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Does this Hofman have anything to do with this? http://www.kouponkaren.com/wp-conten...ys-Hotdogs.jpg |
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Harris Newmark notes that the zanja ran along Figueroa to Adams. I wonder if the water is run-off from the zanja terminus. Appears to be the site of Buster Keaton’s Haunted House movie? Sorry if this is a repeat. https://silentlocations.wordpress.co...haunted-house/ http://califaztlan.org/LANoirPics/busterKeaton2619.jpg |
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http://cdn.onlyinyourstate.com/wp-co..._n-700x933.jpg Musso & Frank restaurant....nice place for good food in cool comfort.....since 1919 in Hollywood. Only been there one time. |
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Here is some information on the club's earlier locations. (that I didn't know about until today) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/zp710P.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/D1FN0T.jpg I'm hoping to turn up some additional info (and possibly photographs) of the 'Windmill Links' and the 'Convent Links'. -so far I haven't had any luck. [stay tuned :)] present day location http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/ZsABSu.jpg from lacc.org |
Carbolic Smoke Ball
While searching for something entirely unrelated, I happened upon this strange advertisement in the March 26, 1887 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Herald.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/oVyL5n.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/9NNV3D.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/5kkk3s.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/kE8i6n.jpg https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc Has anyone heard of this crazy contraption before? __ |
More of The Hub
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This photo looks south on North San Pedro Street from Jackson Street, c. 1906-08. The Hub is on the right. There is a sign for Jackson Street above the head of the guy in the lower right corner. Straight head in the distance, where the streetcar is, is 1st Street. Behind the streetcar we see the cupola of the Woodworth Mansion at 2nd and Wilmington (ex-San Pedro St.): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original 487865 at Huntington Digital Library |
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I could only calculate the price in 1887 ..$3.00, back to 1913....but this rather expensive stuff in 2017 dollars....$75.00 But if it cures a cold in the head in 15 minutes....heck, its worth it. |
I ditched work on Thursday to ride Angels Flight on its grand re-re-re-reopening---it opened in 1901, closed in 1969, reopened in 1996, closed in 2001, reopened in 2010, closed briefly for a month and then reopened in 2011, closed in 2013, and finally reopened again August 31, 2017. Hopefully it'll be running for the long haul. Fare is now a buck one way, 50 cents if you have a valid Metro TAP card.
A then and now of sorts: Angels Flight station house, 1955, https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c4&oe=5A57620F LAPL 1960. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...3f&oe=5A16B722 LAPL Angels Flight station house, August 31, 2017. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...ce&oe=5A57497F Photo by me 1962. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...13&oe=5A1A2151 LAPL August 31, 2017. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c7&oe=5A56D4E6 Photo by me Angels Flight Arch, 1930s. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...4b&oe=5A5CE67B LAPL Angels Flight Arch, 1957. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...0d&oe=5A5EBF4E LAPL Angels Flight Arch, 1962. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...63&oe=5A54BF8A LAPL Angels Flight Arch, August 31, 2017. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c7&oe=5A540EE5 Photo by me Peggy Lee riding Angels Flight (!), 1968. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...26&oe=5A56BDD1 LAPL Riding Angels Flight, minus Peggy Lee, August 31, 2017. https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...2e&oe=5A146C6C Photo by me Here's a noirish film from the 1960s called "Angel's Flight." It's so bad, it's hilarious. And you get to see a young Rue McClanahan (billed as "Rhue" McClanahan in the credits) in a bit part. Sorry if it's been posted here before. |
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Its needs massive new and up to code engineering and rebuilding. I wonder how long it will last this time? Sopas....those are cool new photos........... |
1239 Boston Street, originally 1243 Ionia Street
Here is 1239 Boston Street today. Boston Street was formerly Ionia Street. There is a July 27, 1926, building permit to move
what was then still called 1243 Ionia "ten or 12 feet from where it is now on the same lot," and to renumber it 1239 Ionia: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...v.jpg~original Feb 2017 GSV The reason 1243 Ionia was moved and renumbered 1239 was so that 455 Custer could be moved onto the west side of the same lot and become the new 1243 Ionia: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original LADBS Here is 1243 Boston, ex-1243 Ionia, ex-455 Custer: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original Feb 2017 GSV We've seen 455 Custer before: Quote:
On the current Googlemap, 1239 Boston is right of center near the bottom, on the NW corner of East Kensington Road: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original Googlemap Here is part of the same neighborhood on the 1894 Sanborn Map. You can see 1243 Ionia in the lower right corner: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL This is 1243 Ionia c. 1893. Behind it and to the right is the Bethany Presbyterian Church. In the distance just to the left of 1243 Ionia is 714 E. Edgeware (dark green on the July 2015 GSV), and the two large homes to its left are on the corner of Edgeware and Carroll. At the left edge in the foreground is 1247 Ionia/Boston: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original UCLA/Islandora The people we see at 1243 Ionia in the c. 1893 photo may be E. Edgar Galbreth and his family at their new home (he is at another address in the 1891 LACD): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original 1892 LACD @ fold3.com __________________________________ P. S. Thanks for the Angels Flight photos and the movie link, sopas ej! |
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Let's break out the booze. |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4377/...7398b9_o_d.jpg flyingwedge.....previous post. Its hard to imagine how unoccupied most of LA was in the 1890s. Moving houses from about 1925 thru the 1950s, due to LA redevelopment, was a big deal. I recall my father in 1955 [and his business partners] bought 4 or 5 old houses... moved them and converted them into apartment buildings. The last one we sold off in 1989. |
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For starters: https://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum...ostcount=20405 Believe we have seen more as an adjunct to other photos of the Pico-Alvarado neighborhood. |
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Every LA house has a little noir... I'm always amused when people get nostalgic for the good old "safe" days, full of good people properly dressed and oh so straight. LA newspapers were full the stories of porch-climbers and murderers and swindlers, and sad tales of family despair etc, in poor neighborhoods and rich, from the earliest days through the 1950s (for which people seem to be especially nostalgic) to the present day... As for the original 1243 Ionia-now-1239 Boston: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gg...g=w237-h648-nohttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bb...Q=w478-h648-no LAT Oct 15, 1891/LAT Feb 5, 1899 Regarding the smaller Victorian in the scene above, 1247 Ionia-now 1247 Boston: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d1...A=w962-h578-no LAT May 16, 1901 Not exactly, noir, but a death at 1247--someone seems to have died in almost every older house, especially before the era of modern prolonged death available in hospitals via modern technology and not at home... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uq...Q=w984-h482-no LAT Sept 30, 1911 |
Is Angel's Flight air-conditoned, heh!
Los Angeles greeted the reopening of Angel's Flight with a high temperature of 102° for the day. (It's been a brutal week. This morning at 7am it was already 89°.) |
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Martin...you have to be joking...air-conditioned?:D:D |
That's not too Righteous Brother
Hi all, I just finished reading a bio of Bill Medley from the Righteous Brothers. Its an ok read and pretty short, but in it he mentions that his ex wife got murdered in Hermosa Beach in the mid 70's (i think 1975). I know we have a few South Bay residents in this group, do any of you remember this? The murder went unsolved for over 40 years and it was solved earlier this year. Im looking for the location of the house or a newspaper article. Thanks in advance.
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