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Tryon Ridge
Another Hollywood Hills subdivision, Tryon Ridge also opened to sales in 1924. Unlike the other signs held up by stilts, these letters were embedded into the hillside itself. - gizmoto I couldn't find anything else. Quote:
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Wow, Ed, I have never heard the word "awful" in connection with West Side Story! But...to each his own. I've never cottoned to Casablanca, myself. And I've tried. Many times. I'd seen it on TV with commercials. I've seen it on VHS & DVD without commercials. I tried the colorized** version. I saw it on the silver screen in a theatre. I've seen props from it in museums: the piano Dooley Wilson (Sam) plays, a nightclub table with beaded lamp on it and the actual car they ride away in at the end. Still, it doesn't catch me. So be it. We all like and respond to different things. **By the way, when they colorized it they discovered a mistake. There's a scene in the movie when Bergman describes what she was wearing when she got off the train which is shown in an earlier scene. They went back to colorize the scene she describes to find out she was NOT wearing what she said she was. Heh! After some photos were posted on NLA a couple years ago with dancers on the streets of Beverly Hills, MR posted this story about how West Side Story affected a group of sailors and marines during the Vietnam era and it's always touched me; how movies can affect and touch you in so many different ways. Quote:
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Vis-à-vis Tryon Ridge (sorry about the tiny print in the third item):
https://s26.postimg.org/ltd84fkp5/Tryon111624.jpg https://s26.postimg.org/h7h3w4wm1/Tryon11125.jpg https://s26.postimg.org/wsyfg43fd/Tryon11825.jpg |
Thank you odinthor. That explains a lot. "Ponet" was Belgian Victor Ponet (1836-1914), who many of us have heard of, because he was an early (1869) Angeleno, for the Ponet Building on Main St or for the fire at the Ponet Square apartments (part of the Ponet Square development centered on Pico), now memorialized with the term "Ponet door".
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pL...7=w459-h580-no homestead museum Ponet (by then, one of the 6 wealthiest people in Los Angeles) died in 1914, before Ponet Terrace was even thought of, but "Ponet Terrace Syndicate" had continued as a business name from a former project. C.T. Tryon was the sales agent for the development: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1e...f=w484-h632-no homestead museum https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tG...3=w357-h634-no homestead museum Once called "The Acropolis of Hollywood", Tryon Ridge and Ponet Terrace are now the Los Feliz Oaks neighborhood (no longer caring to be associated with Hollywood). The Engstrum's Artemesia was at one time on an isolated 16 acres up there, but 14 of those were sold off for development and combined with other land to make a 50-acre parcel. Quote:
An early start (1923) on development: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YN...j=w657-h545-no homestead museum A curious aside, Victor Ponet's daughter and son-in-law developed Sunset Plaza on both sides of Sunset Blvd on Victor Ponet's former ranch. Their descendants still own it and the land that the city must pay rent on for Sunset Blvd's right-of-way through it. . |
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Ponet, Victor 1836, born in Ulbeck, Belgium; “He received in his native land a thorough college education, and after completing his studies traveled extensively in Europe and America, visiting nearly all places of note in both countries. During his travels he came to Los Angeles, arriving in 1869. He was impressed with the natural beauty of Southern California, the salubriety of its climate, and foresaw in Los Angeles a growing and prosperous city as its future business center. He therefore decided to make the City of the Angels his future home and accordingly entered business as an importer and manufacturer of mirror and picture frames” (Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, p. 612); 1869 (Illustrated History, p. 789 has 1867, evidently before Ponet was in L.A.), went into the undertaking business with Benjamin Franklin Orr, the firm being Ponet & Orr; 1870, present in L.A. as a laborer with savings of $500 and real estate valued at $150; 1872, engravings, mirrors, frames, etc. Downey Block 79 Main St.; 1873, married N.J. Manning; 1875, undertaker, in which business “he continued until the year 1865 [sic; probably intending 1885], when he retired” (Illustrated History, p. 612); also a real estate agent and banker, and a director of Evergreen Cemetery; sometime Belgian Consul in L.A.; February 7, 1914, died; children (by 1889): Gertrude, William. |
:previous: Thanks for the great info on Tyron Ridge tovanger2 and odinthor. (especially the great clipping with the ten photographs of the houses) and the Ponet Terrace layout -amazing!
'mystery' Does anyone recognize this building that is being demolished? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/06OmTh.jpg mr. rollers The photograph is in an album titled "On the Streets of Echo Park" the INFO says it was taken on October 5, 2013 (but I've noticed these dates are often inncorrect on flickr) This 2nd pic has a few more clues (i.e. the surrounding buildings) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LgaFoB.jpg mr. rollers GOING...GOING...GONE :( ___ |
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They truly are beautiful birds. Whenever I hear them I usually rush outside to catch a glimpse of them. |
I could be wrong, but I don't think we have seen these slides. (but I admit they do look familiar)
They're all labeled the same. Santa Monica 1949 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/YwEmNS.jpg ssilberman / flickr this international style* building appears in the next slide as well. (a small portion of it anyway) * or is it streamline moderne? Santa Monica 1949 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/6c7snJ.jpg ssilberman / flickr Santa Monica 1949 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/czonTm.jpg ssilberman / flickr this one especially seems familiar (I might be thinking of that Trousdale Estate slide I recently posted) close-up/detail https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/iyiZVt.jpg ? hmmm...it looks like CPINARD and RI __ D_E :shrug: __ |
Epinard and Rindge, right between the end of the main runway at LAX and the Pacific Ocean. Google maps doesn't know about it, but amazingly Zillow does.
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Thanks Earl! near Surfridge then.
so we have seen them before HERE, but the images are missing now. HossC stitched the first two slides together like this. He did a great job! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/LGYBzZ.jpgskyscraperpage Sorry for the memory lapse folks. __ |
:previous: Those color pics were posted on page 2044 but fell victim to Photobucket. They are all Surfridge, not Santa Monica.
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:previous: I was going to say the Ostrich Farm...but I see it now under the guy's collar. "RIC ARM"
________ & Guess What! the Ostrich Farm telescope is still there https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/GDHamv.jpg forensicgenealogy So does it aim at the spot where Cawston's Ostrich Farm used to be? :shrug: (that would be kind of interesting actually) |
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A pretty pic of Evelyn from 1901 before Sanford White & Thaw got their clutches on her--timeless but fatal beauty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn...yn_Nesbit3.jpg |
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:previous: What in the heck does a Peahen look like?
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Even though my last 'mystery' post hit a big sour note, I'm going to try one more time.
This slide was taken by the same amateur photographer that took the Surfridge/'Santa Monica' slides. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/SGwmEj.jpg ssilberman / flickr Does anyone, by chance, recognize this rather intriguing building? [there is no information; other than it was taken sometime between 1946 and 1951] |
For The Birds
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When we lived in Culver City, we had a sizable platoon of Australian long-tail parakeets (sleek, colorful birds, 15 to 18 inches long). |
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