If you picket, it will never heal.
 

This is a picture taken outside the Sports Arena in 1961. The woman is picketing an ``anti-communism'' school featuring Roy Rogers, Ronald Reagan and Pat Boone.
http://www.insidesocal.com/usc/clusc...a_j%5B1%5D.jpg

www.insidesocal.com

Streetcar Home.
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Dec. 10, 1950: Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Smith gardening in front of their Sun Valley streetcar home. Housing quarters are made up of retired cars that formerly operated on the Watts line. They’re all-electric and air-conditioned.

This image was published in a Dec. 10, 1950, edition of the Los Angeles Times not kept on microfilm. No further information is available about the Smith’s home. I did find one reference posted in 2009 entitled “Street Car Smith” at the Shorpy.com website. According to the post, Mr. Smith “strung [eight cars] together with short corridors between each car, using one as a kitchen, one as a family room, several as bedrooms etc.”

Nice photos, but.....

That top pic is Seals Stadium in San Francisco. Certainly not the LA Coliseum.

A single-deck and rather utilitarian WPA job, it only lasted a shade over 30 years, and was bulldozed in the early 60s after Candlestick's completion.


http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?p...m=1302378489.0

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...2520AM.bmp.jpgJust Above Sunset

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-D...2520AM.bmp.jpg
The Bruce Torrence Hollywood Photograph Collection

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The Bruce Torrence Hollywood Photograph Collection


I noticed these shots of pupils at the Misses Janes School of Hollywood, taken in front of the famous
Hollywood Boulevard house that held their classrooms. Surprisingly, the school only seems to have
been gotten passing glances here, at least from what I can tell from using the search key.

http://you-are-here.com/hollywood/janes_house.jpgyou-are-here.com



Somehow, as is well-known, the house still stands behind a Janes-themed mini-mall after 109
years. Full story and interior and exterior views here: Big Orange Landmarks

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-N...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
It's somewhere in this jumble at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard.

The restaurant and/or nightclub that was its last incarnation is now apparently closed.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-L...2520AM.bmp.jpgUSCDL
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...illview733.jpgGoogle
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-h.../hillview1.jpgLAPL
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...illview720.jpgGoogle

As mentioned in my previous post, the Janes house restaurant/nightclub is now closed. Perhaps
the closing had to do with the neo-noir goings-on at the Hillview apartments next door:
http://hollywoodhillviewapartments.c.../sergio-caliz/

(You'll have to put up with the camerman's seriously annoying prattle, but the video at the
beginning shows some interiors of the Hillview.)


Edit: I guess it makes sense, given its ground-zero-Hollywood location, but I was surprised to read in various reports that Sam Goldwyn and Jesse Lasky built it in 1917 to house movie folk, who would include Mae Busch, Viola Dana, Stan Laurel, Jack La Rue, Barbara LaMarr, Joan Blondell, Jack Dougherty, Clara Bow, and Mary Astor, not to mention Valentino, who supposedly ran a speakeasy entered from a trap door on the sidewalk (?). I have also read that Chaplin was once the Hillview's proprietor.

See http://www.preservela.com/archives/000527.html

No luck in finding any picture showing the rooftop sign intact.

King Edward Hotel
 

The King Edward, built in 1905. The proprietors of this hotel liked to tell people that they were near Main St.; they were actually on Los Angeles St.

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The lobby:
http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/IntKEd.jpg
http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/IntKEd.jpg

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http://you-are-here.com/downtown/king_edward.jpghttp://you-are-here.com/downtown/king_edward.jpg

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Beverly Hills 90210: Steve and Janet's Haunted Hotel - Screenshot
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This is the haunted hotel that Steve and Janet go to investigate and end up getting locked inside in the season nine episode "Confession"

King Edward Hotel, 121 E. 5th St, Los Angeles CA


Reviews:
"I have a friend who lives in the King Edward Hotel, located above King Eddies. I finally got to venture into this apartment/hotel yesterday. To be honest I was hesitant, leave your ID at the front desk. There are notices around for jobs, items for sale and little parties going on in the lobby. There is a collection of old TVs in the lobby along with a small collection of books. The upstairs reminds me of the first building I lived in when I came to LA, living in MacArthur Park, therefore I come in open minded. There is a bathroom at the end of one hall. Hipsters, prison tattooed guys, and just old men are walking around. The only scary one was the hipster who quickly ran to his door and closed it quickly when we passed him in the hallway, he is a door sign saying NO MAID SERVICE. They have maid service? Inside my friends place was small, but with a decent bathroom, full shower and huge windows. I would say for the extremely cheap rent, this place is not bad at all. Am I checking in, hell no. But can I walk in without being creeped, sure."

"These rooms are great, if you are "sub-human". Management does as little as it can. If I could afford it, I would definately move!"

"well at least it was used in a cool 80's slasher -Private Parts (not the howard stern movie)"

"The lobby of the hotel is marble, with a sweeping staircase between 18 foot pillars, the landing featuring a mural in the style of (or by) maxfield parrish - the neighborhood is crowded and non-elite, definitely dangerous at night - over the registration desk is a large - 2' x 3' - photographic portait of George V in military uniform - the hotel was named for his father Edward VII, who was King (and emperor) when the hotel was built in 1904."

Hotel Van Nuys
 

This hotel came up earlier when e_r was looking for the Van Nuys building:

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...1F4F887E9?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...1F4F887E9?v=hr

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http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/VanNuys.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/VanNuys.jpg

http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/VanNCafe.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/VanNCafe.jpg

http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/Main4SW.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/Main4SW.jpg
"The large roof sign calling folks to the Hotel Van Nuys on Main Street is "aimed" at the train stations east towards the river."

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Today it is known as the Barclay Hotel.
http://you-are-here.com/downtown/van_nuys.jpg
http://you-are-here.com/downtown/van_nuys.jpg

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http://www.publicartinla.com/neon_si...rclay_neon.jpg


Historic locations from the 2009 Fox Searchlight film “(500) Days of Summer.”
103 West Fourth Street
*Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #288

In the film, the Barclay lobby serves as the hangout for Tom and his buddies.

Built by Morgan and Walls in 1896. Designed in the Beaux-Arts style with Romanesque features (which are less detailed and ornate than the more formal Beaux-Arts style). Look up to the top of the building to see “The Van Nuys” Commercial venture by Isaac Newton Van Nuys, one of L.A.’s wealthiest businessmen and landowners.

Opened in 1897 as the Van Nuys Hotel, one of the finest in the city with the latest amenities. First hotel to provide telephone and electric service in every room; “a neat device for the electrical heating of curling irons in each room is a new feature of special interest to the ladies” (Los Angeles Times). Fourth Street lobby has many original elements, including ceiling decorations, columns, arched doorways, stained-glass windows with old-fashioned scenes, and a crest with “V. N.” held up by sea horses. The oldest continuously operating hotel in Los Angeles, now a low income residential hotel.

Barclay Hotel,103 West Fourth Street, was transformed into the coffee bar in which Tom and his mates hang out. You’ve probably seen the Barclay dozens of times without noticing – remember the ‘New York’ meteor shower at the beginning of Armageddon? the monster stomping past it in Godzilla? Or the ‘Manhattan’ cafe where Jack Nicholson annoys Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets?

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Firefighters tear apart a smoldering mattress inside the Barclay Hotel while fighting a fire on March 15, 1972. A second blaze broke out in September.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Around 2am on August 21, 1972, guest Harry Roche smelled smoke from his bed in room 532 of the Barclay Hotel at 4th and Main. Finding his room phone dead, he ran downstairs to alert the hotel manager.

No one was killed or seriously injured in the blaze that night, but just over five months earlier a similar fire had left three guests dead and seven others injured.

Blame for that March 15 blaze was placed on a guest who was smoking in bed on the hotel's sixth floor. Two women and a man were burned to death on that floor.

The September fire broke out on the same floor -- something a little odd given that the hotel had not even returned the rooms to use. Guests were evacuated from the 4th and 5th floors of the hotel and waited in the lobby while fire crews fought the flames above.

Fire again broke out at the hotel on September 11, 1974. This time, though, a new fire-alarm system and fire-resistant doors. The devices had been installed the year previous in response to new city rules that required residential buildings be brought up to current fire codes.

A curious side-note to the March 15 blaze: While fire crews were still at work, Harvey Lynn Beagle II, a resident of the Cecil Hotel, approached a police officer and claimed to have set the fire. He pulled out a newspaper clipping from his wallet that showed him to be a convicted arsonist. Police took Beagle into custody, but released him a few days later when it became clear he could not have been responsible.

This website has numerous screenshots of movies set at the Barclay.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...2520PM.bmp.jpgavilon_music

Here is more on the Van Nuys/Barclay from a search of the thread:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4303

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4305

Grand Army of the Republic Highway???
 

Noticed on google maps that a stretch of Interstate 5 around Elysian Pk also has the name "Grand Army of the Republic Highway". Had never noticed this before. Anyone know of an interesting backstory?

:previous:

"Grand Army of the Republic" is a reference to the Civil War-- Grand Army of the Republic Highways must be something like the Blue Star Memorial Highways that commemorate the dead of WWII (and maybe WWI & other wars, not sure). Google it.

:previous: The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the Civil War.


http://a.imageshack.us/img17/6776/gr...blic1930fr.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=60521

above: The G.A.R. band marching in Los Angeles on June 5, 1930.

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I didn't see your post G_W.

Beaudry, many thanks for your post. I had no idea about this history of the building so it was quite an eye opener to read your post along with the links you gave. I didn't catch the year that it was demolished but seems like it was 70's or later, which makes me think I drove past the building many times without knowing its history.

Best wshes, and hope to see you here again.

I remember that earlier in the thread someone posted a great noirish story about a huge, wild party in the 40's or 50's in this building that was broken up by the cops. I was looking for it the other day, without success.

I'm pretty sure that this building later became a Bekins storage facility, as did the similar building near Santa Monica Blvd. and Holloway. I used to live near the latter facility and well remember looking out at its huge green Bekins sign from my living room window. It was pretty impressive and really "made" the view!

I've been trying to find some night time shots of these buildings, but no luck so far. It's odd that these buildings were so narrow and so high, I wonder what the reason was. I think there was another one like this in Van Nuys, perhaps there were more. These uniquely shaped buildings are certainly worth a photo essay here but it seems that few photos survive. If anyone has more shots, especially night time views, I'd love to see them.

looks like history buffs have a little power. interesting.

great photo e.r.

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-11-...rmies-republic

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics24/00046628.jpgLAPL
How could one little train station have so much charm? Just found this undated shot of the South Pasadena
Santa Fe depot. Take away the signs and it could be an ancient provincial station in Europe....

Re: A 'lost' silent film studio.

The Thomas C. Regan Studios under construction in north Van Nuys in 1925. (the distinctive 'castle' structure is the administration building)

http://a.imageshack.us/img9/6173/tho...tudioconst.jpg
found on ebay



Searching the same area, I came across this American Legion Post in what is today's Panorama City. The twin turrets immediately caught my eye.

http://a.imageshack.us/img402/4313/t...tudioaeria.jpg
google aerial




below: Is it possible this Legion Post is the old 1925 administration building of the long lost Regan Studios?

http://a.imageshack.us/img846/4523/t...gangoogle1.jpg
google street view




http://a.imageshack.us/img442/1057/t...egangoogle.jpg
google street view

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below: After a few more searches I found this excellent blog that came to the same conclusion that I did....
that the American Legion Post #817 is indeed the long lost administration building.
http://pasadenadailyphoto.blogspot.c...-birchard.html


http://a.imageshack.us/img848/2504/t...tudiolegio.jpg
Robert S. Birchard as noted above

How cool is that? :)

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:previous:

Fantastic, e_r. What a find!

#19 Berkeley Square
 

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...2520PM.bmp.jpg Halliburton Family Collection

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...bsqFORFB75.jpg The Western Architect
The Whittlesey and Terwilliger design for #19 was completed in 1910 for real-estate investor Hugh Barclay
Brown and sold soon after to Mrs. Melville H. Hudson. Mrs. Hudson sold the house to the legendary Erle
Halliburton of the legendary oil concern in the mid-'20s.


Since completing my history of Berkeley Square, I've received a number of responses from individuals who lived on the vanished street or visited there before its demise. One very kind descendant of the Erle Halliburton family of #19, who appears as a baby in a photograph taken there circa 1950 that can be seen in my history of the house, surprised me with images from her family's collection, one of which is seen here at top. It is the only shot I've ever seen of the house as remodeled by the family. Little by little I'm able to amend my history with new details of life on the Square and fresh images that could only come from private sources. The individual history of #19 is here.

This part of the story on the twins gave me a chuckle. I bet their defense lawyer couldn't wait to bring that out in court.

Streetcar Home

These streetcar bodies are from “a group of 20 cars built for the Southern Pacific Railway’s local streetcar operation in Oakland, California. Southern Pacific transferred 10 of these cars to its Pacific Electric operations in 1913, where they were needed to meet growing demand. The new 170-class cars were the first steel-bodied cars in the PE's fleet, and PE crews nick-named them "Submarines", after the then-emerging naval phenomenon. The West Coast's first submarine base had opened in the L.A. Harbor that same year

The 170-class cars were almost retired by 1928, but three remained in service in Long Beach until final retirement in 1934. Many of these sturdy steel cars ended up being sold to the public as empty carbodies. One became a home in the Crestline area of the San Bernardino Mountains and was later rescued for restoration by the Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, California.” The information in these first two paragraphs is from the Orange Empire Railway Museum Website.

I find rcarlton’s Shorpy research especially intriguing given the fact that only ten of these cars served the PE. If the Smith’s did indeed have as many as eight 170 Class bodies on the property at one time, then they owned most of the fleet!

In 1970 I had the opportunity to meet those folks and take photos of the cars and property. At that tine they were still in PE red and all the numbers were visible. In addition, there was one wooden car (the same one seen in the background of the LA Times photo) - a 500 class if I recall correctly. At that time there were a total of four 170 Class cars and all were partially obscured by heavy brush, making photography difficult. Also, of the four, one had been partially buried in a hillside on the property in an attempt to create a bomb shelter during the 1950’s. Unfortunately, at the time I had a so-so camera so the photos are not great but they can be accessed via the links below from an earlier post I made to another website.

Interestingly, the property is now a horse farm and at least some of the cars are still in use as offices. They are now painted silver.

Cheers,
Jack


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I lived there from '87-'89. The building is totally original, elevators, baths,kitches even some original furniture. The whole nieghborhood is a time capsule of 1920s Los Angeles.

Not just another day at Muller Brothers, 1951
 

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Before the Cinerama Dome, there was Muller Brothers... the occasion was their 3,000,000th car wash. The shot from about 20 years before the others reminds me of the
progression from "auto laundry" to "auto wash" to "car wash." Even without the starlets doing publicity stunts, it must have been quite a facility. Too many big photos to
put them all here, but they're definitely worth a look. See this 2020 J. H. Graham blog post.

A little history of the Mullers from Hollywood Heritage: "The Muller family is one of Hollywood’s pioneers. Jacob Muller came to Hollywood in 1893, establishing the first meat market in Hollywood, across from the present Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard. He sold the market in 1907 and established the first ice company in Hollywood, selling that business in 1913. The family’s original house was built Sunset Boulevard at Ivar. This site later became the location of the RCA Building, built by the Muller Family in 1963 (currently the Los Angeles Film School Building).... Across Sunset Boulevard on 4 acres, where the Cinerama Dome Theater and a new retail center is under construction, was Muller Brothers Service Station. Opened in 1920 by Jacob’s sons, Walter and Frank, this became the largest service station in the world (including a large automobile supply center), employing 120 people by 1937. Celebrities, from Rudolph Valentino to Clark Gable, came by regularly to get gas or just work on their cars. In 1963 the site was sold for the Cinerama Dome Theater, and, at that time, an eventual hotel."


http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics46/00072859.jpg
Post-meat, pre-auto... "NOW JUST A COUPLE OF AIR & WATER BOYS"...?

It was demolished in 2005.

magazine lower left, EXCITING LOVE, ran Winter 1941 – Winter 1958
 

"Circa 1940."

A little later than that---magazine lower left, EXCITING LOVE, ran Winter 1941 – Winter 1958, 10c until 1946-47.

COVER SHOWN online @
http://www.philsp.com/data/image043.html#EXCITINGLOVE
AND
http://www.philsp.com/data/images/e/...1spr_v1_n2.jpg

SOME issues EL contents indexed @
http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/b63.htm#A1042
but not issue shown---also tried ANDERSON, RUTH "Born to Love" issue shown, no dice.

Bucolic Beverly Hills, 1951
 

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...41897144_n.jpgBHHP
Melody Lane, the Beverly-Wilshire, a Derby and a Chrysler...

"...they will remain low-income housing though...."
 

http://a.blogdowntown.com/i/282ced03...jpg?1330971796Blogdowntown

News: http://blogdowntown.com/2012/03/6626...edwards-throne

That "...they will remain low-income housing...." is interesting... so they will refurbish these places expecting no more revenue? Oh, well, at least someone sees potential in them.

I often think of the word "bucolic" as meaning rural or "out in the sticks"...I never thought of that part of town as bucolic...even in those days.

:previous:

Is that what bucolic means? How about "Practically bucolic, as compared to today: Beverly Hills, 1951"?

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5...829/55ford.jpgVintage Los Angeles
Not your usual wallpaper billboard--

Sadly the Baltimore's ghost sign is no more. (OK...maybe not technically a ghost sign, as the building is still a hotel, but......)

http://www.fadingad.com/blog/califor..._baltimore.jpg



replaced by this mural.

Let's see......older Asian woman, peering over her glasses......

So Mr Artiste.......what, uhhhhh, EXACTLY is this supposed to represent? What does it connote? I am not a hipster-doofus, and therefore do not immediately grasp the subtleties....

Is she watching the neighborhood? Ever-vigilant to aberrant behavior? If so, I wish her the best.....she has her work cut out for her. I'm sure the amount of criminal activity that has taken place over the years on that stretch of 5th between Main and Los Angeles could fill a ream of police blotters.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m61dWFCLgd...l_+%282%29.JPG

http://brixandtrix.blogspot.com/2012/02/haltimore.html

P.S. -----

The Yelp review of The Baltimore is hilarious. (You'll have to look up Fifi towel on your own, as I did. Same with carpet farmers.)

This place is a GREAT place to hole up for a week and smoke crack like the world is going to end tomorrow! Half of Los Angeles' sex offenders and violent criminals can be found living here -- really great if you need advice on how to construct your very own Fifi towel, how to kill someone with a pair of car keys, or if you're into IVing cheap, sludgy heroin and need tips on how muscle it in even the most abscessed limb.

Entomologists shall delight at the garden of roaches, bedbugs, lice, chiggers and other assorted invertebrates that blanket the walls of this manor. Shag carpets in the hallway are surprisingly clean... but that could be because of all the random carpet farmers you'll see scrounging around down there, at the foot of their doors, picking away to keep them clean. Who needs a vaccuum? Neighbors are friendly, if exuberant -- especially the ladies! -- kicking in your door at 2am, offering companionship at rock bottom prices.

Wow! And the concierge service.... I have never had my keys and ID shoved at me so fast underneath a bulletproof glass window before. What efficiency!

AND the best part is, it's dirt cheap!!! So you can save some money when you walk a few blocks over to your fancy-pants dinner at Cicada. I love Downtown Los Angeles!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...2520PM.bmp.jpg John Humble/Hemmings Classic Car
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
Bixel between Wilshire & 6th, 1980 and 2009.

Someone post a picture, I'm going through withdrawal here!

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...88030011_n.jpg Corbis

:previous: What a wonderful billboard G_W!

As many of you know...the Moulin Rouge was located in the old Earl Carroll Theater at 6230 Sunset Blvd.

The 'storybook style' Spadena House, also known as the Witch's House, located at the corner of Walden Drive and Carmelita in Beverly Hills.


http://a.imageshack.us/img836/6480/f...itchhouseh.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sp...itch_House.jpg






http://a.imageshack.us/img31/151/fai...napanormia.jpg
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/712469




below: Detail of the 'spider-web' door.

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http://jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_ch...08/12/658.aspx





below: The 'Witch's House' is much larger than one might expect.
Here is an aerial showing the 'storybook' house on it's corner lot (the label is on the wrong house).

http://a.imageshack.us/img443/5170/f...leaeriaxzh.jpg
google street view


The Spadena/Witch's House was originally located on Washington Blvd. in Culver City.
(further details below)

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The Spadena House was designed in 1921 by art director Harry Oliver.
This whimsical structure originally housed the administrative offices and dressing rooms for Willat Studios (yet another long lost studio).

http://a.imageshack.us/img820/4341/f...willat1921.jpg




below: The Spadena House at it's original location in Culver City.

http://a.imageshack.us/img72/5348/fa...udiosculve.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/D...wdate=&hidate=

above: For the life of me, I cannot figure out that buttress 'thingy' attached to the roof (it resembles a hydraulic pump).
This element is missing in contemporary photographs.





below: The odd 'buttress' can be seen in this old postcard as well.

http://a.imageshack.us/img42/9236/fa...illatstudi.jpg
postcard






below: sans buttress. (here's another 'where's waldo' moment....find the shark in this photo) :)

http://a.imageshack.us/img141/4746/f...illsflatsn.jpg
unkown
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A view of the property in the 1980s.


http://a.imageshack.us/img403/5642/fairy1960snaomi.jpg
not sure where I found this.





below: The Spadena House as it appears today (extremely lush and inviting...except perhaps..for Hansel & Gretel)

http://a.imageshack.us/img141/4589/f...denagoogle.jpg
google street view

Another glimpse of old Bunker Hill. The layout of the street seem very odd in this photograph.
(the large house on the right appears to be situated on an early version of a cul-de-sac)

Can anyone pinpoint this view?


http://a.imageshack.us/img829/4130/b...eorgefigur.jpg
University of Michigan


above: The caption is quite sad. "A mighty redevelopment project takes them all".

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Great billboard. The Moulin Rouge was home to Queen for a Day with Jack Bailey, as well as the Emmy Awards. A beautiful nightclub that should still be around.

I think that's supposed to be the witch's broom, parked on the roof after a flight. At least, that's what I remember reading. How did they get this house on a truck to move it from Culver City? Never knew it had the rear wing--presumably added after the move...? Naturally, I had to take a Google drive--below are a few shots from the side street.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-E...132%2520AM.jpgGoogle

Speaking of Beverly Hills...
 

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w...2520AM.bmp.jpgBeverly Hills Historic Preservation
The Beverly-Wilshire--so new, it doesn't have its rooftop signs yet. So new it almost could be a
building awaiting demolition. But it's still there, of course.

You've got to check out the great work my friend Kimberly Vinokur Reiss is doing with her
facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/BeverlyHills...icPreservation.

below: Eleanor Powell tap dancing on the roof of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
On the right is the E of the rooftop sign.

http://a.imageshack.us/img442/2472/e...evwilshire.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3345511...-79761301@N00/

Ghosts
 

Hello everyone. I’ve been a lurker here for a while. I’ve gone through every page of this thread and have found many gems. A thank you goes out to everyone. I work for a Civil Engineering firm here at 2nd and Broadway in LA. I’m in the process of decorating the office with old maps and photos of downtown LA and in particular, this building. This thread has been very helpful, and in the process has been enlightening on the history of Los Angeles. Now every time I walk through the Plaza and past Pico House I feel like I’m walking through the ghosts of the past. I look forward to future posts and to sharing some interesting tidbits I’ve found.

Speaking of Ghosts…. I don’t remember seeing this posted here. If it has just slap me around.

Have you heard the story of the original Calvary Cemetery and Cathedral High School? I’ll call it “Early Noirish”.
The best story I found was this from the Downtown News(2009): http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/t...f0ed1c0d3.html

-Mike

:previous: Welcome to the thread Mike! I love that Calvery Cemetery story.




File this under drunk driver:

A submerged car in Beverly Hills pool (1961).

http://a.imageshack.us/img638/5917/c...961bevhill.jpg
http://www.glamoursplash.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

LACMA's 340 Ton Boulder
 

Off topic, but this is a strange event that ties in to our discussions about the L.A. County Museum. An enormous 340 ton boulder is being trucked from a quarry near Riverside to Wilshire Blvd. It eventually will be the centerpiece of Michael Heizer's outdoor sculpture "Levitated Mass" at LACMA. The boulder travels between 10 PM and 5 AM and involves street closures, dismantling of power lines, and other complications. The journey is taking 11 days.

I dragged my wife down to Long Beach late last night to see the spectacle. Nearly 1000 spectators and workers were gathered around Atlantic Blvd. and 96th, it was quite a scene. There was some sort of delay but at about 10:30 loud horns sounded and the caravan began rolling, at about 5 MPH.

Besides the truck that tows the custom build transporter, there are two more that push it from behind. It was quite a sight to watch the enormous convoy make its way down Atlantic Avenue. (These photos are not mine and were taken a few days ago, east of Los Angeles.)


http://dkse.net/david/lacma-rock-rig.jpg
http://sanandreaslife.wordpress.com/...wland-heights/


http://dkse.net/david/left.turn.rock.jpg
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=340+t...O77G7Cw&zoom=1

A drowned '49 Roadmaster Sedanette--why they called anything so big a sedan- "ette," I don't know, but they did.


:previous:
As for the rock... call me a philistine, but this is the most extreme example of an artist's ego run amok I've ever seen, not to mention the gradiosity of the donors who paid the $10 million to move it into the city. Of course, NYC has its art-world foolishness too... we did have the similarly overblown Christo thing in Central Park a few years ago--interesting, until you realized that it was more like walking through a long carwash than art. Even out there, the rock seems to be more of a joke than art. From what I can tell, everyone is L.A. is already sick to death of hearing about the rock! Of course, I must remember that it's a "specially selected" rock.... but why move it at all?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520PM.bmp.jpg Corbis

Speaking of Buicks, here we are in a '54, cruising north on a lightly trafficked Highland Avenue.... I love these old color shots.


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

-2000 Years from now people will think that aliens moved it there.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...rclastreet.jpg Corbis


I've always had a thing for '53 Mercurys...here's one on Wilshire near San Vicente in 1961... plus a few random shots of the area....


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...11-1-ISLA?v=hrUSCDL

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...69734421_n.jpgBHHP

Van de Kamp's was on the southeast corner of Wilshire and Tower, where there's a Coffee Bean now; the building behind it is still there....

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

:previous: Great before and afters G_W!




The Brown Derby on the northeast corner of Wilshire Blvd. & Alexandria Avenue.


http://a.imageshack.us/img594/8536/b...1march2012.jpg
potcard found on ebay



below: I was curious to know if that handsome apartment building in the background still stands.

http://a.imageshack.us/img15/8025/bd...gindistanc.jpg
detail



It's still there folks!! Let me present the Evanston Apartments at 630 S. Kenmore Ave.

http://a.imageshack.us/img85/4201/ev...sangelesfl.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fridayi...n/photostream/

The building has 83 units and has one of those archaic rooftop signs that I love so much. The old sign says apts-hotel.






below: Some google views

http://a.imageshack.us/img210/9506/e...outhkenmor.jpg





http://a.imageshack.us/img825/9859/e...tsskenmore.jpg




http://a.imageshack.us/img825/5945/e...tssideview.jpg