Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6724121)

There are some interesting statistics in this 1928 directory.

Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas (Post 6724449)

The "famed" Schwab's was indeed on Sunset. If I recall correctly Schwab's over the years became more or less a local chain and had some five or six locations.

As for PEP BOYs being on the Walk of Fame:


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pe...9f709f!6m1!1e1

Sure looks like some 25+ Stars are along the front entrance and parking lot.

Originally Posted by austlar1 (Post 6724505)

Looks like the Walk of Fame extends all the way to Gower rather than Vine St. Well, maybe something new and glitzy will replace Pep Boys in the near future now that Hollywood is on the rebound.

Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas (Post 6724449)

The "famed" Schwab's was indeed on Sunset. If I recall correctly Schwab's over the years became more or less a local chain and had some five or six locations.

As for PEP BOYs being on the Walk of Fame:


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pe...9f709f!6m1!1e1

Sure looks like some 25+ Stars are along the front entrance and parking lot.

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6724705)

I could be wrong but I believe Pep Boys has had a presence in Hollywood since the 1920s .

Lots of Stars embedded in the sidewalk in front of Pep Boys. There appears to be about 47 Stars in front of the Pep Boys property, including their parking lot.

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GSV 2014

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Originally Posted by Tourmaline (Post 6659335)

You never know where it will lead.

For some strange reason a closer look at Saratoga Springs' sidewalk or tower clock reminded me of a glossed over image of the Van Nuys Building in downtown LA. I have no information other than what you see, including some very small pedestrians. Whether height is added by the camera angle remains uncertain. The clock is certainly imposing, but apparently not Montgomery Brothers-BIG. :uhh:


1967
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This may be a repost that I missed the first go round. Sorry if it is. Marveling over all of those glass globes. (There could be a clock amongst them, but you'd never know it. :shrug:)

1924 Fourth and Main
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Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6724777)

:previous:

The first CD after 1933 that's available at LAPL is 1936, and that lists three locations for The Pep Boys: 1612 Cahuenga, 1344 S Figueroa and 5866 S Vermont. The 1942 listing shows that they were expanding quickly (and also mentions Manny, Moe and Jack).

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LAPL

Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 6721038)

Looking west on 5th street from Wall Street. Screen cap from 1949 Van Johnson noir flick, "Scene of the Crime"

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GSJ, on Flickr

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6532446)

USC's Digital Library has a fairly large collection of Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank photos, mostly from the late 1920s. I've also found a few contemporary shots from other sites, so I'm going to work through the list in the advert below. I've split up the photos so they're not in one monumental post. My aim is to make the most complete list I can, so there may be a few repeats from previous posts.

This is their full-page advert from the 1929 City Directory.

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LAPL

The building shown in the advert is their head office at Fifth and Spring.

Citizens National Bank, exterior view

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LAPL

The building is still there, but has lost the ornamentation on its upper floors.

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GSV

This is the Hill Street Office at 736 South Hill Street. The building is now a parking lot.

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USC Digital Library

I also found this 1925 picture which has the bank on the right. The building to the left of the bank has also gone, but the Paden-Pelton Building is still there. There's probably enough detail in this picture to make a post in its own right!

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USC Digital Library

The Broadway Office at 308 South Broadway.

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USC Digital Library

The "...BURY" on the left of the picture above is part of a sign saying "BRADBURY" because the bank was on the right side of the first floor of the Bradbury Building. It's now a Subway!

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I didn't find any pictures of the Atwater branch, but the building that's currently at 3224 Glendale Boulevard looks like it could date from that period.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...r.jpg~original
GSV

Citizens Trust and Savings, branch at 5415 Broadway, Southern California, 1927

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

The building currently at 5415 South Broadway has a similar footprint, so could the original bank be underneath? The surviving buildings to the right have similar brickwork to the picture above.

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GSV

We know that the Union Stock Yards have gone, and I didn't find any pictures of the bank there. It's the same story with the Echo Park-Sunset and Eighth-Vermont branches. The former is now a Walgreens parking lot while the latter is a strip mall.

More to follow ...

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 6725074)

Los Angeles County Fair - 1924

Sadu the Iron Tongued Man (I'm not sure what that's all about) ...

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L.A. Times

Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas (Post 6723949)

If I were a tourist hoping to see anything as history on the WEB and in books might reflect I'd be a bit disappointed to find no Brown Derby, No Schwabs, etc. I would certainly be a little surprised to find my favorite entertainer's star among those in front of the PEP BOYS auto repair and parts store in the 6100 block of Hollywood Blvd.

Of course if I were an entertainer who had been approached about a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, there are locations I simply wouldn't shell out the $15,000 it costs, which a number have refused to do.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6724833)

A rare attempt by MGM at the film noir genre.

For the big finale, MGM resorted to the backlot. I pretty much lost interest at this point.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6724440)

Here are some black and white images of the protest outside of Pandora's Box on Sunset Blvd. in 1966.

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Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 6724467)

1930 Hollywood shopping guide cover

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3291/...60fd092d_o.jpgGSJ

yup, purty good shoppin' dirtrict.................

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6724492)

I always forget that many of the City Directories have a load of statistical facts about Los Angeles in their opening pages. To keep with the late-1920s theme of e_r's post, and the Motion Picture Producers list, I've gone with the 1927 CD again.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6724492)

Los Angeles Statistics

LOS ANGELES has a water supply sufficient for a population of 2,500,000.