1937-8 (?) Source does not identify subject, date or location. Bet Errett Lobban Cord could shed some light!

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021533.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021548.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics03/00021479.jpgAll Lapl

;) No date (Call ahead for an appointment!)

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics03/00021467.jpgLapl

Unidentified location, date or location. Presumably SoCal.

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics03/00021468.jpgLapl

Bullock's Wilshire - mid-late '30s?

Source does not identify date-location.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics03/00021483.jpgLapl


http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1076/1...030761de_z.jpghttp://farm2.staticflickr.com

As nice a picture of ca. 1900 suburban Los Angeles ca. 1900 as there ever could be... I've seen similar shots of this street, perhaps even the photograph from which the postcard was taken, and have tried to find it. "Bonnie Brae" referrred to more than just the street by that name--there was the Bonnie Brae Tract from roughly 7th to 9th, Beacon to Lake; the South Bonnie Brae Tract, a bit more irregular in shape, from 9th to 11th and Beacon to Alvarado; and the West Bonnie Brae Tract, 9th to 11th, Grand View to Carondelet. Many of the streets in this combined area (including other subdivisions) have the gentle slope seen in the pic. I've explored all the suspect streets and have never found these houses. It must have been amazing in its brief heyday.

'36 Chrysler Imperial with '37 Hawaii tags. Source identifies location as Long Beach.

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics03/00021486.jpgLAPL

Circa 1940 - Bellevue Avenue, Echo Park. "El Retiro Cafe"

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067273.jpgLapl

The directories web site is uncooperative. Assume this address would have been in the 600 Block per photo. Wonder if it was close to the current Bob's Market @ 1230 Bellevue aka Kennsington in Angelino Heights. Built in 1913.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3432/3...7e96e87e_b.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3334/3...90aaa53a_b.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/7294653@N07/3293807231/

Evidently featured in film "The Fast and The Furious."
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qso-MJrdOt...600/Market.JPGhttp://www.itsfilmedthere.com/2010/0...d-furious.html

"Typical rear engined import." Renault Dauphine pensively waits to enter LA intersection. Early '60s "Ted's Body and Fender?"
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8qEDwfHWKL0/S3...800/LA60s3.jpghttp://www.jalopyjournal.com

Address and Date unknown. (1950 Pontiac Chiefton and driver, waiting to demonstrate inherent superiority of his car to import car and driver.)
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics02/00020595.jpg Lapl

Pre conflagration? Source describes this as 1929 auto show before fire burned "showroom." Display looks more substantial than tenting :previous: , but hard to tell. Next time use car wax that is fire resistant. Lesson learned?
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021542.jpgLapl

Simca
 

LOL. Touche GW. I loved my Simca Elysee because it was tres stylish (I had a later one with the sloped hood and back deck), pretty even (I particularly liked the design of the dash). It was lively to drive. I loved the look of Renaults too*:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...VrdWfuaRgyPL5_
fanpop

I later owned a 1950 Chrysler fluid -drive (the closest I've ever gotten to an automatic), the back seat of which folded flat combining that area with the trunk to make a large cargo space. I bought it for $150 from a fellow who used to ship it to Europe every summer packed with the paraphernalia to drive town to town putting on marionette shows.

As a kid I could name the make, model and year of every car on the road with very few exceptions. Those days are gone.

*I hope I may be forgiven for this because somewhere in my passport collection, I have an EU one.

7010 Hollywood Blvd.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-F...2/IMG_5854.JPGgoogle

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...85/yU4IfA.jpeghttp://gogonotes.blogspot.com


Post 1948? or '47 (Pomona Library and http://gogonotes.blogspot.com)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...12/8RGyZp.jpeg


Undated, no address. Look carefully to the right of the bystander's head. Hillcrest? "Cadillac" "Marmon" Do I see the reflection of "Auburn?" (EL Cord??)
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics02/00020590.jpgLapl

? "Citroën 2CV" "deux chevaux" ?

Follow the Yellow Brick Road?

August 1, 1920 - F. V. Owen sets out on a cross-country tour of the nation's parks. In front of Los Angeles Evening Herald.

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021658.jpg

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021651.jpg

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021650.jpg

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021629.jpg All from Lapl

Another postcard I recently came across on ebay.

http://imageshack.us/a/img203/5820/s514sgrandave.jpg

I took the google-car down to Grand just to make sure it wasn't still hiding out somewhere behind the Los Angeles Public Library.
Nope-not there...just as I expected.





Today I was looking at this old photograph in my picture files and Icouldn't believe my eyes.
There was the Young Women's Boarding Home right behind the Biltmore Theater!

http://imageshack.us/a/img16/3681/aa...ry1919bilt.jpg
unkown/possibly LAPL

(I have the photo dated 1919)
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Castelar Street
 

My 1948 Gillespie's Guide shows Castelar running parallel with and between Hill and North Broadway. The whole nest of little streets in that area has been cleaned up, straightened and the blocks made larger. Castelar Elementary School (LAUSD schools are almost always named for the street they're on) still exists at the corner of Yale and College. Presumably the old entrance would have faced Castelar.

2cv
 

Yes it is. Still the most popular car in France (seen in countless motion pictures).

speaking of the Biltmore Theater...

The theater opened in 1924. It was the major venue for Broadway shows playing it Los Angeles. It had seating for 1,654.


below: interior view.

http://imageshack.us/a/img341/6016/a...eaterinter.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/downto...atres/biltmore



Toward the end of days for the Biltmore Theater. Looking east down 5th Street in 1962.

http://imageshack.us/a/img834/1663/a...eater1962s.jpg
William Reagh https://sites.google.com/site/downto...atres/biltmore







Demolition in 1964.

http://imageshack.us/a/img542/6373/a...eater1964d.jpg
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...HQ3RDYKB8L.jpg
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Speaking of old street names, how about Los Olivos?

Source indicates 1905 and Los Angeles (not town of Los Olivos). There is a street named Los Olivos in the San Fernando Valley, but a Hall there? (Looks like quite a patch. Hope it held air!) :uhh:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021561.jpgLapl

1903 - Broadway looking south from 9th Street (?)
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics02/00020570.jpg



1904 - Auto parade on Sunset. (Somewhere west of Vine Street - according to source)

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics02/00020828.jpg

Part of the same parade, also on Sunset.
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics04/00021606.jpg All from Lapl

Original press photo -Joseph Rivest 1939
 

Currently for sale on ebay -original press photo.
Ebay description -1939 California Los Angeles Joseph Rivest kills son.
The photo has strong visual impact -very evocative of the period.
I have tried Google but have not come across anything concrete relating to
this story.
Does anyone know the background?

alester

FOOTNOTE 01/29/2013

After further Google search:

The story and photo appeared in the Daily Despatch on 10/26/1939 and can be viewed online. Joseph Rivest, who was elderly at the time, was exonerated. His family were supportive, which is the underscore to the photo and explains why it is such a powerful image. The photo caption was: ***** embraces her grandfather Joseph Rivest exonerated in Los Angeles.

alester