This shows the north building pretty clearly...
and check out the cool streetlight hanging over the intersection...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8424/7...33a18d86_o.jpg los angeles high school, 1910 Photograph of Los Angeles High School, Fort Moore Hill, overgrown with vines, 1910. At center, the original six story bell tower building is covered with ivy. At left, the vines stop on the clock tower just beneath the clock, whose hands are missing. The side entrance is partially hidden behind the bough of a tree but the sloping columns are apparent where they frame the staircase. At right, a lone automobile is parked along the sidewalk near the second, north building. USC digital archive |
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There's an aside in Carey McWilliam's "Southern California: An Island on the Land" (1946):
"Some years ago a leading citizen of Pasadena was arrested on the morning of the day when he was have to received an honorary degree from a local college. Along with seven or eight other other leading lights of Pasadena, all men of advanced years, he was charged with having engaged in a charming assortment of sexual perversions with school-aged youngsters. He later committed suicide. The prompt and efficient manner in which this particular scandal was buried under an avalanche of dense silence remains one of the most remarkable accomplishments of the remarkable Los Angeles press." Chapter XV "The Los Angeles Archipelago", 5. "The Crown of the Valley" Anyone got the story on that, or is it really lost down the memory hole? I've never had any luck trying to research it. |
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...but what's up with the clock!? Was it ever in working order? |
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I thought this might stir some memories...
http://imageshack.us/a/img801/4919/a...capadesatt.jpg http://www.lapl.org/ The Ice Capades at Pan-Pacific Auditorium (date unknown) __ |
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Stevens Place
So, I was looking at the wonderful photos posted of the second high school, and trying to place in my mind how it related to the location on the hill of the first high school (after they moved it from Poundcake Hill). I found what I was looking for on the Baist maps, but it also set me to wondering about Stevens Place, southeast of the corner of Grand & Sunset, which is now also part of the school property.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...653%2520PM.jpg Historic Map Works I know the street is long gone, and the land now occupied by that giant school building, but I wanted to see if anything remained of it - like a half-covered remnant of curved curbing or something else to indicate there was once a street corner there. There's no curved concrete that I can tell. But wait - right next to what would have been the SE corner of Grand Ave. & Stevens Place, there is a storm drain, surrounded by concrete that looks older than the rest of the sidewalk. And look what's painted on it: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-o...652%2520PM.jpg Google Street View Like that brick basement wall recently excavated downtown on a lot that has been a parking lot for decades, posted a few pages back - it's interesting how some things can stick around long past when you'd think they would be completely gone. If you Google for stevens place, los angeles, you even get a map of just the right spot, even though there is no Stevens Place actually on the map. |
LA High School ..second building?
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Beckett house, revisited
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MLS It looks like Curbed has discovered the Beckett house, years after Noirish and others: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...snormandie.php See also Noirish post 1848 here and 1849 here. Don't miss the great Alison Krause/Robert Plant video showing the Beckett's interior and grounds--it has a new new link and is worth the mindless 30 sec ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Xi5gvZ7Kk |
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http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3...ettnow1250.jpg http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8...partycompl.jpg "The beautiful new home of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Beckett of No. 2218 Harvard boulevard was brilliantly alight with electricity and gay flowers last evening, at the handsomely appointed reception which they gave in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. "Dr. and Mrs. Beckett were married just twenty-five years ago yesterday at San Luis Obispo and since then, for most of the time, have made their home in this city, where they possess a large number of friends. Last night's affair was given as a supper and few knew it was an anniversary until they arrived. "The entire home was trimmed with asparagus ferns in clinging tendrils and the handsome couple received their friends beneath an arch of feathery greens, in which silver tinsel was tightly wound, and from the center of which hung a huge bell of green, covered with shining tinsel, and a silvery electric light formed the clapper. White bride roses graced this room. The drawing-room was in bride roses and ferns, and in the large colonial hall, lit with red candles in odd brass candlesticks, poinsettias formed striking ornaments against the white of the walls. The den was also in poinsettias, and the dining-room was adorned with the flaming blossoms. Below stairs when refreshments were served in the gymnasium, scarlet crepe paper canopied the walls and holly and poinsettias were combined about the room. The table was lit with red candles, set in quaint old brass sconces, and down the center were set pots of the poinsettias. "The hostess herself was charmingly attired in silver gray satin gown of softest sheen, trimmed with applique and velvet roses,and wore silver ornaments. "Assisting in receiving were Mmes W. W. D. Turner, Walter Lindley, R. M. Widney, W. H. Richards, Z. L. Parmalee, R. H. Lacey and Mrs. Lee A. Phillips of Stockton and Mrs. Charles Crothers of San Jose, Miss Maude Elizabeth Richards, Miss Hawks, Miss Belle McClung,Miss Clara Parmalee and Miss Zella Kohn Arend's orchestra discoursed sweet music through the evening, and nearly five hundred guests congratulated the popular couple." http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5...terior1250.jpg All color pics CurbedLA/b&w LAT |
It sure is wonderful to see the magnificent Beckett House again. Thanks GW!
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I made the series of shots from post #13287 into a gif. I can slow it down if it's going too fast.
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View from the west...
somewhat later than we'd like, I know, but this is really the only thing I've found looking back to Fort Moore Hill from the west...nice shot, lots of things in here.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8032/8...057a93ea_o.jpg aerial looking southeast across fort moore hill, ca,1939 USC digital archive/Dick Whittington collection |
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The only architectural features that seem to have changed over the years is the discarded parapet railings along the roof edge. But that ia an interesting one. Was a flat roof replaced by a sloping roof to improve drainage? Or maybe to keep people from walking on it. To me, that is a significant alteration. Hummm. |
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West view of Fort Moore Hill
Another interesting view Michael of the Fort Moore Hill area would have been the buildings located on the narrow finger formed by the south side of Sunset and the north side where Hill wraps around to the west. That was a significant grade change as Hill climbs up to the level of the school while Sunset continues to slope down towards Broadway. Those buildings squeezed into that area which is clearly seen on the Baist’s map would indeed have been perched there like pigeons on a wire.
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MR: We--my Angeleno friend and I--are thinking that maybe this is a little closer to the year the school moved to Olympic in 1917 than 1910. Can anyone zero in on the make/approx year of that car? Also--I'm not positive, but I believe that old style of intersection streetlamp was lowerable on a pulley system for changing the bulb etc.... |
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