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At least three photos of Pershing Square and the Biltmore Hotel have appeared on eBay in a lot of 17 photos from a 1930 trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco. (not my sale) There may be others in there to be identified.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186277819340 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...89acbd05_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c32f8c90_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e5c8e16c_b.jpg (eBay) |
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Interesting snapshots, Snix. This one looks so wintery I didn't think it was Los Angeles. Quote:
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Here is a rare amateur snapshot taken on the Lasky Studio backlot. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/09WsFA.jpg eBay I believe there was an early Lasky Studio in the Bronx (NY) but judging by the dryness and the hill in the distance this looks like California to me. Written on the reverse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VFTCT3.jpg Something, something. . Mary Pickford. . .something. Where art thou, mystery castle? :shrug: . |
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Me Taken at Lasky's Studio in March Where Mary Pickford in Polly Anna was (I can't read the final line.) "Polly Anna" = "Pollyanna," film of 1920. |
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Our recent conversation about the (what turned out to be) statue in the photograph of the man sitting on a bench . . . . . . . me of this photograph that I recently happened upon on eBay. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/taqGIl.jpg eBay As you can see, it's HUGE! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/RLdZnl.jpg Does anyone know if it's still on display at the fairgrounds?...If not, find me that statue! :whip: . |
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The date on this photo doesn't make sense. There's also a date, if that's what these are, of 2-29-30 on one of them at the link and 1930 wasn't a leap year. |
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Photo by Doug White for SoCal Edison, probably 1942 or 1943. Pacific Gear Works on the left. 2053 E. 38th Street in Vernon. |
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Great atmospheric and decidedly noirish photo! |
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The building in the background was originally the Domestic Arts building, and is now used as the NHRA museum. [Edit- The source says the building opened in 1925, but this photo doesn't show it. Plus, there's a 1939 plaque on the building.] https://i.postimg.cc/rwWnJZJt/Screen...202-103513.png Streettreeseminar (PDF) https://i.postimg.cc/Cxj7DBhG/Photo712580o.jpg HMDB https://i.postimg.cc/B6dNHxKC/Screen...202-102717.png HMDB (The Big Round) John Svenson's Ranchero statue is now 300 feet away, on the opposite end of the Millard Sheets gallery. https://i.postimg.cc/7YNMZvm9/Photo712571o.jpg HMDB |
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What, if anything, do we know about this miniature golf course, bounded by 5th, Fremont, Beaudry and Maryland? Don't recall it every being mentioned. Here it is in a 1940 aerial, and the 1950 Sanborn, and then it was wiped out by the freeway by the 1953 Sanborn. I'm surprised it's not more documented since it was apparently there for more than a decade, and a stone's throw from the thick of downtown. What was it called? Who built it and when? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4aa63031_c.jpgframefinder@ucsb https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...821eec4e_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...55c94dd6_c.jpgsaborn@loc Aha! I seem to have answered it! Gittelson Brothers, built about 1937. Still need to dig up the LADBS but it's proving elusive. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...054f871c_o.jpg |
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Beaudry, it seems to have been called Twin Links (at least, by 1949): https://i.postimg.cc/x8y2JjJJ/Mini-G...1949-11-21.jpg LA Times, 11/21/1949 This pic, accompanying the 1937 article you've excerpted, appears to be of the same course, as it is the one mentioned in the article as the $100,000 one: https://i.postimg.cc/d1YN7286/Mini-G...1937-2-23b.jpg |
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So what is the impressive Deco statue on the left side? . |
Simons Hardware & Harness Co.
Here is a random Calisphere photo dated 192- without any other information:
https://i.imgur.com/opAD8js.jpg calisphere.org The image there can be embiggened considerably. On the left there is a street number 9?2 and the street sign looks like it might be E. 9th Pl. The Google mobile gives the following view looking north at S San Pedro and E 9th Pl: https://i.imgur.com/5X5M0Zi.jpg GSV The 1920s CDs have Simons Hardware & Harness at 922 S San Pedro. Probably the dwindling of demand for harnesses didn't help their bottom line as that address became home to a variety of small businesses in the 30s and 40s. The LADBS gives a build date of 1910; it was originally intended to be a rooming house. This 114 year old brick structure has seen its share of earthquakes; the modern picture shows the floor and walls have been tied. |
Hey all! Back again with another question. Anyone know the formal name and/or architect of this structure?
It was at 700 N Main, and a J W Frey is there in 1890 as a mantel dealer. I assume it was built about '88, probably had more going on with the tower. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3552e9bd_o.jpg Italian Hall at 644 N Main is at right, and while in the image we look north across Macy, now it's Sunset (well, Cesar Chavez) https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/api/...%20main%20macylapl https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b880211b_o.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...37e416f7_o.jpg this particular "triangle" still exists but the whole thing was redeveloped with a Standard Oil filling station in 1956 |
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700 N. Main and vicinity, from the 1909 Birdseye map, to show the cupola missing in the other pictures:
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I think New Main was renamed North Main: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...Oscar_Macy.jpg January 1, 1889, Los Angeles Herald @ UC Riverside https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...700_N_Main.jpg September 14, 1894, Los Angeles Evening Express @ Newspapers.com Could this have been Oscar Macy's house, just behind where his block is being built? I swear I just saw a photo of the house with the three-story building in the rear, but I cannot now relocate it. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...u14Ci36kbt.jpg 1888 Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LA Public Library "For years his home was at Macy and Main Streets" https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag..._Main_Macy.jpg November 2, 1910, Los Angeles Herald @ UC Riverside |
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