Today, if you go south on Union Avenue and cross Hoover, you're on 24th Street. In 1894, you'd be on Forrester, then Vine:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original

1894 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL

Henderson Motorcycle Cops
 

There is a 1932 movie Officer 13 on You Tube that has two motor cops on Henderson. The Henderson's have a unique sound to them. The movie has some good footage of early L.A..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ao9VB4rlk

2209 Ocean Front Walk, Venice
 

This looks south from South Venice Blvd. on November 5, 1929, at The Shore, 2209 Ocean Front Walk.
The L. A. County Assessor says it was built in 1910/1920:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...p.jpg~original

486575 @ Huntington Digital Library


October 2015:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original

GSV

Thank you for finding that FW.

What a wealth of small streets we've lost. I now have Fan Palm Avenue to regret.

No great mystery with this one - the photographer was on E Commercial Street. The view below is also from 1964.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
Historic Aerials

Structures built on the site of the Taix Restaurant and gas station since 1964 prevent a view of City Hall from that location today.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
Google Maps

https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1696/2...13008ae4_o.jpgFrank McGuire tops out the Federal Courthouse, 1938


Frank McGuire, member of the crew installing elevators in the new Federal Courthouse, takes time to pose in front of the nearby City Hall tower in the favorite manner of structural steelworkers the world over.

:previous: I never thought we'd know the man's name!

Thanks MR.

It's what we do, right e-r?

Yep. :)

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'mystery' location

"View of Montgomery Ward store in California."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/f3o2g7.jpgebay

Saturday, October 3, 1941 Los Angeles

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larger view
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/0dd3oG.jpg

It appears to be a pretty impressive building. I hope it's still standeing.

I've got a mystery Julius Shulman location today, and there's only one picture to go on. It's "Job 109: Carl Maston, Apartments, 1947".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

Getty Research Institute

Does anyone recognize the apartments? They may not be in Los Angeles.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/RY8J1V.jpgebay

Thanks Hoss. Any clues about the other three?
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/cxJJie.jpg
http://ellenbloom.blogspot.com/2017/...r-at-taix.html


As most of you know, we've seen TAIX numerous times over the years on NLA.

Here's a quick rehash for newcomers.

Here's a view from 1954.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/DHesdL.jpg
lapl

Here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5084



And from the opposite side in 1964(?)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/iKgUDe.jpg
lapl

FredH
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5089

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TAIX is still in business at 1911 Sunset Boulevard.


It's located in the former Botwin's building.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/YWV7Ab.jpg
ebway



Here's an even earlier ad for Botwin's. (I love this so much I just had to post it again. :))

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/gayTCH.jpg

And here's the other half of the ad that shows the Lindbergh Beacon atop Los Angeles City Hall.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6981

Okay, I'll give it a rest. Thanks for listening folks. :)

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That looks very like the Montgomery Ward building in Fort Worth, TX. At least the airship is the USS Los Angeles! The picture is dated by the source as 1928.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...omeryWard1.jpg
blog.airshipventures.com

The building still stands, by the original entrance has been removed during remodeling. In fact, only the top two stories survive in the center section. Here's a close-up from the 1949 flood. Was there a sister building in LA?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...omeryWard2.jpg
Pinterest

Not to be picky, just accurate:

https://cdn.rocketcalendar.com/preview/1941-10.png

The First United Methodist Church can still be found at 134 N Kenwood Street, Glendale. As the exterior still looks quite similar to the Shulman photos (I think the pools have gone), I thought I'd post an aerial "now" shot.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
Google Maps[/QUOTE]

The older building behind the single story one was their education building. I had a friend in the mid-60's who attended that church and their Youth Group, which I believe, met on Wednesday nights, would meet on the top floor of that building. They called their meeting and group "The Fifth Floor"

A LAT article gives a little more history (although the Taix family claims Marius came to Los Angeles "around 1870"):

"When Marius Taix, a baker from the Hautes Alpes of France, arrived in 1882, he bought a small lot on Commercial Street for $10,000, opened Taix French Bread Bakery and began catering to the 4,000 French who by then lived in the area.

The building survived until 1913, when it was torn down. Taix built the Champ d'Or Hotel on the site, and leased a restaurant on the first floor to a tenant.

"In 1927--at the height of Prohibition--federal agents and Taix's pharmacist son confronted the restaurant's operator for selling alcohol on the property. The angry restaurateur tossed the young Taix the keys and told him to "do it yourself."

The Taix French Restaurant was born.

In celebrating its opening, the same federal agents toasted the son's new profession with wine that he had purchased for "medicinal purposes."

The restaurant served its last specialite de la maison at that location in 1964, when the city paid $412,000 for the property that eventually became the Metropolitan Detention Center. Ten adjacent buildings also were demolished, two of which dated to the 1880s."


The same article notes:

"It all came together in the 1830s, when immigrant Jean Louis Vignes--forced to leave France because of his philandering and politics--arrived in Los Angeles from Bordeaux. He brought with him the grapevine cuttings that he used to establish a 100-acre vineyard called El Aliso, just south of what is now Union Station."

"Philandering and politics"? I wish I knew more.


And would you look at that, a Jeepster:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Rs...A=w714-h458-no
hemmings

Basque restaurants operate on the same system. If you are ever in sheepherding country, look for places named the "Star Hotel." Chances are it'll be a Basque operation. And good :-)

Cheers,

Earl

Yes Earl the food was good. TAIX also had the atmosphere of socialism and revolutionaries. I got the feeling that anarchists met there for meetings....;):cool:

Italian-Americans
 

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"Contessa Entellina Society in Los Angeles California, likely Griffith Park, 1925."


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/xza01y.jpg
http://leobuscaglia.org/2015-report-...ontributors-3/

The Italian American Museum isn't 100% sure this is Griffith Park.
I thought one of you fine sleuths might recognize this picnic shelter. (it doesn't look familiar to me)


Griffith Park caption from here:
https://www.google.com/culturalinsti...bqL0jlFw?hl=en

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:previous: Thanks for the heads-up Martin.

I realize everyone is pretty much over my diving bell fixation

...but here's the color view that Martin mentioned.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/2FG2Bi.jpg
screen-grab




And may I add....

This snapshot ;)


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/MhCvfd.jpg
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/479703797782916783/

This is supposedly 'Playland' in San Francisco but I'm not so sure.

As you can see it was a much smaller diving bell. (and it appears to have been located in the swimming area!?)


OK, I'm done.
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