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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/oD5Ku4.jpg screen-grab from 'The Terrible Truth'. Does anyone recognize the large cream colored building in the background? ( there is writing above the porch....'religious science' maybe) As the camera moves a bit to the right... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/X9mAhj.jpg The street the kids are parked on, appears to be at an angle to the street in the background. __ |
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The above area was indeed iconic, the address being approximately 1555 Vine St. But how about a little further south, circa 1937? I think this image has previously seen the NLA light. Probably taken from near Selma and east side of Vine looking S x SW (note Mueller Bros sign in distance). The proliferation of signage seems far more charming than the ever-expanding and overly-dense megaliths that replaced it. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psni0lqcnk.jpgGoogleMaps 1937 - Vine Street (Billy McCain's Finance Co., 1529 Vine St.) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...b.jpg~original http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...0coll2/id/3449 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...t.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...e.jpg~original Mueller Bros - on Sunset in distance http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~original 1509 Vine housed the Radio Transcription Company of America. Per LABP. a residence was built on the site in 1917 and replaced ten years later (1927) with the commercial structure, pictured here in '37. The structure was demolished 55 years later, in 1982. Serve Schlitz - with Sunshine Vitamin D while playing badminton or tennis? http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...g.jpg~original "Beer is good for you . . . but Schlitz is extra good for you." (It's the brewer's yeast.) http://cms.wisconsinhistory.org/cmsg...Large/3569.jpghttp://cms.wisconsinhistory.org/cmsg...Large/3570.jpghttp://cms.wisconsinhistory.org/cmsg...Large/3905.jpg http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Cont...tails=R:CS2859 "Gee Officer, I was only getting my daily requirement of Vitamin D. hiccup." |
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Here's a 2nd short scene I'm curious about. #1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/OCAitS.jpg #2 (the building on the corner turns out to be a cafeteria) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/w641wT.jpg #3 ( in this shot you get a glimpse down the street) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/8L3vQV.jpg #4 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/ATOCkq.jpg #5 mystery civic building http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/6dkKJ2.jpg Does anyone recognize where this scene was filmed? __ |
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The lady is being led from the car into the Hall of Justice... the cafeteria is at the swc of Broadway & Temple... http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics17/00018435.jpg LAPL |
Source identifies this pre-pavement residential image as Venice, California. Could it be the 1700 Block of Washington Way, Venice? Early '30s?:yes: Curious about the small objects in front of the buildings near the curb that vaguely resemble ice buckets/pails. Or could they be signs, "stay off the grass." http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...z.jpg~originalhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...coll2/id/20063 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...n.jpg~original Radio antenna masts? (Flagpole, chin up bars, goal post, clothes line:P) http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...psjmhdqb36.jpgGoogleSVU http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...0.jpg~originalGoogleSVU |
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The photo shows the little cans that were the old garbage cans. Therefore it was 'garbage pickup day'. This was before sink disposers and consolidated trash hauling in LA County. This was also when everyone burned their trash in the backyard incinerators. All the hardware stores sold the cans. I can remember that my mom taught me how to line the little can with old newspapers. Notice that each can has a dark ring below the lid....that's the newspaper lining showing. |
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[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;7716731]:previous: An incinerator had crossed my mind too JMR, but I thought it would have a 'flue' on top. -but maybe the top part is just missing.
ER, my great-aunt's and the others I knew of never had flues. They were just open fire pits. You tossed in your burnable trash, set fire to it and stirred it with a stick until it was just ash. It was one of my earliest chores. I was always delighted when the fire reached paper with colored ink and the flames turned bright blue or green. |
:previous: Thanks CBD and T2. I understand most folks incinerated their trash and garbage pickup was a limited service, but with cans that small, the occupants must not have been big consumers. I also wondered about temporary water meters or access to water main cut-offs, since the street had yet to be paved. :shrug: Quote:
Among other things, Eugene W. Biscailuz was a deputy in the LA County Sheriff's office in '07. He served as a member of the city's first planning commission in 1920. In '29 he was appointed the first Superintendent of the C Highway Patrol and later became "the" LA County Sheriff in 1932, a position he held until '58. So arguably he could have been called Sheriff Gene, Superintendent Gene or Commissioner Gene. "Ten-Four" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_W._Biscailuz Here is Biscailuz in plain clothes, sometime in 1929 on South Main Street. Martin Petersen's Used Cars was at 1132 S. Main Street. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~original http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...coll2/id/16872 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...g.jpg~original 1930s - Los Angeles County Sheriffs Eugene Warren Biscailuz and his predecessor, William I. Traeger. As many NLA'rs are aware, Traeger was a Deputy US Marshall, Coached the 'SC football team (1908) and after his run as Sheriff, became a US Congressman. Evidently he was a good eater and rumor has it he was impervious to a frontal assault by small caliber arms. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I._Traeger http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026875.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026875.jpg Quote:
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In re: Biscailuz (from my unpublished [so far!] notes [my notes on L.A. only go up to mid-1870s], a work in progress):
Biscailuz, Jean ca. 1810, born in France; 1860, present in L.A. as a plasterer; wife, Juana Boulantoya; son, Martin Vincent. Biscailuz, Martin Vincent attorney; April 29, 1861, born in L.A.; father, Jean Biscailuz; May 20, 1882, married Maria Rosario Warren (desc. of Claudio Lopez), who at length divorced him; involved in litigating the Oxarart will, bagging a fee of $40,000, for a time the largest legal fee on record for L.A.; June 22, 1899, died in L.A., having lost reputation and health due to absinthe; children: Eugene Warren, Julio Juan, Luisa. |
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Doesn't "commish" usually refer to the police commissioner? I assume the guy is an assistant. |
:previous:T2, your guess is as good as anything I can conjure. I suppose the tag "Commissioner" might apply to all sorts of office holders who receive a commission, e.g., Baseball Commissioner, Insurance Commissioner and the like. It could also be a nickname or honorary title. Perhaps the title referred to someone else in the photo. Could Mr. Navarro have played a film role as a commissioner? :shrug: Source identifies subject as " 'Happy' Moore" at an unidentified location. :shrug: 1930 - per source. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...q.jpg~originalhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...0coll2/id/3977 Vehicle ID? http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...c.jpg~original A much younger "Happy" demonstrating his open road skills with four-legged passenger, "Scruffs." http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...k.jpg~original:P |
Know your LA COuNty Law Library! http://framework.latimes.com/2015/08...y-law-library/ 1953 - LA County Law Library Construction https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...library600.jpghttps://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...library600.jpg 1954 - The "New" LA County Law Library http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...h.jpg~original http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...0coll2/id/7950 1954 https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...library600.jpghttps://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...library600.jpg 1958 - The Almost-New Law Library - neighboring hill gone. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...r.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...oll44/id/90111 2015 https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...library600.jpghttps://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...library600.jpg |
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I think the truck came down the street twice a week. Where we lived in San Gabriel the truck was just an open dump truck...primitive [shown below]. Always black guys were driving and doing the dumping of the stinky little cans. You only put things in the can that didn't easily burn. That was usually very wet items and hard things like bones from last night's steak dinner. Before school on Monday and Thursday I had to be sure to remember to put the kitchen refuse garbage can out by the curb to be in time for the pickup truck. I did this from age 6 to 9. I believe the city switched from the little cans to large barrels in the mid 1950s that were large enough for grass clippings and leaves, etc. [By 1957 the incinerators were banned as were the little stinky cans.] Here is the type of truck that collected from the little garbage cans on our street in the early 1950s. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psqakoa6io.jpg file CD |
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http://jpg1.lapl.org/00114/00114736.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00114/00114736.jpg 1957 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00134/00134089.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00134/00134089.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00134/00134087.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00134/00134087.jpg [QUOTE]"Ready for new Valley refuse service - This is motor pool of new white refuse collection trucks which go into action Monday when city inaugurates new pickup program in Valley area. Homes have received notice of collection dates. Containers and contents can't weigh more than 80 pounds." [QUOTE] 1957 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00134/00134085.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00134/00134085.jpg Quote:
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(Bell was absent from his office at the time because he'd been arrested for battery). This description of Biscailuz is from an article the next day about the arrests of Bell and Biscailuz: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original August 26, 1897, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL |
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@Tourmaline.....good collection of historic trash trucks.!!! |
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My note "desc. of Claudio Lopez" about Maria Rosario Warren, Martin Vincent Biscailuz's quondam wife, prompted me to refresh my memory and check my notes further about her, with an interesting result. Maria's father was William Crossman Warren, the Marshal who was killed near the intersection of Spring and Temple in 1870 by deputy Joseph Dye (Maria Rosario's mother was Maria Juana Lopez, great granddaughter of early Angeleno Claudio Lopez). Even more noirish, it was the deceased Warren's ghostly image which "mysteriously" showed up in later photographs of another deputy, Francis Baker, photos taken by Wolfenstein. I looked into this latter a little bit a few years ago, and found that Wolfie eventually returned to his native Sweden, where he became known in Stockholm for . . . trick photography . . . And Maria Juana Lopez was the daughter of Chico Lopez, known as one of those who saw the Elizabeth Lake monster! |
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This is my high school and also, our junior high graduation was held in this auditorium. I never thought I would see anything about it on this page. Who knew? I feel compelled to add some useless information so here goes: The arched building under construction at the left of the first photo housed the indoor pool which has since been replaced by an outdoor version on the other side of campus. |
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