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There are two stories as to why Mrs. Wrigley built the chime tower to annoy Zane Grey. Probably both are apocryphal. One story is that Grey liked to stay up late and throw loud parties. The other is that Grey was a founder of the Tuna Club of Avalon which, in those days, was an all male club that didn't allow women. (The Tuna Club, as we all know, is thinly disguised as the Albacore Club in CHINATOWN.) |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mayneApts1.jpg GSV The first two windows facing Main Street have been filled in over the years, as have several along Primrose Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...mayneApts2.jpg GSV |
:previous: Excellent sleuthing Hoss!
I didn't expect the building to still be standing...what a pleasant surprise to start the day off with. __ & thanks also to HH, for letting us know the 'mystery' pic was in Alhambra in the first place. |
Here's another interesting image I found a few minutes ago while looking for some information on Tops Jr. (visible in Hoss's post)
This shows a Pacific Electric streetcar on Huntington Drive in Alhambra between Fremont and Fair Oaks. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/55xQTV.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...d8efb254b7.jpg I haven't been able to find this same vantage point with a current google-street-view. M & M Foods looks like a nice neighborhood market. (the Thrifty as well) _ |
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Here's the intersection in 1948. I think the square white building (arrowed) is the M & M Foods building in the picture above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive1.jpg Historic Aerials Due to the trees at the intersection, this is the best "now" view I could get. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive2.jpg GSV Looking through the images at Historic Aerials, I think the M & M Foods building is still standing, albeit in a slightly altered form. It's now Big Lots. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive3.jpg GSV |
:previous: Thanks Hoss.
So if the current Big Lots is the old B & B Market, that makes this building the old Thrifty's, right? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/JB3VIz.jpg gsv http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/wY1mBx.jpg detail Here's a better view, looking from the direction of the Big Lots. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/5bRTc8.jpg gsv The building appears to be relatively unchanged from it's time as a Thriftys. -very cool. __ |
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Blaster, here's a postcard from the 1930s or 40s, that shows the close proximity of the chimes tower to Zane Grey's pueblo. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/a8GjfQ.jpg http://islapedia.com/images/0/09/Chimes_Tower_1940s.png Thanks for sharing your photos of the Wrigley Chimes Tower and Zane Grey Pueblo ProphetM. It's always fun to see noirisher's personal photographs. __ |
Today's Julius Shulman photo is another mystery location. Just like the Plyform Co picture from a few days, this was also taken for Wailes-Bageman. The CDs list at least three addresses for the Trojan Press around this time - one on De Longpre (1942) and two on Melrose (1956 and 1960). I checked all the addresses with GSV, but none of them match. Does anyone know where it was? This is "Job 115: Trojan Press Lithographing, 1947".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute |
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;7485019]Here's another interesting image I found a few minutes ago while looking for some information on Tops Jr. (visible in Hoss's post)
This shows a Pacific Electric streetcar on Huntington Drive in Alhambra between Fremont and Fair Oaks. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/55xQTV.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...d8efb254b7.jpg I haven't been able to find this same vantage point with a current google-street-view. In the photo the streetcar is east bound and turning off the PE Northern District Four Tracks on to Fair Oaks Avenue. The triangle created by all the streetcar trackage can bee seen in HossC's Historic Aerial, above. This junction was known as Oneonta Park and can be seen here (sixth photo down on the page): http://www.pacificelectric.org/categ...trict/page/34/ This view (second photo down on the page) is looking North on Fair Oaks Avenue. At one time there was a station in the center of the wye. http://www.pacificelectric.org/categ...trict/page/14/ Cheers, Jack |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/iL6wtf.jpg http://www.pacificelectric.org/wp-co.../AW-PE-wye.jpg Here's the photo from your link Jack. I don't recall seeing that type of short Wig Wag before. plus, that amount of concrete in the middle of the street seems to be quite a traffic hazard! photo info: "This image captures a Pacific Electric car (in Pasadena Short Line service) heading southbound on Fair Oaks Blvd. in South Pasadena as it approaches the wye at Huntington Drive and Oneonta Station. The year is believed to be 1951." __ |
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Here's the picture from Wig-Wag's first link. 735 at Oneonta Park Pacific Electric streetcar no. 735 picks up passengers at Oneonta Park in South Pasadena. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive4.jpg www.pacificelectric.org/Jack Finn Collection Here's an elevated view looking north. Stacked Up An amazing collection of Pacific Electric equipment is visible in this 1930s-era shot of South Pasadena's Oneonta Station, where numerous PE lines converged. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive5.jpg www.pacificelectric.org/Jack Finn Collection I planned to include this image before I saw that e_r had already posted it. I'll post it again because I've done a "now" comparison below. Looking North on Fair Oaks at Huntington Drive This image captures a Pacific Electric car (in Pasadena Short Line service) heading southbound on Fair Oaks Blvd. in South Pasadena as it approaches the wye at Huntington Drive and Oneonta Station. The year is believed to be 1951. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive6.jpg www.pacificelectric.org/William W. Wherry/Alan Weeks Collection This is the view north today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive7.jpg GSV |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/0QaDhL.jpg http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm/...n/SFVH/id/4155 The large stone fountain was built in 1890 for animals by The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Hand written on the photograph: "Early day drinking fountain on Olive Street." :previous: Does anyone recognize the mansion behind it? (the source say this is in Burbank) It's really unique..kinda' like a little silo. I wonder how many gallons it took to fill it up? __ |
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1867318...f=sr_gallery_1 "Camera Club Photographers at a Beauty Pageant - Late 1950's Los Angeles Beach Scene" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/4JfOu1.jpg detail :previous: I'd love to know what these two young boys are thinking. ;) There's a small portion of a blade sign visible above the beauties' head. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/hrhF7o.jpg detail You can see the same hotel blade sign in the black & white photograph below. This is the old St. Marks Hotel on Windward Avenue at Ocean Front, Venice. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/Rw9cHp.jpg The two blade signs on the right (advertising 'liquor' and 'steaks') are also visible in the color photo. (see below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/ZA5QVT.jpg detail __ *As most of you know, the St. Marks Hotel building is gone, but the building next to it survives (and is now called St. Mark's today.) -a wee bit confusing. |
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Here's the picture from Wig-Wag's first link. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive4.jpg www.pacificelectric.org/Jack Finn Collection Here's an elevated view looking north. Stacked Up An amazing collection of Pacific Electric equipment is visible in this 1930s-era shot of South Pasadena's Oneonta Station, where numerous PE lines converged. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...gtonDrive5.jpg www.pacificelectric.org/Jack Finn Collection The 'amazing collection' is due to the Rose Parade PE put on an amazing operation of special trains to Pasadena from all over [ well not exactly ALL] the LA BAsin. On regular days PE ran to the Hill ST Terminal and 6th and Main. But for the Rose PArade specials bypassed the terminals and ran direct. Oneonta was named for a town in New York where Huntingtons had lived. The cupola on the stattion was where the interlocking operator set switches and signals for various movements thru the junction |
:previous: I wondered what was in the cupola.....thanks Ed.
I might have posted this earlier in the thread, but here's a view of the Oneonta Station in 1915. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/AlS4OC.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/D...=17416&index=z I'm curious about the white building in Hoss's photograph from the 1930s. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/rYt9U1.jpg detail Does it say Red Lion Inn? __ *Okay, I just realized it says Gilmore's Red Lion.....as in gas station. It looks like the Gilmore sign is painted on the white building behind the service station (which is mostly hidden by the streetcar) _ |
There's no mystery about today's Julius Shulman location. The Buckingham Medical Building was at 4070 Buckingham Road. This is"Job 2126: Buckingham Medical Building, 1956".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Here's the building on the 1964 aerial view. On the right are the stores at Martin Luther King Jr and Crenshaw Boulevards which we've discussed before. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Historic Aerials The current view shows how virtually the whole block has been cleared. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Google Maps This is all you'll find where the medical building once stood. Checking the historic views, it looks like it was demolished between 1994 and 2003. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV There's a fairly new apartment block near the medical building site, but the only survivors on the block are along Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. This little mall is near Marlton Avenue. I'm not sure if any of the stores were still in business even on the earliest GSV images. The empty lot on the left was once occupied by Barker Bros, which I posted photos of in post #31806. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV This building is on the corner of Buckingham Road. Apparently, it was once the Founders National Bank. All the buildings in between have now gone, but can still be seen in the old GSV images. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV For a comprehensive look at many of the buildings that once made up Santa Barbara Plaza just before they were demolished, check out an article at architectureburger.com. It's quite long, but there are a lot of pictures and commentary. It seems that the nearly new apartment building that I mentioned above is actually senior housing. When the architectureburger.com article was written in 2011, the project had stalled because the developer had gone bankrupt. They were eventually completed in 2012 - the website is here. As a side note, the senior housing development is called Buckingham Place, but Google suggested that I meant Buckingham Palace. I believe the latter is currently only home to two nonagenarians ;). |
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