Good detective work Flyingwedge. The 1931 city directory for Culver City...
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5982/oous.jpg
...lists a Union Oil station at 5979 Washington Boulevard, which today is...

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/7043/aem.JPG

...perilously close to Ballona Creek.

While we're in Exposition Park here's an early postcard of the 'west wing' of the Museum of History, Science and Art.
http://imageshack.us/a/img51/5489/vkqb.jpgebay


-the massive new addition (dinosaur hall I believe) dwarfs the original 1913 museum.
http://imageshack.us/a/img9/4495/v3sr.jpg
google_earth





The original Beaux-Arts building was by Hudson and Munsell. (shown in 1915)
http://imageshack.us/a/img42/5742/1nim.jpg

1917
http://imageshack.us/a/img708/928/8izw.jpg
http://archrecord.construction.com/n...ow.asp?slide=6

1920
http://imageshack.us/a/img17/8720/7ov9.jpg
http://archrecord.construction.com/n...ow.asp?slide=5

As most of you know, the Museum of History, Science, and Art is now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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USC has quite a few pictures of Exposition Park from the '30s. Here's a couple that show the balustrade. I'm still trying to work out which building is peeking through the trees behind the fencing team. It may be the end of the building in the second picture below.

1930:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Garden1930.jpg
USC Digital Library

1938:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...Garden1938.jpg
USC Digital Library

I was also confused by the apparently headless girl, but it's an optical illusion. Look where her knees are - they give a good indicator of her height. She actually has at least one of her forearms on her forehead, most likely shielding her eyes from the sun.

Some extra large vintage Downtown goodness:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5530/1...6951d3b7_o.jpg
6th & Broadway 1927

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5532/1...770f20bc_o.jpg
7th & Hill 1931

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5472/1...fbe4550d_o.jpg
Garfield Building 1931

Sorry - couldn't resist.

:previous: -Damn those are huge HunterK!

I like how you can see inside this room in the first photo.
http://imageshack.us/a/img834/4019/ysur.jpg

It's a bit eerie, in a voyeuristic kind of way. (my noirish imagination wants to see a dead body on that floor) ;)

I feel the same way! Which is why I had to post full size instead of linking. I love zooming in on individuals, looking through windows, etc. I've got a bunch more, but I don't want to make the page impossible to load for those with slower interwebs.

As posted on ebay.
http://imageshack.us/a/img42/7863/6env.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img35/7824/lctm.jpg
La Cienega & Black?



detail
http://imageshack.us/a/img33/6859/96w3.jpg



-the running lady reminds me of a scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
http://imageshack.us/a/img534/4373/wcff.jpg

-note the huge ladder hanging on the utility pole.

Probably Blackburn, possibly Blackwelder.

It's funny how coincidence works. Earlier tonight, when I was looking for pictures of Exposition Park, I came across the picture below.

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

I noticed a roof sign and zoomed in:

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...irchSmith2.jpg
Detail of photo above.

Before I had a chance to look up Birch-Smith Storage, HunterK posted the large pictures above. The picture below is clipped from the one of 7th & Hill.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...irchSmith3.jpg
Detail of photo originally posted by HunterK.

There's only seven years between the photos, so can I assume the two businesses are linked?

This is something that startled me!

Caption: Freight service still operated on Santa Monica Boulevard until 1974.
A photo of a Southern Pacific train going east on Santa Monica Blvd. near Cresent Heights

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uiwmf0PUT14/SR...EXBILL5941.jpg
Metro Photo Archive
gogonotes.blogspot.com/

Los Angeles Street & 3rd, circa 1918
http://imageshack.us/a/img13/8517/2nzt.jpg
old cd of mine/probably http://www.lapl.org/

Los Angeles Street & 3rd today
http://imageshack.us/a/img577/7622/qt3n.jpg
GSV
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Caption: Freight service still operated on Santa Monica Boulevard until 1974.
A photo of a Southern Pacific train going east on Santa Monica Blvd. near Cresent Heights

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_uiwmf0PUT14/SR...EXBILL5941.jpg
Metro Photo Archive
gogonotes.blogspot.com/[/QUOTE]

Martin, here's a larger view.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11373

I too was amazed when I came across this photograph Martin. I had no idea freight trains traveled down Santa Monica Blvd.
(duplicates are bound to happen..It's all cool. :) -it often brings up a whole new conversation.
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Here's a couple of earlier posts featuring a train passing P.J.'s on Santa Monica Boulevard in 1970:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3374

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10505

'Colleen Moore in front of her Bel Air Home'
http://imageshack.us/a/img547/9692/kvq5.jpg
old cd of mine

So is my label correct? Colleen looks a little Ruby Keelerish here.
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:previous:


Apparently, that's her. (Big feet!)

Here's everything you ever wanted to know about Colleen Moore's Hollywood living arrangements:

http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...t-pierre-road/


Get a load of the hideous interior at the time it was on the market in 2012.

Although it's been posted before, here's sopas ej's thread about the 1932 Olympics: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=171850 The fencing was held in the Armory in Exposition Park, better known these days as The Jeffersonian on Bones. The original brick wall is still there, even if it is in need of quite a bit of repair. Here's a photo I took of it in December...

http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/u.../ExpoPark7.jpg

I noticed a roof sign and zoomed in:

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...irchSmith2.jpg
Detail of photo above.

Before I had a chance to look up Birch-Smith Storage, HunterK posted the large pictures above. The picture below is clipped from the one of 7th & Hill.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...irchSmith3.jpg
Detail of photo originally posted by HunterK.

There's only seven years between the photos, so can I assume the two businesses are linked?[/QUOTE]

Hoss, I happened to have some info about that. Birch-Smith Furniture Co. (they started as Lyon, McKinney & Smith c. 1902 and reorganized as B-S in 1921) merged, in 1933 along with Goodan-Jenkins and the Los Angeles Furniture Co. into the Los Angeles Furniture Co. but Birch-Smith continued to run its storage co. seperately (So Cal Music Co. became the new tenant of their building at 737-741 Hill).

Thank for the lager pic e_r and the links HossC.

When you stumble upon a thread that's been around it takes awhile to get through it! (And I'm not in a hurry!) I have been reading some current pages while making my way through all the rest!

I'm still in the 240's!

Cheers!

This photo is amazing! I'm so glad you posted it. I looked everywhere for a picture of the old Express building when Coffee Dan's was in there, in the basement, but had no luck. It was one of those places, like in the movie Topper, where you went down a slide to get in. :yes:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/Picture2.jpg
4-30-25 LAT

-another German press release
http://imageshack.us/a/img10/8554/9y1p.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img96/1444/d620.jpgebay

translation? (hint-hossc;))
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