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3940dxer Feb 29, 2012 6:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alanlutz (Post 5609522)
I'm new to this forum but would like to chime in from time to time. I have been to this spot, the ruins of Echo Mountain Resort. Not much to see there now except it is at the top of the incline, which you can see down the path toward the bottom. It is not near the top of Mt. Lowe, that is probably another mile and a half up. Never made it all the way to the top. Amazing that tracks used to go all the way and hardly a trace left these days.
PS, Well as I said. I am new and my comment didn't land anywhere near the Echo Mountain page where I wanted this to go. If you can give me some pointers I'd appreciate it. And why does it say I am posting at 5:10 AM when it is 9:10 PM Pacific Time when I am posting this?

Hi, and welcome to the thread!

A month or so ago I became very interested in Echo Mountain and Mt. Lowe. I did a bunch of research into the history and then did the long hike to both locations with a group of friends. (13 miles total.)

It became clear after seeing both places that when the line was running, all the action was at Echo Mountain, and Mt. Lowe, much higher up, was more of side trip. In fact I was surprised to find that Mt. Lowe is sort of tucked into an upper canyon and has no view. To see the view you had to walk or take the "One man and a mule" line to Inspiration Point, about a half mile further up. The following are all good links -- especially the first one, which has loads of great images:

http://www.mountlowe.org/gallery/artifacts

http://www.mountlowe.org/staticpages...p?page=history

http://www.mtlowe.net/brief_history.htm

http://www.thaddeuslowe.name/mlechohouse.htm

Re the location of your comments on the thread, this forum works like a blog, with all replies in chronological order. You can include previous text and photos in your reply using the quote button, but a new reply will always appear on the newest page of the thread.

You can set your local time zone by going to User Control Panel, and then Edit Options.

http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/Adve..._Pacific_E.jpg
http://www.mountlowe.org/albums/Adve..._Pacific_E.jpg

Also - excellent photos, rcarlton and westcork. Thanks!

GaylordWilshire Feb 29, 2012 6:39 PM

Theodore Roosevelt High School, Boyle Heights
 
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078382.jpgLAPL


And at the time of a January 1949 fire. (Bunsen burner?)

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics38/00038957.jpgLAPL
Some sources have it that the fire caused the main part of the building to be reduced from four to three stories.


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-7...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle
The original Fickett Street entrance is now hidden in the middle of campus.


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle

At first I thought that the school's original buildings were gone (as with LAHS), but it turns out that they still stand in
the middle of newer construction. The original address was 450 S. Fickett; Fickett between 4th and 6th streets is now
closed, and the school's official address is 456 S. Mathews St. View above is from 6th Street.


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520PM.bmp.jpgHistoric Map Works


An original building that is gone from campus is the one:

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics38/00038958.jpgLAPL
The LAPL's caption: "Roosevelt High School students today are furnishing this 10-room, two-story English brick house
built on the campus for educational and social purposes. All carpentry, brick and other construction work on the
house was done by boys in the various trade classes. Drapes and some other interior furnishings are the handiwork
of girl students. It is called the Edith Roosevelt house in honor of the widow of President "Teddy" Roosevelt, for
whom the school is named. Photo dated January 28, 1931."

Roosevelt High opened in 1923. Appropriately enough, it's the home of the Rough Riders--somewhere around 5,000 of
them, making it one the largest high schools in the country and neck-and-neck with Belmont in terms of the largest
in L.A. One oddity is the presence of a fountain on campus named for Nazi tool Charles Lindbergh... not sure when
it was named, but considering the heritage of Boyle Heights.... Another footnote is that a Japanese garden on
campus, demolished during WWII, has been rebuilt. Lots of history represented on this one campus.


Lagniappe: As I've said many times before... I find the east side of L.A. to have
perhaps the most interesting and certainly the most overlooked neighborhoods in the
city. In a district with a mainly bungalow-height skyline, this Victorian gem stood out:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Y...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle
It's at the southeast corner of Eagle and Mott, adjacent
to the school.

rbpjr Feb 29, 2012 8:40 PM

I went to John C. Fremont High School 1949-52...nothing left of the original buildings except the auditorium...anyone have any photos of the original campus...





Top 4 pics: Snap Man[/QUOTE]

GaylordWilshire Feb 29, 2012 9:12 PM

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAPL

I was curious about the little Islamic dome in a shot used in my post about Roosevelt High School (fragment above).... It's still there, and the building has an interesting history. Sources vary as to its original use; some mention a plaque indicating that it was built in 1904 as the Euclid Heights Methodist Church. But a church by that exact name was listed just two blocks north in the 1909 CD (the building is still there)... by 1923--and thru at least 1942-- the church's address was 539 Euclid Ave...the later Casa del Mexicano. So my guess would be that it was actually built as a synagogue and then became Methodist. (I've seen no pictures of it in either Methodist or Jewish "vestments." Anyway, the Mexicans began to move into the area and in 1950, the building became the Casa del Mexicano, a cultural and performing arts center.

As it appears today from heaven:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle


The interior is worth a look too:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-E...2520PM.bmp.jpg
More pics and info where this shot came from: http://www.elevenshadows.com/travels...sdowntown2010/


More reading:
Los Angeles Times, July 31, 2008

Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2011

It's even haunted:
http://www.scspr.org/investigations/mexicanofb.htm

GaylordWilshire Feb 29, 2012 9:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbpjr (Post 5610255)
I went to John C. Fremont High School 1949-52...nothing left of the original buildings except the auditorium...anyone have any photos of the original campus...


http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics44/00056705.jpg May 1925

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026158.jpg April 1927

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics44/00056709.jpg December 1932
All LAPL

Now:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle


And this one's kind of fun:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL
A stock show at Fremont High School-- undated, but it looks like it might be around the time
you were there, rbpjr.


The auditorium now:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle


PS Not many pictures of buildings, but here's a 1950 Fremontian... you can read it HERE with a loup (click on the upper left pic with "page 5" under it to start) or subscribe to http://www.e-yearbook.com/sp/eybb?sc...=2&startpage=6

GaylordWilshire Feb 29, 2012 10:35 PM

Speaking of Fremont...
 
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-d...25/fremont.jpgCard Cow

We've seen the Fremont at 4th and Olive on Bunker Hill--noir ground zero--from time to
time since ethereal's founding of the thread nearly three years ago. I've had this pic in my
computer for a while now--I know it's colorized for a postcard, but it sure is pretty... rbpjr's
query about John C. Fremont High School reminded me of it.

rbpjr Feb 29, 2012 11:41 PM

And this one's kind of fun:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL
A stock show at Fremont High School-- undated, but it looks like it might be around the time
you were there, rbpjr.

Thanks, Gaylord...great aerials of the old stomp'n ground...all I have is a 1951 yearbook from those days...I don't remember having a stock show, on campus, but the boys are certainly dressed 50's style. Ah, those were the days!

unihikid Mar 1, 2012 1:33 AM

i sure do hate they tore down a bunch of the older high schools before i was born,i grew up in the la high area and the rumor is that the new school was designed by a prision inmate which is why it looks like a prison.I went to uni hi and it still has its original main building but the auditorium got torn down around the same time as la and fairfax high(the ppl who demolished it went out of business because it took so much to tare down the aud which was only 27 years old at the time).So was it really worth getting rid of these buildings after the sylmar quake,were they that damaged?

ethereal_reality Mar 1, 2012 1:49 AM

Tempest Storm is 84 today! Born February 29th, 1928.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3...feb2984yrs.jpg
http://www.dlisted.com/





Even though wikipedia says her professional debut was at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, CA.....most sources say she began her career
at the Follies Theater 337 S. Main Street, Los Angeles. (see below)

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/699...startheref.jpg
http://burleskateer.tumblr.com/post/...es-theatre-as-






below: Main St. Follies, The Sexpots of L.A.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4066/s118e6thst.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3960848...3030/lightbox/

Lili is Lili St. Cyr.....not sure who Tanya and Mavis were.
This 'poster' hangs in the bar at Cole's 118 E. 6th Street, Los Angeles. (yes, that Cole's)





below:

Tempest Storm back in the day.

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/4...tstormfoto.jpg

____

alanlutz Mar 1, 2012 2:01 AM

Happy Birthday to Betty. She's looking pretty good for 84. Wonder when that latest picture was taken and what is she up to these days.

ethereal_reality Mar 1, 2012 3:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Notinkeys (Post 5606369)
... at the Warner Brothers site. Photo is undated, from www.710kmpc.com
http://www.710kmpc.com/Large%20Photo...g%20center.jpg

:previous: Notice the neon strips on the columns.





below: Here is an amazing slide I found on ebay of the Sunset Bowling Center at night!! I had no idea there was so much neon involved.

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9...rrarewmark.jpg

Sorry...I don't have the software to remove the yellow watermark.








The Sunset Bowling Center was famous for having 52 lanes!

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1...ingcenter1.jpg
postcard/ebay



http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7470/bowling52.jpg
matchbook/ebay




http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/6...onsunsetpc.jpg
postcard ebay





below: I would love to see the center neon sign in action. I'm sure the bowling balls rolled to the pins a thousand times a night.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/4...5858sunset.jpg
unknown

ethereal_reality Mar 1, 2012 3:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alanlutz (Post 5610711)
Happy Birthday to Betty. She's looking pretty good for 84. Wonder when that latest picture was taken and what is she up to these days.


That color photograph was taken in 2008 when she was 80....so tack on 4 more years. :)

rcarlton Mar 1, 2012 4:38 AM

e_r...the last picture of Sunset Bowling was by Ansel Adams. I have pictures by Ansel showing some bowling action, at the Burbank Bowling Alley.

BDiH Mar 1, 2012 5:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5313133)
Label this one under 'kitsch'.

The Jail Cafe at 4212 Sunset Blvd. in 1927.

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/4...12sunsetbl.jpgapl

below: Notice the faux guard in the central tower. The 4212 address is on the white globe below the 'tower'.

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4...12sunsetbl.jpg
lapl


below: Cells for nonsupport and speeding?? This has to be the worst idea for a restaurant ever!

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/3...feinterior.jpg
lapl

What did they serve....bread and water?

Supposedly, the Jail Cafe was once a real jail. By the 1940's, it was a theater called The Blackguard Returns. It has been El Cid since 1961. El Cid claims that D.W. Griffith screened his film, Birth of a Nation at 4212 W. Sunset Boulevard. The film premiered at Clune's Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles in 1915.


.

3940dxer Mar 1, 2012 6:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5505896)


e_r, welcome back. I hope your dad is all right.

I think this KRKD transmitter was powered down many decades ago, but nice the towers are still there.


"KEHE, the official broadcasting station of The Evening Herald and Express. KEHE officially opens this modernistic new studio at 141 North Vermont Avenue, with a lavish three-day dedicatory program. The building is devoted exclusively to broadcasting activities, and is the most modern of its kind. It is air conditioned and indirectly lighted and contains the latest radio equipment. Its striking tower with neon lighting effects mark the new structure. Photo dated: April 27, 1937. "

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics34/00051845.jpg

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics34/00051874.jpg

"After land was donated by Charles Chapman in 1911, a small bungalow style church was built at this corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Normandie Avenue. In 1927 the original church was replaced by this Northern Italian Romanesque style structure with a 200-foot tower, designed by Robert H. Orr. On May 19, 1940, First Christian Church of Los Angeles merged with Wilshire Boulevard Christian Church to become Wilshire Christian Church, which is of the Disciples of Christ denomination. Located at 634 S. Normandie Avenue, the church is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #209. "
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00076/00076733.jpg


"A look at the radio tower of KFI on top of the building where broadcasting took place. The station was then owned by Earl C. Anthony, Inc. Anthony was also a Packard car dealer."

I wonder where this was located? What is the building with the domes, down the street? (Not the Santa Fe train station, is it?)

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics06/00012943.jpg

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics30/00034853.jpg


all photos http://www.lapl.org/

GaylordWilshire Mar 1, 2012 2:06 PM

:previous:

David: Re those last two shots--Earl C. Anthony's downtown Packard operations and his KFI were on the southeast corner of Hope and 10th/Olympic. At first I thought he building had been replaced, but it appears that it has been repurposed. It's basically unrecognizable, but its origins haven't been forgotten:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
http://www.packardloftsla.com/


http://ddcdevelopmentgroup.com/gallery/pic4.jpgDDC
Here's a shot of the last days of the Anthony building as it was.


I'm sure we covered the streamline KEHE building here before, but I couldn't find it; presumably the drawing of the more bunkerlike KEHE is of an unused proposal for the Vermont Ave. site.


Info about he towers next to the Wilshire Christian Church are in these posts:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2135

jg6544 Mar 1, 2012 8:02 PM

The Wilshire Christian Church is now for sale, if anyone knows someone who would like to buy a used church.

GaylordWilshire Mar 1, 2012 9:17 PM

:previous:

Well, if Rosenheim's great Second Church of Christ, Scientist, down on West Adams can find a savior (the Art of Living Foundation, in its case--at least that's the last I heard about that church's fate)... then surely a barn on Wilshire Boulevard can find one....

MichaelRyerson Mar 2, 2012 1:34 PM

Hi everyone, been away from the site for a long while. One question, is there a search function to the thread? Specifically, looking for images of Court Flight, the long lost funicular rail up bunker hill across from the courthouse. Thanks. Still love this place.

GaylordWilshire Mar 2, 2012 1:48 PM

Views of the Auto Club, Adams and Figueroa
 
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogle Books


http://jpg1.lapl.org/00075/00075012.jpgLAPL


http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics50/00059594.jpgLAPL
With later additions, lit for Christmas.

GaylordWilshire Mar 2, 2012 2:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 5612459)
Hi everyone, been away from the site for a long while. One question, is there a search function to the thread? Specifically, looking for images of Court Flight, the long lost funicular rail up bunker hill across from the courthouse. Thanks. Still love this place.


To search, click on the "Search this Thread" link at the top right above the latest post. I find that searches here are pretty uncertain--sometimes I'll look for a subject I know we've covered and come up empty handed. If you do a search and come up empty handed or mistype in the box--you have to wait 60 seconds to start again. I won't start a riot over it, but the search feature here could stand some refinement, imho....

MichaelRyerson Mar 2, 2012 3:51 PM

Thanks GaylordW.
 
This thread is such a great resourse. The regulars have done a wonderful job. Thanks again.

MichaelRyerson Mar 2, 2012 3:53 PM

Duh.
 
That would be 'resource', of course.

Engineeral Mar 2, 2012 5:09 PM

Harold Lloyd - Safety Last
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by gsjansen (Post 5280492)
:previous:

harold lloyd scaling the bank of italy building in safety last
(previously posted, but certainly on topic now!)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5087/...171fb79f_b.jpg

An informative Powerpoint slideshow about the filming of Safety Last is available here. Don't hurry when watching the slides; some have animation. (Bonus - includes a 1923 picture of the Hotel Rosslyn.) Check out the author's blog at http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/

unihikid Mar 2, 2012 9:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 5612459)
Hi everyone, been away from the site for a long while. One question, is there a search function to the thread? Specifically, looking for images of Court Flight, the long lost funicular rail up bunker hill across from the courthouse. Thanks. Still love this place.

if it helps a few post back there were some excellent pictures of the court flight in action,it was my first time seeing a clear picture of the incline.

GaylordWilshire Mar 2, 2012 9:35 PM

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics24/00046624.jpgLAPL
Santa Fe station, South Pasadena

I know I've seen a color shot of the train station at the Raymond Hotel on the thread before... but I don't remember seeing this one. It plays on all my fantasies of SoCal in its prewar state....

sopas... any memories? (Not that you're prewar yourself.)

3940dxer Mar 2, 2012 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson (Post 5612459)
Hi everyone, been away from the site for a long while. One question, is there a search function to the thread? Specifically, looking for images of Court Flight, the long lost funicular rail up bunker hill across from the courthouse. Thanks. Still love this place.

There's a Search button near the top of each page but here's another (maybe better) way of searching the thread, using Google. Click the link below and then after the page loads, type your keyword(s) after the word "Noirish", to the right of the Google logo. This works pretty well for me.

http://www.google.com/search?q=skysc....,cf.osb&cad=b

sopas ej Mar 3, 2012 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5613085)
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics24/00046624.jpgLAPL
Santa Fe station, South Pasadena

I know I've seen a color shot of the train station at the Raymond Hotel on the thread before... but I don't remember seeing this one. It plays on all my fantasies of SoCal in its prewar state....

sopas... any memories? (Not that you're prewar yourself.)

This is actually not the Raymond Hotel Station but another station that was torn down in the 1950s. It is presently the site of South Pasadena's Gold Line station (Mission Station). I don't remember if I've posted this then and now comparison before.
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._6781528_n.jpg
photo by me

Too bad it was demolished. It would've made a great Gold Line station.

3940dxer Mar 3, 2012 5:24 AM

"Frontal view of the Hollywood Storage Co. Building, located at 1025 N. Highland Ave. Located at Highland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard, today there will be a demonstration given within an auditorium on the 14th floor in a model kitchen. This building is the home of The Evening Herald radio station, KMTR, which has given Miss Kitchen's previous lectures to thousands. Photo dated: November 19, 1928."

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics48/00073541.jpg


Radio station KMTR at 1522 N. La Brea (just north of Sunset), 1939.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics06/00012882.jpg


Clifford E. Clinton, founder of Clifton's, begins a daily radio program over KEHE, titled "Civic News Forum."

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics42/00040859.jpg


Paul O'Hana at the controls, CBS radio station KNX, 1926.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics06/00012862.jpg

http://www.lapl.org/

Beaudry Mar 3, 2012 6:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3940dxer (Post 5611012)


"KEHE, the official broadcasting station of The Evening Herald and Express. KEHE officially opens this modernistic new studio at 141 North Vermont Avenue, with a lavish three-day dedicatory program. The building is devoted exclusively to broadcasting activities, and is the most modern of its kind. It is air conditioned and indirectly lighted and contains the latest radio equipment. Its striking tower with neon lighting effects mark the new structure. Photo dated: April 27, 1937. "

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics34/00051845.jpg


"A look at the radio tower of KFI on top of the building where broadcasting took place. The station was then owned by Earl C. Anthony, Inc. Anthony was also a Packard car dealer."

I wonder where this was located? What is the building with the domes, down the street? (Not the Santa Fe train station, is it?)

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics06/00012943.jpg

Hey all! Been a long time. But seeing the KEHE made me need to jump back in. First of all, I wanted to note that the domed building up the street is the B'nai B'rith temple, talked about here. But back to KEHE:

One of my fave buildings in town, one of the greats by the great Stiles Clements. A 1937 wonder criminally demolished -- they could have at least kept the facade, a la the 1938 bowling/ABC/TAV on Vine nr Sunset that became the Schwabs -- but the Conservancy was busy with the Ambassador, and the LAUSD did a little gaslight shellgame and there was no review before they knocked her down.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6...697bfbe7_o.jpg 12/9/36 lapl

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6...05877763_o.jpg 4/27/37 lapl
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6...6763b4df_o.jpg 2/16/03 by me

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6...e43d81c2_b.jpg lapl
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/6...8eef8283_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6...c831d7c0_o.jpg 12/9/36 lapl

Note the lobby rotunda. Here's a shot of it, oh, a little later.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6...24456c1c_o.jpg

Yeah, church and state, etc., but I think the rotunda's verses from Psalms (19:2-4) say something profound in instructing to-days youth about education just as they once imparted wisdom about broadcasting: Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. Not to be. Above image from here which you must click and read many amazements.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/6...16770042_b.jpg 4/27/37 lapl

The 300-seat auditorium, separate entrance from the street, where audiences watched broadcasts. The auditorium again:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6...c4cd18b8_z.jpghere

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6...50631379_o.jpg usc

KEHE was a Hearst station, bought by Earl C. Anthony in 1939, it becomes his KFI and KECA (his initials, natch) and hence all the neon rebranding.

As you can see

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6...63da688a_b.jpg

it was totally intact and returnable to its former glory.

Because they're so laughingly inept at doing the one thing they're supposed to -- educate children -- you'd think they'd be good at nothing. Turns out LAUSD is very, very good at corruption, vice, and cultural terrorism.

At least a friend of mine pried off her street numbers (no, not those ones, those ones)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7179/6...90d64177_b.jpg
so at least there remains some small physical evidence of this beauty's existence.

More about the building here and here and here.

rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 2:17 PM

The Baltimore Hotel....Absolutely Fireproof!

http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/BaltHo.jpghttp://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal1a.html

"Baltimore Hotel, at the southwest corner of Fifth and Los Angeles Streets. Formerly, the Baltimore Hotel was at the northeast corner of Olive and 7th, on the other side of the downtown area; this new edition of the Baltimore Hotel was built in 1910. Two buildings to the right—that is, west on Fifth Street—we see a brick building with white oriel windows projecting. This is the Charnock Block, built April to October 1889, and located at the southeast corner of Fifth and Main Streets."

From A Visit to Old Los Angeles.

Galeria Real in Baltimore Hotel, Los Angeles (10-1-23):
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...0FE329A7B?v=hr USC Digital Library

Here are current reviews of the hotel:
This place is a GREAT place to hole up for a week and smoke crack like the world is going to end tomorrow! Half of Los Angeles' sex offenders and violent criminals can be found living here -- really great if you need advice on how to construct your very own Fifi towel, how to kill someone with a pair of car keys, or if you're into IVing cheap, sludgy heroin and need tips on how muscle it in even the most abscessed limb.

Entomologists shall delight at the garden of roaches, bedbugs, lice, chiggers and other assorted invertebrates that blanket the walls of this manor. Shag carpets in the hallway are surprisingly clean... but that could be because of all the random carpet farmers you'll see scrounging around down there, at the foot of their doors, picking away to keep them clean. Who needs a vaccuum? Neighbors are friendly, if exuberant -- especially the ladies! -- kicking in your door at 2am, offering companionship at rock bottom prices.

Wow! And the concierge service.... I have never had my keys and ID shoved at me so fast underneath a bulletproof glass window before. What efficiency!

AND the best part is, it's dirt cheap!!! So you can save some money when you walk a few blocks over to your fancy-pants dinner at Cicada. I love Downtown Los Angeles!

Courtney "Skullduggery Tricks" H.

Today:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/6...a92839ff_b.jpg Google Earth

"This is a 1920's era railroad hotel. Takes long-term weekly renters, like SS recipients, etc. I stayed here a year or two back when. What can I say about skid row? Anyway, a lota old timers. Original architecture hardly visible. They shoot the occasional scene in here. The neighborhood is always part of some cop show shoot. But the place is OK if your willing to wait out the application process..."

"I believe outa all the hotels in skid row this is the most comfortable one. I also think it's has a nice view. Evelyn"

"The place sucks and cockroach infested!"

http://www.hotelhristina.com/wp-cont...20downtown.jpghttp://www.hotelhristina.com/wp-cont...20downtown.jpg

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rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 2:25 PM

Built in 1913, the sleek Hotel Stowell, at 414-416-418 S. Spring St., would fit into the second lot south of the Union Trust Bldg. The Hotel Stowell would later be known as the El Dorado.


http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/HotStoEx.jpg

http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/HotStoDk.jpg

http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/HotStoLb.jpg

These are from A Visit to Old Los Angeles.

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Today:
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6...b5c15f0a_b.jpg Google Earth

Here of some interior photos before it was converted to lofts:

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The front lobby today:
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The former El Dorado Hotel was originally constructed in 1913 and named the Hotel Stowell after it's builder, N.W. Stowell, a capitalist and financier. The ground floor showcases what is thought to be the largest area of intact Batchelder tile in the world. The exterior facade is dressed in concrete and turn-of-the-century terracotta. Notorious for once being the home of the esteemed actor Charlie Chaplin, the El Dorado is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Original design elements have been carefully preserved while creating a modern, innovative living environment. Arched Windows and french doors leading to private balconies adorne each of the loft spaces. Kitchens and Bathrooms are decorated with Italian designed finishes and granite countertops.

With it's timeless beauty, classic architecture, and glorious past, an historic landmark hotel in downtown Los Angeles reclaims its legacy as one of the city's venerable addresses.

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Baths: 2
Sqft: 1190
Pet Friendly: Yes
Laundry: Inside
Parking Space(s): 2
Mills Act: No
Live Work: Yes

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GaylordWilshire Mar 3, 2012 3:06 PM

There's that apartment building again...
 
...and now it has a name, El Vigo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 5613651)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6...50631379_o.jpg usc

KEHE was a Hearst station, bought by Earl C. Anthony in 1939, it becomes his KFI and KECA (his initials, natch) and hence all the neon rebranding.


A while back I noticed it peering over another building:
Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5600514)
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...iatvermont.jpgAlden Jewell
Circa 1960: 155 N. Vermont at Council; the building is gone, though not the apartment building seen at right.


The El Vigo is at 154 N. New Hampshire:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle
Kind of classically noirish, I think, what with the palms and weathered
facade--street-view glimpses reveal a somewhat forbidding entrance...
anyone ever been inside?

rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 3:36 PM

Sometimes signs can be too large:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-BUI-125?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-BUI-125?v=hr
"Apex Steel Corporation has completed one of the largest signposts atop a building to be erected in Los Angeles. The frame weighs more than 30 tons and is set on the Hancock Building, Wilshire Boulevard. Display area is 40 by 85 feet and was designed by Cejay Parsons, architect." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 10 May 1959.

rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 3:40 PM

Here is an interesting noirish tale:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-016~1?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-016~1?v=hr

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-020~1?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-020~1?v=hr

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-020~3?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-020~3?v=hr

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-014~1?v=hrhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...231-014~1?v=hr

Charles Finn, of 'Flying Finn Twins,' Dies at 72
September 12, 1986|JERRY BELCHER | Times Staff Writer
Charles Calvin Finn, one of the feisty "Flying Finn Twins" who battled the government for decades in what turned out to be a futile effort to start their own airline, is dead of cancer at the age of 72.

Even in death, the fight may continue, with identical twin George Finn carrying on.

"I want him buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno," the surviving twin said Thursday. "But they say there's no room for him there. But I'm going to fight to get him in--they owe Charley that."

The Finns were both Air Corps veterans of World War II--George as a flight instructor, Charles as a B-17 pilot with 63 missions in Europe.

After their discharges, the San Francisco-born Finns settled in Southern California, and in 1952 set about forming their own airline. They bought a surplus C-46 twin-engine transport for $21,000 from the Bakersfield school district, intending to refit it and operate it as the first ship of a non-scheduled airline called "The Flying Finn Twins Airline Inc."

But the federal government sued, claiming that the school district had no right to sell the plane, and the Finns decided to battle for their plane, using their own unorthodox methods. One of them stole the airplane, and hid it at a desert airport in Nevada. From that point on, the handsome and articulate twins were headline news.

Eventually the twins and their plane were found by the FBI. The Finns were charged with theft, but a federal grand jury refused to indict them because a key prosecution witness could not tell which of the identical twins stole the aircraft.

In 1954, in retaliation, the twins made a "citizens' arrest" of then-U.S. Atty. Laughlin Waters, handcuffing him and alleging that he was illegally keeping their plane from them.

In turn, the Finns were charged with assaulting and impeding a federal officer--and wound up with one-year prison terms. Imprisoned in Springfield, Mo., they went on a 71-day hunger strike, again making headlines. They were released after serving 115 days when U.S. Sen. William Langer of North Dakota intervened in the case.

The disputed C-46 finally was sold at a sheriff's auction in 1957 and, according to the twins, vanished somewhere in Africa.

Charles made his home in Redwood City and George lives in Carson City, Nev. Charles also is survived by a sister, Catherine.

A funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Redwood Chapel in Redwood City.

rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 3:51 PM

Photograph of the Nyssa building under construction, Los Angeles. Scaffolding entirely encloses the roof dome. "Received Examiner reference library: Nov. 9, 1943" -- stamped on verso.

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rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 3:55 PM

"One-time entrance to jail brought to light through tearing down of Bryson Building, at Second and Spring streets. Left to right, Henry Tinemette and Julius Miller trying to open the old jail door." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 9 September 1934.

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rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 4:16 PM

Man dies on street car ("P" line), 23 September 1958. No identification. Ambulance Attendant J. Logan, bends over victim who died on street car at 11th & Broadway".

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Not the most pleasant picture, but it shows what the interior of a street car looked like.

rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 4:34 PM

Spooky looking place
 
Photograph of the Sisters Orphan Home (Los Angeles Orphanage), Boyle Heights, Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue, cornerstone laid 9 February 1890. The 4-story Romanesque stone building is surrounded by fields in which grow trees, grass and other plants. A tall bell tower with a stone cross on top towers over the main entry. A set of broad stairs supply an additional entry at left. A woman(?) is standing near the dirt road which passes in front of the building. "Please credit Title Insurance and Trust Company (Los Angeles), Collection of Historical Photographs" -- stamped on verso.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-ORP-046?v=hrca. 1900 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-ORP-046?v=hr

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/uti...XT=&DMROTATE=0William Henry Jackson (1899)http://digital.denverlibrary.org/uti...XT=&DMROTATE=0

Handsome Stranger Mar 3, 2012 5:26 PM

3940dxer, thanks for the photos of the Hollywood Storage Co. Building on Highland. I've read that this same building was home to television station KTTV for a year, 1949-1950 or so. It's hard to imagine how they set up television studios in such a narrow building.

Beaudry, thanks for your post on the beautiful KEHE building. What a nauseating loss!

rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 6:08 PM

Robinson's Department Store 1950 by Pereira + Luckman Architects. 9900 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California.

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rcarlton Mar 3, 2012 6:12 PM

Highland Park Masonic Temple 1922 by architect Elmore R. Jeffrey. 5567 Figueroa Street + Avenue 56, Los Angeles.

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GaylordWilshire Mar 3, 2012 6:52 PM

:previous:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics20/00019740.jpglapl.org

GaylordWilshire Mar 3, 2012 7:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcarlton (Post 5613850)
Photograph of the Sisters Orphan Home (Los Angeles Orphanage), Boyle Heights, Seventh Street and Boyle Avenue, cornerstone laid 9 February 1890. The 4-story Romanesque stone building is surrounded by fields in which grow trees, grass and other plants. A tall bell tower with a stone cross on top towers over the main entry. A set of broad stairs supply an additional entry at left. A woman(?) is standing near the dirt road which passes in front of the building. "Please credit Title Insurance and Trust Company (Los Angeles), Collection of Historical Photographs" -- stamped on verso.

ca. 1950 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...T-ORP-046?v=hr


I think that shot must be a bit earlier than 1950... & here's e_r's additional shot of it: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...8&postcount=91

Beaudry Mar 3, 2012 8:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5613969)
I think that shot must be a bit earlier than 1950... & here's e_r's additional shot of it: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...8&postcount=91

The Orphan Asylum was Curlett, Eisen & Cuthbertson, best known for the

http://www.lacba.org/Files/Main%20Fo...in%20Color.jpg

...the orphanage was condemned in the early 50s. Great info about it here and here.

Beaudry Mar 3, 2012 9:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcarlton (Post 5613772)
Built in 1913, the sleek Hotel Stowell, at 414-416-418 S. Spring St., would fit into the second lot south of the Union Trust Bldg. The Hotel Stowell would later be known as the El Dorado.


http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/HotStoEx.jpg

Great post on the Stowell. I will forever call it the Stowell, since Nathan Stowell is important, dammit. (We basically "owe" him Los Angeles since he was the one who figured out how to irrigate the thing.) They recently painted over the Stowell ghost sign...

But let's not forget it was called The Earle from 1950-55 when owned by the Milner chain. Noirish snap from my collection:

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GaylordWilshire Mar 3, 2012 9:30 PM

A brief history of the Los Feliz School...
 
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071377.jpgLAPL
Starting in the middle... here is the school built on the corner the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and N. New
Hampshire in 1915...at a time when what was carved over the door would have been a teachable moment if not already
understood by the pupils within (whatever happened to "pupils"?).


Before the MCMXV building, however, there was this incarnation of the Los Feliz School:
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The Bruce Torrence Hollywood Photograph Collection (obvs)


Note that short, apparently concrete, fence along Hollywood Blvd in both shots above. It's still
there, if without the swag of chains:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle


The MCMXV school is gone--I didn't do a whole lot of research as to what happened to it, but perhaps it suffered irreparable damage from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. Many SoCal schools did (i.e., Thomas Jefferson HS), and they were replaced with contemporary architecture. Anyway, if the MCMXV building wasn't torn down in the '30s, it was removed from the site at some point after a new Los Feliz School went up, set back on the lot from Hollywood Blvd, facing New Hampshire:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-i...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle


Back to the boulevard for a minute... I'm sure you noticed the fenced-off subway entrance on
the corner. Here's the other end across the street:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4...2520AM.bmp.jpgGoogle

That's Barnsdall Park to the right. These were the views from there:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520PM.bmp.jpg
The Bruce Torrence Hollywood Photograph Collection


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL


One last shot...the earlier school coming down for the MCMXV edition:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...2520PM.bmp.jpg
The Bruce Torrence Hollywood Photograph Collection

It looks like a second story was added somewhere along the line...

Notinkeys Mar 3, 2012 11:01 PM

Dodgers v. Giants, 4/18/1958
 
The beginning of an era:
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www.sportsvideodaily.com
latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com

Notinkeys Mar 3, 2012 11:16 PM

What a mess!
 
1947 - cleanup after a football game (USC) at The Coliseum
http://www.insidesocal.com/usc/clusc...a_j%5B1%5D.jpg

www.insidesocal.com

Notinkeys Mar 3, 2012 11:18 PM

Nfl
 
1946, Rams v. Redskins
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www.insidesocal.com


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