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Well, IMHO, the long skirts on the ladies, as well as the Gibson-girlish hairdo and the shirtwaist on the one at the left don't seem very '30s-'40s... |
I can't find any previous mentions of the Cooper Building. Julius Shulman photographed it in 1948. This is "Job 241: Stiles Oliver Clements, Cooper Building (Los Angeles, Calif.),1948". The two images in the set are very similar, so I just picked one.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a close-up of the Martin Lee Shoe Company - I'll return to it below. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Mr Shulman took his photo from Santee Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV Believe it or not, the Cooper Building looks better from the front. It stands on the corner of Los Angeles and 9th Streets. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV I like the way the name and street number (its address is 860 S Los Angeles Street) repeat across the front, with the section over the door painted white. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original GSV Going back to Santee Street, some of the windows have been filled on the old Martin Lee Shoe Company building, but it's still standing. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV |
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Here's another one for our rail-fans. This slide was taken in Los Angeles in 1955!
Aero Train Demonstrator http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/lSc3MV.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/EMD-AERO-TRA...8AAOSwPcVVx5zF The seller didn't include any additional information on this extraordinary train. in terms of the location: Does anyone recognize the silver tanks in the background? _ |
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However, from what I understand YBA here, given whence the uniform came, actually means the Young Buddhist Association. This information I got from here. Here's a shot I found of a group up in Tacoma: http://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-one-...90e5c87e-a.jpg |
I couldn't let Tourmaline's terrific photograph pass without pointing out the Manning's Coffee Shop sign again.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/UTYdFm.jpg www.czechrealty.com As most of you remember, the sign, dating back to 1933, was restored to it's former glory several years ago. -before http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...912/GP18Og.jpg [url]http://patch.com/california/highlandpark-ca/gallery-manning-s-coffee-store-sign-shines-again[/url restoration plans http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/Qlvp14.jpg Richard Ankrom opal glass? and today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/5FjSKb.jpg http://www.marthabenedict.com/signcelebration/ earlier post / includes a noirish image of another Manning's location. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9627 |
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:previous: Oh, that's great Beaudry. I just watched the 1951 M last week (and took screen-grabs)
unlikely couple A fifteen-year-old Ray Bradbury with Marlene Dietrich in Los Angeles. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/ZIqn1Y.jpg http://sf.theboard.net/cgi-bin/yabb2...num=1365650953 (sci-fi forum, 13th post down) __ Here's additional information on a different site. http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-picture-of-...rich-508894153 But it still doesn't give the location (other than Los Angeles). Does anyone recognize the building? -note the barber pole over Ray's right shoulder. _ |
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http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps2clqjcks.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps6bmruxz4.jpg http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psgqvjjppd.jpg This one is way up on the hill on the right. I was driving home and snapped this one, luckily the car coming in the other direction was waiting for a parking spot which gave me time to take this. http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...psaggibnyf.jpg These are all near the Hermosa/Manhattan boarder once you get into MB. Photos by unihikid |
Ask the Dust
by John Fante The hotel was called the Alta Loma. It was built on a hillside in reverse, there on the crest of Bunker Hill, built against the decline of the hill, so that the main floor was on the level with the street but the tenth floor was downstairs ten levels. If you had room 862, you got in the elevator and went down eight floors, and if you wanted to go down in the truck room, you didn't go down but up to the attic, one floor above the main floor. http://www.electricearl.com/labh/AltaVista.jpg Ah, that first day! Mrs. Hargraves opened my door to my room... [...] The room was down on the sixth floor, room 678, up near the front of the hill, so that my window was on the level of the green hillside and there was no need for a key, for the window was always open. Through that window I saw my first palm tree, not six feet away, [...] but the palm tree was blackish at its branches, stained by carbon monoxide coming out of the Third Street Tunnel, its crusted trunk choked with dust and sand that blew in from the Mojave and Santa Ana deserts. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1711/...71e55bd2_h.jpg One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Bunker Hill, down in the very middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed. http://otters.net/img/lapast/bunkerh...rama_c1939.jpg Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town. |
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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=33344 Alester Young: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=33354 Text from Chapter 1 of John Fante's novel Ask the Dust. (Note: He calls the hotel Alta Loma, instead of Alta Vista, in the book.) By the way, when he writes, "if you wanted to go down to the truck room," does anyone know what a "truck room" is? And these links... Photo #1 from: http://www.electricearl.com/labh/AltaVista.html Photo #2: Nadel, CRA/slums/1955Sept30/255SBHA Photo #3: http://losangelespast.blogspot.com/2...-then-now.html |
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Here are examples of opal glass signs in Los Angeles that I found at http://www.roadarch.com/sca/opal.html The first two are blade signs. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/907/jktDcA.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/905/Li2jf3.jpg http://www.roadarch.com/sca/opal.html below: Belasco Theater (note the interchangeable opal letters) -for movie titles no doubt. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/h2oPM0.jpg http://www.roadarch.com/sca/opal.html And the last example is the previously mentioned Manning's Coffee sign. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/0hp9mR.jpg http://www.roadarch.com/sca/opal.html "At one time there were 19 Manning's Coffee Shops in Los Angeles. This sign was originally installed in Hollywood; it was moved to the Highland Park location in 1936. After the coffee shop closed in the 1950s, the sign fell into disrepair. The opal glass letters were stolen in the 1990s but were later recovered. In 2012, the sign was meticulously restored and re-lit with funding from the National Trust and National Park Service Route 66 Corridor Corridor Preservation Program." __________________________ Special Thanks to Debra Jane Seltzer at Roadside Architecture http://www.roadarch.com/sca/opal.html ___ |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...907/BcxoH2.jpg Thanks for the photographs of the street markers unhikid. I had no idea there were so many of them still standing. I wonder how many times that one:previous: has been hit. __ |
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http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...1-24cooper.jpg 8-21-1924 lat http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...oper%20csl.jpg CSL The Cooper Building in the form of a cake, celebrating the 18th anniversary of the Beautee-fit Bra Co. c. 1945 http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/00003029.jpg LAPL https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1574/...a484b743_z.jpg3-21-55 by Noircitydame Beautee-fit Bra ad, 3-21-1955 lat |
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