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Here's an interesting RPPC (Real Photograph PostCard) that was recently listed on eBay.
"County Hospital - L.A. Cal" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xt1sqL.jpg eBay I can't quite place this hospital. ....Is it the hospital that was located near the County Morgue? .....Are we looking at the back of it in this view? ....(inquiring minds want to know) ;) I was surprised to find a cupola on the building in the middle. (with a flag on top) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/phWWeZ.jpg DETAIL hmmm...the cupola looks like a different architectural style than the front facade. (in my humble opinoin) . |
I'm finding good things this afternoon. :)
Now...let's briefly return to Inglewood. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/8IGsYJ.jpg eBay.........................................................................................................................The street situation seems rather odd. Does anyone know where, in Inglewood, this Ford Dealership was located? .... EDIT: hmmm....on 2nd thought, maybe this is the Ford Factory. (the seller describes it as an auto garage) The back of the postcard is undivided so...pre-1907. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/NXHdOq.jpg "The postal service started allowing the use of divided back postcards in March of 1907. If your postcard has an undivided back, it is from 1907 or earlier." from HERE . |
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I think we're looking at the back of the old tuberculosis hospital, right? . |
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https://i.postimg.cc/VvQzJdcs/Coroner.jpg GSV Yay for arboreal preservation! :cheers: |
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I really don't trust any photo hosting site, if I ever really did. Another forum I visit had a thread where the site masters would convert every photo posted on it to a photo hosting site so that "none of the photos would ever disappear." Around ten years ago that photo site (I believe it was called Taxine or something like that) just vanished offline one night and, obviously, all the photos that were hosted on it disappeared, too. If you had photos hosted on it you never had a warning to do anything about it. And the reason that forum's site masters wanted to do this in the first place is that a prolific poster on that thread, who posted hundreds of photos, got disgruntled with some rule on that forum and just eliminated all his photos from it by putting them in a new folder on his hosting site. So that phrase we keep hearing...once it's online it's always there...well not so much, eh? |
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(formerly Redondo Boulevard). So, in the photo above, the arched windows to the left of the building's corner cupola are on Market St. I believe the photographer was standing on the north side of Florence/Redondo, which runs to the right of the corner cupola, past the open court entrance: https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...psuqctdoxd.jpg November 1923 Inglewood Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LA Public Library Here is a wider view of the area, with the dealership site marked by a red dot. In the old photo, the rails at left by the bench belong to the LA Railway, whose right-of-way was on the south side of Florence/Redondo; the line then went south on Market. Today, Grace Avenue no longer runs between Locust and Market: https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...psmq4wxlzn.jpg November 1923 Inglewood Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LA Public Library The ebay seller may have the wrong postcard rear associated with this photo, because the dealership wasn't built until 1920: https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...ps5s3bxlzf.jpg June 20, 1920, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LA Public Library The dealership owner, Robert P. Fite, was a thrice-wounded hero of the Great War. Henry Ford helped with his recovery: https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...psaurwcmae.jpg August 15, 1920, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LA Public Library This is a closer view of the dealership. The photo caption says, "On his return from France, as a token of gratitude for past services, the Ford company awarded him [Fite] the Inglewood Territory, before territorial lines were eliminated." https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...ps5iirxlsk.jpg February 1, 1921, Motor West @ Googlebooks This photo of Robert Fite sitting in a 1919 Ford was taken inside the dealership's court and looks out its entrance. The "INGLEWOOD WELCOME/COME AGAIN" sign at the top of the ebay photo appears to be in the distance behind Fite's head in this image: https://i1165.photobucket.com/albums...pslb7sblnj.jpg August 1, 1921, Motor West @ Hathitrust |
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Did you happen to notice this. ....................................................There is one on the right side of the photograph as well. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/CheaLc.jpg It reminds me of something horrific that I've seen in the past. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/V9O0ui.jpg |
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Check back. I'll post something soon. Okay. I found something. Los Angeles https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/G4vBPi.jpg eBay The two lads remind me of CBD and his older brother. :) A closer look. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/WE6vVM.jpg Bay Cities Laundry - 2334 Washington Blvd. - Los Angeles . |
There is an interesting article on the 17 year old sleuth, Dean Gordon, who unlocked the mystery of the peristyle mural at the Coliseum in today's Los Angeles Times.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/kl1ojr.jpg Click here - - - > Los Angeles Times The mural artist and son. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/RvmK5B.jpg Los Angeles Times |
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Bay Cities Laundry at 2334 Washington Blvd. in 1936 and 1940. https://i.imgur.com/6UFGXEs.jpg santamonica.pastperfectonline.com https://i.imgur.com/mdhulXL.jpg santamonica.pastperfectonline.com The ivy is gone but the building, now Bay City Lofts, is at 2100 Abbot Kinney Blvd. https://i.imgur.com/RyDYpDN.jpg Google Maps - GSV |
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Thanks for that story link, E_R. In the article it notes this: Years before, during a broadcast of a Trojans football game, the camera had panned under the Coliseum’s archway and focused on the mural. Watching from his home in upstate New York, Rosien’s husband, Igor, was flooded with emotion. My first image of this mural, in person, was at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics when the official Olympic Flag was lowered from the pole inside the stadium and the flag was carried out through the arch with a chorus singing the Olympic Hymn accompanied by the assembled orchestra. On the monitors you could also see a camera shot from underneath the flag and after the flag passed over it--there was this mural complete with the most dramatic lighting showing it off. It was breathtaking. I still recall from watching the taped program later on the famous sportscaster, Jim McKay, proclaiming, "What a glorious sight." _________________ The above was from my memory...and I just found what I was describing on youtube. Watching what I described you might not call it breathtaking or glorious, but it was. You don't see the mural in all it's detail and VHS technology of the day wasn't as clear or as large as images are now, but you can take my word for it. This whole evening was one of the Top Ten things I've ever experienced in my life. The part I described is from 1:51:30 - 1:54:00. [If you keep watching you'll see a spaceship flying over the Coliseum! :) |
Re: Garden of Allah photo
Another "trick" to avoid traffic is to go out early on a Sunday and hope you get lucky. I believe that is how they got this opening shot for Breakfast At Tiffany's in New York City. https://i.postimg.cc/7LpV2nC8/Capture1.png Breakfast At Tiffany's, Paramount Pictures, 1961 Hey1 Is this a car I see hiding in the weeds, or am I imagining things again?. https://i.postimg.cc/XvZLqzYk/Capture.png |
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Looking southeast, with the camera atop the County Courthouse (a favorite among the large-format photographers of the day). The buildings in the extreme lower-right corner are facing New High Street. We can see (left-center middle distance) a little section of San Pedro Street (later Wilmington then Weller and finally Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street) pointing almost directly at the camera. This section of San Pedro/Weller/Onizuka is only one block long running from 2nd Street (and San Pedro) to 1st and Los Angeles Streets (nearer the camera). This is one very good and consistent reference point telling us we're on the County Courthouse. Nearer the camera (left near foreground) we can see the infamous Vienna Buffet, on Court Street between Spring and Main Streets, just poking out around the corner of the J.A. Bullard Building (5 stories with the domed turreted corner). St. Vibiana's Cathedral can be seen (center-right, middle distance) at Main and 2nd Streets and the Orpheum Grand Opera House at Main and 1st. To the right of St. Vibiana's you can see the unique round structure of the Panorama Skating Rink at 320 S. Main Street although the rink itself set well back from the street and was accessed through a long covered walkway. An altogether nice shot. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
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The Slauson Vermont Sears store was looted and torched in the 1965 Watts Riots. I saw the looting there and other places from the family car as my father drove West on Slauson to get us out of the riot area.
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