mystery studio 1912
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/811/sd5u.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...0/198/tknz.jpg details http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/30/a1i.JPG http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/838/5ghd.jpg strong man http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/703/2b1a.jpg full view/a little closer http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/850/6im1.jpg |
Thanks for finding those pictures of the Sixteenth Street School and Engine Company No. 10, Flyingwedge.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...a.jpg~original Google Earth |
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In the voter lists, he is again found in 1892, listed as being a brewer and residing at 459 Aliso Street, Los Angeles. This later voting list indicates that he was six feet tall with fair skin, brown eyes and brown hair. Amazing the amount of information they had in the voter registrations in those days! |
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Could this be it, uni? I think it was at Fairfax & 3rd. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL I think we've seen this station before, but I couldn't find it. |
Beverly Hills Hotel USO Canteen
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I’ve read a lot of things concerning Hollywood and the Canteens and such during WWII over the years. I remember reading about a canteen in the Beverly Hills Hotel somewhere once and wondered about that, but never looked into it any further. I recalled that it was on a blog where a woman who had found boxes of letters her father had written had posted one he’d written about when he arrived in Southern California. (I love that the internet has provided a place for people to share these kinds of personal letters, stories and such that otherwise would have remained with the families or lost entirely. Pictures, from the WWII era, say, that may have been only seen by a dozen people for decades are now posted online and available to be seen by millions!) Anyway, I thought I’d try to find that link again if it wasn’t going to be too time consuming and I happened to find it quickly! Here is part of some correspondence mentioning this USO, from a letter dated Jan. 9, 1943 and written by a man who was known as “Lad”. Link follows. "Wednesday morning it was nearly noon and I went to the Y and cleaned up and then went into LA for lunch. I wandered around a little but it is too big to get very far on foot so I went back to the car and was just driving aimlessly toward camp went four soldiers asked me if I was going to Hollywood. I had not thought of that, so I said “Sure” and off we went. At the USO there I talked with some of the hostesses and found out what I could about the town and then decided to go out to the Beverly Hills Hotel where there was another USO. I tried to get someone to go out with me and show me some of the prettier places and views, but was unsuccessful. I went back to Hollywood to the Hollywood canteen and stayed there the rest of the night dancing and snacking (new word here in LA and vicinity) until the place closed at 12. With a fellow I met there, I went to the Palladium and did some more dancing to Tommy Dorsey, he really is very good. That night I drove way up above the Beverly Hills residence section and again spent the night in the car. The view was gorgeous and I spent quite some time just sitting in the sun and looking. Then back to the Beverly Hills Hotel USO to clean up and eat. I spent the early afternoon there reading and talking with various women and soldiers and then went back to Hollywood and saw “Random Harvest” which I enjoyed just as much as the book. Then I went back to the Hollywood canteen until 12 and then to Florentine Gardens for more dancing. After a cup of coffee at about 2:30 I drove back to Arcadia. I had to report here on Friday but at that hour of the morning there was nothing doing so I slept, again in the car." http://greatestgenerationlessons.wor...beverly-hills/ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannHouse3.jpg Detail of picture at Huntington Digital Library According to the Baist maps, the large building on the right is the 16th Street School, even though it's on 17th Street. This is not to be confused with the 16th Street Public School which we discussed recently - that's a couple of blocks east. The map below is from 1910. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mannHouse4.jpg www.historicmapworks.com |
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"The Civil war had just come to a close Mr Winter came to America at the age of twenty four years This was some years before the completion of the first railroad across the plains California was therefore still isolated from east by weeks of travel with prairie schooner pony express Gold mining had ceased to be only industry of the state People had begun develop ranches and start business enterprises Solidarity of interests made the inhabitants of state harmonious in action for the general welfare The young German felt the opening to excellent and he engaged to assist in a owned by an uncle at Oroville where he his early practical knowledge of business conditions in the west Pleased with the outlook bought the bakery of his uncle and for some conducted the only business of the kind in Oroville but the climate proved unhealthful to and he disposed of his interests there The place of his residence San Diego had twenty five hundred inhabitants at the time of arrival Notwithstanding the small and general business dullness he believed that equable climate would attract permanent in due time and he determined to embark in business Together with a brother Joseph Winter he for ten years conducted the only bakery in town Meanwhile Los Angeles was beginning attract the attention of keen foresighted and he decided to shift the scene of his to the rising city of promise The year found him as an associate in a business numbering several capitalists and men of practical experience one of the organizers of Los Angeles Cracker Company that bought old mill on Lyle street and embarked in the manufacture of crackers The prosperous history of the concern familiar to all who have kept posted the industrial development of Los Angeles power from the Los Angeles river was for a brief period but during the floods of a change became necessary and steam power thereupon introduced making an improvement great importance in the subsequent growth of establishment With the development of the business it became possible to absorb the California Cracker Company whose title adopted with the consolidation of the two industries The output of the factory was large quality excellent and the methods of the most modern hence a gratifying marked its history throughout the entire up to the sale in 1899 to the organization known as the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company." http://books.google.com/books?id=0hc...any%22&f=false |
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Here's an old post of mine--which had a broken link in it, now fixed--that has pics of the old 16th-on-17th Street School as well as its replacement: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3278 (scroll down) |
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http://imageshack.com/a/img690/1334/g7iu.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520PM.bmp.jpg nineteen40s A nighttime shot--sure we must have seen this here before.... |
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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8...09283daf_b.jpg Plot line re New Year's Eve 1951 Still one of my favorite all-time pics in the thread. |
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I wasn't aware of an earlier Hotel Figueroa, this one at Fig & 16th: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520PM.bmp.jpgLA Herald, Dec 7, 1892 Haven't found any other pictures of it.... |
James Cuzner House
Today it's at 2091 S. Harvard Blvd. -- with the Santa Monica Freeway across the street -- but when it was built by James Cuzner of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company, it was at 1991 S. Harvard.
The Los Angeles County Assessor website says this house was built in 1904 and that the house next to it was built in 1905; since the lot next door looks empty, I'll say this is a c. 1904 photo (although there are cracks near that small 3rd floor window, and zooming in reveals what looks like recent repair work): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/502/rec/2 http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original GSV More and better photos, plus history on the house (it's being restored after a bad fire) here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kansas_...n/11389207835/ An undated (c. 1930?) photo of Olvera Street, showing the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company in the background at the NE corner of Alameda and Macy: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008486.jpg 1921 Baist Map: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original Historicmapworks.com -- http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/19411/Plate+005/ |
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FW-- I can't quite tell if you're suggesting that the Cuzner house was moved, but I don't believe it was. At first I thought the 1991/2091 confusion might have to do with the considerable house renumberings and street-name changes that occurred with various later city annexations--it appears to me that the Cuzner house stands today where it was built. There is considerable confusion among the Times and the Herald about the house's address: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b...ertimespic.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...icLAHcompl.jpg A Times illustration published May 14, 1905; at right, the Herald's flopped photo of Nov 26, 1905 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...timescompl.jpg From the Times, May 14, 1905 https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...2520AM.bmp.jpg From the Herald, Nov 26, 1905 To add to the confusion, this appeared in the Herald on July 19, 1903: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...950%2520AM.jpg (Speaking of Wilshire Boulevard, which we weren't, Edelman would go on to become the Hellman's go-to architect when they built along that street: 3240: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...boulevard.html 3325: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html 3350: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html) For those who think pre-razor-wire Los Angeles was so lovely and civilized--it seems that hardly a big house in the best sections of town wasn't burglarized at some point or other--here's a bit of Cuzner noir (in case architectural detail gets boring to anyone) from the Herald of Dec 19, 1908: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520AM.bmp.jpg LA Times/CDNC |
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Well, actually, NCD, you could always do that with "Simple Search"... of course I like that there are more CDs available... but the frequent error message "The service is unavailable" is annoying. Hope they get the bugs worked out soon... As for saving, just do a screen grab.... |
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