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ethereal_reality

Jul 1, 2013 4:24 PM

NoirCityDame, here are two more slides from 1959 that were taken by the same person who took the 'Germain's' slide.

http://imageshack.us/a/img507/2951/fpiz.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img195/8743/ebe4.jpg
ebay
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ethereal_reality

Jul 1, 2013 4:30 PM

Clifton's policies
http://imageshack.us/a/img6/9258/73ks.jpg
ebay
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ethereal_reality

Jul 1, 2013 5:12 PM

I searched for 'van fleet' under the search option and nothing came up, so here goes..

The Van Fleet Apartments 230 S. Flower Street
http://imageshack.us/a/img841/3490/socw.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5019820

I am confused by the 'New Hotel' sign. Is it on top of the house or is it at the back of the Van Fleet?
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CityBoyDoug

Jul 1, 2013 5:44 PM

Van Fleet

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6183274)

ER...The Van Fleet apartments are seen briefly in the 35mm film from the 1940s. That "New Hotel" sign does seem oddly placed. See story below. Evidently a woman gassed herself in one of the apartments in the Van Fleet in 1912.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps17bf2c10.jpg
Internet Archive film ~ screen shot

More on the Van Fleet apartments. The Van Fleet, a three-story frame apartment house built in 1911 by Garrett & Bixby for citrus man Nelson Van Fleet. The 29 apartments were split between two- and three-room models, and it was in one of them on March 22, 1912, that Marie Higginson, 40-ish "and quite prepossessing," having failed to shoot herself in San Pedro last week, gassed herself in the kitchen. Her groans alerted Mrs. Francis Passmore across the hall. Found unconscious on a blanket on the kitchen floor with the oven door removed, Marie's purse revealed the gun and a copy of Walter Malone's poem "Opportunity"—a popular verse among self annihilators, for Joseph N. Vincent recently blew his brains out on Silverwood Hill with the last stanzas in his pocket.

ethereal_reality

Jul 1, 2013 5:54 PM

noirish places: 121 N. Flower Street
http://imageshack.us/a/img546/2117/qk5l.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=33798

This is the apartment house from which Baxter Shorter, an informant in the Mabel Monohan murder, was kidnapped at gunpoint
and never seen again.
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The Mabel Monohan murder
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1235
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GaylordWilshire

Jul 1, 2013 7:03 PM

:previous:

Interesting to see that old post, ER—I just fixed the broken links in it...

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-G...tershorter.jpg LAPL

Baxter Shorter

rcarlton

Jul 1, 2013 9:42 PM

1933 Griffith Park fire of Los Angeles

The recent tragic events in Arizona brought up this information about Griffith Park:

"The National Fire Protection Association website lists the last wildland fire to kill more firefighters as the 1933 Griffith Park fire of Los Angeles, which killed 29. The biggest loss of firefighters in U.S. history was 343, killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York.

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130701/NATION/307010035#ixzz2XpfZozfq"

http://lafire.com/famous_fires/1933-...e/fireo331.gifLAFIRE.COM
At first, it looked like a small brush fire. And there seemed
to be almost unlimited manpower available to put it out.
Both workers and foremen figured it would be batted out quickly.

http://lafire.com/famous_fires/1933-...e/fireo332.gifLAFIRE.COM

Suddenly, the wind shifted and the fire began to chase the workers.
Those who ran across the path of the advancing flames to the road
below generally found safety and help. Those who tried to run directly
away from the flames--downwind and uphill--were in many cases
less fortunate. This was the scene on the road between the Golf
Clubhouse and Girls' Camp.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050660.jpgLAPL
This panorama shows flame-scourged "death hill" where most of the victims of the Griffith Park fire met death in a raging inferno which caught up with them as they climbed for life up the slope shown in the right foreground. The men, workers on the county charities rolls, were laboring on roads high on the hills in background when a brush fire broke out in the park and they went down through the ravines to fight it. A breeze suddenly lashed the fire around the hill from the right and trapped the victims. The roaring flames spread at a speed of 35 or 40 miles per hour and the men, climbing up the steep hill were enveloped in flames and perished, some of them clutching at bushes and rocks, some of them trying to save fallen comrades. Others who ran sideways to the blaze escaped. When the fire was extinguished the bodies were carried from the hillside to a girls' camp at left. Twenty-six bodies have been recovered from the "No Man's Land" where the flames raged into Dam Canyon and Mineral Wells Canyon. Photo dated: October 7, 1933.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050659.jpgLAPL
Photo of the Griffith Park brush fire on October 3, 1933. View is looking up death canyon--safety on the left, death on the right. Photo dated: October 6, 1933.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ire&DMROTATE=0USC

Photograph of a view of Griffith Park after the fire, showing the Santa Monica Mountains, October 4, 1933. Two shallow rivers flow in the tree-spotted dust in the bottom right corner of the view. Cylindrical structures can be seen in the short, tree-covered mountains at center. The flat area of the nearby city can be seen in the right distance.

ethereal_reality

Jul 1, 2013 10:27 PM

:previous: rcarlton, I heard about this on the news and was hoping someone would look it up. -so sad.
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noircitydame (Post 6183153)

It's great to see that slide and in color! Germain's went in 625-627 S. Hill in 1937, opening May 24. It's the 2-story building we've seen before next to the Banker's Building. 1926 to 1934 it had housed Polly's Cheerio Tearoom upstairs; Joe Pirrone took it over for a nightspot after that but not for long. Downstairs was a National Shirt Shops & New York Hardware Co. store. Germains gave it a streamline moderne makeover when they moved in. They also had a retail shop in the Kerckhoff Building (since 1918).

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ltclothing.jpg
This one's been posted before - you can just see the "G" to the right.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ains-pre37.jpg Source: probably USC. Cropped from a larger photo I'd saved.

NCD, the Polly's Cheerio Tearoom sign has been added to the building by the time this photo was taken. (compare to your photo above)

http://imageshack.us/a/img546/9541/e6f1.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/20766/rec/1

it's the sign featured in their ad.
http://imageshack.us/a/img829/2012/yklz.jpg
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ethereal_reality

Jul 1, 2013 10:47 PM

...and I just found this May 1938 photograph showing the modernized facade of Germain's.

http://imageshack.us/a/img14/9156/q08o.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/24247/rec/2
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ethereal_reality

Jul 1, 2013 10:48 PM

oops! I just realized I cropped off Germain's rooftop lettering. This is a better view.

http://imageshack.us/a/img21/6816/l9c6.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/24247/rec/2
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kznyc2k

Jul 2, 2013 12:41 AM

Flyingwedge

Jul 2, 2013 12:51 AM

Now -- and then -- in color!

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 6078085)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8039/7...91dbc2ae_o.jpg
The 600 block of North Spring Street, looking south to Sunset Boulevard, circa the 1940s. The Vera Cruz Cafe and the Bamba Club are on the left.

Don't see any evidence of Slim Dundee nor his peripatetic wife Anna today, but there's the backside of the Sentous next door to the club with the Hotel Atlantic next to it and the Hotel Pacific down on the corner at Sunset.

LAPL

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8452/8...1664c56c_o.jpg
North Spring Street Hotel entrance, 1948

Man waiting at hotel entrance. Double-sided sign above door reads "N. Spring Hotel" on one side, and "Spring Hotel" on the other, the "N" having worn away. This is the hotel entrance on N. Spring Street side to the second floor of the Sentous Building. Note the sign above his head which says (PRINT)ING and then compare it to the sign in the pic above (right above the two jaywalking guys) which is the same 'PRINTING' sign. Doubly interesting to consider, Pio Pico himself likely passed through this very door, used those very stairs in the background.

LAPL

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8031/7...3e265397_o.jpg
View of the 600 block of North Spring Street, looking south to Sunset Boulevard, circa the 1940s. Hotel Atlantic is on the left, and the Pico House is in the background.

Here is a slice of the Sentous on the left with the hotels Atlantic (and the El Patio Club) and Pacific (and the Café Puma) then across Sunset the Pico House and a corner of the church property.

LAPL

Looking at the North Spring St. side of the Sentous Block, with The Sepulveda behind and to the left on North Main St., July 15, 1957:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8974ffb3.jpg
Huntington Digital Library -- http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c...id/6197/rec/12

Here's The Sepulveda on April 20, 1957:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psd3ebadd0.jpg
Huntington Digital Library -- http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c.../id/6198/rec/7

Back to North Spring Street on July 15, 1957 -- Sentous Block, Hotel Atlantic, Hotel Pacific . . . and a red-and-white 1957 DeSoto (check out those curb feelers!):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps96efbeae.jpg
Huntington Digital Library -- http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c...id/6207/rec/13

North Main Street view of Sentous Block demolition, December 1, 1957:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3c547c6b.jpg
Huntington Digital Library -- http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c...id/6159/rec/19

As we've already seen here, the Sentous Block, Hotel Atlantic and Hotel Pacific are gone, but The Sepulveda is still standing:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psf796f11f.jpg
GSV August 2012

tovangar2

Jul 2, 2013 1:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kznyc2k (Post 6183758)

Laws were broken and one camera battery was drained in order to bring you this overabundance of pictures.

Thank you so much. All your hard work on our behalf is greatly appreciated (the lawlessness too!).

ethereal_reality

Jul 2, 2013 1:39 AM

kznyc2k, excellent exploration! Thank you for all your hard work.
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ethereal_reality

Jul 2, 2013 1:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 6183772)

Here's The Sepulveda on April 20, 1957:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psd3ebadd0.jpg
Huntington Digital Library -- http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c.../id/6198/rec/7

My jaw dropped when I saw the color photographs Flyingwedge. What a stunning find. I had no idea they even existed!
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tovangar2

Jul 2, 2013 2:27 AM

Nathan Masters has a short update on the San Pedro Street palms (including a shout-out to noirish Los Angeles):

http://nathanmasters.me/2013/07/01/t...ree-continues/

dragonsky

Jul 2, 2013 2:52 AM