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Originally posted by HossC
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/voxF6A.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/conejo...7638951711855/ I really liked the aerials of Moorpark Road and Thousand Oaks Boulevard Hoss, especially this first one. (shown above) Here's another early aerial (1961 or 62) that shows Du-Par's before the Chalet Motel was built next door between the restaurant and the drainage ditch. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/757yIJ.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/conejo...ream/lightbox/ What I found intriguing was that narrow strip of land:previous: between Du-par's parking lot and the Conejo Village Bowl parking lot at upper left. Here's a closer look: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/Vepg0Q.jpg detail Well, it turns out the mysterious strip of land is a remnant of the original Thousand Oaks Boulevard. Mike over at "Conejo Through the Lens" says that portion of the road was still in use up until 1958. (only 3 or 4 years before this photo was taken!) _____ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Y-...366-h768-rw-no Seriously tacky with the continental kit.... Don't know where ER's picture was taken, but here's Welk with a '59 Dodge at another mystery location, presumably somewhere in SoCal.... (Cornball Welk and his Geritol contingent sure didn't do Dodge any favors in the image department. Dodge eventually got wise, as Pontiac had, and ditched the appeal to the Babbitts.) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AS...366-h768-rw-no Although apparently it did sometimes get kinky backstage... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5B...366-h768-rw-no |
'mystery' location #3
"Aerial view of unidentified flooded area, showing large river sweeping near city, 1938" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/Q4lMrW.png http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/3269/rec/22 ....of particular interest is this raised area with the homes that has pretty much become an island! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/CODg37.jpgdetail This is an unidentified image at the Los Angeles Public Library. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/3269/rec/22 __ |
re: recent eBay find. (tonight)
We've seen numerous images of the Raymond Hotel on NLA, but we haven't seen this magnificent cabinet card. [c.1880s] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/IYZpiw.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1880s-PASADE...gAAOSwPCVX2xKm W.B. Byram, photographer Here's a closer look at the hotel. (I think I see telegraph wires) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/ebRpo8.jpgdetail As most of you know, the original Raymond Hotel burnt down in 1895. Nathan Masters writes: "An ember from one of the Raymond Hotel's 80 chimneys landed on the structure's wood shingle roof, starting a fire that destroyed the hotel on Easter Sunday, 1895." :previous: 80 chimneys!! I've never heard that before. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/ydDI6Q.jpg Pasadena Museum of History via https://www.kcet.org/lost-la/souther...south-pasadena __ |
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psjmfyjbm6.jpg The Baldwin "California Arrow" |
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Who can forget Lawrence demo'ing the in-car record player in the '56 models? (Just ask Spade Cooley!) http://imperialclub.com/Repair/Acces...erenceWelk.jpghttp://imperialclub.com/Repair/Acces...erenceWelk.jpg http://imperialclub.com/Repair/Acces...iWay/Demo1.jpghttp://imperialclub.com/Repair/Acces...iWay/Demo1.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...a9c04dc7b0.jpghttp://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...a9c04dc7b0.jpg '56 Dodge commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9hEJuHhzwo |
Poor House! Home Depot stucco is one of the worst things to happen to great homes. Some people just don't have an eye for nice things.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Google Maps |
:previous: And those three you mentioned Hoss are amazing. I was always going to post about them..well now's my chance!
They're nearly identical. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/6uXpI3.jpg gsv Both views (above and below) are from Echo Street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/6qQec2.jpg gsv Here's a side view facing S. Ave 50. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/zEpNBs.png gsv There's also a line of garages out back that look like they haven't been touched since the year they were built. (note you can see downtown) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/m7xV5a.png gsv And behind the garages there are three mini-me apartments. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/YkxbjM.png gsv These look particularly noirish to me. And last but not least, this was sitting in the alley (actually Oak Terrace Dr.) the last time I was snooping around in the area. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/I7eccJ.jpg detail / gsv note: this is parked at a different property. _ |
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This is the building across the street from the three houses. It's also visible in the 1938 picture. I think the large white building across Avenue 50 may be a survivor too, but it's hidden by trees. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~originalGSV Here's another house I spotted on the 1938 image (the one just below center). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original Detail of picture in USC Digital Library The house looks well preserved. The building in the top-left corner of the view above is also still there. Today it's the Mystic Dharma Buddhist Temple. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: Oh yes, that's a great one Hoss!
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Here's a rare look inside the Raymond Hotel. "Guests relax inside the Raymond Hotel rotunda." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/Uf1euH.png Pasadena Museum of History via https://www.kcet.org/lost-la/souther...south-pasadena This is an amazing space, but wouldn't it have to be round to be a rotunda? __ |
I found the picture below in the middle of a Julius Shulman set called "Job 2110: Miscellaneous buildings, 1955". I may return to the set if I can find any of the other buildings.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Getty Research Institute Here's another picture of the Fritos building from a blog post called Food Moderne. This is the caption that goes with the picture. "The Frito Company similarly established a stronghold in Los Angeles, building its largest plant at 8734 Bellanca Avenue. The company's general and district sales managers moved into the new location in the spring of 1950. Over 4,000 people attended the grand opening celebration. Executives demonstrated the original hand press that was used to make the first fritos in San Antonio in 1932."http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original southeasternarchitecture.blogspot.com Sadly, there's no sign of the building today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original GSV |
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seeing the original hand press, but I remember getting one of those rubber Frito Banditos that went on the end of a pencil. |
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re: “Ay, Yi, Yi, Yiii"
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Guests could pay a nickel for a bag of chips to be dispensed by this elaborate vending machine. (shown below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/gq2HmQ.jpg http://miehana.blogspot.com/2008/05/...muncha_11.html "Upon inserting your nickel, the Frito Kid figure would come to life, turning his head, licking his upper lip, slowly moving his eyes side to side. He would call to the unseen miner, Klondike, to send a bag of chips up the mine. Klondike would respond with an echoey voice sounding like he was deep in the corn chips mine. A wax-paper bag of chips would slide down the trough. A number of different audio tracks would play so each customer heard something different from the last." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/UpO720.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...e2d002240e.jpg Does anyone remember when the Frito Kid lived and worked at Disneyland? ;) __ |
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ro·tun·da (rō-tŭn′də) n. 1. A circular building, especially one with a dome.__________________________ [Italian rotonda, from feminine of rotondo, round, from Latin rotundus; see rotund.] You learn something new every day :). |
Good to know Hoss.:previous:
__ Here's a rather surprising item that has come up for sale at eBay. "ANTIQUE 1924 Cast Iron Bridge Sign LLEWELLYN IRON WORKS LOS ANGELES California" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/rJvB8O.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-1924...oAAOSwFe5X1hH3 Heavy cast iron bridge 'Plaque'. Measures app 15 1/2" by 36 1/2". US $495.00 (or $42 for 12 months) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/RYQL7s.jpg http://rescarta.lapl.org This company..... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/dINKCy.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=11785 "Looking across the street we see the framework of girders covering the entire block. A sign on the front reads "Erected by Llewellyn Iron Works". A larger sign to the left advertises the "Junior Revue of 1916" at the Pantages." ___ |
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The Llewellyns lived here: http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles....ner-house.html https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sv...366-h768-rw-no |
:previous: Amazing details about the Llewellyn family GW, thanks for the link.
Llewellyn Iron Works also supplied the framework for the Angel's Gate Lighthouse. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/GHi9b2.jpg http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=99 "By July 1912, the structural steel framework, provided by Llewellyn Iron Works of Los Angeles, was ready for erection on the forty-foot-square pierhead. The lighthouse was built around twelve steel columns and sits at the end of the 9,250-foot San Pedro breakwater. The base of the structure is octagonal and covered with steel plates, while the upper section is cylindrical and built using cement plaster on metal lath." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/vSmoY2.jpg http://www.leuchtturm-welt.net/HTML/...AL/S_PEDRO.JPG sidenote: "Champion Iron Works of Canton, Ohio provided the helical-bar lantern room and cast-iron parapet at the top of the tower. The twelve columns, covered with pilasters, give the lighthouse a Romanesque feel. No other lighthouse was ever built to this design." http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=99 |
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