Originally Posted by Wig-Wag (Post 6870797)

Ed, I believe you are correct that this is LARY's Vernon Yard. I believe we are looking west towards the Santa Fe delivery tracks. The UP (Los Angeles & Salt Lake wye which was also on the property would be behind the photographer. Unfortunately, the area has changed so much as to be almost unrecognizable now. A Google satellite view failed to reveal any building as tall as the one shown on the left in the photo.

Since Vernon was a meat packing area I wonder if the Luer's sign refers to Luer Meat Pacing Company which was located on E. Vernon Avenue?

If I can locate my copy of Inturbans Special No. 12, All Time roster of the Los Angeles Railway, we may be able to identify the crane, which, from the plate on the boom appears to be an Industrial Brownhoist.

Ah ha! Found it. The crane is LARY 9226 shown in two photos and a spec drawing on page 66 of The Los Angeles Railway All Time Roster published by Interurbans Publishing Company in August of 1952. The crane shown in the upper left photo is 9225 and is the one referred to by Ed as having been preserved at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.

[IMG]http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5abab7b8.jpg[/IMG]

Cheers,
Jack

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6278374)

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-G...2520PM.bmp.jpg


It seems that Walter Leimert thought that with all the new bridges over the the LA River, people would start moving east of Main Street, evening out the westward population trend. Apparently after only a few years he gave up on that idea and opened Leimert Park to the southwest, providing a resting place of sorts for Our Lady of Noir. I knew Mr. Leimert was a major developer, but never knew his full story, which is well-told here:

http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures...mert-park.html

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 6503893)

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6871135)

1928 - Leimert Park "Another Vine and Hollywood in the making" ?

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ola&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ola&DMROTATE=0
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ola&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ola&DMROTATE=0

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6871272)

:previous:

The word "Dumbarton" doesn't seem to appear in any of the City Directories as the name of a building or a person. I've known other businesses that never made it into the CDs, so that's no guarantee that it didn't exist. The only reference to a Dumbarton Hotel that I've found so far is in a book called 'Rose Gold' by Walter Mosley (maybe the book you mentioned?).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...artonHotel.jpg
books.google.com

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6871272)

:previous:

The word "Dumbarton" doesn't seem to appear in any of the City Directories as the name of a building or a person. I've known other businesses that never made it into the CDs, so that's no guarantee that it didn't exist. The only reference to a Dumbarton Hotel that I've found so far is in a book called 'Rose Gold' by Walter Mosley (maybe the book you mentioned?).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...artonHotel.jpg
books.google.com

Originally Posted by Mstimc (Post 6864696)

Looking at all the "then and now" pictures makes me wonder what the longest-surviving business is in L.A., at the same site. Realizing technology, demographics and the transient nature of retail trends are natural forces for change, I wonder what establishments have managed to ride the highs and lows and stuck it out in the same place for more than a decade or two. There are some obvious ones like the Chinese Theatre, but even that has changed owners a few times...

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6871182)

I believe this is the completed "model drive in market". It's seen here at the opening of the Citizen's National Trust & Savings Bank on March 29, 1930. I originally posted a smaller detail view in the final part of my roundup of Citizens Trust & Savings Bank branches.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...t.jpg~original
Detail of picture in Huntington Digital Library

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6870671)

The boy second from the left is wearing a belt ring with a couple of tool checks on it.
These checks have his number on them and are hung on a tool hook whenever he takes a tool for use.
He gets his check back when he returns the tool.

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6872135)

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6869046)

Rhum Boogie Club, 732 N. Highland Avenue. (Per '42 CD) Reportedly owned by Mickey Cohen.

Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm (Post 6870616)

There was a vibrant community of Japanese on Terminal Island, mostly engaged in fishing. Little Tokyo's Japanese-American heritage goes back at least 100 years, and Sawtelle's Japanese American community is almost that old. I went to University HS in the area in the 1970s, and only many years later did I learn that the student population in the war years was decimated by the forced internments of 1942 and after.

Judging from some passages in the novels of John Fante, it seems that there was also an Italian community on Terminal Island, but everyone mostly got along, just as they did in the Plaza area, with the Italians to the northwest and the Japanese to the southeast, and of course all the other ethnicities and cultures that converged there.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5318294)

The Roundhouse Cafe circa 1929. Sadly no street address was given. Operating hours were 5:00 to 2:00 A.M.

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6...fe1929oper.jpg
LAPL

There was a long shuttered R.R. roundhouse outside of my home town....so they have always interested me.
This is the first time I've seen a roundhouse themed cafe.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6872178)

"10, Lincoln Park trolley 1235"


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/AeQvzG.jpg
ebay

Not sure exactly what street corner this is. Interesting streamline modern building on the right, next to Aunt Bea.---->

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