Originally Posted by rcarlton (Post 5965427)

"Ornate street lights -- relics of gingerbread era -- H.J. Lindhardt, Bureau of Street Lighing, examines fixtures." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 4 October 1959.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...001&DMROTATE=0USC

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5971884)

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5971884)

Originally Posted by rcarlton (Post 5972628)

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...001&DMROTATE=0
I wonder if the article in the Examiner would answer the question as to when the street lights were changed.:shrug:

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5972645)

Can't let a pic of one of our Big Trees come up without adding the history:
http://www.santamonicalandmarks.com/landmk20.html

The Miramar Morton Bay Fig is the second largest in California. The champ is in Santa Barbara

Originally Posted by Chuckaluck (Post 5972786)

Ficus macrophylla
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home...th-a-look.html

Originally Posted by BDiH (Post 5962317)

Originally Posted by rcarlton (Post 5965427)

"Ornate street lights -- relics of gingerbread era -- H.J. Lindhardt, Bureau of Street Lighing, examines fixtures." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 4 October 1959.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...001&DMROTATE=0USC

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5966667)

I jumped the gun. There are two other 'White Spot' negatives as well.
Some of the signs are missing, and if I'm looking at it correctly, so is the Geo T. Cline Building.

http://imageshack.us/a/img826/4122/aabbwhite.jpg
ebay

Originally Posted by rbpjr (Post 5973121)

I attended John C. Fremont High School around '50 to '52...all the original buildings were there from 1926...beautiful buildings and campus...in those days...now, I understand...just the auditorium survives to this day...

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5973146)

Pictures here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6657

Originally Posted by Lwize (Post 5972593)

^^^

It's crazy to believe they could remove a vertical slice from a steel-reinforced concrete 13-story building, then slide the pieces together. what about the foundation and/or basement?!
They must have had assistance from space aliens.

Originally Posted by Chuckaluck (Post 5973261)

King Camp Gillette's 1917 abode at 100 Fremont Place. Probably mentioned before. Neither a whisker nor a blade of grass out of place?

Circa 1972
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061652.jpglapl

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5973200)

Speaking of King Gillette (1855-1932), he was a bit of an oddball. According to wiki he was, among other things, a Utopian Socialist. He advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. Gillette made no small plans.

When Metropolis didn't take off (Teddy Roosevelt turned down the presidency of the corporation, including the $1 million salary), Gillette bought a 588 acre property in the Santa Monica Mountains, adjacent to what later would become Malibu Creek State Park, and commissioned Wallace Neff to build him, "a paradise on earth, California style".

The parcel of land is beautiful, a high, flat valley that leaves the mountain tops looking like little hills surrounding the property
The property became an RC retreat in 1952 and was then sold to Soka University in '86. Soka, a Japanese concern, was great, pretty much letting the public in for any reason. Finally it was bought for the public in 2005 and opened in 2007. So now it belongs to everyone, even though it's not powered by Niagara Falls

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5973728)

Gillette didn't stay long.

On November 10, 1924, safety razor magnate King C. Gillette wrote a check for $1.475 million to purchase the southeast corner of 6th and Olive from the estate of the late Mrs. Mary H. Spires.

The purchase, which the Los Angeles Times called "one of the biggest spot-cash realty deals in the history of the city," looks to have been a bust for Gillette. His widow sold the site, which now contains a 1960s City National Bank tower, just ten years later for approximately $500,000.

In 1921, Spires had built a two-story building on the lot, and Gillette immediately announced plans to tear it down and construct "one of the most monumental office buildings in the city," according to the Times.

Leases in the building ran until 1931, however, and Gillette elected to let them run out before starting work. In the meantime, he had building plans drawn up by Parkinson & Parkinson. Gillette announced a 99-year-lease with the head of Western National Bank in May of 1929, but the national economy may have acted to crush construction plans there.

Gillette passed away in 1932, and his widow, Atlanta E. Gillette, sold the property to the Property Services Corporation in November of 1934. While the exact purchase price was not disclosed, it was said to be roughly one-third the original price the Gillettes had paid.

The new owners quickly announced a $125,000 modern facelift for the now 14-year-old building.

They didn't hold onto it long, turning around and selling the property to Union Pacific in March of 1937 for $1,000,000. The railroad had recently leased the ground floor for its ticket office.

It wasn't until 1963 that the property next changed hands. Union Pacific sold the site to City National Bank, which then erected the tower on the corner today.http://blogdowntown.com/2009/11/4840...ays-15-million