The Arcade Building site, back in the day....
 

Just in case anyone was wondering what was on the site of the Arcade building, before Mercantile Place:

"When the Board of Education sold this lot [2nd and Spring, site of School No.1], it bought
another, which extended from Fort Street to Spring between
Fifth and Sixth streets and had a frontage of one hundred
and twenty feet on each street. The price paid was twelve
thousand five hundred dollars. This is the lot now known
as Mercantile Place, whose retention or sale has been so much
debated and which, with its many small stores, reminds the
traveler not a little of those narrow but cosy, and often very
prosperous, European streets and alleys on both sides lined
with famous shops..."
"Sixty Years in Southern California" (1916) Harris Newmark

The Spring Street School, built 1884 on never-before-built land:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...4%252520AM.jpg
seaver center (n.d.)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...1%252520AM.jpg
seaver center (n.d.)

Thirteen years earlier, in 1871, there wasn't a lot of development on the block (the grounds of St Vincent's College are in the upper left corner):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...7%252520AM.jpg
ucla dl Augustus Koch (detail)

Near the end. The Spring Street School is on the right margin:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...9%252520AM.jpg
lapl

After 20 years, engulfed by urbanization, the School Board leased the land to developer C. Wesley Roberts for Mercantile Place (AF Rosenheim, 1904). This view is from circa 1920:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...7%252520AM.jpg
lapl

1910:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4...4%252520AM.jpg
baist, plate 2, historic mapworks

After just 19 years, Mercantile Place fell for the Arcade Building (MacDonald and Couchot, 1924). The School Board had already sold its interest in the land in 1919 for $1.155 million:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r...5%252520AM.jpg
lapl (n.d.)


An interesting history of the site is here

:previous: Very interesting post t2. I don't recall seeing the Spring Street School before. -fine looking building.
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Oh, and thanks so much for all the information on 219 N. Hill Street.

Just before I went to bed last night I happened across two more amazing snapshots.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/rPAZ5l.jpg
eBay

:previous: the writing is difficult to read. (says something about Pico at the end)
At the bottom he names the make of the two cars. "my Oakland" and something "Regal".





-enlarged and lightened a bit.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/IokGdy.jpg

:previous: looks like the "Regal" on the right-----> has two spare tires.





This one blew me away.

"Looking N. from room or sleeping Porch, 219 N. Hill St.
Mrs. Welch, landlady"

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/iEUk8m.jpg
eBay







& enlarged
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/7U8tKF.jpg

:previous: Look at the large flue that was added to the top of that brick chimney.

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Rood Photos
 

:previous:

"Rancher bought Cadillac Fire Chief's old car 1919 - Cad too much gas.

Oakland, Regal traded both in on new 1928 Nash (?) E.P. Lacey W Pico

2-1926

My Oakland

Regal my Regal"

(I hope he got a 1928 Nash, b/c those were gorgeous)

These have been great. Thanks e_r

:previous: You're most welcome t2. :)

Thanks for the translation.

Rood image 219 N Hill
 

The cars are parked in front of 223 N Hill, next door to the north to No. 219:


1926 Pontiac Oakland:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...5%252520AM.jpg
old car and truck pictures

The Regal (Source title: "1926 TRIP LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA SAND DIEGO REGAL OLD CAR "):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J...4%252520AM.jpg
ebay

:previous:
When I googled "regal car", this is the only image I got (?)



For better info on the cars see ProphetM's post here.



You know me. I always want to know what was there before.

These are the Baldwin Village Shops, as photographed by Julius Shulman in 1952. It's his "Job 1281: Robert Evans Alexander, Baldwin Village Shops (Los Angeles, Calif.),1952". The first shot shows the back of the shops from the parking lot. The nearest one seems to be a fine foods store called The Penguin.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

An open-ended courtyard between the stores.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

The parking lot with the Baldwin Hills behind.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

The second half of the photoset shows the stores at night.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

The Liquor and Spice House was at the front.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

Next door was a laundry/cleaners and a Thriftimart.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

The reason for this detail shot will become clear below.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

A post on groceteria.com gave me an address of "3621 S La Brea at Rodeo" for the Thriftimart. The 1956 CD also lists a Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakers at 3621 S La Brea. The laundry/cleaners is listed at 3625 S La Brea, and the Liquor & Spice House at 3629. The groceteria.com post has links to several pictures of the Thriftimart (including the last two images above) hosted by Flickr user srk1941. I'm assuming that's the same srk1941 (aka Steven Keylon) who posts on these pages, so, Steven, any extra info you have would be appreciated.

The detail image above shows a Mobiloil station at the right. Next to it is a neon-lit pylon. Even zoomed-in I couldn't read the sign, but when I worked out the location, I realized we'd seen it before. From my earlier post #25841, here's a daytime shot of Hody's.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...dysLaBrea1.jpg
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To help visualize where all these stores and restaurants were, here's a 1952 aerial view. Thriftimart is just below the center, with the other Baldwin Village Shops below that. Hody's is the triangular building just north of Rodeo Road.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
Historic Aerials

If this block seems familiar, we visited it recently for Julius Shulman's 1963 photoset of Gibraltar Savings.

One minor correction - It wasn't a Pontiac Oakland, it was just an Oakland. Pontiac was introduced as a sub-brand of Oakland in the same way that LaSalle was a sub-brand of Cadillac. Every GM brand got a sub-brand that way in the 1920s, except Chevrolet which got Geo many decades later. Pontiac was the only sub-brand that overtook its parent.

Looking up Regal on Wikipedia, I find that they produced cars from 1907 to 1918, so the Regal in the 1926 photo was at least 8 years old.

Here's an article I found about Regal:
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=137816

Here's a 1913 Regal Model N 'underslung' roadster:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V...adster1913.jpg
pinterest

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...2525201913.jpg
World of Classic Cars

I did not find any photos of Regals without fenders as seen in the 1926 photo.

2249 S. Harvard Blvd. -- George I. Cochran Home
 

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original
Men of Achievement in the Great Southwest (1904) @ Hathitrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=61

There's a larger version of Kansas Sebastian's b/w photo here.

While looking for tomorrow's Julius Shulman post, I came across another photoset of six images of the Baldwin Village Shops. I thought it would make more sense to keep them close to the first set. This is "Job 1107: Robert Evans Alexander, Baldwin Hills Shopping Center (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951", taken a year before the set above. Between the two sets, you get a pretty good overview of all the stores.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

I noticed for the first time, just before reading this post, in the closeup you posted earlier.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...1%252520PM.jpg
uscdl (detail) full image previously posted by HossC

I'd put my money on that building being the one in shot I posted previously. One more time just for easy reference:

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...pscgt9zbzr.jpg

Also, how amazing that e_r just so happened upon photos of some of Gillette's neighbors across the street! Serendipitous, to say the least.

One last thing - t2, that's kind of a mind-blowing fact to know that Morgan of Morgan & Walls fame owned the Criss Cross house.

Octavius Morgan + 230 N Hill
 

:previous:

Octavius Morgan owned it, designed it and built it. I was so amazed, I just put that in IMDB Triva for "Criss Cross". That and that Lancaster Place runs through the block e/w. OMG, I'm such a geek.


...and yes, that seems to be 230 N Hill in both photos. I wouldn't have guessed that a house with such fancy north and west sides would have such a plain back. The outside stairs make sense as they must lead to the wrap-around porch/balcony.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l...5%252520PM.jpg
uscdl (detail) full image previously posted by tetsu


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g...7%252520PM.jpg
uscdl (detail) full image previously posted by HossC

Mr Rood's cars
 

Thank you so much ProphetM for your wealth of knowledge re the Oakland and Regal cars. I added the link to your post to mine. You're the best.

Another take on the same subject. ;) >> http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=12283

Temple and Hill
 

:previous:

Yes, I remember that one.

MichaelRyerson's too

Looking east on Temple from Hill:
The City garage (see above, right margin) was in by 1921, the open lot followed in 1925:


MichaelRyerson's last photo makes a good contrast with the one I put up before:


...and now:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...2%252520PM.jpg
gsv

Everything about this is truly amazing. Even the 1906 build date. Always figured that house must have come from the 1880's or 90's. And I figured it was a single family home that was divided up later, interesting to know that it was constructed as "flats."

Posting again to see if anyone can lend a hand?
 

Just posting again to see if anyone help me find the original of this photo from the LA Times of my home on Flores Street when it was first built back in 1936.

215 N Hill/"Criss Cross"/ Octavius Morgan/LA City garage
 

215 N Hill was still looking pretty good in the early 50s (Mr Rood's rental and the rest of the block to the north had been gone since the late 40s). The "Criss Cross" house even looks like it's sporting some fresh paint (maybe that was done for the film). This is looking west at Court and Hill from City Hall:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...2%252520PM.jpg
ebay previously posted by e_r (detail)

Another angle ("Criss Cross", 1949):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...5%252520AM.jpg
silent locations

Looking NW over the intersection of Temple and a straightened-out Hill St. By 1955 everything was gone. Then they took the hill away. The LA City garage, and its open lot (plus much east of it), fell for the current Hall of Records (1961):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...3%252520PM.jpg
uscdl previously posted by HossC (detail)



PS

BTW, the apt building (in the image above) on Temple, west of Hill at No. 406, was called "The Majestic". It doesn't have much time left. Next door to the east, on the SW corner of Temple and Hill, was once a single-story commercial building, also designed, built and owned by Octavius Morgan:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...9%252520PM.jpg
silent locations

Anyway, there are two fun Silent Locations pages on these environs here and here.

Harold Lloyd in front of The Majestic apartments filming "Take a Chance" (1918):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9...8%252520PM.jpg
silent locations

I don't know about "twinkling star lights" The stars were just cardboard or thin plywood tacked to the ceiling. I don't remember there being any lights associated with them. Occasionally one would fall down and it was just a star shape.

On the other hand, it WAS Burbank, a small town within the big city. We did not lock things much until the late 60's or so.

For any arts and crafts fans out there, look at the large white jug/bottle next to the leather and wood round chair in the entryway. It is actually a glass spring water bottle (5 gallon) which has had textures made of string and possibly cardboard glued on and the whole thing painted white. Décor R Us!