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Here's a quick "then and now". The reverse has a stamp saying that The Daily Telegraph published this photo on May 23rd, 1987 with the caption "The brash and the not so beautiful: L.A. says it all with sign language."
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...vedaSigns1.jpg www.ebay.com I drew a blank with the Mark IV Lounge and Walden Drugs, but found Bar-Shel's Hi-Fi at 5512 Sepulveda Boulevard. With a branch of Mark C Bloome Tires at 5547 Sepulveda Boulevard, that ties in with the "5563" on the Walden sign. Much of the signage and the utility poles have now gone, but you'll still find a tire dealer at 5547: Just Tires is the green and yellow building on the left. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...vedaSigns2.jpg GSV |
Empty Court hill
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Here is 975 S. Manhattan Place [built 1910] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/cQJDNA.jpg GSV Looking across the empty lot next door. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dsqTPZ.jpg gsv In fact, there are two more empty lots across the street. --makes me wonder if its days are numbered. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/2inlbL.jpg GSV __ |
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Very numbered. Time was up in November 2017. Clear the Lot it says - https://i.imgur.com/Zc66r5N.jpg http://www.ladbs.org/ The lot next to it was cleared in 2003. The two across the street - one cleared in 1992 and the other in 2004. |
re: 'mystery' symbol at 1224 Arden Rd. Pasadena.
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/rWHRhl.jpg GSV It appears the google-mobile caught the beginning of a zombie apocalypse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/josRHI.jpg detail ARRRGH.... The interior of the home is quite grand compared with the modest exterior.. especially this room with a barrel vaulted coffered ceiling and 2nd story 'choir loft'. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/XvO5qj.jpg estately More (64 more!) photographs HERE A description of the house at NYTIMES This mentions the 'choir loft' and the Zuber & Cie wallpaper murals in the dining room. Hoss was close when he said the mystery area might now be a tennis course....today there's only a basketball hoop. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/yTlnkP.jpg estately Caltech professor Frederick Lindvall occupied the house sometime after Garfield Jones. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...922/sZ2CD4.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/oFLjPf.jpg nationalacademyengineering "Caltech Professor Frederick Lindvall. Lindvall was one of the most skilled and versatile professors of engineering of his time. On the Internet one can find the text of his oral history made for the Caltech archive. It tells of his work during World War II on rocket and torpedo design. He had a brief connection with the atomic bomb project, but mostly worked early on during World War II with the military on early rocket launchers and helped fix problems the Navy was having with aircraft-dropped torpedos using underwater testing facilities behind Morris Dam above Azusa. Lindvall later visited the Soviet Union to learn about its engineering education system." pasadena star early rocket launchers...hmmmmm. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...924/96wo4j.jpg _ |
To Have And Have Not ...Warner Brothers, Staqe 28 and 28A Burbank. The boat was docked at Balboa and was half owned by Desi Arnaz.
http://www.cartychronicles.com/pepit...ve%20Not_3.jpghttp://www.cartychronicles.com/pepit...%20Not_4_1.jpg carty chron. http://www.cartychronicles.com/pepit...ve%20Not_2.jpg..https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/a5...65e87427a6.gif The current location of this little boat is unknown ...if it exists at all. |
'mystery' apartment under construction, Los Angeles
"1959 Street Scene Construction 1957 Buick Los Angeles Kodachrome Slide" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/DNh0L7.jpg EBAY The only chance of figuring out this location is if someone recognizes the unusual landscaping in the foreground. _ |
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The 3 lots on the left (parking lot, empty lot, not-long-for-this-world house lot and 4 lots on the right (the cleared lots all the way to Olympic) are soon to be home to two 7-story apartment buildings with 95 and 100+ rental apartments, respectively. Oddly, the developers are using density bonus regs (trade a percentage of units for low income) instead of the new Transit Oriented Development to get additional height and density. They’ll be the largest residential buildings for blocks...for now. Neighborhood’s changing! |
:previous: Thanks for the information Jh__windsorvillage and Noir Noir.
Jh, do you have a link to the new development? __ update: Is this it? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/bQ68Pc.jpg larchmont buzz __ |
'mystery' location II [somewhere along Wilshire Blvd.]
"Original Slide - Los Angeles Wilshire Blvd. 1959 Plymouth Taxi Cab Yellow" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/Kf62eG.jpg EBAY That vivid watermark looks like it's floating and coming right at my face. |
:previous: While trying to locate that color slide again, I found this....
"End Of Wilshire Blvd California Downtown Los Angeles Photo #1201"* https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/S3fTQD.jpg EBAY What's up with the Abraham Lincoln station-wagon? [Lincoln Savings?] :shrug: *This is a reprint so we might have already seen this on nla. _ |
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Duncan, Vail, Co. I visited it one time for imported Belgium watercolor paper. |
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Looking west from Maple Drive-- Hillcrest Cadillac, which we've seen on NLA before, is at right, being remodeled in this period. It was remodeled into a Lexus dealer later. https://s22.postimg.cc/58ox0nl01/BHW...plenow.bmp.jpg |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ttanPlace1.jpg urbanize.la via PK Architecture Here's the latest Google view showing how the area looks now. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ttanPlace2.jpg GSV The article says that this is "the first phase of a two-building complex known as the Village". I guess "The Manhattan Project" was already taken, but the developers are obviously not fans of the cult 60s British TV series "The Prisoner" - the Village was not somewhere you'd want to live! I am not a number! I'm a free man! ;) |
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How about a mystery to start the weekend? There were no details other than the caption:
Original Vintage 40s Photo, bank interior, Los Angeles, California, 8x10 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...steryBank1.jpg www.ebay.com A couple of details: the sign on the left appears to say "NOTES ?????????? EXCHANGE", and the entrance with cars parked outside can be seen on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...steryBank2.jpg |
Quonset structures were common in the postwar years to accommodate the population and building booms that followed the war. I'm guessing that this is a temporary structure to be used while the permanent bank was being built.
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:previous: The people look pretty diverse in HossC's banking photo. Does anyone know if there was a bank at Rodger Young Village?
At one time, it was the most diverse community in all of California. (& built almost entirely of Quonset huts) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/bZex3B.jpg upinthevalley I know 'RYV' had a market...a drug store...a barber shop...and a theater. -but I'm not sure about a bank. :shrug: As most of you know, the site is now the parking lot for the Los Angeles Zoo & the Autry Museum |
'mystery' vantage point. -can anyone figure out where the photograph is standing?
"ORIGINAL 35MM SLIDE SL64 ☆ 1960's HOLLYWOOD SIGN SKYLINE VIEW" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/TqbhFX.jpg EBAY I'm ntrigued by the large vintage building with the tile roof. Is the photographer on that roof or is he/she on another roof next door :shrug: also note: In mid-distance there appears to be an extremely long one or two story building. -this has thrown me for a loop. _ |
This next slide is anything but a mystery location.
"1960 GRAUMAN CHINESE THEATRE HOLLYWOOD ON BEACH" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/aTdZkK.jpg EBAY (looks like I cut off the bottom, but I didn't) Whenever I think of 'On the Beach' the first thing that comes to mind is the achingly beautiful ballad 'Waltzing Matilda'. (it is hauntingly played throughout the film) If you like, you can hear Waltzing Matilda in this 44 second clip. [SPOILER: It's the ending] An abrupt change happens at .31 seconds. -(it scared the shit life out of me) __ more on 'Waltzing Matilda' Here |
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