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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...2520AM.bmp.jpg Times January 16, 1927 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520AM.bmp.jpgUSCDL dated 1929 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...2520AM.bmp.jpg Apparently the Argonne Storage Company named its trucks.... While this one says "Miss Hollywood"--the numbers on the building are 4307 and 4309, which would be a north-south street, closer to the warehouse, unless it was--or is--farther west. I did an aerial look--haven't yet found these great period buildings. |
W 47th & S Hoover
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806 W 47th Street was built in 1927 as the article above indicates. It's for sale as a "candidate for condo conversion". The owner is asking $1.2 million: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...05947%2BPM.jpg The craftman fourplex is actually a single property combining that building and a bungalow that faces on Wesley Ave. as one can see in e_r's aerial. They were built in 1913. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...04531%2BPM.jpg ...from the south side: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...03804%2BPM.jpg ...from Wesley Ave: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j...05145%2BPM.jpg There's block after block of good craftsman houses around here, some quite tired looking, others beautifully kept. The Jesus Store is from 1930: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...10814%2BPM.jpg all images: gsv |
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New Condo ??
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Today I measured the storage building property at 806 47th St. The site is 106' X 130'. The GW article above may refer to the building itself, as it measures 52' X 55'. I think its currently owned by the K A Moving Co., Mr. Sam Cho. Several Chinese named companies also list this address. According to the 1948 Historic aerial, previous owners had purchased the surrounding properties, south side and west side, to make a larger lot. Condo? Its a solid concrete building with 11' ceilings. The neighborhood is South Central. I suspect that the current owner does not consider a condo conversion as realistic at this time. |
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I came across this ad the other day on eBay. -anyone recognize the street?
February 1943 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/V2TrTq.jpg below: A very clever post by gsjansen (2011) Quote:
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negative, dated April 1963.
I'm not sure what's going on here. -are they greasing up the wheels? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/IHkojf.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/y8YWwH.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Neg...item51cfe74e85 be sure to scroll right--> to see the young lad with glasses. (that isn't you, is it Wig-Wag?) If I remember correctly you've turned up in some of these shots. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/QB9saZ.jpg eBay (this negative might have sold. I can't locate it again on eBay) |
"A Southern Pacific freight along the L.A. River, south of Taylor Yard in June, 1976."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/GwI7BI.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Kod...item4ae9835e8e I don't recognized the business on the right...FOREM? __ *I located a Foremost Foods Co. at 1147 Towne Avenue. (1973 directory) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/lEfxfJ.jpg http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...00002/00000001 but that address isn't along the L.A. River. |
and here's one without a streetcar or a train. ;)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/ayCnf8.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/ht4vnj.jpg eBay :previous: You can see a small portion of the Herald-Examiner Building in the center. Well, I just noticed the three people standing in the street are waiting for a streetcar. So in a few minutes, there would have been a streetcar in the photo. __ Thanks for the additional information on the former storehouse at 47th & Hoover GW, tovanger2 and CBD. (and Hoss for initially pointing the building out) |
Clinker Bricks
Did someone say bricks?
Clinker bricks are caused when bricks, not sufficiently air-dried, are fired. The ones closest to the heat source deform and change color. They are also very dense and hard. Clinker bricks make a clinking sound when struck together. They were the bane of brickmakers, who prized uniformity. Clinkers were scrap and a pain to get rid of. However, clinkers perfectly fitted the Arts and Crafts desire for something "handmade" and authentic looking. Greene and Greene used them for walls and chimneys, supports and gateposts. Here is the 1908 Gamble House's garden wall where clinkers were combined with stone: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...13253%2BPM.jpg flickr The year before the Gamble House went up, this pretty chalet was built at 1314 S Bonnie Brae. Clinkers line the lower facade. The 108-year-old clinker chimney, amazingly enough, remains in place with an unobtrusive assist from a brace. Note the swagged shingles on the upper floor: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k...50403%2BPM.jpg gsv Greene and Greene's 1909 Earle Anthony house has a chimney and garden wall built of clinkers combined with ordinary bricks. Both wall and chimney may date from the 1923 move from Berendo near Wilshire to 910 N Bedford in Beverly Hills: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P...24025%2BPM.jpg LAT Paul Williams used clinkers with great subtlety and restraint in his Tudor-style homes, giving a tweed effect without calling attention to the bricks themselves, as here in this 1922 effort: Quote:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0...21141%2BAM.jpg gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...15305%2BPM.jpg gsv Even Irving Gill tried his hand at building with clinkers. This is his First Church of Christ Scientist (1904) in San Diego. His Berta B Mitchell house (1904) made extensive use of clinkers too. (Gill did use clinkers again on his 1908 Sherwood Weaton House, also in San Diego, but kept it to the chimney and foundations): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/R6...A=w809-h374-no sdh I'm not sure what effect the architect was aiming for with the 1926 neo-Georgian Wilcox Apartments, 6501 Yucca at Wilcox in Hollywood. It looks capable of providing roosts for a whole flock of birds: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...64519%2BAM.jpg gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a...22813%2BAM.jpg gsv Clinkers are still being used, although many examples veer off into the grotesque. ___ |
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I managed to find the buildings in these pictures a little over two miles west of the Argonne warehouse at Hoover & 47th--they are 4307/09 and 4313/15 8th Avenue...two fourplexes of many along 8th Avenue in Leimert Park. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a...834%2520PM.jpgGSV https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...412%2520PM.jpgGSV https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l...354%2520PM.jpgGSV http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/7...eimert1938.jpg I wonder if the street ever floods? I was reminded of this old post about an intersection around the corner from the 8th Avenue buildings: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7289 |
:previous: Good job in locating the buildings GW! I tried and couldn't find them.
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This postcard of the Santa Monica Pier , postmarked 1956, caught my eye because of what is painted on the side of the Santa Monica Ballroom, "Home of Spade Cooley."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/MmgYdo.jpg Spade was a famous country and western singer and television personality, that murdered his second wife in 1961. originally posted by CityBoyDoug http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...903/5tyfLp.jpg "Donnell Clyde 'Spade' Cooley committed the slaying of former singer Ella Mae Cooley, kicking, beating, and strangling her, even burning her with a cigarette, whiling forcing their 14 year old daughter to watch." http://www.metnews.com/articles/reminiscing022703.htm Spade and Ella Mae in happier times, on their wedding day. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/DWSj8h.jpg http://truecrimecases.blogspot.com/2...de-cooley.html Here's CBD's earlier post on Spade Cooley (with a couple Youtube links) http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=16764 __ |
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Thanks MR, here is the post.
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eBay So Ed_Workman is suggesting the 'Foremost Foods Company' building is the old 'Hughes Ice Cream Co.' building. |
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