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Your local Target can only be considered "elegant" if compared to a resale shop! One doesn't really see any elegance today even if walking along the fabled Rodeo Drive and it is for certain there is today no elegance to be found in building design, home design, and automobile styling. |
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For one of millions of examples--elegance as seen in films like Cry Danger? http://i.imgur.com/2O9JuSk.jpg?1 It is sad that Magnin's is gone, hard to believe that all that could have been destroyed. But would someone who shopped at Magnin's have shopped at Target if Target had existed then? I doubt it. There are still plenty of incredibly lavish and beautifully designed places to shop if you have the $$, in NY and LA at least. As for the "star system"--didn't it actually die in the '50s? If Americans were once dumb enough to depend upon movies to give them a real idea of "elegance"--something very subjective, what's tacky to one man being elegant to another--they still are. There may be more special effects now, but movies then were as phony in their depiction of real life, of the rich or otherwise, as they are now, and there are still plenty of "real estate porn" movies being made. The U.S. is nothing if not aspirational and materialistic. It's a deep hunger. And honestly, I couldn't disagree with you more about their being no style in interior or automotive design. Style just isn't--and never was--in Wichita. |
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In fact, I caught the Pick-Up Bus right in front of it last night! Thanks again! Incidentally, the (1985) apartment complex, The Crescent, currently occupying that location, boasts an amenity I don't recall being offered anywhere else before, plus a "new" one! http://www.thecrescentapts.com/ Exclusive Amenities in West Hollywood Fitness center overlooking the resort-style swimming pool. Poolside wet bar, BBQ grills, and outdoor movie theater. Outdoor Wi-Fi cafe and fire pit lounge. We are making the transition to a Smoke-Free community. Please see the lease policy for details on our newest amenity...fresh air. |
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The intersecting streets appear raised to curb level, rather than the curb being beveled downward to meet the street. This may have been a comfort to curb-clipping drivers. It may also have increased steel toe shoe sales and the demand for orthopedic specialists. ;) Assume the rectangular grate in picture 2 is for drainage and sewer access. Looks capable of increasing tire sales for those who stopped short. Curious that there were no mirrors above the Magnin's sinks. The "washroom" was probably staffed by an attendant who was likely unconcerned with disappearing fixtures or graffiti. |
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[QUOTE=unihikid;5955798]a few pages ago we were talking about the culver city/ivy sub station.I dont think this photo has been posted before but its a nice color shot.Im surprised that a park is at a substation.
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...r-Junction.jpg photo by pehs Is anybody disturbed by the miniature passenger in the blue shirt in the left front window? Compare his head size to that of the people around and behind him. A trick caused by sun reflection on the glass of the window? Or perhaps captured on film at last, an actual leprechaun. |
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These sorts of stores with minimal display and individualized service still exists, if not on department store scale, then within those stores and available for a price. (It's like today's private banking branches--not for people with $500 in their checking accounts.) There were plenty of department stores in Los Angeles 60-70-100 years ago where everything was "just slapped out on racks or, worse yet, on tables for people to paw over." |
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Looks like a kid wearing clothes with room for him to grow. Speaking of proportionality, here is a photo identified as somewhere in Los Angeles and labeled: "Y[ou].C[hung]. Hong and his new car." http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...12/id/34/rec/1 Looks like a Hupmobile. Plate may be a giveaway ('30). http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...car&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...car&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...car&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...car&DMROTATE=0 |
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We've seen the Barlow Medical Library at 742 N Broadway here before (see post #1782). What is identified as an interior shot was recently on ebay... http://i.imgur.com/Me99A65.jpg?1?5165 |
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http://www.stellarrestorations.com/1...s/IMG_5593.JPGhttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-N...2520PM.bmp.jpg Stellar Restorations/LAT Looks like Y. C. Hong was a lawyer who in 1932 lived at 1045 S Gramercy in the Country Club District (as in the former LACC). The houses in the background don't match that address, however. Neither do any of the houses in the background match what appears to be his 1927-30 address, 533 East 33rd St. He was working as an interpreter for the US Immigration Service in 1927. Turns out he was a civic leader with a very impressive résumé, including work as a developer of the new Chinatown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Chung_Hong http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/landin...n/p16003coll12 In a shot similar to the one of his father with Hupmobile, here's Y.C.'s son Nowland with his '49 Ford and his brother Roger: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-g...2520PM.bmp.jpgHDL Mabel Hong--Mrs. Y. C.--in the back yard of 1045 S Gramercy, which is the not the house in the background... 1045 is at left in the GSV. (No indication which of the three ladies is Mrs. Hong.) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-J...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-m...2520PM.bmp.jpg HDL/GSV |
Rush Hour and traffic jams do not always apply to automobile traffic. - http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/5489/rec/15
1914 Trolleys on East Seventh Street, waiting to cross Main Street. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
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