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The Rindge Block NE corner W 3rd & Broadway
I just read on the net that the fast food building on the NE corner of W 3rd and S Broadway is the 1898 Rindge Block cut down.
Does anyone have an opinion on that? https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-g...91048%2BAM.jpg uscdl (detail) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...10548%2BPM.jpg gsv |
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psealy2sc7.jpg from NoirLA page |
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County records indicate a build date of 1898 with an "effective" build date of 1980.
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The other day I happened across this octagonal bungalow on the southeast corner of Melrose and N. Westmoreland.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/tTHOgv.jpg gsv http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/DTwHvZ.jpg gsv http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/77EogW.jpg gsv I was hoping someone might have some information on this unique building. __ |
I also came across this oddity on the 800 block of Lucile Avenue. A John Deere truck with fins. :)
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Thank you for the follow-ups on the Rindge Block. A painful "save". If anyone has any transition pix of the Rindge, I'd love to see them.
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Thanks, tovangar2. I was trying to think of possible words and then trying to fit them to the picture, but that wasn't one that came to mind. ------------ The seller dates this slide at 1960. I found the Tampico Club in various CDs from the 1960s at 1943 E 1st Street. I think this was taken from under the Golden State Freeway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original eBay You'll now find Pepe's Thrifty Shop at 1943 E 1st Street. The proportions look about right for it to be the same building. BTW has GW been out with the chainsaw, because all the earlier GSV images show big bushy trees along the sidewalk ;). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
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Blue Book Models
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altscreen More here and here Info on the Blue Book Agency owned by Buckeye Emmeline Snively |
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:previous: Eileen Seeley? LOL, I had to look that up. I don't have TV
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Googling the "church on Melrose" brings up their webpage, but other than a picture of pews behind the heading, there are no other interior pictures of the church. The pews are curved to match the shape of the building and are carved which would indicate that they are original. The congregation which originally built the building, The Pitner Methodist Church, subsequently moved to Rosewood and New Hampshire where they built a new brick church which is now called The Rosewood Methodist Church. The "new" church is very nice too, but much more "churchlike" than the old building |
:previous: Thank you oldstuff.
There's a wiki page on Octagon Houses and a wiki list too. They were suppose to let in more light and be cheaper b/c they only needed shorter lengths of lumber. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6...23447%2BPM.jpg google maps Quote:
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Thanks all who recently posted photos and links about the California Incline.
http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townn...size=630%2C354 http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/k...41_630x354.jpg A little more noir? https://cbsla.files.wordpress.com/20...ine-detour.jpg ABC7/MalibuTimes/CBS2 |
California Incline
:previous: Construction on the California Incline is expected to take a year+
A little twilight glamour: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M...31223%2BPM.jpg LAT/marcus yam |
I found this slide at the same time as the Tampico Club one I posted earlier, although I had a little more trouble identifying the location. The building in the center looked familiar, but the text at the top wasn't that clear. Eventually I decided that it said "J S Schirm ????", a name related to a building materials company based at 841 Ducommun Street. It wasn't until I Googled "J S Schirm Building" that I found the true location.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original eBay The reason the building looked familiar is that it's the same one that can be seen on the left of this slide of E 1st Street at N Cummings Street. Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...stCummings.jpg GSV And here's the writing that I was trying to decipher. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV I really should've got this one quicker - the photographer was less than 50 yards from where the Tampico Club slide was taken from! |
Pacific Sunset Motel
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I saw this Flickr image on a page about motel postcards, but this probably isn't a postcard of the Sunset Pacific Motel at 4301 Sunset Blvd. in Silverlake, as it's decidedly in disrepair. I love the little red antennae! Looking further I couldn't find any information about when it was built, or a postcard or matchbook cover or anything, perhaps someone can find something from the 60's or earlier? But..the motel has been on the community's radar for other reasons it appears. This 2002 L.A. Times article says the owner of the motel, open at the time, could lose it's operating permit: "the police describe the three-story, 37-room building at 4301 Sunset Blvd. as one of the city's most dangerous properties." Yikes! The article goes on to say that "neighborhood residents have been trying to get city officials to shut down the place for about 20 years." That would've been since 1982 when the article was written! The owner, Edward Eng, owned the place since the mid-1960's and had a different view. He denies that anything improper happens there. He contends that the Los Angeles Police Department pays homeless people to linger around to make him look bad. "I'm telling you this is a frame-up," said Eng, who lives in Los Feliz. "The people standing in the stairwell, they're not selling drugs, they're just standing there." This article seems to be the culmination of legal troubles for Eng, with mutilple fines levied against him for code violations being ignored and repairs never happening. Eng seemed to be willing to give it up at this point with a potential buyer offering $1.5 million for the property. A resident recalls happier days: For Rebecca Acuna, who moved to the area in the 1960s, the conditions are disappointing. She remembers when the motel was well-maintained and even had a pool, which has since been cemented over. "Families from out of state stayed there," she said. "When nearby residents had no room in their homes for guests, they would direct them to the motel. You could walk by there and nobody bothered you," Acuna said. The motel shut down, but this is a recent aerial of the property in question and it's still vacant. http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...ee61152729.jpg The aerial is from Loop Net, showcasing two areas for property development near Sunset Junction. The 4301 address of the motel property is outlined in yellow on the left. The other property address is 4100 Sunset Blvd. http://images1.laweekly.com/imager/u...hael_locke.jpgL.A. Weekly The abandoned property has been vacant for years. Since before that 2002 article, and to the present day, the motel has been called by neighborhood residents "The Bates Motel." One reason is that the motel is at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Bates Avenue. The other reason is that the place is creepy, evoking images of "Psycho." [And the Bates Motel series, I'd guess.] Ceratainly sounds like prime noir material. https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8004/7...b46a22c0_z.jpgFlickr Even though it's been abandoned, a group was allowed to have a Halloween party there at one time where various rooms had local artwork and admittance fees went to a charity. The event was called "Norman's Mother's Halloween Party @ Bates Motel." http://www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/3612.jpgL.A. Taco http://www.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/1288.jpgL.A. Taco (There was no date on the website's blog entry as to when the above were taken.) A 2009 photo. Locals tagged the artwork at top right "Fire Monkey." http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/3...497f2d4dc8.jpg Joshua Malbin In 2010 a photographer photographed some of the graffiti artwork that had been painted on the motel: http://www.justabovesunset.com/20101...012_rfMix1.jpgAlan M. Pavlik http://www.justabovesunset.com/20101...012_swFac1.jpgAlan M. Pavlik And at present, while the property is still being argued about and trying to be sold and developed, an artist named Vincent Lamouroux, got permission to cover the building from top to bottom in lime wash. The result is a piece of art he calls "Projection L.A." http://projectionla.org/ http://images1.laweekly.com/imager/u...3/lord_jim.jpgL.A. Weekly Even a billboard and the adjacent palm trees got the white-out treatment. As desribed by the artist: The urban space is disrupted. An abandoned space is transfigured and enhanced, perhaps eluding its last glory. The motel's intriguing aspect is accommodating an imagery drive away from our habitual quest for sameness. The official public unveiling of the artwork is slated for this Sunday, April 26th, but, as you can see, it's hard to avoid getting a stunning eyeful before its proper debut. http://www.theeastsiderla.com/wp-con...G_0528-001.jpgEastsider L.A. Vincent Lamouroux: Just as the Silver Lake neighborhood itself has transformed radically in recent years, and continues to evolve, so to will the artist’s iteration of the motel embody a transformation, surrendering and passage; the white surface of its facade will be a symbolic invitation to project our ideas about both its mythic past and its indeterminate future. I'd like to see some photos of this at night, but haven't come across any yet. "I'm ready for my close-up." |
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