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 |
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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 __ |
One last truly amazing photograph of the Cummings Block/Boyle Hotel in 1889.
http://imageshack.us/a/img22/2363/aa...ehotelhuge.jpg boyleheightsbeat.com |
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1998-99 "The depths of dour." http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092230.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092230.jpg |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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? __ |
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 __ |
Boyle Hotel today - 2013
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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 ____ |
Long Beach Skating Rink
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This skating rink, 278 Alamitos Avenue, is linked to a very tragic and noir story. It involves Randy Kraft, serial murderer, known as the Freeway Killer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Steven_Kraft Two killers were apparently involved in the December 1974 murder of John Leras, a 17-year-old high school student. The youngest victims, Leras had vanished en route to a Long Beach skating rink, anxious to try out the roller skates he had received for Christmas. Locals told me that Kraft had picked up Leras while he was hitching a ride in front of this skating rink. Hitching rides in California and elsewhere is currently a thing of the past. Some strollers found John floating in the surf off Sunset Beach, with a wooden surveyor's stake hammered into his rectum. Leras had been strangled while bound, and had alcohol in his system. Two sets of footprints marked the sand where he was carried from a parking lot to the water. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/s.../kraft/10.html |
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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 |
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I see "Bailey St.", myself. |
Goddamn, that building really puts the cum in Cummings Block. What a fantastic renovation.
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