Theater of the mind....
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Signal sponsored The Whistler, a popular radio suspense show that ran in the late 1940s and 1950s. If you like that sort of thing it's worth a listen and can be found wherever OTR recordings and podcasts are available. This has been posted before but since the famous radio show was mentioned, here it is again. Note the sponsor. The opening: I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes... I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistler http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psa27f7525.jpg personal collection |
Aliso Street & Lyon Street 1932
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original California State Library Previously posted here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=15667 |
4400 Block of West Slauson Avenue
This is between Overhill Drive and Angeles Vista Blvd., on the north side of the street. The photo is undated, but the white car looks like some flavor of 1941 Chevrolet (if wrong, correct ID welcome!):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/395/rec/137 2012: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original GSV When I was a little kid it was still a market but it was called Food Fair. |
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Before there was Calpet/Texaco, I. Magnin, and Switzer's, there was Lawler, Cole, and O'Melveny: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...0/707/dngh.jpg Attorney Oscar Lawler survived the 1919 bombing of his house at the northeast corner of Wilshire and New Hampshire; the celebrated Calpet/Texaco station replaced it eight years later. Full story here: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...ue-please.html http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...0/577/gl0q.jpg Businessman and Hellman-family in-law Louis M. Cole built at the southeast corner of Wilshire and New Hampshire—later the site of Magnin's. Full story here: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...boulevard.html http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/31/j77r.jpg Henry O'Melveny, another big L.A. lawyer who built at the Wilshire/New Hampshire intersection—the southwest corner, later the site of Switzer's—moved his house to Windsor Square in 1930 and remained in it until he died in 1941. Full story here: http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/22/z94w.jpgLAPL |
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He came to California between 1892 and 1896 when he first appears in the voter registrations. He was a naturalized citizen. Mr Eustace does not appear in the census records in New York. His wife's name was Honora Emma O'Donnell. The 1900 census indicates that they were married 29 years. He was widowed at the time of that census. Garrett Joseph may have died in Los Angeles in 1917. The Emma Eustace in the photo is Garrett's daughter. Their son, Garrett, Jr. was born in 1868. The man in the photo is probably her uncle James Eustace, born in Ireland in 1867. |
:previous: Thanks oldstuff!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...0/849/qoih.jpg Emma and Uncle James strike a pose. |
Makes me wish i could have seen LA in those days.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/138/sdv9.jpgUCLA
I know we've seen Lucca's here before, but I don't remember reading that it replaced the original restaurant in the building. Above is the original, at the southwest corner of Western and Fifth. The building was built in 1925; Marchetti's moved to Beverly Hills in 1933. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/43/c4ji.jpg The 1933 opening of Lucca's in a shot from a prior NLA post here. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/534/4vo2.jpgJune Street Architecture The interior of Marchetti's: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/268/0clp.jpgUCLA Other prior NLA posts on Lucca's: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3450 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3146 And more detail here--including the sad thing now on the sw corner of Western and Fifth. |
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Familiar steps and fire hydrant? :previous: Light standard seems slightly different. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
Montecito, 6650 Franklin @ Cherokee
Designed by Marcus P. Miller, it's on the National Register of Historic Places.
This was taken prior to the building's September 1, 1931 opening: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/17503/rec/13 Possibly taken August 29, 1931: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/91129/rec/2 1931 east side; the sign says CAUTION GRADE 22.7 PER CENT: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original California State Library 1931 Franklin entrance: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original California State Library 1981 north side: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original California State Library March 1987, rehabilitated: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics40/00054905.jpg South side: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original Bing 2012 Franklin entrance: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original Thomas Safran and Associates Properties -- http://www.tsahousing.com/properties.aspx?propID=1085 http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original Thomas Safran and Associates Properties -- http://www.tsahousing.com/properties.aspx?propID=1085 |
:previous: Excellent post on the Montecito Flyingwedge. What a great old apartment building!
Is that a small penthouse on top or is it just for housing mechanical equipment/elevator/etc? if it's just for housing equipment why so many windows? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/836/0am7.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike68/361289929/lightbox/ It's actually quite large when you compare it to the plastic lawn chairs and the grill. |
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http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4178/mdwb.jpg A building with much history that I assumed was covered here before, especially its connections with a former president and many silver screen luminaries. Would have been my first choice but for what appeared to be semicircular balconies. Then there are the missing windows on what might be described as the third floor in the subject photo. Clearly in mid construction. San Franciscans would be at home with the inclines near the Montecito. Functioning brakes are always a good thing.;) |
Brand new article about the Wilshire Grand Tower at
http://westcoastarch.blogspot.com/20...eshape-la.html Lots of renderings. To bad it had to take out the old Wilshire Grand Hotel though. |
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Black leather jackets with an eagle on the back....
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psbeca1358.jpg Personal collection Member's meeting, circa 1980. I believe they met in a local church. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps89c653ae.jpg |
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The Beverly Hilton has been home to the Golden Globes ever since I can remember. Richard Nixon's west coast campaign headquarters were here in 1960 and for his run as Governor in 1962--where he lost and delivered his famous line "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" to the press the next day. Some films have been shot there. One I can remember is Frost/Nixon. Merv Griffin owned it for a time and opened a nightspot called the Coconut Club. President Obama gave a speech early in his Presidency there as well as stayed there a time or two. On the right of the above photo, the woman in the light colored jacket is crossing to the corner where this fountain is located: http://www.iamnotastalker.com/wp-con...1/IMG_3206.jpg I Am No Stalker It is known as Electric Fountain and it was built in 1931 at a cost of $21,000 by architect Ralph Carlin Flewelling, who also designed the Beverly Hills Post Office, recently discussed. It was used in a Go-Go's music video in 1981 and can be famously seen in the film Clueless when Alicia Silverstone pauses in front of it and the fountain comes to life as she realizes she's in love. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BbzBFaDt1k...0/Fountain.JPG I Am No Stalker |
Let's stop at Pico and Rimpau for some Lutfisk.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/46/0rmc.jpgebay A very classy curved market. -notice the coat of arms (shields) in the arched leaded windows. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/577/rr58.jpg I'm not sure what lutfisk is. |
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