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Exterior view of the Friday Morning Club building on Figueroa and Ninth Streets, ca.1905-1910. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...e.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
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Caroline Maria Seymour Severance died in 1914 at age 94, so probably wasn't at the 1911 balloon launch. e_r's list with links (I couldn't find anything on Bryan): #1 Mrs. Bryan, Friday Morning Club #2 Miss Mary Emily Foy (1862-1962) #3 Mrs. Reitz, Political Equality Club #4 Mrs Alma V Short Lafferty of Denver #5 Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz (1849-1934), Pres. Votes for Women #6 Mrs. Ella Giles Ruddy (1851-1917), Pres. California Press Club The Shortridge Foltz link is to a good Cecilia Rasmussen article from LAT. Besides being president of the Southern California Women's Press Club and a member of the Ebell Club, Ella Giles Ruddy also served as president of the woman's suffrage organizations the Political Equality League and the Equal Suffrage Association as well as the California Badger Club of Los Angeles and numerous others. In addition to several books, she wrote for LAT, the LA Herald, the Chicago Times, The New York Evening Post and Harper's, etc. Giles Ruddy was great friends with Caroline Severance. This is Severance visiting Ruddy at home in her cottage at 2711 Wilshire Blvd (Ruddy edited "Mother of Clubs, Caroline M. Seymour Severance, an Estimate and Appreciation"): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j...1%252520AM.jpg socalarchhistory The cottage fell for the Bryson Apartments (Noonan and Kysor, 1912). The Ruddys moved to the Hershey Arms (John C. Austin, 1907) while their new home, designed by Irving Gill, went up at 241 N Western Ave: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...7%252520AM.jpg socalarchhistory <-- photos at the link In 1927 the home was moved to "1st St and Beverly". It is now missing. . |
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Here is Caroline Severance laying the cornerstone for the Friday Morning Club in 1899. (she's a bit difficult to pick out from the masses) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/fQVJyr.jpg usc "Group laying the cornerstone of the Friday Morning Club building at 940 S. Figueroa Street on September 14, 1899. Mrs. Caroline Severance, founder of the women's club, is at the stone." Is that a blurry Mary Foy walking away, with her back to the stone? note the young boys on the roof. it looks a bit dangerous. Their moms must be concentrating on the ceremony. __ |
While looking for the cornerstone photograph again (so I could include the link), I happened across another image of the Friday Morning Club carriage.
This one is dated 1896. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/lkdvGy.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/15671/rec/3 The horses are missing their "netting" in this one. -anyone recognize the buildings in the background? _ |
Here's another odd angle showing the Wilshire Brown Derby.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/v7wedg.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/35mm-Slide-A...IAAOSwHQ9WWLoh :previous: That is one BIG lawn! (part of the expansive Ambassador Hotel property) At this angle, the Chapman Park Hotel appears to be behind the Brown Derby. _ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...5%252520PM.jpg baist 1914 plate 8 (detail) Irving Gill rented office space at one of the big homes, No. 913, the former C S Fout residence, next to the First United Presbyterian church. Although the Fout was also a boarding house, Gill chose to live elsewhere, but, apparently, conducted concrete experiments in the backyard of the Fout. Anyway, the Fout is too far north to have appeared in your photo. It must have been another in the line-up. I read that the Friday Morning Club had their first building disassembled and sold the resulting kit, including all furnishings, to the Catholic Women's Club. I haven't had any luck tracking down what happened next. |
:previous: Thanks for answering my question tovangar2. I was hoping for a baist map :) ...and there it is!
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This isn't an interior color photo of the NBC Building lobby at Sunset & Vine I've been
looking for, but it's the first time I've seen this, I do believe. Is this where the lobby mural (The Power of Radio) was? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/qR6Ia4.jpgVintage Los Angeles Randy Nuart from the 1960's band, "The Challengers" took this photo of the NBC Building during demolition. The source dates it as 1966. The NBC demolition is always listed as 1964. The building that replaced it was completed in 1968, so I suppose the 1966 date would be correct if it took awhile to do the deed. |
William Desmond Taylor's Apartment
Just our of noirish curiosity, has anyone posted any decent interior and exterior photos of the infamous bungalow apartment complex at Alvarado and Maryland where William Desmond Taylor met his demise at the hands of Mary Miles Minter's psycho mother (at least as far as King Vidor was concerned)? I understand it was quite the swanky address in its day.
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:previous: Oh my Martin_Pal, that photograph gives me the sads. :( And yes, I'm pretty sure that's where the mural was located. (if I remember correctly, a photograph of it was posted on NLA years ago) _________________ This large apartment building at 7090 Franklin Avenue has been deserted since the '94 Earthquake. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/JuErpC.jpg gsv Built in 1958 by the architectural firm Rochlin + Baran, it was known as the Fireside Manor Motor Hotel and Apartments. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/DmwoaI.jpg eBay -here are all the specifics. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...908/1Bq4LO.jpg reverse detail and now. :( http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...903/8wIhN4.jpg detail a comment from http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/0...spotter_11.php http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...911/jTJeiz.jpg aerial / you can clearly see it's mid-century angles. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/aAcvRm.jpg google_earth So why has this apartment building been in limbo for all these years? One reader at lacurbed asked- Architectural significance? Owner unwilling to sale? Methane pockets? __ |
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What I remember most about the experience was becoming acquainted with Engineer Bill and Sheriff John. That, and getting lost wandering around in the halls. It was a huge place for a five-year-old. |
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Larger sizes of the three Rick Geary drawings at the links. Other images from his book are here. Building permits for the 8 duplexes and 2 garages at 400-414 S Alvarado were issued in 1916. The demo permits were issued to Alpha Beta Markets in 1965. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-U...8%252520PM.jpg baist 1921 plate 29 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...4%252520PM.jpg iamnotastalker https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...3%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H...4%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...0%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J...5%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P...6%252520PM.jpg pinterest / rick geary https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4...5%252520PM.jpg pinterest / rick geary https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...8%252520PM.jpg pinterest / rick geary https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g...3%252520PM.jpg moviemail https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...2%252520PM.jpg silentera https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...3%252520PM.jpg lalalandhistory There are other images. The site is now the parking lot for a Ross Dress for Less and a Dollar Tree (Carl Maston, 1965): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...7%252520AM.jpg google maps https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...4%252520PM.jpg google maps P.S. Movieland Directory adds this, with the claim that Billy Haines lived there at one time. (I don't know why they think it's a Hollywood address): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...6%252520AM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...2%252520AM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...7%252520AM.jpg |
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A larger view of one of the diagrams, as seen in ER's post #1140 (4-28-10). Btw, I hadn't noticed before that builder Emile Jessurum's complex was called "West Lake Terrace" in newspaper reports; by the next year, it was being referred to "Wilshire Terrace." http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4...ungalowcou.jpg |
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On that sad note, Happy New Year NLAers! Ringing in 1926 at the Green Mill or the Cotton Club in Culver City? http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ill%201926.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...onclub1926.jpg LAT or 1946 at Florentine Gardens, Earl Carroll's or the Trocadero (with Cugie) in Hollywood? http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0carroll45.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...florentine.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...elle/cugie.jpg LAT all |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...911/IwIePj.jpg I didn't know Dinah Shore was ever a brunette. __ |
A bit more on the William Desmond Taylor court-- from the LAT of Dec 3, 1916
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