http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/6...monroe1250.jpg

729 West 28th St: Built for Superior Court Judge Charles Monroe, ca. 1895. Demolished.


http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4...artori1250.jpg

725 West 28th St: Built for Joseph F. Sartori, organizer and president of the Security Savings Bank, ca. 1895. Demolished.


http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/162...nkland1250.jpg

715 West 28th St: Built for James H. Shankland, attorney, ca. 1895. (Sartori house at left above.) Below, the Shankland house 115 years later.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7...today1250s.jpgGSV


I thought we'd discussed West 28th Street's "Banker's Row" before and the Shankland house in particular; if we have, I couldn't find the posts. I'm sure we haven't seen these particular shots of three adjacent houses on 28th by Eisen & Hunt that appeared in Los Angeles Today Architecturally, published in 1896 by Morgan & Walls, Eisen & Hunt and A. M. Adelman.


Three b&w shots: Private Collection

well, I did say 'guess'. and two blocks isn't bad considering. my guess was based on not being able to find any other appropriate footprint on the 1921 Baist including your address.

btw, I couldn't get the image to come up using your reference numbers.

can you point it out in this pic of the 1940 WPA model? I know I don't have to tell you but you can find the Hildreth house by looking over there in the upper left corner and finding their carriage house on the stub of Fourth Street where it dangles above Flower. So that's South Hope Street up there with the 300 block running along the upper left quadrant. Is the subject cottage visible here? Or is it too small and hidden behind the larger buildings?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8108/8...20ef5395_o.jpg
The 1940 WPA model, detail (3)


West side of Bunker Hill, viewed from Northwest, camera above 2nd St looking South by Southeast. (Detail of 1940 Model of the City of Los Angeles).

USC/edu history lab

And here we're looking west down Third Street with Fourth Street over there on the left running away from the camera. The Hildreth house is pretty clear here although with the slope of Fourth at Hope Street the carriage house is out of sight. The houses on the 300 block of South Hope string out to the right starting at the Hildreth house. Can we pick out the elusive cottage in this view?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8384/8...5f1a6f6f_o.jpg
The 1940 WPA model, detail (2)


Bunker Hill, looking West down 3rd Street. (Detail of 1940 Model of Los Angeles).

USC/edu history lab

Irving Gill/Homer Laughlin, Jr/Sigma Nu
 

Speaking of W 28th Street, Irving Gill built a wonderful U-shaped, peaked-roof home for Homer Laughlin, Jr at 666 W 28th in 1907-8. (As well as the link, there are four pages of photos and plans in Thomas S Hines monograph on Gill.) Laughlin was Gill's first solo client, as his partnership with Frank Mead was just ending.

The home is now the fraternity house for Sigma Nu. Although it's buried under unfortunate remodels and additions, apparently the stairwell is still recognizable as Gill's work. I don't know if this feature survived the current remodel. It would be a great pity if the last vestige of Gill's work here was destroyed.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vg...w=w750-h395-no
SCAH

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8e...w=w436-h555-no
SCAH

The Laughlin house outline is revealed in the remodel plans.

First floor:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X...612%2520PM.jpg
http://frmfcn.blogspot.com/2012/06/s...te-week-4.html

Second floor:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-y...800%2520AM.jpg
http://frmfcn.blogspot.com/2012/06/s...te-week-4.html

Construction, exterior. The original concrete wall of the Laughlin home is at the extreme left:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-g...634%2520PM.jpg
http://frmfcn.blogspot.com/2012/06/s...te-week-4.html

Construction, interior:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...253%2520AM.jpg
http://frmfcn.blogspot.com/2012/06/s...lly-under.html

Proposed remodel, facade (Studio DEX, Venice):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...953%2520AM.jpg
http://www.studiodex.com/projects.ph...798&tab=design
https://www.wepay.com/donations/28070

As built:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...649%2520PM.jpg
http://www.studiodex.com/projects.ph...1067&tab=built

Google Street View of the previous facade:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-G...517%2520PM.jpg

Google Maps:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v...800%2520PM.jpg

Glen Bell/Dex:
http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework...ect-glen-bell/
(The architect doesn't sound like a philistine. I hope he has an appreciation for Irving "Jack" Gill)


P.S.
Oh well, never mind, unless this is another stairwell, I guess it's gone:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...002%2520PM.jpg
http://www.studiodex.com/projects.ph...1071&tab=built


The address was changed at some point from 666 to 660 but Sigma Nu sports a "Snake's Room" (?):
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e...236%2520PM.jpg
http://www.studiodex.com/projects.ph...1073&tab=built


The garden court at the Laughlin Home:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BA...Q=w475-h489-no
scah



P.P.S.
I mentioned the Shankland house in one post GW, but only because it's the only one on the block that hasn't been remodeled out of all recognition and the only one to retain its carriage house
(I don't mind that the witches' hats on the dormers have gone missing).:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-I...651%2520PM.jpg
google maps

Court Street complete !
 

Thanks a lot Michael. I know I had to wait 675 pages to get at last a precise and almost complete view of the Court Street area between Figueroa and Broadway ! So it has never being posted. It just lacks the section from Figueroa to Hill at First Street.

This 1st WPA model image does show lil #321 S.Hope - it is nearest to left edge of image - after the red colored hotel block -and the sand colored rough slope - Tiny model of this cottage abuts a larger 1 story house (#323) then comes the mustard hued Sawyer... The image that I ennumerated as a sideview of cottage in LAPL has not come up on their photo database - Carolyn showed me an original which I pinned down as matching A.Hylen's frontal shot (appears @ page 109/plate 55 in his Bunker Hill: The Landmark c.1965..Dawson Press) She provided me with a poor qlty photocopy-artist unknown.. It won't show online with the 1906 Sanborn footprints - But it is on my painfully assembled wallsize version of the microfiche-sourced 1955 Sanborn map --Also have a pre-demolition shot of it (c.1963) sourced frm not catalogued pix @ USC collection --

Thanks so much for your response. I'm going to keep at it until we can run down a good image that places it in context to its neighbors. Is it here?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8528/8...7a97ceea_o.jpg
The 1940 WPA model, 1939

Looking northeast from Fifth and Figueroa Streets.

Los Angeles Natural History Museum, California History Room


Here I've place an arrow to identify a possible suspect...


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8...6823865f_o.jpg
The 1940 WPA model, 1939 (2)

Looking northeast from Fifth and Figueroa Streets. (with arrow indicating possible South Hope Street cottage)

Los Angeles Natural History Museum, California History Room

[QUOTE=BifRayRock;5929483][COLOR="Indigo"][SIZE="2"][FONT="Tahoma"]Fascinating structure said to be in Sherman Oaks. Depending upon source, ca., '25 or '27. Source suggests Ventura and/or Van Nuys Blvds. Can't recall having seen it before or a topic of discussion here. Notice ad for Cahuenga Park. I do not think it is the same as the Cahuenga Park that might have been Monkey Island-adjacent? (3300 Cahuenga)

http://waterandpower.org/Historical_..._Nuys_1925.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...25%20+%29.htmlhttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics23/00031491.jpg

Love this thread and being a "Val" myself had to comment on this picture. It looks like the southeast corner of Ventura and Van Nuys Blvd (then Sherman Way). I believe the building to the right in the distance is the current Temple B'Nai Hayim at 4276 Van Nuys Blvd. On one of the older SFV maps posted on this thread it shows the area that we currently call Sherman Oaks as "Cahuenga Park" although I have never heard it as being referred as that. Either that or the sign is an advertisement for a development, perhaps the area we are looking along Valley Vista Blvd.

Here's another Valley gem, the Hollywood Country Club at Coldwater Canyon and Ventura Blvd. The Clubhouse is now Harvard-Westlake School:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Md9z_-LK7q...untry+Club.jpg

source: http://museumsanfernandovalley.blogs...udio-city.html

I found it, rick!


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8...c4a6f637_o.jpg
The Hope Street cottage, Leonard Nadel, 1951

How I wish Mr. Nadel was working in a larger format.

7000 Romaine
 

I was just noticing that this block hasn't changed at all in 60 years.

The plating company buildings are still on the right and the cement works beyond Sycamore. The gas works on the other side of La Brea, is, of course, gone. That's now a big Best Buy / Target shopping center (I can't remember what was there before that). The only other thing on that block is the Formosa Cafe. It occurs to me I've never seen a photo of the Formosa or the Pickford Fairbanks Studio that shows the gas works. They're always taken from the other angle.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...346%2520PM.jpg
RKO Radio Pictures / netflix

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u...553%2520PM.jpg
gsv



P.S.
I take it back. Here's two shots showing the gas works (too early for The Red Post Cafe/Jack's Steakhouse/Formosa):

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-J...803%2520PM.jpg
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...&c=-1&i=1&r=96

Just paint it sky blue and it will blend right in:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...226%2520PM.jpg
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...&c=-1&i=1&r=96

Hi all,

I realize this has been discussed before, but everytime I see that photo of the old Hollywood Lighting Fixture building on eBay, I remember this thread.

As Chuckaluck and Ethereal_Reality mentioned last year, the first photo (left) was taken at 622 N. Western (address visible in the larger photo on eBay) but the second on the right is of 737 N. Western. So here's a current photo 622 N. Western as it looks today after a bad remodeling and paint job. You can still see the same basic facade of the old Hollywood Lighting Fixture Building even under those ugly blue awnings.

http://i.imgur.com/YynBzTc.png

Way to go ! I did not have notation that this was a Nadel image - It'd always perplexed Carolyn as to where this once stood upon the hill- BTW Ry Cooder is a bigtime L.A. map collector- When he spotted my pasted together Sanborn maps (full o notes) that I dropped off at LAPL History dept , he apparently freaked out and asked for his own - Unfortunately his business almost immediately took him away to Europe - soo that never transpired--

My memory is vague, but I believe that the Best Buy shopping hub replaced a very long car wash, probably seen in Peter Gunn and Perry Mason episodes. I am also convinced the storage tank :previous: was featured prominently in "The Best Years of Our Lives." http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...postcount=3594

Although the area has a lot of history under its belt, its lack of change is understandable. The area was never particularly picturesque and was a large part of Hollywood's industrial underbelly. It always seemed to have a gritty reputation - especially after the sun set. Before the '84 Olympics, certain nearby locations hosted a cast of real-life noir-urchins, lurking well beneath central casting's day player net. In connection with this thread, I read something about vagrants squatting in the shuttered remains of KCOP's studios. (Real Hobo Kellys?) The buildings were recently relegated to memory status. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10415


Long-gone locals said that overnight parking was prohibited in a long standing effort to promote neighborhood decorum (much like Beverly Hills/Hancock Park?). This may not have been much of a problem with those few locals who could afford cars, since they had room for the cars in driveways or garages. (Curious when this policy banning overnight parking changed, '50s or '60s? Evidently, auto-overcrowding eventually led to permit parking.) When times were economically tough (during the depression) or when housing and fuel was in short supply (during WW2) the neighborhood streets were often filled with a slow moving parade of people attempting to sleep in their cars or ply their wares, and fewer patrolling Deputy Sheriffs. Given this picture, neither Mr. Hughes, nor his visitors, intentionally left their cars unattended over night - unless they were bent on pressing their luck.

The neighborhood is apparently changing, as I am informed there is ongoing demolition and construction. Unfortunately, that change likely affects the neighborhood's hard-to-describe "charm" and our collective interest therein. (Remotely analogous to some formerly elevated areas in downtown LA?) Indeed, the Formosa added a second story that may have been good for business, but maybe not so good for adding charm. Recently overheard tourists (in an Arizona airport) thrilled about their pictures of "real old" Hollywood, notably the chrome statuary at La Brea and Hollywood Blvd. They were under the misimpression that the statues were there as long as Grauman's (rather than a creation from the early '90s). In retrospect, their view of "real old" Hollywood is just as "real" as mine.

"I 'am' big. It's the 'pictures' that got small."


Would enjoy seeing any photos of what I remember being nondescript store fronts near the original Formosa. Vaguely remember liquor stores, prop makers, bumper shops (Faith?), photo labs and the like. If I am not mistaken, the shopping center to the west of Goldwyn Studios, currently anchored by Trader Joe's, had its own noir reputation. So did nearby Plummer's Park, which until 1983, was the location of the oldest house in Hollywood - 1874 (designated as such in 1935.)


"Gateway to Hollywood" (?)
http://0.tqn.com/d/golosangeles/1/0/...Ladies004x.jpghttp://0.tqn.com/d/golosangeles/1/0/...Ladies004x.jpg


7304 Santa Monica Blvd. - Trader Joe's
http://pics3.city-data.com/businesse.../6/6353866.JPGhttp://www.city-data.com/businesses/...lywood-ca.html


1929 - "Señor Eugene Plummer, right, Hollywood's oldest living male resident hosts annual Hollywood old settlers' picnic at his estate, Plummer Park (now West Hollywood). He tells film star Ruth Roland and pioneer banker C.G. Greenwood of the olden days."
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics25/00032194.jpgLapl



1932 - The Plummer Ranch House, in what is now known as Plummer Park 7377 Santa Monica Blvd.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics01/00010005.jpg Lapl

May 20, 1939 - "Eugene Plummer, seated in a chair at his estate . . . . . His is the oldest house in West Hollywood and is located in Plummer Park, which he donated to Los Angeles County."
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics32/00065512.jpgLapl

Plummer House
 

Thank you Chuckaluck. The Plummer house is now the Leonis Adobe gift shop. It was moved to Calabasas in 1983: http://www.leonisadobemuseum.org/history-plummer.asp

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...514%2520PM.jpg
http://www.leonisadobemuseum.org/gal...Plummer+House\

I really like "working" Hollywood. I remember in the 80s (I think) when one of the messengers who shuttled between the post-production houses and the studios, etc at night on motorbikes got robbed and murdered by somebody (my ex used to work in post and calls would come in all night). A lot of people work nights in Hollywood putting shows and films together for morning screenings. When their world and Hollywood's underbelly collide it can be tragic.

The shopfronts across from the studio are still intact. There used to be an unnamed club there a couple of decades back where we used to go. I'm drawing a blank on the car wash. I just can't remember it.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-t...510%2520PM.jpg
gsv


Wish you hadn't posted the photo of that damn chrome gazebo thing. It gives me a headache.



I sometimes wonder if we sent "before" photos of homes and buildings featured on this thread, to the current owners, if it would prompt them to do something about their ruined gems, but they'd probably just think we were nuts.

That's a most interesting idea, and so easy to implement that I wish someone would just do it and see what happens. Hell, there's virtually nothing to be lost by doing so.

Zachariah Weller House
 

It's Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 223, built in 1894 at 401 N. Figueroa (now N. Boylston) and moved in 1900 to 824 E. Kensington Rd. in Angelino Heights.

Early (but apparently post-1900) undated photo:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9d537c72.jpg
LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061814.jpg

William Reagh, 1980:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps8b7470a8.jpg
LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb2/00017611.jpg

GSV, 2011 (sorry about the telephone pole; it was either that or a tree):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps12f43922.jpg

More pics and info at Big Orange Landmarks: http://bigorangelandmarks.blogspot.c...residence.html

Can't be me. No printer.

I was searching thru the thread earlier today, and I came across this 1924 photo of 1st and Los Angeles Streets, which you posted, ER, in June 2010 and Chuckaluck posted in May 2012:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps28d3248b.jpg
OAC -- http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0027650A.jpg

This time, something jumped out at me right away that I'm sure I didn't pay much attention to before:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa7c1d5e8.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8391/8...60bc537e_o.jpg
The cottage on Hope Street, Arnold Hylen, 1960

Lovely little, improbable bungalow on Bunker Hill with an outsized date palm growing through its porch roof. Now identified as being 321 S. Hope Street (thanks to rickm).

California State Library, the California History Room

here's the other shot of it by Leonard Nadel...


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8...c4a6f637_o.jpg
The Hope Street cottage, Leonard Nadel, 1951

The Hope Street cottage at 321 S. Hope, a somewhat larger neighbor at 323 and the Sawyer Apartments at 327. thanks to rickm for identifying it.

LAPL

Now comes this other unidentified Hope Street cottage by Arnold Hylen...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8...98126eba_o.jpg
Another cottage on Hope Street, Arnold Hylen, 1960

I think this may be right next door at 323 S. Hope Street and that clapboard building on the left may be the Sawyer Apartments. In fact, it looks to me as though Hylen didn't even move, making both exposures from essentially the same spot.

California State Library, the California History Room

Bel Air Car Wash was listed at 1041 N. La Brea (approximate location of Best Buys).

When Lem was still greeting patrons at the Formosa, the place you pictured on the north side of Santa Monica (7205) may have gone by the name "Ports." Current name, "Jones Club" seems to have been there for quite a while.

Daylite Motor Parts, 7215 Santa Monica; Jack's Fiat 7225. . . . .







Reminiscing about the area leads me to this penciled list of decades old haunts:

Cianti Cucina, Border Grill, The Moustache Cafe, Double Rainbow Ice Cream, Fellini’s, and Citrus on Melrose

City Restaurant and Campanile on La Brea

Emilio’s and Hamptons on Highland

Chaya Brasserie on Alden

L’Ermitage / L’Orangerie on La Cienega

The Source, The Old World and Le Dome on Sunset (More on the Source: http://restaurant-ingthroughhistory....the-aware-inn/)

RJ’s on Beverly Drive

Hugo’s on Santa Monica

The Daisy . . . Bistro . . . Spago’s(on Sunset) . . . PCH Granita . . .

Adriano’s and George Santa Pietro’s on Beverly Glen



Trying to forget La Strega on Western :shrug:


http://collider.com/wp-content/uploa...-1-600x401.jpghttp://collider.com/wp-content/uploa...-1-600x401.jpg

Jones is still going strong, a great place for lunch dinner and drinks with a good noir feel to it. However just across the street on the north side (between Formosa and Detroit) the old Bank of Italy (which later became a post production facility), Faith Plating and the other industrial buildings will soon be seeing the wrecking ball as the city of West Hollywood is planning on the construction "luxury apartments". They have already begun the first phase on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and La Brea:

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar...eport-20130321