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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;7185841]'mystery' locations.
Four 1960s negatives that were on eBay a few months ago. #1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...913/SSCfv1.jpg eBay Im pretty sure this is Pico near Alvarado looking west. |
http://www.franklinhills.org/sunsetpacific.html
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/lafayette.jpghttp://www.you-are-here.com/building/lafayette.jpg http://www.franklinhills.org/lafayette74.jpghttp://www.franklinhills.org/lafayette74.jpg Strange but true story about the Hotel Lafayette is that UCLA football coach Red Sanders suffered a heart attack and died there in August 1958, just weeks before the football season was to kick off. The story was he was at the hotel "visiting a friend". Many Trojan fans are convinced it was not as innocent as that sounds. http://i.imgur.com/ninIZTK.jpg |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...RodeoRoad1.jpg LAPL Here's the intersection today. The Rodeo Plaza sign looks like it's probably on the same pylon as the "FREE DRY WITH EACH WASH" sign in e_r's picture. According to an article at baldwinhillsvillageandthevillagegreen.blogspot.com, the Rodeo Bowl was "Designed by architects Armet & Davis, the plush 32 lane bowling alley opened in April, 1957. Stripped of the mid-century detail, it is now the Baha'i Center." I think the mahole cover in the intersection is still in the same place. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...RodeoRoad2.jpg GSV |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...icoSquare1.jpg LAPL I believe that this is the old Coffee Shop sign from e_r's picture, and the strip mall looks relatively unchanged too. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...icoSquare2.jpg GSV The building with the fancy brickwork on the right of e_r's picture (under the "Find him" poster") also survives. The current graffiti paint scheme and signage makes it difficult to compare, so here's a view from 2011. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...icoSquare3.jpg GSV |
:previous: Thanks for your research Hoss.
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It's boggles the mind how something as visionary as this..... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/jhENj3.jpg http://baldwinhillsvillageandthevill...lls-flood.html became this by the next decade. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/2y3cXL.jpg eBay / detail The huge sign harks back to the middle-ages. I don't get it. Is the 'futuristic' design to the left, out of sight? _ |
L.A. City Water Company Building
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re: LA City Water Co.
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Is this the scene you're talking about AlvaroLegido? (it happens at 17:56 in the version I watched) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/wRo40F.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxZcgpG1Gqg A lot of the street scenes in Easy Street look like movie sets to me. This is the "street scene" you see over and over again in the film. (it gets a bit monotonous) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/3u916L.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxZcgpG1Gqg at the end it's all gussied up with new signs and lampposts. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/Z9YRub.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxZcgpG1Gqg That said, I believe this is a real building. (you see this building just once at 17:51, just before the LA City Water Co. view) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/5TWzAz.jpg youtube What do you guys think? if interested, here's the link to the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxZcgpG1Gqg __ |
Olvera Street
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Ok, I think that's the Marie Hammel Building (Hudson & Munsel, 1909) and Italian Hall (Julius Kraus, 1907). This bit of Olvera St was also used in "The Kid" reunion scene as detailed here. Map of Olvera Street. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...4%252520AM.jpg silent locations P.S. Here's the confirming quote: "As I explain in my book Silent Traces, Chaplin was already familiar with Olvera Street, as he previously filmed chase scenes from Easy Street (1917) along the same spot." -John Bengtson in silent locations .....I may still be confused about this (obviously). Correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, here's another view: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...7%252520PM.jpg LAT And plate No. 5 of the 1914 Baist map (sort of) identifying the building at the end of Olvera St (across Macy) in the screen grab: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V...9%252520PM.jpg |
We're going out east with this Bank of America, which was located at 2845 South Diamond Bar Boulevard in Diamond Bar. This is Julius Shulman's "Job 4328: Carl Maston, Bank of America (Diamond Bar, Calif.), 1968".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a view of the entrance. The address is over the door, although I struggled to read the street name. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original And from a different angle. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original A look along the front - I wonder if that was a gas station next door. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original The photoset also includes a couple of darker shots showing the lighting. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute While I was confirming the address, I came across a couple of entries relating to the bank at USC. This one is "Bank of America building, Diamond Bar, California, ca.1969, artist's rendering". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original USC Digital Library The other entry is a collection of PDFs which includes images, letters and planning diagrams. The photographs in the set are credited to Julius Shulman, and, going by the job numbers on the back, are all from the same set as the Getty images above. One of the black and white images that's missing from the Getty set is this interior shot. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original USC Digital Library Julius Shulman took at least two color photos of the bank while he was there - this one of the right end ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original USC Digital Library ... and this one of the left end. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original USC Digital Library In 1968, the building was entered into the Architectural Awards of Excellence. The entry form also gives details of the engineer, contractor and steel fabricator. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library The "yours was not among the winners" letter is dated over a year later. At least it was among the finalists. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library Here's the architectural description which was submitted with the awards entry. It explains the site and reason for choosing steel. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original USC Digital Library I'm aware that this post has been image heavy, so you can check out the rest of the USC images and documents here. I'll finish with a current view of 2845 South Diamond Bar Boulevard. The main car wash and Jiffy Lube building occupies the same footprint as the Bank of America, so is the old bank structure under there somewhere? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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:previous: Excellent post Hoss.
Of the modern banks we've seen; this one is my favorite. I'm saddened that it's gone already. __ Here is a view of the downtown Googie's (5th and Olive) from an angle that we usually don't see. 1979 episode of "The Incredible Hulk". http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/w12dqm.jpg https://plus.google.com/wm/trollface...explore/googie That exhaust duct sticks out like a sore thumb. below: I first mentioned the exhaust duct years ago in this old post. -I guess it bugs me that there wasn't a better solution other than running it up the front of the San Carlos Hotel. Quote:
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...5unse_0717.jpg Aero Digest, August 1929, via archive.org And it just so happens that this ad photo is of the Dana Point beacon (known at the time as Capistrano Beach). e_r: Just for the photo hosting discussion, I have used Picasa for all of my hosting and it works wonderfully with the Picasa desktop app, which also has simple editing, adjustment, cropping, etc. You can upload via the web but I use that very rarely because I already use the desktop app for organizing my photos anyway. Don't know if you use a Mac or if there's a Mac Picasa app. Picasa is a part of Google; the desktop program and Picasa Web Albums are free with my Google (Gmail) account. They attempted to merge Picasa Web Albums into Google+ as "Google+ Photos" but that never really took off so they are separating them again. The thing is, Picasa Web Albums never actually went away. The Google+ link and forwarding just used an alternate URL to get to the same photos. I used to just use a 'noredirect' tag as part of the URL to go directly to Picasa, and it appears that is no longer needed, you can just go to picasaweb.google.com . There is a space limit - mine is 15GB but I'm not sure if it was enlarged through some old offer that I've forgotten! Current pages indicate that this is now shared across Picasa aka Google Photos (which is I guess what they're calling it now), Google Drive, and Gmail. A 100GB limit is $2 per month. However, and this is the biggest help - the limit does not apply to images below a certain size - 2048 pixels on the longest dimension. Which is more than big enough for nearly everything posted on web forums. The Picasa desktop app lets you choose a 'best for web sharing' option when you upload, so that it automatically uploads it at that size, and you can upload hundreds of pictures at a time. If you have used captions in the desktop app, it includes those. I don't know if there's a limit on albums (folders), but I have over 50 at the moment; each folder can hold 1000 photos. I have something like 15,000+ photos uploaded and I'm barely over 2GB out of 15, most of which is probably Google Drive and Gmail stuff, since nearly all my Picasa photos are uploaded at 2048px or less. In the web interface you have link & embedding URLs available. There are some pre-selected sizes in a dropdown menu, but in truth every picture is infinitely scalable, up to the size you uploaded. For instance, in the photo I posted above there is part of the URL which reads "s1000" - you can change that to whatever you want and it makes the picture that size, in pixels of length. If you use "s0" it uses the original upload size. Just for fun, here is that picture again at 20, 30, and 40 pixels high, same URL except for the "s20"/"s30"/"s40": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...5unse_0717.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...5unse_0717.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...5unse_0717.jpg You can make any folder public or private or semi-private (must have direct URL), so I have used it to make a few photos available to people at original size, like family pics for relatives that won't fit in email. But mostly I use it for web forum pics and for hosting captioned trip photos for other people to find in web searches. I'm sure many (most?) image hosting has pretty much the same options and probably more, but Picasa works great for me. |
:previous: Thanks for suggesting Picasa ProphetM. After the recent difficulties with Imageshack I am going to make a change.
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One note about Picasa - my desktop version still directs to Google Photos when I use its links to view online, and the button that used to say "Share on Picasa Web Albums" still says "Share on Google+". I don't know if they have updated the app again to change that but it uploads to the same place regardless, and I just use a bookmark in my browser to go to the MUCH more helpful Picasa web interface at https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos |
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