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Godzilla Dec 21, 2014 4:25 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 6460261)
I don't believe we've seen this photo here before. At first I thought it was taken from the Mayflower/Hilton Checkers Hotel, but that's obviously not tall enough. It was taken from the
Crocker Bank Building at 6th and Grand.

Fifth Street runs left to right across the bottom of the photo, and Grand Avenue runs top to bottom through the center of the photo. The roof decks on the Sunkist Building at lower
left look very nice. Was anyone here ever out on them?:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original
Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou.../74799/rec/393

Zooming in a little closer, in the upper right corner is either Sinai or Olivet on Angel's Flight . . . at upper center are the Castle and Salt Box waiting to be relocated and torched . . .
and at left, at the end of what I guess is Upper North West 4th Street, is the Stuart K. Oliver house, the western end of which looks to be tilted down toward Flower Street:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...1.jpg~original
And of course that's the Engstrum to the left of the Edison Building, with the Edison Annex just behind the Engstrum. The old brick building north of the annex is still there, too.

More on the Stuart K. Oliver house:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1314

http://onbunkerhill.org/georgemann#comment-350

P.S.

Well heck these two photos -- one of which I thought I saw posted here before but now I can't find it -- show part of Bunker Hill and were taken in December 1968, which I think was close
to when the photo above was taken. So why not put all three together in one post?

The intersection of Figueroa and 3rd is in the extreme lower right corner:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/lafdhs/...7626553445719/

At left, 6th Street forks into 6th and 5th as it crosses eastbound over the Harbor Freeway, and to the right of center Wilshire Blvd. crosses over the freeway by the Signal Building.
It looks like there's a building behind (north of) the Sunkist Building that is missing from the Huntington photo above, so I guess that photo is early 1969 (the Castle and Salt Box were
moved in March '69):
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original
Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Society -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/lafdhs/...7626553445719/

Edison Bldg. and general environs, date unk.
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/cdm/single.../7706/rec/1606

corriganville Dec 21, 2014 8:33 PM
MGM "Gone With The Wind"... ''Atlanta" burns to the ground in 1939, Culver City. Old MGM back-lot movie sets used in massive movie fire effect.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps7b6756ce.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps275dca93.jpg
MGM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse556e230.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psfdf241f7.jpg
MGM ~ Vivien Leigh & Hattie McDaniel[/QUOTE]

"Gone With the Wind" was not filmed at MGM. For one thing, it was a Selznick production. Its main filming studio was the old RKO/Pathe Culver City lot, using the "40 acres" backlot. The Atlanta burning scene used the old King Kong wall as the main source of the fire.

CityBoyDoug Dec 21, 2014 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by corriganville (Post 6852483)
MGM "Gone With The Wind"... ''Atlanta" burns to the ground in 1939, Culver City. Old MGM back-lot movie sets used in massive movie fire effect.


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"Gone With the Wind" was not filmed at MGM. For one thing, it was a Selznick production. Its main filming studio was the old RKO/Pathe Culver City lot, using the "40 acres" backlot. The Atlanta burning scene used the old King Kong wall as the main source of the fire.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the clarification about the amazing fire scene...!!!

The fire was real, but Scarlett wasn't. Vivien Leigh had not yet been cast in the role, so the stunt double for Scarlett isn't seen very clearly.

"The location for the filming was to be the Pathé lot in Culver City, not far from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. To clear this lot of some old standing sets in order to make way for the construction of the plantation mansions of Tara and Twelve Oaks and the Atlanta buildings and streets, the art director, William Cameron Menzies, proposed that the old sets be brought down in a monstrous nighttime conflagration which could be photographed to constitute the big scene of the burning of Atlanta, a climax in the film. This heroic suggestion was enthusiastically embraced. Two stunt men were engaged to ride in an old wagon in front of the burning sets to represent in long shot the flight of Rhett and Scarlett (and Melanie Wilkes and her newborn child) out of the defeated city."



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psb8795f6c.jpg
Pathe archives

HossC Dec 21, 2014 11:35 PM
Just a little addendum to the recent Advance Electric Co posts - the third and last picture in the USC set is this one. The houses on the hill in the background were on Huntley Drive, a street which seems to have survived until the 1980s.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eElectric5.jpg
USC Digital Library

What caught my eye were the advertising boards on the left. "Eat CHICKEN DINNER" made sense, but "Eat CHICKEN DINNER Candy" had me confused.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...eElectric6.jpg
Detail of picture above.

From what I can find, Chicken Dinner candy bars were made in Milwaukee by the Sperry Candy Company between about 1923 and 1962. Despite the name, and the picture of a roast chicken on the packet, the descriptions I've read make them sound quite similar to Snickers bars.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ckenDinner.jpg
guff.com

The other advert is for Powow Cleanser, made by the West Coast Soap Company of Oakland, California.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...LA/LAPowow.jpg
eBay

ethereal_reality Dec 22, 2014 9:54 PM
Interesting conversation on the Falck Radio building and it's neighbors HossC and CityBoyDoug. I would have chimed in but I was out of town for a funeral. :(

I especially liked this one with the lone house on the hill and a residence next door as well.

originally posted by HossC
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/tGjAwg.jpg
USC

...and that Chicken Dinner Candy is pretty strange. It immediately made me think of Chick-O-Stick candy.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/uOFwo8.jpg
vintagecandy

My Mom loves Chick-O-Sticks.
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ethereal_reality Dec 22, 2014 10:23 PM
This is a remarkable bit of ephemera.

It's a rare 1929 Western Air Express 'air log' between Kansas City and Los Angeles.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/rHT9JT.jpg
ebay


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/oNlgUJ.jpg
ebay

It's quite an adventure.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/C2Y1rN.jpg
ebay

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/CoxFQT.jpg
ebay

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/H1WSrO.jpg
ebay

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/SjRFjC.jpg
ebay

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/xBmWio.jpg
ebay

I just realized there should be another page as the planes crosses from Arizona into California.

I'll post this beautiful detail of the cover graphic to make up for it.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/96or1T.jpg


There are lots of interesting details here, especially if you are into aviation.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/2OcnyT.jpg
ebay


..and here.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/4pJGBt.jpg
ebay


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ethereal_reality Dec 22, 2014 10:44 PM
vintage tea cup with advertisement. 1940s?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/WTYvjr.jpg
ebay

HossC Dec 23, 2014 12:00 AM
I can't find any previous NLA references to the "ultra-modern barber shop" at the Ambassador Hotel. The seller thinks the postcard is circa 1950s.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...dorBarber1.jpg
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...dorBarber2.jpg
eBay

ethereal_reality Dec 23, 2014 12:12 AM
I just posted that Hung Guey tea cup about an hour ago. I just found a postcard of the place. (and I wasn't even looking for it)


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...912/U0x3AY.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PC-Yee-Hung-...item259c01c289

ethereal_reality Dec 23, 2014 12:25 AM
Beetle protest car 1963.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/XBNCwd.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Los-Angeles-...item259a07b207

'Smog Liners'. I believe they are referring to the buses that were replacing the street cars.
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CityBoyDoug Dec 23, 2014 12:46 AM
Back in the Day....
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6853652)
This is a remarkable bit of ephemera.

It's a rare 1929 Western Air Express 'air log' between Kansas City and Los Angeles.



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Hello ER. That's a fantastic old airplane guide booklet. Page 14 shows the defunct Alhambra Airport. The airport was featured in the movie, Hollywood Hotel.

I used to live in a house that was built on the old runway. It was right about where we see the big plane in this photo.

The narrative details flight at about 10,00 feet in a plane that is not pressurized as they are today. It was noisy and one could actually see the ground.

Lastly they bravely write about a possible engine failure. Yikes...!!! In today's world that subject would be taboo in a passenger book.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse2654d29.jpg
water & power archives

Here's the song from the film that shows much of the old airport:

http://youtu.be/KpkLVUaBcB8

ethereal_reality Dec 23, 2014 12:50 AM
:previous: -very cool that you used to live in a house that was built on an old runway CBD. (did you ever hear ghostly sounds of airplane motors?)
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Below are a photograph and a page from a 1961 booklet on Angels Flight date.


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/3HkBcf.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANGELS-FLIGH...item51c76ca94d

I don't remember seeing that 'APARTMENT special weekly rates 10 cents' sign before. (unless I've just overlooked it)




And I wasn't aware that Colonel Bradbury's wine cellar was fifty feet below his mansion!!

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/sUZAbQ.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANGELS-FLIGH...item51c76ca94d

Is this correct, or am I reading this wrong? *EDIT: (I just realized I AM reading it wrong. My mind had placed a coma behind 'below')

also, note that the above illustration is dated 2001....as in...THE FUTURE.
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To see more photographs and pages from the booklet go here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANGELS-FLIGH...item51c76ca94d

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Wig-Wag Dec 23, 2014 6:00 AM
Beetle Protest
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6853789)
Beetle protest car 1963.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/XBNCwd.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Los-Angeles-...item259a07b207

'Smog Liners'. I believe they are referring to the buses that were replacing the street cars.
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Well ER, I wish you had posted this one a day or two earlier so I could have bid on it, but that point notwithstanding, when it comes to serendipity you sure know how to pick'em!

The fellow in the dark jacket at the extreme left of the photo is none other than a teenage "Wig-Wag" on one of the last daytime run excursions during the last day of service for streetcars in Los Angeles over the weekend of March 30/31, 1963. The fellow to my right is my friend Richard who went on to become a transportation engineer and served in management for several major U.S. city transit operations. I believe the fellow leaning into the VW is another friend who went on to a career the LA DWP.

Attached are two documents from that day including the solicitation to ride the very last PCC car to run before the shut down and conversion to GM Dreamliner Busses. That run began at 11:00 PM on the evening of March 30th. Needless to say we all rode that last run!

http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...psf0f1b961.jpg

http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...s96aa642b.jpeg

Thanks HossC for your photo help!

Cheers,
Jack

Godzilla Dec 23, 2014 2:01 PM
Interesting WigWag:previous: . Can you identify the location? ( Near "ERHSA HQ" on South Genesee Ave?:cool:)



[North] Genesee Avenue. Homes built in early-mid-'20s.

James Copeland residence. (Curious object near chimney. Radio Antenna?)

http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UGU1S9A5EX.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...UGU1S9A5EX.jpg


http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...EIFI3HRCYV.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...EIFI3HRCYV.jpg




And in the backyard?
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...SDF4RXR7JS.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...SDF4RXR7JS.jpg


Edit: HossC, name provided by source. I was also unsuccessful with the CD. Thanks for follow-up.

HossC Dec 23, 2014 3:26 PM
:previous:

I had no luck looking for James Copeland on Genesee in the City Directories, so I turned to Google Maps. Near the northern end I found 1600 N Genesee Avenue.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0NGenesee1.jpg
GSV

It's now surrounded by a hedge, and some of the features have been changed, but the circular detail just below the roof remains the same (there's another on the back). I found a build date of 1922 and "Year Renovated" date of 1942 on redfin.com.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0NGenesee2.jpg
GSV


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Thanks for posting the documents about the last excursion of the street cars, Wig-Wag, and I'm glad the picture posting worked out for you.

Martin Pal Dec 23, 2014 6:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by HossC (Post 6853760)
I can't find any previous NLA references to the "ultra-modern barber shop" at the Ambassador Hotel. The seller thinks the postcard is circa 1950s.
It says "Conveniently located on the Casino Floor."
I don't recall ever hearing about a casino in the Ambassador Hotel. :shrug:

Hollywood Graham Dec 23, 2014 6:16 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 6854543)
It says "Conveniently located on the Casino Floor."
I don't recall ever hearing about a casino in the Ambassador Hotel. :shrug:
Casino does not only apply to a gambling establishment but can be a building (as at Avalon, Catalina Island) or an area for social amusement. The term maybe fell out of use for the Ambassador for one reason or another at some time.

jg6544 Dec 23, 2014 6:29 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 6853819)
Hello ER. That's a fantastic old airplane guide booklet. Page 14 shows the defunct Alhambra Airport. The airport was featured in the movie, Hollywood Hotel.

I used to live in a house that was built on the old runway. It was right about where we see the big plane in this photo.

The narrative details flight at about 10,00 feet in a plane that is not pressurized as they are today. It was noisy and one could actually see the ground.

Lastly they bravely write about a possible engine failure. Yikes...!!! In today's world that subject would be taboo in a passenger book.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse2654d29.jpg
water & power archives

Here's the song from the film that shows much of the old airport:

http://youtu.be/KpkLVUaBcB8
It was a great airline guide. At one point, one of the airlines was offering flights (transcontinental, I think), that would fly in daylight hours; land as the sun was setting, and the passengers would continue in Pullman cars; then they'd meet a plane the next morning and resume their journey. It was faster than going the entire distance by train.

ethereal_reality Dec 23, 2014 6:42 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wig-Wag (Post 6854108)
The fellow in the dark jacket at the extreme left of the photo is none other than a teenage "Wig-Wag".
Now that's pretty amazing! You're a good looking bloke Wig_Wag.
:)

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ethereal_reality Dec 23, 2014 6:57 PM
"First air-raid shelter built in Los Angeles, 1941."

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/EfxDq5.jpg
ebay

What's with that white V near the man's eye?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/IdLWuy.jpg

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