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As an update on the old LA Times plot here is what it looked like this afternoon:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3883/...5c0739e5_b.jpgView from City Hall July 18th 2014 by Hunter DTLA, on Flickr Compared to June 26th https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3840/...e98d95a7_b.jpgDowntown Skyline by Hunter DTLA, on Flickr And my album from within the construction site on June 29th https://www.flickr.com/photos/hunter...7645383103896/ |
:previous: Thanks for the update DTLAdenizen. -much appreciated.
__ I've been trying to find out if this Christian Science reading room still stands. I find the odd shaped entrance quite interesting. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/ed6d61.jpg side-note: Why does the Second Church of Christ Scientist in the background appear to be half-drawn? Was it shrouded in smog and they were trying to sketch it in? -after saving this view, I think I need to go back and aim further to the right. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/745/9c8b2f.jpg GSV By coincidence, the reading room is/was located between the great domed church and Casa De Rosas which HossC revisited a couple of days ago here. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=22573 __ |
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batteries in a leather pouch.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/63870d.jpgebay Culver City police, 1932. __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tOfLiving2.jpg GSV This view from across the street is the closest I could get to the original image. It was taken about five years earlier, and I noticed a different sign above the window which was too blurry to make out. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tOfLiving1.jpg GSV That meant that I had to curse and switch to the new Google Maps again to use the historic Street View function. There was a "For Sale" sign outside in February 2009, and the sign over the window looks very like the "Christian Science Reading Room" sign from e_r's picture. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tOfLiving3.jpg GSV The view from the old Christian Science Reading Room isn't bad either. These houses, which GW posted in 2010, are directly across the street. The full post can be found here. Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...verHouses5.jpg LAPL And a front view of the Cockins house circa 1966. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...verHouses3.jpg California State Library |
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The photo is taken about one block east of Hollywood and Vine, looking west. You can, of course, pick out the noted building marquees of the Taft and the Broadway Dept. Store (separated by Vine Street) on the left and a slice of the American Airlines sign on the right with the Security Pacific sign on the rooftop seeming to be just above that, but is actually several blocks down at Cahuenga. Underneath the traffic light, the white building/billboard is all the way down at La Brea! Quote:
http://www.wehoville.com/wp-content/...not1way_RO.jpg This article about them, from 2012, says they were installed in 2010, but I could've sworn they were here earlier than that. http://www.wehoville.com/2012/11/17/...d-around-weho/ A list of them: http://www.weho.org/home/showdocument?id=5542 City Info: http://www.weho.org/residents/arts-a.../rebecca-lowry |
Does anyone know where the Los Angeles Municipal Dump was located in 1936?
I'm asking because of this interesting photograph I found in an old file of mine. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/536/072566.jpg old file/ above: In this 1936 view we're looking out through the municipal dump gate towards a busy street. (possibly Washington Blvd?) Here's a closer look at the attractive building across the street from the dump. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/743/8a073d.jpg I'd like to know if that building still stands. (I can make out "motors truck co." but nothing else) ------------ edit: I just found this photograph looking towards the dump. (but USC didn't include the location or year) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/fcb1ba.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/4837/rec/1 -note the curve in the road. -here's a good look at the sign. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/402c7e.jpg ___ |
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The first picture is definitely East Washington Boulevard because it shows the General Motors Truck Co at 1850 East Washington Boulevard. The picture below was taken in 1931, but it's the same building. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...cipalDump1.jpg USC Digital Library The image above is part of a four-picture photoset looking each way at the intersection of East Washington and S Alameda. The truck in the image below is roughly where the dump entrance would be a few years later. The sign is for the Blue Diamond Corp which is listed at 1650 S Alameda (a couple of blocks north) in the 1932 CD. They were in the building materials and supplies business, so it's possible this was their yard just south of their office. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...cipalDump2.jpg Detail of picture at USC Digital Library This picture is from 1961, but shows the curved street in the second of e_r's pictures. East Washington Boulevard is the short street nearly halfway down the left hand side. It crosses Alameda and then sharply curves around the dump. East Washington Boulevard now continues straight across the old dump site. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...cipalDump3.jpg Detail of picture at USC Digital Library |
:previous: Excellent informationHossC! I love that aerial....now I understand the lay-out of the area.
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I don't believe we've seen Koster and Barlow's Imperial Cafe on NLA.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...674/29d862.jpgebay It was a looooong restaurant!. Enter on Spring St. and exit on Broadway...or vice versa. :) __ |
While we're talking about the dump and the curved road, it seemed like an appropriate time to post this. The description says "Car of drunk driver which missed curve on Washington Boulevard east of Alameda and crashed into city dump." It's dated 1951.
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:previous: He must have been three sheets. (OK, I just looked at the aerial again. The curve was pretty sharp)
While I was searching for the municipal dump I came across this photograph from 1960. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/9957a0.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=64292 View of the ravine behind Lincoln High School which the city plans to use as a dump. School Principal says "more space for an athletic facility is needed rather than a dump which would eliminate our cross-country course (white arrows)." Does anyone know...did the city go head with their plan? __ |
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I tried to duplicate the view with Google Earth. It's no guarantee that the ravine wasn't used as a dump, but the profile of the ravine sides looks the same to me. I can't see any sign of the cross-country course, so I guess the school now uses a different route. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...HighRavine.jpg Google Earth |
:previous: HossC, the ravine's dimensions look about the same as the 1960 photograph (except for the trees obviously).
I'd say the city decided against a dump at this site that was so close to a public school. Here's another image I stumbled across at LAPL while searching for the municipal dump. Andy Gump's Dump.(that's him on the sign) first posted by rcarlton back in 2012. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/2aa63a.jpg I thought it wouldn't hurt to see it again. :) -obviously the owner named his cafe after the highly successful comic strip...created in 1917. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/ad73dc.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gumps http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/e3d7f4.jpg kenlevine.blog After 50 animated shorts (1920-21) distributed by Paramount, Andy Gump and his family starred in two-reel comedies (1923 to 1928) produced by Universal Pictures. Here's actors Fay Tincher (as Min), Joe Murphy (as Andy Gump) and Jackie Morgan (as Chester). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/3bd450.jpg http://www.younghollywoodhof.com/jackiemorganmuseum.htm Fay Tincher somewhat resembles Mary Astor in this photograph. __ |
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