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We must have posted this link to the last Red Car run to Long Beach before but I thought in honor of all the talk of Red Cars, Yellow Cars, and this weekend, the Railroad Days at Fullerton Train Depot, I'd share this link again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&fe...&v=ebboO52In1w
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S Car on San Pedro
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6115408]These slides were listed on ebay this afternoon.
http://imageshack.us/a/img822/2346/aabtransiteb1.jpg I guess he's brushing the dust off. I believe this was taken on San Pedro Street in Los Angeles between 27th and 28th Street in front of Gene's Distribution Company. The S Car used to travel on San Pedro Street. http://imageshack.us/a/img14/4964/img9028wi.jpg from Google Street View |
:previous: Thanks bighen. That the building on the right hasn't changed one iota.
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As for your question; I haven't seen any slides of the Covina area. -sorry. __ |
One Last Look at What's Left of the Sunset Hotel
bighen posted an old photo of some construction men at work on Ord, and in the background was the Sunset Hotel. Photo comparison of the position of the visible windows and doorway on the south side of the building strongly suggest that at least the ground floor survives today, its brick facade covered with stucco and plaster, as MichaelReyerson surmised.
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1999/img0649oc.jpg usc digital archive http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7169/img0650yl.jpg gsv Here's a closer look at those very windows and doorway...not much to see, because the windows have those 1950's-early 60's glass louvers on them (and they were dirty, too), and the doorway was secured with rusty wrought iron. The door itself was wood, old and in bad shape, but not obviously vintage. http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/4587/img2091aw.jpg http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7586/img2087ar.jpg my photo A close look at the 100+ year old exposed brickwork (and fairly recent cigarette butts): http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/6224/img2086a.jpg my photo A view of the front face of the building, standing on Spring facing SW. Notice that the building has been divided lengthwise, with two distinct facades utilizing different materials. The herbal shop on the Ord St. side recently closed; the store empty. I could not get my camera close enough to take a few pics of what was inside, but I could see some fairly thick weight bearing square columns inside, and what appeared to be an original interior wall that had an opening cut into it to create more floor space (in the front view, the wall ran between the second and third sections of the left half of the building, and the opening in the wall created open space (the "third" section seen from the front)). Also, notice the gate visible on the extreme right.... http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4264/img2079ah.jpg my photo Here is a view from the north side of the building. The building is separated from its neighbor by the fence. What is interesting here is the phantom window located higher up on the wall, indicated by the arrow. http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1493/img2081a.jpg my photo Now this was the most intriguing detail: in the space between the north side of the building and the surrounding fence, there was a gate to some stairs leading down to the basement. The best I could do was to stick my camera thru the gate and here's what that looked like: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/962/img2080ae.jpg my photo Who knows what goodies from the Sunset might still be surviving down there? One can only wonder...! |
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Anyway, nothing about Los Angeles here, just a little unexpected trip down Memory Lane for Yours Truly. ^-^ |
Aerial fidgeting foto of the Big Sky Drive In. 1044 Huntington Drive, Monrovia.
January 4, 1960. (Looking north. Huntington Drive runs crosswise toward top of image.) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00096/00096529.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00096/00096529.jpg |
The drive in is now the Mountain Vista Plaza shopping center, with a Target, on the northern portion, and a Best Buy and Ford dealer in the southern portion.
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Very cool! And, there in the upper left corner is one of the Oak Park Motel buildings. (And the Nite-Lite bar, just to the right of it). You can even see the shadow of the oak, which is just out of view past the left edge. Also, it appears the Kinney Shoes building is under construction right by the drive-in's entrance on Huntington Drive. So, if this aerial was taken in Jan. 1960, then the color slide had to've been taken in the early 1960s, after all, not the '50s. Thanks Chuckaluck! |
Long Beach Hilton, featuring the "Sky Room." Currently known as the Breakers and used as retiree housing.
According to Wiki, the Skyroom was equipped with gun emplacements during WW2, remnants of which remained until 1991. This was probably not part of MR's Shell Map. ;) http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=8551 Circa 1946 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UNSU8HQBTL.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...kers_Hotel.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...kers_Hotel.jpg |
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Hard to beat gsjansen's city hall images :previous: I think the following compilation is also in the running! Only wish they were even larger format. (Can't recall seeing these posted before, :shrug: sorry if they were.) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IMKNNLAUQC.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IMKNNLAUQC.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...TJGND782DG.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...TJGND782DG.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...3BVU3LSY3H.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...3BVU3LSY3H.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...6J4HVHL5KH.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...6J4HVHL5KH.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...H245VP2RL9.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...H245VP2RL9.jpg |
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Maybe from the same camera or film roll, but these two images are not prints from the same negative. Aside from obvious atmospheric condition below*, cars and shadows are in slightly different positions. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics27/00033402.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics27/00033402.jpg * (Is this an offshore flow or an example of the infamous Santa Ana Wind conditions? :blink:) |
Godzilla, Great series of photos! What prompted this series? I especially love the Sunkist building et all.
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In the old days back before the microchip and the microprocessor, photographers, even really good ones, would regularly vary their f stops, shutter speeds and even perhaps reach out with a free hand and shelter the lens from the sun, and snap off several exposures of essentially the same image knowing it would be too late to discover in the dark room that they'd 'guessed' wrong. My guess that's what's going on here, two images probably in a series of images. The first one, the one being offered on ebay is really nice. North Hill Street looking south in the early-mid fifties. |
Third and Main, east side
The southeast corner of Main and Third -- or Mayo, as Third Street east of Main was known prior to about 1894 -- was the home of Cameron E. Thom, Mayor of Los Angeles from 1882-84. This photo is from c. 1886 and looks east across Main Street:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psc630a5bb.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/6021/rec/4 Around 1888 he built the Thom Block in his front yard (The Thom Block is on the 1888 Sanborn Map). This photo looking southeast is dated c. 1887 (I'd put it a few years later than that); the Thom Block is on the northwest side of the round Panorama Building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps52f0295a.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/3456/rec/6 The Thom Block/Hotel Florence c. 1900-05 (the 1910 Baist Map calls it the Hotel Milan): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps57953fa7.jpg USC Digital Library - http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/6027/rec/7 A closeup: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1cd9ec3f.jpg The Thom Block lasted through at least the mid-1950s -- it's on aerial photos from that era -- but I couldn't find any later closeups or when it was razed. Across the street on the northeast corner was the Hotel Gray (1896), shown here in c. 1905: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psc15b4601.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/6028/rec/83 A closeup: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pseb3fc19a.jpg The Hotel Gray is on the 1921 Baist Map: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psddaae6b4.jpg Historic Mapworks -- http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/19408/Plate+002/ But it's not on this 1931 Heart of Los Angeles map, apparently a victim of the jog in 3rd street being straightened out: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8ee8a1c1.jpg LAPL -- http://www.lapl.org/sites/default/fi...ps/map0002.jpg |
Circa 1946
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UNSU8HQBTL.jpg Thank you so much for posting this photo Godzilla. My parents were married in Long Beach on July 14, 1944. They had their small wedding reception and two day honeymoon at the Hilton before my dad shipped out to the South Pacific. It's wonderful to see a photo from that era. Mom and Dad. Taken at a photo a photo studio just off the lobby of the Hilton. http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9052/momdadwedding.jpg Personal Photo ~Jon Paul |
A Sentimental Journey......
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