A wonderful looking home.
http://imageshack.us/a/img201/9056/a...ellyoung50.jpg ebay http://imageshack.us/a/img41/1170/aa...k2portrait.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/home.htm below: 5070 Hollywood Blvd. today http://imageshack.us/a/img145/9056/a...ellyoung50.jpg google street view I've never seen a movie star pennant. http://imageshack.us/a/img526/3950/a...rak1penant.jpg http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/home.htm Mostly forgotten today, Clara Kimball Young was the most popular movie star in the United States in the 1910s and early 1920s. |
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labels/ebay 314-312 Los Angeles Street in 1892. http://imageshack.us/a/img89/1682/aa...tore1892lh.jpg ebay reverse http://imageshack.us/a/img141/7193/aamlevy2.jpg I love that they included ol' Joe (the horse). __ |
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And now at 312-314 N. Los Angeles Street, we have this fine establishment: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7393/capturezjg.jpg Google Street View The wonderful Immigration and Naturalization Service |
So much of the city's core has disappeared, been paved over, rearranged, re-purposed -- I don't know where I'm going with this, but sometimes I wonder if exposing Los Angeles' past is upsetting some natural balance we maintain with the ghosts of our history. Or maybe the icy cold wind I'm feeling is just icy cold wind...
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Hollywood and Highland 1929 & 1953
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P...825%2520PM.jpg reddawgcollectables -ebay If the dates are correct on the two pix, the lack of change is amazing. The palms at the Hotel Hollywood are a mite taller, but, other than that, there's not many differences. |
All valid comments, GW, Tovangar, and ER......
Now for the cherry on top: The very day after I was born.....:( And a day after HER birthday as well! Birthdays are milestones. Sometimes they are wonderful. Sometimes not. I suppose if nothing else we have kept Esther's spirit alive here. Quote:
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__ ....on a lighter note. A Burbank pastoral that will be 104 years old in seven days. http://imageshack.us/a/img405/3125/a...storalebay.jpg ebay Can one of you geography experts figure out the location by using the mountains in the distance? I tried and failed. :( __ |
Two 1898 photographs (albumin prints) newly listed on ebay.
http://imageshack.us/a/img534/1971/aabebaydec2012.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Two-5x8-inch...item337ec60a2a The seller doesn't say, but that's the Bradbury Building at far right. Los Angeles County Courthouse and environs http://imageshack.us/a/img145/8595/aabebaydec2012a.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Two-5x8-inch...item337ec60a2a __ |
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Burbank ~ 2012
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GSV.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psc300ddb8.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psd8d2063b.jpg Photo by Profit M and originally from Ethereal Thank you for the use. |
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Well, ER, 5070 Hollywood Blvd was actually the studio of commercial photographer Charles W Beam. The house in the picture is a mystery... it doesn't seem to match up with any of the houses listed on various websites as Kimball's home. Clara was listed in the 1920 census at the well-known Ramsey-Durfee house at 2425 S Western Ave (I thought we'd covered it here, but I can't find it; see Big Orange Landmarks. The house in the picture looks to me to be one even farther east in the West Adams district; she did once live at 1010 Magnolia--a now-missing block of that street, but I'm not sure the terrain would match up. Maybe it still stands somewhere.... |
mystery location (to me anyway)
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A snapshot from ebay.
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Anyone know where this was located? The date on the photo is 1929 (no other information).
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http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/1...vhillssign.jpgGoogleSV If there is still just one of these signs, it looks to me like it--or an update of it--is in the same spot it was in when the picture was taken. I've read that the current park was created at about that time, but you'd think there'd be more houses in the background. The ladies' clothes look earlier than the late '20s.... Below is an ad from the winter 1906-07 Sunset magazine. http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/4...lsadsunset.jpg |
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That's Beverly Gardens Park. 22 blocks long & one block house lot wide. Opened 1911. The sign looks like this now: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...21.03.2012.jpg wiki It runs along Santa Monica Blvd and shields the upscale residential part of BH from the commercial sector and the homes on the "flats", on the wrong side of the once-literal tracks. (I seem to recall that it was the homeowners north of Santa Monica Blvd that bought the land for the buffer-zone park & presented it to the city, but I can't find the reference right now.) P.S. The sign is in the slightly wider part of the park between Canon & Beverly. Everyone knows Beverly Garden's western end: http://neplains.com/ProductImages/pc...836-1AH392.jpg ebay Elizabeth Frazier Lloyd, Harold Lloyd's mother, raised the money to build the Electric Fountain in 1930 through the Beverly Hills Women's Club. |
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