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I bought some Limburger cheese recently (at half price), and when I googled for additional information (I wanted to know just how stinky it was going to be)
I came across this rather odd photograph of silent film star/vamp Valeska Suratt. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/f0LI25.jpg http://maudelynn.tumblr.com/post/694...valeska-suratt I'm not sure what the publicity department was trying to convey.....besides bad breath. ___ by the way, my Limburger was S T I N K Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original eBay, originally posted by e_r I've merged two plates from the 1910 Baist map to get this image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original www.historicmapworks.com/www.historicmapworks.com I was hoping that this would render a little sharper, but here's a current view from roughly the same location. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Google Maps I haven't had time to check for existing structures. |
We're off shopping with Julius Shulman today. This is "Job 3912: Qvale and Associates, Crawford's Corner (Alhambra, Calif.), 1965".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a better view of Crawford's Market. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original There was even a bell tower. I wonder whose hand that is. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original The whole place looks more like a Western movie set than a shopping mall. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Crawford's Corner is on the northwest corner of N New Avenue and Valley Boulevard. The large sign from the first picture has gone, but the buildings are still standing. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV There are more pictures and lots of history in the captions on the Alhambra Preservation Group's Facebook page. |
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Edit:*Pondering it further (yes, sometimes I'm like a dog shaking a rag--I'll just keep shaking it till I'm done with it), I'll bet that Zeph the Stake-Hammerer comes along and says to his assistant, "Dang, Zak--I've got to hammer in this stake just about where that big ol' bush is sittin' right in the way." Zak takes in the situation, contemplates the range of options and their ramifications, and finally says, "Well, Zeph--why don't you get rid o' the bush?" "What, this one?" "Yep." --Leaving the result we see... |
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I didn't think that, but what I was thinking is that computers can alter actual footage, so you never know. Another poster wondered if the sign next to McGoo's had been, for instance! |
:previous: Yes, I thought it might have been altered.
It's such a great image. I'm glad you posted it Martin. __ Hoss, thanks so much for the Baist map showing the location of the 1910 Echo Park photograph. (exact same year as the photograph!) |
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My favorite magazines were Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Aerial view. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psy38d9xnw.jpg Edit: The aerial is a view before 1949, because in 1947 I was living in a new house that sat on the runway at the Right side. |
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I didn't realize even the huge letters are up there rusting away in the bushes. Here's that Huell guy touching part of the crumbled 0 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/SNpGfu.jpg more of the 0...or is it the U? ;) -they locate the S a bit further up the hill. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/a12JC0.jpg One of the other men (there's three of them, including Huell) mentions there's original wiring and junction box(s) as well. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/6TJ9Ue.jpg video The romantic in me loves that the ruins of the sign are still up on the hill, but seriously, why hasn't all this rusty metal been removed? (especially since the City of Los Angeles owns the land now) ________ Here's the location of the Outpost sign. (yes, it was that BIG!) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/EiwNDR.jpg google_earth The letters of the sign were spaced far apart. Just before you get to what's left of the sign, there's a barbed-wire fence along the eastern edge of the path. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/GYqbCM.jpg gsv :previous: That's part of the outpost sign in the foreground. The fenced off area comes to a point. (shown below, beneath the red) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/TxNMyP.jpg google_earth From this higher altitude, you can see the fenced in area is shaped like a giant arrow. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/1evqnZ.jpg google_earth It's intriguing because no other area is fenced off like this. Does anyone know who owns this large plot of land? __ |
Thanks HossC and odinthor for the information the other day on the Peck-Judah Information Bureau.
In my haste to leave for Illinois, I had forgotten there was some writing on the back of the postcard. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/IqWUPm.png eBay Yep, you guessed it, I'm confused again. Why would their railroad tickets be deposited at the information bureau? Wouldn't the R.R. ticket office handle everything pertaining to their trip? As a reminder, here's the front of the postcard again. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/HQYcve.png eBay I see a Validating Office at the rear of the room. I hadn't noticed the tall glass 'urns' filled with lemons(?) and oranges in the lower right corner-----> __ |
Here's an interesting view of the Hotel Windermere lobby in Santa Monica [1955]
The sign on the television reads "Public Television 10 cents 20 minutes". http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/dD3g7F.jpg http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...artlett%3A2332 By the time this photograph was taken the hotel had seen better days. It was demolished 7 years later, in 1962. *The man with the pipe in the photograph is architect John Lindsay, once married to Diana Lynn and June Lockhart (not at the same time ;)) -click on the link beneath the photograph for additional information. below: Here's the Hotel Windermere some 25 years earlier. Quote:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27369 :previous: Includes a photograph of its demolition in 1962. __ |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/GL278k.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...7/order/nosort "Narrowly escaping being preserved for posterity, 1951" Ouch! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/m9l53e.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/9601/rec/1 A couple of the nurses appear to be having a rather good time. __ |
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Looking at the various ads for excursions and so on, one gathers that agents representing various aspects of travel and travel destinations were available at or through Peck-Judah, and hence their tickets or whatever would be left at P-J for pick up. Here's one typical ad, chosen at random (nothing to do with RR): "HONOLULU[.] Its climate, hotels and attractions. Call or drop me a postal and I'll call on you. Phones--Main 1799 F5478. Information cheerfully given. EDWIN O. CHILD, Special Representative, care Peck-Judah Co., 553 South Spring St." (L.A. Times 2/24/1908). |
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Let the record show he didn't fall in... https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8442/7...56bcdd00_b.jpgJack Young -- 42 years (being cleaned up) Man in La Brea tar pit (rescued dog), 1951 Peggy Hansen (nurse); Rowena MacDonald (nurse); Dorothy Mahan (nurse); A. F. Bock. USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8277/3...8738d3d6_b.jpgThe boys and their tarbaby dog, 1951 Man in La Brea tar pit (rescued dog), June 24, 1951. Peggy Hansen (nurse); Rowena MacDonald (nurse); Dorothy Mahan (nurse); A. F. Bock; Jack Young -- 42 years (being cleaned up after being in tar pit); Leo Cohen -- 9 years; Sanford Kaufman -- 10 years; Michael Rose -- 10 years (with tarred dog). |
Yes that's where my office is. Trying to figure out how to post my pictures of the buildings as they look now. I've been here at this office since 2010. Very good place. I've been over to Outpost area several times too.
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The Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village
The Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village, 6 small homes scattered around a lush acre just south of the Hollywood Bowl, were built between 1916 and 1923 to provide homes for employees of movie studios in Burbank and Studio City.
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Peck-Judah
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Peck-Judah Travel Service still exists, headquartered in San Francisco, as it's always been. The agency's free travel-info racks of brochures started in 1899: http://ephemerastudies.org/gallery/p...hure-cabinets/ The brochure cabinet business became a separate company in 1960: https://www.certifiedfolder.com/about-us/ Check eBay for some of their brochures, plus other images on google: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VW...366-h768-rw-no ebay P.S. The owners of Peck-Judah, associated w/ the company since 1960, were killed in an air crash in Costa Rica in 2000, after having traveled through the Panama Canal on a Peck-Judah tour. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...cy-2811292.php |
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