Originally Posted by Earl Boebert (Post 7530172)

There's an old war horse from the Fidelity Federal interior:

http://www.boebertandblossom.com/LANoir/IBM.jpg

IBM Model C Executive typewriter, all 50 lbs of it. Proportional type, so if you put an "i" where there should have been an "m" you were out of luck. Power carriage return capable of shaking the the room.

Sold from 1959 to 1964, when the "golf ball" Selectrics came out, so at least thirteen years old in 1977. You had to be one heckuva typist to use one of those things.

Cheers,

Earl

Originally Posted by Martin Pal (Post 7530055)

Godzilla did a great post about the building that housed the Old Spaghetti Factory and its history.
And he posted some information about the new construction/destruction.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=27263

Starting with this:

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 7530138)

Fulfilling a promise, or threat, I made back in April, here's the pic that is on the back of the photo album page the front of which has that photo of the Main St. face of the Bullard Block. It's tightly glued to the album page, so I don't think it wise to pry it up to see if there's any data on the back of the photo.

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original
odinthor collection

It's labeled "Residence of Fred Robinson Los A.", with no further indication of location. Any thoughts?

You will detect a person in the photo who, I suspect, is not Fred Robinson.

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7530302)

I'd hoped to quote Martin Pal's post which in turn quoted Godzilla's, but I couldn't make that work. In any case, e_r's pic will do.

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge (Post 7530370)

I took it as a promise, not a threat. :)


1894 LACD:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original
LAPL


1903 LACD:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original
fold3.com


Brook Street is now S. Toluca Street, as you'll see on the maps that follow.

Below, the blue house is 222 S. Toluca, at right is 242 S. Toluca, and the yellow house in the rear is 251 Emerald.
The roof lines of 242 Toluca and 251 Emerald plus the hill in the background are all consistent with the vintage photo
(though the windows of 251 Emerald are not). The blue house is too big to be the one-story home in the vintage photo,
but the little white building down at the end of the lot at left might be the same structure:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original
March 2015 GSV


Here's a map of the area as it is today. The buildings on the east side of S. Toluca, just north of Emerald, are those
shown in the GSV view above:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original
Googlemap


At far left on the 1906 Sanborn Map below, we see S. Toluca was then called Brook Street. One-story 222 Brook sits in
the same orientation to the houses next door as it does in the vintage photo. We also see Fred Robinson's grocery store
at 1266 W. 2nd Street, marked S for Store, next to the compass rose:

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original
Proquest via LAPL

Originally Posted by odinthor (Post 7530414)

Splendidly well done--thanks, Flyingwedge!

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 6939815)

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...age&DMROTATE=0

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7530649)

Yes, your sleuthing abilities are non-pareil FW!

I'm totally amazed that this little 'enclave' of late 19th century homes have survived.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/AYl2yJ.jpg
Bing


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/DpergX.jpg
The odinthor collection

I've been trying to figure out what's going on with the striped awning on the smaller building.

It appears to be so long that it hangs down on both sides.
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Originally Posted by VC351W (Post 7530271)

First of all my apologies for the lack of photos. I'm on mobile and don't have a photo hosting account yet.

I was able to locate an old Power company real estate map that confirms your suspicion. The tower line in the "First Radio Church" picture no longer exits at that location. Hoss you're right the only towers are down on the Los Angeles river banks. The tower pictured carried a 115kv "Belt Line" from the station on Whittnall Hwy down to the station on N Main st. Some of the old style towers are still in use on this belt line, they're down by the Figueroa st, Broadway, and Spring st bridges. If you check any map app you can see how the tower line went from Fletcher Dr in almost a straight line to the electrical station on Whittnall highway and Cahuenga bl

I scanned the maps but because of ownership and NERC/FERC issues I can't post them. But as far as the information about the tower line I can share that. A very close approximation of the tower line is visible on historicarials.com in the topographic layer for 1955. It shows up as a dashed line.

As far as locating the right of way in which the church either sat in or abutted, the power company map shows an easement about 100' wide going from the s/w corner of Peru st and Modjeska st to the inside radius of Corralitas Dr loop where it meets Corralitas walk. The former "corner" tower was located right in the middle of the driveway of the current house on that lot. From there the line went in a straight line to the S/W corner of Waverly dr and Farwell Ave. the line crosses Fletcher drive on this segment.

Now for the fun part. India st was in fact renamed from... Silver lake ave. The power map shows that name struck through and India street replacing it. Silver lake Av extended from silver lake bl up to lake view av. So they did intersect at one time.

The map also shows a portion of property on the north side of fletcher dr deeded to the apostolic church which still stands as does a transmission tower. I believe this may be the site of the radio station due to the slopes of the hillsides and the mountains in the far background on the right margin of the photo. Maybe somebody can dig through other maps and see if I guessed correctly?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7530893)

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"The tower line is visible on historicarials.com in the topographic layer for 1955. It shows up as a dashed line." -Vince

Here's the 1955 Topo map that shows the dashed power line.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/83qM3g.jpg
historicarials.com




"The property on the north side of fletcher dr deeded to the apostolic church which still stands as does a transmission tower.
I believe this may be the site of the radio station due to the slopes of the hillsides and the mountains in the far background on the right margin of the photo." -Vince


So you're talking about this property, right?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/k3mkXA.png
gsv

But don't you think this might be too far north?
The newspaper article said the radio-church was near Silver Lake Avenue and Lake View Avenue.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...921/KbgSIc.jpg




"India st was in fact renamed from... Silver lake ave. The power map shows that name struck through and India street replacing it.
Silver lake Av extended from silver lake bl up to lake view av. So they did intersect at one time." -Vince

I was thinking this area (red dot below)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/5gmMFI.jpg
historicarials.com


by coincidence, the house there now has the same basic shape as the radio-church.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/mCkl8G.jpg
gsv

I looked for a building permit without success.
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And remember, we also discussed Silver Court.

GW posted an article about the missing 'radio-church', but his image is missing now.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=36198