1949 - 3741 S. La Brea Avenue - Baldwin Theater (:shrug: if the arches appear elsewhere on NLA )

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When the sun disappeared in 1949
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Do you deserve a break today?
[Mc]Downey takes pride in its McDonalds
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Formerly in San Bernardino
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You're right HossC. I just thought this building on the southwest corner (of Figueroa & 58th St.) had some of the same characteristics as a small depot.

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and then, when I noticed the r.r. tracks, my imagination got the best of me. ;)

And as you see below, the building is a bit too far from the tracks (it could have been moved of course)

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When I first glanced at BRR's photo of the Baldwin Theater I thought it was under attack.

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1930 - Welcome to Gardena


At or around 182nd and Western Ave. ( 5533 South Western Avenue) http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/23913/rec/15



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Leetha's Chicken - None Better
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The preferred view of Leetha's Chicken Inn
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Hold the pickles hold the lettuce . . .


Judge Carlos S. Hardy, Justice with Mercy
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Impeached for alleged improprieties involving Sister Aimee trial and later acquitted. https://books.google.com/books?id=Yj...mpeach&f=false "After evaluating the numerous newspaper reports, one Los Angeles Superior Court judge, Carlos Hardy, informally advised McPherson to hire private detectives to assist her. In his view, law enforcement officials were making no effort to find any substantiating evidence of a kidnapping and were only interested in breaking down her end of the story." (See note 27 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapp...mple_McPherson)

Judge Hardy on the right
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I'd love to see a photo of Thornton Towers when it still had its wrought iron stair rail and before it got heavily Art Deco-ized. I imagine it looked lighter and prettier.

The discussion about 58th and Figueroa brought up something.

In post-1965 photos the empty lots on South/South Central LA main streets - Crenshaw, Main Street, Broadway, Figueroa, Central, Avalon, Vermont, MLK (Santa Barbara), Vernon, Slauson, Florence, Manchester, Century - are likely the result of being burnt in the Watts and Rodney King Riots.

I grew up at 58th and Broadway from the late '40s to 1966. Street cars to freeways cutting off east-west streets. There were small businesses in solid buildings that are long gone, having been torched or from out of control fires.

My father owned a bar on South Broadway, and there is no vestige of the three story building, which included apartments upstairs.

So it's unsurprising there is an empty lot at 58th and Fig. Another thing, who owns all those empty lots? Paying taxes on unproductive property? Repossessed by lenders?

remember her?

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After locating the photo below I'm 100% sure she is on the east side. (red arrow shows the same balustrade in both photos) I've circle where the lady was standing.

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Adding to my initial confusion:
I think the Channel Road pedestrian entrance has been reconfigured. (the entrance is visible just to the right of the car turning on to Channel road)

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I believe it was moved from here (blue) to here (red). -maybe when they added the left turn lane on PCH.
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Now the entrance is parallel with Channel Road. (marked in blue is where I believe the old entrance was located)

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I could be wrong, but after looking at all the photos I think this is a possibility.
(refer back to the first photo of the lady in comfortable shoes) -it all falls into place.

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Now back towards downtown Los Angeles.


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This snapshot was taken near Olvera Street...but what is the building across the street with the 'Patio" blade sign.


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and here
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El Rey Machinery & Mfg Co. (also notice the small vertical 'hotel' sign to the right of the printing co.)
Wasn't there a Pacific and an Atlantic Hotel in this area?

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I happened across this photograph by Grudnick on flickr.

I've never noticed this white 'colonial-style' building with the pillars before. I took a quick spin in the google-mobile, but couldn't find it.
Does anyone recognize it?

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This almost looks like a montage. I thick Grudnick used a 'depth-0f-field' trick.

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I've read a few references that claim Thornton Towers was built by the Duncan Sisters, and that Isadora Duncan lived in the penthouse and danced on the roof. Then I remembered a page called Debunking Venice's Historic Myths (I first linked to it regarding the tunnels under Westward Avenue in post #21789). Amongst the celebrities rumored to have lived in Venice is this listing for Isadora Duncan at 16 Thornton: "Many residents claim that this 1913 apartment building was owned by the famous dancer. She lived in San Francisco and owned no Venice property."

Googling Isadora Duncan and Venice brings up the picture below. This is in fact the original Venice in Italy. Isadora Duncan's Wikipedia page suggests that Ms Duncan was in Europe until 1914 (a year after Thornton Towers was built), when she moved back to New York.

Isadora Duncan on the Lido in Venice (Raymond Duncan, 1903)

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El Patio
 

There was an El Patio next door to Hotel Pacific back in the late 1940's at Sunset (before realignment of streets in that area) and Spring.

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The signs in the foreground are on the Hollywood Freeway between N Cahuenga and Holly Drive. Tracing a line from there to the Hollywood sign, I found the house on La Punta Drive. The number near the gate says it's 6360 La Punta Drive. A quick Google suggests it was built in 1989.

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And here's a view of the north side.

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I forget the name of its neighbor, but the El Rey storefront is part of the Sentous Block on the Main Street side.

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The trio of buildings there all look to run the length of the block from Main to Spring. Next door to the left of El Patio is the back side of the Sentous Block. Another view to be found here, looking south along Spring towards Sunset:

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Another picture looking at the Main Street side of this block (as seen in e_r's picture). The full version of the image below was posted by Flyingwedge in post #15394. It shows the backs of the old Atlantic and Pacific Hotel buildings, with the Sentous block being demolished in the foreground. It's dated 1957.

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Yes, this is Main Street with the Atlantic to the left (or south) of the Sentous Building (with the little nondescript 'hotel' sign in your bottom pic). The El Patio Club was in the ground floor of the Hotel Atlantic. Here's a shot from the Spring Street side...


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