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Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation January 1977 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/ylSs1C.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1977-LO...8AAOSwR5dXRE0T (you can see close-ups of some of the people with this link) asking $75 __ update: I just found 1968 too. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/gLkyIJ.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1968-LO...kAAOSwfY9XQbZB asking $75 __ detail with sign. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/wXyht0.jpg and this one includes the names of everyone. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/kkquMK.jpg 1968 names __ |
We have seen (and discussed) roofs with the 'artsy'wooden shingles on NLA, but I don't believe we have seen this fine example.
PINKERTON HOUSE http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/TfzIFS.jpg5847 (609 N.) Bright Avenue, Whittier, Calif. [Built 1928] http://digi.cityofwhittier.org/awweb...&smd=1&awdid=2 It's still standing. (but I can't see the garage) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/IxuWJy.jpg gsv note the passageway 'through' the house (porte cochere?) has been blocked off. The roof appears to be intact. (from what I can see of it) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/2EwikG.jpg gsv There is additional information on the form below. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/M9Ke2G.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/rUJJks.jpg https://www.laconservancy.org/sites/...%2C%202013.pdf |
Google allows you to "drive" down the alley. By doing that, you can see the garage and decorative roof are still intact.
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There are several houses of that style still standing in Glendale too. My stepfather built some of them.
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Thanks for digging a little deeper. I saw the 1925-new construction permit and the owner's listing across the street. Presumably, he wanted to take advantage of the elevation for an even better view. Wondered how the home was moved to its present "higher" location without an elaborate scheme of piers and a substantial crane or cranes. Or, whether the structure was moved in pieces via the rear access. :shrug: Was it said "During the Jazz Age" that luminaries visited the home? :previous: If I remember correctly, the JA was predominantly in the '20s, so maybe a Piano was carried up the front steps. But more importantly, what (allegedly) drew these Jazz-Age icons to this location? Wainscotting? :shrug: Or, what is the basis for this statement? (It can also be said that George Washington slept there too, to escape the cold in Valley Forge and for the fishing.) I don't think Josephine Baker had much of an association with LA, as was the case with Paris and NY. Per my limited knowledge, JB spent the second half of the '20s in Europe and did not return to the US (NY) until 1936, post Jazz Age. In 1974, JB performed in Los Angeles as part of a US tour. She promoted the tour with appearances on the Tonight Show and Merv Griffin's Show, some of which were probably taped in LA. Curiously, there are several 1951-images of JB outside of a prosecutor's office. The captions mention "assault" and there is a suggestion that an assailant received a 45 year sentence, but particulars are unknown. :shrug: I seem to recall Basie's name on the Ambassador's marquee and of course, he made the rounds at the Palladium and other LA Venues. http://www.parsec-santa.com/celebrit...rJosephine.jpg http://www.parsec-santa.com/celebrit...rJosephine.jpg 1944 at an "unknown" LA nightclub. Actor Rex Ingram and Count Basie standing. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics11/00025239.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics11/00025239.jpg The '46 San Pedro CD has a listing for Thomas Thurman (and Ernestine)(542 Sepulveda). There are later listings too, for other locations. Unknown whether this is the same or different home mover/ potential Jazz Age bon vivant. |
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It was only a few days ago that I posted Julius Shulman pictures of the fountain at Robinson's in Beverly Hills. Here are a couple of photos of the interior. This is "Job 1304: Pereira & Luckman, Robinson's (Beverly Hills, Calif.), 1952".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original I'm trying to work out which department this shows. Are those greetings cards on the left? Why the three chairs next to them? There appears to be a fancy chess/checkers board on the right of the central counter. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original I originally thought that there was a member of staff trying to blend into the background in the center of this detail view, but now I'm thinking that it's just a mannequin. The arm is in a similar pose to the one just visible on the left of the image above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute |
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The chairs are maybe for the convenience of customers who are perusing catalogues of sample invitations and announcements which could be ordered with custom printing. Just a guess. ETA, Actually I was wondering about the throw pillows (?) heaped around a decorative birdhouse in the Boys Shop. Just seems odd: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Mi...w=w601-h516-no (detail, as above) Also seems odd that drinking fountains are featured so prominently in the images. |
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Thanks for your thoughts (and additional question :)), t2. ------------------ Here's another Shorpy image, and this one doesn't need to be colored. It's a 1956 look at Pantorium Cleaners. Mrs. Dodge, last seen at Bob's Big Boy, now at the Pantorium, next door to Transfer of the Sierra Madre. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original www.shorpy.com The comments identify the location as the corner of Sierra Madre Boulevard and S Lima Street. The building and Pantorium Cleaners are still there! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV |
:previous: 'Pantorium', what a great name for a cleaners!
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"5. Streetlight Museum, Downtown L.A. L.A. has kind of a love affair with streetlights. Maybe it started relatively recently, like when LACMA installed its "Urban Light" art installation, which was supposed to be temporary but became so popular that it still stands out front today, facing Wilshire Boulevard. But based on our streetlight designs that date back to the early days of electricity, it appears that our fascination with design in light started long before that. And now, there’s a museum for us streetlight people — on the second floor of the Public Works building, courtesy of the Bureau of Street Lighting. Surrounded by Bureau of Sanitation workers, there's a tiny room that chronicles the history of how L.A. has lit its streets since the early 1900s. This breathtakingly beautiful collection is only open to the public once a month, only by appointment, for only 30 minutes. If you hadn’t noticed already, on your visit you’ll learn that L.A. has had an amazingly wide variety of streetlight styles — and actually still does, among its 200,000 lights standing today. Each of the 400 styles have come to define certain areas — and, in some cases, certain streets — like the "5 Globe Llewellyn" of Downtown L.A., circa 1900. Most of them aren't just utilitarian "lights," but bona fide lanterns, lighting the way for wayward L.A. souls, beckoning them across certain bridges, into certain neighborhoods and onto certain streets. These fixtures don't just illuminate the streets below them. They draw the eyes upwards, past their concrete electroliers, to gaze directly at their textured glass globes and occasionally intricate metalwork." It doesn't sound (or look) as though they have entire electroliers displayed (it is after all just a room), but it's something: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eV...w=w847-h638-no kcet .................................................................................... Thank you for demystifying the Wills home Flyingwedge. I never knew intact Ft Moore Hill IRL obviously, but have always been fascinated by by its windswept heights, the platform for so many of our early photos. I'm not quite sure if the ca 1882 photo below shows the Wills residence future site, as I'm a little confused about its placement in relationship to the Banning place from this angle: Quote:
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/q1PDrw.jpg gsv Here's the front view of the garage again. (the large 'balls' at the end of the eaves are pretty amazing) -I just noticed they're even on the garage. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/CaF6EQ.jpgdetail the 'ball' is missing on the gsv alley view of the garage. see the whole photograph here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=42063 |
I believe this snapshot is new to NLA. It's from 'Vintage Los Angeles' facebook page.
"Hollywood and Whitley, 1986" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/AMxuDg.jpg Dario Witer https://www.facebook.com/VintageLosAngeles/ 'Reflections' sounds like a singles bar. and in 2012. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/IWot7W.jpg Danny Zale at https://sites.google.com/site/hollyw...2-west-to-east designed by H. L. Gogerty and Carl Jules Weyl [1927] _ |
And I believe this is new to NLA as well.
"One of Los Angeles' first Freeways, 1953" by Werner Bischof http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/S2jpsT.jpg magnumphotos |
"Old Los Angeles World Center"
Was anyone aware of this project proposal from the 1940s.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/WwRFJv.jpg http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030...p0zh-FID15.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/LHTA6U.jpg http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030...p0zh-FID15.jpg here's the front and back page. ("less than one hundred years ago....in 1847") http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/N4vCse.jpghttp://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/M8mlhb.jpg http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030...p0zh-FID15.jpg I imagine the war intervened and the project was shelved. __ update: Just for fun, here's a comparison of today and the 1940s plan. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/wYoHc0.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/Dr42On.jpg |
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At the time everyone was extremely worried about traffic gridlock during the Olympics and when it finally arrived the streets were nearly empty. Does anyone else have that memory....or did I dream that up? |
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................................................................................. And that "Old Los Angeles" thing was bizarre. It looks like it's levitating. And no Lugo House. |
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