1,100ft Korean Air tower to replace Statler/Wilshire Grand
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LA Floods
Ah, the LA of my childhood: floods, floods and more floods...
24 March 1948: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q...704%2520PM.jpg http://framework.latimes.com/2013/02...phibious-taxi/ ...and smog. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-m...305%2520PM.jpg http://foreignpolicyblogs.com |
Circa 1925: Los Angeles motorcycle police stand at attention for inspection by Chief R. Lee Heath:
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Goat glands, ethics, usury, and the end of Dr. Wheeler
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LAT I never found out how Dr. Wheeler got the goat glands inside the body "without a knife," as one ad put it. (Not sure I want to know.) Looks like he dodged a few ethical bullets, but, in the end, not one from his own gun.... PS A little history: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/29/turner.php |
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http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f9...overarroyo.jpg The riveted steel tube is 30" in diameter and sits on concrete piers at this location to allow a small arroyo to run its course. Behind the tube sitting on the same piers is the concrete channel that on the outside measures 90" across the base and is 70" tall. The of top of channel is open and the sides are a minimum of 8" thick. Drive your google mobile here to see the location. http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f9...oyoGmobile.jpg In the center of the scene is a bluff covered in grass that the canal is buried in. To the right is a tangle of brush that hides this exposed section. On the far left Stadium Way climbs toward Elysian Park and on the hill above that you can see that distinctive tree from my earlier post. Two maps that were invaluable in this quest were authored by Compton, Dockweiler & Lownes in 1896-7 and are available online at Huntington Digital Archives. Sheet 1 covers from Buena Vista Reservoir north to about Los Feliz. Sheet 2 continues north from Los Feliz to the valley. |
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:previous: -excellent exploration of the abandoned Elysian Park canal procab! I'm envious. :)
__ Two 'mystery' photographs. I found these intriguing photographs on ebay quite some time ago. The only information given was 'Alhambra CA' -no date-no explanation- photo #1 http://imageshack.us/a/img152/1075/a...tricallysh.jpg The gentlemen's clothing date the photos to the late 1940s or 1950s. photo #2 http://imageshack.us/a/img818/3155/a...eo1mystery.jpg Yet the building(s) seems much more contemporary. My first thought was religious sect, perhaps something akin to an early version of the Heaven's Gate cult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven'...eligious_group) A bit far-fetched I know...but I'm known for my vivid imagination. __ Oh..and before I forget, great research on the 'gland' doctor C.E. Wheeler GaylordWilshire and BifRayRock. Riveting stuff. http://imageshack.us/a/img33/7401/aabglanddoctor.jpg __ |
Thanks for the update on the water channel/ pipe, procab. Nice work!
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I guess you could say the whole concept has a cult feel to it! It certainly is noirish. Cheers, Jack |
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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6007830]:previous: -excellent exploration of the abandoned Elysian Park canal procab! I'm envious. :)
__ Two 'mystery' photographs. I found these intriguing photographs on ebay quite some time ago. The only information given was 'Alhambra CA' -no date-no explanation- photo #1 http://imageshack.us/a/img152/1075/a...tricallysh.jpg The gentlemen's clothing date the photos to the late 1940s or 1950s. photo #2 http://imageshack.us/a/img818/3155/a...eo1mystery.jpg Yet the building(s) seems much more contemporary. My first thought was religious sect, perhaps something akin to an early version of the Heaven's Gate cult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven'...eligious_group) A bit far-fetched I know...but I'm known for my vivid imagination. __ This note was found by someone on ebay, along with the top photo. Date of the note is 1935 http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/1...b5ea6f0a8z.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3014/2...0a8_z.jpg?zz=1 |
1949 - Temple Street and Virgil Avenue (Goat Gland transplant may help chronic gout and arthritis sufferers, but no proof of long term spelling improvements or ability to read upside down.)
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Circa 1890 - USC College of Medicine. Cutting edge of Medical Science on North Broadway.
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Not a bad looking building.....Over 80% of the respondents to the poll in the Times' story rate it positive.
At least it avoids the ghastly bloated effect of the Ritz/Marriott at LA Live, which looks like how I feel after one too many bean and cheese burritos. As to Roger Vincent, who used to be a competent real restate reporter - I don't understand how an announcement of a major Downtown hotel becomes a rambling treatise about South Korea's geo-political standing and its economic affairs. (And not that I have anything against the pop artist, but Vincent somehow shoehorns a mention of Psy into the story.....:slob: ) Is all that worthy of a paragraph or two? Sure. Two-thirds of the entire story? A bit much. (My 3 favorites below are: Sanwa, with the turquoise crown, the white 777 Tower, south of the Statler, and Library Tower. I don't need to point out the Statler to this crowd......LOL) http://www.davidkean.com/ritz-carlto...ndominiums.jpg Quote:
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LAWC canal turns into the tunnel to Buena Vista Reservoir
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