Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5999076)

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5563855)

... and now the owners are the controversial Resnicks of Pom juice and Fiji water (totally not "green", no matter how they spin it) notoriety. Opinions on the current chatelaine vary, but perhaps so they did of Marie Antoinette of a previous Petit Trianon. (I bet Marie, for all her cluelessness, was less full of herself.) Anyway, I'm sure the windows are never opened, so traffic noise isn't a problem. The Resnicks apparently spent a fortune replicating the original fence--though it doesn't look quite the same to me--and bringing it out to Sunset. But then we have the great leveler... garbage. Just like the humblest bungalow elsewhere in town, the grander than grand Resnicks have to put up with wheelybins in front of the house.

9481 Sunset, Beverly Hills
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Street View

Originally Posted by BifRayRock (Post 5997510)

Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 5999167)

Here's what that corner looks like today, via Google Street View:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2...etaand37th.png

Only now Moneta is called Broadway Place. I'm not sure when the name of the street changed; 1950s, maybe?

It looks like the same streetlamp on the corner. I doubt that's the same utility pole, though, but where it's placed looks very close to the same spot.

Originally Posted by alester young (Post 5998964)

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Check out the 1936 Studebaker President and Dictator Coupes with the batwing rear window. One was shown in a 1937/8 photo of Wilshire Boulevard, but unfortunately I can not now find the post.

Had never heard of these until reading this blog. Very cool looking.

alester

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 5998781)

I was cruising around Baist's 1921 Real Estate Atlas (thank you ProphetM) and I came across this cemetery on
North Broadway next to the Southern Pacific Rail Yard.

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/2...rycemetery.jpg
www.historicmapworks.com

Originally Posted by 3940dxer (Post 5550711)

Still in a Rosslyn state of mind, I thought I'd post a few more articles and photos.

The Rosslyn underwent many expansions and changes over the years. At one point I think 7 stories were added, then destroyed by fire, and then removed. Anyway, here's an 1917 article about the major early expansion, which made it the 4th largest hotel in the world. This is the original Rosslyn location on Main between 4th and 5th.

http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Rosslyn/1...ds.biggest.jpg
http://search.proquest.com/hnplatime...ccountid=11124

While preparing for my visit yesterday I was surprised by the number of suicides, murders, and other crimes that I found. I guess it makes sense though, since the place was around for about a century and had 1100 rooms at its peak.

On December 16, 1906 a "rich madman" brandishing 2 revolvers robbed the desk clerk.
http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Rosslyn/1...ich_madman.jpg

http://search.proquest.com/hnplatime...ccountid=11124

The first documented suicide seems to have taken place in 1912. From the L.A. Times, dated December 10, 1912.

http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Rosslyn/12.10.12.suicide.jpg
http://search.proquest.com/hnplatime...ccountid=11124

A man jumped from the roof in 1920. Looks like the expansion discussed in the 1917 Times story had not begun yet. I think the graphic was posted here long ago, but not the L.A. Times story.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...G-ROS-002?v=hr
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...G-ROS-002?v=hr

http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Rosslyn/12.4.20.plunge.jpg
http://search.proquest.com/hnplatime...ccountid=11124

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5999222)

Fanastic post on the Potter Park Street area Flyingwedge!

The Brownstein-Louis building had a couple impressive skylights. I would love to see those two atriums.

http://imageshack.us/a/img338/3007/a...verallbldg.jpg
posted by flyingwedge

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5999240)

Here's a Theme Hosiery Co. building before and after Godzilla. The basic form is still there...but nothing else,
and the color scheme is green and red...arrrgh.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2661

an interesting comment on the Ribet Academy (in the old Theme building) by sopas_ej here

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2667

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5999283)

below: The Pico Family Tomb in the old Calvary Cemetery on North Broadway.

http://imageshack.us/a/img831/1721/a...eterypicof.jpg
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5082457)

Another small gem of a lost downtown building is the Maddux Air Lines ticket office, which once stood at 636 S. Olive, near the 7th Street Silverwoods, on the site of what is now a parking lot:

http://www.nileguide.com/destination...HARRIS_SUN.jpghttp://www.nileguide.com/destination...HARRIS_SUN.jpg
Sun Realty Bulding, 629 S. Hill St., 1930. It's by Claude Beelman, who also did the Union Oil Building recently discussed. It seems that all design in L.A. in this period is interconnected, and very local.

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 5985704)

According to David Gebhard and Robert Winter in Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles in Southern California 5401 Wilshire was originally a Spanish Colonial Revival Building from the 20s. (I've spent way too much time over the years staring at the filigree-embossed chimney pot at the apex of the tower tying to figure it out.) They list Marcus P Miller as the architect for the 30s remodel as opposed to Anderson & Norstrom listed by the you-are-here web site. I don't know which is correct.

I always thought the deep recess high on the Wilshire facade may have originally been a window.


I can't make out the sign in this highly airbrushed and colored view:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...8-d3e12667.jpg
Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection, Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4098/4...6d8618c2_z.jpg
jasperdo/flickr