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--------------- Here's the Bell Motor Hotel at 1126 East Colorado St, Glendale. I can't find any previous mentions. The seller says this postcard is dated 1957. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original eBay This one is dated by the source as "between circa 1930 and circa 1945", and gives a couple of interior views. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Wikimedia Commons I had a look at Historic Aerials, and the Bell Motor Hotel seems to have been replaced by the current building between 2005 and 2012. The view below is from 2004, and shows that the swimming pool disappeared sometime before the motel (it's clearly visible in some of the earlier images). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Historic Aerials |
"H" or "K" on Hollywood Hills?
I found this one recently on Pinterest. Looking north up Vine St toward the Hollywoodland sign, shortly after it was installed in the Hollywood Hills in 1923. When I posted it on my Facebook page, I was asked about the”H” or “K” in the Hollywood Hills to the far left of the sign, way in the background. I don’t really know what it is? The only other sign I remember seeing is the Outpost sign. Any ideas?
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The "H" is for Hollywood High School. Not many references or photos online as it didn't last long. https://underthehollywoodsign.wordpr...ve-circa-1925/ https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b...62327%2BPM.jpg jalopejournal Your photo has been posted before, but nobody asked about the "H". It's a great shot. |
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Don't you all love the brown chenille bedspreads? What more could one ask for. So lovely and authentic of the era. I just know that Tovangar likes it!! |
You think I like chenille CBD? Brown chenille?
LOL, what are you smoking? |
I follow this thread with much enjoyment. Thanks everyone. Excellent work !
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Thanks for the photo - apparently taken in Cajon Pass - and for the opportunity to learn something new. ER, this place that you founded never ceases to amaze, one way or another! |
house at 129 s. Olive
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Wikipedia has a list of the 80-some hillside letters throughout California including the first one in 1905 built for UC Berkeley The Key Club is the High School version of the Kiwanis service club. |
hillside monograms
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-n...95523%2BAM.jpg burbankhigh68 One more of the HHS "H": https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-d...21852%2BPM.jpg water and power P.S. The Heinz "57" numbers in the Baldwin Hills were concrete, if you remember those |
Schindler's 1944 Bethlehem Baptist Church, Compton
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The listing is here. Then: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...14519%2BAM.jpg esoteric Now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...14051%2BAM.jpg schindlerchurch Info on the history of the building and the work done is here. |
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E_R, those color photographs of World War II era Los Angeles you recently posted are fantastic! The fact that you consistently find these wonderful historical images on eBay is seemingly miraculous and I appreciate it and thank you for doing it! How many things would we have missed were it not for--ebay?!
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...s.jpg~original This one of the Pan Pacific Auditorium, sans watermark courtesy of HossC, might be the best one I've seen with this color scheme. We've had a lot of information posted about this location, and I've read some from other sources, too, but I wondered if anyone knew anything about the painting of this building? We normally see color photos of it in the art deco green colors. I'm curious if there was any rhyme or reasoning as to why it was also painted this color and if it had been any other colors at other times? ___ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/NPUDBM.jpg Though I am usually partial to neon lit scenes like the Examiner/Richfield and Hawaii Theater ones, this particular photo is perhaps my favorite. It just feels like a matter-of-fact, slice-of-life photo showing a glimpse back to one moment in World War II era Los Angeles...with the people waiting for a bus on the bench...some "ladies who lunch" coming from the Brown Derby and, also, probably the soldier with his date (?) jaywalking across Wilshire Blvd. The fact it also shows a grouping of buildings that are now also left to history is doubly interesting. Anyone know what the circular "K" sign near the bus bench might signify? I also love "the Mariposa dip." LOL! If these photos all were taken during WWII, I am wondering about the duration of any "blackout' rules because of those great neon pictures. I don't recall seing any color photos of the Hawaii theater before and had thought the neon might probably have been green, yellow or orange instead of red, white and blue...and also wondering why the mural scene in between the blue neon columns wasn't visible? Lots of great stuff lately, thanks all. |
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Did anyone else think the lady by the doors of the "Forbidden Palace" entrance resembles Eleanor Roosevelt? |
Here is one of those random ''candid'' downtown Los Angeles photos from the mid 1940s. Photographers would take them and later hope you would purchase.
[Incidentally this is my stepfather, he's the one who's first wife was a suicide in 1943, that I've mentioned before.] He bought his suits at Desmond's. He later loaned me his Desmond's credit card....which was a mistake. He let me use it twice and that was the end of that. :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pspy1u1ook.jpg album |
:previous: Stylish man. -I believe those are glass blocks imbedded in the sidewalks. We discussed them on NLA years ago, but I wasn't able locate the earlier discussion.
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detail M_P, at first I thought it was a Rotary International sign (you still see them in the Midwest). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/280...538/SgvYCM.jpg wiki ...but, that doesn't explain the large K in the center. so now I'm thinking it was a Kiwanis International sign (below). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/280...911/z0TkvC.jpg http://www.nnhs65.com/11-26-08-NNHS-John-Seward.html if interested: Rotary Club history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_International Kiwanis history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwanis Kiwanis of Los Angeles https://sites.google.com/site/lakiwanis/ |
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