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Farewell My Lovely
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"I was having some Chinese food when a dark shadow fell over my chop suey...." https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rg...366-h768-rw-no |
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Chinatown/N. Broadway area--the next frontier for massive development? Bet on it. |
I remember a really cold day in winter 1989
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I also remember a really cold day in late 1968 or early 1969 in the Valley. I went to NoHo high school then. It was freezing. Maybe 32 degrees even at noon, but it was drier than the 1989(?) event--don't remember any snow in NoHo but I think it snowed in other places. |
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2900 block of E. Brooklyn Ave., Boyle Hts. Looking south down Evergreen Ave. Undated but probably late '70's. http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psaugfol1d.png GSV I first assumed that the apt bldg on the corner was built post the snapshot, but look at the 3 sided bay-type window that juts out in the first photo. That lines up with the current picture, also the position of the bakery door below that window. It looks like they changed the roof line, took out the ground floor retail, and lopped off the beauty salon/auto glass portion of the property. In the distance of the Google view, on the right side of the street, is a red object visible behind a tree. That's the pole that supported the Enco sign. That property is now used for auto repair. |
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"Shulman asked Soriano to design him a home and studio in the Hollywood Hills in 1947, and building began in 1949, taking nine months to complete." Living room in 1951 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/ycZcVa.jpg http://www.midcenturyhome.com/raphae...-house-studio/ And today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/Hf2j2M.jpg http://www.midcenturyhome.com/wp-con...-Soriano-5.jpg ilt-in The design of the wood partition (with the built-in couch) has been altered. __ |
For what it's worth I remember the snow in '49...
I was five. We lived in a duplex on Monroe Street just east of Wilton Place. We had the west side and my aunt and uncle owned the east side. We had one bedroom which my younger brother and I shared, sleeping on bunk beds my father had built (with help from my uncle). My parents slept on a Murphy bed that folded out of the dining room wall. It snowed during the night and my mother came and woke us early the next morning to see it and finally to let us out into the front yard to play in it and to scrape enough together to make little snowmen, maybe a foot tall, maybe a bit taller but not much. They had mostly melted by the time I came home from school.
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Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino
It even snows at the palatial Huntington Art Museum in San Marino
Jan 15, 1932 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psp7lfzbgq.jpg huntingtonlibrary |
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It looks like balls. __ |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/Mt5QGN.jpg As you can see, the two young men are driving a car with 1953 California license plates and Long Beach on the plate frame. I see the spotlight on the right, but what's that thingy on the left. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/FWnea3.jpg If it was a police car I'd say it was a siren. __ (I'm not sure what's on the roof of the car either) |
E end 3rd St tunnel, looking out.
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What a rare treat. Thank you e_r. One feels like one could step into frame behind the man on the right and walk out into the light. I'll bet MR even can tell what the jacketed stranger is thinking. And what a lens! The Byrne/Pan-American, Rindge, Douglas, Stimson running east through the center of the shot and the St George blocking the view at the end. All still with us except the Stimson, lost in '64. The Rindge is now but a stub. The Stimson was our first 6-story building and first with a steel-frame. Just gorgeous. I'll be looking at this one for a long time. . |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sd...pL0=w1366-h768 ebay Elks teeth are smaller than you may have assumed. Valued by people other than Elk's Club members: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/87...pz0=w1366-h768 aaanativearts <-- great appropo info at link. . |
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It's a swamp cooler-- primitive a/c. Works by evaporation as the car moved. Worked fairly well in dry climates. (The thing on top just looks to me like a rack for carrying something...pogo sticks in this case? http://www.amcpacer.com/images/kenos...-window-ac.jpg https://youtu.be/lAXY2GefpYY |
:previous: That's the second time this week I was stumped by archaic a/c.
remember this http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/imcpVG.jpg |
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http://i.imgur.com/KiqIT4o.png?1GSV Unfortunately residents today can no longer lounge around the pool but instead sit under a tree and a flagpole. I have tried to get as close as possible with an aerial view but it is blurry. You can still see the round pavers in front of the house across the street. http://i.imgur.com/Fej5iJm.png?1Google Earth |
Bristolian, I can't believe you found the pool! Sleuth of the Week right there. :)
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I can picture you and your brother playing in the snow, building all those little snowmen. |
April 4, 1910 L.A.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/G8EaEg.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/RPPC-Victori...QAAOSw241YZWXE I'm hoping someone here on NLA can identify this building. note that the street appears to go down hill off to the right-----> "April 4, 1910 L.A." "dear old friend " "This is a picture of my California home where the mocking birds sing in the ___ trees moonlight nights. don't that sound fine- but I feel like wringing their necks." Flaggis http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/4llh97.jpg Can anyone decipher what's written for the type of tree:previous:? Perhaps odinthor, our resident horticulturist, can tell us what kind of trees they are from the picture. __ |
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