:previous: It looks quite extravagant doesn't it. I'm guessing the white 'pillar-like-things' are portable heaters.

Thanks hoss

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No sign of the columns yet, but I did come across this picture of the pool. How sad that all that signage in necessary these days, just in case someone tries to dive into 30" of water.

"View is of the new pool on the roof of Metro 417, the old Subway Terminal Building, located at 417 S. Hill St. Photograph dated September 13, 2005."

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original
LAPL

I'm going to continue calling it the Subway Terminal Building - Metro 417 just doesn't sound as good! Regarding the pool, one comment on yelp.com says, "We found the hot tub on the roof was constantly shut down...". Here's another view of the pool.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original
www.acmartin.com

The same site also has this image of the area where two of the urns used to be.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original
www.acmartin.com

:previous: Good job Hoss. I was looking for photos of the patio but didn't find any.



Remember this colorful photo from earlier this week?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/WpGjf1.jpg
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By sheer coincidence, I happened across this black and white photograph that shows the same segment of street in the early 1960s.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/XCLKdh.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/921/wcwR8D.jpg
Alumni Review, Oct. 1963 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...d/234571/rec/2

:previous: I was trying to get the two photos next to each other (they were on facing pages in the periodical, page 10 & 11)





I knew it was the same street by Dr. Felcher's sign. (kindly pointed out by broadway_central_bldg)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...921/8LrhNx.jpg
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This photo was posted today in the "SoCal Historic Architecture" Facebook group... is this "Masonic Temple" building next door to the "Terminal Market" we've been looking at? Or is the "Hill Street Station" in the bottom right corner a different building?

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...75&oe=574BE52D

Dig the PE Railway advertisement for the Mt. Lowe Resort on the side of the Masonic building...this must be approx. mid 20s, right?

I went up on the roof of the Subway Terminal Building when I was down there last year. Someone was IN the (lucky for them, working) hot pool and another was suntanning on the deck so I didn't take any pictures of that area, but I did see those heater things.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...bwayroof_1.jpg

A detail of one of the wings looking over at the Biltmore's roof garden
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ubwayroof2.jpg

A skylight in one of the lightwells
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...2ndfloor_2.jpg

The 12th floor elevator lobby
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...y12thfloor.jpg

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Didn't spot the section on the right, ER. Yes, that one on the right does look like the sectioning off for Calvary, with Home of Peace on the left.

The second image does not look like an village, although they could be Kizh people at a mining camp, perhaps. The two tipis are interesting and something not likely to be in California, so it's kind of weird.

I had previously gone searching looking for images of remnants of the Yangna or other local villages and I did come up with this image, which was captioned as being taken at the Los Angeles River, but no more information was provided.

http://www.califaztlan.org/LANoirPic...manAtRiver.jpg

Thanks for the pics NCD.

...from a recent article in lacurbed.

"The coffered ceilings on the ground floor are plaster, Frallicciardi says as he walks through the cavernous space, triggering the staggered motion-sensor lights and revealing it to be largely empty. The room was once the lobby, the entry point to the terminal where thousands of people a day would have gotten their tickets and boarded Red Cars bound for destinations across the city. The columns were originally wrapped in terra cotta, but "a major renovation" that pre-dates Forest City resulted in "the loss of the column cladding and the installation of a suspended ceiling" that really messed up the original plaster, according to a 2006 report on the place from the National Register of Historic Places. Light streams in through a mouse-sized hole in the ornate ceiling; there's a skylight behind it that runs nearly the width of the room."

:previous: I wonder if the author meant to say the 'length' of the room?



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Bianca Barragan at http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/2/111042...ls-los-angeles

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/KEkwAV.jpg
http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/2/111042...ls-los-angeles
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More photos at:
http://la.curbed.com/2016/3/2/111042...ls-los-angeles

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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=745

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=1953

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8027

Maybe it seemed wider from below?
Great before & after shots. I wonder if that ceiling was originally painted, like the similar one in the restored lobby of what was the office tower (now lofts).

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...g%20detail.jpg That's a fake cobweb attached to the light fixture (it was Halloween).

As long as we're here, I also liked the mural above the front entrance showing a streetcar coming out of a tunnel:
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1318.jpg detail of this:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1317.jpg
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My two cents worth take on the Urns is that they are actually water storage tanks to provide pressurized water for the fire safety apparatus and that they were "decorated" to look like urns in attempt to make them more aesthetically pleasing. Whether or not that worked is a matter of opinion.

The conical tents could be government Sibley tents, widely used in the Civil War and I think as late as the Spanish-American war. The others look like standard wall tents. If these people were living on government handouts, they might all be castoff Army tents.

Masonic Building
 

That same picture hung on a wall in the old Masonic Temple at Pico and Fig.. When the building was sold my father brought that picture home, I still have it.

As long as we're here, I also liked the mural above the front entrance showing a streetcar coming out of a tunnel:
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1318.jpg detail of this:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/IMG_1317.jpg
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There are complimentary mosaics at each of the main entrances...one (the former entrance to the offices) represents various aspects of business/commerce and the other [pictured] (the former entrance to the subway) represents various aspects of travel/motion. Both are beautiful and we are lucky they were never altered/removed in the past as so many other great Beaux Arts buildings were at ground level!!!

I'm sure we're all familiar with the Sunset Tower on Sunset Boulevard, but I don't remember seeing this pool and these cabanas before. It's Julius Shulman's "Job 2248: Palmer and Krisel, Sunset Tower, cabanas and pool (Los Angeles, Calif.),1956". I've omitted two images as they didn't show anything different. All the pictures in this set are black & white, so if anyone has a color picture...

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

At some point, this larger pool complex replaced the one seen above.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original
Google Maps

At least there's some nice ironwork on the De Longpre Avenue side.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
GSV

The Terminal Market building—
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/0Kd7P7.jpg

was built on the footprint of the 1896 Masonic Temple, which was demo'd in 1925. Originally the market was built by the PE Ry as the ticket office and waiting room (Rittenhouse Bros, archs, 1925) but was remodeled into a public market by CC Rittenhouse Jr in short order (1927), because the actual Subway Terminal Bldg had opened. It was demolished in 1957.

That little "Pacific Electric Hill St Station" shed next to the Masonic Temple was by Hunt, Eager & Burns, put up in 1908, also demolished in '25 with the Masonic Temple. Mid-20s is a good guess in dating the pic, B-C-B, because this was shot before the 1925 demolition of the shed, but after the erection of the 1924 Bliss & Faville Pacific Telephone & Telegraph bldg at 433 S Olive, which you can see in the background.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1583/...54587af3_o.pngusc

This building is still there, of course; it was just clad in concrete/gunite panels by Woodford & Bernard in late 1972. And famously painted with Frank Stella's mural "Dusk" in 1991.



That Masonic Temple was really something. Just massive, multiple 2000sf lodge rooms, an entire Scottish Rite Cathedral on the third floor, designed by Bradbeer & Ferris, 1896 (Bradbeer was a brother). Peck & Chase had their undertaking establishment on the first floor, so that many a fine masonic funeral was held there, and so large they could host the annual convention of California Funeral Director's Association. I've never seen images of the inside. I asked a brother from the Henry Wilson Coil library about it but never followed through...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1474/...ccb46406_o.png

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Excellent post, Beaudry. There are some more pictures of this area courtesy of gsjansen in post #1334. I think the image below is new to NLA. Is the "IRON HORSE" lettering in the center a poster or graffiti?

"Exterior view of the Pacific Electric Hill Street station prior to 1924 reconstruction, ca.1920".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

In the background is the Hotel Munn at 438 S Olive Street.

Wow, thank you, Beaudry! I had no idea that concrete-clad building under the AT&T tower was the same stately structure in the background of those shots-- I almost can't believe it... And, HossC, thanks for the extra perspective there. I feel like I have a whole new understanding of the block outside my window!

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I'm in love with it. Hope a color photo turns up.

One of the photos looks like the one the Times printed in September 1956 about the recently opened pool & cabana

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/9-16-56.jpg 9-16-56 LAT

The DeLongpre side of Sunset Tower before the pool
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...9_10778-00.jpg UCLA with zoom

Standing in almost the same place May 2014
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ongpre2014.jpg

I concluded that the whole concrete structure is new material.

I also took this not very pretty shot of what survives of the garage in May 2014

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...gpredetail.jpg

Not long after the pool went in, construction started on the apartments seen in the modern Google view from DeLongpre, at 8400 Sunset. Same owners as Sunset Towers and architects Palmer & Kristel again, is was called Sunset West.

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...0%20sunset.jpg lat 10-7-56

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...958%208400.jpg
May 1958 ad for Sunset Tower West. lat

1956 view of the Strip near Sunset Tower
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...014%201956.jpg lapl

1960s view of the same vicinity
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...le/ssstrip.jpg from a postcard, files.