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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/690/wnsl.jpg Source: Los Angeles Public Library Another photo looking south on Crenshaw Blvd from Jefferson Blvd from 1935: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/812/m0z2.jpg Source: USC |
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Interesting musing that easily raises the same question about every aging city in the country with a more than aging central business districts and nearby housing areas. From personal observation and feeling I would somewhat liken today's "urbanists" to not being too unlike sewer rats that never see the light of day. They, like the rats will have adapted to the environment they are in and will remain until something forces them out. I view them as a throw back to the thinking of the horse and buggy days where the idea of being able to sustain life to a level acceptable to them is based on work place access and access to some level of shopping on foot and/or via public transportation. The Urbanist types are running headlong into the problem of major retailers and food retailers have chosen to leave and will certainly not be returning as the population density necessary for generating a profit will likely never return. They are also running headlong into no schools for their children, schools that will be impossible to economically build. Eventually most of the employers will be gone as they come to realize employees commuting from suburbs into a central business area is no longer beneficial in this day of advanced communications and very efficient movement of goods to less congested areas. The cost of doing business in old central business districts has become excessive due to lost man hours, taxes, and insurance. New buildings in old central business districts do not fix the problems. Just as the Freeways and Interstate Highways made it possible for people to commute and materials to enter and exit the old central business districts, they are ultimately the same vehicle that is resulting in the resurrection of many of the small communities they laid waste to sixty years ago. I would point out that many of L.A.'s distribution warehouses are now located far from the old central business district where there is easy access to I-10, I-15, and I-5. The same general trend can be found around every older city in the country, and is not likely to change. Of course L.A has a unique factor shared only with San Francisco and that is it being 99% certain that within the next 30 years there will be a major Earthquake that may well challenge all the foundation fixes and improvements that have been done since the last Earthquake. |
Visit the Garden of Allah model this Saturday!
For all you Allah fans out there, the Dorothy Parker Society LA will be hosting a little visit to the WeHo home of the current curator of the Garden of Allah scale model.
RSVP by today for the 4pm Saturday event! http://lavatransforms.org/allahvisit |
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Interesting photograph of the Blue Bird Laundry showing the blade sign bighen. -thanks for posting it. __ |
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the location today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/542/tjg2.jpg If this is the same building it appears to have lost the second floor (barely seen on the postcard) ...as well as the arched doorway, partially hidden behind the utility pole in the vintage pc. __ Thanks for deciphering that Patterns Maker banner prophetM. :) |
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It might be interesting to see some of these color photos matched with older photos of the same homes/buildings when they were new. |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...0/827/nu5z.jpg ebay same view today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/20/e1d6.jpg GSV The Million Dollar Theater looks so much farther away in this contemporary google-street-view. __ |
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e_r, you'll be pleased to know that as well as the blade sign, they also had a large roof sign (just visible in bighen's 1935 picture). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ABlueBird2.jpg Detail of picture at USC Digital Library Zooming out a little, we can see that Ralphs built a store nearly opposite the laundry. USC date this picture at 1940, but I found a KCET article which says the Ralphs store opened on April 25th, 1942. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Detail of picture at USC Digital Library This better picture of Ralphs was originally posted by sopas ej way back in post #304 (NB. the original image is now missing). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...o.jpg~original sopas ej/USC Digital Library Going back to the picture of Ralphs and the Blue Bird Laundry, very few of the buildings survive. The Central Ice & Cold Storage Company at 3500 W 36th is long gone ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...e.jpg~original Detail of picture at USC Digital Library ... but some of the houses on S. Bronson are still there. The one on the corner (behind the Packaged Ice sign in the picture above) is probably the most interesting. It looks to be intact, but in need of some paint. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nsonHouse1.jpg http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nsonHouse2.jpg Both from GSV Finally, here's the full USC picture that the details above were taken from. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...l.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
:previous: Excellent research HossC. It's always a good day when a roof-top sign is rediscovered. ;)
I really like that house on S. Bronson, I hope someone eventually fixes it up. Did you notice the rather unique wishing well? I've never seen one designed quite like that. __ |
Imageshack is having technical difficulties today (per their website). -Sorry for the inconvenience.
My recent photographs have been disappearing and reappearing all afternoon. :( __ It's fixed! :) 6:30pm |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...2520PM.bmp.jpgTimes June 10, 1928 (Angeles Mesa Drive = continuation of Crenshaw) The 3600 S Western Ave location was expanded the year before: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Y...2520PM.bmp.jpgTimes Sept 4, 1927 The 1939 CD lists these and locations at 4330½ and 5721 S Crenshaw and 4701 W Pico--none seems to have survived. I guess you knew, ER, that the 3600 S Western plant was directly across the street from the Western Public Market... |
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After I made my original post, I found the Otsego Apartments in the middle of a downtown aerial that USC dates as circa 1970. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Detail of picture at USC Digital Library |
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Imagine my surprise when I came across this today.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/69/te9a.jpg -he borrowed my title. ;) gsjansen was one of our top contributors in the early years of NLA. Here's the link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/3345511...7623814467768/ __ |
Since we've been discussing the Blue Bird Laundry, I thought it would be a good time to post this photograph of a Valeteria Dry Cleaning Store.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/191/qkke.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...0/827/9x5o.jpg ebay I'm unfamiliar with the word 'Valeteria', but the seller of the photograph seems to think it was a chain store. __ |
Does anyone have photos of the intersection of Court St. and Figueroa?
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The new wasteland....
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In the year 2060, downtown LA could become decayed, rundown and blighted beyond recognition. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps33f16543.jpg Blade Runner ~ Warner Bros., 1982 |
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