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(1931) - View looking north on Fairfax Avenue at Drexel Avenue. A couple of oil derricks are seen in the distance around 3rd and Fairfax. The multi-story building on the left, now occupied by Sandy’s Camera, is still under construction. https://i.imgur.com/fcPuO3x.jpgLAPL (1931) - View looking east on Drexel Avenue at Fairfax Avenue with oil derricks of the Salt Lake Oil Field in the background. Both corners on the west side of Faifax are occupied by gas stations. https://i.imgur.com/sNdJCnw.jpgLINK Salt Lake Oil Field. View across a lagoon in the Salt Lake Oil Field, California, USA, from the east end, showing gas bubbles coming up through the water and oil floating on the surface. The Salt Lake Oil Field was discovered in 1902 and was once the most productive oil field in California. Photographed 7 miles west of Los Angeles, USA, in 1906. https://i.imgur.com/uu5ZgKl.jpgLINK Salt Lake Oil Field. View across the Salt Lake Oil fields, California, USA, from La Brea Ranch house, towards the Santa Monica Mountains in the background. Photographed 7 miles west of Los Angeles, USA, on 6th January 1906. https://i.imgur.com/7kVsQoi.jpgLINK (1931) - View of an oil well in the middle of La Cienega Blvd. near Beverly, Feb. 16, 1931. One of Los Angeles' most unusual drilling was a well that stood in the middle of La Cienega Boulevard from 1930 to 1946, forcing drivers to zigzag around it. The oil island was located between Beverly Boulevard and 3rd Street. https://i.imgur.com/OEbtyEb.jpgLINK (ca. 1931) - Oil island on La Cienega just south of Beverly Blvd. The view is looking north. When the wooden derrick was constructed in 1907, it wasn't in the middle of La Cienega Boulevard. It was in the middle of a bean field. La Cienega didn't run that far north at the time but in 1930 the City extended La Cienega to Santa Monica Blvd. leaving the oil derrick in the middle of the roadway. https://i.imgur.com/zO8XSna.jpgLINK |
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There is a well that's currently listed as active (red dot) at the corner of West 3rd and S Flores Streets. The others (black dot) in the immediate area are listed as plugged. https://i.imgur.com/OiIyaye.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sYdXq8n.jpg Google Maps More drilling for oil well locations can be done here - Dept Of Conservation - Well Finder |
Gum drops
This is, no doubt, a very rare employees photograph. [1880s]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/2J9TqO.jpg for sale at rubylane Can you read what's on that white bucket? Didn't think so. this will help. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/NgtONH.jpg detail Bishop & Company - Los Angeles, California Manufacturing Confectioners GUM DROPS Does anyone have an idea where this gum drop factory was located" Did ya'll notice the cat? __ |
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I've marked some streets on this aerial view taken in August 1927. Most of the oil-related activity in this area looks to be adjacent to the narrow part of La Cienega between Beverly and Third. However, there seems to be many oil wells east of Fairfax over to Cochran, between Third and Sixth (not shown below). Does anyone know anything about that stadium-shaped bowl north of Third Street, between Orlando and Harper? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original Flight C-113 Frame 124 @ UCSB |
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Bishop & Company was first called the Southern California Confectionery Co--owned by cousins William T. and Roland P Bishop...started in 1887. The first address in CDs is "Aliso and Aliso Road"; before long, it was 14 N Los Angeles--which became 114 NLA with the renumberings of 1891. By 1895 the company opened a factory near the corner of E 7th and Alameda...later expanding into the Parkinson-designed Building D of the LA Union Terminal. The eventual E 7th/Alameda factory https://s22.postimg.cc/o8wey8smp/bishopfactory.bmp.jpgLAPL https://s22.postimg.cc/7l4wvsfvl/bishop1.jpgLAPL https://s22.postimg.cc/mtuu9lza9/bishop2.jpgLAPL Building D of the LA Union Terminal today https://s22.postimg.cc/x6h4vxl69/bis...orynow.bmp.jpg More on the business and the family is in this history of WT Bishop's house on Adams Street...which, after years of neglect, has recently been refurbished. https://s22.postimg.cc/4prtoura9/WAD...sethis4_FB.jpgHLA |
Somehow, the Bishop factory reminds me of Lucy and Ethyl on the candy assembly line.
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I haven't marked a landmark statistic for a while, but I thought that 25 million views was worth it. I've already defaced many of LA's well-known buildings in previous posts of this type, so I had to look for somewhere new. In the end I went for the Cinerama.
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I see that there are too many early addresses to figure out where the employees photograph was taken. If only someone had written the date & address on the back of the photograph. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/2J9TqO.jpg That man standing in front of the open door is awfully tall. I wonder if the cat was the company 'mascot' of sorts.....roaming around the factory and eating stray gum drops. (might explain why it's sliding off the lady's lap...too many gum drops!) |
more Oil Wells Noir
By The Way , anyone interested in L.A. Noir about the early oil wells ,
needs to watch , THE TWO JAKES , it even has some juicy bits with the La Brea Tar Pits too https://movietvlocations.tavres.com/...oogle-Maps.jpg https://movietvlocations.tavres.com/...90-0.12.15.jpg |
The only walrus that we have seen around these parts is Woofy at Marineland. (courtesy of HossC)
That is until I happened upon this postcard a few days ago at rubylane "The Walrus in Los Angeles, Cal." at Vance Drug Company https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/cmkGxC.jpg rubylane Here's the reverse: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Z86tcN.jpg It turns out the postcard is an advertisement for the Walrus Manufacturing Company out of Decatur Illinois. (about 70 miles southwest from the small town I grew up in) And as you can see from the photograph...the Vance Drug Company [in Los Angeles] installed a 'Walrus' soda fountain. The Vance Drug Co. was located at 400 S. Broadway. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/ozW4jo.jpg lapl And much to my surprise, I also found a local agency and display room of the Walrus Company at 814 E. Third. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/ylPNFG.jpg So here's the rub...I'm trying to located a photograph of the building located at 814 E. Third around 1915. I haven't had any luck. also ...what building was at 400 S. Broadway in 1915? (location of the Vance Drug Store) Any help would be appreciated. |
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I obviously have my Annies mixed up. ;) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/98CX2M.jpg rubylane |
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Fine Arts Building Lobby
I went on a photoshoot with the Glendale group last Sunday and shot(through the door) a pic of the lobby of the Fine Arts Building on 7th.
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ETA: And I really enjoyed the little secondary signs over the box office windows :tup: |
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They look like they'd hold about the same volume of floodwater (Pan Pacific Park is way impressive when it's even partway full). |
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This aerial was taken a few months later than FlyingWedge's, in late 1927. The structure has gone, and the newspapers announced a new velodrome had been built on Venice near Culver City. https://i.imgur.com/q9dOuZH.jpg UCSB Aerials 12-31-1927 And thanks HossC for the 25M milestone, it looks great :) |
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