A Mr. Kurt Kunz converted a real estate office into a home during the Great Depression and his neighbor Joan Blondell tried to kick him out "on the ground of deed restrictions?! There's a Kurt Kunz in the '34 City Directory at 2107 Mayview Drive in Silver Lake, but the house looks nothing like this. I can't find Joan's address.
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Los Angeles Evening Citizen News 28 Nov 1934
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Is this what made Joan Blondell so upset in that Twilight Zone episode?
("What's in the Box", 1964)

The street lights of this type were known as "Span-wire lamps." As they were suspended from wooden power poles, they were "owned" by the Department of Water and Power and not the Bureau of Street Lighting.

Some actually survived into the 2010s and even into the 2020s. There is but one remaining working example within the L.A. city limits that I can think of: Sepulveda Blvd. just North of Palms Blvd. Within the County, another working one is on Palos Verdes Drive North at Branding Iron Lane/Eastvale Road. A couple of more dead ones come to mind in Vernon and in Arcadia--and that's about it.

I'd love to post photos of the survivor on Sepulveda, but my attempts to upload photos to NLA always end in disaster.

And now, the shots are coming out giant-sized, but at least they posted.

Sepulveda Blvd. just North of Palms Blvd. My photos: 07-27-15. The light is still there as of last week.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...367b283b_k.jpgSepulvedaPalms_1 by Glen Norman, on Flickr

And, the close-up

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c5f73522_k.jpgSepulvedaPalms_3 by Glen Norman, on Flickr

The well-endowed Sonny Wisecarver died in 2005. He is interred in a niche in the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside. No word if his niche had to be enlarged to accomodate all of him.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...wer-wisecarver

Thank you! :)

It must have been miserable to go to school there starting about 1949: first, the noise and dust from demolitions for the Harbor Fwy right-of-way, followed
by the noise and dust from grading and freeway construction, then the noise from the freeway itself. Add to that the horrible smog back then -- yuck.

What exactly is a VIRGIN hot dog bun?
 

The article mentions that Manya's franks are served on a "virgin" bun. What makes the bun "virgin"?:shrug:

The USC Area Flood Mystery Continues
 

acorn8332, Thanks for the info on the span-wire lamps. Looking at your closeup, it's hard to say definitively but it does look like a very close match to the one in question, seen here in e_r's detail photo which suggests the photo was likely taken in the city of L.A. and further indicating USC area is accurate.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/4ZQJP3.jpg

Before arriving at this assumption I noticed that the license plates do appear to be the yellow with black letters/numbers version issued in California from 1956- 1962 so at least the state appeared to be correct.
I even wondered if USC actually meant University of Santa Clara and even though I've never heard it referred to that way, I had a Google Maps look at churches in that area but came up empty there too.
The palm trees and the look of the street do seem to have a South L.A. look to me but I've looked all around there multiple times.
Does anybody know of a directory of 50'-80' Los Angeles area church steeples that have been lost to fire or earthquake since the late 1950s?

And what is the sticker on the windshield of the MG?

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The windshield sticker looks to me like a version of the Michelin Man:

https://i.postimg.cc/bNnfHF6Y/michelinman-bmp.jpg

This would have been the early days of Michelin "X" steel cord radials, much favored by the rally set, so I would date the photo from the later part of the 1955-1960 time period.

I had a set of Michelin "X" tires on my VW.

Cheers,

Earl

its a bun that has never had a hotdog in it, err, on it ??

taa chinnng. tisssch. :haha:

seriously tho, los angeles has great, great hotdog joints. :tup:

I couldn't agree more. ..Fantastic post, Flyingwedge.

originally posted by FW
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/5iBuJj.jpg
date: 1903

I couldn't help but notice the two tall. .um . .stanchions. (for lack of a better word)... poles..
Why are they there and what is their purpose? ..:shrug: They appear to have nothing on top.

Befuddled minds want to know.

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C

Cupid's in the Valley is still one of my favorites. I've not seen VIENNA BEEF out here execpt for an Italian market in La Habra.

My guess. A "virgin" bun is NOT steamed, toasted or grilled. Some burger joints grill their buns maybe some hot dog places do, too.

Could they be vents for boilers in the basement?

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Or, they are fireplace vents. Some large commercial buildings built around the start of the last century had fireplaces in various rooms. One of the Canoga Park post offices had a fireplace (or two).

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:previous:

..When I first mentioned the "stanchions" I thought they were free-standing. :duh...I should have known better.

The stanchion vent on the right doesn't go all the way to the ground so it's either coming out of the roof or the rest of it is hidden behind the school.

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I have a question.

So there were two different Fremont Schools?

I ask because of this. . .
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california-newspapers 1909

I found it when I was looking for additional information on the Fremont Street School.








AND have we seen the Alpine Street School on NLA?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/uoIx2Z.jpg

I started to go through all the posts that mention "Alpine" and there sure are A LOT OF THEM!...I didn't have time to go through each and every posts.


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/SB32ho.jpg
Link

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They are too small to be fireplace vents or chimneys. They are definitely not masonry. Locations appear to not be where a fireplace wants to be. My guess is they are flues for heating hot water either for heating or cooking. Currently there is a building code requirement that dictates how far a flue or chimney must be above adjacent roof areas. I have no idea when this rule was adopted. This may be why they project so high above the roof.

When I lighten up the picture and do some simple tracing of angles, it appears that the front pipe is free of the building and stands on the ground, and the back pipe is in line with the front one, probably behind the building.

The pipes appear to taper and are capped. So some kind of vent. For what?

Cheers,

Earl

Thank you, e_r. Those vents don't do much for the school's aesthetics, do they? I'm guessing the vents were connected to the
furnaces in the basement.

https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...Ave_School.jpg

1906 Sanborn Map @ Library of Congress


Here's a little detail on the school's heating (the school was enlarged from 4 rooms to 10 in 1903):

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November 12, 1903, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com

Lots of people venting here! :haha: