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It's hard to get the same perspective with GSV, but Packard Paint & Body Repair was at 110 Glendale Blvd.... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...2520PM.bmp.jpg |
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..............................................................................................:previous: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/n8VYAA.jpg http://ochistorical.blogspot.com/201...una-beach.html Bob Baker Marionette's visiting Laguna Beach in 1964. __ |
It would be fun to figure out the location but I don't believe there are enough clues.
LATL's Division 3 Car House at Ave. 28 and Idell St. It's hard to get the same perspective with GSV, but Packard Paint & Body Repair was at 110 Glendale Blvd.... For a bit more context, PE 5162 is leaving Toluca Yard at the mouth of the PE Subway (now referred to as the "Belmont Tunnel") and is entering Glendale Blvd. at W. 2nd St. Beverly Blvd. crosses over the intersection on the viaduct. The car is outbound to Beverly Hills, and the color saturation is indeed spectacular. |
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Be...653e28fc364c28 The railing seen in the foreground of the slide can be seen on this page (Behind the Fords and Blue Simca!) in a period view shot from the the Beverly Boulevard overpass: http://www.pacificelectric.org/pacif...ck-ticks-away/ Cheers, Jack |
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Founders National Bank has opened two new branches, bringing to fruition a deal it made last January when it bought two sites from Bank of America that were to be closed. |
I've been humming a certain Zager and Evans song since I saw that this was Julius Shulman's job 2525! The photoset actually contains two images of the Union Oil Company Building as it gets dark. On the left are the Monarch Hotel and the Hotel St Paul, with the Shell building in between. As I've already mentioned, this is "Job 2525: Pereira & Luckman, Union Oil Company Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1958".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Usually I post black & white Julius Shulman images followed by a color "now" shot. This time the Shulman images are color, so I found a black & white image of the apartment building under the Hotel St Paul. It's the 1913 Walgrove Apartments at 427 S Figueroa, and the only previous mentions I can find are in e_r's post #31001 and Flyingwedge's post #32194. Unsurprisingly, the apartments didn't survive much longer after the images above were taken - the demo permit is dated 1963. Here's a shot from 1941. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
:previous: Oh my, that first color Shulman photograph is now one of my all time favorites Hoss.
At first, I thought we were looking at the Department of Water and Power building. (instead of Union Oil) I thought I'd have a little fun with the photograph and see how 'noirish' I could make it look. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/yZG8tZ.jpg apologies to Mr. Shulman. __ |
Never knew about The Monarch. I imagine it has been discussed elsewhere on this forum, but here is a link with lots of information about this lost deco beauty. http://www.onbunkerhill.org/themonarch/
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Here's a pretty good photo of the Monarch Hotel austlar1.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/jtmJCn.jpg eBay A car crashed into that burnt umber/pink neon corner bar (shown above :previous:) in 1957. Here's the crash. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/QtWoea.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/94547/rec/1 |
1959 ORIGINAL slide, June 1959
I'm not entirely sure where this was taken. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/FRP5vl.jpg found on ebay it's narrow because I cropped off a large green watermark at the bottom. __ |
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This is in Long Beach-- I'm pretty sure we've tracked the Plaza Hotel down before, not that our dandy search feature is making things easy.... Here's the same PE car in an altercation with a 6-cylinder '55 Ford... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...-Ic42/1537.jpgPERyHS "A baby-blue 1955 Ford meets an untimely demise at the prow of northbound Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp interurban no. 1537 at the intersection of American Avenue and 16th Street in Long Beach on January 11, 1959, around 330PM." PS Found another view of another Red Car in the same place-- with full details: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H...2/redcarlb.jpgTopix "This photo shows a PE Red Car traveling westbound Ocean Blvd. approaching Golden Avenue. The Plaza Hotel/Apartments at 625 West Ocean Blvd can be seen to the rear of the carriage. Note the Fleet Locker Club building with its cafe at 601 West Ocean at the corner of Daisy Ave. Beyond, to the West of Magnolia Ave, can be seen the county courthouse building during its construction." |
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A couple of items illustrating the volatile '70s and the transition of the Crenshaw district: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...2520AM.bmp.jpgLAT Nov 3, 1971 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520AM.bmp.jpgLos Angeles Sentinel Oct 13, 1977 |
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More Monarch: CSL has this similar view (1929, misdated 1928 there also), no umbrella on the upper roof. The newsboy is there but farther back from the corner and the vacant lot up the hill can be seen. The bar came later, after Repeal. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...QSFTJ7CTNY.jpg csl Detail of the 5th St. entrance http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...K9VKT356FS.jpg csl October 1929 ad for the Monarch. The 5 room "bungalow on the roof" was clearly the place to be. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...10-26-1929.jpg lat They had me at "Home in the sky." Just give me time to sell some stock so I can make the rent. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...10-10-1929.jpg 10-10-1929 lat CSL dates this view, 5th & Fremont, to 1952: http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...RN8N88GR3X.jpg csl |
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After yesterday's mention of the Monarch Hotel, I also went looking for more pictures. In the process, I stumbled across this set of 10 photos of the Harbor Freeway under construction in 1951. It seems to pre-date most of the construction photos we've seen, including a great 1952 set posted by e_r in post #2295. I originally planned to post a selection, but couldn't decide which ones to leave out! NB. I adjusted the contrast of the background in several of these images to show more detail. The building under construction in this first image must be the Statler Hotel. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The intersection with the Hollywood Freeway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Here are several of the buildings from yestersday's Julius Shulman post. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Looking through to City Hall. That ladder near the bottom looks a little short! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original The Lobban Apartments on the right were at 1030 W 8th Street. As far as I can tell, they survived the freeway construction. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original This must be the 3rd Street bridge. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original Another shot of the Statler with the Rex Arms in front. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original This one shows LAPL and the Richfield Building amongst others. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original At last, the Monarch Hotel I was looking for in the first place! It is actually visible in the shot above, but blends into the Richfield. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original The final image also shows the Monarch. There's a wealth of familiar buildings in the background, which I'm sure I don't need to name. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...0.jpg~original All from USC Digital Library |
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:previous: Good eye Michael Ryerson. -note the laundry out on the line.
The 10 photo set from 1951 is a great find Hoss! I happened across the photos as well but you beat me to the punch. :) below: So what is this cliff with the hole? -where the man is standing. (also note the ghost-like City Hall looming in the distance) -so cool. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/r90oYp.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/bvkEU8.jpg :previous: I don't understand why there is re-bar in it. What the heck was it? & I couldn't help but notice this tattered broadside. (from the photo above) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/CY7UiH.jpg detail Does anyone recognize that mustache? ;) (I believe that might be city hall behind his right shoulder) __ |
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I also wondered about the re-bar. Could it have been part of a retaining wall? The Castle Tower Apartments also appear in this 1952 view. It's a good job we're not still looking for the Hildreth's carriage house - it's just out of shot on both images! The Walgrove Apartments make another appearance just across the freeway on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library Here's roughly the same view in late 2014. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
yeah, the re-bar has me flummoxed Hoss. At first I thought it was a natural mound they were leveling, then out popped the re-bar.
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Now-a-days neither Golden or Daisy Avenues reach Ocean Blvd. :( I've been trying to see the Fleet Locker Club & Cafe mentioned in the description to no avail. (I guess it might be the turquoise building mid-way down the street) ...but I was able to find this matchbook. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/8uZXzX.jpg eBay here's the second photo posted by GW. (I've enlarged it a bit) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/57tEmM.jpg I hadn't noticed the Heliport sign before (far right)----> so was this a public heliport __ |
Yeah, my best guess is the rebar is an old building/retaining wall now gone in anticipation of the entire site being excavated for the coming freeway right-of-way. I think this guy is standing in the right lane of the northbound Harbor Fwy (although likely twenty feet or so above the freeway). The Hildreth carriage house is nearly as elusive as the Wilshire streamline moderne. Couple of unicorns.
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You're My Everything may be in Technicolor, but we're back to black & white images from Julius Shulman. There was a link to this photoset of the Baldwin Hills Theatre posted by srk1941 (aka Steven Keylon) in post #31988, but I don't think we've ever seen the pictures on NLA. The description says that it was "Also known as Baldwin Village Theater." This is "Job 548: Lewis Eugene Wilson, Baldwin Hills Theater (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1949, 1950"
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a daytime shot taken on a different date. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Underneath the arches. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original And finally, the auditorium. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The theater was at 3741 S La Brea Avenue. A site called Los Angeles Movie Palaces has these pictures and more, plus a load of extra information and links. In the "Status" section it says: "Closed as a theatre in 1994. A year later the Magic Johnson multiplex opened nearby. The auditorium remains, converted to office space. The front has been demolished and replaced by a branch bank."Here's a recent picture showing the extant auditorium and Chase Bank which replaced the entrance. It would be interesting to see pictures of the office space. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV |
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