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I've just got a teaser from Julius Shulman today. This is "Job 4847: Bernard Judge, Tree House - construction, 1972".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original The three shots all show the support beams for the unusual house, with slightly different views in the background. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original In case you can't make out the buildings in the distance, we're in the hills above West Hollywood. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Now that I've laid the foundations (pun intended), I'll post pictures of the completed house and its location tomorrow. |
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I also found La Bolsa in the lower left of this 1890 map. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/WJ8wFI.jpg http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/...aheim-1900.jpg note there's a S at the end of both words. __ p.s. The streetcar in the photo I posted (of La Bolsa station) has 'Special' on the front. (why would that be?) -since it's pretty much out in the middle of nowhere. |
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"The Spanish name "las bolsas" means "the pockets", and refers to pockets of land amongst the marsh wetlands of the Santa Ana River estuary." Las Bolsas later became the property of Abel Sterns: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/q9...A=w619-h631-no calisphere |
t2, here's an interesting tidbit-
"In 1842 Stearns bought the 28,000-acre Rancho Los Alamitos (between the Los Angeles and the harbor). However, there was a drought between 1862 and 1864 which was said to have resulted in the death of 50,000 cattle on Stearns land alone. Stearns mortgaged the rancho to Michael Reese, who then purchased it at a sheriff's sale and Reese's estate then sold it to John W. Bixby." [continued below] |
I'm not sure if this photograph was taken before or after the drought mentioned above. (I'll guess before)
Abel Stearns, Rancho Los Alamtos. [no date] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/UdrgJR.jpg True West Magazine https://twitter.com/TrueWestMag/stat...22493099302912 sidenote: -the ranch house was built on the site of what once was a trading village of the Gabrielino-Tongva people. __ |
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The Los Alamitos ranch house is still there. The Rancho Los Alamitos site dates your photo to 1887. Note the water tank with the brick "cool house" beneath it at the rear of the adobe. Abel Stearns built the bunkhouse wing on the left. Los Alamitos was another one of Abel Sterns holdings e_r. It, and Los Cerritos (founded by John Temple), both eventually became the property of members of the Bixby family (Alamitos in 1878). https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Qx...Q=w368-h456-no losalamitoshistory There are many accounts of the devastating drought of the early 1860s. This LAT article gives a short one. Sarah Bixby Smith gives a charming account of the history of the Cerritos and Alamitos ranches in "Adobe Days". It may be found here, starting on page 59 and continuing after. She also writes about the drought and notes that Alamitos was the summer retreat of Arcadia Bandini Stearns and Abel Stearns. The Nieto family built the original four-room, reed-roofed Alamitos adobe to house their vaqueros (and their horses) on the hilltop near the location of Povuu'nga, and its wonderful springs, ca 1804. The Nietos sold the ranch to General Figueroa in 1834 for $500. Abel Stearns bought it from Figueroa in 1840 for $5,500. Although the house has been extended in all directions, the adobe remains at its center, getting a frame second story in 1926. ETA, Michael Reese, who did Stearns out of Los Alamitos, deserves a post of his own. He was known as the "millionaire miser". (Stearns mortgaged Los Alamitos to Reese for $20K to pay for the Arcadia Block's bricks, but then the drought happened and the ranch was lost.) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Mu...Q=w536-h206-no -googlebooks There's a little bio here |
I appreciate the correction t2.
Isn't it amazing the Los Alamitos ranch house is still standing. __ This photograph gives me all kinds of 'noirish' thoughts. It was taken in Hollywood in 1946. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/dys4fI.jpg Elliot Erwitt via http://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?V...O6R5A645S&PN=1 It would be interesting to have, say...ten people write a short story using this photograph as inspiration. (mine would be about a 'down-on-his-luck' Hollywood extra..................or a serial killer. one thing that's curious is the metal rod several inches from the ceiling in the upper right corner. -it's too high to hang clothes & to far from a window for curtains. & did you notice this? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/rziYgd.jpgdetail _ |
We've seen this one? Photo and caption from reddit.
http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psz2djvfud.jpg Los Angeles’ first Chinatown in 1892. It was in its heyday from 1890 to 1910, but an explosion of gambling houses, opium dens, and gang warfare led the government to condemn the land and it is now Union Station. |
I believe we have riichkay, but it's such a fantastic photograph it doesn't matter.
I always fixate on that giant horseshoe on the right. __ update: The photograph I was remembering is actually different. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=30726 |
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....................................................... That image is very curious. Two photo-floods and a camera? Looks like a set-up for a shoot. That unexplained rod on the right might be to hang backdrops from. It's looking like the interior of that nudie photographer's bungalow you posted the exterior of recently, except that wasn't in Hollywood. |
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It's 486129 at the Huntington Digital Library if you want to get a closer look. |
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SEE: http://www.erha.org/pessahb.htm Cheers, Jack |
Thanks Jack!
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I thought the upright lamp was just a lamp, but now I see it has a floodlight clamped on it. Good eye t2! (& I didn't realize those were cameras on the table) duh And is that a phonograph atop the bureau in the left corner? (were there portable record players back in 1946?) Quote:
__ This just occurred to me. Could this be where Elloitt Erwitt stayed while he was in Los Angeles? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/6uv62h.png One more thing: Is this a portable record player atop the bureau in the left corner? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/2mJs87.jpg detail -I'm not even sure if portable record players existed back in 1946. |
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Special car was almost certainly a Railroad Bososters fan trip- can anyone read the dash sign? PE delivered beets to the Delhi plant from the Talbert area- south and west across the Santa Ana RIver. The bridge, and the road bridge washed out. As the beet Harvest was seasonal and usually not in the rainy season PE relaid tracks in the riverbed and pulled them up after the beet campaigh was over. This went on into the 20s but I have been unable to find anything about when they gave up Thanks loads for sharing the pic regards Ed |
:previous: Thanks for the additional information Ed.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/AoJux5.jpg Ed, I suggest you squint. ;) _ |
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People would take them on trips and to the beach. |
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There were certainly portable phonographs in 1946. I took that piece of furniture it's on for a defunct or unused radio, not a bureau. ETA, Erwitt was just 18 in 1946, living in Hollywood. He went to LACC. A short bio is here. IMDB page here |
Thanks CityBoyDoug and tovangar2.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/niVYEe.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...d41ddce387.jpg I see Acelga but Delhi is now 'New Delhi', and there's also a 'Delhi Road' stop. La Bolsa and a 'Bolsa Gun Club' are further west. (they're near a second sugar plant...the Holly Sugar plant) Here's Hoss's map again. Quote:
update: I just realized the 'La' is missing from 'Bolsa' on the Hoss map. This makes me think the B/W photograph I posted earlier today was taken at the location on the 1912 map, right? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/1iT1zl.jpg detail __ |
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