I've been trying to determine the exact location of this Department of Employment Building
In the distance, I've circled a rooftop sign that appears to read Hotel St. Paul*...but I'm not entirely sure. (I can't read what it says on the tall building at right) http://imageshack.us/a/img402/6391/a...ymentuscco.jpg unknown/found on an old cd of mine __ below: Is this the same building that appears in the above photograph? If so the sign seems to be facing in an entirely different direction. http://imageshack.us/a/img515/372/aa...otelstpaul.jpg __ |
Great job Prophet but then again...
it's getting to be a habit to congratulate you for such things! I suppose it's just an average day for a prophet. Thanks again. Great wrok.
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I'm thinking maybe the rooftop sign in the postcard was "photoshopped" in for purposes of the artwork. Here's the St. Paul with its sign facing east: http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4520/stpaulhotel.jpgLAPL Also note how the rear of the building is made to appear so much bigger in the pc--although I suppose it could have been added on to after the shot just above. |
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http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...43574406_n.jpg Here's a screen shot from Google street view showing the same today: vacant lot where the Hotel Glidden once stood, the Hotel Christie adjoining it to the east. http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...21389772_n.jpg Looking back to the NE at the El Rincon Apartments--a much better looking building back then than 100 years later. The young woman (in white dress) standing on the corner is my 1st cousin, 2x removed, Anita Sinclair. Her mother (Glidden's sister-in-law) managed the apartment. http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...88423866_n.jpg |
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The DoUe was at 525 S Flower, as such, the Richfield Bldg is just out of frame next door to the south (left). The DoUe was built in 1949, so, just up from its contemporary General Petroleum and soon to be joined by Superior Oil. Corporate Modern overtakes Art Deco! The big bldg in the bg was the Architects Bldg, 1929. We always repeat that the Richfield was felled for the Arco Towers in the late 60s but it was in fact the whole block that got leveled, these characters included. Of course, that guy over Unemployment's shoulder, the Carlton Hotel at 531 Figueroa, north of the Jonathan Club, is no longer with us, nor is the Hotel St Paul, John V Koester, 1927, that block bounded by 6th, Boylston, 5th and Bixel is now a big ol' parking lot. (Though the neighboring lot is now home to another piece of corporate high-modernism courtesy of the oil industry. Represent!) |
The birth of our 'only' cultural advantage...
In Annie Hall, Alvy Singer (played by Woody Allen) muses, 'I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.' Now some of us, probably all of us, might take umbrage at Mr. Allen's breezy dismissal of our fair city and bid him well stay in a mecca of endless self-analysis and second-guessing. But as for that particular cultural advantage, here's the pic...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8309/7...8b0b67be_o.jpg City Employee Alex C. Fry puts up a new right turn traffic sign, 1946 Photograph. "Stop first! -- City Employee Alex C. Fry puts up a new right turn traffic sign. Now, right turns against the red light are permissible ONLY where these signs are displayed." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 8 February 1946 USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 |
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That movie was made, what, 35 years ago? I live in NY but take umbrage whichever way the digs flow...actually the only people I know here in NY who think there's still a rivalry with LA are of a certain age.... NY's self-analysis and second-guessing don't seem to have held it back. Of course, we still don't have right-on-red (at least not in Manhattan)-- Your post reminded me of a NYker article from a while back, which I read as being at least a little tongue-in-cheek even 7 years ago: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200...ta_talk_gopnik |
That amazing "stretch" of road often called "Mid Wilshire." (Before you could legally turn right on red.)
(After searching, these images may have been previously overlooked in this forum.) Looking west from Hobart, 1938 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-9-7-ISLA?v=hr From Serrano: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-9-9-ISLA?v=hr Looking east from Western 1939 Per Owl Drugs Clock 4:52 PM (rush hour). 1939. "Note the suicide lane added to "outbound" traffic." http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-4-2-ISLA?v=hr 4:55 PM http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-4-1-ISLA?v=hr 5:00 PM http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-4-4-ISLA?v=hr Above all from USC Digital Return of the Cisco Kid. Featuring Lynn Bari who was later (WW2) to be called "The Woo Woo Girl." http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/pro...911.1020.A.jpghttp://www.moviegoods.com/movie_post...o_kid_1939.htmhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ynn_Bari_2.jpg |
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As for being of a certain age. I am. |
Entrance to Hotel Figueroa, 1931
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Entrance to Hotel Figueroa, 1931 939 South Figueroa USCdigital archive/Automobile Club of Southern California negatives, 1892-1963 |
JJ Newberrys next door to JW Woolworth & Co., Westwood, early '50s(?):
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...CHS-44893?v=hrUSCDigital August 2, 1939 "new" entrance to the J. J. Newberry & Co. store at 311 West Fifth Street. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058335.jpg August 2, 1939 (A lunch counter to rival Woolworths 431 S. Broadway? http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=938) http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058336.jpg New and improved - JJ Newberrys August 2, 1949. Grand re-opening 5th and Broadway. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058337.jpg ________________________________ Distantly related to J.J.Newberrys is its cousin, Britt's Department Store. Newberrys had a store located on Third Street across from the Farmer's Market possibly in the '50s and '60s. 6314 W 3rd Street. According to the '73 Directory, next door at 6310 W. 3rd Street was Britts Department Store. http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...rch_doc=brittsBritts was operated by parent company, JJ Newberry & Co. This building is recognizable today as "KMart." (JJNewberry once worked for Kresge, from which sprang KMArt.) There is some slight difference of opinion regarding the history of this building since two people claiming familiarity with the building 30 years ago volunteered that the same building was operated as a private Hospital. As evidence, they claimed that the top floor "allegedly" retains the look of a large maternity ward, including related- equipment(?). Having never seen the place, I have no idea if any of this true. _______________________________ On a side note, east of the Britts/KMart building is the Ross Clothing Store which gained notoriety in 1984 for having a methane powered parking lot. It is interesting to note that the store started out, or at least once was a Market Basket Grocery Store. (See http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...=market+basket ) http://zev.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/blast.gifgoogle For anyone familiar with the area, I vaguely remember the Whole Foods Store to have been a Market Basket too, or was it a Mayfair, or Alpha Beta or even Safeway? Someone peering over my shoulder reminds me that there was a Loehmann's Clothing Store further east on the south side of Third Street (across from the Gilmore DriveIn?). But before it was a clothing store, was it not a Steakhouse or Italian restaurant that had its fair share of interesting clientele? Or perhaps I am confusing this with someplace else. For MR, isn't there a glimpse of the Gilmore DriveIn in AH?;) |
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http://hollywoodhistoricphotos.ipowe...171%5B1%5D.jpghttp://www.google.com Gilmore Drive-In at bottom left corner, 1957. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00095/00095805.jpglapl http://www.vincentborrelli.com/vbb/i...ms/108302d.jpghttp://www.vincentborrelli.com/vbb/i...ms/108302d.jpg ______________________________ http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m9r3bWcdBQ..._145Pyxurz.jpghttp://pyxurz.blogspot.com/2011/12/a...ge-5-of-6.html |
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Connie cruises over LA, 1955 http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5099/5...1261c546_b.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/33455118@N08/5506794840/ |
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http://newdeal.feri.org/images/o01.gifhttp://www.google.com Nov. 3, 1940 Lt. Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh addresses employees at Lockheed Plant Number 1, Los Angeles http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/2003-351.jpg Same event http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/2003-353.jpg http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/2003-352.jpg From http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photogr...ople=&listid=3 |
MYSTERY photograph.
___ Some of you might think this is down-right silly, but I thought it would be fun to post a mystery photograph. Can any one of the wonderful geniuses :) place this rather unique weather vane? http://imageshack.us/a/img641/9519/a...0domecopy1.jpg detail/found on one of my old cds. I will post the answer and complete photograph on Wednesday, Sept. 13th. Good luck!! __ |
..this has no relation to my 'mystery' photo.
_ Does anyone know where the Giambastiani Fuel Company was located in 1914? http://imageshack.us/a/img855/1329/aagiambastiani.jpg unknown/found on old cd below: You see, I am especially intrigued by this multi-storied building that appears behind and to the left of the fuel co. http://imageshack.us/a/img515/6633/a...stianicopy.jpg detail __ |
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