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:previous: Interesting post Hoss. I really like the comparison aerials side by side.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/al5NJ5.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...67b0db959c.jpg This photograph was taken at LAX. |
I believe this is new to NLA.
'mystery' location. The information I have is "Wilshire Blvd. 1970s" Westwood? (it looks like the ocean & a white lighthouse in the distance, but that can't be right :shrug:) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/eqUf3M.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ozm5bNXJy...52836%2529.jpg :previous: I thought someone here on nla might recognize this side-street (where the woman in the sunglasses is crossing) I'm curious about the two older buildings on the right side of the pic. (one is actually a house) THESE TWO http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/wHhSNE.jpg detail The closer one is rather grand. I feel like I should know it.....but I'm unable to place it. __ |
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The image seems to originate from Nick Faitos on Flickr. The description says: A more modest-looking Wilshire, at the corner of Malcolm Ave. The quaint Century Wilshire Hotel, right, held fast against redevelopment until a few years ago, when it was cleared away for The Carlyle, one of the Wilshire Corridor's higher-profile residential towers. (The retired but hardly forgotten Larry King, among others, calls the place home.)Here's a recent view from Malcolm Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original GSV Here's a 1972 aerial view (the original picture is 1974). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...reMalcolm2.jpg Historic Aerials |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/qKLGqb.jpg :previous: Thanks Hoss. (so what I thought was a house was actually a long narrow apartment bldg) The Century Wilshire before it was destroyed. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/m7vo0c.jpg http://www.panoramio.com/photo/6070386 The powers that be couldn't save at least ONE vintage building along this stretch. :( So when exactly was it torn down....did anyone put up a fight? __ for quick comparison / 1974 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/wHhSNE.jpg detail _ |
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The demo permit for the Century Wilshire is dated 2006. Here's pages 1, 3 and 4. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shireDemo1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shireDemo2.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...shireDemo3.jpg All from Online Building Records The oldest GSV image is 2007, and shows an empty lot. |
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Could that white lighthouse be the steeple of the Fox Westwood Village Theatre? |
. I was looking at some vintage Hollywood postcards for sale on AMAZON.The one that caught my eye was this one: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....CL._SX466_.jpg The information across the top, "Vine Street from Sunset Boulevard, looking North, Hollywood, Callifornia", is incorrect. I believe it to be taken north of Sunset Blvd. at Selma Ave. and Vine Street and this view is looking southwest. ___ Further searching online shows a corrected postcard edition. https://filmtalkdotorg.files.wordpre...7586973623.jpg ______ Although it may have, I don't recall this one appearing on NLA previously: https://filmtalkdotorg.files.wordpre...7586800534.jpg |
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The caption writer of the first postcard must've been thinking of this view :). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original eBay |
I believe this impressive photograph is new to NLA. (SSP search engine generated 'no results' for Pefullo)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/UFzhY4.jpg IAMLA https://www.google.com/culturalinsti...NAFH2PQrUiha0Q "The Peluffo Family Grocery in the North Broadway District of Little Italy, Ord and New High Street." [1917] Here's a closer look at the corner entrance with adults and children milling around. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/X30jfU.jpgdetail :previous: I especially like the little girl(?) on the tricycle and the small boy and puppy in the toy car. (he's letting the dog drive ;)) & here's a closer look at the group posing in front of the two smaller buildings. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/boVij7.jpg detail -not sure what they're doing with rope. (maybe they're going to tow the car parked halfway on the sidewalk) AND TODAY: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/05qH5E.jpg gsv The brick building still stands on the northwest corner of Ord and New High Streets. The two wooden buildings in the vintage photo might be hidden behind newer facades. (but there's no way to tell for sure) Here are the smaller buildings in 2007. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/kOlniw.jpg ______ |
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I believe that's a water hose that's attached to the spigot on a tall post at the left of the man holding it. Maybe the vehicle needed some water for the radiator. |
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A consultation with The Great Pumpkin revealed a little more information. For many years, several Peluffo family members (Andrew, Stephen, Anita, Jason and John) had various New High Street listings, e.g., 701, 705, 709, 711 and 716. Curious about the "3" on the corner structure in the :previous: photo, and whether it refers to "703" or something else.:shrug: It "seems" that family listings at the New High Street addresses stopped by the '40s. Note, the "705" structure, or a part of it, was moved to "714" New High Street, some five years after the photo was taken (1922). http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...z.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~originalLIFE :P |
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When the Strip retained some innocence, i.e., before the big build to the sky. Once upon a time, in July 1953, there was a pool at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Doheny Rd. It was evidently part of a 1953 live advertisement for the newly opened Sahara Hotel, in Las Vegas. Depending upon your point of view, Red Skelton ("Good night and may God bless.") swam in the pool or laundered his suit and shoes there. :no: When these images were taken, this area was using the so-called newer, more traditional, traffic signals and swan neck style street lights, to which most of us are accustomed. For comparison, see older style at bottom. http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c1196626199e3daf_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c1196626199e3daf_large http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...3.jpg~originalLIFE http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...r.jpg~originalLIFE The pool has been replaced with a bank http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...0.jpg~originalGoogleSVU Red and supporting cast http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/dead82c9b0a1f43f_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/dead82c9b0a1f43f_large Red Skelton http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/19175a1fbd6cbd70_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/19175a1fbd6cbd70_large Red takes a dip. http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c7514dbbabd2cb82_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/c7514dbbabd2cb82_large Charles Hornburg's imported car dealership "Jaguar" at 9209 Sunset - is still there. http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/06fcba3ff9c0df3e_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/06fcba3ff9c0df3e_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/482498b5c41c6042_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/482498b5c41c6042_large http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...j.jpg~originalGoogleSVU http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/75f938973354f2ad_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/75f938973354f2ad_large WigWag, is your step ladder still in the garage? http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/8ff0ea8777280adf_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/8ff0ea8777280adf_large WigWag, don't put away your hammer and dolly. Looks like a perfect customer needs some front end work. http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/40b...5_largehttp://http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/40b6395c4b125595_large Red in Merton, 1946 http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/y...H6kThOMoWB.jpghttp://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/y...H6kThOMoWB.jpg Interesting sightseeing bus http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a93420dc9af25c24_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a93420dc9af25c24_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/cceaf11429825a67_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/cceaf11429825a67_large Behind-the-scene glimpses Doheny http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/6c72f3e9c2c8c751_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/6c72f3e9c2c8c751_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/80d6d91b9d8dd025_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/80d6d91b9d8dd025_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/5724e98a4018886c_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/5724e98a4018886c_large http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/12be6189a7840f92_largehttp://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/12be6189a7840f92_large http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...MoscowInn2.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...680c60f5bc.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/RGZmFs.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...0279&page=2069 I got to meet Red Skelton late in his life. When I was a partner in an ad agency in Indianapolis, we were doing a series of posters for a printing company titled "Corlorful People of Indiana". Red had come to Vincennes University in Southern Indiana (his hometown and alma mater) to do a show and we had scheduled him for a photo shoot while he was there. I remember waiting for him backstage of the Student Auditorium. Eventually, a lone, stooped figure came through the back door moving very slowly and looking incredibly old. Once my eyes got adjusted to the back light, I saw that it was Red (he was 80 at the time). He arrived by himself, no entourage or companion to my amazement. I introduced myself and led him out to the stage where the photo crew, makeup artists, and creative directors and university brass were waiting. The second he got on that stage in front of people, he straightened up and suddenly, magically, became the Red Skelton we were all familiar with. All during the photo shoot, he was cracking jokes that literally put us on the floor while saying "Isn't that funny?". It surely was! At the end, he took out a video camera at shot film of all of us. He did this wherever he appeared to send back home to his wife of many years, Lola, as to what he did that day. He was an incredibly sweet and very talented gentleman, and I was very lucky to have met him. |
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A 1904 directory gives the street address as 705 New High Street. The picture in Water and Power, shows the buildings in the 1920's. The caption says that the building ,the brick one on the corner, was originally the "Sonora Town Brothel" (there is some noir for you!) Stephen died in 1939 and Victoria in1940. They are buried in Calvary Cemetery. |
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For good old LA landscapes in films, three that immediately come to mind are Chinatown, LA Confidential and Mulholland Falls. I've recently gotten into the Amazon Prime streaming series "Bosch", set in present day LA with some fascinating noirish on-location scenes. Pretty cool series if you're familiar with it. Titus Welliver, a heretofore venerable character actor, is in the title role as a Beverly Hills homicide detective. Gritty stuff. |
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It likely numbered 303 Ord. |
In all our exploration of Egyptian-revival-style buildings, has this one been discussed? I got interested in it when researching London House and environs:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dz...=w1132-h472-no cc pierce/usc dl (detail) Morgan, Walls and Morgan's great, tomb-like Archive, extending six under ground, was 56 x 76 feet of concrete, brick and steel. It cost $15K: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/30...w=w369-h477-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QO...fg=w369-h87-no southwest contractor and manufacturer Aug 20, 1910 vol 5 No. 15 Built on a two-and-a-half-acre plot of rolling farmland, its only neighbor was Hollywood Cemetery (1902). It was the first structure built on the future site of what-would-become Raleigh Studios. Baist didn't bother with a 1910 map of this area. The 1914 map shows very little encroachment, although most parcels had been platted: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Eo...g=w660-h453-no baist 1914, plate 35 (detail) Beginnig in 1915, the movie studios started moving in. Douglas Fairbanks rented the Clune Studio from 1919 to 1922, filming "The Mark of Zorro" (1920) and "The Three Musketeers" (1921), among other films. When Clune refused to sell Fairbanks the studio, he and Pickford moved on : https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1B...A=w662-h429-no baist 1921, plate 35 (detail) The Archive didn't have any signage until 1927, resulting in noirish rumors about its use. LAT did a little feature that year reassuring everyone of its benign purpose, enhanced with one of that newspaper's famously murky photos (making it look anything but benign): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2x...g=w784-h402-no LAT 13 Mar 1927 In 1928, the great wooden ice-skating rink (variously known as Glacier Palace, The Winter Garden and Polar Palace) was built on the NW corner of Van Ness and Clinton, running north to the grounds of the Archive (lasting until consumed by fire in 1963): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mq...Q=w613-h484-no The Archive had outlived its usefulness by 1939 and was demolished that same year. In the 11 years that the Archive and the rink coexisted (1928-1939), they must have made a very strange pair: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TQ...A=w540-h629-no LAT 13 Jan 1939 |
We're back to a single image from Julius Shulman today. It's "Job 660: Douglas Honnold, Rodeo Shops (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1950".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Pierre's Continental Pastry Shop was at 313 N Rodeo Drive, Mary Chess Perfumes at 315, Henry S Gold's Jewelers at 317 and Jewells By Tobias at 319. It probably won't surprise you to learn that the building has been replaced by some glass-fronted stores. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
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