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tovangar2 Jan 28, 2013 2:19 AM

Chemosphere
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5990144)
Of course, John Lautner is best known as the architect of the iconic Chemosphere House (1960), built the same year as the Midtown School.

http://imageshack.us/a/img255/415/aa...wnschoolar.jpg
Julius Schulman http://www.archdaily.com/64345/ad-cl...uliusshculman/

The Chemosphere House is situated just off Mulholland Drive on the San Fernando Valley side of the Hollywood Hills.


Unbelievably, the home is only accessible by a funicular (shown on the right).

http://imageshack.us/a/img687/1060/aablyc1funicular.jpg
http://www.funimag.com/photoblog/ind...e-chemosphere/


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I used to know and visit the family that lived in the house immediatley below the Chemosphere (hidden by trees in the first photo).

The view of the Chemosphere was ominously oppressive from below (see second pic).

When I knew it, the funicular was often on the fritz. The couple that lived there used the stairs.

Re the school in Sacatela Creek's bed, I'm pretty sure the Scientologists had hold of that for a while. They called it the Apple School.

tovangar2 Jan 28, 2013 2:25 AM

Crenshaw Fan Palms
 
I was in Crenshaw last week and noticed how, in the 25 or 30 years I've known the neighborhood, the fan palms have jumped the shark a bit in the area bounded roughly by Vernon & Slauson and Van Ness & Western. The trees have gotten so tall that they have all but lost their relationship with the homes below. They are starting to look like barrage balloons hovering over the neighborhood. It's kind of a weird effect:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0...739%2520PM.jpg

There's block after intact block of lovely, little, mostly un-messed-with homes, almost all single story, both single-family and duplexes.
Many have bars on the windows, but relatively few have fenced front yards:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...356%2520PM.jpg

Where broader trees have been planted too, the streetscape is stabilized somewhat
(It's excellent how the roof of the house on the right flows over to cover the granny flat too):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Y...453%2520PM.jpg

Gramercy Square Park and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church still make a lovely pair. It's 54th St SDA's 65th anniversary this year:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...625%2520PM.jpg

Looking south from Gramercy Square Park:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f...852%2520PM.jpg

I quite like the little group of cottages on the right (W 57th & Gramercy):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...751%2520PM.jpg

St Andrew's & W 57th:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...607%2520PM.jpg

The original streetlamps are gone but the alleys are still there. The utilities are underground.
The fan palms and their shadows are strikingly graphic from above:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7...935%2520PM.jpg


all images gsv

Chuckaluck Jan 28, 2013 2:27 AM

The Blackstone Hotel/Apartments, Long Beach

http://www.bobbundy.com/Auctions64/264CaLongBeach1.jpghttp://www.bobbundy.com/Auctions64/264CaLongBeach1A.jpggoogle

Blackstone and Pekin Cafe.
(Undated, "Long Beach")
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics02/00020582.jpgLapl


1924 Blackstone (:previous: Above car would have been parked on the main street (Ocean) to the extreme right of this image which appears to include Pekin Cafe.)
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00077/00077333.jpgLapl

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/M2556-LONG-BE...VhQ~~60_57.JPGEbay

Circa 1940 Blackstone in background
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics50/00074687.jpgLapl

Los Angeles Past Jan 28, 2013 3:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5990186)
I was in Crenshaw last week and noticed how, in the 25 or 30 years I've known the neighborhood, the palm trees have jumped the shark a bit in the area bounded roughly by Vernon & Slauson and Van Ness & Western. The trees have gotten so tall that they have all but lost their relationship with the homes below. They are starting to look like barrage balloons hovering over the neighborhood. It's kind of a weird effect:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...751%2520PM.jpggsv


It's quite obvious what the dominant life form is in this urban habitat! People come and people go, but the palms endure...

-Scott

rick m Jan 28, 2013 3:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alester young (Post 5989993)
From Google Maps it looks as if the Marshall's old house has recently been demolished -a new housing development was under construction when the Google car passed by.

These human interest stories are always interesting -the cameo image of Mr Marshall at the window looks very Chandleresque. Reminds me of The High Window and Mrs Elizabeth Bright Murdock.

alester
alester

So many of W. Adams homes in these blocks between Figueroa and Hoover were razed in the Fifties - now its just a parking lot . Googling Wm. Garland eventually provided me their family webpage with 2 images of the once cozy Tudoresque home--

Mark L Jan 28, 2013 7:42 AM

Hi All,
Thanks for all of the wonderful photos and info. This site is the best.
Regarding a post I made a long time ago regarding my great-grandfather, Daniel Webster McMillan, who lived in DTLA in 1918: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=746

I was hoping to get a where-a-bouts on the contemporary ghost sign below. It is from a company he worked for in the 30's, Quon Quon Import-Export, Albert Quon proprietor. Mr. Quon was very successful in LA (see info below). Pic found online but address unknown. Can anyone identify the street? I had driven around downtown one afternoon but no luck.
Thanks, Mark


http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2b9a6ed6.jpg
courtesy frankjump.com


Albert Toy Quon of Los Angeles; died July 26 2001, at the age of 100. He was the founder of Quon-Quon, a national export-import company specializing in fine Chinese art objects and giftwares. Born in Canton, China, he moved to the Unites States with his father while a teenager and completed his high school studies in San Diego, Calif. While at USC, Quon majored in business administration with a minor in law. He was an outstanding student; he also served as president of the Cosmopolitan Club and the Sigma Pi Alpha business fraternity and was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor fraternity, and Phi Kappa Phi, the national honor society. He met his first wife, Lily (Ho) Quon ’28, at USC,
and they married shortly after graduation. Quon established his company in Peking in 1929, then moved his headquarters to Los Angeles in 1937. His achievements in business and real estate development brought recognition from the Los Angeles community: He was the first Asian to be admitted to the Los Angeles Rotary Club (#5) and the first Asian to serve on the Board of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He retired in 1976. A devoted alumnus of USC, Quon established endowed scholarships for international students from the Pacific Rim in 1953, and he received the USC Alumni Award for Business Excellence in 1975. In 1985, the Albert T. Quon University and Community Service Awards were established at the USC Marshall School of Business; they honor selected students for their academic achievements as well as their outstanding university and community contributions. A bronze bust in Albert Quon’s likeness is displayed in Bridge Hall on the University Park Campus. Quon was preceded in death by his second wife, Lily Chou, who died in 1999.

kznyc2k Jan 28, 2013 8:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 5989685)
1960 - Austin Healy Sunbeam (no caption) Catch pan protects linoleum.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021632.jpg

LOL, brand new and it already needs a diaper!

kznyc2k Jan 28, 2013 9:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5990023)
When was the Biltmore Hotel addition built T2? I haven't been able to find a date.

Looking at the aerial shots I've saved to my computer it is definitely in place by 1932 and--assuming I can trust the dates on some other shots--appears to have been there starting around 1930, which would make sense if the addition was financed and built in the late '20s, only to open just in time for all hell to break loose.

Aerial from 1932 which has been seen here countless times before (unsure of original source):

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/2...ial1932dtb.jpg

alester young Jan 28, 2013 11:50 AM

Anachronistic 1933 Angel's flight.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 4962209)
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...OdTkGdeWLG_xg=

Ask the Dust is discussed at some length here, with interesting pictures: http://www.onbunkerhill.org/AsktheDust

I caught this movie a few weeks ago. O.K. it's a 2005/6 film and it is well known that it was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa. The opening scene showing Hill Street Tunnel and Angel's flight was obviously going to be a mock -up, since by that time the original Angel's' Flight was gone by some 40 years.

It was very surreal looking at the scene with the caption "Los Angeles 1933". At first glance it looked good and compelling, but then what's going on up the Angels' Flight? Where is the Ferguson Building and the Elk's Lodge? At the top of the hill is our old friend, the Crocker Mansion (demolished c 1908).

Makes you wonder why they did this. Was it on purpose or was it a mistake? Maybe it was deliberate -the old 1900s street scene and Crocker mansion were a whole lot more photogenic than their post 1908 replacements. Maybe it was an error -the set people may have been using 1900s postcards/ photos as guides and hadn't realised that the area had altered by 1933.

The 1976 film about Woodie Guthrie, Bound For Glory, also has a lot of L.A. scenes. Although the film took a critical knocking, it has some nice period scenes. The only problem is that there are a lot of mistakes.

Researching the locations used for this film is a bit of a nightmare as there is very little detailed information out there. IMDB just lists vagueries like Altamont, but no specific addresses are given.

The whole film is now viewable on You Tube. Interesting location shots include:

0:59:00 Airplane Cafe. It isn't clear whether it is a mock up on the movie. If it was faux, it was a copy of one that really existed. A photo of it is shown in FredH's post of 13 Dec 12 (p543).

01:41:20 Shot of a great Streamline moderne building. It is stuccoed, 3 stories high, stepped. There is a radio station sign outside "KTNS".
This is probably wrong. Woodie Guthrie's Californian radio years, I understand, were spent at KFVD, our old friend previously discussed on this site. It was originally run by Cord, but he sold it on in 1936 to Frank Burke, who became president and the station's manager. The station had relocated by Guthrie's time to 338 S Western Avenue.

I have Googled 338 but no suspect survives. Further up the road is 365 -Western and 3 rd. Medical Centre which looks as if it might have been at one time Art Deco, but which has now undergone a grotesque make over.

Incidently KTNS is licensed to Oakhurst CA and the location is distinctly rural -the buildings look nothing like the beautiful 3 storey streamline building on the film. Wonder where that was -was it L.A. or was it a building in some other Californian town???

1:54:30 KFVD again, but the building has morphed into a brick building. As a bonus we see our old friend, Pacific streetcar no. 1058 in front of the building. I gather that it was fitted with rubber tires. It's not so easy to tell this at first as there is a concrete ridge in front of the tram -was this deliberately put there by the filmmakers to disguise the lack of tracks?

The change of buildings may be explained by the streetcar shot -could it be that the vehicle was based in L.A. and couldn't travel far? Does this put the brick building somewhere near the streetcar's storage location? (Understood to have been somewhere near the port area).

This filming location malarkey is sure a curious business....

Alester

alester young Jan 28, 2013 12:34 PM

What a dame....
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5820738)
I've just discovered a fabulous blog ;):D:rolleyes::jester:

Its latest installment has the story of rake-about-town Paul Otto Tobeler, who managed to get himself into a few noir-lite scrapes in the '50s: http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspo...histories.html

[IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pD1Id5Gmkw...Q/s640/38sjpPO.

T825rampage.jpg[/IMG]LAT

Another great story - what exactly did she smash up? No Modiglianis or Picassos, I hope. What would she have done if she had had an axe?

I wonder whether Paul Tobeler ever remarried after his "traumatic experience".

The house at 825 still exists -on Google Maps it looks to be a pretty substantial detached early C20th West Adams type house. Probably quite tony in its time -sort of fits the story.

alester

MichaelRyerson Jan 28, 2013 1:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5989946)
My 1948 Gillespie's Guide shows Castelar running parallel with and between Hill and North Broadway. The whole nest of little streets in that area has been cleaned up, straightened and the blocks made larger. Castelar Elementary School (LAUSD schools are almost always named for the street they're on) still exists at the corner of Yale and College. Presumably the old entrance would have faced Castelar.

I don't have a '1948 Gillespie's Guide' but I do have a 1945 Renie' Atlas, a 1942 Shell Street Map and two mid-'50's insurance company giveaway street maps and I believe what you are looking at are the streets prior to the reconfiguration which came with the Hollywood freeway grading of Fort Moore Hill which would have been '48, '49 or '50ish. Strictly speaking Hill Street never ran parallel to Castelar and N. Broadway. North of Sunset, beginning at N. Broadway and going west you next have Castelar, Teed and then the little stub of Hill Street where it bends to the west pretty much directly across Sunset from where it has descended the north slope of Fort Moore Hill. This little stub would become N. Hill Place, Hill Street proper would move over and lay atop the Castelar roadbed (with the exception of the section from Sunset to Ord which would become W. 1st Street Road, the new Hill Street roadbed being laid slightly to the east for this section) and be joined at Sunset with the new Hill Street now skirting the east slope of Fort Moore Hill. Teed Street will suffer the indignity of simply being abandoned. All that remains is a little waste area between buildings. So much for the former site of the J.W. Robinson mansion and later the Regina Coeli (Mother Cabrini) Orphanage. I might add that by the time Mother Cabrini purchased the property from Julia Barnum, the widow of J. W. Robinson the address of the property had become 610 N. Hill Street. I don't know if the Castelar Elementary School ever faced Castelar (now Hill Street) although its playground borders Hill Street but it certainly isn't unusual for an elementary school to bear the name of a major through street but 'face' on another smaller and presumably quieter side street. In the late '40's and early '50's I attended Santa Monica Boulevard Elementary School, the main entrance of which was not on Santa Monica Boulevard but on N. Van Ness across from the Hollywood Cemetery and Paramount Studios and even then the vast majority of students entered the school from the North Ridgewood Place side. There was no entrance on Santa Monica Boulevard.


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8304/7...d6a40ea7_o.jpg
Castelar Street (now Hill Street) as viewed looking south from Bernard Street before construction of the new thoroughfare, February 13, 1936

Photograph of Castelar Street (now Hill Street) as viewed south from Bernard Street before construction of the new thoroughfare, February 13, 1936. A muddy lot can be seen at center. Bernard Street is visible across the foreground, while a portion of a one-story building can be seen at left next to a tree. One- to two-story buildings can be seen beyond the lot, while City Hall is visible in the distance to the left of center. Castelar Elementary School would be on the right in the first tree line.

USCdigital archive/California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960



Same shot almost exactly two years later...



http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7269/7...98409737_o.jpg
Castelar Street (now Hill Street) as viewed looking south from Bernard Street after construction of the new thoroughfare, February 10, 1938

Photograph of Castelar Street (now Hill Street) as viewed south from Bernard Street after construction of the new thoroughfare, February 10, 1938. Several automobiles can be seen on a paved road running from the foreground into the center background. Utility poles line the road at left, while a portion of a one-story building is visible at left. A leafless stump of a tree can be seen near the building. Dirt lots can be seen on both sides of the road, while buildings can be seen beyond the lots. City Hall can be seen in the distance at center.

USCdigital archive/California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

GaylordWilshire Jan 28, 2013 1:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldstuff (Post 5821204)
The name of the business where the man is looking out the window on page 452 appears clearer around the corner of the building The business is W.M. Garland Real Estate. Mr William Marshall Garland was born in Maine. His wife's name was Blanche and they had two sons, William Marshall and John. The family lived at 755 West Adams in 1910. They appear in the 1910 census.

Quote:

Originally Posted by alester young (Post 5989993)
From Google Maps it looks as if the Marshall's old house has recently been demolished -a new housing development was under construction when the Google car passed by.
alester
alester



The Garland house was actually #815 West Adams (the northeast corner of what is now signed St. James Place). 755 was the house to its east and was for many years the home of Frederick A Walton, and by 1930, his son (or stepson, depending on the source), Winsor Walton.

FULL STORY OF 815 IS HERE

FULL STORY OF 755 IS HERE


The Garlands were still at 815 (at right) in 1940; their real estate firm sold the Walton house next door in 1932...it appears to have been demolished within the decade.
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/1...spicof815b.jpg
The firm was famous for its population projections in ads; it wouldn't be until the '50s that L.A. achieved 2,250,000 inhabitants. LAT/Babcock Ancestry



I'm not sure when 815 West Adams were demolished, but it wasn't recently--its site and 755's have been part of a parking lot for years if not decades. I'm not in L.A. so can't drive by to see if anything is now being built there, though neither Google or Bing street views indicate any building activity that I can see. 755 was actually built on what was originally numbered lot 1 of St. James Park, 815 on lots 3 and 4. 825 West Adams was built on the subdivision's original lots 7, 8 and 9 and was known as the Bilicke house before Paul Tobeler's tenancy. (The Bilickes were later at #7 Berkeley Square.)


http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8...5westadams.jpgGoogleSV
The Bilicke/Tobeler house today--northeast corner of Adams and Scarff.

FULL STORY OF 825 IS HERE


Quote:

Originally Posted by rick m (Post 5990253)
So many of W. Adams homes in these blocks between Figueroa and Hoover were razed in the Fifties - now its just a parking lot . Googling Wm. Garland eventually provided me their family webpage with 2 images of the once cozy Tudoresque home--


The huge population growth of Los Angeles over the course of the 1910s and '20s (a nearly four-fold increase) had the effect of emptying West Adams--as well as the Westlake/Bonnie Brae district, recently discussed--of all but the most stalwart of prosperous Angelenos. Developers understood the city's population pressures and trends and went after the affluent by building new homes on larger suburban lots in less dense, more fashionable parts of town to the north and west, giving rise to Windsor Square, Hancock Park, as well as Beverly and Holmby hills, Bel-Air, Brentwood. (The Pasadena vicinity also saw growth as a result of the flight from the downtown districts.) During the '20s boom longtime owners saw their chances to cash out and move on; the onset of the Depression then made bargains of the old barns and cash cows for their subdividers.

Lwize Jan 28, 2013 6:27 PM

Info request:

From many years ago, I remember an old, spooky church in the area east or south-east of the convention center. I believe it was the Trinity Church, with old stone construction, likely built in the 19th century. As far as I know, it was torn down in the 1990's. I'm not sure.

Does this ring a bell? Any pictures? Stories? :shrug:

alester young Jan 28, 2013 6:57 PM

West Adams
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5990519)
The Garland house was actually #815 West Adams (the northeast corner of what is now signed St. James Place). 755 was the house to its east and was for many years the home of Frederick A Walton, and by 1930, his son (or stepson, depending on the source), Winsor Walton.

Thanks for that -I can now see the context for these properties. Also to say how much I have enjoyed reading your St. James Park blogspot. West Adams has certainly been an interesting area. I am glad that we now have a composite picture for Wm Garland.
All The Best
alester

alester young Jan 28, 2013 7:04 PM

William Garland
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rick m (Post 5990253)
So many of W. Adams homes in these blocks between Figueroa and Hoover were razed in the Fifties - now its just a parking lot . Googling Wm. Garland eventually provided me their family webpage with 2 images of the once cozy Tudoresque home--

Rick M
Thanks for your help and the link. I hadn't realised that William Garland had been responsible for bringing the 1932 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles. It has been interesting following up the photo of The Pacific Building to get a composite picture of who the person actually was.
Regards
alester

tovangar2 Jan 28, 2013 7:17 PM

Castelar
 
MR, Thanks so much for all the info and the astounding pair of pix.

N Hill looking south from Bernard:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...842%2520AM.jpg
gsv

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 5990507)
I don't know if the Castelar Elementary School ever faced Castelar (now Hill Street) although its playground borders Hill Street but it certainly isn't unusual for an elementary school to bear the name of a major through street but 'face' on another smaller and presumably quieter side street. In the late '40's and early '50's I attended Santa Monica Boulevard Elementary School, the main entrance of which was not on Santa Monica Boulevard but on N. Van Ness across from the Hollywood Cemetery and Paramount Studios and even then the vast majority of students entered the school from the North Ridgewood Place side. There was no entrance on Santa Monica Boulevard.


Santa Monica Boulevard School may have once had its main entrance on Santa Monica Blvd. In my experience LAUSD elementary schools are named for their actual street addresses. With rebuilding and remodels the address can change even though the school occupies the same site. Replacement buildings are often built in the play yard to minimize disruption and then the old buildings demolished to become the new play yard.

Brockton Avenue Elementary is a slightly different example. Its original entrance was on Brockton at Texas (see first pic below). Some decades ago an addition was built and the main entrance reconfigured to face Armacost (second pic). The name of the school however, did not change. I'm sure many first-time visitors are confused to find the "entrance" permanently locked.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-n...421%2520AM.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-T...555%2520AM.jpg
gsv

GaylordWilshire Jan 28, 2013 7:53 PM

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5...tylotwith7.jpg


A view of empty Lots 2, 3 and 4 of the St. James Park subdivision, ca. 1898-99, northeast from the corner of Adams and what is now marked St James Place. In the background is the just-completed Frederick Harkness house at 755 West Adams Street on Lot 1 of the development. After original developers George Wilson King, Frederick Harkness and John Downey Harvey (nephew of former California governor John G. Downey) became less involved in the scheme during the national financial ups and owns of the '90s, William M Garland assumed some of the tract's marketing as interest revived by the turn of the new century. Within a year of 755's completion, construction would begin on Garland's own house at the corner (815 West Adams--seen in recent post 11954).


Below, a great shot of William May Garland at the wheel of his new 1906 Pierce-Arrow in front of 815 West Adams.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/571...ithcar1200.jpg



Both pics: Babcock Ancestry

Fab Fifties Fan Jan 28, 2013 8:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark L (Post 5990406)
Hi All,
Thanks for all of the wonderful photos and info. This site is the best.
Regarding a post I made a long time ago regarding my great-grandfather, Daniel Webster McMillan, who lived in DTLA in 1918: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=746

I was hoping to get a where-a-bouts on the contemporary ghost sign below. It is from a company he worked for in the 30's, Quon Quon Import-Export, Albert Quon proprietor. Mr. Quon was very successful in LA (see info below). Pic found online but address unknown. Can anyone identify the street? I had driven around downtown one afternoon but no luck.
Thanks, Mark


http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2b9a6ed6.jpg
courtesy frankjump.com


Albert Toy Quon of Los Angeles; died July 26 2001, at the age of 100. He was the founder of Quon-Quon, a national export-import company specializing in fine Chinese art objects and giftwares. Born in Canton, China, he moved to the Unites States with his father while a teenager and completed his high school studies in San Diego, Calif. While at USC, Quon majored in business administration with a minor in law. He was an outstanding student; he also served as president of the Cosmopolitan Club and the Sigma Pi Alpha business fraternity and was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor fraternity, and Phi Kappa Phi, the national honor society. He met his first wife, Lily (Ho) Quon ’28, at USC,
and they married shortly after graduation. Quon established his company in Peking in 1929, then moved his headquarters to Los Angeles in 1937. His achievements in business and real estate development brought recognition from the Los Angeles community: He was the first Asian to be admitted to the Los Angeles Rotary Club (#5) and the first Asian to serve on the Board of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. He retired in 1976. A devoted alumnus of USC, Quon established endowed scholarships for international students from the Pacific Rim in 1953, and he received the USC Alumni Award for Business Excellence in 1975. In 1985, the Albert T. Quon University and Community Service Awards were established at the USC Marshall School of Business; they honor selected students for their academic achievements as well as their outstanding university and community contributions. A bronze bust in Albert Quon’s likeness is displayed in Bridge Hall on the University Park Campus. Quon was preceded in death by his second wife, Lily Chou, who died in 1999.

Hey Mark,

Welcome back! I know that ghost sign quite well as it is one of my very favorites. It is on the side of the beautiful Lady Liberty Bldg. (actually the Brunswick-Balke-Collen building c1914) at 843 So Los Angeles. The mosaic of Lady Liberty was added in 1987 when the building was converted to garment showrooms. A quick look on the web shows that Quon-Quon Import and Export was located there, at least, during the 1930's and 40's.

Lady Liberty
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6798/ladyliberty.jpg
Google


~Jon Paul

Chuckaluck Jan 28, 2013 8:37 PM

"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks."


No address or subject identifications. (Probably to protect the innocent.):rolleyes:


1933 :no:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021626.jpgLapl


1933
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics02/00020820.jpgLapl

No date
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics28/00063896.jpgLapl

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Chuckaluck Jan 28, 2013 8:50 PM

Circa 1900 - North Spring St. at Franklin. Phillips Block building. Shoe bargains - on first floor.

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067290.jpglapl


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