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For example: Ed Iskendarian invented and patented the hydraulic roller lifter and flat lobe cams in the mid 1950s. Products commonly used from that point forward by Drag Racers but totally ignored by the American automobile industry until the late 1980s. Today there probably isn't an automobile engine produced anywhere that doesn't utilize those innovative designs. A few years ago when restoring a 1958 Mercury I decided to put an Isky roller cam into its 430 c.i. MEL block engine and had a number of conversations with Ed's son Ron, who personally ground the cam I needed for the engine. Long story on getting him to do it since they hadn't produced a cam for the specific engine type for over thirty years. For the non motor head guys, the affect of the cam, lifters, etc.; boosted the horsepower from 375 to 650 and increased fuel efficiency. And now you know the reason why today's smaller engines produce huge amounts of horsepower and use less fuel. |
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I was taking pictures in downtown LA Wednesday and got this one of the Charnock Bl. shell from inside the Rosslyn - shocking! Looks like the building next door to the south is also a shell-only. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/charnock.jpg Tho it has probably been discussed here before (?) it was news to me that the building at 3rd & Main, which had been built by/for Al Levy for his first cafe in 1906 is actually a remnant of the old Levy building - another one that had been chopped down from 3 stories. I'd assumed it was a 50s replacement. I think there was a dance hall in the 3rd street side of this building in the mid-30s, but the address doesn't quite match up with the Baist maps. Today: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/levysnow.jpg c. 1938, already minus the cupola that had housed Levy's old oyster pushcart (img from USC digital): http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...inlookingn.jpg Today with a lot of the tile and some ceiling features intact: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../levystile.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...nsidelevys.jpg The noirish alley veiw: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...oflevybldg.jpg |
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Looks like it could be older, but it was taken in 1994 (per the LAPL. Apparently a resident of 1140 Ingraham Street circa 1910 was Sophia Knowles Murdock and her arty family...not sure how she came to be living there after, it seems, having built a much nicer house at 4219 N. Figueroa (HCM #778) in 1903 (see http://historian4hire.com/murdock.html). But then it looks like there was a windfall (from the Times, Feb 14, 1911): https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-E...rdock1and2.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-f...rdock3and4.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...4/murdock5.jpg Maybe with some of the money the Murdocks converted their house into an apartment building...according to Baist maps, the conversion appears to have occurred between 1910 and 1914. On the 'round-the-world trip mentioned in the article, Sophia died in Moscow on May 31, 1913, of complications from diabetes. Note: Hope the article comes out legibly--doing this on a small pad while waiting in an airport. LAT |
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[QUOTE=Flyingwedge;6207655]This is a view of an apartment living room. The seams in the carpet are fairly obvious (e.g., right foreground); not sure what's up with that:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psafe2f347.jpg Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/2786/rec/7 I would say that the obvious seams are a carpet layers screw up. Took more than a roll's width and they somehow managed to get the nap of the two pieces running in opposite directions in trying to match the pattern up without wasting carpet. The circumstance wasn't helped a whole lot with all the different pattern angles involved. |
Here's another postcard I found on Ebay recently, although this establishment is definitely no longer there. I've searched the thread, and can't see any previous mentions of Patmar's Motel ... Cafe ... Cocktail Lounge. In the brief bits of info I can find online, it seems to have been a popular hang-out for Douglas Aircraft company employees and hipsters alike in the '40s and '50s. The motel had "14 De Luxe Units".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAPatmars1.jpg Ebay Menu and stationery: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAPatmars6.jpg Ebay Some of the specials. Hot and cold drinks were mainly 10 cents, soup 15 cents, and desserts 17 cents. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAPatmars7.jpg Ebay Matchbooks: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAPatmars2.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAPatmars3.jpg coltera on Flickr (rotated and cropped) http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Frank Kelsey/ussiwojima on Flickr Sugar cubes: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LAPatmars5.jpg Frank Kelsey/ussiwojima on Flickr (contrast adjusted) I only found a single, small photograph of Patmar's Motel/Drive-In, but the aerial on the left below proves its existence on the southwest corner of Sepulveda and Imperial at the southern edge of Los Angeles International Airport/LAX in 1953. Note the empty lots that surrounded it. The one on the right shows what's there now. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...atmarsMaps.jpg HistoricAerials/Google Maps |
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The 1932 date IS puzzling. I looked up this site: http://www.laalmanac.com/weather/we17.htm Under "Snow in Los Angeles County" it has this item: Since records were first kept in 1921, snow has fallen on downtown Los Angeles only ten times. The information is from the National Weather Service and lists these dates: Year Month & Amount of Snowfall 1922 January (trace), March (trace) 1935 December (trace) 1947 December (trace) 1949 January (slightly more than 0.3 inches) 1950 April (0.2 inches) 1951 February (trace), March (trace) 1952 January (trace), March (trace), December (trace) 1954 January (0.3 inches), February (trace) 1957 January (trace) 1962 January (trace) It curiously doesn't even list 1932--? It also says: "...on January 17, 2007, an extremely rare light dusting of snow fell in the Malibu area and in West Los Angeles", but I guess that doesn't rate a mention in the statistics...so I am confused. I had seen some great photos of the snow in 1949, but all I could find at the moment was this newspaper headline: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.an..._Snow_1949.jpg http://www.awalkerinla.com/LAT One of those article headlines states there's snow in Catalina! If anyone finds any L.A. snow pictures (or Catalina!) and loves them as much as I do, please post! |
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View of the corner of Hollywood Boulevard slushy with snow and water, January 21, 1912: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LA/LASnow1.jpg USC Digital Library Snow-covered Pico Boulevard east from Union Avenue, January 9, 1930, 5:00 PM: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LA/LASnow2.jpg USC Digital Library View of South Broadway from Twelfth Street during a snow and hail storm, February 20, 1944: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LA/LASnow3.jpg USC Digital Library Some more posts with snow pictures: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1576 - 1950 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3326 - 1944. Looks to be from the same set as the 1944 picture above. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6635 (third picture) |
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January 1949… I was about 8 n half…my brother came running in and said getup and look outside. We lived on a hill in the Echo Park area and everything was white…what a treat it was. Unfortunately by the time we got to Logan Street School, most of it was just slush quickly turning to water. We only got one night though, but for an LA city kid it’s one of those memories I’ll take to the grave… To add, I remember a little about later times where a little snow was found, but nothing to equal that morning in 1949. |
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This great station once stood on the site of strip-mall at the southwest corner of Washington and 8th... apparently the "Specification Motoroil System" was a national chain. I wondered if we've seen this building here before, but nothing comes up using the seriously lame search function... anyway, the curious grid looks a little familiar--is it some sort of motor-oil automat? https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL Not sure how long it lasted as a Specification station--no listing for that name in the '32 and later CDs. Maybe it was taken over by another oil company. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Aug 3, 1930 PS Can't quite figure out what's going on with the trees at right in the top picture... looks like they're on a hill to the west, but there is no hill there now.... |
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Thanks for the new photos, links and personal reminiscence about snow falling in Los Angeles and environs everyone.
From the dates of some of the photos, there seems to be some question as to why the "official" records don't indicate some of those years, like 1944, for example? In any case, the photos are wonderful! Here's one I found: Hollywood & Vine, 1923 (no indication of who the people are) http://hollywoodhistoricphotos.ipowe...)%201923WM.jpg http://hollywoodhistoricphotos.com90_103 And here's a large (sorry) scan of a January 16, 1932 Los Angeles Times page covering a snowfall event from the day before, January 15, 1932. The photos are not clear, but they cover so many areas frequently talked about in this thread that I thought it worth posting. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thed..._0116_snow.JPGLAT http://carole-and-co.journal.com/67549.html |
-this pc intrigues me.
Bonaventura Hotel, postmarked 1984 http://imageshack.us/a/img547/1731/ut4p.jpgebay Where was this un-manicured lawn with all the dandelions? __ |
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So the landscape 'architect(s)' went with a precise grid of trees surrounded by unkempt lawns with dandelions(!?!) -calling Frederick Law Olmsted. |
beautiful home, but no address (notice the shingles 'traveling' over the dormer on the left, amazing)
http://imageshack.us/a/img266/5390/6dbv.jpgebay -beautiful Betty http://imageshack.us/a/img201/8716/zlha.jpg http://googleberry.tumblr.com/post/3...on-a-very-good quite a looker (i had no idea..her name reminds me of a schoolmarm) http://imageshack.us/a/img89/636/kgma.jpg ifim2 __ |
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http://imageshack.us/a/img534/4605/mwpz.jpgebay I know we've seen numerous photographs of Van-de-Kamp bakeries/restaurants, but I believe this might be a new photograph to the thread. -here's the reverse (in reverse). http://imageshack.us/a/img802/7051/ms9q.jpg lol, I meant (in German) ;) __ |
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This house https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-c...2520PM.bmp.jpg is now this house https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U...2520PM.bmp.jpg 901 North Camden, Beverly Hills According to My Love of Old Hollywood, Charles Ray's house was later Betty Compson's, as you might assume.... BUT, according to the esteemed and extremely accurate Steve Vaught at Paradise Leased, the Ray house was NOT Compson's.... "Most people assume quite reasonably that Charles Ray and Betty Compson lived in the same house, but its not true. These are postcards of two entirely separate houses! Charles Ray’s house was located at 901 North Camden Drive in Beverly Hills and Betty’s was all the way over in Hollywood at 7315 Hollywood Boulevard. Now that’s a lazy architect! The house so nice they built it twice. Charles Ray’s home still stands, in altered form, but Betty’s, which was later rented by Sam Goldwyn, has gone the way of the Dodo." Check out Steve, Dora and Nellie's story here: http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...-card-mystery/ |
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