I found another survivor

Garfield Theater at Valley Blvd and Garfield
http://imageshack.us/a/img842/7964/garfieldy.jpg
GSV

Exterior view of the Garfield Theater. Alhambra Theater in the Valley Grand Building.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014406.jpg
LAPL

I haven't seen that first photograph. It's really great Chuckaluck.

I covered the Cummings Block back when I came across this somewhat garish untitled slide on ebay.

http://imageshack.us/a/img198/1125/aabcummings1.jpg





http://imageshack.us/a/img854/6927/a...ings1c1942.jpg





late 1940s/early 1950s
http://imageshack.us/a/img191/1598/aabcummings1a.jpg
ucla.edu/





http://imageshack.us/a/img23/1320/aa...truncatedt.jpg






http://imageshack.us/a/img35/9256/aabcummings1f1997.jpg



As Chuckaluck's recent post shows, the building has had an extensive restoration and is looking fine. :)

http://imageshack.us/a/img59/5290/aabcummings1g.jpg



Here's the link to my earlier post with some additional gsv views. (showing the restored Mariachi bandstand across the street)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9671
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One last truly amazing photograph of the Cummings Block/Boyle Hotel in 1889.


http://imageshack.us/a/img22/2363/aa...ehotelhuge.jpg
boyleheightsbeat.com

Thanks for the reminder. I rediscovered your post shortly after hitting "enter." :previous: I am reasonably certain there is another image depicting an accident in front of the building.



1998-99 "The depths of dour."
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092230.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092230.jpg

I missed it too T2...and we've discussed this tree numerous times on the thread. I figured it was unceremoniously planted
with many other trees back in 1914. I had no idea it was given a prominent place and plaque. -very cool find T2. bravo!
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:)more here > http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=194

Circa 1890 - Spring Street. (What is useful limit for cross-arms on overhead utility poles? Subliminal religious symbolism? Could this have led to botanical symmetry - at bottom? :no:)
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...933BYLUPB9.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...933BYLUPB9.jpg

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014305.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014305.jpg


Circa 1898 - Spring und Second Streets
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014299.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014299.jpg



Circa 1900 - The Hollenbeck. (Salt Lake Station?)
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014300.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014300.jpg



http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067361.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067361.jpg

Circa 1890 - Spring Street 2X vision
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...FBMSCM6BX6.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...FBMSCM6BX6.jpg

Circa 1920 - Spring Street (looking south from 2nd Street) More of Hollenbeck Hotel and Tovanger2 pentaglobe lamps.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014310.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014310.jpg



http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059130.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059130.jpg

Don't overlook the lovely Palms surrounding Hollenbeck Park. :tumbleweed:

Circa '35
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics33/00066061.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics33/00066061.jpg

June 22, 1939 - Hollenbeck Park Palms
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010651.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010651.jpg

It never occurred to me that the tree ever made it off Central Ave. I thought it was trashed with the Arcade Depot to make way for Central Station. I also didn't know where it was from, although it was described as "a San Pedro palm" in one account, I couldn't make any sense of that.

LOL, you should have seen me frantically searching Google Maps around the Coliseum trying to find it. The placement is so grand, the tree's been rendered almost invisible, so different from it's former placement. I should have known about it since I was 10 at least. One more reminder that LA owns me, not the other way around.

Maybe some of the other San Pedro Street palms exist unnoticed somewhere. Washingtonia filiferas don't get so tall that their age is readily apparent. I'd like to know who transplanted them to LA. Who was living on San Pedro Street back in 1858? When I have another minute I'll look for some early pix of the tree at Exposition Park. I can't quite visualize it's surroundings then.

That was a very nice thing MR said about the thread and very true. Thank you both.



P.S.

This has apparently recently come up on Curbed LA: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0..._palm_tree.php

Is this photo on San Pedro Street before the tree was moved to Central Ave?
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_...64004%2BPM.jpg
lapl via curbed.la

brewery mystery:

Men cleaning bourbon or whiskey vats.

http://imageshack.us/a/img560/9193/aabbreweryvats.jpg
ebay





detail -M. Dunsmoor Photos. lower left side
http://imageshack.us/a/img22/8245/aa...vats1bcopy.jpg






detail -601 Halley (or Hailey) St., Los Angeles Cal. lower right side
http://imageshack.us/a/img16/20/aabbreweryvats1.jpg

I've never heard of a Halley or Hailey Street. Does anyone know about whiskey breweries in Los Angeles?
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This looks like a template for the opening sequence in Blade Runner.

-noirish view of Signal Hill.
http://imageshack.us/a/img195/774/aa...rsignalhil.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-Night-Ph...item1e7a5a221f

I wonder what an oil field smells like at night? m u r d e r perhaps
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Boyle Hotel today - 2013
 

2013 - Boyle Hotel Building - a work in progress.

Etherial Reality, Bruce has inspired me to check out this interesting building. Evidently at one point most of the roof was missing and has now been repaired.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps309b13ea.jpg
Google SV - 2013 view

:previous: Nice CBD.



Several of you mentioned your parents spending time (& honeymooning) in Long Beach back in the 1940s and 50s.
I wonder if they ever spent time at the Long Beach Skating Palace?

circa 1948
http://imageshack.us/a/img689/5299/a...katingsnap.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Long...item232aa17050





http://imageshack.us/a/img560/5299/a...katingsnap.jpg

Sorry, I don't have the street address.
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Thanks to Chuckaluck and ER for your great posts on the Boyle Hotel, one of my favorite buildings. Here is a triptych of the hotel from the front:

http://imageshack.us/a/img27/429/cummingsentrancex3.jpg


A view of the front from October, 2012. I was there a month or so ago and I don't think the ground floor has been leased out.

http://imageshack.us/a/img546/829/cu...trance2012.jpg
personal images
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Long Beach Skating Rink
 

Salt Lake Station, 1st Street and LA River, 1924:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps72effc59.jpg
LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics30/00034629.jpg

I'm assuming this is a station of the Los Angeles, San Pedro, and Salt Lake Railroad, which eventually became part of the Union Pacific.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ang..._Lake_Railroad

I see "Bailey St.", myself.

Goddamn, that building really puts the cum in Cummings Block. What a fantastic renovation.

Well, I could go either way ('H' or 'B') but, of course 'Hailey' leads us nowhere. Bailey puts us in Boyle Heights about two blocks southeast of Prospect Park at the corner of Bailey and Bridge Street which would fit with early brewing, I guess. Although, on the 1910 Baist it looks residential.

What an amazing transformation! Excellent photographs WS1911. -thanks for sharing them.
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