'Flaming torches' courtyard apts. 1200 block S. Mariposa
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:previous: Very interesting. Thanks for the information oldstuff.


Here is a courtyard apartment on the 1400 block of S. Bonnie Brae that I've had my eye on for years, but for some reason or other never posted about it.
oldstuff's comment about the King Tut discovery, immediately reminded me of this unique rental.

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oldstuff, could you look it up at the County Assessor's office to establish a date? Surely this was built during, or soon after, the Egyptian craze.


below: The Egyptian symbol above the front entrance.

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matches almost perfectly
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below: Here is a slightly different angle, that also shows the two fine buildings to the north of the low-slung courtyard apt.

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A closer view of the neighboring apartments to the north. (I especially like the twin cartouches with wooden slats for vents)

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I don't want to go too crazy with the street views, but I'll add one more. ;)
I just couldn't leave out this very nice apartment on the other side of the 'Egyptian' courtyard apt.(to the south)

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aerial / you can see the long narrow 'Egyptian' courtyard in the center.
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Thanks oldstuff and ReDSPork02, for your help in locating my mystery building. I was thrown by the colors.
Was the Post Office Annex ever Blue? -or were the colors in my slide messed up?

Rolling maybe, but not "rough". Our hills were very gentle. But once they started hacking at them, they became unstable cliff-faced piles of earth which had to be erased for safety's sake, if for no other reason. The die was cast, of course, with the Ord Survey. Streets were laid out as if the hills didn't exist. I don't know if Ord took his instruction from the Common Council or made decisions on his own, but Bunker Hill was doomed before it was named.

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It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the work stretched on from 1874 (or before) for more than one hundred years. Each removal causing the need for another one until Bunker Hill was just a slightly elevated mesa, wider than it was originally with plenty of newly valuable real estate on top.


Thank you Michael for the reminder re Lake Shore Avenue. I do know, but a little reinforcement never hurts.

NLA has discussed Egypt-mania (re architecture) before. Here's just one post

not to beat a dead horse, but


:previous: In all the recent photographs showing earth removal and man-made 'cliff's', I haven't seen one rounded smooth orb
like the numerous orbs we saw in my Sunset Blvd. photograph of 1912. Not one.

Do you guys still think they were boulders?

Here's the 1912 photograph, if anyone wants to look at it again. ;)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26731
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La Fiesta Parade, Labor Day 1932. The 151st Birthday of Los Angeles.

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The California Furniture Co at 639-645 S Broadway. The seller says there's a 1908 postmark, but only included a picture of the front. I found a listing at that address in the 1909 CD.

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The clipping below is from the October 15, 1905 edition of the Los Angeles Herald. It announces the grand opening of the new six-story building.

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California Digital Newspaper Collection

The July 19, 1910 edition of the Los Angeles Herald contains this story about the company's bid of nearly $250,000 to furnish the Hall of Records being accepted.

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California Digital Newspaper Collection

The California Furniture Co didn't stay in their new building for very long, because by 1911 they had moved across the street to 644 S Broadway (the 1915 CD lists the address as 644-646 S Broadway). Here's the store in 1929, just on the far side of Boos Bros Cafeteria.

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The company's entry in the 1932 CD is headed "California Furniture Co (See W & J Sloane)". I looked up W & J Sloane and found "Sloane W & J. Owners of California Furniture Co, Oriental Rugs, Domestic Rugs, Carpets, Imported Furniture, Mastercraft Furniture, Fine Fabrics and Draperies, Interior Decoration, 644 S Broadway". It looks like W & J Sloane had moved to 3258 Wilshire Boulevard by 1936, and the old store at 644 S Broadway had become Brooks Clothing Co.

I think this video shows where some of the boulders have been removed. I see a few holes in the dirt wall. Could be my imagination...who knows. Needs to be inspected in person...maybe by googlemobile.

https://youtu.be/szlrNfuRVb0

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Santa Fe System Lines ad for the Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1932.

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/1932-Ad-Tent...item5670eeaac5

This could get me on a train to Los Angeles. ;)
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clearly mislabeled on eBay


Could this finally be the long-sought-after proof that the Statler Hilton had a helipad?

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In the distance..........the Brown-Leigh Apartments....the Hotel Victor...


below: I found the Hotel Victor in the 1956 directory. 616 St. Paul Avenue

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Then it dawned on me....is the helicopter taking off from the roof of the Statler Hilton!?
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I posted this matchbook several months ago.
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...but none of us could find any proof of a working helipad.
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oops. I wanted to include this in my previous post.

This is amazing CityBoyDoug! Thanks so much for the link.

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Dinosaur Eggs
 

Your bringing this up again finally flogged my memory about this phenomenon. I remember reading some years back that at the time they were popularly believed to be dinosaur eggs!

Here's a link to a Google Books excerpt that gives a bit of detail:

https://books.google.com/books?id=u7...20blvd&f=false

Focusing on Jean Harlow, it is somewhat laughable that the source fails to identify this icon, although it names her somewhat easier to forget counterparts. In any case, the next three photos appear to be from the 1933 National Air Races at Mines Field. Jean looks like she knew how to enjoy herself.

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Jean and San Fran Pilot Ray Moore
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Jan Heuks and Jean
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1933 - http://waterandpower.org/4%20Histori...Field_1933.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/4%20Histori...Field_1933.jpg


Jean and Packard in front of her Beverly Hills residence
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Windswept Jean
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Jean in her '32 Packard. Don't text and drive.
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Evidently, Jean struck a posed for the '33 National Air Race Trophy:shrug:
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Yes, CBD we are seeing it differently, which is good. I have my romantic wish that Bunker Hill had been kept unbuilt as a public amenity as New York did Central Park. As I said before, I don't mind the tunnels and an incline railway or two might have worked out depending on the design. The Olmsteds would have had fun with it. I would have been happy with paths and a few oaks dotted about. (Court Flight's steep slope was caused by the Fort Street cut and Angels Flight's by the grading away of the lower slope to put in Hill Street). There would have been less salable real estate, but with all our sprawl, we never seem to lack for land anyway.

All blood under the bridge now (as a friend used to say), but it's still fun to think about the "if onlys" :-)

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Perfect! Now there's an answer that should satisfy everybody. I'm a believer :-)

Regarding the "Malamute," reputed to have been the first saloon to open in Los Angeles after Prohibition's repeal, I question the source of this assertion. It is true that LA had more than it's fair share of novelty restaurants, but that doesn't guarantee that all themed restaurants were located in the city limits. The previously posted images strike me as having been located just as easily at or near a boardwalk as once might have existed at or near Ocean Park or the Long Beach Pike. :shrug:


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The Pike, Edit: 1936, according to one source http://www.millikanalumni.com/Pike/PikeHistory.html
http://www.millikanalumni.com/Pike/i...ike-1936-1.jpghttp://www.millikanalumni.com/Pike/i...ike-1936-1.jpg


Pike Postcard
http://www.scripophily.com/webcart/vigs/pike1.jpghttp://www.scripophily.com/webcart/vigs/pike1.jpg

I posted this detail which includes the Brownleigh/Brown Leigh Apartments and the Victor Apartments back in December 2013, but since I failed to name any of the apartment buildings in the text, they won't show up in searches. The picture also includes the Harbour Apartments.

The Brownleigh Apartments appear in the 1972 movie 'Hickey & Boggs'. At least some of the interior shots were filmed on location as well. Here's the front of the building on St Paul Avenue.

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Bill Cosby and Robert Culp hiding on the Harbor Freeway side.

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MGM

I'm guessing that must be the Victor with the "Single Apartments" sign. The site of the little house from the Cityscape seems to be a parking lot.

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A view up St Paul Avenue.

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St Paul Avenue today.

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The Los Angeles County Assessor has a build date on the Egyptian court as 1925. There are 10 apartment on the property and there is no "remodeling" date which would indicate that it has been left pretty much alone since 1925