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Thanks for digging out the Brack Shops info, e_r. I saw the name in the City Directories but failed the remember that they'd come up before on NLA.
-------------- While I was looking for pictures of the Cowards Wildly Edwards & Wildey Building yesterday, I came across the one below. It's a little blurrier than the others, but does show the blade sign which started the discussion. Of course, I didn't need to look any further than NLA for a picture of the Edwards & Wildey Building - e_r posted one back in post #4851! What caught my attention with this picture was the building on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library After a bit of Googling I found it was the University Club of Los Angeles at 614-622 South Hope. A quick search of NLA yielded no previous mentions, so I don't think this is a repeat (I won't be surprised if someone else finds it!). According to an article on www.csulb.edu, the building had its formal opening July 6, 1922. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Ebay I can't find too much more about the building after that, although the History of the Zamorano Club says they moved into the building in 1934 and stayed until it was razed in 1967. LAPL dates the William Reagh picture below as 1970, but they also have a different framing of exactly the same shot dated as 1965. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub3.jpg LAPL The earliest picture that LAPL have is dated 1925. It shows a parking lot and another building to the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub4.jpg LAPL By 1938, the parking lot has made way for Wilshire Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub5.jpg LAPL I also found this picture at LAPL. The caption says "The University Club was founded in this building at 913 South Broadway on March 27, 1898, in the home of Russ Avery. This corner is seen in 1892, when the first Eastern stores were founded by Adolph Sieroty, later the location of the Eastern new height-limit home." Is this the same University Club? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rsityClub6.jpg LAPL |
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:previous: Borrowing from HGraham's '33 or '39 empirical observation, I am inclined to agree with the '33 crowd. The prime indicator of date (for me) might be a contemporaneous newspaper ad, review or playbill of the "world premier." It may be far from common for a live performance to be one show only, but it has been known to happen on Broadway and plenty of High Schools, so why not Ocean Ave? For all we know, the show was preempted when the Navy unexpectedly canceled all shore leave. Come to think of it, Long Beach's world premier could have had a loose but novel plot line involving three sailors on 24 hour shore leave. With just the right musical numbers and a different Port City, it might have inspired . . . ? Well never mind. Respecting license plate dates, I assume the conclusion is based on shape rather than issuing numbers and possibly color, since previous Long Beach imagery has included many out-of-State plates. Bus shapes are not necessarily determinative of date. If the image is from '33, there is no obvious earthquake damage. Either it has been quickly swept up or this area escaped with easily remedied damage. It is also possible that the photo was taken pre-March 10, even though this includes a world premier banner for an event many weeks in the future. Another observation concerning one photo's caption of the Bank being open. For those keeping score, the '33 LBQuake struck on a Friday at approximately 5:55 PM. That date was also part of a 3-day bank Holiday declared by the Gov. It has been said that the bank Holiday may have spared a few Long Beach'ers who might have been conducting banking or spending their money at other businesses - from serious injury or worse. We will never know. http://ladailymirror.com/2011/08/26/...ch-quake-1933/ If anyone's interested, "Of Mice and Men" was released in - 1939 http://www.pacificelectric.org/wp-co...ch-4-18-39.jpghttp://www.pacificelectric.org/wp-co...ch-4-18-39.jpg http://www.worldlicenceplates.com/jp...S_CAXX_GI2.jpghttp://www.worldlicenceplates.com/jp...S_CAXX_GI2.jpg http://www.atticpaper.com/prodimages.../greyhound.jpghttp://www.atticpaper.com/prodimages.../greyhound.jpg |
A few more fascinating Long Beach images.
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:previous: That last photo is fascinating indeed Chuckaluck.
I came across this photograph of the 1933 earthquake earlier today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/843/gd89.jpg ebay |
You may recall, we discussed Carolina Pines a week or so ago.
I had mislabeled a photograph as being on Melrose Avenue, when it was actually on La Brea & Sunset. I just came across this matchbook with that same elusive 7315 Melrose address. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/706/tpf2.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/21/lwgy.jpg ebay |
...more dynamite in noirish Los Angeles.
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Mentioned here too. http://books.google.com/books?id=c6m...rolina&f=false |
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From what I can tell, there were earlier attempts to form University clubs—but the organization that built the Hope Street building was indeed formed in 1898 in Mr. Avery's parlor (Avery was later a distinguished judge): https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...2520PM.bmp.jpg LAT May 5, 1898/Dec 31, 1922 https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-S...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Sept 19, 1921/July 9, 1967 It sounds like the University Club remained in the building until the end. The Zamorano Club was a group interested in the history/art of printing who met in the building... an August Zamorano apparently being California's first printer. |
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An earlier home of the University Club, 349 S. Hill. It appears to still be under construction. The USC dates this pic as 1905--the Times reported on Aug 7, 1904, that John Parkinson had designed a new building for the club. |
:previous: Excellent find GW! That photograph is fantastic.
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Those are some very cool finds on the University Club on Hope Street. I can't say it's very good-looking to me but it sure was noirish.
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When looking at what they did it's really difficult to imagine parts of the old structure were incorporated into the new, especially since they literally enveloped the old with new and totally changed the exterior appearance of what can be seen of the old. |
301 S. Olive and 137-39 S. Broadway
Earl Millar lived at 301 S. Olive and built an office block at 37/39 S. Fort Street, later 137/39 S. Broadway.
He moved into his home -- which he was to occupy for a third of a century -- at the SW corner of 3rd and Olive in November 1883: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original November 7 1883 LA Times This zoomed photo looks SW from the Nadeau Hotel, which was completed in August 1883. At the SE corner of 3rd and Olive, where in 1886 the Crocker Mansion will be built, is a small house (to the left of the turreted barn). The Millar home may be hidden behind the two homes at the top of the hill near the center of the photo (the darker, two-story house with the porches, and the house above and behind it): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1761/rec/196 SW corner 3rd and Olive, 1888 Sanborn: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original LAPL Once the Crocker Mansion was built, plenty of photos of the era looked up at it or down from it! But zooming in on this 1898 photo from 3rd and Spring is the best view I could get of the Millar home, behind and to the left of the Crocker. As in the previous photo, we see the turreted barn, and to the right of the Crocker the dark, two-story patioed home -- apparently renovated -- plus the house above it: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll65/id/3480/rec/18[/url] In this c. 1905 zoomed view from the Court House, the Millar home is right of center -- opposite the Crocker Mansion -- and seemingly with a white pole sticking out of the middle of it (but not really of course; it's probably one of the early light masts): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../id/1227/rec/7 We've seen many photos here showing the top of Angel's Flight, but, again, not the SW corner of 3rd and Olive just across the street! The Millar home appears on the 1921 Baist map, but zooming in on this February 20, 1963 photo suggests that the home didn't last much longer after 1921 and was replaced by a modest commercial building (we see the rear end of a green-and-white car parked in front of it): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7647/rec/40 The Millar Block will be built just north of the NW corner of 2nd and Fort (later Broadway), perhaps starting in late 1885. Here's that intersection in the right foreground, c. 1883-84. The church in the foreground is the First Presbyterian, completed in April 1883 on the SE corner of 2nd and Fort. Its pastor at this time was J. W. Ellis, of Ellis Vista College: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1759/rec/185 The Millar Block was completed in early 1886: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0e7b2e79.jpg July 2 1886 LA Times http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original 1887 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com This photo of the two-story Millar Block shows the west/rear side (stepped wall at top with wooden porch attached) and north side, looking SE from 1st and Hill c. 1886-7. In the upper right corner, below "Organs," is LA's first synagogue, completed on Fort St. in 1873: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/898/rec/264 Another c. 1886-87 photo, looking SW from the Nadeau, showing the front of the Millar Block, which I guess is technically three stories if you count the little room in the turret. The building being built on the SW corner of 2nd and Fort, the California Bank Building, will have a big "1887" high up on the 2nd Street side. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1762/rec/188 But Millar wasn't satisfied with his building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original August 7 1887 LA Times Here is 37-39 S. Fort with four stories (plus an addition in the rear, replacing the wooden porch), taken from City Hall c. 1888-90 (the city ordinance eliminating street numbers below 100 was signed by Mayor Hazard on December 21, 1889). The 1887 California Bank Building dominates the foreground. See the name on the building at top right? Was "Seymour Johnson" a double-entendre back then, too?: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../17808/rec/515 Sadly, it was around this time that Mrs. Millar passed away: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original February 20, 1888 LA Herald @ LOC -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1 Mrs. Millar's brother George D. Rowan went into business with Mr. Millar (and apparently was not the stereotypical lunkhead brother-in-law, given his biographies, which refer to his father as James, not George B. as in his sister's obit above). George D. Rowan's son, Robert A. Rowan, was Rowan of the Rowan-Bilicke Fireproof Building Company, which built fireproof buildings that were absolutely fireproof, like the Alexandria Hotel, shown here in 1906: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...I4ED2JCXUE.jpg Info: http://books.google.com/books?id=YMU...ngeles&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=j-I...eproof&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=j-I...ngeles&f=false http://www.rmslusitania.info/people/...lbert-bilicke/ Mr. Millar remarried -- to a Lily -- but in time, Death came for him, too: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4ce147fa.jpg Simmon's Spice Mill, December 1916 (Spice Mill Publishing Company, New York) @ http://books.google.com/books?id=l-s...epage&q&f=true Here are the Millar Block and its neighbors, c. 1904-5. The C. H. Frost Building would later become the Haig M. Prince Building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/1745/rec/330 By 1906 the Millar Block had been renamed the Roanoke Building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original 1906 Sanborn @ LAPL You can see the top two stories of 137-139 S. Broadway in this February 23, 1909, photo looking west from 2nd and Spring: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original LOC -- http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource...a18032/?co=pan (previously posted by gsjansen: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1337) We have to fast-forward to February 24, 1952, for the next good -- and one of the best -- shots of the Millar Block: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original Indiana University Archives -- http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cush...se&pnum=P05738 But, as you may have already surmised, even with those two lions roaring defiantly out of the facade, time was running out for 137-39 S. Broadway. This photo is dated 1963; note the lamp post in front of the building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps77acbb2b.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IER3EUP79J.jpg This photo is dated June 1961 and looks at the NW corner of 2nd and Broadway -- so either it or the previous photo is misdated. At any rate, the Millar Block would have been across the street from the green flag, behind the lamp post: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/6280/rec/186 And 50 years later, what does the NW corner of 2nd and Broadway look like? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original GSV |
The old and the new....
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This process is common in Los Angeles. The builders will remove the original brick and stone exterior. This exposes the original steel framing. Next, they attach steel panels to the old framing and now we have a ''new'' building. :cool::tup::cool: |
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Utilities upgrading is very important as they have recently found out in New York with two old apartment buildings blowing to heck and gone from a gas leak. Of course it took pretty much idiots to run natural gas through cast iron pipe in the first place given the porous nature of cast iron. In that case 127 year old cast iron. When it came to the old Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in my view the building had an elegance that the new does not appear to equal. I think if I had been doing the project I might have found a way simply replace the middle and retained the elegance. Nothing like improving to common, uninspired Blah. |
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Hotel Schuyler, Long Beach http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MzQ1WDUyNA...dS2cQp/$_3.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MzQ1WDUyNA...dS2cQp/$_3.JPG http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTI2WDgwMA...hS0zPv/$_3.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTI2WDgwMA...hS0zPv/$_3.JPG http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTYwWDEyOD...KZ!~~60_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTYwWDEyOD...KZ!~~60_57.JPG http://images.auctionhelper.com/imag...113/113139.jpghttp://images.auctionhelper.com/imag...113/113139.jpg 11-11-1922 Armistice Day. - http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/co...0coll2/id/4382 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Lord & Taylor having an unannounced sale? http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 Buffums and Football http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
Olive Court and the view from the Melrose, 1914
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Looking east from the Melrose, 1914 Stitched together two nice C.C. Pierce negatives shot from the roof (or upper floor) of The Melrose (at about 128 S. Grand in the ugly new building). County Courthouse tower visible over the top of the new Hall of Records, crenelated tower of the Los Angeles Times building at 1st and Broadway. Row of buildings at the bottom of the image all address on Olive street. Far left bottom is the St. Mark Hotel (originally the Cecil and soon to be the Gladden, in three years it will become the home address of a local oil company accountant and soon to be struggling writer named Raymond Chandler) at 100 S. Olive. Next to the St. Mark/Cecil/Gladden is the northern entrance to Olive Court, albeit hidden by that tree, over to the right you can see the southern entrance to Olive Court and at the far right (bottom corner) is the Argyle. You will notice that by 1914 The Annex (133 S. Hill Street) has been torn down, leaving the Hotel Locke (behind the Argyle and directly behind that star pine) at 139 S. Hill Street (NW corner of 2nd) out on the point overlooking 2nd and Hill street all alone. Now we have a clear view of the Moore Cliff Apartment/Hotel (center, stark white, drab, featureless multi-story) and to the left the smaller, more architecturally interesting El Moro Hotel. Both the El Moro and the Moore Cliff address on Hill Street (109 and 121 respectively) yet are served by entrances here on Olive Court. USC digital archive/Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (chs-5711, 5712) |
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Thoroughly enjoyed your post on the Millar/Roanoke building Flyingwedge.
I didn't notice the lions heads until you pointed them out. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/812/m71t.jpg ...and I had to chuckle at the haphazard way they boarded up the front door. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/837/m368.jpg __ and... Excellent photographs & postcards of the Hotel Schuyler BifRayRock. :) __ |
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