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Time to rotate those solid rubber tires? Mack Bulldog Truck evidently had a long and productive life. Guessing it was probably 30 years old or older in '52. 1917 - Mack hauls a 100" observatory mirror to Mount Wilson. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Glass-1917.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Glass-1917.jpg 1924 or '25 - Mack does Subway Building. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19884 http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original http://static.commercialmotor.com/bi...ack%201920.jpghttp://static.commercialmotor.com/bi...ack%201920.jpg |
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Only Known Footage of Union Station Opening, Shot by Ward Kimball
I just came across this incredibly rare (silent but color) footage taken of the 1939 opening of Union Station. Interestingly, it was shot by Ward Kimball who was the animator at Disney who created Jiminy Cricket in “Pinocchio”, Tweedledee and Tweedledum in “Alice in Wonderland” and Lucifer the Cat in “Cinderella.”
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https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3698/...1bf058b0_o.jpgView looking northeast from the Richfield Building, 1930 So much to like about this image (which is a detail of a much larger high-res shot). Over on the right is the ironwork going up for the Edison Building (upper 5th Street and Grand Avenue) and proceeding up Grand Avenue, next to it, the red brick building, is the Sherwood Apartments and then a seemingly vacant lot actually occupied by a small Victorian cottage (425) and then the immense four-story Granada (419), then the top of Zelda LaChat's family home at 407 S. Grand and finally, on the corner of 4th and Grand Avenue, the Zelda, her thirty-nine unit apartment building wherein she will have passed four years earlier in 1926. To the right of the Zelda, on the east side of Grand Avenue, is the Leonard J. Rose Mansion (directly beyond the Rose Mansion is the Mutual Garage at 4th and Olive Streets and peeking through to the left of the garage is the backside of the Olive Inn). Going west from the Zelda on 4th (to the left) is a small single family dwelling at 612 W. 4th (hidden from view, it appears to be vacant property) and then three very similar appearing apartment houses, first the Gordon at 618, the Bronx (624) and on the corner of 4th and Hope, the La Belle (630). It might be of interest to note that the Gordon faces pretty much directly up the southern terminus of Bunker Hill Avenue. Coming down the east side of Hope Street behind the La Belle is a large parking lot, then the L.A. Gas & Electric Company at 430 S. Hope, then next a low-lying garage which, I believe, opened onto a small alleyway behind the Sherwood (this garage will be demolished with the coming of the Edison garage and Annex), then the Pierce Apartments which backed up to the Engstrum Hotel/Apartments and a one story single family dwelling which appears to have been multi-purposed with some small business (a doctor's office perhaps) on the NE corner of Hope and upper 5th Street. These last two, the Pierce and the little single family, will soon be acquired by the Engstrum and turned into open parking. At the bottom edge/center-right (with the single, pyramidical capped turret) is the roof of the Mount View Apartments soon to be lost with the coming of the Sunkist Building. And now going up the west side of Hope Street from the Mount View is the Touraine with what appears to be a black-roofed penthouse/solarium, just over the edge of the Touraine you can see the nearly square, white Sons of the Revolution library (at 437 S. Hope), brand new here having opened perhaps a year earlier. Behind the Sons library and partially hidden in those scrawny trees but still just over the edge of the Touraine can be seen one of the original outbuildings that predated the library. Remember when Stowell deeded the property to the Sons he only deeded a portion, holding back nearly three quarters of the actual land area. The ridgeline of this little house runs parallel to Hope Street. Next is the squarish four-story Santa Barbara and the Rubaiyat (with it's unusual stepped side façade) at 427 S. Hope Street. The Rubaiyat was built on the site of the late Dr. John Carl Zahn's residence, a handsome large Victorian with a small horse pasture out back for his son's horses. After the Doctor's passing his widow had the home demolished and built the Rubaiyat on the site (originally to be called the Zahn Apartments). The sons are generally credited with developing the southeast corner of 4th and Hope with the construction of the three 'peas-in-a-pod', the Gordon, the Bronx and the LaBelle, but the timing seems to indicate the widow played a role here as well with all four buildings going up at about the same time in 1912. North of the Rubaiyat we have an expanse of open ground and then the stark white Barbara Worth Apartments (formerly the Briggs) at 407 S. Hope Street. There is a single family residence on the SW corner next to the Barbara Worth, its roofline can just be seen here. The Hildreth Mansion is on the NW corner but is not visible, being just out of view in the upper left corner. On the NE corner of 4th and Hope, facing the three-peas-in-a-pod are three more, similarly sized apartment buildings. On the corner, directly opposite the LaBelle, is The Gibson (635 W. 4th) with a peaked cornice hiding a flat roof, next to it The Kiernan (631 W 4th) a hip roof with a single dormer and the third is The Crestholme (621 W. 4th) with a penthouse solarium toward the rear, directly across 4th Street from the Gordon, putting it on the NW corner of 4th Street and Bunker Hill Avenue. detail of panorama. USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 |
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Mammy's Shack, Culver City
I just came across this place, called "Mammy's Shack." Evidentally, it was in Culver City and famous for its squab dinners. Has anybody come across this before? Any specific address? Dates?
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More on the Ward Kimball film.
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Ward's equipment was donated to the Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, California and can be see here along with a history of his "Grizzly Flats Railroad." http://www.oerm.org/collection/3-foo...-grizzly-flats Of note in the film are a number of historic locomotives, most of which are still with us. Among them is Southern Pacific Locomotive No.1, the C.P. Huntington, now at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento and number 4120, one of Southern Pacific's famous "Cab Forward" locomotives carrying the train number 99. Train 99 was the Coast Daylight, known today as Amtrak's Coast Starlight. The 4120 was scrapped but the last in the series, number 4294 is also on display at the Sacramento Museum. Cheers, Jack |
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This picture of the City Produce Market at Third and Central was posted by ER way back on page 96. http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps3c128373.jpg USC http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps21130e33.jpg ebay Currently, this space is occupied by the Little Tokyo Shopping Center and a church: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6ac2a018.jpg Google Maps So, ER - It looks as though you have located two great old photos of the exact same location in two completely different eras. Nice! |
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June 25, 1905 Los Angeles Herald: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...d-1/seq-11.pdf To digress for a moment, the architect mentioned in the article, A. M. Edleman (1864-1941), was the son of A. W. Edelman, Los Angeles' first rabbi. A. M. Edelman's buildings include the synagogue at 9th and Hope (1895; pictured below in 1897), which replaced the 1873 synagogue next to the City Hall on Broadway. He also designed the replacement for the 9th and Hope building, the Wilshire Boulevard Temple (1929): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original Art Institute of Chicago -- http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cd...id/10151/rec/1 More on Edelman: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=193 and https://digital.lib.washington.edu/a.../partners/375/ NW corner of 3rd and Main is in lower left corner; Main runs left to right across the bottom: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original 1906 Sanborn @ LAPL http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original 1909 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com Al Levy's old oyster cart is mentioned at the end of this Feb 19, 1906 LA Times article: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original Looking west on 3rd from Main; I guess that's the old oyster cart on the roof under the cupola: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original Los Angeles, the Old and the New (J. E. Scott, 1911) @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=39 This is supposed to be Al Levy in a push cart, but it doesn't look like the one on the roof: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics18/00008719.jpg Al Levy's building at the NW corner of 3rd and Main is in the middle of this closeup of a 1910 balloon photo: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/4020/rec/176 I'm not sure when the cupola was decoupled from the roof (though before '39); this is from 1954: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...RB4NID7P3F.jpg 1959; I think this is the 3rd Street side: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...SLCFD7T472.jpg June 1, 1960; the source says the building, "Old Boomer" (no explanation), is being cut down to one story: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8560/rec/316 June 30, 1961: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8551/rec/136 The Los Angeles County Assessor says this building was built in 1905: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original GSV |
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5687 West Washington Blvd., CC Noticed a few articles (Van Nuys News) about the place from '25 through mid '30s but have not been able to access them. |
BLACK DAHLIA CASE SOLVED
This 13-year-old boy did it: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l...2520AM.bmp.jpg (He went on to kill Jimmy Hoffa and Jon Benet Ramsey) Another retired police detective--not the doting son of Evil Genius George Hodel--has solved the case: http://ladailymirror.com/2014/04/20/...ion-in-lunacy/ |
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The articles aren't accessible without a subscription, but they do include a freely readable transcript of the text. The text has been scanned through a computer, so some parts are more intelligible than others. I also found a Microsoft Word document about Sons of the Pioneers musician Hugh Farr. It includes the paragraph below: Quote:
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