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__ While we're in the Rampart/Hoover/7th triangle, lets take a quick look at two side-by-side houses built 110 years ago in 1905! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/St3Nzy.png google_earth Of the two, this one has been especially tortured. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/WJQdAX.jpg gsv :previous: This is actually a view of the back looking across Hoover Street from Leeward Ave. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/mfjPCc.jpg gsv there are wonderful brackets beneath the eves....and a pair of rectangular attic windows. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/iTXx4T.jpg detail Here is the front view on Rampart. (equally tortured) 731 S. Rampart Blvd. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/Cz2uNp.png gsv a nice architectural element below this window. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...912/nxKxY3.jpg detail Here are the two 1905 houses together (viewed from Rampart). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/Eq8qu5.jpg gsv 727 S. Rampart Blvd. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/ICdjVz.jpg gsv |
I believe the following two snapshot are from the R.H. Rood photo album (that is being sold in bits and pieces :( on eBay)
You remember Rood don't you? He's the guy that was Rudolph Valentino's chauffeur.(so he claims) 1924. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/lRRV0y.jpg http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1924-LOS-ANGE...item2806850d10 "ROOMED" 3300 So. Figueroa Street below: close-up of the Cedar Lodge Inn sign http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/cqE5JZ.jpg detail :previous: Can anyone make out the other writing on the sign? I believe the bottom line might be 'Special' something. This would have been a block away from the John Marcellus Steward house built in 1871 (circled in red). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...538/d8U1rX.jpg google earth It looks like the Cedar Lodge Inn is long gone...so I thought I'd see if there were any cedar trees left in the area. Well, the only tree(s) that resemble the tree(s) in the 1924 Rood photograph are actually across from the John Marcellus Stewart house on 31st street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/gKKyim.jpg gsv Then I realized the house beneath the cedar looks very much like the Cedar Lodge Inn. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/AvJwrq.jpg gsv Just a coincidence? -perhaps. -or did Rood give the wrong address? ______________ The second photograph shows where R. H. Rood worked for one month. 1922 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/Cbehh4.jpg http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1922-VAUGHN-S...item5b179dde25 Vaughn-Schuler Storage Battery Co., S. Figueroa & W. Jefferson Sts. L.A. Cal. here's a close-up of the street number. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/eRI1ue.jpg detail :previous: 3241 (?) Has anyone heard of the Vaughn-Schuler Co. before? Here's the post where R.H. Rood first claimed to be Valentino's chauffeur (with a very interesting photo) -there's also a photograph of him at the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29906 __ |
Is there an approximate period of service for these white on black signs? Were they used county-wide or per municipality? Any still in place?
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I don't know what happened to Mr Vaughn, because the 1925 and 1926 CDs list just H G Schuler at 3241 S Figueroa, and by 1928 it's The Schuler Co at that address. It didn't last long - the 1929 CD lists an automobile dealer named Gail Vandenbraak & Co at 3241 S Figueroa. |
:previous: Thanks for the information on Vaughn-Schuler Hoss. The seller dates the photograph as 1922...so your dates are spot on.
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Here's another place I haven't heard of before.....Martinis Cafe' Opera.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/y2YT3q.jpg eBay Is this a mural? I'm trying to figure out what's depicted. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/5JjDXg.jpg detail A flamboyant art deco lighting fixture http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/gvQTJX.jpg detail and a small cubistic 'chess' themed side mural http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...901/nrtiNo.jpg detail I believe this was located in the La Fonda / Hayworth Theater Bldg. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/iRfyYx.jpg gsv :previous: La Fonda is at 2501 and the Hayworth Theater, at the opposite end of the building, is at 2511*. The building is quite large (and beautiful). Here's the view along Carondelet looking toward Wilshire. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/R6TpXm.jpg gsv ______ *side note: When the Hayworth was the Vagabond Theater, it's address was 2509. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/VzZvfH.jpg http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1170 __ |
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I came across this a couple days ago on eBay.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/YyEfQP.jpg eBay This is where it used to stand. :( http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/skFfwy.jpg gsv ....but back in 2007 it was still there. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/TWludc.jpg gsv You can see the extreme length of the building in this side-view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/wfwMLd.png gsv It was lost to the expansion of Wilshire Temple. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/SkC20w.png http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_s...se_120_million __ I can't quite tell if the white building behind the temple is the Hobart-Wilshire, but I thought I'd post it anyway because of the over-sized 'tudor' house that's also visible. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/w72h20.jpg Anyone know this 'tudor-style' house......GaylordWilshire? __ |
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:hi: Maybe not exactly what you want but the same neighborhood. ;) http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29255 Quote:
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:previous: Thanks Tourmaline.
But where is the over-sized 'tudor-style' house in the above photos? I have to admit I'm confused. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/w72h20.jpg __ |
:previous: :shrug: The same thing crossed my mind.
To my untrained eyes, the "tudor" looks almost large enough to have filled two lots. Is there a date associated with your annotated pic? From the autos, it looks like mid '30s. The other photos are "allegedly" from 1932, and seem consistent with that date - but maybe - they are from a much later date. Short of reviewing any permits, the missing structure could have been replaced or even moved elsewhere. Seems very unlikely it was remodeled but I suppose anything is possible. |
Tourmaline, the photograph I posted that shows the 'Tudor' house is dated 1939.
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Hoss, I just now came across this side view of the Vaughn-Schuler Co. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/qlw4KK.jpg http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1922-VAUGHN-S...item28062ed0d3 __ |
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In er's photo of the Hobart-Wilshire at the top, please note the double chimney of the building next door. This 1932 photo looks south on Hobart from above 6th Street. In the distance is one of those same double chimneys (the building must have had them on both sides). Just north of that building is, I believe, a vacant lot (There are more driveways/walkways from the street than there are houses). The gabled house, aka the tudor, third down from the corner, is on the north side of the vacant lot: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/53876 This 1940 aerial looks NW at Wilshire and Harvard, with Hobart one block to the west. The rectangular roof north of the Wilshire Blvd. Temple's dome is the temple's auditorium. I think one of those double chimneys is visible just above the edge of the auditorium's roof. North of that appears to be a vacant lot, then the "tudor" house with a palm tree in front. The building permit for the Hobart-Wilshire at 618 S. Hobart is dated September 26, 1940: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/20896 1921 Sanborn; the tudor house er was wondering about was 614 S. Hobart, and the building with the double-double chimneys was 622: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original LAPL 616 S. Hobart was moved to 637 S. Windsor in 1923 (don't bother looking for it there): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original LADBS -- http://ladbsdoc.lacity.org/idispublic/ 1950 Sanborn; the Hobart-Wilshire is 618 S. Hobart. The demo permit for 614 S. Hobart is dated January 20, 1959: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original LAPL In this 1961 photo looking NE at Wilshire and Hobart, we can see the Hobart-Wilshire next to the building with the double-double chimneys. North of the Hobart-Wilshire, the site of the tudor house is now a parking lot, but the palm tree in front is still there. The building on the other side of the parking lot is either new or remodeled (lost the light well but gained windows on its south side): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...ll170/id/21930 |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Historic Aerials It was probably a result of the building being changed from apartments to offices in 1954. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...s.jpg~original Online Building Records System As Flyingwedge says, 614 S Hobart had gone by 1961. Historic Aerials has a 1964 image, but the 1972 image (below left) is virtually the same, and much clearer. The 1980 image (below right) shows an empty lot on the corner of 6th where the building that housed the dentist in the 1932 picture once stood. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original Historic Aerials The building that had its light well filled in 1954 was still there in 1994 (below left), but gone by 2003. I picked the 2004 image (below right) because it's clearer. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Historic Aerials The corner site seems to have been a parking lot from sometime in the '70s until the end of 2014. For the image below, I've tried to get roughly the same viewpoint as the 1932 USC photo. Dated March 2015, it shows a new building up to five stories high that stretches along 6th between Harvard and Hobart. I'm assuming that this building is probably complete/nearly complete by now - does anyone know what it is or have any pictures? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...h.jpg~original GSV |
Hancock Park, empty land, and oil pumps, circa 1920s
I just found this one on LAPL - I don’t know when this aerial shot of Hancock Park was taken, but I’m guessing mid 1920s. I love that we can see nascent Hancock Park in the foreground, the city of Hollywood far off at the foot of the distant Hollywood hills, and in between is acres and acres of empty land studded with oil pumps. That S-bend near the bottom is 6th Street. These days if you take it heading west, you’ll end up at Park La Brea. How odd that 6th St appears to dead end at Highland.
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"I'm assuming that this building is probably complete/nearly complete by now - does anyone know what it is or have any pictures." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/Mqu6gI.jpg posted by HossC :previous: Hoss, I don't know if the building is finished, but I can tell you it's purpose. It's the 'sports complex', complete with rooftop track. -and a parking garage.* http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/BMySUU.jpg https://onegoodlife.wordpress.com/ta...-to-the-stars/ :previous: Now I'm curious above that proposed glassy structure next to the temple. _____ *I just found this description of the 'sports complex'/parking garage. (it's much more than a sports complex) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/1XRJX9.jpg http://www.harleyellisdevereaux.com/...ol_renovations |
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Does anyone have 1950's era images of the SE corner of Pico & Overland in WLA (10680 W Pico Bl). Thanks. |
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There's lots of info on the net: New York Times la.curbed ...many more via Google. No images yet that I could find. Interesting 2012 article on the background of the overall master plan for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple campus: "They considered selling the [Wilshire Boulevard Temple] property, a concept [Senior Rabbi] Leder said he couldn’t stand for. “It would have become a Korean church,” he said. So to make the picture real, he’d take potential funders out around the immediate neighborhood to illustrate his point. “We’d go to Fourth [Street] and New Hampshire [Avenue], and we’d get out across the street from a beautiful old synagogue that was Sinai Temple, and there’s a gigantic cross on the front of it, just above the Ten Commandments in Hebrew, and I’d just look at people, and I’d say: ‘That’s the other alternative; it’s very disturbing.’ ” |
Thanks for the picture of the new building on W 6th, e_r.
----------------- This Bank of America was at 2212 W Washington Boulevard, near the intersection with Western Avenue. For search purposes, this is Julius Shulman's "Job 1558: Bank of America (Los Angeles, Calif.),1953". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The building on the left was the Ebony Showcase Theatre. I couldn't find it in the 1956 CD, and the 1960 CD lists it at 4368 W Adams Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Next to the bank is James Van Lines, a moving and storage company. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original And here's a close-up of the Washington Hardware Company. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Each corner of the intersection now has a small strip mall, and both the Bank of America and Ebony Showcase Theatre have gone. It's possible that the two-story building nearly opposite the bank has been cut down to a single story. I think this building is the old hardware store. Nowadays, I bet the local residents have to go miles to get their aircraft parts :). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV |
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