A clearer view of the hanging Villa City lettering. The word "BOATING" looks like it's a different typeface to e_r's original image. A picture of Villa City can be seen in a recent post by Flyingwedge. The picture also shows the miniature railroad.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ityBoating.jpg
LAPL

:previous: very nice HossC, thx.




Martin Cadillac (1970s?)
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ebay



12101 W. Olympic Blvd. today
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GSV

..the professional photographer did a really good job with the lighting...don't ya think.?
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La Fiesta de las flores, Los Angeles ~1901

Anyone recognize the background structure? Looks familiar. Probably posted before but I am unable to locate it.

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No, I am not identifying the flower-power horseless carriage :previous: as a Locomobile.
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October '09
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Loco dealer at 1301 S. Hill




1908 (Ascot Speedway?)
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But how will it look with bedecked with flowers?
Seventeen year old Earle C. Anthony (Yes Packard-Reo Dealer (1000 S. Hope, etc. and broadcast pioneer) and his 1897 electrically powered carriage.
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Whoa Nelly!
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Earle C. had a residence at 666 S. Berendo. Not to be confused with his estate depicted elsewhere on NLA. A 1909 Greene & Greene design that was moved to 910 N. Bedford Dr., Bev H. GW provides coverage here: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html Have we seen any panoramic views of this home situated on Berendo? Related, but not exactly: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5827



A more mature Earle C in the mid '30's. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19347
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I found several pictures relating to Hal Shain at ancestry.com. The first is described as "Retouched photo of Halver Shain. Original photo from the collection of Diana Shain."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AHalShain1.jpg
ancestry.com

An obituary of Halver Alonzo Shain from the Santa Cruz Evening News.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AHalShain2.jpg
ancestry.com

Here's the entrance to the 'Daredevil Race for Life'.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AHalShain3.jpg
LAPL

And a view of the track.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AHalShain4.jpg
LAPL

I was hoping to find a larger version of this postcard. It's a colorized version of the first LAPL picture above, but the banner announcing the baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Venice Tigers has been removed.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AHalShain5.jpg
eBay

This picture of the track was also on eBay, but it was a distorted and washed out sepia image. I've done my best to make it clearer.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AHalShain6.jpg
eBay

:previous: Excellent additional information HossC.


I see the two buildings that appear in the background of my photo.
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The tree pictured outside Li Po Restaurant was planted by the wife of attorney Y.C. Hong, whose offices were adjacent to this building. It was a Chinese elm, and is still there and still alive. This building IS adjacent to the East Gate, but is inside New Chinatown. That mural above the Li Po sign was painted by Tyrus Wong, still kicking at 103 years old!

Great eye, e_r. BTW, the building on the left is Abbot Kinney's St. Mark's Hotel (see picture below). According to an article on virtualvenice.info, "Ground was broken for St. Mark's Hotel on December 5,1904. It was one of Venice's original buildings. It was demolished in 1964." It looks like Venice lost a lot of Ocean Front Walk buildings around this time. The article also says that "The south side of Windward [Avenue] was not filled in with buildings until around 1915." Most of them have since been demolished.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...MarksHotel.jpg
USC Digital Library

St. Mark's may have been replaced by part of the Venice Sidewalk Market (a load of shacks offering bike rentals, sunglasses etc.), but the building next door survives as Danny's Venice.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nysVenice1.jpg
GSV

Google Maps/Streetview lets you venture inside Danny's. That's allegedly the last original gondola bought by Abbot Kinney from the Venice Pavilion at the 1900 World's Fair hanging from the ceiling.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nysVenice2.jpg
GSV

Finally, I know most of us here at NLA like a tunnel, especially when they were used during prohibition. The following is from an article called 'Debunking Venice's Historic Myths' on www.westland.net:

Does anyone know if these tunnels still exist?

LA Ox Cart at Fourth and Broadway

"King Grover III, a political burlesque comedy. In the background is the Broadway Department Store as well as an advertisement for Dayton bicycles."

~1896
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The Boyle-Dayton Company produced gas pumps and tanks. 51 Street and Santa Fe Ave. (Vernon) http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...00005/00000001



Pay no attention to the photographer's shadow.

1929
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http://www.mecum.com/auctions/AN1113...d=101713190806http://www.mecum.com/auctions/AN1113...d=101713190806

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Hello all.

I own a website whose purpose is to find filming locations from past and present movies. I am currently working on finding locations for Stanley Kubrick's 1956 movie The Killing. This film features a few shots from vintage L.A.. I was wondering if someone on here could help me locate specific places.

Business #1 - Culligan Soft Water Service

http://i.imgur.com/95oatTw.jpg

Hint: Address is 1309.

Business #2 - Money To Loan pawn shop at 831???

http://i.imgur.com/Cs6dblX.jpg
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The second picture is basically the camera looking right. I couldn't find anything about any "Herman's Cafe" in the L.A. area. There seems to be a theater to the right, but which one? Hard to tell.

I suspect this would be around downtown L.A.

Thanks for any help provided.

:previous:

The Culligan building was at 1307-09 West 39th Street. The building is still there...


https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV

It's basically unrecognizable; really the only clue is what appears to be a vent at the upper left of the façade:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520PM.bmp.jpg

The 1929 photo of the Boyle Dayton plant was more than likely taken before 1929 as in 1928 the company was purchased by the Wayne pump Company and production was subsequently moved to Wayne, Indiana. Boyle Dayton visible pumps are now quite the collector's item with one in good condition or restored often selling to collectors for between $8,000 to $12,000. Certain models associated with specific retail gasoline brands can bring greater amounts. There is such a demand for these old pumps that reproduction repair parts are readily available.

:previous: Link for your website?

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Date derived from source. Boyle-Dayton is listed in '29 city directory, so maybe there was some lag time during transition? :shrug:

Source describes below image as "In Freemont Pass, 26 miles from Los Angeles." http://catalog.library.ca.gov/F/YKRP...003&format=999 Could this be an entrance or exit leading to or from what is also known as the Newhall Cut?

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City directories were done by house-to-house (and business-to-business) polling, much like the census. Much of it for 1929 could have been done during the previous year.



For however long, production appears to have continued in Los Angeles.

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LAT/WSJ Oct 10, 1928

You're quite welcome! That's the 800 block of West Third, the other side of Bunker Hill from downtown. The theater next door is the Lux.

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2911/...39401f40_o.jpglapl

Here's a later shot -- 6/65 -- with, sadly, the 831 "Money to Loan" building already demo'd. This is about mid-way between Figueroa and Flower.

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While The Killing made it into Jim Dawson's excellent book on Bunker noir (The Mission Apts, etc.) I don't believe this location did, which is a shame. Second edition!

Amazing picture of the Argyle before 2nd was widened. Never knew it had those gingerbready porches along the south elevation either.

I'm interested in Young's work too. Beaudry, I'm sure you're already familiar with the Alphonse J. Forget House he designed at 1026 S. Bonnie Brae Street, but since I have my own photo I thought I'd share anyway:

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psf5e7bd2c.jpgmy photo

And a very similar house he designed which sits around the corner at 1851 W. 11th Street:

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...ps641f1a71.jpggsv

Glad there's another fan! My buddy Richard does the Broadway on My Mind walking tours, and last Sunday I joined him for an RB Young-themed jaunt where we took folk to the Carr and Barker Bros, and there'll be another one the end of this month too, where we go the other way up Broadway. They're free, come on by!

We're also in the starting processes of blogging the works of RBY -- when we get the first post up, Noirish will be the first to know...

After having posted this the other day, I feel the need to write a proper post-mortem for my late, beloved California State Building.

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Fearing that the Art Deco chandeliers and fixtures would remain entombed forever, I donned my pith helmet and set forth for First and Broadway. At least I could get some of the broken-up marble from the floor!

I had a pretty cool adventure, as Sunday trespassings go (It's kind of my version of church) but it didn't yield me those results.

Apparently the marble from the lobby was the first thing ripped up and was beneath Mount Rubble --

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One could still make out the outline of the building...

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And here next to Hill St are the remnants of the entry-steps, and that small window to the right I like to imagine is emits light into the aforementioned basement. Which appears to be less full art deco sconces than it is of concrete discard.

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Along the back, toward Temple, one can still make out the entrance to the parking garages...which runs down to this nifty little survivor.

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Here are the entrances to the underground parking, covered over with concrete pieces and other detritus to keep the locals out and CHUD in.

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This is what it looks like inside; note the SOUND HORN sign at the curve. I was tempted to crawl in and explore but no-one knew I was there and if anything happened it would have been a long night.

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Do any y'all know what's going into this area? Someone told me the site is to be an extension of Grand Park. But below is some of the excavation work. That kind of pit is for a great big building, not for sod. Which is sad, because I've always enjoyed the uninterrupted sight-vista in front of City Hall from Hill St. Seems they're looking to erect some (unquestionably inferior) structure directly across from City Hall. Sad.

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Anyway, I won't take up any more of your time with non-vintage photos of LA. I will say this, though, being at a demo site under the watchful eye of City Hall sort of "took me back" (to a time I'd never been) as it was eerily reminiscent of when we experienced...The Difficulties.

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