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This 1929 Hill Publishing Co map doesn't show Harratt Street (it's between Sunset Boulevard and Cynthia Street), but it does show Clark Street going down to Santa Monica Boulevard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...rattClark1.jpg www.historicmapworks.com |
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whole long post (great post, by the way, SC, this is the type of stuff I come to NLA for) but by coincidence I just recently read David Kenyon Webster's Parachute Infantry.As an old paratrooper myself, I'm always interested in airborne stuff. He was probably the only Harvard graduate to serve as an enlisted man in the paratroops. |
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Scott Charles, what an interesting and informative post. Great photos and a family history to be proud of.
I wonder if Band of Brothers got Webster's story wrong as they did some others in the mini-series? They said Webster hadn't graduated. They also said he went out on his sailboat and was never seen again. |
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That's too bad about the Moreton Bay Fig that was at E. 20th and Compton. However, I believe the Moreton Bay Fig at the Fairmont/Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, planted in 1879, is still standing, as seen here on the right at the end of the driveway: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original Nov 2015 GSV Here was that same tree c. 1944: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original Trees of Santa Monica @ Hathitrust This is also from Trees of Santa Monica (1944), self-published by George T. Hastings: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original Hathitrust Those three King Palms seem to still be out in front of 305 Georgina, or at least they were as of December 2015 (the middle one is mostly obscured in both images below): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original GSV P. S.: Thanks for ID'ing the Auburn, Hoss! |
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housed the City News Service when your mom worked there. On the 1950 Sanborn below the numbers 229 got munched, but 229 is part of the building on the SW corner of Temple and Broadway, to the right of the one-story restaurant at 225 N. Broadway: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL The entrance to 227-229-231 N. Broadway is cut off at the bottom center of this December 6, 1950, photo, but at least we can see the rest of the building in color (the red dot at Temple and Olive was for another post): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original 00109975 at LAPL However, we can see the entrance to 227-229-231 N. Broadway quite clearly near the lower right corner, next to the little cafe/restaurant, in this October 29, 1943, shot from City Hall: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original uclalat_1429_b3175_25063A-1 @ UCLA |
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I've never eaten at the Dresden Room (although I certainly will now!), other than off the Lounge menu. Back in the early Eighties, I typically ate dinner at Sarno's, then hit the lounge at the Dresden. A very musical evening! I've always been an old-school type, and I was thrilled to find such a sophisticated night's enjoyment at a price I could afford. The memories are coming back. . . now I recall that I discovered this little slice of heaven during a summer job working at the Security Pacific National Bank nearby. |
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Wonderful post on your Dad and Mom Scott Charles. You have good looking parents!
You've no doubt seen this photograph, right? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/5VyM7S.jpg RAFU Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto (standing, right) and Mary Kitano Diltz (standing, second from left). They worked at The Los Angeles Tribune, an African American newspaper, in the late 1940s and are pictured at the beach with some of their co-workers in this undated photo." (Photo courtesy J.K. Yamamoto) __________________________________________________________________________ I wasn't aware of the many Nisei social clubs that sprung up around Los Angeles after the war. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/WE5b4y.jpg NEWSROOM.UCLA This photograph shows members of 'Just Us Girls', a social club for Japanese-American girls, posing in Boyle Heights. [c.1946] This particular Nisei social club had begun at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. (they were also known as J.U.G.S.) Just Us GirlS Believe it or not, there was even a Nisei club called the Atomettes!?! ___________________________________________________________ I should also add: There were Nisei social clubs that pre-dated WWII. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/rMpHcz.jpg PRE.ORG The Tartanettes, one of many Japanese-American social clubs, at a beach outing in the late 1930s. Credit: Courtesy of the Nishi Family __ |
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I was surprised to learn that no one quite knows where, in the canyon, it was located. :shrug: sidenote: My search led me down multiple rabbit holes (enough for 4 or 5 posts) Also, you guys (odinthor, HossC & Flyingwedge) did a fine job in locating the Compton Moreton Bay Fig. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/bmPAiw.jpg Here it is a bit larger (I couldn't resist making it larger) I have a problem. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/CkpFme.jpg lapl this is a big mother of a incinerator. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/MYzrXn.jpg detail |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4699/...b1a357c8_h.jpg_2140005.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr It's right in the center of the frame about a quarter the way up from the bottom, next to the old convent. |
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That house looks very familier: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4604/...50e8f75c_b.jpg_C300010.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr What they did there is preserve the house, but the apartment building was built around it in the shape of a 'U'. |
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I am admittedly new to using things like the online CD and things like Baist and Sanborn maps - all tricks I've picked up from reading this thread, and I am still (slowly) learning. But how on Earth did you know that my mapwork was out of date? Did 1921 and the late 1940s seem too long a time for you to believe my old data was correct? Every time I start to think I'm getting good at this stuff, someone comes along and shows how clueless I really am! :haha: Quote:
I have seen this photo before, but I've never seen it captioned. The captions mention that the other Japanese girl is "Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto" - she was my mother's best friend, my mother used to call her "Saye", which is pronounced just like the word "sigh" - and I never knew that was her in the photo! Hisaye was a well-known writer, and has her own Wikipedia page. And I am certain that the woman in the photo between my mom and Hisaye is Almena Lomax, publisher of the Los Angeles Tribune. She too, has her own Wikipedia page. https://i.imgur.com/yJWeTLe.jpgNY Times By the way, at this period in time, wouldn't the beaches have been still segregated? I've tried to figure out where this photo may have been taken, the mountainous landscape doesn't seem to match that of the "Inkwell", the beach that was put aside for African Americans to use. (Post by tovangar2 showing the boundaries of Inkwell beach) Quote:
I wish the photo were a little sharper so I could be more certain, but I'm almost sure that my mom is the second-from-the-right in that photo. The face looks like her, and the hairstyle is identical to other photos of my mom. And the girl on the far left looks a lot like Saye, right down to the eyeglasses. Thanks so much for posting it! :) |
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e_r, I think I found it (the specific location of the oak tree in Bouquet Canyon)! https://s26.postimg.org/h0keaqvq1/Oak.jpg LA Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library edit add: Here's the area: https://s26.postimg.org/xe4dtt44p/Bq_Oak_Map.jpg Google Satellite View. |
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Also noticed: --Either it's mis-spelled on the map or Larabee St. was later changed to Larrabee Street. --La Cienega doesn't appear to go straight up to Sunset Blvd. yet. --Am I correct that I'm seeing the east/west street that intersects with Sunset Blvd. near the top of the map is labeled as HOLLOW WY? Now known as Holloway? |
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I just had a hunch that the Clifton House, the church, and the building in between didn't last until WWII. Speaking of the Clifton House on the SW corner of Broadway and Temple, it can be seen on the right side of this c. 1892-3 photo of the LA County Court House, which shows Temple on the right and New High St. on the left: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original Islandora/UCLA Here is a closer look at the Clifton House, on the right: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original |
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