Originally Posted by malumot (Post 5107730)

1. What is that tower just to the north of the Normal School? Actually there might be two towers - a tall one and a shorter one? Looks like lattice design. Some kind of construction crane?

Originally Posted by malumot (Post 5107730)

What is that tower just to the north of the Normal School? Actually there might be two towers - a tall one and a shorter one? Looks like lattice design. Some kind of construction crane?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5107760)

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2...s6cebayall.jpg
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That is a very good question malumot. I can't figure out that lattice-like structure for the life of me. :(

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5107760)

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2...s6cebayall.jpg
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That is a very good question malumot. I can't figure out that lattice-like structure for the life of me. :(

Originally Posted by Los Angeles Past (Post 5106697)

This interior shot. Wow. In 1961, my mom took me on one of the last Pacific Electric trolley runs down to Long Beach, and even though I was only 6 at the time, I still definitely remember those green seats!

That morning after breakfast, Mom just bundled me in the car and told me we were going Downtown to ride the last of the trolleys. She wanted her son to have that same experience that was so much of a part of her life when she was young. I'm really glad now that she did that! And I still remember a lot of that day...

First we went to Angels Flight. That was the first time I got to ride it, and it was a big thrill. Then we went across to the Grand Central Market. I hated the smells. Then we went back to Hill and Third and we stood there for awhile. (I guess that's where we picked up our ride to the PE station.) I'll never forget the NOISE of that intersection; how LOUD the general hustle-and-bustle of the city was. And I was especially impressed by the electric arcs and the sparks that shot out from the trolleys' contact with the overhead wires. Snap! Crackle! Pop!

The ride to Long Beach was pretty boring, even though it was my first time on a train. (Well, Angels Flight earlier in the day was actually my first train ride, but I digress.) As always, I was fidgety. The car was filled to capacity. I guess nostalgia was thick among the passengers, as there was little talking. Mostly just the sound of the train wheels going clickity-clack, clickity-clack, all along the rail road track.

When we got to Long Beach, Mom took me to this immense old cafeteria downtown. The ceiling was like two stories high. It was crowded and noisy, and kind of dark inside, even though it was mid-day. I don't recall what the name of the big cafeteria was, but I think my mom probably went there a lot when she had relatives living in Long Beach in the '40s.

I don't remember the ride back at all. I probably slept all the way. But overall, it was a very memorable day!

-Scott (really feeling my age right now)

Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 5107910)

in this image, the zelda is the big apartment building at top center, (located at grand and 4th). the tower poking up behind the zelda is the brunson mansion. The front facade of the brunson is visible just to the right of the zelda. across the street from the zelda to the right is the rose mansion. Simply amazing photographs

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4...227glass6b.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5107479)

A 6 x 8 glass negative on ebay for the next 5 days.


http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2...ebay6x8neg.jpg
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Below: Details from the above glass negative.


http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5...227glass1b.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5108287)

I have to go out of town for a couple days. I'll post more of these glass negatives when I return.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5042830)

Castle's 1961 Homicidal is said to have been made either in homage to Psycho, made the year before, or in competition with Hitchcock (it even has a cross-dressing aspect). Homicidal has some good, noirish location shots in Ventura (though none in L.A. that I could see), and the film appears as a film-within-a-film (on a drive-in screen) in Castle's 1962 Zotz!--which itself somehow seems to have been inspired by The Absent-Minded Professor of the year before and which offers us some interesting then-and-nows from its location shooting in and around Occidental College:

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TM...12507%20PM.jpgColumbia Pictures/Sony

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TM...12557%20PM.jpgGoogle Street View
1803 Campus Road, Eagle Rock. It's great that even the classic old L.A. black-and-white "pistol" street
signs are still there.


http://lh6.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TM...12832%20PM.jpgColumbia Pictures/Sony

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TM...13001%20PM.jpgGoogle Street View
A "Beaver" house just across Ridgeview Avenue from the one in the top shot.

Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 5109214)

i realized that i had seen the almost exact same view before from the roof of the palace looking down at angels flight

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5043/...185be704_b.jpg

sheeeesh.........................