Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7810573)

Photograph of Fort Moore Hill currently on ebay.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/DEopPB.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOS-ANGELES-...IAAOSwOgdYs41z

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7810825)

:previous: It's disorienting to me. -so we're looking at the back of the house, right?

& am I correct in saying the large rooftop sign is the 'Herald Examiner' sign? (the one with the huge diagonal arrow)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5656225)

http://imageshack.us/a/img443/2598/a...sticeblog2.jpg
calisphere detail

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5193998)

I've gone back through the thread and I believe this is a new image in the usc archives of the enormous Examiner sign and the wctu building.

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/9...thatbroadw.jpg
usc digital archive

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 7810149)

It could be that noir figures into every building in LA, even if only obliquely...517 Rosemont was occupied by the brother of Philip A. Kilfoil around the time of the latter's sensational murder trial.... More at http://tinyurl.com/le6a8v5 and much covered elsewhere at the time....


PS Rosemont north of Temple was once called Casco Street--presumably 517 Rosemont was 517 Casco... carpenter Peter Lindquist lived there 1895-96. It looks somewhat older to me, but maybe he built it from a pattern book.


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/88...w=w398-h648-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Rw...g=w557-h512-no

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Rosemont north of Temple was once called Casco Street--presumably 517 Rosemont was 517 Casco.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7810825)

:previous: It's disorienting to me. -so we're looking at the back of the house, right?

& am I correct in saying the large rooftop sign is the 'Herald Examiner' sign? (the one with the huge diagonal arrow)
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I just noticed the flagpole up near the sign. I believe it's on the roof of a second building that we can't see. -(if not, then it's a really tall pole ;))




(pardon all the questions)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7810573)

Photograph of Fort Moore Hill currently on ebay.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/DEopPB.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOS-ANGELES-...IAAOSwOgdYs41z

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Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 7496131)

While I hate to be the bearer of bad news (which one just is, sometimes), it looks as though La Colima is on her way out. The building which the esteemed Michael Ryerson rightfully called "One of and perhaps the most remarkable survivors on the north side."

Here she is in 1929, about seven years after construction (permits are pulled in October 1922)—

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8056/8...a2526486_o.jpglapl

...
—but now, she's surrounded by demo fencing. Metro is tearing up that giant parking lot to the east, and the lot behind Colima, to build a giant mixed-use "transit village" with retail, lofts, and train stations.

https://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7318/2...81292baf_c.jpg

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 7810867)

Yes, we're looking northwest across the 1931 extension of N Spring Street from the driveway of the recently opened Federal Courthouse and Post Office. The back of the Alhambra Apartments on the left (the Hall of Justice is just out-of-frame to the left), the back of Hancock Banning's house which numbers at 416 N Broadway atop the hill pretty much dead center (to the right of the Banning house is the back of the Milo Baker house, although the Hilliker house is there between them it is obscured by the tree below the Banning house) and above the Alhambra we can just make out the looming framework of the huge 'It's in the Examiner' sign which was mounted above the Broadway tunnel. The adjacent flagpole was also mounted above the tunnel entrance. Los Angeles was a so much more interesting place back then.

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 6974124)

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7635/...a0b457a6_o.jpgCounty Courthouse panorama, ca.1898

Stitched together three images from William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) from
about 1898. I'm guessing the date here based on the fact the Broadway
tunnel is still missing but the road grade for California Street has been
lowered. I'm thinking the tunnel is a year or two away. It opened for business
in 1901. Starting on the far left, we have the Poundcake Hill High School
building (medium greyish with the single belfry) resting now just off of
California Street west of Hill Street. It has been here since 1882 when it was
moved to make way for the 1888 County Courthouse upon which Mr. Jackson
has perched with his camera. These images predate the more widely known
C.C. Pierce photographs which are so similar. The missing tunnel is the tell-
tale difference. To the right of the Poundcake schoolhouse is the second Los
Angeles High School building on Hill Street with it's four stories and clock
tower. An additional wing of the high school will be built to the right (or north
side) of this building but that hasn't happened yet either, so we have a clear
view of the J.W. Robinson Mansion above Sunset (likely still Bellevue here)
Boulevard. Now we can come down here to the lower left corner of the image
and find the WCTU building on the NW corner of Broadway and Temple Street.
It stretches to it's full five stories but will ultimately give up the top three
floors to the tightening earthquake regulations and finally be torn down in
1956 or '57. At the head of lower Broadway is the unimproved shale face of
what will soon become the south portal of the Broadway tunnel carrying the
roadbed through Fort Moore Hill to Sunset Boulevard. Above this shale face is
the upper Broadway roadbed with Hancock Banning's house on the right with
the lone horse in the corral. The center of the image is dominated by Buena
Vista (or Justicia) running from Temple Street (out-of-frame at the bottom) to
it's crest at Fort Moore Place before it goes out-of-sight over and around the
shoulder of Fort Moore Hill to Sunset Boulevard. In the distance we can see
the San Fernando Hotel at Ord and N. Spring Street although the Sunset
Hotel, it's neighbor, is hidden by tree branches. Temple Street emerges on the
right running diagonally across the lower right corner of the image past New
High Street, a hard-to-see Spring Street and finally to Main Street. Aliso
Street runs directly away from the camera in the upper right quadrant and on
Main Street we can pick out the Baker Block, the Masonic Lodge, the Merced
Theater and the Pico House. The Hip roof and three cupolas of the Lugo House
face a still largely empty Plaza.

Denver Public Library digital collections

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7810844)

"Bud and Harold" posing on a beach in south Los Angeles.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/30qd9Q.jpg
old file

You can see several oil wells in the distance, so I'm thinking this could be Huntington Beach(?)...or numerous other places down that way.








a closer look

I wonder about the building in the middle distance (adjacent to the beach) To me, it looks like a clubhouse of some sort.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/XAKBa5.jpg

I'd be disingenuous if I didn't mention the guy on the right.

I wonder if he's a sailor...what with the arm tattoo and all.

I have to admit, I'm in Joe Roig territory here. ;)





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Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7810905)

:previous:

Yes, an actor in only one film that we know of: Tiger Shark, 1932.

And this:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26123

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7810293)

Kodachrome slide from the 1960s looking toward the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd. and Doheny Dr.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/agfpdu.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/dantanasres...type=3&theater

We may have seen this before, but I don't believe so.

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 6584421)

Here’s a photo of Doheny and Santa Monica; 1937
http://waterandpower.org/5%20Histori...onica_1937.jpgLAPL

Here’s a photo of Doheny and Santa Monica; 1940's
http://waterandpower.org/5%20Histori...oheny_1948.jpgLIFE Images

You would not see any cars turning right currently as it’s been a continuation of westbound traffic on Santa Monica as far back as I know.
There’s similar lanes for eastbound traffic on the other side of the track area.

Here’s a photo of Doheny and Santa Monica, 1980
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/25/126...6fad9b49_b.jpg

Same area now, 2014
http://waterandpower.org/5%20Histori...oheny_2014.jpg

Way off to the right where you see the power pole--the road you see behind it is Melrose Ave. In E_R’s post the other day of the Academy Awards Theater—that’s where it was located,
probably where the building you can see is situated. The area you see between Melrose and Santa Monica is now called the Melrose Triangle and is most recently used for parking and
selling Christmas trees in the fall.

http://www.dougmoon.com/coventry3.jpg

Here's an October 19, 2016, dashcam video of the intersection, beginning at Doheny Dr. and, after the light changes, it proceeds left (east) on Santa Monica Blvd. and travels down to just before Hancock Ave., your old street, E_R.
• Video Link

In the next photo you’re gong to see a Standard Oil gas station in the Melrose Triangle area.

http://montrealrampage.com/wp-conten...n-voyeur1.jpeg Vintage Los Angeles (VLA)

VLA says this photo was taken by Dennis Hopper (no date) and he called it "Double Standard". You can see the Academy Awards Theater on Melrose on the far right.

The following photo is taken from the opposite direction:

http://www.wehoville.com/wp-content/...04561357_n.jpgWojcik/VLA

It’s estimated to be from 1965. The P.E. tracks used for freight trains are still in place. You can see part of the Standard Gas Station on the left at the Melrose/Doheny/Santa Monica Blvd. intersection. On the right you can make out Doug Weston’s Troubadour and Dan Tana’s Restaurant, although they have different signs than the now recognizable ones…Doug Weston’s name is absent and the restaurant is smaller and just called Tana’s.

Here’s a 1940’s view of when P.E. cars still ran and Dan Tana’s was known as Domenico’s Lucky Horseshoe Café.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lZdXyKzsMl...ana%27s%2B.jpgVLA

A photo taken a few blocks away in 1972 on Santa Monica near La Cienega when the tracks were being removed altogether.
(The Holloway Motel and IHOP on the right are still there.)

http://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/lrg/SMB-019.jpgTorrence/Hollywood Photographs

Back at the Melrose Triangle area, the view today from the park with the fountain: You can see artwork (always changing) on the median which also is a pedestrian area for running or walking.
You can see the art deco veternarian hospital in the background, previously discussed.

(FYI: I’ve never seen ANYONE on that path, although I walked down it once myself.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/72081775.jpg

The view tomorrow?
This is what the City of West Hollywood is proposing to foist upon the Melrose Triangle area.

http://www.wehoville.com/wp-content/...eway-Night.jpg

more here: http://www.wehoville.com/2014/02/27/...-gateway-weho/

Originally Posted by riichkay (Post 7810483)

http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psjgc9xuv8.jpg
reddit

Japanese American internees returning from a relocation camp walk past combat veterans, August 22, 1945, Los Angeles, California

A couple of the women are smiling, so I don't think the boys said anything rude.

Photog's equipment bags to the left of the railing?

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 6584421)

http://montrealrampage.com/wp-conten...n-voyeur1.jpeg Vintage Los Angeles (VLA)

VLA says this photo was taken by Dennis Hopper (no date) and he called it "Double Standard"

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 7793011)

And then a turn to the beat side...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2940/3...01a48a11_b.jpgBeat, 1958


April 1958. "The 'Beatnik' community of San Francisco's North Beach district, socializing at a local coffee house, at a 'beat' party and other activities." 35mm negative from photos by Cal Bernstein for the Look magazine assignment "The Bored, the Bearded and the Beat."

Originally Posted by Old Money (Post 7810977)

(Original post from page 2079) I wouldn't be surprised if he is poet, singer, songwriter, actor Rod McKuen. He would have been 24 when that Look issue came out. His Wikipedia page says, "He settled in San Francisco, where he read his poetry in clubs alongside Beat poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg."

Compare with some of these images. https://www.google.com/search?q=Rod+...w=1680&bih=832