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Here are a few related posts found using the search engine here:


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=877

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=791

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4084

Is it a nice place? Any noirish stories?

I found those links with search but was hoping for more regarding construction, how it looks today and plans for the building.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may...level-20120523

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-m...2520PM.bmp.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Opening night, 1915

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e...2520PM.bmp.jpg
Under construction, 1913

A Sanborn of the plot:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...2520PM.bmp.jpg


All http://cityplanning.lacity.org


Morgan usually gets all the credit for the building, but J. Martyn Haenke's and William Dodd's probable contributions should be considered.

:previous: Nice posts guys, the Los Angeles Examiner building is one of my favorites.
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Jan. 1, 1972 downtown Los Angeles.

http://imageshack.us/a/img577/802/aaconfetti1972.jpg
ebay



http://imageshack.us/a/img31/8186/aaconfetti1972r.jpg

I've never heard of this tradition.
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For a good view of what's left today on the top half of that Sanborn map, check out season 6, episode 20 of NCIS, "Dead Reckoning". The press building (built in the late 1940s) was torn down in anticipation of residential towers that were never built, and the construction site scenes early in the episode were shot there. At the end of the ep, the final shootout scene was filmed in the alley/driveway between the Herald-Examiner building and the office building next door - marked Wiggins St. on the Sanborn map.

There's also a totally awesome scene where Ziva shoots two intruders coming in through two different doors at the same time. :D

A couple of weeks ago there was an interesting article on the somewhat obscure leading man Lyle Talbot
in the New Yorker Magazine (Oct. 1, 2012).

http://imageshack.us/a/img696/9203/a...cklyletalb.jpg

Pickwick Book Store is mentioned in the article as one of Mr. Talbot's favorite hangouts in Hollywood.
I was able to find a few photos on an old cd of mine.

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/1893/a...vd1948ebay.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img255/7978/a...vd1948bpic.jpg


http://imageshack.us/a/img198/269/aa...dblvd1948a.jpg


http://imageshack.us/a/img841/9071/scameracenter.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img844/9729/a...vd19481day.jpg
ebay


http://imageshack.us/a/img856/8224/93292748.jpg



http://imageshack.us/a/img546/1814/a...dblvd19481.jpg



I love this sign

http://imageshack.us/a/img21/5540/aa...vd19481aam.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img440/2725/a...ckhollywoo.jpg
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...?c=25&i=1&r=96




The old Pickwick Book Store building at 6743 Hollywood Blvd.

http://imageshack.us/a/img31/8383/aa...wicktoday1.jpg
google street view


below: Now & then.

http://imageshack.us/a/img22/2064/aa...kwicktoday.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img854/1893/a...vd1948ebay.jpg

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Never knew that was once the Pickwick.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7017

Lyle Talbot had a lengthy film and tv career.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847939/ A few years ago, "BC" (before cable) LT was well known as a familiar face on the Ozzie and Harriet Show, aka "Joe Randolph."
http://free-classic-tv-shows.com/Sit...shing-Lure.jpg

Just when I think I've seen the worst of the facade cover-ups, I find this example at 811 S. Los Angeles Street.
It looks like giant tongue depressors were used.

http://imageshack.us/a/img840/3067/f...sangelesst.jpg
google street view

Does anyone have a photo of this small classical building before this extremely weak attempt at modernization.
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Los Angeles mystery photo. no location/no date

http://imageshack.us/a/img685/1080/l...etemystery.jpg
unknown/possibly ebay

I've checked the photos at LAPL of the Olympic Trailer Court at 2121 Bundy Drive in Santa Monica and this isn't one of them.
This court appears to be in more rugged/hilly terrain.

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The Olympic Trailer Court was covered here by rcarlton
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6498

and here by GW.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6507

This fine postcard is slightly different (the beautiful lettering is in red) than one posted earlier by rcarlton.

http://imageshack.us/a/img255/9634/l...ltimore191.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img585/4594/l...ltimore5th.jpg
ebay/google street view


If you missed rcarlton's earlier post here is the link. He includes many interesting facts.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6683

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Figueroa Street lantern slide 1900.

http://imageshack.us/a/img197/4224/l...astreet190.jpg
ebay

I wonder if that's a For Sale sign?
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I noticed that Chamber of Commerce building next door appears to have some pretty serious fire damage right by the fire escape no less.

Another murderess in Los Angeles 1955.

http://imageshack.us/a/img441/5255/a...5convicted.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img560/6904/a...nvicted1re.jpg
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Antics with some sewer pipes on Christmas Day 1925.

http://imageshack.us/a/img222/1756/l...claysnap19.jpg
ebay

http://imageshack.us/a/img411/3746/l...claysnap1x.jpg
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I've never heard of this tunnel.

http://imageshack.us/a/img208/9571/l...8sanfernan.jpg
ebay



below: After a quick google search I was able to find this. I believe it's the same tunnel.

http://imageshack.us/a/img42/6662/la...8sanf1ster.jpg
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8199p3f4/

I am now trying to pinpoint it on Google Earth. Does anyone know where this was/is located?
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ethereal, I can see in Google Maps a really long railroad tunnel that begins at the intersection of I-5 and CA-14.

Check out this Google Street View link:

http://goo.gl/maps/C0pjA

Amid the maze of freeway ramps and pillars you can spot the tiniest glimpse of what appears to be a tunnel entrance, at a lower level than all of the surrounding roadways and pillars. If you switch to map view and zoom back out, you can follow the path of the rail line tunnel over a mile northward. There is a 45-degree aerial of the other end, but no street view. Metrolink's Antelope Valley Line runs through this tunnel toward Lancaster.