It was fiendishly complex. I figured the apartment building looked newish in the picture.


STEP 1 -

https://i.imgur.com/TPQoV4Y.jpg



STEP 2 - Some scrolling ( a surprisingly small amount.)



STEP 3 -

https://i.imgur.com/YiwbY7h.jpg


:D

Astonishing, Noir_Noir! A deceptively simple yet effective strategy! That's some first class detective work! :cheers:

El Montalvo, 3835 W. 2nd St.
(now Koreatown)


Was it unusual to have bars on the windows of apartment buildings like this in 1929? (It still does.)

No. Wrought iron has been with us for a long time. One source attributes this to a Spanish Colonial revival style. Unclear whether iron window, door and fence adornment was supposed to be for security, decoration or both. Bars, can be obviously be decorative and may indicate something worth protecting as well as providing some theft deterrence. :shrug:







1928

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3...armsin1928.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4783


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C7uofLt5q1...ing+inside.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C7uofLt5q1...ing+inside.jpg










https://www.shutterway.co.za/wp-cont...rs-740x464.jpghttps://www.shutterway.co.za/wp-cont...rs-740x464.jpg

Googling is cheating.

KUDOS to Noir Noir! :worship:



'mystery' bowling alley.

I came across these two negatives this afternoon on ebay.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/TSB2VQ.jpg

"1940S NEGATIVES..LADIES, CAR BY BOWLING COURT IN LOS ANGELES AREA CALIFORNIA"


https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/ZX21BC.jpg
EBAY



Let's take a closer look at that sign.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/9AmpIr.jpg

I'm pretty sure the name at the top is Blaney's
and as you can see, the bowling alley has 10 'courts'. (not sure when they started calling them lanes)

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This intriguing photograph shows band members of the Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. Band in odd costumes.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/GLpC7G.jpg
EBAY

Some of the writing has worn off so I'm not entirely sure what this is all about.

The first word might be....Remembrance? of L.A. S. & E.

_ _ _ _ yces' Association P or R (Picnic?)

...........................August 21rst. 1926

Pomona
 

https://i.imgur.com/MBKgEhV.jpg
http://imagesofpomona.blogspot.com/2...ng-alleys.html

Thanks Lorendoc! I was stumped.

Ten Pin (normal) vs. Duck Pin (?)

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You read my mind GW...I wondered which of his homes was in the background.



Here is 649 West Adams when Theda Bara was in residence.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/zIXAE5.jpg
hjholstein



Here she is roaming around in the yard.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/nPGBxt.jpg
theda

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Yes, I believe it is the same car e r. ;)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/gRvXcZ.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/ShiMkM.jpg
The Evening Herald, Sept. 24, 1921

cel·lar·et: a cabinet for keeping bottles of wine and liquor."

Altitude instruments: To make sure his bottles wouldn't explode? :shrug:

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Ten pin bowling uses the size balls and pins that we are used to today. Duckpin uses smaller, slightly wider pins and smaller balls with no finger holes. The balls are somewhat bigger than a softball. There are some rule differences. There are only a few duckpin alleys left in the country.

:previous:


The ad about the bowling lanes (courts) also mentions "nine pins" bowling, which I have heard of, and "cocked hat" bowling which I have not!

Cocked Hat
Cocked hat; a bowling game played on a standard tenpin lane with three tenpins and a duckpin ball (4–5 inches in diameter). The pins are set 36 inches apart at the three corners of a normal tenpin formation. Two balls are allowed per frame, and scoring is as in tenpin bowling, except that 3 instead of 10 plus the total felled with the next two balls is the maximum score per frame. Thus, a perfect game is 90 instead of 300.

https://www.britannica.com/sports/cocked-hat-bowling

[voiceover:] There are 8 million stories in the Noirish City. This is one of them...

(From the Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1918, a hundred years ago today.)

https://s26.postimg.cc/md48l3wnt/Mystery.jpg
LA Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library

Ice cream is in order on a hot day.

caption
 

I think it says "Remembrance of L.A. G. & E. Employees' Association Picnic August 21rst, 1926."

cool car....1929.

Nice sidewalk.....but that red curbing. Ouch.

In looking for some other pictures of this band, I found a wonderful map of LA in 1909. One of those aerial sort of drawn maps with labels on the buildings. Unlike most it will zoom in a lot and is very clear. it is located at http://www.gastorical.com/los-angeles-1909

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That's the "Birdseye View Publishing Co." 1909 map. It's also available at www.bigmapblog.com, but if you want to download the original, go to the Library of Congress. Various versions are available, with the best quality being a 634.2Mb TIFF which comes in at 17711 x 12515 pixels!

Blaney's Bowling, 275 N. Main St. Pomona CA

Lorendoc
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/EKg8Hs.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/URuFRx.jpgEBAY



The seller that has the Blaney's photograph for sale also has a 1940s negative of this hotdog stand in Pomona.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/svXLbS.jpg
EBAY

Cute little business but that bush seems to be right in the way.

If you look closely at the street sign..you will see that it says E. Fifth Avenue. (but the cross street is a mystery)




Here's a closer look at the two people inside. (I lightened it a bit)

I thought they'd be two employees, but the man is wearing a sailor suit.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/C4nigV.jpg

:previous: Can you tell what kind of bush that is odinthor? I like its small attractive flowers.

...oh, and what about that trellis at the window on the left in the top photo. (it is a trellis, right?)

Have you ever seen one that straddles a window like that?


the negative
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/Vejxb5.jpg

"1940'S NEGATIVE...FOOT LONG HOT DOGS STAND,COCA COLA SIGN,POMONA CALIFORNIA" EBAY
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