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Are those the same gas-o-meters as seen in the photo below, which is a screencap of the opening of the I LOVE LUCY episode titled "L.A. AT LAST?" http://pics.imcdb.org/0is30/lucy21.3992.jpg As many times on NLA as I've seen photos of these all over Los Angeles, I did not know the following information, unless I forgot or overlooked it on here, but I read this a few days ago: The tanks are collapsible to the limit of the supporting frame, so as to maintain a constant pressure. That means these things could be of varying height in any given photograph. It never occurred to me! |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...913/XndjY0.png :previous: I thought perhaps the reflection in the window on the right, might offer a clue (by showing us the building across the street). So I enlarged M_P's photo. pan right---->to see the reflection of the building across the street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/ctmQYh.jpg detail That's when I noticed the building down the street and how closely it resembles the 'Blue Palm' building. Notice that the second story window in the Drug store building (above) is nearly identical to the 2nd story windows in my initial photograph (below). And both have a large blade sign at the corner of the building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/IL4j0m.jpg eBay _________ Added bonus: By sheer coincidence, I recently found this photograph of the Music Box's tiny parking lot, showing an interesting building in the back. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/fAzxYG.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/Xvn03m.jpg found in an old file of mine __ |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9...24229%2BPM.jpg I could not find the address of the school or even another photo of it, which seems odd, given how active the historical society is out that way. |
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Read, but now cannot find, that Pio Pico, near the end of his life, lived in rented rooms at the Sentous Building. And that during this time, perhaps contemporaneous with him being there, the lower floor on the Main Street side was used as a rendering plant. Anybody else ever see that? Can't find the source now to save my life. The author made the rather obvious observation how unpleasant it must have been to live over a rendering plant. Reportedly Pico died at Whittier but this source seemed to dispute that. Anybody? Mr. Bueller? Anybody?
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One of the USC photo descriptions quotes Christine Sterling as saying, "For awhile, Governor Pio Pico spent his declining years in an apartment there (the Sentous Block)." Only the '06 Sanborn shows a rendering kettle in the building, so we can't be sure if it was there during Pico's time. |
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Suspected car thief, January 1960.
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I never expected to find another vintage photograph, let alone two, of this exact same corner. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/sOeLvc.jpg http://www.metro.net/about/library/a...ation-studies/ 12 years later, after the widening of the street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/VxGqNu.jpg http://www.metro.net/about/library/a...ation-studies/ I've been trying to figure out the name of the motel down the street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/dqrNaM.jpg Unless I'm mistaken, I believe it also says 'motel' at the top of the 'belfry-like' tower. -interesting. |
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These photos are interesting to me, being that that corner is now a vacant lot. I've always wondered what was there before, I assumed it wasn't always vacant. I thought maybe it was a gas station or something. |
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:previous: Makes for a stunning 'Then & Now':
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A lot of the credit for this post goes to Martin Pal.
I got a PM yesterday from Martin Pal with a link to a post about 8'2" Max Palmer (I'm taking his height from a dubious Wikipedia page). The post has a small picture of Max in the doorway of the Blue Palm Cafe. After copying the image and enlarging it, the border reminded me of some of USCDL's images, so on a hunch I did a search. The photoset I found contains seven images, with the doorway picture in the middle. The number 6124 is clearly visible over the door. The images are dated at 1952. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library The other six images in the set are all similar to each other, and show Max Palmer on the Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk outside the Blue Palm Cafe. Anyone for shrimp? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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