Beverly Gardens Park
 

Oh snap GW, you beat me to it while I was typing :-)

Harley B Gordon was--and seems to still be--a cosmetics manufacturer, now in Carson. Great building--that market with marquee at left is very interesting. I can hardy stand to post what's on the site now. Well, at least the palms remain.


https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

Wow, malumot--I hadn't even noticed that she jumped on her birthday. Makes it even sadder. I looked for an obituary, but found nothing.... R.I.P., Esther.

Beverly Gardens Park
 

The photo e_r posted might be mis-dated. The park opened in 1911 and, judging by the landscaping in the foreground, the view doesn't look like it was taken that many years later. The present sign is a recreation.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...532%2520AM.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4...952%2520AM.jpg
gsv

But then I found this panorama, also dated 1929, so I dunno:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8...522%2520PM.jpg
http://uncommonplacebook.blogspot.com

Santa Monica Blvd and Beverly Drive

Big Tudor house now looks like this (I guess the Borg got it):
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7...149%2520PM.jpg
gsv

P.S. I realize now e-r's pic is a detail of the panorama. The ladies are still there.

This is Beverly Hills in 1929, showing all of Beverly Gardens and plenty of houses north of the park.
The Beverly Wilshire is the big building at center.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_...601%2520PM.jpg
gsjansen- flickr (thx gs)

Can you tell us when 1309 Park Way (the big Tudor house) was built?

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A little more on that desecrated house...

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6390

Something went off the rails.......
 

A new post and an oldie from Larry Harnisch's blog on Einar Petersen:

http://ladailymirror.com/2012/12/28/...sen/#more-9942

http://ladailymirror.com/2011/09/19/...gotten-artist/

Cheers,

Earl

Speaking of The Daily Mirror...


Larry Harnisch seems to have found one of the houses made by H. J. Brainerd. I'm not sure how he decided that the house below--at 1158 East 41st St--is one made by the company, but he has more here: http://ladailymirror.com/2007/01/20/...ral-ramblings/


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV

Beverly Gardens Park
 

Beverly Hills Historic Preservation credits the photo e_r posted to CC Pierce and dates it to 1920 (which still seems a bit late).

The "Beverly Hills" sign was already gone by the time of this 1929 photo:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...86377888_n.jpg

Undated photo of the lilly pond (no sign):
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...26775391_o.jpg

The sign, the lilly pond and the house (pre 1929)
The old sign spelt out "Beverly Hills" in lights. The new sign, alas, does not:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...69218886_n.jpg

Panorama from Beverly Drive and Santa Monica Blvd, 1932:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...422%2520PM.jpg

1309 Park Way for sale, ca 1920:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...76139815_o.jpg
cc pierce

All pix Beverly Hills Historic Preservation -fb page

1309 Park Way, Beverly Hills
 

I agree with you and DouglasUrantia wholeheartedly, but at least it got one of its three chimneys back. I dislike capped chimneys.

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A slightly different angle on the Park Way house...

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/7...evhils1150.jpg

This image is from an otherwise good website about the homes of movie stars (see it here). The writer seems strangely to insist that West Adams and Beverly Hills are more
or less the same, despite being miles apart--and insists that Theda Bara lived in the Park Way house. It seem obvious that she has conflated it with 649 West Adams Blvd.
By the way--Kimberly Vinokur Reiss's Beverly Hills Preservation is excellent.

1309 Park Way
 

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-N...941%2520PM.jpg


Thx for the photo. It's has an even better view of the original porch supports and balcony. Something nasty and 1950's is going on here:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520AM.bmp.jpg

I would be looking at places where the PE line expanded to 4 tracks, or near a PE yard. I did just a little bit of looking myself but I may be able to do some more later.

The L.A. County Assessor shows this as 1305 Park Way - built in 1907

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8632/capture1qo.jpg
Google Maps

Ya know, when even I can tell that something is in bad taste, you have gone WAY over the line. Geez!

B&W vs. Color / "Thens & Nows"
 

I dunno really. Most of our "nows" are google street view. One cannot always pick the angle one would like & the color is mostly ho-hum. But also, the "thens" are often taken when the buildings were new and had the crispness that goes along with that. The pointing between the bricks on the building below has lost its definition, as has the bits of trim, and, of course, it is now covered with retrofitting bolts. The blocked-up windows, security bars and razor wire don't help either.

And don't forget scale. What once was imposing can now look shrunken and feeble compared to the larger environment. If nothing else, new streetlamps often ruin scale (plus all the other street furniture junk and signs that seems to have piled up).

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L...609%2520AM.jpg
gsv

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-m...800%2520PM.jpg
http://www.oac.cdlib.org

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J...703%2520AM.jpg
gsv

This is still a nice building though. Beautiful windows.

A view by a decent photogapher vs. google street view can make all the difference even if both are in color
(this is the Earle Anthony house in BH by Greene & Greene):
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--...152%2520AM.jpg
gsv ( previously posted by GW)

VS this nice professional shot:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-j...236%2520AM.jpg
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/bedford.html

A hotel at Central and Ceres (looking south) - 1955

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3221/00041854.jpg
lapl

Now - Its a fish fry with parking lot:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2417/captureayt.jpg
Google Street View

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Sept 28, 1902


I ran across this item when looking into Ceres Avenue a few posts back.


Another of Haley's buildings:

http://www.lantermanfoundation.org/

Richter Scale victim....
 

Richter Scale ......
 

The Starlight....by SEARS
 

[QUOTE=GaylordWilshire;5952549]Speaking of The Daily Mirror...


Larry Harnisch seems to have found one of the houses made by H. J. Brainerd. I'm not sure how he decided that the house below--at 1158 East 41st St--is one made by the company, but he has more here: http://ladailymirror.com/2007/01/20/...ral-ramblings/


I suspect the home in the photo is a somewhat modified model of the Starlight by Sears. It appears that Brainerd Co. sold the kits to Sears who then rebranded them....as they did with most all of their products.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps7d8a56b3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pscab7fc86.jpg