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As Interstate 5 replaced US 99 as the main north-south route out of LA after the Great Renumbering of 1964, the Division of Highways (CalTrans' predecessor agency) changed the control city on the 5 from Bakersfield to Sacramento since it bypassed Bako, and all the San Joaquin Valley cities along old US-now state highway 99, well to the west. As for lingering Bakersfield signage, all the overhead signs are gone but if memory serves me right, one sign guiding drivers to an on-ramp to the 5 survives in Burbank (I think). |
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About ten years after this change, parts of the signs started falling off all over LA, resulting in lots of references to "Sacrafield" and "Bakersmento" that read just like that, because the typeface and alignment matched more or less perfectly. I recall the "Bakersmento" along the north 110 in among the Elysian Park tunnels lasted for several years at least. |
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No, I don't think so. I don't see anything on the vacant lot on the NE corner of 4th and Grand Avenue in the picture of the model you included in your post. Madame Hershey had her house split in half in 1906 (at about the time she had taken up residence in, and was in negotiations to buy, the Hollywood Hotel from Whitley) in order to move it to the new resting place at the 4th Street stub overlooking Flower Street but I've found no evidence she left any part of it at 4th and Grand. I've always assumed it had to be split in half to make the move feasible, the house in one piece being too unwieldy. In fact, in images dating from at least 1911 I find a wholly empty lot at NE 4th and Grand across which we can get a clear view of the Brunson. Certainly by this time Almira Hershey had been living up in the Hollywood Hotel for several years. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7364/...89fc3b9a_o.jpgHershey residence, 4th Street and Grand Avenue, 1893 Exterior view of Almira Parker Hershey's two-story Victorian Gothic style home located on the northeast corner of 4th Street and S. Grand Avenue on Bunker Hill. Built at a cost of around $50,000 and designed by architects Curlett & Eisen, the Heshey Mansion was completed in 1888. In 1906, Almira Hershey had this home moved to 750 W. Fourth Street and commissioned architects C.F. Skilling and Otto H. Neher to split it in half to turn it into an apartment building. After the apartment building opened in 1907, it was named the Castle Towers, reminiscent of the structure's "castle-like features." The Castle Towers Apartments sat on the stub end of 4th Street, on the south side, overlooking Flower Street, wedged behind the Barbara Worth ne Briggs Apartments. At 750 W. 4th this put them across the street from Margrethe Mather's studio in the Hildreth carriage house at 715. LAPL https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5566/...1622639f_o.jpgCastle Tower Apartments, 1916 The former Hershey Mansion relocated from the NE corner of 4th Street and Grand Avenue and now repurposed as the Castle Tower Apartments snuggled in behind the Briggs at the 4th Street stub overlooking Flower Street. Hildreth Mansion peeking over the top of the Briggs, the Rubiyat on the right. detail of a panorama USC digital archive/ California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5582/...3d568bc3_h.jpgThe Brunson, the Zelda and the Rose, ca.1912 The Hildreth (far left edge, NW corner of 4th and Hope Streets), the Leonard Rose (dark, foreboding mid image slightly above center, SE corner 4th and Grand Avenue) and the Brunson (lighter than and slightly behind the Rose, highest sharply pointed turret on the urban horizon, 400 S. Grand Avenue corner of 4th Street), three of the five Bunker Hill 'painted ladies', all in one image. The Zelda (prominent, squarish building with the distinctive capped rooftop solarium on the SW corner of 4th and Grand Avenue). We have a clear view of the Brunson because we are looking directly across the vacant lo left when Almira Hershey split her house in two parts and moved them down the street to the 4th Street stub just west of Hope Street overlooking Flower Street, hammered them back together and opened for business, in 1907, as the Castle Tower Apartments. Just to the right of Ms. Hershey's vacant lot is the Fremont at 4th and Olive Streets. Slightly below and to the left of the Fremont is the Olive Street School and next to that the Trenton. USC digital archive/Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5587/...b7d60e6a_o.jpgThe Rose, the Brunson and Mira Hershey's vacant lot, ca.1912 note, just over the right shoulder of the Brunson you can see the distinctive four-windowed turret of the Castle on Bunker Hill Avenue. Cool. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tleTowers2.jpg Original image from www.onbunkerhill.org |
I found this postcard awhile back on....you quessed it, ebay. :)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/dVdblI.jpg The seller dated it 1912. ...yet when I found this 1915 photograph (shown below) the hotel appears to be lacking the top floor. -this makes me wonder if the top floor was ever added. Could the 1912 illustrated postcard be a glimpse into the future that never happened? (or is it as simple as the seller listing the wrong date) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/OoW7bW.jpg LAPL ..here's the Hotel Sherman at far right, also dated 1915. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/smw3LF.jpg "Victorian houses converted into businesses are sandwiched between the Hotel Leroy on the right and the Hotel Sherman, corner 4th and Hill, on the left. The Los Angeles Water Dept. is to the right of the Hotel Leroy. In the background is the Grant Building. This later became the site of the Hotel Clark." -LAPL ___ |
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MC Bloome at far left. ;) http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA0NlgxNj...Gu!~~60_57.JPGhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Earl...item3f15e02748 |
-thanks for your quick research on the Hotel Sherman HossC.
Los Angeles' oldest surviving police station...the Highland Park Police Station on York Boulevard.* http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/pC7oZb.jpg GSV -and back in the day. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/JOZ2j9.jpg www.articles.latimes.com The building now houses the Los Angeles Police Museum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlan...Police_Station side-note: *I searched, using several different methods, but couldn't find this building on NLA. I find that hard to believe. __ |
Wow!
I remember being a small child and going to the "McDonnell's Rancho" at San Fernando and Sonora in Glendale and getting the "Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup". It was the BEST!. I remember sitting inside and watching the planes take off and land at Grand Central Airport, just across the way. The property was bought and the building torn down and a bank (Crocker, I think) was built. The bank building is now a Disabled American Veterans Thrift Store. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...fieldSign1.jpg GSV The one across the street says Sacramento. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...fieldSign2.jpg GSV Quote:
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Here's a nice survivor in Lincoln Heights....2054 Griffin Avenue. -built in 1887.
-looking a bit worse for wear in 1982. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/746/AHmf3I.png ofile/tumblr ..and today :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/fETBpY.jpg www.amoeba.blog __ Here's a peek inside, circa 1982. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/674/yvtnET.png found in an old file of mine/tumbler I'd like to shake the hand of the person who renovated this house. -job well done. __ |
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