detail of earlier photograph. (1920s)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/PdwAse.jpg

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The truck might be exiting an 'Auto-Park' next to the Belasco Theater.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...537/woJYD7.jpg
detail

Belasco Theater, red arrow. Auto-Park sign at bottom.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/W6piTy.jpg

...or was the 'alley' next to the Auto-Park? -this seems like an odd layout to me)

Here's the complete photograph again:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=29757

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Like a fifth member of the family (sixth, counting the dog) the omnipresent So. California incinerator stands guard.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/OXm7ia.jpg
http://guntherbauerfamily.blogspot.com/




And here's Mom, as Dad takes control of the camera.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/8ZfwUE.jpg
http://guntherbauerfamily.blogspot.com/

These delightful photographs were taken just south of Anaheim, in the city of Orange.
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The lighting and color on these are amazing!

City of Orange
 

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Also the clothing (including a swim cap) and haircuts, the above-ground pool (complete with steps/jumping board... did they sell those?), the deflated pool float, the kids' "Hot Rod" and Mom's chair. Plus the tropical canna lily, the (very) poisonous castor bean plant and the ragged turf.

The suburban privacy fencing contrasts with the industrial chain-link which appears to separate the family's holdings from a livestock operation (?)

What a lot of evocative reference points! I'd love to know what happened to these people.

Thanks CBD! And thanks Krell58 as well! I had my money on either that area or the area to the northwest of that, just beyond the still-standing structure (honestly that area was my first choice, but I was obviously mistaken).

http://guntherbauerfamily.blogspot.c...red-manny.html

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Thank you!

Do you know the Bauers?

"...wacky and lurid North America" LOL

A. L. Haley / 4th & Hill / 9th & Fig
 

Here's a small curiosity.

Everyone knows what Angels Knoll once looked like:

H.M. Wisler's grocery was spliced onto the front of the Cowper pioneer homestead (the Cowpers were still in residence) at 361 S Hill.
The home was "trucked and removed", presumably without the commercial addition, in September 1911 (no destination given):
On February 15, 1912 a building permit was issued for the bright-white, "class A", reinforced-concrete Black Building to be built at Nos, 355-361 S Hill, to designs by Edleman & Barnett:
Alas, by the 70s, the Black too was gone. I used to stare at that pretty tree from my Hill Street bus. Tramps often camped under it. The tree was a holdover from a Clay Street yard (?). I think it survived and may now anchor the copse at the top of Angels Knoll:

Now. (Who designed and approved those Jetson-style awnings over the Metro stations? I'd rather see reproductions of the 1910-version of the Angels Flight station house all over the place, if something was needed, but we didn't even get one at the actual Angels Flight):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...82920%2BPM.jpg
gsv

Anyway, the curious thing is, another building was planned for 355-361 S Hill Street in 1905, designed by A.L. Haley, but it obviously never got built:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...62519%2BPM.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-W...61631%2BPM.jpg
cdnc

Arthur L. Haley was one of LA's busiest architects back in the day:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...25932%2BPM.jpg
"Men of California"

The Los Angeles Herald dismissed Haley out-of-hand as a reprobate in 1899:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-h...21832%2BAM.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r...22359%2BAM.jpg
cdnc

...but by 1905 the Herald was singing a different tune:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...24146%2BPM.jpg
cdnc

...and by 1907 the Herald was praising Haley without reservation:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9f...h=w353-h460-no
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/9J...I=w353-h430-no
cdnc

Apparently, Haley had left for San Francisco in 1899 to help in the Spanish-American War effort. Also, by 1905, Haley, back in LA, was no longer living in furnished rooms, but in a splendid house, of his own design, at 2730 Raymond Avenue in the West Adams district. If Haley still had a drinking problem, everyone was too polite to mention it.

Of the hundreds of office buildings, hotels, apartments and bungalows Haley designed, the "Sunnyside", built in 1904, was one which conformed to LA's brief enthusiasm for the Corinthian order:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f...10831%2BPM.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-R...11216%2BPM.jpg
cdnc

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-z...01453%2BAM.jpg
1909 LA birdseye

Ten years later George A Ralphs built an L-shaped, single-story brick building to the east of the Sunnyside (wiping out a single-family home in the process), taking up the corner of W 9th and Figueroa:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-c...10636%2BPM.jpg
1921 baist map, plate No. 8

The Sunnyside fell in 1966, but the Ralphs building is still with us as the Original Pantry Cafe.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-c...92000%2BAM.jpg
gsv

(Many thanks to HossC and Beaudry)

Hotel Figueroa Pool
 

Look at this e_r, a snapshot of the coffin-shaped Hotel Figueroa pool after the "Y" building was demolished, but before the pool area was glammed-up:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W...14036%2BPM.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...20858%2BPM.jpg

Both images: losangelesrevisited

Not these Bauers, but my father's mother's family were also Bauers. :)

Things didn't go well for this Los Angeles couple. Maybe someone has more info on this. It may have been seen before on Norish LA.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psbgdv7xyl.jpg
LAPL

I know Dragon's Den isn't new to NLA, but this picture comes with a review - "Never indigestion". The photographer also seems to like the name "Fook Wo Lung Curio Co.".

The seller has this picture dated as 1924 (or "1924-1927?" further down the listing), but the 1940 Federal Building is visible in the background.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...n.jpg~original
eBay

Happy New Year?
 

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll44/id/29266

"Murder-suicide, 1951

Murder-suicide, 31 December 1951. Detective Lieutenant George A. Encinas; Detective Lieutenant Bill Cummings; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sullivan (bodies) (victims).

Coverage date 1951-12-31"

Examiner Collection

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sullivan had good days and bad days. This was one of their bad days.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psu9cmckie.jpg
USC Library

Who killed whom?

(I'm guessing Charlie's bad brain took over)



Oh wait, is he still holding the gun?

I don't know but I suspect that he had the gun....killed her [shot between the eyes] and then put the gun in his mouth. Very LA noir romantic.

Her purse strap is still around her wrist. Either she just came in or was about to leave. I suspect she was going to go out and he objected.

I wonder if he sat on the floor and put his foot under her leg before he shot himself? Not much splatter on the wall above him, most of it is around his head near the floor.

I grew up near the corner of Pico and Norton in the Mid-City are of Los Angeles, and I frequented a small taco truck that would reside on Norton. There's this building across the street from Jewel's Catch One Club (not the church) that seems like used to be a bank. As you can see from the pictures I've attached, behind the building itself (which is where the taco truck now stands) you used to be able to see the words "Bank of...." before it was cut off by paint. Luckily I found a picture on Yelp that shows the words I speak of. Can anyone PLEASE find any information on this? It's been killing me since I was a little kid haha. I'm now 24, and I first noticed it when I was about 8. I no longer live in that area, but if anyone could solve this nostalgic mystery of mine, I'd be truly grateful! The adress of the building is 4027 W Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90019.

http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...1b9c87a09d.jpg
http://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bpho...DSzQOFuA/l.jpg

Hi Danny:.....This building was built in 1932 and is now Asian owned. Its valued at around $3.5 M. Upstairs there's a large ''ballroom." That's all I know.
Maybe others can find out more for you and welcome to this Forum.