http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6360/lahs1250sh.jpg
Another view of LAHS, dated by my resourceful Angeleno friend as ca. 1900. Both clock faces have hands. For a much-enlargeable view, click here. Note the fella in front of the pole under the tower.... Private Collection |
Quote:
|
Quote:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8174/8...f3968941_o.jpg Sunset Boulevard at Teed Street, 1925 In the archive as 'Sunset Boulevard looking south at Hill Place and Fort Moore Hill.' Strictly speaking I'm not altogether satisfied that there was a 'Hill Place' in 1925. This would pre-date Hill Street moving over and assuming the roadbed of Castelar above Sunset and what had been Hill Street where it angled down off of Fort Moore Hill crossed Sunset and continued to a terminus at Alpine Street. This section of Hill Street ultimately became Hill Place but not before Castelar had been renamed Hill Street. Certainly not in 1925. Frankly, I believe this is Sunset and Teed. Immediately on the right we have what appears to be an apartment building facing Sunset. Up there on Hill Street where it makes it's turn to run parallel to Sunset, sporting the Coca Cola adverts is the Auto Club building and just beyond it to the right is the back of Mary Hollister Banning's carriage house. LAPL Here's a shot of the Banning carriage house... http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8379/8...2fd018d3_o.jpg Banning carriage house, Arnold Hylen, 1952 This is the carriage house to Mary Hollister Banning's house which sat on the north brow of Fort Moore Hill overlooking the north portal of the Broadway tunnel and the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and N. Broadway. While the main house numbered on Broadway, the carriage house actually backed up to Hill Street just across from the high school. California State Library, the California History Room |
Quote:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/21801/rec/2 Here are some buildings picked out around the plaza: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l.../plaza1939.jpg belmont bob: Hill St. tunnel #2 and Stevens Place are in fact there, but they're down at the bottom edge and hard to make out. I have marked the tunnel opening on this full-res crop, plus the top of the wall around the entrance, and running down along the left side of Stevens Place: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P...illtunnel2.jpg And although the second LAHS with the big tower is gone, the first high school building is still there: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...030%2520AM.jpg |
Dept. of the picayune
Quote:
Well, friend MR, if you'll excuse the quibble, these are actually two different shots... note the vegetation...and somewhere between the two, it looks to me like the hands of the easterly clock have gone missing... http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1...yersondual.jpg http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9...clockfaces.jpg Credits here and here. |
Quote:
Posted: 02/02/2013 02:57:58 PM PST Updated: 02/02/2013 02:59:13 PM PST PICO RIVERA - Coroner's officials Saturday identified a 63-year-old man in a wheelchair who was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver early Friday. Marcos Dominguez, who was listed as a transient, died at the scene following the 3:50 a.m. crash on Whittier Boulevard, at a railroad overcrossing just west of Paramount Boulevard, Los Angeles County Department of Coroner Lt. Larry Dietz said. Dominguez was struck by a westbound vehicle described only as a gray vehicle, possibly a Mistubishi, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said. No suspect had been located Saturday. The place where Dominguez was struck is lined by high curbs and has no crosswalk, officials said. It was not certain whether he was trying to cross the street, or lost control of his wheelchair while traveling down the sidewalk beside the road, which is at a steep incline. Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call the sheriff's Pico Rivera Station at 562-949-2421. - Brian Day, twitter.com/sgvcrime http://www.whittierdailynews.com/cri...and-run-driver |
Quote:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4...anningHill.jpg I actually think they have the location of the caption correct, excepting your note that today's Hill Place would still have been called Hill St. at the time. There is a street sign on a post in the photo and it's a shame that LAPL hasn't posted a larger picture where we could simply read the sign! Looking at the 1921 Baist map, Teed street hits Sunset almost straight across from that Coke-signed building. If this were the corner at Teed, the view of that building would be almost head-on. The bigger apartment building is across and slightly west of the intersection with Teed, but it's east of the intersection in the photo. I'll post it again so I can add the modern view from Hill Place & Sunset. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8174/8...f3968941_o.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c...829%2520AM.jpg Google Street View What used to be Hill Street south of Sunset is now Fort Moore Place that goes up the hill next to the school. In place of the buildings on the south side of Sunset, we have a new Hill Place at a much lower angle so it can connect to the new Hill St. at the left. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
Hmm...well, I guess somehow I got the idea from your use of the word the that you thought they were the same shot. Mea culpa. |
yeah, but we're still friends, right?
|
Quote:
here's a nice shot...(would you say the Robinsons were located on the west side of Teed Street or the east side?) http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7106/7...342c2a10_o.jpg View of Sonora Town from Fort Moore Hill looking north along Castelar Street, C.C. Pierce, ca.1895 Sonora Town looking north from Fort Moore Hill, circa 1895. J.W. Robinson mansion on hilltop, left, overlooking Castelar Street (on the right, running directly away from the camera). Bella Vue (ne Bellevue this section of which would later become part of Sunset Boulevard) is below frame running right to left. The two-story Victorian style home of Joseph Winchester Robinson, located on Teed Street near Bella Vue Avenue, Los Angeles. A winged gargoyle watches over the entrance. Mr. Robinson was the owner of Boston Dry Goods which later became the J. W. Robinson Department Stores. Samuel and Joseph Carter Newsom were the architects. The house was built in 1887 at a cost of $10,000. Photo from the C.C. Pierce collection/ The Huntington Library/Los Angeles Times. here's another...(again, on which side of Teed Street does the Robinson mansion address?) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8047/8...9a6eb2a6_o.png Birdseye view of Sunset Boulevard and the Robinson residence looking north from Fort Hill, Los Angeles, C.C. Pierce, ca.1886 USC digital archive/Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 and one last shot...(in this shot consider also the footprint of the house) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8043/8...d5def2c0_o.jpg View of the Robinson mansion on Teed Street, William H. Fletcher, 1890 The California History Room, California State Library I think it's reasonable to say based on the photographic evidence the Robinson mansion was built on the east side of Teed Street overlooking Castelar from a relatively steep slope. No? Now refer to the Baist map (either the 1921 or the 1914). What side of the street do they show the Robinson mansion on? The west side. Now how did that happen? Did the city fathers decide to cut an improved Teed Street road bed into the slope below the Robinson house and simply abandon the original Teed Street? In the 1914 Baist the Robinson mansion is shown on the west side of the street pretty much alone, while in the 1921 version the Robinson mansion is shown alongside of the Villa Cabrini orphanage which was built on land donated by the widow Robinson. And by the way, by this time both improvements are being shown with N. Hill Street addresses. Funny, huh? I'm actually beginning to think the street shown in all of those earlier shots of the Robinson mansion is actually N. Hill Street. |
Quote:
You are right that the street in those shots is Hill. Teed Street is east of the mansion, as marked on the Baist maps, but is not in evidence in any of those photos. What must be kept in mind with the Baist maps is that they are concerned primarily with property lines, and the presence of a street does not automatically mean that the street has been improved at all in real life. It looks to me like Teed Street, though laid out as a right-of-way, was not actually made into a traversable roadway until much later due to the difficult topography as it reaches Sunset. This would not have been much of a problem for the Robinson house; it appears that the front steps lead down only to a path along the alignment of Teed Street. Vehicle access was not required on Teed since the carriage house was accessed on Hill Street. This does not contradict the Baist maps as far as I can tell. Another example that comes to mind is Buena Vista Street aka Justicia, just a couple of blocks away. We've seen from photos that this 'street' as it approached Sunset was little more than a dirt path curving around the hillside at the base of Fort Moore Hill, but on the Baist maps it is a wide avenue like any other. The property was laid out, but not improved. Also on the 1921 Baist map, just below the Banning carriage house, a dotted line marks a 'High hill' that goes straight across Broadway, and though it's laid out, a piece of Broadway reaching Sunset at that point is marked 'Not open'. Another result of the property line focus of the Baist maps is that even the improved streets appear to be very wide compared to how they look in real life. The rights-of-way shown on the Baist maps include not only the streets, but the sidewalks, and possibly even beyond the sidewalks as they show where the property lines actually lie. I will note that there is a street coming onto Sunset in the 1939 aerial, that I marked as Teed Street on my zoom-in, and its location agrees with the Baist maps to my eye. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
And does anyone know when the tower building was abandoned and eventually raised? Did the district quit using it in 1917 or was it still in use for some other purpose? There are so many potential questions about the school, but also the site. We have seen many photos were the tower building stands out along with the Normal School, Court House and old City Hall so it was a prominent structure. I don’t know how much this whole subject rises to the level of noirish, but I find it to be an important aspect of the city’s development in particular that of the greater Bunker Hill area. |
Quote:
According to a local news source, the WE is receiving its first "major" renovation in 90 years. Whether it is a major renovation or overdue maintenance, the efforts sound very positive. http://parklabreanewsbeverlypress.co...r-renovations/ |
They used the Ebell quite extensively in The Artist (among other productions). When I stopped by to take some pics of it at New Year's, the renovation work was clearly underway. It will be interesting to see what they do with it.
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 8:55 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.