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Nostalgia...1966
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Westmoore/Westmore Hotel 7th & Francisco
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3...716%2520PM.jpg http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/birds...f-los-angeles/ There was a fashion for the classical just after the turn of the twentieth century: Angel's Flight Station House, The Pacific Mutual Building and (stretching it a bit) Central Station. But anyway, I thought the Alexandria stole every other hotel's thunder when it was built in 1905. |
I think they have it OK on the map there, Tov.
Appears Francisco had something of a slope south of Seventh, so you get one of those "4 stories in front/6 in the back" set-ups we are familiar with. Not unlike - but cannot hold a candle to - The Sawyer. (Was looking for a pic of the REAR of the Sawyer....what was it......8 stories for sure.....maybe 9) And a very nondescript 3 stories in front. http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com...bbNqQtbI_b.jpg Here we go. The Sawyer, in rear, with the Richfield tower seemingly sprouting from its roof. And down Hope....look who's poking its head out.....but the LA Library.... http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/...c0e924c63e.jpg Quote:
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Former site of the Hotel Westmoore at the southwest corner of 7th St. & Francisco. Hmmm...what's behind those trees?
http://imageshack.us/a/img823/2430/a...ooresiteto.jpg A massive garage! A garage so huge it gives me the creeps. http://imageshack.us/a/img707/2430/a...ooresiteto.jpg google aerial __ |
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Built in '29 by Eleanor Ince, widow of prematurely dead pioneer film producer Thomas H. Ince. Designed as a luxury hotel/apartment house. In '51 the building was converted to Senior living and operated as the "Manor Hotel." The building is currently owned and occupied by the Church of Scientology. 1929 http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070667.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070666.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070665.jpg 1951 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics49/00044337.jpg All from Lapl |
Country Club Manor, 316 N. Rossmore Built in 1926. Obviously a very popular style.
1927 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...QVTFUENXLQ.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...S44J7JCJX2.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...91I43F235K.jpg From Lib.Ca.Gov |
I have an old KHJ recording I was given and decided to look it up and listen to it while looking at the Egyptian photographs ER posted. So many great posts today!
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Cudahy Meat Packing. Yes, same family named the City of Cudahy.
Circa 1900 - Cudahy Meat Packing http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...D13B9SUM2P.jpgLib.Ca.Gov 1928 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics23/00031468.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics23/00031467.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics23/00031465.jpg From Lapl 1930 - Cudahy Packing 803 S Macy Street http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics23/00031466.jpgLapl 1939 - Cudahy Packing 803 Macy Street, LA http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics23/00031464.jpgLapl Macy Street Overpass - Cudahy Packing in background http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009412.jpg 1933 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...ahy&DMROTATE=0USC Digital |
More Cudahy - related? Interesting writeup about the "Jinx" mansion formerly at 7269 Hollywood Boulevard (Fuller and Hollywood). Read about it and the bad luck that seemed to afflict some of its occupants here : http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/03/local/me-then3 and here: http://allanellenberger.com/hollywoods-jinx-mansion/ Built by George Ralphs, (the grocery store chain) and lived in owned or rented by Hollywood notables, including Louella Parsons, Doug Fairbanks, Jos. Schenk and Mrs. Norma Talmadge Schenk. Some Noir'ers may find noteworthy the shotgun suicide of Meat Packing Heir, alleged mental patient, ne'er-do-well and model citizen, Jack Cudahy(yes, the City of Cudahy is named after the family. :previous:). There is also mention of a peripheral suicide-by-scissors. Home was eventually replaced in or around 1940 by the Peyton Hall apartment complex. Of course, this being Los Angeles-Hollywood, the complex was raised in the early '80s and replaced with something far more nondescript. :tup: http://allanellenberger.com/wp-conte...ralphs1913.jpghttp://allanellenberger.com http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HGZD5O42Z6...llywood_CA.jpghttp://flapperdays.blogspot.com |
Architects' own houses/Irving Gill/the Mann Act
Its interesting, and sometimes instructive, to see where architects choose to live (and helps get one's mind off slaughterhouses):
Paul R Williams Residence (1952) 1690 S Victoria, Los Angeles (Karen E Hudson, William's granddaughter, lives there now): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kx...Q=w921-h537-no wiki Stiles O Clements Residence (1935) 708 N Linden Dr, Beverly Hills https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2t...g=w867-h491-no gsv 2011 (If I didn't know better, I would have mixed them up.) Irving 'Jack' Gill (1870-1936), a personal favorite, was notoriously focused on his work and uncaring about where he lived in the 10 years or more he was in Los Angeles. His practice remained throughout at 913 S Figueroa (a house owned by CS Fout, then converted into offices and lodgings, now a parking lot), across the street from the 1900 Friday Morning Clubhouse (later below, as viewed from Gill's offices) later replaced by Allison & Allison's Variety Arts Building (I'm sorry Gill didn't get the commission, he was an unflagging supporter of progressive causes and a champion of women's rights) and up the block from the future site of the YWCA Hotel (now the Figueroa). Gill planned for offices in the then-new Parkinson and Bergstrom 1912 building (now the Rowan) at the NE corner of 5th and Spring for the Torrance project, but I cannot confirm he ever moved there: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...w=w763-h511-no baist 1910, plate 8 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/D5...w=w703-h499-no Islandora cc pierce Gill first lived in the Van Nuys Hotel (Morgan & Walls, 1896, 4th & Main), now the Barclay: http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...uys_ca1890.jpg water and power.org (I'm forever amazed at how many of our skyscrapers had awnings.) A writing corner in the Van Nuys Hotel main lobby: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/v7...g=w460-h597-no lapl He later moved to a room at 1406 Alvarado Terrace (built 1902, sale pending at $475k}: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c...223%2520PM.jpg gsv № 1406 has a bit of a pedigree. Built on spec, the first owner was Manuel Riveroll, son of the Governor of Baja California. This image of the Riveroll home is from ca 1904: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...9%252520AM.jpg uscdl Then Gill moved to a room at 1353 S Burlington. That 1906 house, and its next-door twin, were moved to 1149-1153 Queen Anne Place (just east of LAHS) in 1923. The Swedish Lutheran Angelica Church by Gustav S Larson, was built on the original site in 1925. The former 1353 Burlington (right), now 1149 Queen Anne Pl: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-j...25124%2BPM.jpg gsv Gill also lived at Sullivanesque 1507 S Hoover. It was demolished in 1967 and replaced by an apartment building: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061668.jpg lapl The three addresses immediately above are within a couple of blocks of each other and all were an easy commute to his office. Gill may have also rented in Santa Monica (or he may have just stayed there with friends) while he supervised the building of Horatio West Court. There's very little documentation on Gill's life and work. When he closed his LA office he sent "ten truck-loads" of papers, correspondence and drawings to a friend for storage. After Gills death, no one remembered who the friend was. Gill's papers have never been found. In 1928 Jack married Mrs. Marion Waugh Brashears, a beautiful, though domineering, divorcee and heiress, whom he had known for 10 years. They lived in the Palos Verdes Estates (PV had been designed by Gill's friend, Frederick Law Olmsted) at her home, 2325 Via Pinale (below). Although Marion had known Jack for six years at that point, she commissioned David Witmer (1888-1973) of Witmer & Watson to design the PV home in 1924. Gill designed the gardens. Witmer, like Gill, also built in reinforced concrete and integrated the homes he designed into their gardens (but, IMHO, exhibiting much less intelligence and intellectual rigor). In 1928 Witmer co-designed, with a host of others, the Architects Building on the SE corner of 5th and Fig (816 W 5th). It fell with the Richfield in favor of ARCO Plaza. He went on to design the Pentagon in 1941. Gill didn't move his offices to the Architects Building, maybe because Elmer Gray kept his practice there (Gray had called Gill's work "dangerous"). I don't know if the rift between Gill and Gray and Goodhue ever healed after the San Diego Panama-Californian Exposition (1915-1917) debacle. (But every time I see Central Library I swear I can hear Gill laughing in amusement.) 2325 Via Pinale http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJEiIFUOiA...BOw/s640/c.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zh2DXyhDNW...3A8/s640/b.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x6rrYPK0dr...4xc/s400/a.jpg 3 of 14 images of the "Brashears Residence" @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvlocal...n/photostream/ Just look at the stair rail in the last pic. No wonder Gill had a heart attack. Sheesh. 2325 Via Pinale (July 2011) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9...503%2520PM.jpg gsv The egalitarian Gill disliked PV, stuffed, as it was, with Marion's society friends, saying it was "too fancy" for him. In any case, Jack's health failed in less than a year and he went to live, alone, on a small avocado ranch Marion owned in Carlsbad, later moving to Oceanside for some civic commissions (City Hall, a fire station, the Americanization School, etc) and then back to Carlsbad where he died in Carlsbad Hospital in 1936 from his second heart attack, Marion and Louis Gill (Jack's nephew and former partner) were with him at the end. Gill gave his profession as "laborer" when he was taken to Carlsbad Hospital. That designation was transferred to his death certificate. His ashes were scattered. Jack Gill consistently stressed three basic concepts: honesty, simplicity and democracy. He asserted that the architectural ideal of the West should be realized in the small home. The Walter Dodge House (1914-16), callously destroyed in Gill's centenary year, is rightly known as Gill's masterwork. But Gill actually liked more modest houses. Two bed/one bath Morgan House (1917), below, was a favorite of his (and mine). He never built a home for himself, but did try on occasion living in small homes he designed for working-class families to see if they were truly "livable". Morgan House (1917), 626 N Arden Street, Los Angeles (south facade): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ik...366-h768-rw-no LAcurbed (That's not pea gravel, it's decomposed granite) Looking NE: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EM...A=w799-h531-no yorgos Gill's simple fireplaces were often surrounded with Batchelder tile. Floors were stained and polished concrete as here at Morgan House: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Od...w=w605-h510-no spin LPs/flickr Inside, looking out: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/c1...A=w689-h510-no spin LPs/flickr Morgan House in the 1970s at its nadir (although at least the red and white striped, metal awnings had been removed): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VS...w=w615-h464-no via Marvin Rand Morgan House 2011: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Um...A=w652-h434-no flickr Morgan House, as viewed from the road, in 2016 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/o7...A=w829-h479-no gsv Also see John Crosse for a write-up on another extant small home by Gill, the Adelaide Chapin House in Silver Lake. Most info from: Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform by Thomas S Hinds, 2000, Montachelli Press -and- Garden Cities at Risk CHAPTER TWO: The Wyvernwood Architects – Witmer & Watson by Steven Keylon http://baldwinhillsvillageandthevill...apter-two.html Not forgetting this is noirish Los Angeles, there is a bit of a noiry story in here somewhere. Maury Diggs, a friend and former important member of Gill's staff got himself arrested under the Mann Act the same year that Gill moved to Los Angeles. The story hit the LA papers and Gill was mentioned in a sensational article on the front page of the Times (not the intro to LA Gill was looking for). It seems that Diggs (then a well-known architect in Sacramento working for the State, he later designed the Fox Theater in San Francisco and co-designed San Quentin of all places) and his pal Farley Drew Camenetti (the son of a former state senator), both in their mid-twenties, took their "society-girl" mistresses across state lines to Reno, Nevada (they'd missed the train to LA, which is where they really wanted to go). Tipped off by the wives (who complained loudly of their husbands' "champagne orgies"), the cops nabbed Maury and Drew and hauled them to San Francisco to stand trial. Diggs was adamant that the Mann Act shouldn't apply, "I am not guilty of being a white slaver. If every man that committed the same crime was put in jail there would not be many people out of doors." Jack Gill, who never thought ill of a friend and was genuinely sympathetic to human weakness, gave a statement in Digg's defense: "Maury Diggs is as fine a specimen of young manhood as one ever meets and one of the best young architects in the country...Mr. Diggs is a handsome, moody, young romancer, a type of whom women, particularly young women, are prone to make a shrine, a man who's moods demand sympathy, who works overzealously...becomes depressed, goes out, meets a sympathizer, pours imaginary woes into her ear and then - the inevitable" That didn't help. The men were found guilty. Diggs got two years, Camenetti 18 months. The appeal went all the way to the US Supreme Court (the newspapers fanning the country-wide "white slavery" hysteria the whole time) which upheld the verdict in 1917. While waiting out the appeal, Diggs divorced his wife and married his mistress before doing time (and then going back to being a successful architect). Gill was flummoxed, but then he was a man "every woman wanted to marry" (men liked him too). Gill may not have cared where he lived but he was always beautifully dressed in custom clothes and shoes of the finest materials and workmanship. He had gorgeous, thick, black hair, a beautiful voice, an extremely engaging, truly shining intelligence, boundless enthusiasm and bags of genuine charm. He seemed to think that, where women were concerned, certain men were helpless sitting ducks who could not be blamed for the "inevitable" consequences of their attractiveness. Forever after, even if people could no longer quite remember the details of the Diggs/Camenetti "white slavery" case, a slight aura of noir surrounded Gill. More info on the case plus everything one ever needs to know about the Mann Act: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland...ws/ci_13869441 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...DA415B858DF1D3 http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblack...kout/mann.html James Robert Mann (1856-1922): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ka...w=w442-h638-no library of congress (Thx to GW for the corrections and pix: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11817 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2139) UPDATE: The Irving J Gill Foundation was formed in 2015. |
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"Above Sunset . . . was a home that had belonged to the father of actor Chester Morris. That home, now a wedding chapel, for some indefinable reason, formed the basis for what Sturges ultimately designed. He pictured three stories, three separate operations. On the street level, a drive-in with counter service. On the second level, an informal restaurant for sit-down dining. The top – the house itself – would be strictly formal, a coat and tie required at all times. Sturges decided to leave the old Morris house where it was and, instead of building on top of it, directed that the hill be dug from underneath and that The Players be built from the top down. It was costlier that way – much more expensive than demolishing the old house and building from scratch – but Sturges couldn’t be budged." Not the best picture, but the only one I could find. I guess most of the old house is hidden behind the 2nd story of The Players. The tile roof is the only clue: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...dingChapel.jpg LAPL http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5126385 |
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Interesting post, tovangar, just two tiny things. That's not 1507 S Hoover, but rather 1513/1515. The apartment building numbered 1501/3/5 now sits on the site of 1507, which is pictured, in part, here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2139 Also... it's Olmsted, not Olmstead. I know that may seem picayune, but followers of his work go ballistic with the all-too-common misspelling. (Something learned the hard way working for a shelter magazine in my youth.) |
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11739 Victory Blvd, North Hollywood - Originally built in '41. Interesting detail. Could window dissymmetry be original?
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