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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Nancys1957.jpg YouTube And here's Mimi's at 6366 Hollywood Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...AMimis1957.jpg YouTube It's beginning to look as if Nancy's started out at 6366 (as seen in 'Big City'), and then expanded to the old I Magnin building at 6340. The City Directories suggest that by 1960, Nancy's had moved back to 6366. |
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I thought I'd had breakthrough yesterday when I found a picture of a 10 line car not far from Echo Park. That turned out to be a dead end, so I did a brute force picture search and eventually found the picture below. The caption says "Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 315 poses for the camera at Miller and City Terrace on March 22, 1948." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original www.pacificelectric.org/Alan Weeks Collection It turns out the drug store that Lorendoc and I had been looking for was Barbanell's at 4101 City Terrace Drive. I think the text under the name says "DRUGS FOUNTAIN". That still doesn't explain why a 10 line car was on the B line. Here's a view of the same building from around 20 years later. The caption of this one says "Christine Parnin, Library Manager of City Terrace Library, in the library's parking lot. In the background can be seen Barbanell's Pharmacy (now Hidalgo Market), RR Auto Parts store, a U.S. Post Office, and a Mex-Delicatessen in City Terrace, Summer 1966." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...aceMiller2.jpg The County of Los Angeles Public Library This is about as close as I could get to e_r's picture with GSV. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...aceMiller3.jpg GSV I think that most of the buildings from the 1966 picture are still standing. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...aceMiller4.jpg GSV Thanks to Lorendoc for a fun joint effort :). |
:previous: You found my curvy streamline modern building!
Thanks HossC and Lorendoc for not giving up. __ |
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Another vintage streetcar picture from eBay. This one shows car #1513 about to turn onto San Fernando Road from North Figueroa Street.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original eBay Roughly the same location today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: Makes me want to eat at that little greasy spoon.
1/2 chicken with French fries .88 cent, pastrami dip .35 cents. If the street-car had moved a little further along we would have seen the name of the place. Sad to see the building on the left is gone. It gave the area a sense of place. __ |
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Novelty photograph.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/i08yTx.jpg ebay "Los Angeles Airdrome, Leaving For Hollywood." (would have been a short flight ;)) __ |
Passengers boarding street-car #1444 in front of Union Station. (hence the suitcases)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/MgHwF7.jpg ebay __ |
I've certainly never heard of this café before.
St. Bernard Café, 4057 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/pUSOZt.jpg ebay The stately house with it's Corinthian columns and leaded windows is simple amazing! Does anyone have any information on this place? reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/93UTrM.jpg -quite bizarre. So is Pascha one of the stuffed dogs above the St. Bernard Café sign? (behind the glass) -kind of creepy. |
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mystery location.
slide 1960 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/h2ZrSg.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/LAMTA-Los-An...item3f44ecdd1d -the biggest clue is the Cummings street sign....and that impressive building down at the end of the street....and the theater. __ |
ok. this is pretty cool.
An ashtray shaped like the Los Angeles Coliseum. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/ZKAHwB.png http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-meta...item2c9531676a http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/uPrtFY.png http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-meta...item2c9531676a 2 days left. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-meta...item2c9531676a __ |
One of the final scenes from the noir film "Sunset Boulevard".
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps6af21558.jpg Paramount pictures Directed by Billy Wilder Produced by Charles Brackett Written by Charles Brackett Billy Wilder D. M. Marshman, Jr. Starring William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Lloyd Gough Jack Webb Cecil B. DeMille Hedda Hopper Buster Keaton Anna Q. Nilsson H. B. Warner Franklyn Farnum Music by Franz Waxman Cinematography John F. Seitz Edited by Doane Harrison Arthur Schmidt Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release dates August 10, 1950[1] Running time 110 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $1.75 million Box office $5 million |
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E_R and others keep finding a lot of gems on there that keep us fascinated. Thank you all. |
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No corrections from me, C. King. That's where I thought it was too. I can't get far enough left with the Googlemobile, so here's the nearest I could get to a current view. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...stCummings.jpg GSV As far as I can tell, the "theater" mentioned by e_r was actually the Eastside Arena at 2016 E 1st. It looks like it held boxing matches while the Olympic Auditorium was remodeled. The clipping below is from the January 4, 1955 edition of The Bakersfield Californian. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...tsideArena.jpg www.newspapers.com There is a theater in the picture, but the marquee is barely visible under the "Cummings" sign. It was the Meralta Theatre at 2035 E 1st. From what I can find, it opened as the New Lyceum Theatre around 1914. It now survives as a church. More info about the theater can be found here and here. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...e.jpg~original GSV I think the building at the far end of the street was a previous incarnation of the Benjamin Franklin Branch of the Los Angeles City Library. The current building still goes by that name, but it's not the one from the 1960 picture. |
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:previous: fhammon, the chicken sign is on the roof, above Hot Tamale...you need to scroll to the right a little further----> :)
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1960 'mystery' slide
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Here is a view of the building on the left in 1958! (note the writing beneath the roof line) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/haMQdx.png old file of mine ...a contemporary close-up. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/VuYcva.png I hope we can dig up some history on the building now that we have a name. (I believe it might have been a small hotel considering the extant canopy-marquee above the door) __ One other thing: Behind the furniture building (on the right in the 1960 slide and HossC's GSV view) there is a very interesting old brick building. (facing Cummings Street) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/LNw5WS.png GSV __ |
ok, we solved that one....now how about this? :)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/tnBak0.jpg ebay __ |
-movie star handsome father with three daughters (and grandpa) in front of 'Casa Del Mar' in Santa Monica, ca. 1930.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/KyFFwM.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/904/Hs0hqg.png http://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_s...ve_Nights.html __ |
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:previous: That's a good start C. King. I tried looking up "Hernandez" in a San Pedro directory but there were just too many to research individually.
I also tried "Hernandez Hideaway" to no avail. __ Here's a nice looking early business card. J.T. Sheward 13 & 15 North Spring Street Los Angeles, Cal. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/79R2VB.jpg ebay I'm not sure what going on, on the reverse. It appears someone is trying to return something ad infinitum. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/mrIeyk.jpg |
I don't recall seeing this place before on NLA. I wonder if it had any connection to restaurateur Fred Harvey. (never mind, I see the owner's first name is Harvey)
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Los Angeles High School Football Team, ca. 1908.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/mWBFV1.jpg ebay Nice looking group of young men, but my eye kept wandering over to that church in the background. -Does anyone recognize that church? __ |
Here are a couple interesting snapshots from 1938.
"S.P.R.R. Bridge over L.A. River." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/mNBqjj.jpg ebay "S.P.R.R. Bridge over L.A. River." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/3sqJlf.jpg ebay -note the tunnel. (and the tiny people looking at the damage from the side of the roadway) __ |
I've got to go out of town for a few days, so I thought I'd post one more 'mystery' photograph.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/OCSQmY.jpg ebay Have a great weekend everyone! __ |
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There's some interesting reading and photos here but none show ER's interesting building. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_High_School |
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The same car on the same line. Probably the same street if you look background. The seller mentions "line 10 terminus" to locate it. Let's have a drink at Thelma's Café. |
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"S.P.R.R. Bridge over L.A. River."
Rains at the end of February 1938 isolated Los Angeles from the rest of the known world, so these pix were probly taken very early March. That's one of the Figueroa tunnels , the Arroyo Seco Parkway passes over the site. The bridge was replaced with a single track structure, as the mainline to Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal , opened in 1939 , was constructed on the east bank of the river. IIRC this bridge was doubled by MetroLink |
<<I've got to go out of town for a few days, so I thought I'd post one more 'mystery' photograph>>- LARy 950
The second shot [ thanks another ton] reveals this to be a Railroad Boosters excursion, 1938 or 1939- I could look it up- A few pages back there is a pic of this car at the car house with the RRB dash sign. The scene is on or the vicinity of Lamar Street, north of the SP Sunset Mainline- go west to the LAUPT or, before that, via Alameda St to Central STation. It's only a short walk from the car line to the SP roundhouse and General SHops. The attraction to RRB for this car is probably because there were few of this type- most were similar to LARy 315 also shown a few pages back. This trip probably provided a rare opportunity to ride on and photograph it on lines that it was not assigned to |
LARy 950, some more
This should be the upper right corner of a 1938 LARy map. Look for "S P Shops" and the stub line toward it- I can't decipher the street name, but it doesn't appear to be Lamar. I'll look for a map that shows all the streets. I do see a circle enclosing 10 for a route. { well I THINK I see one or two] Note that no route is shown in the signs on the car roof, and beware dash signs shown in excursion pix that don't say RRB |
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It IS , well on this map of 1934 http://laist.com/2012/05/23/1934_map...iv.php#photo-3 The P of S.P. ran into LAMAR on the other , smaller map. SO now y'all folks can try those businesses to see if Lamar is right |
MORE and bigger Lamar
I was too excited to follow the path to the original Big Map Blog site http://www.bigmapblog.com/2012/elect...s-in-l-a-1934/ Downloading, zoooming and print-buying, no waiting. I must lie down now |
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You're completely right Ed. It's Lamar. Thanks for your help.
This is how the street looks like today : http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.ph...98882lamar.jpg Google Earth On the right, buildings are still there with for example a place known as The Cube (647 Lamar St.). But on the left... San Antonio Winery has grown and Thelma's Cafe is no longer there. I can't read the name of the other cafe (Amelia's ?). Thank you also Looking4OldLA. |
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This little grocery store and Thelma's Cafe are two different buildings and locations. The store can barely be seen in this photo directly behind (left of) the tree on the left side of the street just beyond the double peaked building which would account for the "end of street building" perceptive appearing nearer in the 2nd shot. Notice the low (picket) fence in both shots next to the store. Photos originally posted by ER http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/2338322057.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/OCSQmY.jpg |
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Location of Etheral Reality's pic with the grocery (≈620 Lamar Street): http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/...55073lamar.jpg Google Earth Location of the pic with Thelma's Cafe and the terminus (≈737 Lamar Street): http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/...4235lamar2.jpg Google Earth Between the cafe and the grocery, you can recognize the original San Antonio Winery : http://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/...Winerypic4.jpg San Antonio Winery What's your mind ? |
The seller calls this picture "irresistable pin up girl Sandy Krowart in Los Angeles" and dates it as 1960s or early 1970s. The original image was mirrored, so I flipped it. I'm guessing that the sign behind Sandy's head said "International Associated Studios Inc". I didn't find that in the CDs, but the gasometer in the background told me it was likely to be the intersection of Curson Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. As I found in post #17671, the gasometer had gone by 1972, so that sets an upper time limit for the photo.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsonAvSMB1.jpg eBay I believe this is the same sign that appears in the image above. The original has "7559" in very small numbers at the bottom. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsonAvSMB2.jpg GSV |
An auto race from 1927. The caption on the back says "Hitting a rattling good pace through Los Angeles with the Oldsmobile, a Reo and a 1904 Ford matching snorts for the lead." The sign in the center is for Milnor Inc, importers of European and Oriental goods at 3555 Wilshire Boulevard.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original eBay Here's a current view along Wilshire from South Kingsley Drive. The Wilshire Christian Church is still there, although nearly hidden, and the Gaylord can be seen in the distance. I think the building on the right of the picture above is probably the Talmadge. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7AutoRace2.jpg GSV |
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...assuming she had a good sense of humor (Sandy) and could spell her own name correctly and had read cover to cover at least one book in her life, in or out of school. I don't care which. http://i59.tinypic.com/9jgn69.jpg http://www.sekaimon.com/i161008930645 (NSFW) |
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3575 Wilshire. A former "Copper Penny." http://tastertotsla.com/wp-content/u...012/09/BCD.jpghttp://tastertotsla.com/wp-content/u...012/09/BCD.jpg Another Copper Penny - Sunset and La Brea http://lh4.ggpht.com/gogonotes/R8zQY...00/sv5mmy.jpeghttp://lh4.ggpht.com/gogonotes/R8zQY...00/sv5mmy.jpeg Familiar LA eateries (House of Pies, IHOP, Wil Wright's Ice Cream and Copper Penny Family Coffee Shops) - all once related. http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/...ldings-2383520 |
Here's an undated picture of the Flying A service station at 240 N Virgil Avenue. I can see it on the 1948, 1952 and 1954 images at Historic Aerials, but it's gone by 1964. The address means that it was just across Silver Lake Boulevard from The Roundhouse Café at 250 N Virgil which fhammon reminded us about recently in post #25461.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...40NVirgil1.jpg eBay Today, the site looks like this. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...40NVirgil2.jpg GSV |
The writing on the back of this photograph claims that it shows 815 Elysian Drive, Mt Washington on September 16, 1914. I think the top line says "Home of J A Foote".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original eBay When I first found the picture above I tried to find Elysian Drive, but drew a blank. Then I had a look around the Mt Washington and discovered Elyria Drive. Here's how 815 Elyria Drive looks today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
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