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1. It appears the bar is a 360 degree design from the lights and from what appears to be a glimpse of more glass shelves above those two jugs at the lower right. 2. Believe it or not there is a Julie Pretzel Company, unfortunately has nothing to do with the times or the place. 3. That blender appears to be a Waring (for those who don't know, the blender was invented by orchestra leader Fred Waring). But is it? The maker label is in the wrong place for a Waring or even the Oster copy. In the era, the only similar lid for a jar of the shape seen was done by Pyrex as a replacement, but the lid handle was just plain Jane not fancy. As much as it has been fun attempting to connect this image to anything done by Parker. I'm thinking that image may not have been of anything in L.A. However, the next mansion I build for myself (yeah, right), I might just copy it just because it is neat and I'm a sucker for Streamline Modern. |
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Smokey Joe's, probably early '60s http://suppingood.files.wordpress.co...9-26-51-am.pnghttp://suppingood.files.wordpress.co...9-26-51-am.png More views of that corner: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=26187 |
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, pocket booklet of Economic Statistics, 1929.
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Every time I think I'm done with Vibiana, something else comes up. HossC's post with the 1977 Shulman photos got me digging around again. I'm no expert on this subject; additions and corrections are welcome. If you're thoroughly tired of Vibiana, just skip this post.
I closely followed the concerted attack on Vibiana in the late 90s. For me, it was very reminiscent of what I'd read about the one launched against Lugo House and every bit as distressing. The same bad-faith arguments were used against both, but they didn't work in Vibiana's case, but not for lack of trying. The forces arrayed against the building were formidable and ferocious. Quote:
"It has been one insult atop another for stately old St. Vibiana's, the cathedral as obscure as its namesake, maligned since its conception." - Cathleen Decker, LAT, 1987 That seems to be true CBD, but not just after Vibiana was deconsecrated. It's been said numerous times (see quote above, for example) that St Vibiana's (1871-76) was never liked by church officials (I don't know if that included Bishop Thaddeus Amat, 1810-1878, who had St Vib's built, but he never wanted to come to California to begin with). The new cathedral was altogether too naif and provincial to suit some. There were dark hints at poor quality construction too (a criticism not born out by time). The people seemed to like it though (they still do). It was charming and accessible. People of all faiths contributed to the building fund. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...0%252520AM.jpg uscdl I've read that a much larger cathedral, 116' x 262' was planned to rise on land donated by Ozro W Childs, a Protestant, on the west side of Main, just north of 6th, taking up the entire depth of the block to Spring St. Reports said three thousand people, out of a population of less than six thousand, attended the cornerstone-laying ceremony in 1869. However, as it turned out, the plans were inappropriately ambitious, leading to the project's collapse (this was the second time Amat had been stymied while trying to get a St Vibiana cathedral off the ground. The first was in Santa Barbara. The Franciscans were the problem there). A smaller-scale cathedral project, 82' x 178', got restarted two years later on a bit of land, donated by Amiel Cavallier, on the east side of Main at 2nd, closer into town. When the work flagged in 1873 because of a disorganized builder, Alsatian Louis Mesmer, 1829-1900 (owner of the United States Hotel), stepped in and supervised construction to completion. The T-junction of 2nd and Main in 1871, where Vibiana would soon start to rise. Second Street wasn't extended to the east until 1888-1889: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...3%252520PM.jpg ucla/augustus koch, cartographer Kysor and Matthews ad in the 28 Sept 1875 LA Herald. Matthews had only recently joined the firm, so didn't have much to do with the almost-completed cathedral: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...8%252520PM.jpg cdnc Architect Ezra Kysor (1835-1907) did what he could to replicate the stone facade of Iglesia de Sant Miquel del Port (Pedro Martín Cermeño, 1753) in Bishop Amat's hometown of Barcelona, but he only had red brick to work with. There was no money for deluxe stone to clad it with or to decorate the interior. The sanctuary columns were of wood with a painted, faux-marble finish. But what the cathedral lacked in polish, it more than made up for in design. The lovely tower (not a feature of the Barcelona church) perfectly balanced the lively facade at the west end. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...2%252520PM.jpg oldLAenvirons (detail) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...5%252520PM.jpg findagrave The other prominent buildings built before the cathedral included the Arcadia Block (1858), the Clocktower Courthouse (1859), Plaza church (1861) St Vincent's College (1867) and Pico House (1869-70). Temple Block (1871) and and LAHS (1872) were built at the same time St Vibiana's was rising (just two of these buildings are left). St Vibiana's looked very impressive to ordinary people and they were delighted by its prettiness. Not so church officials. St Vibiana's represented a loss of prestige, a constant reminder of their lingering disappointment and embarrassment regarding the debacle at 6th and Main. Added to this was St. Vibiana herself. Hopelessly obscure and only given a "hurried" and "quick" "equivalent canonization" because of the lack of a life story, she didn't confer the prestige the powerful craved. (St Vibiana was a personal enthusiasm of Pope Pius IX, 1782-1878, she was soon forgotten by Rome after his death; her feast day was dropped from the church's liturgical calendar in the 1950s). On 30 April, 1876, the cathedral was dedicated by Metropolitan Archbishop Alemany of San Francisco. He paid homage to the Franciscans' "early trials in redeeming from savagery our fair and prosperous state". The final cost for the new building was $80K. Both Amat and Pius IX died in 1878, two years after the cathedral was dedicated. In an effort to tart-up the interior, Bishop Francisco Mora y Borrell (1827-1905), Amat's successor, bought a boat-load of onyx and marble in 1895 to spread around inside, but this still wasn't doing the trick and was only meant to be a temporary solution anyway. In 1900, bolstered by the fact that the cathedral was becoming too small for the population it was supposed to serve, plans were made by new bishop, George Thomas Montgomery (1847-1907), to replace the 24-year-old building with something more glorious to reflect and enhance the status of the church. However, in 1902 Bishop Montgomery was reassigned to San Francisco to assist the Archbishop in that city. Montgomery died there five years later. Incoming Bishop Thomas James Conaty, 1847-1915 (we've heard of him before) took office in 1903 and got to work right away to realize his predecessor's plans. Conaty envisioned a huge suburban cathedral, topped by a vast dome, well away from the business district: "It was my desire to secure a place that was in a distinctively residential district, where there could be no possible chance for change in character of surrounding buildings..." (Famous last words those) To that end, Bishop Conaty purchased most of the block bounded by Green, 8th, Whittier (now Columbia) and 9th (now James M Wood Blvd) in the Westlake district. Plate No. 8 of the 1910 Baist map reflected the new reality: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...8%252520AM.jpg historic mapworks The 16 Aug 1903 issue of the Los Angeles Herald detailed Bishop Conaty's ambitious plans, not just a cathedral, but also a residence, three more parish churches and a high school: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...8%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...2%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...0%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H...6%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T...2%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...8%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...7%252520PM.jpg cdnc Papal permission was given to Conaty to tear down St Vibiana's and sell the site to help finance the new cathedral which would be dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, not St Vibiana. Boston architects Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan drew up the plans, which were approved by the city. The budget was $1MM. (For a drawing of Conaty's proposed cathedral, see here) But, with one thing and another, as sometimes happens with even the best laid plans, Bishop Conaty's ambitions came to naught. He died in 1915. (A new parish church and school complex was built in the 1940s on the cathedral site Conaty bought.) Archbishop John Joseph Cantwell (1874-1947), who took charge in 1917, found it in the budget to hire John C. Austin to rework St Vib's facade and clad it in limestone in 1922-24 to mollify those few disappointed that a new cathedral hadn't been built after all. However, the newly severe, overly-heavy west end, now brought flush with the sidewalk, was a poor match with the rest of the rosy, red-brick cathedral and seriously out of scale with the tower. The brick was plastered and painted in an unsuccessful attempt to match the limestone. The foyer was enlarged and its decor glamorized and gilded. Stained glass windows from Germany were installed in the sanctuary (the original rose window was replaced too). An added choir loft obscured the height of the sanctuary as viewed through the foyer doors. The landmark tower was left alone. Overall, the changes robbed the building of much of its original beauty and architectural integrity, amounting, some said, to vandalism (decades later this ill-conceived remodel would be used against Vibiana). The changes, however, did not dim most Angelenos affection for St Vib's, as that was based more on shared history and the building's important role as a link to the past. The replacement facade and plastered walls in 1960, 36 years after the work was completed: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...1%252520PM.jpg woodhaven historic Twenty years on, in 1945, Archbishop Cantwell (famously a friend to Hollywood luminaries) finally turned his full attention to the "problem" of St Vibiana. Even though he'd spent a ton of money on the Austin remodel, he now dismissed St Vibiana's cathedral as akin to "worn-out garments" and announced that he had gained papal permission to demolish the old cathedral and build a magnificent, massive, neo-Gothic basilica on a full block of Wilshire Blvd's "Park Mile", dedicated to the Our Lady of the Angels. The site, between Hudson and Keniston, extended south to W 8th Street. Architects Ross Montgomery and Hennert Frohman drew the plans for the proposed $1.5MM edifice. Cantwell's well-off friends looked forward to a glamorous venue for their weddings, christenings and funerals in a fashionable neighborhood. At last, some enthused, obscure Vibiana and her embarrassment of a cathedral would be relegated to the past. But Cantwell's health failed. He was dead two years later. As cathedral planning hadn't gone well before, the next two heads of the archdiocese elected to concentrate on building new parish churches and schools. As we've seen in the 1977 photos HossC posted, the sanctuary was redecorated in 1975 after a fire and also coinciding with the building's 100th anniversary. The murals were replaced. Mosaic-patterned linoleum was laid over the sanctuary's wood floors. By then it was no longer fashionable to expose saint's relics for veneration (in the US anyway) so St Vibiana's relics, once encased in a silk-dressed, wax effigy and displayed in a plate-glass and gilt reliquary above the altar, were enclosed in a small marble bier which was kept behind gates on the south wall. Some of the long-deferred maintenance was addressed too, including replacing the cupola, weakened by dry rot, atop the tower's dome. St Vibiana's last hurrah as a cathedral was when Pope John Paul II stayed in the rectory (Montgomery and Mullay, 1933) in 1987. The cathedral was deconsecrated nine years later, two years after the Northridge earthquake. The 1994 quake gave us a glimpse of Vibiana's long-unseen red-brick walls. The 1924 plaster may have fallen off in patches, but the 1876 building didn't fall down: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...5%252520PM.jpg :uhh: Roger Cardinal Mahony, KGCHS (born in North Hollywood in 1936) came into office in 1985 (he was elevated from Archbishop to Cardinal in 1991), two years before the papal visit. His tenure will forever be tainted by his participation in the cover-up of the church's sex-abuse scandal. His replacement, the current Archbishop, relieved Mahony of his duties and privileges in 2013 as a (mostly symbolic) punishment, after Mahony's personal files on the cover-up were made public. He was never prosecuted. A close second to that scandal was Mahony's determination that a new cathedral should be built on his watch and the manner in which he went about it. Many Catholics, concerned about the great suffering among the archdiocese's faithful, felt money shouldn't be spent on a vanity project. Critics of a new building suggested that the church of St Vincent de Paul (A.C. Martin, 1925), W Adams at Figueroa, funded by the Dohenys, would do very well as a cathedral (this is actually what the Dohenys had hoped for). AC Martin Associates' St Basil's church (criticized as a "monument to opulence" by the Chicano Movement when built in 1969), on Wilshire at Kingsley, was also a candidate, but Mahony insisted on staying near his Civic Center power base (although he did flirt briefly with the idea of tearing down the UNOCAL building for a cathedral site) and refused to reuse any existing building. He wanted St Vib's razed, replaced and renamed, but with a much larger footprint. He also refused to include Vibiana in any new cathedral complex on the block. For its part, the City Council stripped Vibiana of its landmark status. The then-mayor, whose law firm was paid massive fees to manage the cover-up for Mahony, backed Mahony 100%. The late developer, Ira Yellin, Mahony's "project executive", wrote in support of demolition in a 1996 LAT article, "Not Every Building Can Be Saved, St. Vibiana's: Religious needs and revitalizing L.A.'s core far outweigh a site with little historical or intrinsic value", "[St Vibiana's] has no architectural merit and relatively minor historical value... [The 1924 and 1975 remodels] destroyed its integrity and value"... "It is time for the [Los Angeles] Conservancy to end its destructive and wasteful lawsuit" Seven members of the Catholic Workers movement scaled the tower of St Vibiana's in 1996 to protest the $45MM budget for a new cathedral. Mahony was unmoved (the final "official" cost was close to $190MM. The actual cost was unconscionable). Even before it was built, people began derisively referring to the new cathedral as "Taj Mahony" or "Rog Mahal". That's never stopped. Everyone knows the story of the attempted demolition and the thrilling last-second rescue of Vibiana and how the city traded the old cathedral for a parking lot on a remnant of Ft Moore Hill, between Temple and the Hollywood Freeway, the former site of another Ezra Kysor building, the Horticultural Pavilion. It burned to the ground. Vibiana's illegally-demolished, 1975-era cupola restored, August 2007. Raff Rangel and Tom Lueras were the crane operators; Ron Truglia was project manager: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...2%252520AM.jpg history,lacounty The current cathedral's website contains a self-serving dig (riddled with errors) aimed at both Vibiana and the Los Angeles Conservancy: "...historical preservationists intervened and demanded that the old Cathedral be saved and incorporated into the new one. Such a proposal was impossible to consider because the old Cathedral lacked a foundation, reinforced walls and essential seismic safeguards. Legal challenges ensued, including court injunctions delaying the demolition. The Archdiocese's engineers and contractors estimated that it would cost a minimum of eighteen to twenty million to save the old structure. No one, including the preservationists, would donate the kind of money needed to save the old Cathedral building". Vibiana, of course, was not built without a foundation and the total cost to restore Vibiana, including seismic upgrades, was $6MM. The demolition wasn't just "delayed", it was stopped. Retrofit and restoration in progress: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...8%252520AM.jpg vibiana.com So Vibiana is still there, despite the many official attempts to be rid of her; a serene, lasting landmark, well-loved and well-used by Angelenos. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-7...25817%2BAM.jpg vibiana.com HossC, In Weber's 1975 Centennial History of Vibiana's it says the bells were removed from the tower on October 25, 1966 as a preventative measure. The two bells, cast in Baltimore in 1888, were dedicated to Manuel and Engracia Dominguez who made a large contribution to the 1871 building fund. The archdiocese has the bells in permanent storage. ................................................. And as a very minor, but curious aside, in 1907, just before Bishop Conaty's cathedral-building plans in Westlake collapsed, he had an official bishops' retreat built at 144 Adelaide Drive in Santa Monica, designed by Conner and McGann. The land for the home was donated by Juan Carillo, the first Mayor of Santa Monica and a member of the famous Carillo/Bandini clan (his mother was a sister of Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker. Jose Antonio Carillo, brother-in-law of the Picos and three time Alcalde of Los Angeles, was his uncle). After Conaty died, wealthy widow Jeanette Donovan and her children, future-screen-star and architect Jack and daughter Catherine, rented the home as a summer place through the late teens. (Jack Donovan, as some of you may recall, designed the John C Leavitte home, 1923, at 501 Wilcox, which later played Lynn Bracken's home in "LA Confidential", 1997). Dr. Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, enthusiastic eugenics supporter and USC Chancellor, was among subsequent owners. In 1957 Mary Miles Minter and her mother Charlotte Shelby (a suspect in William Desmond Taylor's murder) bought the home. It would be the last for both. Charlotte died soon after they moved in. Minter married a short time later, but her husband died in 1965. Mary lived on in the house until 1984 as a recluse. She died at home. The Bishop T Conaty House in 1982, near the end of Mary Miles Minter's time there: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...6%252520PM.jpg smpl/sonya sones ___ |
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It never ends. Oh BTW, retired Cardinal Mahoney is now hiding in the Vatican....his last refuge from Justice. |
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below: Here's a recent photograph of the fountain. It looks a lot better in the black and white photograph. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/yYqzK7.jpg http://greenchidesigns.com/2011/05/g...chinatown-gem/ It appears the water jets have been replaced by plants. __ |
tovanger2, thank you so much for your Vibiana post earlier today.
Here are a few screen-grabs from Christmas Holiday, a 1944 Universal Pictures film featuring Deanna Durbin. In this unusually long Solemn High Mass scene, we are treated to real scenes of a Midnight Mass celebrated at the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, in war-time Los Angeles. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/jpD36p.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ1jIIl8IaY http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...910/t1jCGJ.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/f7Dt4C.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...903/4pOADO.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...633/iFY3En.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/F0ofdl.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...908/mlNJLI.jpg Even as an agnostic, I find this scene quite moving. If interested, you may watch the entire 3:43 scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ1jIIl8IaY __ |
Lake Vista Apts @ 1244 S. Lake Street (near Hoover and Pico)
Russell Clopine was the architect of the Lake Vista Apartments, built in 1925. This is a 1926 photo:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/68000 There may have been a light hanging in each tower: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original March 2015; the commercial building behind the fat palm tree appears to also be in the 1926 photo above: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original GSV |
In 1971, Julius Shulman was back on Bunker Hill for another shoot. Many of the photos in this set show the nearly-completed twin towers of the ARCO Plaza, although I haven't chosen any of them here. I've picked a small selection of views from high vantage points. They're all from "Job 4694: Downtown Project, Bunker Hill Scenes (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1971". I love the sky in this first picture.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original And here's the view looking the other way. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Looking across the Harbor Freeway at the Bunker Hill Towers. This shot also shows the exits of the 2nd and 3rd Street tunnels. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original A rather different angle on the aforementioned Bunker Hill Towers. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original There are 48 images in the set, including a few of models, and I'm not going to flood the forum with all of them. To give an idea of what else is available, here are the thumbnails. The ones above are 8R, 14, 1 and 19. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original In addition to the black and white images, there are 17 color photographs along the same theme. This one is a close match for the second image above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute |
This, like most of New Chinatown, was designed by architects Erle Webster and Adrian Wilson.
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