I hope their food was better than their "Exellent" spelling!

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ellentFood.jpg
GSV

Thanks for the "now" shots of the old Comet's location, e_r. I've since found a picture of their 800 S Broadway store. This is from 1951 - the hotdogs have gone up to 20 cents! Can you guess where it was?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAComets3.jpg
Detail of picture in USC Digital Library

I'm sure you all got it - it's in the Newsreel (Tower) Theatre.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

I didn't realize you were born in 1933. ;) :runaway:

:previous: -just the July 4th part M_P...;)


I finally found a postcard from the Wilton years. (with a view of the interior of the Skyroom)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/QrxiYx.jpg
ebay
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(I just found this one...three hours later)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/3IRtkS.jpg
ebay
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Pretty cool to see that Comet's Hot Dog stand in the Tower Theater building HossC. -good find!

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Here's an extremely rare postcard.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/JXf2gq.jpg
ebay

Los Angeles Times Camp, Catalina circa 1911


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/JMYFDi.jpg

I'll probably get flamed for this almost non sequitur to NLA post but this is something that has always interested me... more as a curiosity... and minor annoyance.
It's driving me mad, I tell you!

Actually I think the subject has come up before. Not too generally speaking, there's almost nothing we haven't touched on here that even only barely borders on the Noirish.... yet it keeps getting better all time often due to peoples real effort and talent. What a jewel NLA.

Oh, That Old-Timey Movie Accent!

Video example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wFjyu3rD-o#t=144

I did get to go in the public rooms (lobby etc ) on the ground floor and peaked into the ballroom. It's still very pretty.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...s-ballroom.jpg

The mystery of the Mesmer Flagpole.

"The first real civic flagpole - other than up on Fort Moore - which was erected in front of the US Hotel in support of the Union cause in 1864" - Brady Westwater

http://lacowboy.blogspot.com/2014/10...-who-took.html

I'm sure that many here are aware of the more or less recent renovation of LA Hall of Justice.
In front the building there used to be two flagpoles. One was the very old wooden "Mesmer" flag pole with a bronze historic marker at its base. It has disappeared.

I have been informed unofficially, off-the-record that it was NOT on the historic resources list when Public Works did the renovation.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dhYFiL50lA..._H_T_Henry.jpg


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1c-FgmTPmL...light_1935.jpg

Baker Block interior
 

Don't think we've ever seen this photo on NLA. It's the parlor of Dona Arcadia de Baker's apartment in the Baker Block, and it was published in W.W. Robinson's book "Los Angeles From The Days Of The Pueblo."

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psc103ff2a.jpgmy scan

:previous: I never thought I'd get to see inside the Baker Block. -thanks Tetsu
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Here's an interesting photograph of a LARy street-car turning a corner in front of the Hotel Houston and the Los Angeles Evening Herald Express.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/MHRzs1.jpg
ebay


I located the Hotel Houston on Georgia Street in the 1956 city directory.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/MqFbVW.png
http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...ollections.jsp


It's gone, as is almost everything else in this area.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/AWlqez.png
google_earth
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Mary Poppin's boyfriend?



This is one of the most bizarre Los Angeles postcards I've ever come across.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/I9R8zN.jpg
ebay


below: a close_up of the bottom portion (via the seller)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/tmz4wy.jpg


...and here's the floating man descending on Los Angeles.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/wSYmgx.jpg
ebay

I was hoping one of you computer geniuses could place a tiny green apple in front of the man's face.;)

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By pure chance, I came across this photograph of the backside of the 'Westwood Tower'.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/0H7jf1.png
ebay


The seller mistakenly describes the photograph as a cop's lookout tower in Long Beach. (did they miss the visible portion of the sign?....WEstwood)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/A9ANE0.png
ebay

-here's our recent conversation on the Westwood Tower.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24553

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How's this?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...teUmbrella.jpg

:previous: lol. That's perfect HossC. -thanks!
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What do you mean putting up smut lie that?! :D

That is a FABULOUS photo, Doug!:cheers:

Well spotted Hoss!:cheers:

:uhh:

[QUOTE=Beaudry;6816568]Wanted to follow up on this—many thanks to Lorendoc who made some incisive analysis in this reply!

It was noirisher Flyingwedge who PM'd to send this image—pointing out that my li'l building was, in fact, at 1133 S Hope. Zooming in to the left of the water tank atop Western Auto Supply, there she is!

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7535/...1e7b4b11_o.png

1133 was known as the "Claron Del" apts. Built about 1913. Not in the 1910 Baist, but in the 1914 Baist, and here's an ad from September '13:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8597/...f0f2604a_o.png

Adjusted for inflation those 2 and 3 room suites would be going for about $700 in 2014 dollars. Sounds about right, I guess.

I was actually looking for more northerly blocks of Flower Street when I came across the picture below. It shows the intersection of South Figueroa and South Flower Streets in 1936

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rFigueroa1.jpg
USC Digital Library

I thought that the building in the foreground looked like a restaurant or club, and after a little digging, I found that it was Carl's. Below is a picture posted by Fab Fifties Fan - the full post including matchbooks can be found here.

I've rotated this current image a little to get a bit closer to the first image above. The Harbor Freeway (just visible on the far left) came close to this neighborhood, and took out the east side of S Flower Drive. I think that the buildings on the west side of S Flower Drive are the only survivors from the original shot other than the hall of what is now the Aerospace Museum.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rFigueroa2.jpg
Google Maps

Domes in the background must belong to the Shrine Auditorium.

http://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-c...A1939_2000.jpghttp://assets.blog.hemmings.com/wp-c...A1939_2000.jpg



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