|
After CaliNative mentioned the depression last night I decided to go through my old files for other photographs taken on the cusp of the Great Depression.
This one caught my eye. If I'm not mistaken, the six young women posed by the Pierce Arrow are the same six women in the Montgomery Wards/arrow sign photograph. HERE https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/3lvQFO.jpg EBAY The date is the same and the women are even wearing the same dresses. __ hmmm...so I wonder if the building behind them is the Montgomery Wards Plant? Very nice car too. (but it has a leak) _____ |
Quote:
I wonder who this women is? She doesn't look too thrilled to be there. Could it be WeeGee's secretary....or is wife? (I don't even know if he was married during his time in L.A.) __ |
Quote:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psuf1hhmw5.jpg April 12, 1929, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL This is the M. F. Norton home at 834 W. 28th Street, almost certainly in the summer of 1929: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psba2zvrh9.jpg DW-1929-08-27-158 at USC Digital Library Here is another summer 1929 photo of 834 W. 28th Street (demolished in 1984): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original USC Digital Library The stock market crashed seven weeks after the auction date -- September 11, 1929 -- advertised on the sign in front of the house: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original The next day, as the sign in the lower right corner indicates, there was an auction of another M. F. Norton Estate home, 7804 Vista Del Mar (demolished in 1968): Quote:
|
Quote:
|
|
Quote:
Manikin’s are similar to mannequins where they are human shaped models used to simulate the human body. Instead of being used to show off clothing, manikins are used to help simulate medical, surgical, or clinical scenarios.Given this information, I'd say that the dummies in the Weegee photo are mannequins, albeit manufactured by the Decter Mannikin Co. I don't know if the company is still around, but there's a 1991 LAT article about their new range of "gym-chiseled" male mannequins here. |
Quote:
|
:previous:
I think this is the photo you're referring to, oldstuff. The website has the picture captioned as a "1929 Pierce-Arrow". No location is given. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...erceArrow1.jpg carstylecritic.blogspot.com |
Quote:
Edit: Also possibly DNITA or DN TA, but I doubt it. Cheers, Earl |
:previous:
A rare Pierce-Arrow with "divorced" headlights, rather than the trademark P-A fender-mounted lamps, apparently illegal in some states. The grille item is this: https://s7.postimg.cc/am07sgke3/AAAemblem.jpg Diamond monograms usually have the last-name initial at center...but this is probably not a person's monogram..unless a long-named royal maybe.... |
Quote:
Well, the car does have California plates, but that could mean the photo was taken in San Francisco or anywhere else in the state... but it looks like L.A.. There are no reverse-image-search results found by Google or Tin Eye... there are no Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo results for “Onita Los Angeles”.... nor are they any results for “Onita” anything... Here's all I can tell from looking at the photo: • The street we're standing on ends in a T. The building on the top right stands at the juncture of the T street. • We are also looking over a hill. The street rises, and falls, before it reaches the end of the street, at the apartment building. • From what we can see of the other buildings on the left, they are above street level, on a hill themselves. If you look through the car's rear window, you seem to be able to see steps leading to a house, a Craftsman-esque column on the porch, and a plant and some grass, all angled as if going up a hill: https://i.imgur.com/diSJtsM.jpg The only area I can think of offhand that has all of the above qualities is Carroll Ave, at it approaches Edgeware Road - the houses on the left are above street level; the elevation of the street rises, then falls (though it's difficult to tell in this photo); and the street ends in a T: https://i.imgur.com/t0WA7x4.jpg However, various details reveal that this is not Carroll Ave - for example, the street in the old photo is far too wide to be Carroll Ave. I don't know if this one can be solved... it could be in San Francisco... it could be in LA, but on a hill that's been leveled decades ago... ...now what other streets go over a hill and terminate in a T..? |
quite intriguing Scott Charles.
Quote:
It didn't...occur to me... until I right clicked on the pic at carstylecritic. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/ANOhpt.jpg If we can locate the uncropped version perhaps we'll see, and hopefully recognize, the person the chauffeur is handing the pillow and blanket to. (as well as see more of the streetscape) ___________ I also found out today if you google "ONITA" in google images or books you get alot of hits on BONITA Granville. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/XA8bjV.jpg so obviously... THIS is driving me crazy. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/Z1j510.jpg And if you consider the l as a devider, as Earl Boebert suggested, you get the Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America based in Florida. *pulls hair out* |
...speaking of Pierce Arrows.
Fatty Arbuckle and his 1919 Pierce Arrow https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/PEyQvV.jpg mybirdie I wonder if this is the car he drove up to San Francisco on that fateful weekend in 1921. __ |
Quote:
'Black Thursday' was on October 24, 1929, and the actual 'crash' occurred on October 29, 'Black Tuesday'. oops. NEVERmind. you're correct...one day short. But both auctions were before the crash FW. Were there signs/premonitions that the crash was about to happen? __ |
'mystery' side street. Los Angeles 1950s
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/7LTTcT.jpg EBAY I don't expect anyone to figure out what side street this is. I just really like the photograph. |
Quote:
https://i.imgur.com/YOrIKu8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/UTzX9Dj.jpg GSV |
:previous:
Excellent find, NN Lenses are tricky things...the Pierce-Arrow was waiting at the El Montalvo, 3835 W 2nd St... https://s7.postimg.cc/9ak6v1i4b/nla10.bmp.jpg https://s7.postimg.cc/kpgnzpch7/nla1.bmp.jpg https://s7.postimg.cc/kpgo002a3/nla15.bmp.jpg https://s7.postimg.cc/rtyh8mwkb/nla13.bmp-001.jpg GSV PS Perhaps the initals are of two people-- "DN or "ON" / "TA" ? |
:previous:
I found this Dick Whittington picture which looks like it's part of the same photoshoot. "Pierce Arrow car from Jack-Germond, 5600 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 1929" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library The client is listed as "Hollywood Citizen, Mr. Engstrum". Thomas and Edgar Engstrum of the Engstrum Construction Co were living at 5114 and 5108 Franklin Avenue respectively in 1929. By 1930, they had moved to 544 Rossmore and 515 S Norton. Their company was at 4953 Hollywood Boulevard. Kenmore and 2nd is due south of this address, so could the man on the left be Thomas or Edgar? I'm guessing that this is where the Pierce Arrow came from. It was built as an "Auto Sales Building and Garages" in 1925. Home Depot applied for a demo permit in 1995. Quote:
|
Quote:
Looks like Fatty's P-A was sitting on Adams Street (as it was them called), with the low stone-and-iron wall of Chester Place behind him. Below are a couple of other shots, apparently from the same sitting.... He was living at 649 West Adams at the time.... https://s7.postimg.cc/t0bnz1x3f/fattywall.bmp.jpgGSV The wall to the left goes west to Chester Place; to the right, the brick wall, with the same ironwork, goes east in front of Fatty's house. The full story of the Randolph Miner/Theda Bara/Fatty Arbuckle/Raoul Walsh & Miriam Cooper/Joe Schenck & Norma Talmadge house is here: http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blog...ease-also.html https://s7.postimg.cc/jr9horo5n/WAD6...HDRFNL4_FB.jpg |
Quote:
And GaylordWilshire's pictures show the other elements - the rising/falling slope of the street, and the elevated buildings on the left! How on earth did you figure this out, Noir_Noir?? |
All times are GMT. The time now is 11:29 PM. |
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.