Culver City Palms....
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Maybe the sign was put there by mistake? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psaf17b43a.jpg Pacific Electric |
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LAPL date this photo as circa 1940. The description says: "Looking across the street towards the Culver City-Palms station, located at 9013 Venice Boulevard, serving both the Pacific Electric Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad. The tracks near Venice Boulevard serve the Venice Short Line and those seen behind the station serve the Redondo via Playa del Rey Line." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rCityPalms.jpg lapl.org |
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E_R, you have mentioned you worked for Lorimar in the 80's. Do you remember that building? I remember seeing a scene on "CHiP's" that was filmed there. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...CityPalms2.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...CityPalms3.jpg GSV The park area you describe is Media Park. It's at the center of the aerial below. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...CityPalms5.jpg Google Maps And here's how the intersection looked in 1948. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...CityPalms4.jpg Historic Aerials I know CHiPs did quite a bit of filming on Culver Boulevard and W Washington Boulevard - I'll keep an eye for this building next time I'm watching. |
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Sad that they couldn't stop the destruction anymore than we can today it seems I just hate to see history destroyed because of real estate greed |
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Thanks for sharing your story regarding your work at Modernage photography. I was able to remember some of the building and signage now from times past. I drive by there almost daily and the I think a homeless advocacy organization is located there now. |
The P.E. Ivy Substation
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From wikipedia: The Actors' Gang is an experimental theatre and non-profit group based at the Ivy Substation in Culver City, California. It was founded in 1981 by a group of actors, including Tim Robbins, now a member of the board and Artistic Director of the troupe. The group states its mission is "to create bold, original works for the stage and daring reinterpretations of the classics". Website: www.theactorsgang.com *** Two links I found and wanted to add concerning The P.E. Ivy Substation first posted by tovangar2 and unihikid: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11043 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11296 |
I think the year accounts for the confusion. Passenger service along the outer half of the Air Line was drastically cut far earlier than most people realize today. Well before 1940, this station was for all practical purposes the western terminus of the line, so one would have alighted here for Palms as well.
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Interesting to see which buildings held on the longest. Along BH Avenue you can see the backsides of The Castle & Salt Box (which we know held on to the end and made it off the hill), the house that stood in between (333 S. BH Avenue I think?), the Lady MacDonald House, and the Foss/Heindel House all in a row, plus the Brousseau house a little up the way at 238 S. Behind it you can see the house at 232 S. Grand that the CRA used as their "headquarters" while the redevelopment of Bunker Hill was taking place. Looks like the Elks Building next to the Angels Flight station is already gone. FredH, do you know exactly what year the photo was taken? I was guessing 1966-ish. As fascinating as the history of Bunker Hill is, it's always so bittersweet to continue learning about, as it seems like such an utter travesty that it was entirely lost. |
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50 Years Ago Tomorrow
The Baldwin Hills Dam collapsed December 14, 1963. These houses are on Cloverdale Avenue, right under the dam:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psf721986b.jpg LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics21/00060039.jpg Previous posts on the dam by er: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5038 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5039 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5040 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5041 Aerial footage of disaster is still YouTube-able: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIeNM8cm6J8 More links: http://ktla.com/2013/12/12/from-the-...#axzz2nPOJiyi2 http://framework.latimes.com/2013/12...m-collapse/#/0 |
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Tetsu - It is interesting that you mentioned that church. The building is now the home of L.A. Artcore, run by the nicest of ladies named Lydia Takeshita: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6769/x05a.jpg ladowntownnews.com Lydia promotes budding artists and does a great service in the area. If any of you visit Little Tokyo, try to stop in and say hi. She has some nice art for sale from artists who are trying to establish themselves. She also has a tie in to Modernage Photo Service. Back in the 1980's Earl Witscher gave her office space in our building to help her get started. He also helped her print a quarterly magazine to advertise the new artists she was promoting. L.A. Artcore also has facilities in the Brewery complex. As far as the aerial photos go, I think the mid-1960's is pretty accurate. |
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Bunker Hill as test track! in 1924, L.T. Shettler, the Rickenbacker car dealer in Los Angeles, demonstrated the effectiveness of the 4 wheel disc brakes on a new 1924 Rickenbacker C6 Touring sedan by driving the car down the 2nd street steps leading from hope street to third street at the west portal of the third street tunnel Quote:
Source: Corbis Images Maybe they were the steps Ralph Meeker knocked some poor fool down in "Kiss Me Deadly"? http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8426/m08s.jpg Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Parklane Pictures Inc. |
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There used to be this fathers-and-sons club called the Indian Guides, where each unit was neighborhood-based. You'd have a meeting every week with some sort of activity, some stories, and recounting what we did the past week. Everybody nearly always knew everyone else, already, just from the neighborhood. (Sounds kind of lame, now, but I always enjoyed it.) The reason I bring this up now is that you also went on outings a couple of times a month. You'd go to a museum, to the local Y for swimming, stuff like that. The first outing after I joined, at the ripe age of six, was the whole gang of us kids and dads going on a helicopter flight all around L.A! We took off from LAX and made several hops to various local airports. I hadn't a clue at the time but I'm sure it must have been places like Burbank and possibly general aviation airports like Santa Monica and Compton. Then back to LAX and back home. The whole thing was cool beyond belief. How we ever got the airline to fly six or eight small boys and their dads all over the county I'll never know; perhaps one of the fathers was able to call in a favor. After that, the outings weren't nearly so good, though I always had a good time. Sometimes it does seem that we had this rosy view of the future, but all we got was more roads and cars (mostly). |
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Has anyone noticed that in its "if it ain't broke, fix it" redesign, Google Street View has become as clunky to use as Bing? Is it just me? |
Street View hasn't been working for me at all lately. I figured that I was behind on updating my plug-ins or something. I guess I'm glad to know it's not just me that's having problems with it. :shrug:
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http://imageshack.us/a/img339/8450/w...jonestoday.jpgGoogle.com/maps The former Saxon Dealership building is still there, too, at 127 West Colorado. Notice the uneven banks of windows on each half of the Saxon building, which exactly matches the old photo. http://imageshack.us/a/img713/2613/w...oradotoday.jpgGoogle.com/maps The former Ford Dealership is long gone, but it looks like much of the rest of the block is still holding the fort![/QUOTE] 1981 - 135-145 W Colorado Blvd. http://cdm15123.contentdm.oclc.org/u...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://cdm15123.contentdm.oclc.org/u...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://cdm15123.contentdm.oclc.org/u...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://cdm15123.contentdm.oclc.org/u...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://cdm15123.contentdm.oclc.org/c.../id/481/rec/51 |
Remember the Cushman photo that GW posted a while back?:
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hmanHouses.jpg Detail of photo in USC Digital Library The Cityscape dates from before the widening of Wilshire, so the front lawns are still intact. The angle of the photograph makes it difficult to see them, but I assume they looked similar to the ones on nearby Maryland Street. Again, the image is blurry due to the zoom level. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...MarylandSt.jpg Detail of photo in USC Digital Library Near the center of the Cityscape, and not far from the houses on Wilshire, is St Paul Avenue. I used the 1929 CD to find the addresses of three of the St Paul Avenue buildings. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAStPaulAv.jpg Detail of photo in USC Digital Library/rescarta.lapl.org |
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