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My father was a year too old to be amongst the initial class here and went to Belmont HS which was four year school then. My mother being a year younger did go to King. Among the teachers she had was a Miss Clark, who taught math as I recall. My older brother and I also had Miss Clark as we passed through the school. She was shall we say a little unconventional in her thought processes and she was one of those few unforgettable characters we come across during our lives who may not have been an influence, but rather an eccentricity that lives with us forever. Her span over mother to sons was from 1927 through to 1952. Does this make little old Miss Clark a noirism spirit? Michael, I see on your Flickr page you have the street view during contruction. This appears to be taking place as the shop wing is being construted on the left and the two story extension is yet to exist. |
A Total Alvarado Terrace Rehash but I couldn't resist.
Drove by Alvarado Terrace couldn't resist taking a few photos. I know the Terrace has been posted about before but more pics never hurt right?
I love the tower and porch... http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...Towerhouse.jpg http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...oubletrees.jpg http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...hinglewide.jpg http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...etreesbest.jpg http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...anColonial.jpg http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...efrenchapt.jpg Ok I feel like that is enough Alvarado Terrace Spam. |
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I'm not as sure as you are that Thomas Starr King would be spinning all that fast, tovangar. I think that if he were to return from the dead after nearly 150 years and get a load of the social conditions of today, particularly in terms of public education, he might not think uniforms were such a bad idea. I don't. I do wonder what he might have thought of separate boys' and girls' entrances and of the Indian statue on the grounds... is it still there? http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4055/indian2j.jpgLAPL http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5224/indianuz.jpgLAPL Library caption: "Statue at Thomas Starr King Junior High School at 4201 Fountain Avenue. The figure, a composite of North American Indian types, expresses the sullen acceptance of the fate imposed by the white man. It was sculpted by Djey el Djey, sculptor, and placed in the summer of 1936. It is called 'The Vanquished Race.' Photo circa, 1937." |
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Thomas Starr King Junior High School Exterior view of Thomas Starr King Junior High School, located at 4201 Fountain Avenue. Photo dated: September 11, 1926. LAPL http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8511/8...6b34693f_o.jpg Thomas Star King Junior High, Los Feliz, 1938, Herman J. Schultheis View of the Spanish style Thomas Star King Junior High from Myra. Today the school buildings no longer have arched windows and tile roofs. LAPL http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8510/8...2ee8e0d4_o.jpg Vanquished, 1938 Djey El Djey, whose real name was Djey Owens, sculpted the Native American in “The Vanquished Race” after it was commissioned in 1936. Djey also worked on the “Astronomers Monument” at Griffith Observatory. Those two projects were the largest projects he worked on in the WPA. “The Vanquished Race” is at the Thomas Starr King Middle School. The figure is six feet tall and is cast from concrete. Djey completed this project in 1938 and in 2000 the school was given ten thousand dollars in order to protect the sculpture. The Los Angeles Unified School District owns the sculpture. The sculpture is located at 4201 Fountain Avenue The New Deal in Los Angeles A closer inspection of the pose gives a hint of why the kids call him 'itchy toe'. |
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But, BTW, I'm not a fan of school uniforms. The District's dress policy covers everything reasonable. Children not being required to wear uniforms is not IMHO what's wrong with education. |
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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11815 This 1902 house sold on 6 Feb, 2013 for $450K. |
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This wonderful photograph was taken at Wilshire Blvd. and Western Ave. in 1929. http://imageshack.us/a/img51/8084/aa...s1date1929.jpg ebay Flyers 'Buzz' Harrison and Marjorie Crawford. (I'm trying to read the name on that billboard but the damn propeller is in the way) http://imageshack.us/a/img842/2815/a...tors1acool.jpg detail quite a cast of characters http://imageshack.us/a/img836/5734/aabaviators1b.jpg detail reverse http://imageshack.us/a/img32/2820/aa...s1creverse.jpg Excellent photographs of Alvarado Terrace Mr. Swink!! __ |
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And anyway is celebrating the supposed vanquishing of a race a laudable thing to be doing, especially at a school and which, no doubt, has members of that race as students? |
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$450K doesn't actually seems that bad for such a large house in a historic neighborhood in Los Angeles. But then again I wonder what it was built for in 1902? And by coincidence I snapped a shot of that other house along Hoover, where Irving Jill had lived, that was mentioned in an earlier post. http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...la/gillapt.jpg |
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I just had to share this with you Mr. Swink. http://imageshack.us/a/img853/6199/a...racehugepc.jpg ebay __ |
Is there no way to make the present system of erosion impediment less unsightly? Could it be pierced and planted? One sees this all over town. Even scenic La Jolla has had it's famous cliffs disfigured with the stuff.
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1507 South Hoover (on the right margin), one-time residence of "Jack" Gill. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061780.jpg lapl (first posted here by GW) I wouldn't want to be responsible for the maintenance on a large 100+-year-old frame building even if it was relatively inexpensive to buy. I guess 1402 Alvarado Terrace was built as a single-family home. It has 7 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. Gill was just a roomer. He never bought or built a house for himself. |
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Arapahoe Street near Alvarado Terrace.
E.R., thanks for posting the old photo of 1345 Alvarado Terrace. After shooting the photos of Alvarado Terrace today, I couldn't help but walk around the neighborhood for an hour and two blocks to the west just past Hoover Street is Arapahoe Street with these homes...
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