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Headed South into History........
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2015 Long Beach Av Shell Oil Co garage. MA 5-2760 2015 Long Bch Av Shell Oil Co sales orders & deliveries Garage. MA 5-1403 It's not clear if Shell owned the whole site or just the top edge. The current business at that address is DeWitt Petroleum, a fleet fuels business whose site stretches along E 20th Street from S Compton Avenue to Long Beach Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tonAvTanks.jpg Historic Aerials |
:previous: -Very interesting HossC. thx for your research.
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"Los Angeles City Hall 1950s." -
of course my eye gravitated over to that old, old building on the right. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/1hcjlu.jpg ebay At first I thought it was the old jail, but then I noticed the peaked 'turret' on the left side corner of the building. Are we actually looking at two buildings here? (could it be the old U.S. Hotel?) __ |
Happy Valentines Day everyone!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/cSxUTG.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/uECXoH.jpg :previous: they sure gave Ms. Garbo BIG feet. __ |
Miss Gussie Hasson's
Union Pacific Employees Athletic Club of Los Angeles card, 1930. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/5z0I05.jpg ebay -Do any of you rail-fans know where this athletic club might have been located? -was it on company property? __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mestoy1955.jpg Huntington Digital Library |
:previous: I thought the turret in the 1950s slide looked more square-ish, like the one on the U.S. Hotel. (but it's just the angle I guess)
below: Amestoy left, U.S. Hotel right. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/6cuNud.jpg water&power the Amestoy survived much longer than the U.S. Hotel, so I should have known. (I was close though ;)) thx again Hoss. |
This is an amazing view taken from one of the upper floors of the Pacific Electric Station.
"The elevated tracks leaving the Pacific Electric Station at 6th & Main." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/TxrEoo.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/View-Los-Ang...item541a082c4d In the distance on the left, is the Towel Supply building we discussed last week (gray building next to the El Rey Hotel). pretty cool huh- __ just for fun. XTL size http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/TxrEoo.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/View-Los-Ang...item541a082c4d :previous: There are several buildings, mostly in the distance, that I don't recognize. -like the white building 'above' the El Rey Hotel that looks like it has a flat roofed clock tower. ...and I just noticed the large rooftop HOTEL sign to the right of the smokestacks. -is that on the El Rey roof or a building behind it? _____ The photographer would have been in one of these windows. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/GKvaWr.jpg Tom Gildersleeves photograph / Jim Finn collection at http://www.pacificelectric.org/wp-co.../FINN00176.jpg |
The pix on 12th st were at the LARy -LATL-LAMTA storage yard which occupied much of the block on the west side of 12th. behind the photographers. Herald Express had a giant sign across the building which faced the yard- I always assumed that was the place where the newspapers got printed
In this second view, there is a brief glimpse of a Herald Express sign on the building to the right of the Hotel Houston. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/9kYgpM.png old file / unknown film So there are Herald Express signs on both sides of the Hotel Houston. Why I wonder?...were their offices nearby? (or is that their offices in the smallish building to the left of the hotel)-as shown in the original black-&-white photo. -not that big of a deal...but interesting none-the-less. __[/QUOTE] |
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Los Angeles and Redondo had the more direct route, proceeding inland. Los Angeles Pacific skirted the surf north to Del Rey [like the pic], thence eastward via Culver to 5th and Hill sts. Can't tell you about the oil wells, except at sometime there were wells in Venice, just north of Del Rey. LA&R was split between the PE and LARy , PE built a shortcut to Watts and that portion to Redondo was standard gaged. The part north of that remained narrow LARy until service ended ca 1955. ex LAP service to Redondo ended 1940 |
I found that (the? a?) Googie's was in front of (?) Schwab's Pharmacy.
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/files/20...ner_googie.jpg from blogs.getty.edu. (http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/files/20...ner_googie.jpg) Wikipedia says that Schwab's Pharmacy was located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Both the Googie's facade and the rest of the corner appear to be different in this pic from the previously posted pic, so perhaps there was more than one? |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Elizabeth Fuller on flickr The old Metropolitan Warehouse building at 1340 E 6th Street seems to fit the bill for the white building with the tower. I tried to find an old photo to see if it once had a clock in the tower, but so far I haven't found one. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nWarehouse.jpg Google Maps |
Amestoy
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1902 Electric Bill. $2.35 for 9 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Curious, aside from lighting, what else was being electrically powered. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/5772/rec/24 Electric iron, fan, vacuum cleaner, kettle, oven, sewing machine and chair were allegedly invented before 1902. http://www.localhistories.org/electric.html Unclear what was generally available in Los Angeles. |
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Kilowattage on Broadway. Details right down to the road apples. More of the Grant Building. 1902 - Fourth and Hill http://www.pacificelectric.org/wp-co...adway-1902.jpghttp://www.pacificelectric.org/wp-co...adway-1902.jpg |
That's not quite 4th & Broadway. The street sign says Hill St., so that's 4th and Hill, looking toward Broadway. Great pic, though!
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:previous: Meant to correct, thanks for the reminder. |
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