wirephoto - MGM Culver City

Carl Switzer with Jimmy Stewart in "Its a Wonderful Life"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps23f9c01a.jpg
Carl with Loretta Young
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps269bb045.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Switzer

Our Gang/Little Rascals was a masters course in old Los Angeles.
Alfalfa's death always bugged me.
I had a crush on Darla (who didn't?)

Gasometers/Gas Holders
 

Chuckaluck, This Wiki page does a pretty good job of explaining both function and operation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasholder

This one has/had style!

http://www.palladiumboots.com/blog/gasometer

Cheers,
Jack

[B]Welcome, SportBiker[/B]
 

ooops!

Welcome, SportBiker
 

I loved your comment, "it's such an enjoyable violence!" I guess it doesn't get any more 'noire' than that! Great map, BTW.

:haha:

Thanks Wig-Wag. I was mostly trying to emphasize the fact that when referring to the pictured storage tanks, some sources use the terms "gas" and "gasoline" interchangeably. I assumed this to be erroneous, but I began to wonder whether there may have been some (unknown-to-me) cross-purpose. Indeed, your last "stylish" link, suggests re-purposing as potential living quarters, which is not exactly what I had in mind. Did Russell Crowe actually film in a Roman Gasometer, or some 'ol gasometer off of Exposition Blvd? :koko:



https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i..._4CTx4Tfk7NvIAhttps://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/i..._4CTx4Tfk7NvIA
http://www.palladiumboots.com/images...gasometer3.jpghttp://www.palladiumboots.com/images...gasometer3.jpg



http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/4037/rec/19
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0



While on the subject of storage tanks, with all of the oil pumped from the downtown area in the early part of the last century, were there collection tanks large enough to have become their own landmarks? I am not aware of any and assumed most oil was transported to refineries via tankers or pipeline.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1962-giant-Ha...Z5pQ~~60_3.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/t/1962-giant-Ha...Z5pQ~~60_3.JPG


http://yesteryearremembered.com/wp-c...in-76-Tank.jpghttp://yesteryearremembered.com/wp-c...in-76-Tank.jpg


Undisclosed location and date.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/24418/rec/8
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/15677/rec/7
Venice, 1931 "El Camino Gasoline"
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0

I visited the Charnock Block yesterday, 9.29.2013. I found it rather macabre, like seeing a dead body after an autopsy; after its innards have been removed, and its skin partly stitched back together.

1930
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014120.jpg
LAPL

1971
http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017099.jpg
LAPL

Charnock Block, post mortem:

http://imageshack.us/a/img820/8472/h4da.jpg
Photo by me

http://imageshack.us/a/img202/7325/5r9t.jpg
Photo by me

Laurel and Hardy, 1930
 

I just came across this screen capture from a Laurel and Hardy movie from 1930 and became intrigued about what and where the triangular building in the background might be. The sign on the roof appears to be "LIKE RENT" but that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.

http://imageshack.us/a/img9/2926/jfea.th.jpg

Russel Crowe - Gladiator/Colosseum set location
 

[QUOTE=Chuckaluck;6285301]Thanks Wig-Wag. I was mostly trying to emphasize the fact that when referring to the pictured storage tanks, some sources use the terms "gas" and "gasoline" interchangeably. I assumed this to be erroneous, but I began to wonder whether there may have been some (unknown-to-me) cross-purpose. Indeed, your last "stylish" link, suggests re-purposing as potential living quarters, which is not exactly what I had in mind. Did Russell Crowe actually film in a Roman Gasometer, or some 'ol gasometer off of Exposition Blvd? :koko:


Chuckaluck, I found your Russel Crow question intriguing, and since I could not recall seeing any Gasometers in LA since the late 1960's I went back on the net in search of an answer. Wikipedia came to the rescue again!

"In Malta, a replica of about one-third of Rome's Colosseum was built, to a height of 52 feet (15.8 meters), mostly from plaster and plywood (the other two-thirds and remaining height were added digitally).[24] The replica took several months to build and cost an estimated $1 million.[25] The reverse side of the complex supplied a rich assortment of Ancient Roman street furniture, colonnades, gates, statuary, and marketplaces for other filming requirements. The complex was serviced by tented "costume villages" that had changing rooms, storage, armorers, and other facilities.[22] The rest of the Colosseum was created in computer-generated imagery using set-design blueprints and textures referenced from live action, and rendered in three layers to provide lighting flexibility for compositing in Flame and Inferno."

Cheers,
Jack

Are they completely demolishing it? I thought they were going to incorporate the existing building into new larger one. Maybe just the facade?

They did a lot of filming, in the early days, in and around downtown Culver City. Seeing that it was a triangular building I was hoping I might immediately be able to identify it as the area still boasts many buildings from the era, but I don't recognize it.

In the lobby bar of the Culver Hotel they show L&H silent films on the wall, not infrequently including exterior shops of the hotel itself.

What a bummer! I knew there was an addition planned but I had no idea they were gonna do so much to the original building.

Guess it's just gonna become another piece of the "urban Disneyland" experience now being created around Skid Row. :(