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http://images.google.com/hosted/life...9fc0aaf06.html Los Angeles motorcycle police force during full scale inspection at coliseum. Location: Los Angeles, CA, US Date taken: March 1949 Photographer: Loomis Dean http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b3e9976227086018_large http://images.google.com/hosted/life...227086018.html Los Angeles has world's biggest motorcycle police force, here lining up for review. Location: Los Angeles, CA, US Date taken: March 1949 Photographer: Loomis Dean http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/05605194de618e79_large http://images.google.com/hosted/life...4de618e79.html Los Angeles has world's biggest motorcycle police force, here lining up for review. Location: Los Angeles, CA, US Date taken: March 1949 Photographer: Loomis Dean http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/18e08f048396d121_large http://images.google.com/hosted/life...48396d121.html Los Angeles motorcycle police force during full scale inspection of cycle corps. Location: Los Angeles, CA, US Date taken: March 1949 Photographer: Loomis Dean |
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Since the chandelier is probably the center of the room the photographer was probably standing in the far corner, perhaps in a doorway. The dark area at the bottom right looks like brick and is probably a hearth suggesting a fireplace feeding one of the chimneys visible on the exterior. Imagine that big room in council session on a cold day, with the gallery full of onlookers and a big roaring fire while they discuss the merits of realigning the streets and building a new city call… |
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Pay no mind to the flickering TV in the background, Clete Roberts and Jerry Dunphy won't be on the air for at least another three and a half decades. :fruit: http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.48894...33859&pid=15.1yahoo |
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City Hall "Reading Room-Library." Circa 1890 "The library was housed here from 1889-1906." Source states print dates from 1929 - and assume that to mean this was when this positive was printed. Photo is amusing considering the young lad studying botany because he seems to be reading a book against a potted plant. http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039866.jpgLapl Circa 1890 City Hall "workers." (Windows appear to have been covered, presumably to limit backlight for photographer's benefit.) http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics17/00018252.jpgLapl |
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"...the chain of Missions along the coast might best be described as a series of picturesque charnel houses...the Franciscan padres eliminated Indians with the effectiveness of Nazis operating concentration camps.'' -Carey Mcilliams, Southern California, an Island on the Land. Not that secularization of the Missions helped much. The Indian slave-labor market was located next to the Downey Block. Any Indian found to be drunk or loitering was imprisoned for the market, sold and paid the following Friday with aguardiente, starting the process over again and destroying thousands of lives. “on most Mondays, a local administrator auctioned off Indians who had been imprisoned for one week of servitude. The ironically named California Act for the Government and Protection of Indians of 1850 allowed any white person to post bail for convicted Indians, whom he could then require to pay off the fine by working for him — a new form of slave labor. According to George Harwood Phillips, in 1850 the Los Angeles Common Council declared, “When the city has no work in which to employ the chain gang, the Recorder shall, by means of notices conspicuously posted, notify the public that such a number of prisoners will be auctioned off to the highest bidder for private service.” - From the third installment of A People’s Guide, “We Built This City,” by Laura Pulido. (http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/post....5LMdBXm3.dpuf) Plaza Church, built 1861: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-l...851%2520AM.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/7294653@N07/1353010000/ Plaza Church, after being Taco-Belled: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q...607%2520AM.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/7294653@N07/420571865/ History successfully rewritten: "Across from Union Station stands the city's newest museum, La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, which is free and a must. The museum takes up two historic buildings next to the first church of Los Angeles (dating back to the late 1700s)." http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci...ts-coming-2013 |
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Apropos of the poor treatment of the indigenous theme, toward the bottom right of the posted image is a semicircular message bearing the word "bad." |
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Must we always dredge up anachronistic political angles suggesting ancient atrocities, tovangar? I don't think the "Mission" theme was the slightest bit odd for a marketing scheme ca. 1900 in a place called Los Angeles.... Biggest mistake for amateur historians is to apply the cultural norms and expectations of today to the past.
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Albert Sheetz Mission Candy Shops.
At the Hill and 7th location. 1948 Very inviting. Exterior may not have done interior justice. http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...VMY13RH5M3.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IGF5BHA1BI.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...VTJT5GHJGD.jpgCalStLib Circa '37 - 450 North Canon Drive http://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097772.jpgLapl 1942 Menu. Does cooking preserve or destroy vitamins? Should Uncle Sam dine with his hat on the counter? http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/albert-sheetz.JPG http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/albert-sheetz1.JPGhttp://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/albert-sheetz2.JPG http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/albert-sheetz3.JPGhttp://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2..._albert_sh.php Serving Sheetz ice cream predicts cleverness, regardless of gender. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2057/...d77f20a30a.jpghttp://www.restaurantwarecollectors....70&pagenumber= |
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One of my main interests in noir is as a way to decode to the present. Trying to understand the ongoing privatization of our water supply, involving the Resnicks and others, for example, would be much harder without knowing about Owens Valley. The same forces are at work. What's the value of knowing history unless one attempts to apply that knowledge (however "amateurishly" in my case) to the present? I did not mean to offend GW. I just thought it was interesting. |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img844/7388/l...9dthill1st.jpg But now we can zoooooooooom: http://imageshack.us/a/img560/7388/l...9dthill1st.jpg Compare with how things looked after First Street was widened in 1941 (look at the building at left with no front wall...go back to the first image and you can see it was sheared off halfway through "TALLY"): http://imageshack.us/a/img708/8662/l...1dthill1st.jpg Also, the sidewalk in front of central has nearly doubled in width: http://imageshack.us/a/img854/8662/l...1dthill1st.jpg Photos from USC. As for the building whose front was sheared off, it was the only sliver of property in the project zone between Hill and Main not owned by the city/county/state, or at least as of this 1936 map: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics51/00075499.jpg LAPL |
Hope this dope shot isn't a repost:
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6...90923smogc.png And these shots from up top are epic: http://imageshack.us/a/img138/1280/l...90923smogd.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img856/6714/l...90923smogc.jpg The view west over Court Hill: http://imageshack.us/a/img803/8898/l...90923smogb.jpg All shots from September 23, 1949 and are over at USC |
Speaking of Court Hill and the intersections of Hill and First, does anyone know why the promontory bounded by Hill, First, Olive and Court Streets was cleared and turned into a parking lot?
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/8...90923smogb.jpg We know the Bradbury mansion fell in 1929, but everything else seems to have come down gradually over the course of the 1930s. Was this just market economics at work, or did the government perhaps condemn this block due to unstable grounds? Also, does anyone have pictures of this parking lot from the ground? I've found a few that show slivers of it, but none that shows the whole thing: http://imageshack.us/a/img138/222/lo...0scourthil.jpg 1950s, Cal State Lib http://imageshack.us/a/img820/8671/l...2bunkerhil.jpg 1952, Cal State Lib http://imageshack.us/a/img692/8671/l...2bunkerhil.jpg 1952, Cal State Lib http://imageshack.us/a/img255/5749/l...0scivicfro.jpg 1940s, unsure of source |
Fred Bayha was a distribution manager for the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. In the early morning hours on March 31, 1952, Fred arrived at his office located at 8813 Alcott Ave. West Hollywood and began his usual daily routine. At some point an armed man entered the office and attempted to rob Bayha. It appears that Mr. Bayha followed the crook outside and was shot. Shortly after, 16 year old Dick Anderson, a paperboy employed by Fred, found his boss face down on the sidewalk dead from a bullet wound in the chest. With no witnesses and few clues, the police had little to work with in order to catch the killer.
http://imageshack.us/a/img822/2684/exam6.jpg Detectives near where fred Bayha fell. http://imageshack.us/a/img62/570/exam2.jpg Fred Bayha's car outside his office at 8813 Alcott Ave. West Hollywood http://imageshack.us/a/img145/1764/exam1.jpg Dick Anderson shows his father where he found Fred's body http://imageshack.us/a/img441/6743/alcottave1.png 8813 Alcott Ave. as it appears today. Two years later, a young couple were walking in the hills around Elysian Park when they came across Millian Perovich, a former inmate at the State Hospital in Camarillo. The couple hid in some bushes to observe the "wild looking man drinking vodka", but ran when Perovich began shooting at them from a .22 caliber pistol. LAPD later found Perovich living in a cave at Griffith Park and arrested him on suspicion of five murders, one being that of Fred Bayha, the newspaper distributer in 1952. http://imageshack.us/a/img10/3866/cavedweller.png Pics from Examiner collectionLAPL, Newspaper article Stars and Stripes Nov.23,1954 |
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Edward L. Doheny's Oil Discovery Site
In 1930 Edward Doheny had what is described as a site dedication ceremony at or near the site where he first discovered oil in 1892. It looks like there might be a microphone in front of where he's standing, which is described as "south side of Court Street, east of Patton, 2½ blocks east of Glendale Boulevard." But on Court Street, Patton is actually one block east of Glendale Blvd. Anyway, Doheny is the guy on the platform in the straw hat with his right hand raised:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps89f2aabb.jpg USC Digital Library (http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/203/rec/1) Posted here earlier by gsjansen in April 2011, but the link is now dead. Probably all but at least two of these four-pics-in-one are of the same event: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0f09bca1.jpg LAPL (http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics36/00037762.jpg) The dilapidated oil rig that Doheny's standing on in the USC photo is also shown in the top right and bottom left LAPL photos. Note the building at the left edge of the bottom left photo. We're looking end-on at it and its two slanted rooflines; there's a larger building behind it with a chimney. Both buildings are in the USC photo as well, but you can't see the two slanted rooflines as well. The larger building with the chimney is gone, but here's the building with the two slanted rooflines today, 183 Douglas St. at the SW corner of Colton St: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps856d80c7.jpg Google Street View Looking at Google Earth and trying to figure out where that old oil rig Doheny was standing on was in relation to the blue house on the corner of Douglas and Colton (marked by a blue arrow), I think it was about in the NE -- or lower left, as we're looking at it -- corner of the one building on the block, the Echo Park Pool: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psd7971ade.jpg Google Earth I hope those old oil wells are tightly capped. |
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A few items from the Times: http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4266/sultanads.jpgLAT The Consolidated Realty Building was first announced in the Times on October 6, 1907, during the financial troubles of 1907. From the outset it seems to have been planned to be built in stage, with only the foundation completed by mid 1908. Looks like it was finally completed in 1910. No mention of the Sultan before 1916--not sure when it opened. One tenant of the Consolidated Realty Building was the notorious "Dr." Gertrude Steele, regularly in trouble since at least since 1908 for botched facelifts and other treatments. http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6506/steelei.jpgLAT 12-18-1919 |
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