Originally Posted by Those Who Squirm (Post 6212908)

Do you mostly work cases in the downtown area?

And I have to ask, though you probably get this all the time, do you like Dragnet? Somewhere in this thread I'm sure I've already recommended the old radio program to everyone here, because many of the episodes have interesting details about the downtown area. (And, of course, a few are set mostly in outlying areas when the roads and housing tracts were a lot less developed. For instance there's one that mostly takes place on the side of the Imperial Highway, back when it really was a country highway (at "the road to San Pedro").

The episodes are readily available on line, for example at the Prelinger Archive.

Originally Posted by alanlutz (Post 6212976)

Thanks, Krell58 for that link. I enjoyed it and it led me to another which contains Many of the pictures we have been enjoying on this Noir site. Perhaps it was one of our members who put it together. Please enjoy this as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ3Xzb5iXQw

Originally Posted by H.L.P (Post 6213001)

One of my favorite things to do, is to look through this great thread
while listing to my jazz records.

http://imageshack.com/a/img542/5977/91k1.jpg
Photo by me.

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6212691)

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Gladys Towle Root was a flamboyant noir attorney in Los Angeles for over 30 years. After college she could't find a job at an established law firm so in 1930 she opened her own office at 212 South Hill St. There she specialized in murder, child molestation and lewd conduct 'sex' crime cases. Her specialty was 'gay' vice arrest cases such men holding hands in a bar [illegal then] and undercover sex stings in Los Angeles restrooms and parks. In those days before the law was changed, the LA Police Vice Squad would pick the cutest cops, dress them in T-shirts, tight pants and stake-out restrooms and bars... just in case two males might be fooling around therein.

Gladys Root
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pscb995f66.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6213534)

Nothing says 'noirish' more than a 1930s/40s auto court.
http://imageshack.us/a/img855/3954/4yi3.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-B-W-...item3f27942b7d

I hope we can figure out the address of this 30 cabin auto court. -with showers
p.s. (I just found this image tonight)
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Originally Posted by Moxie (Post 6213630)

Found this postcard, with an address (4562 No. Figueroa), on Flickr...http://www.flickr.com/photos/zilf/128565399/lightbox/

:)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6213534)

Nothing says 'noirish' more than a 1930s/40s auto court.
http://imageshack.us/a/img855/3954/4yi3.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-B-W-...item3f27942b7d

I hope we can figure out the address of this 30 cabin auto court. -with showers
p.s. (I just found this image tonight)
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Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 4818666)

Westminster Hotel in all its glory. The caption on this photo reads ca. 1900 but judging by the women's fashions, it looks more like between 1908-1910.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3...tel19004th.jpg
USC Archive

Here's the Westminster Hotel on the northeast corner of 4th and Main, around 1888-1898.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4...hotel18898.jpg
USC Archive

That same intersection some decades later in 1924, with the Westminster looking great surrounded by those other buildings from an obviously different later era but complementing each other nicely IMO. What a hustling and bustling part of downtown that was! Within a decade or so from when this picture was taken, this area would become a seedy rundown part of downtown.
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4...and4th1924.jpg
USC Archive

The Westminster Hotel being demolished, 1960. :( Another piece of LA Victoriana bites the dust.
http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/5...ingtorndow.jpg

For years after the Westminster Hotel was demolished, it was a vacant lot/parking lot. However in the last few years, a structure was being built on the northeast corner of 4th and Main. It's nearly finished, a development called the Medallion. Here are some pics of it which I've ganked from another thread on these forums, courtesy of colemonkee, another SSP poster. These pics were taken March 28, 2010, according to him.

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6...n201003283.jpg

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4...n201003281.jpg

While it's nice that something has been built here, it uh, still isn't the old Westminster Hotel.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5232965)

I just solved my own mystery.

The building in question was the Ebell Club when it was located on Figueroa.

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/9...llfigueroa.jpg
usc digital archive



The first Ebell Club was located on Broadway (this photo is from 1905). For some reason I love this rather odd looking building.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/12/...oadway1905.jpg
usc digital archive


I don't remember seeing either of these photos in the USC archive before.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6213545)

This is, by far the scariest photograph of the Echo Mountain Incline Railway that I've seen. (1890s)
http://imageshack.us/a/img62/3219/qx2k.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Photograph...item2ec9567550
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Originally Posted by Chuckaluck (Post 6214040)

But where was the "Women's Club" or "Women's Club House" ? (If only Mayor Shaw or Gladys Root were around to tell the true story.)

1901
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...NTHPD72VCU.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...NTHPD72VCU.jpg