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Here's a rather unusual building from Julius Shulman. It's "Job 2759: Smith and Williams Office Building (Pasadena, Calif.), 1959".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Now a side view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original I think this must the back of the building. It gives us a good look at the hanging globe lights. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Unusually, the description includes an address - 1414 Fair Oaks Avenue. There's an article about the building at laconservancy.org. It says that Whitney Smith and Wayne Williams designed it as their own offices, with landscape design by Garrett Eckbo. The building is still standing, but it's set back from Fair Oaks Avenue, so I got this shot from Bank Street. As far as I can tell, it's pretty well preserved. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: That's a really interesting design. I'd like to go inside and check it out.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/Gf2O1x.jpg https://aurorasginjoint.com/2016/06/...-college-1927/ I'd say this is USC, but I can't place this building. (I hope it has survived) Again, here's the location list from IMDB. (we could now add the Urban Military Academy on Wilcox) 1) Los Angeles City College - 855 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA 2) Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - 3911 S. Figueroa Street, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA 3) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA ________________________ I'm also curious about this baseball diamond. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/nbyZsu.jpg https://aurorasginjoint.com/2016/06/...-college-1927/ :previous: This doesn't look like any of the campuses. below: Filming the rowing/regatta scene. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/0LWdOL.jpg Getty images I wonder if this was down by Long Beach? __ Lastly, just for fun, another graphic from the film. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/qtbYlG.jpg http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Po...0(1927)_02.jpg This makes me think Buster was majoring in Astronomy. __ |
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Here's another 'mystery' location, this time by 'Mr. Slide' on eBay. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/X33CUX.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Duplicate-Sl...MAAOSwH3NXnaNp :previous: One thing that caught my eye is the building with the 'turret' at extreme left. (and what's that next to it....scaffolding?) -detail below below: Here's an enlargement that I lightened a bit. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/Zuoe3I.jpg detail I'm as intrigued by the leaning 'scaffolding' as I am by the turret. _ |
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I can't say for certain, but I suspect it was in one of the spaces pictured here, Notice the street light outside the entry way on the right.;) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085079.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085079.jpg Another shopping area. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085077.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00085/00085077.jpg |
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More interior photos of the Ambassador, including the two above. :hi: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=25163 |
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Although Los Angeles' Wrigley Field has been mentioned several times, and Wrigley's mansion on Catalina, I found no mention of the Cubs connection to Los Angeles. (Although I thought maybe it had been.) The Chicago Cubs regularly held spring training on Catalina Island from 1921 to 1951. You can find dozens of photos about the Cubs excursions here for Spring Training; here's a select few: In this undated photo they arrive for their first practice of the season. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016...leLarge-v3.jpg The 1928 Cubs on the beach. https://community.baseballhall.org/i...2008-27_PD.jpg Baseball Hall of Fame Chicago Cubs at the Hamilton Cove Airport, Santa Catalina Island, c. 1931. (The airplane is referred to as a Douglas Dolphin Model 1.) http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...icago-Cubs.jpgIslapedia Arriving at Catalina, March 11, 1937. http://exploregram.com/wp-content/up...-open-air-.jpgExploregram For the birds? Cubs players with ostriches at the Avalon Bird Park on Catalina Island. https://cdn1.nyt.com/images/2016/10/...N84Q-jumbo.jpgNYT Chicago Cubs and mascots on Catalina Island for spring training, February, 1939. http://67.media.tumblr.com/52eaf8098...v1io1_1280.jpgCalumet412 Blog A 1930's aerial of Avalon, you can see the Cubs Spring Training baseball field in the foreground. http://waterandpower.org/3%20Histori...ield_1930s.jpgCatalina Island Scrapbook: voncoelln.com via DWP Field of Dreams...1940. http://waterandpower.org/3%20Histori...alina_1940.jpg Pomona Public Library via DWP Recently the Catalina Museum opened, detailing a lot of the island's rich history, including a Cubs exhibit: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rxnOPG9U7H....com%2B374.jpg Spring practice in paradise? Hmm...the guy looking up into the air at left, closest to the camera, looks suspiciously like current Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo. Is he a time traveler? He had cancer and beat it into "remission." (Came to the future to cure it?) He predicted the Cubs would win the NL pennant over a year ago and that teammate Kris Bryant would become a star player (which he certainly was last night). Maybe not predictions? Heh! https://mlblogsvineline.files.wordpr...linaisland.jpgVineline Speaking of predictions: In 1993, a student named Michael Lee at Mission Viejo High School in California, had this written under his photo in his High School Yearbook: http://www.12news.com/img/resize/con...preset=534-401WGN-TV BeLEEve it! Game Seven! Go Cubs! - by way of Catalina! http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/017..._2048x2048.jpg |
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& while I have your attention odinthor..... This slide is from the Huntington Gardens in 1957! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/HJ1fPl.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/KODACHROME-R...EAAOSwSv1XknpG What, pray-tel, is this beautiful cactus plant? (a Martian landscape comes to mind...via 1950s science-fiction) ___________ There's a second slide from further away here:http://www.ebay.com/itm/KODACHROME-R...4AAOSw4s9Xknn5 |
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"Semi-circular Spanish-style building of the Plaza Market, complete food center, at Rimpau and Pico boulevards. Designed in Spanish Colonial style by Morgan, Walls and Clements, this drive-in market is no longer extant. It was built in 1928." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...azaMarket1.jpg LAPL |
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And thanks, Martin Pal, for the Catalina Cubbie pix! For many years, my parental family would vacation on Catalina at a collection of bungalows at the back of Avalon called Las Casitas which was immediately adjacent to the playing field where the Cubs had trained previously (and built post-Cubs, I believe; in the aerial pic of the Spring Training field, the parcel where Las Casitas would be built appears to be empty); and it gave my father great pleasure to be there where they had been, and to dine at the Country Club across the road where the Cubs would have eaten. The Las Casitas bungalow structures are still there (as of course is the Country Club), but they've been being used--if I understand correctly--as housing for either Island Company employees or Avalon municipal employees. Now, I could go on forever and ever about personal experiences and observations at Las Casitas and Catalina; but I'll end on a Noir note and mention that, in one of the bungalows just steps from the one my family would take, a bachelor went to sleep in an easy chair watching TV one cold night (evidently he had rented the bungalow for a lengthy period of time), with a space heater next to him . . . and his mummified body was found months later, nicely dried and preserved by the heater... |
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I was remiss in not linking the interior shots to the prior NLA post. They do not show the "operational" London Shop in the Ambassador, with distinctive signage, which is what I had hoped to find. Those replica street lamps may have adorned the exterior of the store and the wood paneled facade seems to fit. :shrug: I think there may be some stock advertisements in one of those typical visitor's guides/periodicals from the '60s-'70s, e.g. "Key" or perhaps even in a "Los Angeles Magazine." The shop may have been included as background for a TV show, or two. FWIW, the GoGo's notebook site says the following: Quote:
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...othschilds.jpg 1941 - Tom Preissman's Clothing Store, 325 N. Rodeo Drive http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics31/00065287.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics31/00065287.jpg 1947 - Bugsy Siegel's clothing hanging in closet 810 N. Linden Drive in Beverly Hills. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00010/00010136.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00010/00010136.jpg 1950 - Carroll & Co. on Charleville, BH https://www.carrollandco.com/image/c...re-368x275.pnghttps://www.carrollandco.com/image/c...re-368x275.png A different era? Quote:
Beverly Drive https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...8311a44343.jpghttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...8311a44343.jpg http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=35806 Ah Fong's at 466 Beverly Drive. rice in the pipes? Hardware? Hokum Plumbing, 400 N. Beverly Drive (Celebrity plumbing emergencies, "call my service."?) Beverly Drive and Charleville Wil Wright's https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...fb457fac22.jpghttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...fb457fac22.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...7c76cc127e.jpg Undated Wilshire and Beverly Drive http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058478.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058478.jpg Late '30s - Wilshire and Rodeo Drive http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098569.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098569.jpg Late '30s (1937) - Cord on Rodeo http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098578.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098578.jpg 1934 - Beverly Hills Post Office http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078393.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078393.jpg Quote:
LA SHopping, Then and Now >> http://la.racked.com/2015/12/31/1068...e-after-photos |
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By the way, the late Carl Ferraro, owner of the Dresden Room, had a restaurant in the Roosevelt and also at the Lido Hotel on Wilcox Avenue. He popularized the Blood and Sand cocktail at the Westerner (formerly the It Cafe) on Vine Street and at the Dresden Room. |
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As noted in previous comments, if it's UCLA(LACC), all the buildings are gone from that time. In fact California Hall(the Chemistry building) burned down shortly before UCLA moved to Westwood(the Chemistry students had to move early). |
Remember the glass negative from several weeks ago that showed the White Company ambulance with this placard leaning against the rear wheel?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/27wWno.jpg detail Well, much to my surprise, I just found a glass negative of the Porter-Brown Co. at 1410-1426 Santa Fe Avenue. (I posted the address earlier, but I didn't have a photograph) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/FoKfqK.jpg And today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/gBbs1E.jpg 1920 and Today Do you think this is the same building? (it has the same dimensions but the garage doors are in the wrong place) __ Here are some close-ups from the 1920 glass negative. Left side http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/Ip4dd6.jpg detail Right side http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/zOIYDM.jpg detail note the Commercial Engine Co. sign at right----> (now see my next post) __ |
Well here's a 1920 glass negative of the Commercial Motor Co. (so was this next door to Porter-Brown....or is this Motor Co. a different company/location than the Engine Co?)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/3aE0EZ.jpg eBay Here's a close-up of the executives and automobile dealers. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/NqkqZ8.jpg Row of trucks and a quite impressive looking administration building. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/JriDLf.jpg detail I didn't notice the dome in the distance until I enlarged the photo below. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/rcKNwL.jpg Could that be the Museum of Natural History in Exposition Park? __ more glass negatives coming tomorrow. |
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El Dorado bar 416 S. Spring
Today I saw this article about the El Dorado Bar at 416 S.Spring.
http://www.ladowntowner.com/el-dorado-bar/ The thread search function wasn't helpful, and returned every single post with Spring in it. Has anyone been to this bar? What's the history on the building? Google street view: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...db4e3652_b.jpg El Dorado by Kimberly, on Flickr |
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There's a 2012 post by rcarlton about the Hotel Stowell/El Dorado which contains quite a few pictures and some history. You can find it here. |
I believe the bar is located in the basement.
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