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Raymond Theater - Circa '22 - 129 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena. Not as lucky as the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Preservation Limbo :gaah: http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...84Q7F8SYQQ.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...84Q7F8SYQQ.jpg http://hometown-pasadena.com/wp-cont...0-Interior.jpghttp://hometown-pasadena.com/wp-cont...0-Interior.jpg http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/5...eatrepasad.jpghttp://img823.imageshack.us/img823/5...eatrepasad.jpg |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img546/4825/wxgu.jpg I am usually saddened when we lose architectural details, but those two churrigueresque columns on each side of the entrance were truly over-the-top. entrance sans (without) the columns http://imageshack.us/a/img402/3608/h1c3.jpg gsv As a side note, I got my first hair-cut in Los Angeles on the second floor of this building. If I remember correctly, there was a side entrance on Whitley Avenue. (that I've outlined in red) __ |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img17/1328/f8qt.jpg Interesting observation. Bruce is a given. Sonja? Bruce, was reputed to stand at 6'3." Sonja a foot shorter and diminutive. Yes, Sonja could have been wearing her skates (obscured by tire). She would have been about 19 when the picture was taken ('31) Over the years, she underwent a dramatic glamorization that makes it difficult (for me) to place her with Bruce. But I am just a lowly noir'er.* 1930 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...onja_Henie.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...onja_Henie.jpg http://blog.allanellenberger.com/wp-...a-olympics.jpghttp://blog.allanellenberger.com/wp-...a-olympics.jpg http://www.hok.no/getfile.php/145921...ett%C2%A04.jpghttp://www.hok.no/getfile.php/145921...ett%C2%A04.jpg http://blog.allanellenberger.com/wp-...ix-herman1.jpghttp://blog.allanellenberger.com/wp-...ix-herman1.jpg Cody, née Bruce or Herman, was too stubborn for his own good. He just couldn't accept the explanation: "tracking tiger cats and anything of commercial value." :shrug: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2...8mqvo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2...8mqvo1_500.gif ___________________________________ :shrug::shrug: *Gosh, could the female pictured with Bruce be '32 Swimming Gold Medalist, Helen Madison or Georgia Coleman? At the time, '31, both would have had public acclaim comparable with Sonja. Helen was much taller/bigger than Sonja at 5'11" and seemed to be a brunette. Georgia's blonde hair seems to fit. Quote:
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Too bad about the missing columns. Big loss. The gingerbread exterior on the upper floor was well done too, as was the decorated sidewalk. You may remember a different barber shop/hair salon entrance. Look closely and you will spot a barber pole on Hollywood Blvd. entrance. It could have still been there when you visited. (Original post re Dobbs was weak attempt to transition from one grooming establishment image - to another.) http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...RG79EPH34X.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...RG79EPH34X.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...DMLC4GTXJ3.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...DMLC4GTXJ3.jpg |
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posted by BifRayRock http://imageshack.us/a/img189/7028/1rpo.jpg I believe Sonja's doppelganger is indeed Georgia Coleman. __ |
John Robarts and his Block
Let's set the Wayback Machine to 1888 Los Angeles. Attorney John Robarts (1843-1894) has his office at 40 N. Spring Street with law partner and future California Governor (1899-1903) Henry T. Gage. Robarts lives at 550 S. Main Street:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psf593c56f.jpg 1888 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com Forty N. Spring is in the Wilcox Block, just south of Court Street. It's the three-story building on the left in this c. 1903 photo: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9a0b7607.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/7096/rec/154 Because in 1888 Los Angeles had not yet done away with 0-99 street addresses, 550 S. Main is at the NE corner of Main and 7th (north is at the bottom): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps623f483d.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psdbac46d7.jpg 1888 Sanborn Map at LAPL Although the 1888 Sanborn Map shows a home at the NE corner of 7th and Main, the Robarts Block was clearly built during 1888, because Dr. C. Edgar Smith advertised in the January 2, 1889, LA Herald that he had moved there: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps89803f32.jpg Library of Congress -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1 BTW, was Dr. Brinkerhoff's "sure and painless system" really painless, efficacious and fatality-free? Well, if his achievements before turning his talents to anal concerns are any indication . . . perhaps. He previously patented an inkwell, a fruit jar, and a cornhusker: http://www.fohbc.org/PDF_Files/Brinkerhoff_Sp2006.pdf Anyway, here's the Robarts Block, NE corner of 7th and Main, on the 1894 Sanborn Map (north is on the right): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps01650a56.jpg LAPL Now let's move forward to July 16, 1894. Instead of going home to his family at 143 W. 24th Street, Robarts decides to spend the night at the Hammam Baths, 228 S. Main Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa646c96e.jpg 1894 Sanborn Map at LAPL This 1888 photo looking north on Main shows the front of the two-story Hammam Baths building, just south of St. Vibiana's: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa3a4b954.jpg Huntington Digital Library -- http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c...d/3582/rec/101 On the morning of July 17, 1894, Robarts went from the Hammam Baths to his office, still in the Wilcox Block but now at 138-1/2 North Spring . . . http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psf6b0a5dd.jpg 1894 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com . . . got a glass of water, sat down, and died. The janitor found him at 7:30 a.m., still warm, but quite dead. "Fatty degeneration of the heart," as it turned out. His remains were removed from the Wilcox Block to the Orr and Bird undertaking parlor, which, conveniently for those involved, was just across the street at 147 N. Spring: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psfd6aa92d.jpg 1894 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com 100 Block of N. Spring Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa865503c.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps922e61e7.jpg 1894 Sanborn Map at LAPL In this c. 1890-99 photo looking north on Spring, Phillips Block No. 1 is the tall building on the corner (NW corner of Spring and Franklin); the three-story building to the right housed Orr and Bird undertakers, whose parlor was on the ground floor under the third (far right) bay window: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1f641fed.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/2279/rec/16 This is a c. 1892-96 photo looking south on Spring. The Wilcox Block is on the left with "GROCER. COFFEES AND TEAS." on the wall. The undertakers are on the right, just past the short utility pole that has paddle-shaped signs on either side of it: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5fbcf0c8.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/7098/rec/42 Backing up a few years, here is a similar view from c. 1881-88. See the "Central Market" sign at right? That's the meat market next to the undertakers on the 1894 Sanborn Map: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps17343757.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/7092/rec/40 And who owned the meat market? Simon Maier, brother of Joseph Maier, of the Maier and Zobelein Brewery, which we have discussed here previously: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5e15b969.jpg 1894 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com / Info from CemetaryGuide.com -- http://www.cemeteryguide.com/gotw-maier.html Although John Robarts was dead, the Robarts Block lived on. It was on the route of the 1895 La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps03c5f541.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UPXNVAHV79.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pse18b9a74.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...B2AV3TUFUD.jpg And other parades, too: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps032ed7e0.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...5LIPL5JMCM.jpg Looking south on Main, January 1, 1907. In the lower left corner is the Robarts' roof. The Robarts/St. Lawrence is now the Robarts/Faremont: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps03da846a.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/929/rec/3 1920: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps39a3abce.jpg LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics18/00018967.jpg This undated photo is looking west on 7th: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2dd04d37.jpg LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014156.jpg Looking east on 7th, 1939: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps03600a85.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/21130/rec/1 c. 1950: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psfff7bf24.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...Y6E4THJ8RS.jpg This is the 1906 Sanborn Map, updated to 1950. Note the little building with two storefronts on the north side of the Robarts Block: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps70df38d4.jpg LAPL This aerial view from January 22, 1958 (the fire is at the Solnit Shoe Company, 817 S. Los Angeles St.) appears to show the Robarts Block (red circle) roofless and being demolished: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psfe433258.jpg LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101706.jpg The LA County Assessor says the current building at the NE corner of 7th and Main (at the top center of the photo, to the right of the E-shaped Hotel Cecil) dates to 1958, and the small building to its immediate north -- from the 1906/1950 Sanborn Map -- dates to 1940. This is a 1960 aerial view: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psbac51cc9.jpg USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/21896/rec/47 And this is a June 2013 street view looking east across Main Street, with the Hotel Cecil at the far left. Those two storefronts on the left don't quite match the rest of the building, although they've been made a part of it: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5418340d.jpg Photo by me The difference in back is quite stark: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5fbd9f31.jpg Photo by me That set me to thinking . . . if someone decided to retain that little 1940 building and incorporate it into the new 1958 building, maybe the 1958 building with its cinderblock outer walls wasn't entirely all new construction? Maybe the Robarts Block was another old building chopped down to one floor, and then added onto? I asked one of the guys who was renovating one of the storefronts (two photos up, third storefront from the right), but he put the kibosh on that notion. He said that although there was old brickwork in the basement, the interior ground floor walls were all plaster. So although John Robarts' monument at 7th and Main is gone, his monument at Rosedale Cemetary is still very much extant: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pse96faa52.jpg FindaGrave.com --http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=84641718&PIpi=55385564 Most info from FindaGrave.com -- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=84641718 |
An American oddity.
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Here are some additional views of the Solnit fire. http://imageshack.us/a/img853/6461/b5xu.jpg http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1...-0122-Fire.htm http://imageshack.us/a/img46/5425/dipn.jpg http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1...-0122-Fire.htm http://imageshack.us/a/img43/7177/07kq.jpg http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1...-0122-Fire.htm __ Great post by the way FlyingWedge! |
...more from the 1958 Solnit Shoe Company fire. all from http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1...-0122-Fire.htm
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Last week, we discussed the viaduct that connected the new L.A. County Hospital with the older hospital buildings.
I found a few photographs of these older buildings. (all three photos are dated 1939) County Hospital Osteopathic Unit http://imageshack.us/a/img441/8378/ngft.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/2668/rec/13 County Hospital Psychiactric Ward http://imageshack.us/a/img600/7779/y0d2.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...l/order/nosort County Hospital Intern's Quarters http://imageshack.us/a/img189/6131/u9w9.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...l/order/nosort __ |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img837/77/08xz.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img5/2447/ie2b.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/1946/rec/53 Compare the two photos and you can see that the building was doubled in size (to the east) at some point in time. __ If you look closely you can see the 'two' buildings joined as one. http://imageshack.us/a/img809/5034/fqlt.jpg google earth I had no idea about the addition until I found that 1900 photograph. -kind of a fun discovery :) __ |
Bay Cities Guaranty Building "6" sign
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Now here's a question for any of you folks out there that ever worked as gas station attendants in your youth. Did you ever use this method of cleaning oil off the surface of the islands at closing time? 1. start the pump and shoot gasoline on the surface of the island. 2. Scrub heavy spots with a stiff push broom. 3. Put you finger over the radiator water replenishment hose to create a high pressure directional spray to push the oil now floating on the surface of the gasoline towards the driveway and into the gutter. 4. Hope no one rolled into the station with a lighted cigarette in their lips. Cheers, Jack |
Offices of Hoffman-Schlager Inc. and David C. Werner Inc. 8776-8782 Sunset Blvd. in 1935.
http://imageshack.us/a/img7/176/nnuh.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/3910/rec/56 today. http://imageshack.us/a/img600/360/r4ct.jpg gsv The two buildings are located on a triangular lot where Holloway Drive merges with Sunset Blvd. -rear view from Holloway Drive http://imageshack.us/a/img15/79/2h8b.jpg gsv Because of the sloped lot, there is more to the buildings than meets the eye. Both buildings appear much smaller when viewed on Sunset. I lived just down the block on Hancock and would often walk up to the restaurant in the corner building. Back then it was the Old World (or was it New World?) Cafe with plenty of outdoor seating. Here's a wider view showing the whole corner, with Holloway Drive on the right. http://imageshack.us/a/img15/4566/qni8.jpg gsv __ |
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Fondly remembered and formerly known as the Old World Restaurant. If only that standalone mailbox could talk! 1988 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039557.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039557.jpg 1991 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007761.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007761.jpg 1940 - Where Sunset forks with Holloway http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039538.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039538.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6046 http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/h6.gif http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/h6.gif http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z7qgTPMsC0...-old-world.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z7qgTPMsC0...-old-world.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LoTJhrNKqa...8/s1600/45.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LoTJhrNKqa...8/s1600/45.jpg Anyone remember the easy-to-miss "Butterfield's?" 8426 Sunset Blvd? (Slightly east of "Blue's House") A place which John Barrymore may have been quite familiar. :whisper: 1985 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039547.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039547.jpg July 29, 1949 - West on Sunset http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics26/00047568.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics26/00047568.jpg West of La Cienega on Sunset. Circa '39 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009355.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009355.jpg 9000 West Sunset - circa '38 The Norma Talmadge Building. (Gone in '63) http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics19/00019036.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics45/00072135.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics45/00072135.jpg 9018-9022 on the Strip in 1938 - dig the stained glass accents. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101239.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101239.jpg 9023 Sunset Blvd. - The Crosby Building. Circa '38 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101245.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101245.jpg And further west - at the corner of Doheny and Sunset (9112 Sunset) Gates' Nut Kettle! Circa '38 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058479.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058479.jpg |
I was watching a DVD of the first season of ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN and was startled to see that the Daily Planet Building wasn't the the familiar LA City Hall of later seasons but the Wilson Building at Wilshire and La Brea (before it donned its eventual Mutual of Omaha, Asahi and Samsung crowns).
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Blaster-- Here are a couple of old posts explaining the change from the Wilson Building to City Hall: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2047 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2060 |
Thanks, Gaylord.
In reference to your name and avatar, I've been a frequent customer at the Bounty for many years. They recently made some "improvements" to the decor but fortunately didn't do enough to wreck its ambience. |
Wonderful photographs of Sunset Boulevard BifRayRock. -thank you for posting them-
I've often wondered why so many of the buildings on Sunset have the same architectural style (peaked roofs, shutters, bay windows etc.)? Was there a grand scheme that the builders (and architects) were following, or were they simply following the precedent set by the Sunset Plaza development? http://imageshack.us/a/img580/9517/a84i.jpg http://laurelcanyonassoc.com/Canyon1920.html __ |
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