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'mystery' location.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...912/pTvhJG.jpg eBay enlarged http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...909/84yXEc.jpg Can anyone figure out where this was taken? (I especially like the building in the distance at the end of the street) __ |
Re: Riding public transit. One of my fondest memories of growing up in the SF Bay Area was riding the Key System F train from the end of the line in Albany to their terminal in San Francisco to have lunch with my father on school holidays. The units had two cars on three trucks like the articulated buses of today. The motorman's cab was just one seat wide, so there was a seat beside it that looked out the front window. If you were quick (and I was *very* quick) you could snag that seat and get the motorman's view all the way through Berkeley, Oakland, and over the Bay Bridge. Then it was lunch at Foster's, hang around here and there, go by the hiring hall at the Embarcadero to see if you could catch a glimpse of Eric Hoffer (and if you were feeling brave, give him a wave) and back home the same way. Good times, none better.
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There's groundbreaking and first-brick-laying ceremonies photos (both may be seen here), but the only other Alexandria Hotel construction shot I think I've seen is this one, taken at the same time as the first photo above: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...24129%2BPM.jpg lapl The Alexandria's developers, Bilicke and Rowan, had a great many real estate interests, both as partners and separately, including the Hollenbeck Hotel. (Mr and Mrs Bilicke were famously dumped in the sea by a badly-lowered Lusitania lifeboat in 1915. She survived. His body was never found. To survive a sinking ship, only to die in a lifeboat accident, seems unfortunate in the extreme.) |
Oiled dirt and gravel.
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http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=480831&t=whttp://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=480831&t=w 1944 - Third Street repaving https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...tpaving970.jpghttps://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...tpaving970.jpg |
Thanks, Slauson Slim, for your thoughts on riding the P.E. cars!
___ Liked those shots of Khrushchev riding through the L.A. streets, E_R! (By the way, the eBay slide posted with a date of Dec. 1959 is probably incorrect as he visited in August of 1959. I don't think he returned. Khrushchev was supposed to visit Disneyland, but Police Chief Parker wouldn't guarantee his safety there so he was denied access and Nikita threw a bit of a tantrum over it. So the story goes.) Here's another I found: The motorcade of the Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev making it's way towards Hollywood. (The only part of the road sign I can decipher is "Los Angeles River.") http://mediastore4.magnumphotos.com/.../PAR137223.jpgDennis Stock/Magnum Photos Here he is on the 20th Century Fox lot watching a scene being filmed for the movie Can-Can. http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.c...0_q85_crop.jpgSmithsonian Magazine On the soundstage of Can-Can at 20th Century Fox. Nikita Khrushchev talking to Shirley MacLaine. His wife, Nina is next to her. Frank Sinatra is also pictured. http://mediastore2.magnumphotos.com/.../PAR137221.jpgDennis Stock/Magnum Photos (No relation to stock photos, heh!) |
Bernice's Beauty Salon.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/Yve20c.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/BERNICES-BEA...item2ee25ed509 Street number 4932 , but what street? Fanny Bjornsen __ |
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https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/374/18...da6a2dc7_c.jpg Check out the awesome neon axe on the hardware store! That's at 4938; Bernice's has been lost to a Food 4 Less. |
Awesome Thread. Big fan!
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http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/newla...lH3jfGn6yN9pVg ..and it still works! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/jK9Zzp.jpg http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/newla...TP6HsHSvxof1aA 4938 Huntington Drive South. Thanks for pointing this out Beaudry. __ |
"Exterior of salesroom, 2916 W. Pico, Los Angeles 1934."
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/Vbz47G.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/55301/rec/18 :previous: Mohr Brothers. (were they related to the Pretzel Mohrs? http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=28803 ) And here's the building as it appears today. :( http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/YfCnOU.jpg gsv detail of brick work. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...905/7RgnHG.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...912/Kofz0w.jpg usc and google_earth |
Just a few blocks away.
originally posted bytovangar2.
http://imageshack.com/a/img538/9876/1WYnmq.jpg posted by tovangar2 I think what we're actually looking at here is the intersection of N. Virgil Ave and Virgil Pl., where they meet Fountain Ave. I have labeled the 2 Virgils here. http://imageshack.com/a/img905/6927/qu5sns.jpg Bing Maps Here is a current view of Virgil / Virgil / Fountain. As you can see, a few buildings from the earlier views are still among us. The original listing as Sunset and Hollywood is off by just a few blocks. |
Here's a rare find.
'mystery' movie set, 1922. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/kPwA1O.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1922-BEVERLY...item2800ce4b74 The seller says this might be Fox Studios. (?) If you look closely, there appears to be an impressive residence behind the set. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/AJ1GUg.jpg detail The set resembles a mock-up of the Anasazi cliff dwellers. "Anasazi Cliff Palace" in 1891 by Gustaf Nordenskiold. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...540/unIl08.jpg Mesa Verde National Park http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/fq1edx.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_Puebloans Does anyone recall a silent film from the early 1920s featuring the Anasazi? __ |
OK, now I see why the seller thought the 'pueblo set' might be Fox Studios.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/Z6HVTj.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1922-BEVERLY...12211572&rt=nc written along the bottom border......"Took Dad and Mother to Fox Hill Studios & etc." And then, there's this. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/910/YPccjG.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1922-BEVERLY...item5b12fec417 "Me" appears to be quite handsome ;). (but Mom & Dad look like they came straight from the Iowa Picnic) |
Streetcar Belles and Whistles
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Paciific Electric cars also had bells mounted and used in the identical manner, but most also had two Westinghouse air whistles to sound a warning at grade crossings. These were activated by pulling on a wooden handle attached to a cord, which in turn was tied to a lever inside the car. If one examines photos of PE cars the whistle is usually visible on the left hand side of the car just below the roof line as a long tube. On the old wooden cars they were often mounted vertically on the left hand window frame. (Left hand refers to the view when facing the end of the car). The Orange Empire Railway Museum at Perris, CA offers the visitor the opportunity to experience riding both types of cars. http://www.oerm.org/collection Folks outside of Southern California can find other trolly museums on the internet. Cheers, Jack |
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On the other hand, in the OC, where most of the buses operate nearly empty...I once figured out how long it would take me to ride a bus from home to work--7 miles one way. For the time I start in the morning, it would take more than two hours, including a half-hour standing at a bus stop, in the dark during winter. Its a vicious circle; there isn't enough ridership to expand the routes or schedules, and because there aren't enough convenient schedules, nobody wants to ride. Metrolink is a good option if you're near a station at both ends of your route, and whenever I go urban exploring in DTLA, I take it Because its faster, less aggravating, and cheaper (counting parking) than taking my car. But, unfortunately, Greater L.A. was built around a car culture and riding public transportation, especially a bus, still carries an unfair stigma that the only people who use it can't afford a car. There's an old PE station in Fullerton (now a trendy Scotch bar/restaurant), and I can easily imagine myself taking the car all the way to L.A. back in the day. |
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This is indeed a mystery location. The barren hills in the background give us some clue...but what clue? Are those buildings in the background a medieval village from Europe? here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_ranch |
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"An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation". |
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