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A few weeks ago, i discovered my favorite house near my office got knocked down. I had been working from home the day it happened, but who ever did it, did it quick. I posted about the house a few months ago. It was built in the late 1890's and survived the 101.
https://s20.postimg.cc/51p67u4x9/017...70a1780f58.jpg Another view https://s20.postimg.cc/h3kk1z6fx/014...6f1e4c1c92.jpg I tried to find a picture of it on my phone, but this last one is the only thing i found. The local fire station did some training. https://s20.postimg.cc/rqed7gc19/IMG_0013.jpg On a happier note, I had an elks club luncheon the same day i found out about the house. I was super close to the Glendale Station and took some pics. https://s20.postimg.cc/r0vkv2gml/011...697a114dce.jpg https://s20.postimg.cc/lpgoacmu5/019...bfdc864b80.jpg https://s20.postimg.cc/3mnlj56f1/018...9b04981158.jpg It's a real gem. Once the meeting was over i had to head back to the office,and then go out to Watts for a meeting with a city rep, but on the way out there i noticed this mid-riser being torn down.. thought i'd share. https://s20.postimg.cc/n4i8z2g7h/012...56fc72d8d5.jpg Made it out to Watts around 4pm and had a meeting with the city rep in the old Police/ Fire Station/ Library. All the original wood floors we're restored which surprised me. I found out that the city was giving the community center X amount of dollars to rent a building when this was vacant, so the community center led a grass roots thing to help turn this into a community center..and guess what... with all cost, it was cheaper than what they we're paying in rent in the first place. https://s20.postimg.cc/ssojpycu5/018...bc4d085e18.jpg L.A. good or bad, has so much history being preserved, but we can always hope for more. |
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Here's the house in happier times (Google Maps) - it was easy for me to find it, what with Queen of Angels hospital (aka, “Dream Center”) so clearly visible in the background of your photo: https://i.imgur.com/XIT2wUw.jpg Quote:
The Glendale Station is often (and incorrectly) claimed to be the station from the classic noir film, Double Indemnity. The scene was actually filmed at a station in Burbank (with a phony “Glendale” sign tacked on), which you can read about here. https://i.imgur.com/Y87FNOG.jpg (Photo courtesy of SilentLocations.wordpress.com) The Glendale Station, was, however featured in many other films, such as Buster Keaton’s College (1927), and Van Helfin’s Act of Violence (1948), both seen below: https://i.imgur.com/W2O00Vs.png |
Prudent B. died at 607 Temple house
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Doyle's Arena #1 and #2
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I didn't expect the boxing camp to have a in-ground PLUNGE....or for that matter, a hand-ball court. & I have to say the boxing ring isn't what I expecting either, especially with the pavilion-like roof and landscaping. (schrubbery) thx for finding this odinthor. __ The 2nd, indoor, ARENA. Quote:
:previous: Here is a detailed description of the indoor arena. (some of the details are quite surprising!) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/JxRZoE.jpg googlebooksimage First of all, I wasn't expecting a lobby...and that lobby had indirect lighting in Tiffany colors! I expected a utilitarian barn-like structure.. but....the front of the building was done in stucco of Egyptian design. note to self: MUST. FIND. EXTERIOR. PHOTOGRAPH. There was a tunnel. (as everyone knows... I love me some tunnel) ________ re: Hoss' photograph. I didn't expect one of the boxers to be a cartoon. |
:previous: I'll continue beating this horse later. (I want to discuss Noir Noir's 1927 aerial)
This photograph is so amazing I can't wait to post it. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/c7NPEi.jpg EBAY "1910 Los Angeles California Republican League Senator Edwin Meserve Banner" KEY WORDS L.A. County Republican League - Rooms ? Nadeau Hotel Edwin A. Meserve United States Senator Signs visible: Rainier Beer, Go to Ben White to buy or sell Exchange Property, English Woolen Mills, Sample Shoes, Luckenbach & Co. Jewelers As far as I can tell...the Edwin Meserve banner must be the one down the street. :shrug: this one https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/VGgIBU.jpg Yep, I think I see his name. and I have to take a closer look at this woman's vibrant white parasol. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/BF1K9B.jpg DETAIL GW did an earlier post on Senator Meserve's house in Freemont Place HERE __ |
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Wait. What? You lost me. The Bradbury Mansion was at Court and Hill. 607 Temple was near Temple and Grand. Please explain. |
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EW! https://imageshack.com/a/img923/3254/We25xi.gif GIPHY I'm being immature. |
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https://farm1.staticflickr.com/847/4...31298686_b.jpg06300007.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA Detail above the door. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/938/4...3a4df9d2_b.jpg06300008.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA Interior of the station. |
Famous Bradbury was Lewis
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His brother John then constructed the city's most costly one at Temple @ Bunker Hill Ave. It is in aerials from the 30s... John's marriage was truncated similar to his wealthier Mexican silver mines baron brother Lewis... |
Is the "noirish" era over, or are we still in it? Looking at world events and local events, still feels pretty "noirish", or at least chaotic. Chaos and Noir are twins. Is "noirish" the same as the period of classic film noir? Things still seem pretty noir, and getting more so, with an major twist of tech. Homeless people with smart phones. "Brazil". Great neo-noir comedy or satire from 1985. Or of course the more serious "Blade Runner".
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This, as far as I know, was the Bradbury Mansion we're all familiar with. The porte-cochere, on the northside of the home, seems to be addressed 410 [Court St] in this photo. I know nothing about a John Bradbury. I'm not up to speed on a lot of things. |
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I think we are referring to 620 W. Temple, which I posted a 1928 photo of two years ago and which you subsequently identified. Where did you find that the house was the city's most expensive and that John Bradbury built it? Anyway, that same 1928 photo is now available in a larger format: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pso4gf0cuj.jpg Islandora/UCLA We can even see a birdcage in the window and the address in the lower left corner: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original I found the first listing of 620 W. Temple was in the 1892 LACD. This guy's name was Walter B. (not D.) Cline. In my previous post on 620 Temple, there is an 1891 reference to Walter Cline's father, William, who seems to have been the first resident of 620 Temple. In 1891 Walter was living at 830 S. Pearl, and appparently after his father William died late that year, Walter moved to 620 Temple: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psyjoj5qph.jpg 1892 LACD @ fold3.com Walter B. Cline was still at 620 W. Temple through mid-1894: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pspadsy0vk.jpg 1894 LACD @ fold3.com http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psycad30hk.jpg May 18, 1894, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL John Bradbury had moved to 620 W. Temple by November 1894: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psjtefbzok.jpg November 11, 1894, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC I didn't see John Bradbury in the 1894 LACD, but here he is in 1895: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7fkimhrh.jpg fold3.com The 1897 LACD is the last to show John Bradbury at 620 W. Temple. The 1898 LACD does not give his residence address, and the 1899 LACD shows him living in "Rosario, Sinaloa, Mex." |
One of my numerous vices is that I collect sheet music, mainly from the era 1900-1930. Here's the first page of my online inventory: https://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/music.html (subsequent pages are linked to at the bottom of each page).
I ran across this on eBay: https://s26.postimg.cc/8sghrnnsp/Soda_Waltz.jpg eBay Mildly interesting!--because the composer Percy Wenrich is a prominent figure in the music of that era (numerous rags--my main interest in sheet music--songs such as Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet and When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose, etc.). More interesting was when I looked closer and saw that this waltz was published (in 1909) in . . . Los Angeles. https://s26.postimg.cc/khkhfmu6x/Brehm.jpg detail of the above The W.K. Brehm Music Company was at 426 South Broadway, in the Broadway Central Building. https://s26.postimg.cc/l739s02g9/BwayS424.jpg odinthor collection; http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal7.html Here is the Broadway Central Building in the course of construction (mid-right): https://s26.postimg.cc/odxtbmum1/HillLo4E.jpg odinthor collection; http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal8.html Wenrich having this obscure piece published way out west rather than in New York, the old-fashioned (if amiable!) nature of the cover art for that era, and my overactive nay fevered imagination all suggest that this was a commissioned piece to be sold exclusively at some local soda fountain as a come-on to bring in customers. This come-on sounds whimsical to modern ears; but home piano was a big thing before radio and TV. |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/61...E=w638-h504-no baist 1921, plate 7 (detail) ETA: Quote:
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I'm curious.. did post offices have commercial spaces back in the 1890s?
Antique Cabinet Card - Cigar Store Interior - Los Angeles CA 1890-1910." "Compliments of Mr. F. Ball, Post Office Cigar Store". https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/x46rZa.jpg EBAY https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/Mow0Gz.jpg EBAY turned to save your neck. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...921/ZYTpdT.jpg DETAIL What's that you say? You'd like to see it even BIGGER to see all the details? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/vNypss.jpg They need new carpeting > I might as well enlarge this too. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/ZiRACv.jpg search purposes: F.H. ROGERS & CO., PHOTOGRAPHERS, 624 SAN FERNANDO ST., LOS ANGELES, CAL. |
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There was a sub-Post Office in Landis Department Store in Larchmont Village back in the day and another at the back of Rancho Park Pharmacy on Pico. I think they were pretty common at one time. |
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Our local Kress's here in the (Orange) county "island" (county land not part of a city) where Schloss Odinthor is located had a sub post office, under the aegis of the Los Alamitos Post Office (the adjacent community). We had our own zip code--I forget what it was; maybe 90721 (Los Al is 90720). This was into the mid-1960s. Kress and the sub post office reached the end of their existence, and we're now thralls of the Los Alamitos Post Office...but we can still use our special zip code (but nobody does). |
I loved these when I was a kid.
There is a fantastic Cut-A-Way of the Times Building in today's LATIMES
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8yoBoo.jpg LATIMES |
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