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I had all but forgotten about the 'Evangeline' until I came across this small blurb this afternoon. I had no idea it had 500 rooms! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/ySVm5Q.jpg https://books.google.com/books?id=BI...avenue&f=false I jumped in the google-mobile to see if it was still there (it's not / I knew that...but I wanted to be sure) when I noticed this startling side view of the recently discussed Bixel House. It almost looks like it's balanced on stilts! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/1cWX68.jpg As for the Evangeline: I posted this back in 2012. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/5EFqzR.jpg eBay Here's the Evangeline in 1929. (this is from the famous pano that we have seen numerous times on NLA) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/CyTu8i.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/71316/rec/2 There's a glimpse of the Evangeline Apartments in this undated photograph of the Coldwell, Banker building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/IoSmdm.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=59550 Demolition of the Evangeline in 1988. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/GUu1pX.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=59550 The description at lapl is... "Evangeline Women's Center, one of three SRO hotels demolished." I've never heard it called 'Women's Center', but I'm pretty sure this is the Evangeline Apartments (correct me if I'm wrong) (the skyscrapers are in the right position for this to be 6th street) __ |
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http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/...dodge%2055.jpg According to www.auctionsamerica.com, who have the same picture, that's a "1955 Ford Country Sedan 9 Passenger Station Wagon". It sold for $13,475 in 2011. |
[QUOTE=CityBoyDoug;7155943][SIZE="4"][FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"]Not to worry Matt...Norish LA ranges all over the So Cal area...out to Palm Springs, north to Bakersfield...
I lived in Bakersfield from 1935 to 1945 and then 1962 to 1968...would love to see some noir from there...if possible. |
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I found this awhile back on eBay. (sorry it's crooked)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/FbKPrI.jpg eBay inside matchbook cover http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/0nWjaN.jpg eBay The play sounds kinda' racy...not to mention the erotic silhouettes. (especially for the 1940s) I typed "musart" into the NLA search function and nothing came up. Is anyone familiar with this theater?...or the play? __ |
Musart Theater
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Built in 1913 as The Little Theater, it was renamed the Egan before becoming the Musart. The page mentions "Two in a Bed" (1944) The Musart in 1949 (below). Actor Emil Sitka camps it up out front. Now playing: "The Viper's Fang" or "The Virgin's Dilemma" (!) Sounds like naughty fun. (Sitka's film career ran from 1946 to 1992. He was a Stooge) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5...65834%2BPM.jpg Historic Los Angeles Theaters - Downtown https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...71833%2BPM.jpg (detail) A scathing dismissal of the Chicago production of "Two in a Bed": https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b...81036%2BPM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...81128%2BPM.jpg chicago tribune, 16 oct 1944 |
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1904 Sanborn; the big Hotel Redondo is opposite the middle pier: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original LAPL 1916 Sanborn; Diamond Street is one block south of Carnelian. The El Ja was at the curved SE corner of Diamond and Pacific, just past Commercial. La Alameda is now Pacific Avenue: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original 1916 Sanborn @ LAPL 2015; the three east-west streets north of Pearl are, from the top, Emerald St. (ends at Village Dr.), Garnet St., and Torrance Blvd (ends along north side of Veterans Park): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original GSV The Redondo Beach Pier caught fire May 27, 1988. I had some aerial photos of the fire, but I can't find them now: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original Cheryl Lindsay Pinterest, from Harborbikes.com -- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/212513676137025131/ Some news footage from that day (skip to the :30 mark unless you want to see KNBC Channel 4's news team introduced): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNk2VAHscT0 |
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We've discussed 310 S. Crescent Heights a couple times: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14831 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29950 Some suggestions by HossC: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21126 Good luck! |
The Hotel Redondo, 1890-1925
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We maybe should have a couple of pix of the Hotel Redondo before we leave South Bay: Looking north from the second-floor balcony: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...90622%2BPM.jpg wiki media Circa 1900: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...94137%2BPM.jpg wiki media ca early 1920s: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q...31232%2BPM.jpg lapl "The Hotel Redondo, with its 18-hole golf course, lush landscaping, tennis courts and 225 luxurious rooms, each of which was “touched by sunlight at some time of the day,” induced more visitors than ever before to venture to the coast. If the price of hotel accommodations was too steep, one could rent a tent at nearby Tent City. Patrons were charged $3.00 per week, or $10.00 per month for a tent. Wooden floors and electric lights were included in the price." (redondo.org) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l...30523%2BPM.jpg lapl "Redondo’s popularity began a slow decline when San Pedro Harbor started to take shape in 1899. By 1912, the Pacific Steamship Company stopped calling at Redondo altogether. Lumber schooners still used Pier No. 3 at Topaz Street until the railroad pulled out in 1926. Because of prohibition, the $250,000 Hotel Redondo closed its doors and in 1925 was sold for scrap lumber--the price was $300." (redondo.org) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Y...32434%2BPM.jpg redondo beach historical society The former site of the Hotel Redondo is now Veterans Park. Another Redondo map A thoughtful article on Redondo Beach redevelopment from Easy Reader News is here. (Everybody's sick of condos and malls, but no one knows what to do. People long for a sense of place and an "Old Town Redondo", but it's too late for that, everything's been torn down, even the streets are gone.) |
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It was touch and go for a while. (access may be a bit iffy) Beautiful building. Sunset at Gower: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P...01926%2BPM.jpg gsv P.S. Also this 1927 Streamline charmer, seen on the thread before (here) . 6634 Sunset Blvd, across and down from the Crossroads of the World: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...10620%2BPM.jpg gsv It had a front door with a porthole window until a year ago (see undated view below). Gone now. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-N...10843%2BAM.jpg previously posted by GW (Superstock) Although maybe that porthole door wasn't original: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Y...13511%2BAM.jpg lapl (detail) |
NE corner of Catalina and Garnet in Redondo Beach
It's nice to see that this building got fixed up. The October 2008 GSV shows it as an Eagles hall:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original GSV Here are two shots of it from June 2011; the entrance on Catalina: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original GSV The Garnet entrance: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original GSV When do you think it was built? Go ahead and guess. March 2015: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original GSV March 2015: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original GSV Los Angeles County says it was built in 1950. I felt surely that must be a remodel date, but the building is not on the 1946 Sanborn Map. |
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Near the end, the Rascals drive their ramshackle train right into the Norm's Fabric building, right through that door on the north side. The blacksmith shop is still there in 1924, prominently signed. I wonder what people went to blacksmiths for at that time? Maybe the local farmers still needed their horses shod. The person who left the comment also gave me this summary of shooting locations, also from Youtube. I intend to cut some stills and add them here, as soon as I verify that it won't be a copyright violation. Or does the filming date of 1924 automatically mean it's public domain? Does anyone know? I think it may well be since you can easily find and watch full length movies from this period on Youtube, for free. ETA: For anyone interested, here are a couple of URLs to specific points in the film. Judging from the film, the building had two vehicle doors at that time rather than just the one as I had thought. This was pointed out to me in another web community where I'd asked about the raising of the pavement and sidewalk along National. At 16:30 the building is seen from a vacant lot opposite on the north side of National. This shows the existing door, in 1924 clearly accessible to vehicles unlike today. At 18:06, when the kids' train runs inside the building, it does so by the other door which no longer exists, and must have been at the back end of the building. This would have been still on National, but east of where changes direction to parallel the Expo line. A particularly obvious clue is that the large BLACKSMITH SHOP sign is seen over the door where the train goes in, but absent when the existing door appears earlier in the film. Additionally, a couple of very large houses, long since gone, are intriguing--could one of them be the lost Palm Villa hotel? |
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Here's an undated view of the Hotel Redondo with the piers. None of the maps seem to mark the one in the foreground which curves the other way. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...s.jpg~original USC Digital Library Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...n.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...a.jpg~original I posted various aerial images yesterday, but I think this 1972 color view gives a better impression of the area that was cleared for the condos. In the Easy Reader News article, I was amused by the line [I]"The plan is so big it requires a new road in front of the Village condominiums ..."[I]. Maybe they could call the new road Pacific Avenue after the street that used to follow that route before the Village was built! NB. I've cropped and adjusted the original image. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original californiacoastline.org Compare it to the 1958 shot I posted yesterday. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...r.jpg~original Detail of picture in USC Digital Library |
Redondo Beach coast damage
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The 1908 City Hall was built at Emerald and Benita. Although I didn't spend much time in Redondo as a child (except for shopping trips to De Simone's), I remember the coast there being a mess and very ugly. "Storms have been an ever-present danger to the City’s piers. They have been washed out, then rebuilt, then washed out again. Redondo’s first breakwater was built in 1939 and although the cost was more than $500,000, it provided only limited protection. Because of the way it was constructed, wave action and the normal movement of the beach sand was altered. Following every storm, sand accumulated north of the breakwater. Eventually the beach area between Diamond and Beryl Streets was obliterated. A raging storm in 1953 caused extensive damage not only to the breakwater, but to City streets and private property." (redondo.org) I recall that one could access the second floors of a couple of derelict houses where the waves would crash through the missing windows. Thrilling stuff for a kid. Huge rocks, forming a sea wall, had been placed on what-once-was the beach in front of these homes (I guess this was between Diamond and Beryl after the '53 storm, I really can't remember now). I was more than a little confused as to what the reasoning was for all the improvements which caused so much damage. I could not understand why Redondo was wrecking its seafront. I was very grateful that Hermosa's beach remained unchanging. Hermosa is just a stretch of sand. Apart from the pier (rebuilt now), that's pretty much it: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9...15933%2BPM.jpg lapl (ca 1950s) The great underwater trench (pictured below) AKA "Redondo Canyon", seems to be the reason Redondo sustains so much damage during storms as it intensified the wave action. Also, Redondo allowed development too close to the water, unlike Hermosa, which has kept its very wide, protective beach. The trench was also the reason why Redondo thought it had a shot at becoming LA's harbor: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Y...0%252520AM.jpg google maps --------------------------------------------------------- Thx Those Who Squirm for the links re Little Rascals "Sun Down Limited" (1924). I've been in Norm's Foam and Fabrics any number of times so got a kick out of seeing that footage. ___ |
Julius Shulman's "Job 1342: Bank of America (Los Angeles, Calif.),1952" has thrown up some interesting finds - more of that below. The bank itself almost looks like a branch of Grayson's. Notice the ship logo prominently displayed on the front. The address is 6551 Van Nuys Boulevard, which is the corner Haynes Street.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original This is from the corner of Kittridge Street. Ray King's Appliance Center is listed on Sherman Way in the 1962 CD (10 years after this photo). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The bank is almost lost in this shot from Hamlin Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute There's still a Bank of America building at 6551 Van Nuys Boulevard, but not the same one. The boards either side of the entrance have "To Lease" adverts, but Google still lists it as open. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV Here's a better view of the mural above the entrance. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV As soon as I parked the Googlemobile outside, I knew I'd seen this branch before. The screengrabs below are from a season 3 (1979) episode of 'CHiPs' called 'Return of the Supercycle'. The building had been dressed as the Hewlett Bank which was hosting a diamond display. The top grabs show the entrance from oustide and inside. The inside one shows the extant DWP building across the street. The bottom-right grab shows the opposite corner of the intersection. There's still a Firestone dealer there, but the signage has changed. The building in the background of the bottom-left caught my eye. It didn't take too long before I realized that it was the old Coffee Dan's at 6576 Van Nuys Boulevard. Was Coffee Dan's still open in 1979? Check out post #17336 by Martin Pal for some pictures. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Rosner TV/MGM TV To see what happened to the original building, I had a quick look through the building permits for 6551 Van Nuys Boulevard - there are seven pages of them, so I only checked a few. This appears to be the permit for the building seen in the Shulman photos. It's dated 7/7/1947. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original And just 19 years later, I think this is the demolition permit. They even built a temporary bank at the back of the lot. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original The permit for the new (current) building was also issued in 1966. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original All building permits from Online Building Records System |
Redondo noir
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We never even got into Redondo's dark side: "Big time gambling, complete with mobsters and shooting incidents, found its way to Redondo during the Depression. Chip games, bingo parlors, and a casino were run in full view of the law between 1936 and 1940. For a fare of 25 cents, a water-taxi would transport a visitor to the gambling ship Rex which operated three miles off shore." (redondo.org) ...although the famous gambling ship "Rex" has been covered on the thread before. |
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