Duly noted, HossC--except maybe in this case reducing the length! Anyway:


It's baaack-- I lied earlier when I said I'd lost interest in this quarry-- while Henry Huntington sealed the deal with his contribution of the RTD route map in post 33617, the truth is
I couldn't stop looking. Another confirmation of the location of the Washington Thrift branch --a B of A branch before it was Guardian Thrift and then Washington Thrift--is the serration
of the tile roof and the downspouts of the O T Ross Building at 3806 Beverly (SW corner of Vermont. Note what's in the red oval below:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...2520AM.bmp.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...2520AM.bmp.jpgGSV


And a little on the Ross building:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l...2520AM.bmp.jpgLAT Nov 18, 1927

And directly across Vermont Avenue from the delightful Ross Building is this Mount Vernon Wanna-Be.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/g94iaH.jpg
gsv

It just seems so out of place. So how old this building?

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duplicate post

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I really didn't back too aggressively, but it's hard to believe we haven't covered LA's Mount Vernon on NLA before-- I also thought this building had more written about it elsewhere online too, but I don't see much. Building permit records aren't a lot of help. There's a 1922 "new" permit--and I've read that it was built in the 1960s-- For some reason I thought this building had been moved from somewhere else. A studio lot?


PS:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Oct 16, 1977

The article mentioned that it was at 400 N Vermont-- no BP for "new" came up on first look, BUT... it WAS moved south to 270 N Vermont in 1978. (BP issued 5-24-78.)


This ad suggests a build date of 1960-- as Pacific Savings:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Sep 30, 1960


Still more: Yep, 1960:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT June 19, 1960

The George D Sturges house by Frank Lloyd Wright is up for auction. Information page, with some interior shots, here:

https://lamodern.com/frank-lloyd-wri...ges-residence/

It's being done by LA Modern Auctions, who listed Jack Larson and James Bridges' 1971 VW as being by Ferdinand Porsche. Well, yeah, but *really?*

Cheers,

Earl

The 1960 building permit was actually for 404 N Vermont.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
Online Building Records

The 1978 relocation permit says the building was moved from 400 N Vermont to 270 N Vermont (as mentioned in GW's post).

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
Online Building Records

After we passed 10 million views, I wasn't sure if I'd mark any more milestones. Then I saw a pictures of the Watts Towers, and couldn't resist using them for 11 million views. Once again, thanks to ethereal_reality and all the other contributors to this great thread.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
Original image from iwitnesslife.wordpress.com

:previous: Well done HossC!

Congratulations Everyone!

I'm not sure, but it looks like this 1950s 'bus slide' was taken on the roof of a parking garage.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/k8l1Ql.jpg
eBay

:previous: I spy the top of the Eastern Building.



Do you see the garage anywhere? ;)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/NbfiA9.jpg
http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot...city-city-view



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/nhYDGz.jpg
http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot...er-los-angeles

:previous: I don't believe I've ever seen this angle before. What a strange pinnacle. I'm surprised no one has filmed a movie scene in that mysterious open space.

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Thanks for finding yesterday's Julius Shulman subject, Tourmaline. I checked every listing for "Security First" in the contemporary CDs. After you identified the location, I found that branch listed as "Security 1st"! There are very few of the original design details left.


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Today we have Julius Shulman's views of American President Lines. The first shot makes the narrow store look deceptively small. This is "Job 20: W. Dorwin Teague, American President Lines, Ltd. (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1947".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

Even this shot from the window doesn't show the depth. I'm guessing that the circular windows near the stairs are there to simulate portholes.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Finally, we get to see the full length of the counter, and the world map behind.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

The lady in the center has obviously been shopping at one of the many fur stores we've seen in pictures of this era.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

I found American President Lines at 510 W 6th Street in the 1942 CD. Today, 510 is the number on the awning over the entrance on the right. The entrance was once a big arched opening, so American President Lines must have been in one of these stores, probably the GNC store in the middle.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original
GSV

Here's a 1948 advert for American President Lines showing the SS President Wilson, which can be seen in model form in the shop window. Maybe someone can work out how much $2470 in 1948 would be worth today.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original
eBay

:previous: WOW! What a fantastic interior Hoss. Just amazing





Too bad they didn't move it back east somewhere. ;)

It reminds me of the replica of Independence Hall across from Knotts Berry Farm. I could never see the point of it really.
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http://www.chicagorailfan.com/los72gnw.gif

Okay, I'm confused:
What year is the route map from? I take Public Transit frequently and I don't recognize any of those numbers on it as bus lines on the lines I'm familiar with. (This has #42 on Sunset Blvd.? #217 has been on Fairfax Ave. as long as I can remember etc., for example. Before many lines were renumbered in the early '80's.)

It also doesn't seem to jive with this "Discontinued RTD/MTA Lines" page on wiki, which has bus line #42:

42/42A - Martin Luther King Jr., Boulevard - Stocker Street - La Tijera Boulevard
Line 42/42A was cancelled in June 2012; replaced by Lines 40, 102 and the Metro Expo Line. Line 42A was a short line route while line 42 was a regular line.

This page has all the stops listed:
http://www.lifeinus.com/Transportati...fm?RouteID=593

In 2016 that $2470 would be about $24,000.

These ships were actually troop transports that morphed into civilian liners.

SS President Wilson was an American passenger ship originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS Admiral F.B. Upham (AP-128).
The ship was laid down on 27 November 1944 at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Alameda, California, but was cancelled on 16 December 1944. The ship was finally launched on 24 November 1947, completed and delivered to the Maritime Commission on 27 April 1948. Under the name SS President Wilson, she was bareboat chartered by the Maritime Commission to American President Lines.
She was sold to Oceanic Cruise Development, Inc. (C.Y. Tung Group) on 27 April 1973, and renamed Oriental Empress. Laid up at Hong Kong, the ship was eventually scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1984.

I found this interesting photograph in an old file of mine labeled eBay finds.
The only information I have is....

"Lewis Estate, Beverly Hills 1946"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/wl4Cre.jpg
eBay

Well, it's pretty obvious they're filming a movie, but what movie? I thought I recognized the lady at lower left, but now I'm not so sure. (could it be Alexis Smith?)

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The map posted by HenryHuntington is from 1972. This page has links to the other parts of that map, as well as a four-part map from 1954.

I was also confused by that Wiki page about old bus routes.

Looks like Alexis Smith to me-- think this is Night and Day-- the story of Cole Porter, with, improbably, Cary Grant as Porter. Looks like Grant under the umbrella at left. The whole movie is fantasy. "Gay? No one's gay here."

???? How odd. I think it is PURE Los Angeles.

Thanks for the "Night And Day" info. GW.

Here's a pretty good aerial view of the George Lewis Estate. From what I just read, it was also known as "Hill Grove".

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/QaOOua.jpg
http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot...rge-lewis.html




http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/XSyViG.jpg
http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot...rge-lewis.html


Sadly, "like several great Benedict Canyon estates from the 1920s, Hill Grove was demolished and it's grounds subdivided in the 1960s." :( ARRRGH!

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That is indeed Alexis Smith. The movie is "Night and Day" with Cary Grant (in dark suit under the umbrella) as Cole Porter. The site is the George H. Lewis estate.