For some reason this put me in mind of something
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085753.jpg And then I remembered! http://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk...y-Blk-Rock.jpg http://bagdcontext.myblog.arts.ac.uk...k-rock-cinema/ |
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EDIT: Wanted to add that it turned out (to me) they were right all along. Of course it took a couple of years to sink in but they'd seen the Depression and served, in one way or another, in WWII so their tribal instincts were entirely right. My father for many years worked two jobs and was happy to have them. In my whole life I can only remember my father staying home from work one day, just one day in all those years. Those people I worked with at Lockheed knew something about the way the world worked that I didn't. Of course that's the problem with youth, they don't know nuthin. |
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BD@BR - shot in Burbank rather than Lone Pine?:hmmm: Lockheed gas pumps, ca. 1941 (by A. Adams) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085667.jpg lapl http://i34.tinypic.com/cuf75.jpgGoogle ________________________ Per some of the Forum contributors, Burbank or Lockheed Airport experienced labor discontent. (It probably had nothing to do with the ample parking facilities?) t'hee June 1955, machinists picket Flying Tiger facility. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00082/00082427.jpglapl Lockheed employee parking, 1940. Another Ansel Adams photo. Given rapid expansion of work force at that time, it is probably no surprise that available parking had room for improvement. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085668.jpglapl Bank of America at or near Lockheed plant, experiencing growing "pains." Friday -Feb. 6, 1942 (Pay day, or just weekend spending money for a visit to less-crowded Monkey Island?) http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics22/00030752.jpglapl June 22, 1943, transit strike induces Lockheed to "truck" its employees to work. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics49/00044047.jpg lapl |
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http://wesclark.com/burbank/lockheed_handbook/002.jpg http://wesclark.com/burbank/lockheed_handbook/004.jpg http://wesclark.com/burbank/lockheed_handbook/010.jpg http://wesclark.com/burbank/lockheed_handbook/020.jpg Entire handbook here: http://wesclark.com/burbank/lockheed_handbook/page1.htm http://wesclark.com/burbank/airport_feb_9_1951.jpg http://wesclark.com/burbank/hughes_bros.jpg http://wesclark.com/burbank/l1011.jpg |
Friday Mystery Photo
This lovely overhead shot of...what? Is completely and utterly mislabeled in the USC digital archive. Their caption information is as follows...
"Aerial view, Downtown Los Angeles, Civic Center, City Hall, Los Angeles County Court House, Criminal Courts Building, Spring Street, First Street, Broadway, US-101, 1959" http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/7...132a9977_o.jpg aerial mystery photo, A few clues present themselves, the streetlights, Wilshire Specials? Surely not Westwood Specials. No, I guess Wilshire Specials. The parked automobiles, two of which seems blocky and likely early/mid-thirties but the little coupe at the top seems more streamlined, maybe '38ish? The car and pick-up truck(?) behind the cake shop early thirties, too. The cake store sign eludes me, two words, someone's name? An unfenced pond near a public sidewalk? A house in the trees near the pond? A golf course maybe? Two pedestrians? Mother and child? Surely another picture of that cake store exists. |
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Remarkable there was no fence even at this late date. You'd think the bones would have tipped em off.
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Here's an aerial from 1924
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010545.jpg LAPL looks remarkably similar to the previous pic. I'd guess the dates are pretty close. |
A fence? George Hancock owned the property and donated it to LA County in 1916. Suppose the County did not deem the natural state of the area worth protecting or an area from which visitors needed protection - until the '50s and '60s. Even then, the fence did not seem to be much of a barrier. Is there a history of people who have gone missing there?;)
1910 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010554.jpg 1937, very impressive flagstone walls in second pic, but no apparent fence around the large body of water. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010569.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics30/00064794.jpg 1941 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010571.jpg unk date, but seems to span '41 though '60 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010573.jpg 1962 http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics44/00071913.jpgAll from lapl |
The La Brea Tar Pits. ahah!
Thanks Kevin, I didn't realize the La Brea Tar Pits were so bucolic in those years, in my mind I pictured an unimproved tract of pretty much unuseable land. But here it really looks park-like except for the oily sheen on the water which runs counter to my notion of where I'd like to have my house. As for the fence, or lack of a fence, I have to believe the process that had gone on for a few thousand years continued into our stewardship. I have to believe birds, feral cats and the occasional stray dog were caught and ultimately drowned in the pits.
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Chuckaluck, There's our little, three dormer building peeking through the trees in your 1941 pic. cool. Now I need to go back and update my flickr captions on this pic. |
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For those who aren't aware of it -- a tremendous resource for us city history nerds
I posted elsewhere on this website to let people know about the city-data.com website, and its gigantic repository of historical and architectural thumbnail sketches. Please see my other post for further details. As far as I can tell, although the buildings of certain publicly owned enterprises -- public schools for example -- tend not to be included. But most if not all privately owned or operated houses, apartments, and commercial buildings do seem to come up. Please check out my other post for instructions on how to use this.
If you're the kind of person who, whenever you see an old building, you want to know how old it is, do yourself a favor and check this out. ETA: This doesn't seem to work so well anymore, since Google took away the quoted phrase capability. |
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I thought I recognized that building! In the 1960s, that was "The Egg and the Eye" restaurant, one of my mother's favorite Sunday afternoons' culinary destinations (and one of mine, too). They made the most amazing omelets you can imagine! The restaurant was quite famous in those days. Apparently (and I didn't know this until now), Edith R. Wyle - the woman who owned the egg restaurant - later turned it into the Craft and Folk Art Museum, which it remains to this day. -Scott EDIT: Ah, rick m! I see you beat me to it. :) Quote:
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pico house register ca 1870 Register for the Pico House, June 1870 - May 1872. Sunday, Sept. 11, 1870. Acquisition made possible by the Ramona chapter, Native Sons of the Golden West Autry National Center; 93.21.142 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8282/7...dd1953c3_o.jpg pico house register, detail Autry Library The Autry Library and the Braun Research Library are both part of the Autry National Center for the American West, headquartered in Griffith Park. Autry Library Director Marva R. Felchin shared the photographs in this post. They depict a document from the library's collections that uniquely casts light on early Los Angeles history. Felchin explains: "Pio de Jesus Pico, governor of California in 1845, built the Pico House in 1870, a luxury hotel intended to help revitalize the old plaza area of Los Angeles. Designed by architect Ezra F. Kysor, Pico House was the first three-story building in Los Angeles and featured gas lighting and indoor plumbing. Pico lost the hotel to foreclosure in 1880. It fell to ruins by the early 1900s and was later deeded to the State of California. The Pico House is California Historical Landmark no. 159, and is sometimes used for art exhibitions and film and television production. The Pico House hotel register is a unique artifact of Los Angeles history. It documents guests travelling to downtown Los Angeles by date, name and place of residence, during the first two years of the hotel's operation, 1870-1872. Printed on each facing page is a "strangers guide to leading businesses," that reads like a directory of significant names in the development of the city. Many of the people and businesses listed still exist in some form. Researchers, curators and others will find a bounty of information about Los Angeles in the directory whether they are studying the activities of specific individuals or tracing the history of hotel management, for example. In the future, the Autry libraries hope to create a searchable database of the contents, a boon to users as well as the preservation of the artifact." Register for the Pico House, June 1870 - May 1872. Signature page, Sunday, Sept. 11, 1870. Acquisition made possible by the Ramona chapter, Native Sons of the Golden West Autry National Center; 93.21.14 from theempressofdress.blogspot.com An aside, when was it that we stopped teaching 'Handwriting' in school? |
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