My Old Stomping Grounds
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http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5472/1...e091d9e1_o.jpg Honolulu at Montrose Google Maps by Otis Criblecoblis, on Flickr |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hFigueroa3.jpg USC Digital Library Just south of W 49th Place there was also a Hercules Gasoline station. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hFigueroa4.jpg USC Digital Library Here's a closer view. Both Shell and Hercules offered to grease any car for 75 cents! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hFigueroa5.jpg Detail of picture above. |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520AM.bmp.jpghttp://www.weho.org/ This small item from the Times of June 21, 1925, appearing with no other info, may depict the same building--couldn't find any reference to "Witterkind" in the Times, however... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-7...2520AM.bmp.jpgLAT |
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More Castles in the sand? Resisted posting photos of the Deauville Beach Club having assumed they are already here. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7...e1ec921a_o.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7...e1ec921a_o.jpg Circa 1927 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...Y7I7QISLAI.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...Y7I7QISLAI.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...V7ACIITLSG.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...V7ACIITLSG.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...J78L3GTULN.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...J78L3GTULN.jpg (If only the area was zoned for croc filled moats! -- like Malibu?) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...BNRRGP7ARN.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...BNRRGP7ARN.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...MKCS2C91AY.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...MKCS2C91AY.jpg A hall fit for all of Sherwood Forest's denizens. Appropriate attire required? http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...PFMG7GFHGC.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...PFMG7GFHGC.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...K8QXFSBANH.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...K8QXFSBANH.jpg Plenty of room to bake while watching the sun set and trying to explore photos posted on USC's digital site. Enough charging stations? http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...R584BD22NK.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...R584BD22NK.jpg |
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If I have time to go by there sometime soon, I want to read what that "plaque" info says, for want of a better word. I don't know if it was originally conceived that way, but the upper floor of the building contained several apartments until some point. In fact, there was a woman who was allowed to stay in her apartment well into her 90's as a sort of building caretaker/manager. I talked to her once, she had worked as a masseuse at the Beverly Hills Hotel and once told me how mean she thought Joan Crawford was. She remembered the rail yard across the street and said that a lot of the red car operators lived around there. Most of the other apartments were converted to offices, one was a hair salon, but they retained their apartment look. I know that at one time the Larrabee Street side of the building toward the north side was a post office. (I'm assuming it was until 1969 when they built the current West Hollywood Post office just north of this building, with it's address on San Vicente.) From 1983 that original post office space has been a video store (Video West) and still is open. Thirty years! I also know that the building may not have survived the 1994 earthquake except for the mandated earthquake retrofitting that had been done a year before that. The building next to this one had some major structural damage after the quake and was closed for several months, but it was repaired. Then there was a fire there in 2007 that closed it for about a year, though the buildings on either side were saved from that. All this and they're still there! ___________________________________ P.S.: I had to laugh at the bottom of that newspaper clipping about building permits setting a new record. Appears that's a tradition started from the earliest beginnings of the city that has not abated. In fact, didn't an earlier post I wrote quote that the city name itself (West Hollywood) had been promoted by a real estate group? In addition to the milennium project that was eventually approved, and renamed, I've recently read about grandiose plans to build monstrosities at Santa Monica Blvd. and San Vicente and a giant building where the Garden of Allah used to be. (Not that I mind the disappearance of an ugly strip mall, but this bigger is better notion in Hollywood and West Hollywood will probably only stop when one of these things falls down in an earthquake or something. |
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Lack of proper respect for entertainers can lead to ruination! 548 S. Main Street (The Burbank Theater had a history going back to 1893!) 1903 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/2304/rec/1 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0 Gas or Electric? http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0 Direct Drive? And a proper stepping stone! http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...438&DMROTATE=0 Date Unk http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015257.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/theater2/00015257.jpg Circa 1974 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008035.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008035.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036904.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics34/00036904.jpg http://photos.cinematreasures.org/pr...jpg?1316135645http://photos.cinematreasures.org/pr...jpg?1316135645 http://wesclark.com/burbank/burbank_theatre_6.jpghttp://wesclark.com/burbank/burbank_theatre_6.jpg http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...0d2018833-.jpghttp://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...0d2018833-.jpg http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...e/IMG01041.jpghttp://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...e/IMG01041.jpg |
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Beach in Santa Monica in front of the Deauville Beach Club, 1920 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Deauville1.jpg USC Digital Library Beachgoers in front of the Deauville Club on the beach in Santa Monica, ca.1923 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Deauville2.jpg USC Digital Library Here's the entry from the 1931 Santa Monica phone book which gives the address as 1525 Ocean Front: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Deauville3.jpg Santa Monica Public Library USC also includes "Deauville" in its tags for these two pictures of The Gable Beach Club, even though that was located at 808 Ocean Front (according to the 1928 Santa Monica Yellow Pages). Birdseye view of Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica from Palisades Park, 1920-1930 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...TheGables1.jpg USC Digital Library View of the Santa Monica beach from the palisades, showing the Gables Beach Club, 1920-1930 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...TheGables2.jpg USC Digital Library Other clubs on Ocean Front in 1928 include American Legion Post 123 at 1351, The Breakers Club at 1725, Club Casa Del Mar at 1811, Club Chateau at 1351, the Rotary Club and Santa Monica Athletic Club (visible to the left of the Deauville Beach Club in the photos above) at 1441, and the Sea Breeze Beach Club at 800. There's also the Crescent Bay Yacht Club at Wilshire and Ocean Front, and the Edgewater Club of Southern California at Pico and Ocean Front. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...TheGables3.jpg Santa Monica Public Library Previous posts on The Gables Beach Club: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11062 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11066 |
Deauville Beach Club
In about 1958 me and the Fox Brothers snunk into the Deauville Club. We were challenged by a young fellow who we were able to fool. That day we used the indoor pool, and the steam bath before an older member got wise to us and kicked us out. To this day I have always wanted my own personal steam bath.
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A fantastic photograph of a true noirish 'dame', the wonderful actress/director Ida Lupino.
http://imageshack.us/a/img203/2402/h477.jpg ebay 'No Dogs Allowed'. Do you think this a government building? I would love to know where this was taken. __ |
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Speaking of Angelino Heights...
According to a Los Angeles magazine online story on the neighborhood (http://www.lamag.com/citythink/cityt...gelino-heights), "By the late teens many silent screen stars chose to build their homes in the area, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson." Anyone have any idea where? |
It's one of those weird things. When I was a kid we often bought gas here or at least drove past here down Crescent several times a week. I remember when the present structure was built, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the previous building, except for the fact that it already had been a Union 76 station for years, by that time.
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Almost in the center of the recent "Cityscape" photo is the Hotel Teris (I probably remembered it because I kept reading it as Hotel Tetris!). The Hotel Louise/Cortez is just off the right of this picture.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Detail from photo atUSC Digital Library The hotel, standing at 1254 West 6th Street, was built in 1925. Here are a couple of postcards: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Ebay http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original CSUDH Digital Collections The USC site also has some interior photos from 1932. The door on the right in the first picture below leads to the Teris Drug Co., while the double doors hide the telephones. The second picture below shows the higher level to the left of the first picture. The door at the back near the stairs has a sign that reads "Beauty Shoppe". I wonder how much survives. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...otelTeris5.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...otelTeris6.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...otelTeris7.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...otelTeris8.jpg USC Digital Library According to the 1932 CD, the manager at the time was Henry Stanley. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...telTerisCD.jpg rescarta.lapl.org There's no date on this flyer that I found on Ebay, but I'd guess it's quite early as the Teris still has the $2 a day banner and the El Rey has singles from $1. Four of the "Five Aces" are still standing - only the Hotel St Paul (prominently visible in the "Cityscape") has been reduced to a parking lot. The El Rey Hotel is now the Weingart Center Association. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Ebay The Hotel Teris is now known as the Weingart Guest House, and is part of the Good Samaritan Hospital site. There's a brief piece about it on their website. It has lost its small balcony, but otherwise looks pretty intact. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV A close-up of some of the detail: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
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