Logan Street School
Since we’ve been looking at schools I’d like to throw out a challenge. Logan Street School located on Montana Street in the Echo Park area goes back to the early part of the twentieth century when a big old wood barn of a classroom building was built. That building was still in use when I attended the school from 1946 to 1953. Well almost in use. Because it was made of wood and had no fire escapes the second floor was no longer used for classes. The first floor cafeteria and kindergarten and the basement music room were all that was in use. The most resent aerial images show that it was still there in 1971, but by 1980 it was replaced by the current main school building.
So what am I looking for? ANY pictures of that old building! |
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[QUOTE=tovangar2;6030304]A (tenuous) excuse to post a pic of the University High School Auditorium Building:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...713%2520PM.jpg http://livingnewdeal.berkeley.edu/pr...os-angeles-ca/ "The school’s architectural style is very distinctive, recalling Spain’s Alhambra or the Romanesque of Northern Italy" and was meant to match that of UCLA. The Auditorium, with its gorgeous interior was the pride of the school and the neighborhood. I attended John C. Fremont High in the late forties, early fifties and the beautiful auditorium (again of Spanish-Italian design) is all that it left of the original school... |
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BHS (1923) on Crown Hill, former site of the Belmont Hotel: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...949%2520PM.jpg belmonths.org Belmont HS seen from the Los Angeles Oil Field: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...449%2520PM.jpg panoramino Belmont Hotel and Resort, future site of Belmont HS. It burned in 1887. Next the private Belmont School for girls occupied the site. It too burned. Oil wells took over until Belmont High was built: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c...629%2520PM.jpg lapl http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1...tHotelFire.htm BHS maxed out at 6,342 students, the largest HS in the US before being relieved by 19 "learning communities" on 4 separate campuses, starting in 2006. Mort Sahl, Richard Crenna, Anthony Quinn and Jack Webb attended BHS (see the BHS wiki page). I remember "no one" believed the Bible Institute Building (1918) at 6th and Hope was torn down after the '87 Whittier Narrows quake because of damage, but only to get rid of its famous, huge, red neon "Jesus Saves" signs which many execs in the surrounding corporate towers found unbearably hokey and embarrassing. I dunno. Too many lies, backroom deals and corruption makes everyone suspicious of everything. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H...224%2520PM.jpg http://www.tirajphotography.com |
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Unfortunately, it doesn't include the elusive wood building. I have an email out to the principal/staff of Logan Street School to see if maybe an image of the earlier building exists in their school library or archive. If so maybe I can sweet talk them into scanning it for us. |
More Arnold Hylen over at California State Library, all dating from the early 1950s. I'm sure there's a few reposts but please excuse them.
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The brick pattern and color was created specifically for this school by the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Companies Belmont Rug No. 52 face brick. http://calbricks.netfirms.com/brick.lapbcobm.html |
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Just thinking..if the school staff does come up with something and they need a little inducement I’m not opposed to making a contribution to my “alma mater” so you could pass that on if you hear from them. |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u...221%2520PM.jpg http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk I'm not an engineer like you. Can you explain to me why buildings are tossed out here when the mortar goes? What about the 100-year-old buildings on Spring Street? How are they holding together? There's obviously something I'm not understanding. Thx And thx for the brick link :-) |
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Speaking of that part of town, does anyone remember the historic one-room school house that was sited at LAUSD's HQ on what's left of Ft Moore Hill, now the site of the Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, one of the "relief" schools for Belmont HS?
Is this it?: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v...339%2520PM.jpg http://journal.lausd.net/photo-galle...nter-expansion |
I think we have seen these both before, but not together.
1885 http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7228/1885a.jpg windandpower.org 1899 http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/332/1899t.jpg shorpy.com |
University High School
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The interior was lovely with hand-stenciled, wood ceiling beams. Amazing acoustics. The street frontage was so welcoming to the neighborhood and larger city. We had a great, really outstanding, theater program under Jack Mitchell when my four kids were there but the replacement, Stivelman Theater, was so cheaply and badly built and the heating/cooling system would roar into high-gear at the most inopportune moments and drown out the performance. The whole mess was a scandal. No wonder the kids feel cheated and resentful as stuff like this happens regularly. Now the supposed fault is the excuse to tear down the "new" Boys' Gym and build another. It's exhausting. |
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Sarah Bixby Smith's third LA home (partly hidden by trees) is directly across from the Bradbury Mansion in the view above. She wrote that her second LA house was left standing at the top of the precipice left when 1st street was cut through from Hill to Olive in this same neighborhood. It was still there in '28. Does anyone have a pic of it? |
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Kids know what's going on, even if they don't know the details. They're learning all the time, even when we don't want them to. The environments adults create for them equals what we think of them. A currently we're graduating less than half of our students. An efficient way to destroy a city. "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." (or a series of them) -Honore de Balzac OK, sorry, I'm soap-boxing again. LAUSD is just a huge sore spot with me. I need a couple of 65 cent Scarlet O'Haras (and an afternoon in Ferguson Alley). Quote:
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There were 2600+ students at Uni. I can't find a current total on the Uni web site. |
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