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Larry Harnisch has posted the latest Black Dahlia idiocy, this time from LA Channel 7. All about the "marquis" of the Hotel Cecil. You can't make these things up.
http://ladailymirror.com/2014/01/29/...-story-ruined/ Cheers, Earl |
Welcome back sopas!
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-z...2520AM.bmp.jpgDaily Mirror Clearly visible is the Dahlia—practically to the life. "Koston Alderete, a Riverside boy with a love of scary films and ghost stories, took the picture, which shows a ghostly figure outside a fourth floor window. He says it looks a little too real." A boy, a ghost...well, who wouldn't take this seriously? No doubt we'll soon hear from his son that Dr. Hodel is right behind the ghost, getting ready to push it out of the window, or rather throw parts of it out. :previous: I agree uni--appearances by sopas and Beaudry, within a few hours no less, are very welcome. |
I never noticed this makeshift 'barrier/brace' along the Union Station wall before. Anyone know why it's there-
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-also, that's quite an elongated side mirror. Perhaps the owner pulls a camper. __ Great to hear from sopas_ej and Beaudry. |
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Still at its new address, 407 Coronado Terrace: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...2520AM.bmp.jpgGSV Turns out we've seen the vintage picture on NLA before here. Another shot in that post caught my eye: http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics45/00072029.jpgLAPL The two small houses at right once had Wilshire Boulevard addresses: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UYMX7FMjrC...40MAINsky6.jpg Their story is here. |
360 S. Westlake looks familiar but nothing turns up in the search function.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/547/4x0d.jpg GSV But even if we have seen it, I don't think we realized it used to be the Royal Palms Hotel. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/850/fywr.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/27/fc9g.jpgebay Two spacious ballrooms and three cocktail lounges!! Where did they fit all these amenities? I had to have a closer look. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/14/0jnd.jpg google_earth above: Is the one story section the old hotel's parking garage or one of it's two ballrooms? *If you return to the first photograph you can see what looks like the old garage entrance in front on the left. (I could be wrong....it looks awfully small) __ For some reason or other, the google-mobile driver decided to drive down the alley. -the old hotel is in the distance, past the vacant lot. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/19/dtfw.jpg GSV -a closer look http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/811/ywcb.jpg GSV Today it's the Royal Palms/Mary Lind Recovery Center. I tried to locate interior photos to no avail. http://www.marylind.org/ __ |
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The building was built in 1927 as a new clubhouse for the Concordia Club--which might have have overspent, because it appears to have become the Royal Palms as early as 1930... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-S...2520PM.bmp.jpg LAT, Apr 21, 1927/Aug 10, 1927/May 29, 1927 https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...218%2520PM.jpgLAT July 1, 1930 All LA Times |
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I've blown up the remaining mystery house, ER, to see if it would help anyone ID it. Now the house's left-side round feature can be seen. It seems familiar, but I'm not near my various nonelectronic West Adams resources to dig further... I'd venture to guess that it's in West Adams, perhaps on WA Blvd itself.... |
:previous: Excellent GW. ..and thanks for the information on the Royal Palms.
"The lower floor has a swimming pool, gymnasium and Turkish bath." -what didn't they have. Unidentified woman (restaurant hostess?) in front of Los Angeles business. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/839/0vsp.jpgebay |
Here's a noirish looking place.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/842/l28z.jpgebay today http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/600/q748.jpg GSV -half block further east and it would be beneath the Harbor Freeway. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/11/i8lj.jpg google_earh |
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This house is very similar GW. If it's not the same house, I bet it's the same architect. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/268/rjzc.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/30/ay89.jpg Chronicling America __ I was pretty sure this was the same house until I looked at the right hand side. The Johnson House has a rounded bay (see below) while the mystery house has a dormer (not to mention that elaborate porch). The Johnson House today with additions. It's now a fraternity. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/560/6d8k.jpg google_earth We have visited it before on NLA. __ |
Broadway, early '50s. A photo laden with grit and noir? (Sorry if it has been seen before.) http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008066.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/pics17/00008066.jpg |
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Grayson's - 1966 - Blind Street Musician http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics25/00047428.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics25/00047428.jpg '38 (?) 6417 Pacific Blvd., Huntington Pk. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099035.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099035.jpg |
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Excellent news about the 82 year old radio towers Lwize.
It makes me want to find a photograph when the 'hammock' wires were in place. Mojeda101 posted a few photos on the Los Angeles thread. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2261 |
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ER: You've got it. I knew this house was familiar--and I'd be very surprised if the mystery house and the Johnson weren't the same--I'm certain they must be. The article I posted last March here describes alterations made by the Johnson in 1917, which could account for the changes to the east side of the house. Your prior post is here. Given that the four houses you posted just recently belonged to early L.A. BSDs--General Otis, Judge Sterry, F. O. Johnson, and Thomas Stimson--the still-standing 1005 West 28th Street seems all the more likely to be the fourth one in the picture.... I'd say that, for L.A., it's significant that two of the four houses still stand! |
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