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It has elements of some Victorian residential structures but it would be misleading to apply the term. Especially since the house was built in the summer of 1907. That makes it strictly speaking an Edwardian house. As to "style" I'd venture to say it's a "Tudor-Craftsman." The multiple front-facing gables plant it in the Craftsman vernacular, as does the large open porch (and I love the use of clinker brick instead of the usual river rock). Then, there's decorative half-timbering on the upper stucco portions, that's Tudor. Were it my house, I'd paint the board dark brown and the stucco cream. The "maltese cross" design on the door is seriously one of the best residential doors I've seen anywhere, anytime. |
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Awesome Beaudry-- This I will put (eventually) into folder at One Archives-for Mattachine Society /L.A.
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Thank you!! That's an amazing picture!
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Happy to help. I posted in 2018 about a long lost golf course above the beach there. My previous post The area must have seemed like the end of the world back then. |
The Tower of Mystery
I've spent the past few days trying to ID the tower in the background of these two circa early 1940s photos without much luck. So I'm hoping the hive mind might be able to come up with the answer.
The photos have been identified as looking west along Beverly Blvd. The traffic lights in the foreground are on Robertson Blvd. Assuming the above is true, which I'm pretty sure it is, I'm thinking that puts the tower in the background that I'm trying to identify at around La Peer or Almont. It looks to me like it's one of those ornamental towers that they loved to stick on top of gas stations and the like in the 1930s. If anybody recognizes it, I'd LOVE to hear from you. Thanks, guys! https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...41-Pontiac.png https://pastvu.com/p/469496 https://martinturnbull.com/wp-conten...arly-1940s.jpg |
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My first thought was Carthay Circle, but I was wrong. It's the Beverly Tower at the intersection of Beverly and San Vicente Boulevards, which means that the shot above is Beverly Boulevard looking east at Robertson Boulevard. The description says: View of a section of San Vicente Boulevard, showing some Art Deco buildings. In the background is the Beverly Tower, which is a service station, next to that, in the center of the image, is a little eatery. A painted wooden sign on the left advertises horseback riding lessons. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...verlyTower.jpg LAPL |
Ah! Thanks, HossC! So my inkling that it was an ornamental gas station tower was right on the money, after all. Thanks much!
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Great find for that photo, HossC. Though something is confusing me.
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HossC, I am somewhat confused.
https://pastvu.com/p/469496 This above link lists the two similar photos were taken at Beverly Blvd. and Bonner Dr., one on March 5, 1941, and the other on June 5, 1941 (hence the two different billboards). The map on the page indicates Bonner Dr. t-bones Beverly Blvd. from the north and is in between Robertson and San Vicente. The photo you posted (c. 1940) indicates the caption saying: "View of a section of San Vicente Boulevard" and your conclusion is that the other two photos are: "the shot/s above is Beverly Boulevard looking east at Robertson Boulevard." If one is looking east on Beverly from Bonner, Robertson is west, the other direction. The map included on the link page seems to indicate this gas station would be on Robertson and the photo looking west toward Robertson. The LAPL indication of the businesses being on San Vicente would be incorrect in this case. Something doesn't seem accurate to me. Or, I could just confused? (It's hot here! :hell:) |
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Here's a 1937 aerial of the area. You'll see that Bonner Drive originally went straight to the intersection of Beverly and Robertson. Looking at Historic Aerials, the layout was still similar in the late '40s. In my head, the 1940s photos were taken from the left of this aerial looking to the right (east). I've labeled what I think is Beverly Tower. My assumption is reinforced by the writing on the roof below it reading "L.A. RIDING ACADEMY", tying in with the "HORSEBACK RIDING LESSONS" sign on the left of my earlier photo. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...erlyTower2.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
. That aerial explains it, HossC! Thank you. The current Bonner Drive curves down to Beverly Blvd. approximately where the second "n" in Bonner is written on the 1937 aerial. So what you said makes sense now!Click on the photo in the quoted post below if you want a larger version. Quote:
Correction: Additional research found that the Los Angeles Riding Academy (in the foreground) was sold in 1924, so obviously the photo was taken before then. I updated the headline to reflect the date change. – Jon, Sept. 11, 2020. In the 1937 aerial the Riding Academy does look different in a lot of ways. He doesn't say if the Academy was still being used for any other horse related activities, but it would makes sense that it was from the riding lessons sign in the 1937 aerial. |
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Mystery buildings. "Vintage 1938 Snapshot Photo Woman Buried in Sand on Beach Los Angeles CA " (half buried, if that) unless there's another girl under the sand. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/P4jMPH.jpg Currently on eBay https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...923/SgmU5Z.jpg Let's take a closer look at those buildings in the background. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/bp6KxJ.jpg hmm. . .Venice Beach? I'd say the building on the left is a hotel and the building on the right is. .um. .well, that looks like a box office in the arched entrance but it doesn't look like a theater. (and is that a barber pole to the right of the entrance?) . |
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. . .and since we're down the beach. A one of a kind snapshot of Venice, the Hotel St. Regis and Ocean Park Pier. (1940s?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/8l6Kkf.jpg Currently on eBay ....................................................................I spy three sailors. ;) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/h67C8l.jpg . |
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Just in terms of the date of the picture - it's likely from 1941 and not 1938 as the ebay seller has it. As the seller points out the posters in the background are for Ringling Bros. Circus in Long Beach on Sept. 17. The only years the circus was in Long Beach on that date were 1923 and 1941. The cars in the picture indicate the later year. https://i.imgur.com/xb2H506.png classic.circushistory.org |
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Thanks for the correction, Noir Noir. I spent a good portion of an hour trying to read the posters not realizing the seller mentioned Ringling Bros. Circus. :duh . |
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1946 Mystery I don't recall seeing this fantastic building on NLA. (but as many of you know, my memory stinks)... I searched the thread using "bosley" and received no hits. Seller's description:..1946 Goldberg-Bosley Dance Ballroom Venice Blvd & S. Flower St Los Angeles Photo. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/H6tc91.jpg Currently on eBay The reverse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/qwW1UV.jpg I found the ballroom(?) in the 1916 city directories with a slight variation between 1601 and 1606 S. Flower Street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/xPsShT.jpg 1916 LAPL https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/EHAe3T.jpg 1929 LAPL Oh, I almost forgot. Here's a closer look at the signs at the southeast? corner of S. Flower and Venice Blvd.. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/pez3sS.jpg detail OK, folks. Let's find a photograph of the interior! . .and, if luck is with us, perhaps a photograph of Philip & Ida tripping the light fantastic. :whip: Go minions! hahahhahah (evil laugh) . |
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It looks like we got a small look at Goldberg-Bosley Dance Ballroom nearly 10 years ago. In your original post, e_r, you posted a detail view from the image below, but it's now missing. GW replied to this detail with a couple of LAT articles including one about a fire bomb. I found a matchbook cover at www.flickr.com which describes the ballroom as the "Best Ventilated in Los Angeles". Quote:
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Both the L.A. Metro Line A (Blue) and E Line (Expo) both run down Flower St. now, past where this ballroom was located.
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