We've seen this building several times on the thread but I thought this was interesting with the description.

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Los Angeles Herald 1906


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the building today
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Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930


Just another cool winter's day. They've come down from the rooming houses, or in on the red cars, or they've parked the Buick on the dirt lot above First Street, they've had their coffee, their hash, their bacon and eggs, their sweet roll and now they're crossing a busy sidewalk to their jobs, a jeweler, a pawnbroker, a salesgirl at Boos Brothers, an usher at Talley's...


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Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930 (2)


They're thinking about hot prospects, or about that new salesgirl with the red hair or about the way the kids had laughed at breakfast...they're thinking about a lunch date or another cup of coffee or stealing an hour or two to...well, you know...


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Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930 (3)


They listen to Sister Aimee, Father Coughlin and Fighting Bob Shuler and mostly they believe in miracles. Didn't Sister Aimee drown at Venice Beach and come ashore in Bisbee, Arizona? Yes she did. Ah, miracles. A touch of the hand, a voice raised in song and the blind shall see, the cripple will rise up out of his chair and dance a jig. Miracles. Except at work. At work they believe in being on time and not making waves. The stock market has crashed but the ripples have yet to sweep across this particular sidewalk...but they've heard and they know hard times are coming...


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Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930 (4)


They're trying to recall Mayor Porter because he's a man not to be trusted but they're going to come up short. He'll serve out his term. In a couple of years, they're going to elect Frank Shaw. He'll teach them to look back on the John C. Porter recall as the good old days.


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Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930 (5)


A young man hurrying to an appointment wishing he had a hat to wear and maybe if he talks fast enough they won't notice his bare head, kids on a shopping trip, maybe to Hamburger's, the older brother feeling the responsibility and fingering the loose change in his pocket, a couple of fast operators pleased with themselves and their good fortune...


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Crowds at Broadway and 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 1930 (6)


And on they come, a veritable tide, each with their private hopes, their private dreams and their private demons as well, each moving inexorably toward an unseeable future...the Great Depression is waiting and another world war...

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Los Angeles Herald 1905



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interior
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Los Angeles Herald 1905


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Los Angeles Herald 1905
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kodachrome slide
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Who in the heck is Stanley Comstock?
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This is a rare oddity!

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starting bid $100 dollars on ebay

"Tourists play on D.W. Griffith Intolerance statue 1910s."

I agree with the seller that this oversized facsimile of a statue is a movie prop...but Intolerance?
To me the statue seems too grotesque for the famous Babylonian scene. I thought maybe the statue was from another Griffith film like
'Julia of Bethulia' (1914), or any D.W. Griffith film with a sequence in Hell.

..perhaps the seller is correct and this is indeed from the iconic Intolerance.
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What to you guys think? Is it from Intolerance?

here's the link to the photograph on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TOURISTS-PLA...item35c5af603d__

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...2520PM.bmp.jpgMount Archives


John V G Posey was a son of Oliver, who built the familiar 8 Chester Place in 1900 before selling it after little more than a year to Edward Doheny. It's interesting to me that, although by a different architect, 650 West 23rd seems almost a vague, less busy miniature of the parental residence, even as far as original exterior wall and roof colors went. (OK, maybe you really have to squint.) John Posey manufactured wood products, specializing in spruce piano soundboards which he sold to various piano makers; the senior Posey stayed in West Adams for a decade or so after selling #8 to Doheny, then moved to Pasadena; John moved his company to Washington State in 1909.

Hello all - I'm a longtime lurker who just began posting.

Here's my meager contribution: a couple of before and after images from New Chinatown:

985 N. Broadway (Lung Kong Tin Yee Assoc. Building) in 1955

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...psb08ea6f3.jpg eBay

and today
http://i.imgur.com/ZoWy9mA.jpg google

and 961 N. Broadway (Chinese Free Masons Building)

in 1955
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps3022c835.jpg eBay

and now
http://i.imgur.com/krhBUG0.jpg google

Mount St Mary's
 

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GW, do you know if the house is owned by the college? It's fronted by the same wall that encloses all the campus' 23rd St buildings, and is all but surrounded by Building 4, but does not appear on MSM Doheny Campus maps (although the wall does):
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MSM

Zillow notes that the house is worth a lot less than its 2008 sales price (no surprise there):
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zillow

I thought it might be the Chancellor's residence or serve some other private function (?)


OMG, great toes!
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(It's not just a statue. The wrists and arms must have been jointed for a reason.....)




P.S. Thank you AlvaroLegido for the terrific link and to you too MichaelRyerson. I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who can see the thought bubbles over "our" long-gone pedestrians' heads.



P.P.S. Hi John Drake, Nice pix and thx for IDing my pagoda before :-)

I thought maybe the sign said "Evangelist" above Mr. Comstock's name, so I did a Google search for Evangelist Stanley Comstock and found a news article from Lima 1942.

(This is my first attempt at posting a link, so please forgive me if it doesn't post correctly and I'll try to correct it until I get it right.)

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=2603,5242270

The house was built by Posey on a lot within the original bounds of Chester Place, which would account for the wall; while his parents had sold #8 to the Dohenys in 1901, perhaps they had acquired the lot from William J Davis (who had built #2--the lot on which 650 sits appears to have been part of #2's lot originally). I've read that Sarah Posey sold to the Dohenys because she didn't like being in her giant new house alone while her husband went off to run his mines; perhaps after selling #8, the Poseys bought the piece from the Davises, planning a smaller house of their own, but then, after John got married in 1904, gave it to him...maybe Newsom actually first planned it for the parents, accounting for the similarity. There are a lot of references to 650 being a house owned by a member of the Severance family, including in the Gebhard-Winter guide, but I haven't seen any CD listings or newspaper items connecting it to a Severance, at least not yet. Rather than being a private house, 650 seems to be occupied currently by the Congregation of the Missions, some sort of Catholic men's organization.


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No indication of whose possessions these were, or who was coming and going from the house.

Welcome to the thread John Drake! I liked your chinatown before and afters.
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Thanks for info on Rev. Comstock Roxy Dog. -much appreciated-

Trader Post - 11665 , Studio City. "Hillman-Singer."
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Fess, who one lived off of Laurel Canyon. Related to car sales?
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A potential trade-in?
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kodachrome slide 1951
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Excuse me while I roll my eyes, but c'mon.....Tropical Ice Garden?? That makes no sense!

More Arnold Hylen, all from the early '50s. I'm sure one or two of these are reposts but please excuse them!

Under Angels Flight:

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And the little park area where Third Street terminates at Bunker Hill Ave, looking west:

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Video of a rental in the Eastern Columbia Building with period music.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEFfL_uvRMY

very dark.....only two small windows. but oh that pool!
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