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"Festa and Emanuelli Families celebrating Armitice Day in Dogtown Los Angeles."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/aDofkG.jpg https://www.google.com/culturalinsti...99999994%7D%7D This photograph just blew me away! Lunch at Villa Nova for anyone who figures out where in Dogtown the Festa/Emanuelli pic was taken. ;) http://imageshack.com/a/img923/2102/cFXGIs.gif www.giphy.com __ |
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Cheers, Earl Edit: If you are ever in the Boise area, you should visit the museum of the Basque diaspora: https://www.basquemuseum.com/ I donated my father's pictures of the California sheep camps to them. |
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Here's another small Julius Shulman photoset. This one actually has two images, but they're virtually the same apart from the color/saturation. This is "Job 3138: William Alexander, 'Moon Room' House, 1961".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Although there's no address given, I think we're looking over West Hollywood. The skylight on the right suggests that the 'Moon Room' is/was on the roof of another building. Does anyone know its exact location? |
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I'm wondering if the recently-discussed Vine St. is the quondam Vineyard St. (of 1862). The following, from the August 9, 1862, issue of the Los Angeles Star, makes my head spin such that I can't manage to construe it in a focused way vis-à-vis any map of ye olde L.A.; but perhaps others can do better (or will at least enjoy the sensation of their heads being spun). It at least vaguely appears to be in the right area, and concerns one of the real estate parcels of Jean B. Trudell, under threat of being sold by the sheriff for non-payment of taxes (the parcel, not Trudell): "Second, commencing on Vineyard street which divides the property of Jesus Altamirano from the property of Leonardo Cota, thence running north fifty-nine degrees west one hundred and fifty-five feet to the wall of Victor Prudhomme; thence south thirty-eight one-half degrees west one hundred and six feet to the outside of the wall of the house of the Cota family; thence south fifty-six and three-fourths degrees east one hundred and sixty-three feet to Vineyard street; thence north thirty-five degrees east one hundred and twelve and a half feet, to the place of beginning." I can at least help by assuring you that the aforementioned Jesus Altamirano was in point of fact Maria de Jesus Altamirano (the other figures mentioned are well-known folks).
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Katharine Putnam Hooker was notable among women of her time. She was the niece of Josiah Dwight Whitney of the California Geological survey, there is a famous mountain named for him. Katharine came to California in 1853 via the Panama crossing when her father sent back for her mother and her. They were aboard the SS Tennessee as it approached San Fransisco, struck a rock and sank. Katharine and her mother had shared a stateroom with a Mrs. Chenery. In 1862 Katharine was aboard the Paul Pry when it struck a rock near Alcatraz Island. She was 14 and under the watchful eye of William H. Brewer. Brewer made sure she was placed aboard a lifeboat before finding safety himself. Once aboard the lifeboat Katharine found herself seated next to Mrs. Chenery. At the age of 20 she married John Daggett Hooker and moved to Los Angeles. Around 1886 they built a house at 325 West Adams Street, later renamed to Adams Boulevard, at the northwest corner of Grand Avenue and Adams, later the site of the Orthopedic Hospital. The house was later donated to a family friend, Maude Thomas, who turned it into her St. Catherine's School. I believe it's near the house used for the Munsters exterior shot, if I'm not mistaken.
She was friend to many notable people of the time: John Muir, Elizabeth Stoddard, David Starr Jordan, George Ellery Halel to name a few. She was in San Fransisco in April of 1906 when the earthquake took place. She died in July 1935 at the age of eighty-six. Far from noir-ish, Katharine was an intellectual and mixed with that type. Her home on West Adams had a large backyard garden and was where John Muir wrote some of his works there. Here is a photo of Katharine and her dog Lado on the porch of their West Adams Street home. http://www.westadamsheritage.org/sit...r_and_lado.jpg This information and photo were gathered from the WAHA website located http://www.westadamsheritage.org |
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Cheers, Earl |
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I checked the 1917/18 city directory. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...922/xKSZOo.jpglapl http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...924/o8qgAz.jpglapl But I'm not sure if Augusta was ever in the Dogtown area. (I believe some of the Dogtown streets are missing....or have been renamed(?) I've also been looking for the two buildings you see in the background. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/yKHigy.jpgdetail note that they both have water towers (the shorter building is behind the steering wheel) but I haven't been able to locate the building.....yet. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/Mfe6XS.jpg https://www.amoeba.com/blog/2013/03/...s-dogtown.html this one is much later than 1918 (obviously) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/hvnSPs.jpg https://www.amoeba.com/blog/2013/03/...s-dogtown.html Another stumbling block is that I don't know the exact perimeters of 'Dogtown'. If there is a definitive map I haven't been able to find it. __ |
This photograph was supposedly taken in Dogtown as well.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/iFyhgm.jpg https://www.google.com/culturalinsti...eAFGZDaP4byk6A I haven't been able to track down a George Frisby. __ update: Here's a more detailed description. Run-down residences on Nand Street, to be demolished for the construction of Ann St. Housing Project. One is the office of George Frisby at 1446." Photo date: June 26, 1952. http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=61567 |
Here's one more photograph before I sign off for the night.
"Dogtown railroad workers, Los Angeles" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/xgd0H0.jpg Italian American Museum of Los Angeles Here: https://www.google.com/culturalinsti...cAEp_VuKofY-7A I wonder if any of these men also appear in the Armistice Day group photo- __ bottom row, fourth from right. http://imageshack.com/a/img922/1503/Au2z1N.gif |
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Calling Henry Willson. (& I was just getting ovet the boys on the diving bell.) |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kd...Q=w562-h579-no amoeba I did a post on the Mesnager family who lived and worked in Dogtown. A Dogtown street is named after Louis Mesnager. [Edouard] Naud Street is there too (not "Nand" as LAPL says). They intersect. More info on Naud. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sv...w=w582-h490-no google maps P.S. I just realized you saw the Amoeba article e_r. I think their map is good. |
Then there's the Dogtown area that developed when all the piers started disappearing around Venice / Santa Monica Ocean Park (recently discussed).
A couple online descriptions of where that area was: 7/10th of a mile north of the Venice Beach Pier, is Pacific Ocean Park a/k/a Venice Park....You will notice an outcropping in the sand with a large breakwater in the ocean. This was the site of Lick's Pier, a/k/a Ocean Park pier, a/k/a Pacific Ocean Pier...which incredibly, in it's day was larger (in terms of business in and around the pier) and more active than the Santa Monica Pier. That area and the residential area inland was called by some "Dogtown"....It's actually the old neighborhood of Ocean Park, which was just as big and important in it's day, as Santa Monica and Venice..It has now kind of been absorbed into Santa Monica and Venice...A lot of people don't even know the neighborhood was called Ocean Park.... And... The Ocean Park Pier in Venice, Calif., was the site of a cultural revolution in the 1970s: A surfing and skateboarding renaissance that was captured in Stacy Peralta's 2001 documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys," made into a film titled "Lords of Dogtown." At the heart of the scene was a surfboard company called Zephyr. The shop soon became a hub of activity for local kids who lived to skate and surf. But forget the millennial-style money, sponsorships and prestige that surf rats often pursue today: At the time, surfing "wasn't the thing you did to build your self-esteem in society." Not only was surfing a fringe activity, but the pier and its surrounding area was a veritable ghetto of crime, junkies and working-class families. Once a major attraction, by the early 1970s Venice's heyday as a thriving tourist destination had seemingly come to an end. Starting a decade prior, the local piers had begun to shut down and fall into disrepair. Little by little, the swath of beach-side turf between Santa Monica and Venice, known as Dogtown, became a no-man's land of urban detritus, run-down buildings and, at the water's edge, the broken-down Ocean Park Pier. As the documentary explains, "[Dogtown] was the last great seaside slum. ... It was dirty, it was filthy. It was paradise." |
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In 1930 they lived in Alhambra and George worked as a mechanic in a trucking company. They appear in a directory, in 1962, living in La Puente, where he is still listed as a mechanic. George died in 1974 and records show Evalyn died in 1979 Since we cannot see the other surrounding buildings very well it is possible that either the one behind or to the right side was a garage. The brick structure directly behind the office looks like it might have large doors like a garage. There are also some car bodies out in front. |
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Here's another pretty good view of Dogtown. (the top is East) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/pbjeIi.jpg https://www.amoeba.com/blog/2013/03/...s-dogtown.html I thought perhaps the large building in the distance of the Armitice Day photo might be the one circled below.(it's the only one that appears to have a watertower on top) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/x2qLIQ.jpg detail The area outlined in red would be where the pic was taken (I've narrowed it down to 40 or 50 houses. ;) lol) ---- http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/Nt27sG.jpg lamla "By 1910, Italians such as the Aprato and Giacoletto families, pictured here in front of their boarding house, constituted one-third of the residents of the North Broadway district. The heart of the settlement could be found on Castelar Street (now North Hill Street), near St. Peter's Italian Church. It extended to Alpine, Ord, San Fernando (present-day North Spring Street), College and Casanova streets." _____ oldstuff, can you work your magic and find some additional information on the Aprato and Giacoletto families? I'd appreciate it. :) |
The Julius Shulman photosets have suddenly gone from huge (30+ images) to very small. Today's set is another with just a single image. It's "Job 339: Carl Maston, San Cente Apartments, 1948".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute The apartments have been modified, but they can still be found at 229 San Vicente Boulevard, Santa Monica. The trees stopped me from getting a clearer view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
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