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As a reminder; here is the San Gabriel Mission in the early 1870s. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/luN5MA.jpg homestead museum It looks very 'bunker-ish'. I see there is some sort of balcony with an wrought iron(?) railing. There may be steps going up to it. Recognize any of those plants odinthor? __ Here's a second photograph taken around 1875. The picket fence is gone....replaced by railroad tracks. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/nSY9Cy.jpg homestead museum And a much more substantial fence has been built closer to the mission. __ A bit more information on the 2nd photo. This is a later photo from Henry T. Payne and can be dated to about 1875 because of the presence of the newly laid tracks of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which made its way through the San Gabriel Valley in early 1874. As these tracks are currently being lowered in a major Alameda Corridor East project, archaeological work has discovered a great deal of material from the native peoples, mission period, and later. Note the improved fence at the front of the church at the right and the planter boxes used for recently planted pepper trees. |
Speaking of 'bunker-ish'.
At first glance I thought this was a power substation. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/XvZ9pS.jpg old file / found on EBAY postmarked 1930 ______________ search purposes: Maryknoll Los Angeles |
Religious sects 'sermonizing' in Pershing Square, Los Angeles 1961.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/b6eGh5.jpg EBAY https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Dzifsm.jpg EBAY https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/YNaDPq.jpg EBAY . |
Pershing Square, Los Angeles 1961. (normal people)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/921/gryJQw.jpg Ebay I'd really like to have that guy's blue shirt. . |
mystery photograph.
"Los Angeles area, 1956" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dFIw0G.jpg old file / possibly from ebay |
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I have no idea why this photo was taken but it's just perfect. I am quite sure that whoever took it had absolutely no idea that 60+years later, dozens of people would be remotely viewing it from the comfort of their own homes or on their portable devices. |
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Great Wall Restaurant
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The Great Wall Restaurant was pretty popular in its day. Take a peek at its menu. http://greatwallwc.blogspot.com/ This restaurant was at 232 Glendora Ave, West Covina, according to its menu https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7898/...fa7806f1_c.jpg GreatWallMenu by Kimberly, on Flickr The sign on the building sure looks like a match. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7872/...6c6dcee1_c.jpg GreatWallBuilding by Kimberly, on Flickr Sadly, the building burned down in 2013. Nothing is there now except for an empty lot full of weeds. https://www.sgvtribune.com/2013/12/1...on-in-damages/ https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7880/...ecdd04be_c.jpg 232 Glendora, West Covina by Kimberly, on Flickr |
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The Great Wall Restaurant building got bigger over the years. Here's how it looked in 1965. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...atWall1965.jpg greatwallwc.blogspot.com It still looked pretty much the same in the 2007/2008 GSV images from across the street. After that, the lights and signage were stripped in the years before the fire. I also found the video below showing firefighters tackling the blaze. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/6QMc1qbc/San-Gab-Mis.jpg postcard, odinthor collection; also at "A Visit to Old Los Angeles, Episode 20" http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal16.html And here's the staircase: https://i.postimg.cc/85FRKH6k/San-Gab-Mis2.jpg same source as above If I'm not mistaken, originally for a short time there was a belltower at the front end of the mission church which was taken down either because of an earthquake or because they thought it would come down in an earthquake; and so they built the familiar wall of bells adjoining the southwest corner of the church instead. (It's worth noting that Mission San Juan Capistrano, when its big church with its belltower came down in the earthquake, also built a wall of bells rather than a new belltower.) I find two things particularly interesting about Mission San Gabriel: Early on, the "main" side of the church seems to have been considered to be the long south wall (with the staircase) rather than what is normally considered the "important" side of a church or any building, the front end (probably because the main road went along that side; the precinct for the Indian huts was also there on the south side of the church); and I have a notion that the architect of the "new" (present) L.A. Plaza church had the church of Mission San Gabriel at least vaguely in mind when he planned it . . . making the fact that the Plaza church seems never to have had a big door on its south wall (as the chruch at San Gabriel has) all the more interesting (a fact which comes into play in discussions about where the original cemetery was; "on the north side of the church" say I . . . just as with Mission San Gabriel . . . ). But I digress. |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4885/...a9b6eda4_b.jpg_9190050.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr The staircase on the outside of the south side of the chapel leads to what looks to be now used as a broadcast booth and/or organ. Here's a pic that looks to the back of the chapel: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4863/...e8ce388d_b.jpg_9190010.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr The Mission cemetery is in the courtyard north of the chapel and this is also true at Mission San Fernando(the Garden of Hope(you'll never guess who's buried there) is just outside of the north door of the chapel there). |
Bob Hope?
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Photos, of course.... https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4851/...1b934c80_b.jpg_4170083.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4882/...baf374f7_b.jpg_4170079.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr |
Lucky guess
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7857/...082138cf_b.jpg_C020017.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr and here's Serra Chapel built in 1776(or there abouts) and considered the oldest European structure in California: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4869/...a2f46147_b.jpg_C020110.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr |
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Wonderful! Thanks, BillinGlendaleCA! I go photo-wild when I'm at Mission SJC. If y'all will forgive me for overdoing it as usual, let's take a walk through the mission grounds (all are odinthor collection): https://i.postimg.cc/0QjYXJQf/SJC572.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/mkcSkFWD/SJC573.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/ydGFMY3z/SJC574.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gj6vmF3L/SJC575.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/sgt1CQwm/SJC576.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/j2PYN2zx/SJC577.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/YCpBGpj7/SJC578.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/q7zYygTP/SJC579.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/2yfXswZY/SJC581.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XqcD4CfC/SJC583.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/VLmV4KwB/SJC586.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W1fYNjkX/SanJC1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/dQmW7GC7/SanJC2.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/j2mCqDRR/SanJC4.jpg |
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