1958 Los Angeles ad touting its lack of skyscrapers.

http://imageshack.us/a/img840/3156/a...ngnoskyscr.jpg
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court house corner stone
 

While I can't prove it, I think that the current courthouse (Stanley Mosk Courthouse) has a piece of the "Red Sandstone Courthouse" of which we have frequently seen in this thread. it is located on the Hill Street side, to the left of the steps. The stone is definitely red sandstone and there must be a connection, especially since they moved the bronze clock hands and numbers from the first courthouse to the red sandstone and then to Stanley Mosk as a nod to history.

http://imageshack.us/a/img62/9984/hotelwillardn.jpg
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http://imageshack.us/a/img824/1686/hotelwillardmap.jpg


Hotel Willard? I always knew this simply as the Bible Institute. (shown below in 1915)

http://imageshack.us/a/img705/686/ho...ibleinstit.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1348075093191




below: The 'Hotel Willard' is just to the right of Bertram G. Goodhue's brand new library, circa 1926.

http://imageshack.us/a/img835/8867/hotelw1926.jpg
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1348075093191

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East Los Angeles Union Pacific Station at 5480 Ferguson Avenue. Somehow we've overlooked this charming little train station.


http://imageshack.us/a/img7/2050/eas...cstationea.jpg
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt167nd7x0/





It still stand today....behind a wire fence.

http://imageshack.us/a/img7/1425/eas...cificstati.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8426355...5911/lightbox/





http://imageshack.us/a/img515/3945/e...cificrrlaa.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39252242@N07/4851328387/

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The following photos were taken in 2001.




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http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....bello-and.html







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http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....bello-and.html
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Just to be sure that it's still there I checked Google Earth. Yep, still there! :)

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wow,thats just amazing,i wonder if its protected? i didnt even know east la had a station.

I can't make out what movie is showing at the Admiral . . . that would be a easy way to date the card. I agree . . . it's a great shot!

I think Lana drops her husband off at the East L.A. station in The Postman Always Rings Twice.... Can anyone come up with a screenshot?

Yes, I see it. I went streetview surfing and thanks to you it jumped right out at me. I have to agree there isn't any other explanation that seems as reasonable. If that is the case, isn't it maddeningly obtuse to put it there without any apparent notation as to what you're looking at. I hope there's some plaque that just doesn't show up in streetview.

bif is that richfield neon sign from the service station near malibu? i remember about 10 yrs ago me and some friends got lost going to a palisades high school football game and ran into this retro service station that sold gas but mainly had older cars,i spoke with the owner and he sold lead in a can or something for older cars,so they would go there get lead and then fill up.the last time i was in la i couldnt find the place and i dont know the name or street it was on,but we were heading west from santa monica and ended up at the station towards a base of a hill,after we left we ended up on pch.:shrug:

:previous:Sorry, unable to place neon sign location. You may be right about the coast, but Richfield covered many western States.

There's a cool article in the LA Times about Glen Creason, the map librarian at the downtown Central Library.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...4236916.column

http://www.trbimg.com/img-505a5e43/t...g-20120919/600

Bif, great shots of Westwood. Really great. Interesting to see it laid out and be able to appreciate what the unifying architectural vision had been. So obvious before the urban clutter intrudes. As for the outside cash box at our favorite Airplane-cum-GasStation, it used to be a standard feature at service stations to have a cash box mounted on a post at each of the pump islands. I don't remember how they were secured to the post but they would be carried out at the start of the shift or when the station opened for the business day and could be accessed with a key each attendant carried (usually on a retractable chain on their belt or waistband) in order to make change and later to issue the ubiquitous green (or blue chip) stamps. My dad worked at several gas stations as he was coming up and I have some early memories of how it all worked. He was robbed once when he worked at a station on Western Ave (around third street) and a week or so later managed to help in finding the robbers when they thoughtlessly drove by on his shift again and he and another guy flagged down a police cruiser and my dad rode along with them down Western for a mile or so until they found the car (at another gas station). The story became part of family lore.

I was mixing up Lana with Barbara as far as whose husband was dropped off in East L.A.--Barbara dropped hers off at the Tropico station (rebadged "Glendale" for Double Indemnity). Lana's husband Nick was dead by the time of the train station scenes with Audrey Totter when Lana arrives back from Iowa... anyway, the station in Postman was indeed the East Los Angeles station. Here are some screenshots:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o...2520PM.bmp.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520PM.bmp.jpg

All pics Warner Bros.

Kudos.

As noted, the not-always-infallible IMDB lists the station as being in Norwalk. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038854/locations Oddly enough, the only filming listed for the purported station is the 1946 version of "Postman" without a physical address. As I am unfamiliar with Norwalk, I expected to see a few shots of an overlooked or long forgotten depot that may have served that location. A cursory search reveals only a modern Metrolink station. Wiki mentions Norwalk as having a train station:

Quote:

"While a majority of the Norwalk countryside remained undeveloped during the 1880s, the Norwalk Station allowed potential residents the opportunity to visit the 'country' from across the nation."

Unfortunately, no address is provided, nor does there appear to be any photos of a station. Perhaps in later years the depot devolved into a series of streetcar stops, with "heavier" rail traffic being available in nearby communities or hubs like Grand Central?

Edit:
Norwalk Station, date and name of horse unk. Per comments, the station was demolished in the early '60s. Paralleled Foster Rd. previously known as Locust St (near San Antonio). (?)
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3068/3...10aae63b_o.jpgFlicker

Burbank
 

The bones of the building are the original "Brick Block" from 1888, the oldest brick building in Burbank. Photos from the Burbank Historical Society show the building when it still had the dome at the corner. The elaborate cornices were put in somewhat later.