I had all but forgotten about those earlier posts/page 229 on the Los Altos Apartments T2.
My favorite find was the abandoned cars in the Los Altos Apt. Garage! It's easy to imagine a body in one of the trunks. thx for the reminder. :) |
Kodachrome slide from 1963. (listed on ebay 4 hours ago)
http://imageshack.us/a/img211/5392/a...tslide1963.jpg ebay I've been trying to make out the name of the large apartment building (the name is obscured by wires). That's the Sunkist Building and the Edison Building in the distance! If you look closely you can see a small portion of the Engstrum Apts. (with the small roof top sign) __ |
Los Angeles 1929 No street address given
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Great POV e_r on the 5th Street color shot!
I cannot read the sign, but I love the Bubble Up ads on the buses :-) There's a quote from "Adobe Days" (1931) re this intersection that I've always wondered about: "Mr Coulter had a woolen mill over the hill near the present corner of Figueroa and Fifth Streets. The old brick walls of this factory may still be seen - the main part of a modern-fronted garage. There was a little stream there called Los Reyes" One of these days the garage will turn up in a photo.... |
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The Monarch in its earliest days. http://imageshack.us/a/img11/851/monarch1.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch A little remodeling has been done to "modernize" the bar entrance http://imageshack.us/a/img856/1326/monarch2.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch One Bunker Hill.org has the goods on this building, including some juicy noir bits (death, blood, betrayal, mystery, etc.) A few more images of the Monarch, at 5th and Figueroa. It was opened in late 1929, and held its ground until 1966. http://imageshack.us/a/img841/5402/monarch7.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch http://imageshack.us/a/img819/6112/monarch3.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch In 1964, its fate has been sealed. http://imageshack.us/a/img811/1152/monarch31964.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch By 1965 the neighborhood is being leveled. http://imageshack.us/a/img521/6539/monarch51965.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch It is now 1966, and Los Angeles is looking forward to the Union Bank Building, which will soon take the place of the Monarch (lower center of photo). http://imageshack.us/a/img849/4610/monarch61966.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch http://imageshack.us/a/img811/9038/unionbank.jpg The new kid on the block, the Union Bank Building has replaced the Monarch. Much of Bunker Hill has been destroyed by now, too. This iconic view shows the old, dignified, Los Angeles, crumbling away to make room for the new, cold, Los Angeles. A large city of neighborhoods is being replaced towers of power and business. Homes have warmth and character, and the endless stories of those who lived there. The new LA lives within Excel spreadsheets, focus groups, demographic targets, and business plans. Cold and heartless, like an episode of Dragnet. Just the facts, ma'am. |
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This building evidently had nothing to do with 'bowling'. Wilmington was a dockside area with a lot of tough guy types hanging about. Evidently it was easy to find strong dockworkers for a boxing match. The Wilmington Bowl was a boxing venue in the Los Angeles suburb of Wilmington, located at the intersection of Anaheim and Alameda Boulevards. Doc Moffett was its matchmaker from 1924 to late 1929. The original arena had a capacity of a little over 4,000. There were weekly shows on Wednesdays. But a fire destroyed the original arena in late 1929. A new brick arena was opened in 1930, but Moffett wasn't the matchmaker at the time. The capacity of this arena was 3,300. The Wilmington Bowl would be a boxing venue for two more decades after the second arena was opened. But it appears that the heyday of the Wilmington Bowl was when shows were staged in the first arena. |
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Really nice pix of the Monarch Albany NY. Thanks :-) |
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Monarch Bar....crash. I guess you could still order a drink.. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps0a2ecd23.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psa30d49ae.jpg LAPL |
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This is looking east across Crescent Heights: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psb3f87f85.jpg Looking north across Blackburn: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa3acd546.jpg Looking northeast: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psf64e8734.jpg Looking southeast: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pse54eae9e.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps746d0189.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psb891fb5e.jpg Photos by me March 30, 2013 |
1965 photograph posted by Albany NY
The Monarch Hotel and Architect's Building book-ending the Sunkist & Edison Building. http://imageshack.us/a/img521/6539/monarch51965.gif http://onbunkerhill.org/TheMonarch [/QUOTE] Thank you Albany NY for the information and photographs of the old Monarch Hotel/Apartments. |
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Nice to finally see it! P.S. Beautiful building Flyingwedge. Google maps shows it with more of a lawn and shrubbery (Yuccas, Century plants, etc). They must be (slowly?) redoing the landscaping. It will be interesting to see how it ends up. Could do with new paint too. The two big Tamarind trees at the curb are not enhancing the architecture. |
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ebay Thank you for the excellent information on the Wilmington Bowl CityBoyDoug. Very interesting history. (I thought it was a bowling alley) -much appreciated....and then some. |
I just got back from a trip to the West Side and back to the OC to visit UCLA (our son will be going there in the Fall). Driving back south of downtown, I started thinking about this site, and got a little depressed. To the north and south stretched hundreds--maybe thousands--of buildings that once housed businesses that actually made things. L.A. was once a hell of a factory town, from San Pedro to Eagle Rock. I know a lot of those buildings are still being used, but for what? Strip joints, cheap furniture stores, storage for imports that used to made here. I look at some of the pictures here, of factories, breweries, shipping companies and a dozen other manufacturing-related uses, and think about the working people who could earn a living for their families in them. I know we can't bring those days back, and I know factory life was anything but rosy, but you have to feel a little twinge of regret when you drive by the Bruck Braid building, that used to make "wire rope", and see its an "arts center".:(
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:previous: excellent commentary Mstimc.
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A glimpse inside the public library when it was located in the old city hall, 1905.
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3424 Jasmine and Palms Sts
http://imageshack.us/a/img27/636/aabmetal1ebay.jpg ebay mailed in this envelope http://imageshack.us/a/img694/7210/aabmetal1a.jpg from the Arcade Station. http://imageshack.us/a/img69/6096/aabmetal1b.jpg __ |
Jasmine is lined with apartments built in the 1950's thru 1990's.
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=34.02...06953&t=h&z=20 (short URL isn't working for some reason) Price Self Storage in the background on National used to be a Tootsie Pop factory. |
Iron workers of LA.
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Crescent Heights Tract Map
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Does anyone know why there are radiused curves connecting Sunset boulevard and Crescent heights? Answer tomorrow night if no one has the answer before then. Cheers, Jack |
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