Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8139232)

'mystery' location (sort of)


"Lillian Gish at her home during the filming of 'A Duel in the Sun' 1946"


I finally I figured out where this wishing well photograph was taken.





You can see the base of the well in the lower right corner. (note the curved sidewalk)

OLD FILE
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/6uKaXZ.jpg

Does anyone recognize this place?




I KNOW, RIGHT? UNBELIEVABLE

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8139647)

Not many people know that there is a palm tree species native to the environs of L.A., extending into local desert washes and ravines, Washingtonia robusta ssp. vernalis, which has inflorescences that strongly resemble Easter Baskets.

https://s26.postimg.org/5oaqn0ujd/bunnypalm.jpg
www.dreamstime.com

Scientists are currently in heated debate concerning the evolutionary processes which brought this about.

Originally Posted by LA Times

One of downtown's oldest tall buildings, the former Los Angeles offices of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, sold this week for nearly $70 million to a residential developer.

Now known as the Santa Fe Lofts, the 11-story tower at Main and 6th streets, which opened in 1908, has been an apartment building for more than a decade and was owned by investor Capital Foresight.

The new owner, MWest Holdings, plans to spend an additional $6 million to renovate and upgrade the 132-unit complex, said Matthew Ellis, chief investment officer of the Sherman Oaks landlord and developer.

MWest specializes in turning some of the city's oldest buildings into luxury housing. Company projects include the Wilshire Royale and Park Wilshire apartment buildings near MacArthur Park, which date to the 1920s, and the San Fernando Building, completed in 1906 in what is now downtown's Old Bank District.

Thousands of new luxury housing units have been built downtown in the last few years, but old buildings can still compete for tenants, Ellis said.

"There are a finite number of these historic buildings and it is our belief these buildings will outperform in good markets and bad," he said. "People love the high- ceilinged, light-filled units these historic buildings provide."

To help compete with new buildings, MWest will improve the roof deck and add tenant amenities to the now-unused basement, including a gym, business center and screening room.

The upgrade that will begin shortly is another sign that the neighborhood has substantially improved in the last two decades, said real estate broker Mike Condon Jr. of Cushman & Wakefield, who helped arrange the Santa Fe Lofts sale, which closed Thursday.

The Santa Fe Lofts is across the street from the former Pacific Electric Red Car train terminal and headquarters, another historic building, which opened in 1905. The surrounding area was considered "fringe skid row" and widely perceived as unsafe not many years ago, Condon said.

Since then, dozens of new residential buildings have opened downtown including an apartment building that was completed last year next to the Santa Fe Lofts. "We're finally getting a nice blend of new and old buildings," Condon said.

The Santa Fe office building was considered a marvel more than a century ago when it was built by lumber mill mogul George Kerckhoff.

"The long-planned Kerckhoff Building will be one of the finest office buildings in this city of magnificent structures," The Times reported in 1907, "that will top the great Pacific Electric Building by two full stories."

An addition to the Kerckhoff building was added in 1916 and the current complex is still made up of two separate structures. Kerckhoff was a partner in a business that supplied ice to Santa Fe rail cars, which led to the railroad's tenancy in the building, historian Greg Fischer said.

The railroad's La Grande Station terminal was to the east, on a site now occupied by the 438-unit One Santa Fe apartment complex built in 2014 on Santa Fe Avenue, Fischer said.

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8139647)

Not many people know that there is a palm tree species native to the environs of L.A., extending into local desert washes and ravines, Washingtonia robusta ssp. vernalis, which has inflorescences that strongly resemble Easter Baskets.

https://s26.postimg.org/5oaqn0ujd/bunnypalm.jpg
www.dreamstime.com
Scientists are currently in heated debate concerning the evolutionary processes which brought this about.

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir (Post 8139702)

They are a decorative tree and usually no problem ... except when the wind gets up they can be a bit of a nuisance.

http://www.laparent.com/wp-content/u...nt-768x576.jpg

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 8139924)

Easter Sunrise Services used to be a thing over at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, long long ago. Strange to say, I can't seem to find any pix of the event; but I can at least show the location(s) . . . um, I think . . .

I'm not too clear on whether the services were at Avalon Bowl:

https://s26.postimg.org/pqtlxbue1/AvBowl.jpg
odinthor collection

or if they were up the funicular

https://s26.postimg.org/a5cadedax/AvBowl2.jpg
odinthor collection

at Buena Vista Park

https://s26.postimg.org/gj1dgnpwp/AvBuViPa.jpg
odinthor collection

or out further on the ridge that Buena Vista Park was on

https://s26.postimg.org/w4ip0m9kp/Av_Bu2.jpg
odinthor collection

Considering this last pic, the rising sun would actually be visible off to the right (well out of the shot), not I think visible at all from Avalon Bowl.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7433637)

. . . . .

This image is one of four photos in "Job 3738: Lytton Savings and Loan Association, sculpture exhibition, 1964".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original
Getty Research Institute
Finally, here's a picture of Bart Lytton from "Job 3850: Bart Lytton portraits, 1965".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
Getty Research Institute

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir (Post 8140006)

Pictures of the Catalina Island Easter Sunrise Service in 1939.

https://s7.postimg.org/41yrevu3v/1939_easter_jesus.jpg

https://s7.postimg.org/7a38rcvmz/1939_easter_narr.jpg

https://s7.postimg.org/ubjtx60gb/1939_easterhilltop.jpg

From the program of events -

https://s7.postimg.org/kr07adiuz/program.jpg

http://www.voncoelln.com/catalina/su...ice_1939.shtml

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8140731)

'One of the oldest flagpoles in the city."

Here's an interesting little article about the flag pole that once stood in front of the United States Hotel.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/VuGCJZ.jpghttps://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/PEw7uF.jpg
Los Angeles Herald, 9 February 1902




The flag pole is visible in this 1939 photograph. over there-------->

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ebtGYU.jpg
USC DIGITAL ARCHIVE





and here [in 1906]

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/dGsXwq.jpg
See the rest of this photograph HERE

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