Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7003357)

You previously posted these 1929 images (and one more) in post #17222, e_r. In response to your question about "the diamond shapes in the sidewalk",
I posted the picture below.

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull (Post 6999451)

I was approached recently via my website by someone looking for any and all available information and photographs of a club called MOON OVER MIAMI which stood at 13333 1/2 Ventura Blvd, which would put it in Sherman Oaks. I'd never heard of it, nor could I find anything about it in any of the online LACDs or in the usual digital photo collections I go to. So I was hoping that someone here might have info and/or photos.

A couple of odd things
- The phone number V.N. 8360 - I've never seen a phone number listed like that.
- The advertisement has it at 1333 1/2 Ventura which (accordingly Google Maps) would put it in Camarillo, which can't be right. I wonder if someone's head rolled after that ad came out.

Any contributions / memories / suggestions / pointers would be appreciated! Thanks much.

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...er-Miami-1.jpg

Martin, I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the VN in the phone number is a Van Nuys prefix At some point the prefixes were changed and Van Nuys received ST (State), but I don't have a date for this; See:

http://www.laalmanac.com/communications/cm01e.htm

Prior to acquiring the Poplar prefix North Hollywood had an NH prefix, as shown on this ad that appears to be from 1933. Do we have any clue as to when the Moon over Miami Club was in business?

http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psnmz45cbg.jpg

[IMG]http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/t587/jgn151/474041_10150709103859463_388786943_o_zpsnmz45cbg.jpg

Image from the San Fernando Valley relics website:

https://www.facebook.com/valleyrelics?fref=photo

Cheers,
Jack

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7003462)

"Historic Los Angeles Hollywood Cyanotype Photograph, Dwire Home Sunset Blvd. 1890."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/W6A2dc.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...633/ZrpCPz.jpgeBay

I tried to find a Dwire (I checked Dwyer too) with a Sunset address in several L.A. directories. I came up with nil.
(would Hollywood be included in L.A. directories back in the 1890s?)
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Originally Posted by Wig-Wag (Post 7000389)

I've only ever seen telephone numbers like this: CRestview and HOllywood. From the looks of it, I guess SFV phone number were listed differently than LA County...?

Unfortunately, I don't have any more info on this club than what I've already included in my original post. The query came from someone who is trying to piece together her grandmother's life on very few details. Although I'd never heard of this "Moon Over Miami" place, but had dining and swimming and dancing and riding going on, so I figured it must have been fairly sizable, and was surprised I hadn't come across it before, especially as I live in the area. She also sent me an item from a Louella Parsons column, so this place must have been popular enough to blip on her horizon. I also posted in San Fernando Relics page on FB but nobody had anything to contribute either.

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7003675)

The hill in the background at right in er's photo has to be Olive Hill aka Barnsdall Park.

The 1895 photo below looks north from that hill. There's a large house in the distance between the two men (the guy on the left seems to be pointing to it).
Look at the ridgeline from above that house over to the right edge of the photo. Compare that with the ridgeline in er's photo from the left edge to above the
barn behind the Dwire house. The angle is different, but the two ridgelines match.
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1289/rec/3

So I checked the north side of Sunset west several blocks from Olive Hill/Barnsdall Park on the earliest Sanborn to show the area (1919). One lot west
of the NW corner of Sunset and Harvard is a 2-1/2 story house with porches on the SW corner and a 1-1/2 story garage/barn in back, just like in er's
photo. Maybe it's the same house:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original
LAPL

The area on Googlemap: https://www.google.com/maps/place/52...50ed82f5?hl=en

The 1906 Hollywood City Directory has a whole family of Dwires on Sunset:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...40507/00000026

P.S. Interesting post on Crossroads of the World, T2!

Originally Posted by ddyment (Post 7003654)

A more specific request: Has the original Googies Coffee Shop (the namesake of the architectural form, which was located at 8100 Sunset Blvd, next to Schwab's) ever appeared on film? A car drives by it in Barfly, but that's the closest I've come to seeing it represented on celluloid.

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by Ed Workman (Post 7003306)

The train is headed south on Alameda Street to Central Station. Central replaced the Arcade Depot at substantially the same site in 1915 , in time for Panama Canal opening festivities. In turn Central was replaced by Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1939. It also replaced Santa Fe's La Grande station. Central was also used by Union PAcific , after its Salt LAke depot on the east bank of the LA River burned. Moving the RRs to LAUPT, and thus getting passenger trains off Alameda took years of wrangling and lawsuits. Central Station fronted on Central Avenue and the station grounds extended to Alameda. Look south of 8th ST to find the location on old maps

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 5959010)

Here's an aerial from an angle we don't see all that often. The Central Station replaced the Arcade Depot in 1914 and was bigger still. It appears at the lower left. At this distance you can get a nice sense of scale. The thing was humongous.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8282/7...85a71a8f_o.jpg
los angeles (calif) civic center and downtown, ca. 1930
LAPL

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7003675)

One lot west of the NW corner of Sunset and Harvard is a 2-1/2 story house with porches on the SW corner and a 1-1/2 story garage/barn in back,
just like in er's photo. Maybe it's the same house:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original
LAPL

The 1906 Hollywood City Directory has a whole family of Dwires on Sunset:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...40507/00000026

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6975712)

I was wondering whatever happened to the Jewish Cemetery.

Here it is listed as "Hebrew Cemetery" on a map dated 1897.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/RuUbZt.jpg
https://www.pinterest.com/bigmapblog/

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7004268)

The Macy Street Bridge photographed on August 30, 1948.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/pTaRX7.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/BIWRJS.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30993133@N04/

:previous: Did the city ever sweep the sidewalks?

I've been trying to figure out the sign to the right of the streetcar. Is it CUDAH?
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Oh, and what about that building in the distance at far right?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/0c5wcV.jpg
detail / https://www.flickr.com/photos/30993133@N04/

:previous: I hope that guy isn't contemplating suicide.
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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 7004419)

That's the Cudahy Packing Company which was north of Macy and west of the river meaning we're looking west. The gas-o-meter is a problem for me, I have no memory of a gas-o-meter north of Macy in this area. Also the billboard to the left seems to be advertising Life with Father (1947) starring William Powell and Irene Dunne which would put the date of the image somewhat earlier than 1948. Hard to believe they'd still be doing billboard adverts on a film a year after initial release. But maybe.