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I thought I'd take a stab in the dark and look up 'pawn' in the 1893 city directory....hoping to find one with a Chinatown address. Surprisingly, it only lists one pawn shop. "Your Uncle's Pawn Shop' at 103 S. Main Street. __ |
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This is not Morgan, I think, and you c an't make me tell you the correct name. Morgan was beyond and to the right- look hard for the line of poles and wires. The cars are the last of the Hollywood style. The 6th & Main to Watts lines had recently been terminated by MTA and the cars stored here pending disposition. What I say is Morgan Yard was the site of a small repair barn , so this yard served as a layover point for cars returning to 6th& Main WE have recently seen pix of combination cars 498 and 499. There were 4 cars thus that reached PE. One sat derelict in the back corner in PE colors until scrapped a coupla years before this pic was made Was it actually 499 or less than 498? The concrete channel of the LA river is just to the left, and Ocean Avenue was behind the photog. MTA cars had buttons on poles to make the traffic signal work to let them cross the WB lanes |
[QUOTE=Ed Workman;6909070]There were two yards in Long Beach, rather close together.
This is not Morgan, I think, and you c an't make me tell you the correct name. Morgan was beyond and to the right- look hard for the line of poles and wires. Just substitute "FAIRBANKS" for MORGAN in what I said above and return to your homes |
:previous: -huh. So it is Morgan then?
__ I just came across this amazing color slide on ebay. We've seen this view before on NLA, but not this particular photograph. That's the peaked roof of the old Hall of Records in the lower right corner, so we're pretty much looking straight down Court Street. The seller didn't include a date. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/u2xZnr.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Koda...item35e4fe6270 Years earlier we would have seen the tracks of Court Flight at center bottom. (below the white fence....where there's litter, and something red & square) -photo taken from atop City Hall _ |
e-r's brilliant find has sold. I hope to a norisher.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2...04051%2BPM.jpg ebay Many thx again to JScott for first identifying the location and to HossC and Flyingwedge for the confirmations. I am in awe. |
I added this to my post of a few days ago, but in case anyone was interested, here's what I added:
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UPDATE: I found the post of the "model" that whizbang built of this house. The first link has a color vintage postcard of the house and the second link is a photo of his model. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20926 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20925 _____ |
The seller doesn't say, but I'm guessing the two 1970 slides below were taken by someone staying in one of the upper floors of the Holiday Inn (now the Loews Hollywood Hotel).
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/5ybCiv.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1970s-Los-An...item3aa0a5cb40 above: That's the El Capitan Theater (not the one on Vine Street that we recently discussed) and next to it is the old Masonic Temple. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/k3UpKJ.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Orig...item418f57f15a__ |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7...12241%2BPM.jpg water & power And now. Not much difference anymore between the elevations of Broadway (foreground) and Hill: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C...13424%2BAM.jpg http://shq.lasdnews.net (detail) -taken from City Hall |
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Aerial dated August 1932.
This extraordinary sepia image might be new to NLA (I found similar ones, but not this one) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/kCLPpX.jpg eBay In the upper left corner Union Station is under construction. -and if you look closely, you can see Lugo House (with its three dormer windows) __ |
Court Street best view ever !
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It was also one of Raymond Chandler's favorite noirish locations. Here follow 2 excerpts of « The Big Sleep ». Chapter 26 : CANINO (the bad guy pointing his gun) Where's Agnes ? HARRY JONES (good guy) Okey. She's in an apartment house at 28 Court Street, up on Bunker Hill. Apartment 301. I guess I'm yellow all right. […...........] MARLOWE (to the 28 Court Street apartment manager) You want me to send the vice squad over there and shake the joint down ? I know all about Bunker Hill apartment houses, mister. Especially the ones that have phone numbers listed for each apartment. MANAGER Hey, take it easy officer. I'll cooperate. There's a coupe of blondes here. […..] BTW : yes Tovangar, that's Burt Lancaster's house on the right. |
OK. I just found this on eBay and I have a question:
Did the 'City of Los Angeles' really have it's name spelled out in NEON on the rear car? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/wL4zqx.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNION-PACIFI...item43d7328306 I had no idea there was neon on any train, let alone the 'City of Los Angeles'. Looking closer, I see that it's encased (is that plexiglass?) to protect it from flying rocks and what-not. __ |
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Was 28 Court Street a real address? |
Kodachrome slide-1979
Here's the Holiday Inn I mentioned earlier today....looming over Grauman's (then Mann's) Chinese. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/NLLcL2.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Koda...item35e4fe2fbd __ |
Thank you again. Gorgeous aerial. The first thing I thought of when seeing it was of all the trouble they had moving the high school off Poundcake Hill.
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This particular director is very fond of combining two or three different locations into one. In the neo-noir film, Vincent the hit man enters the old I. Magnin's at 3240 Wilshire Blvd but when he gets upstairs, we're in the Panorama Suite. Furthermore, the green-screened view out the windows is the one from the roof of the Superior Oil building/ Standard Hotel in DTLA. Leaves one sort of breathless. |
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http://streamlinermemories.info/UP/COLADrumhead.jpg No date or location for the photo. There was also a City of Portland Domeliner that had a neon sign. (A neon drumhead they called it in the post.) |
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below: And to think this started out as a touristy Holiday Inn revolving restaurant. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...909/JBjrMO.jpg http://www.loewshotels.com/hollywood...dations/suites So how many revolving spaces are left in Los Angeles? I remember going to the top of the Bonaventure for drinks in the 1980s. It revolved very sloooowly. My friend and I thought it was great. Does it still revolve? __ |
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