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And WOW, it's still here! The building at least appears to be well-kept, but of course I pine for the original facade. Perhaps it will emerge someday... |
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http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3ab28c9c.jpg http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...psfcfeecbb.jpg Images courtesy of Google earth La mano Tortillas located 9237 Whittier Blvd Pico Rivera. This building has lots of Touches of Noir! To me it looks like it could have maybe been a bank or a post office can someone help me out? |
I've got your watercress right here . . . .
It's 1888 and we've got an errand to run. Let's head east on Aliso Street toward the LA River. After crossing Alameda, on our left there's Old Aliso, and then just before the river we'll come to Keller. Sainsevain runs parallel to Aliso one block to the south:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pscb8326e7.jpg 1888 Sanborn at LAPL At the corner of Aliso and Old Aliso, we pass the Los Angeles Cracker Co: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6788759a.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/F/AXAR...001&format=999 1888 Sanborn @ LAPL (I guess they needed an eight-foot-high adobe wall on the north side of Old Aliso to keep people out of the vineyard): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psd6ce6129.jpg http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4a750459.jpg 1887 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com We'll stay on Aliso until we get to Keller, then we'll turn left: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps54f798bc.jpg 1894 Sanborn @ LAPL We're looking for Joe the watercress vendor. I ain't making this up: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5bf620e0.jpg 1886 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com Joe gets his ass in gear pretty early, so we've got to hurry to catch him. Look, there he is on Keller Street -- Hey Joe, wait up! http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps49abbab7.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...BLPQNBVES7.jpg Maybe the donkey's best side is its right? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4d10eea8.jpg CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...5HB799QCM8.jpg Joe has his boots and empty basket and so appears to be on his way to harvest some watercress. I wonder where he gets it? Perhaps he tends a watercress bed by a zanja or the LA River? # # # August 2012 view north at Keller Street from the El Monte Busway -- approximately above where Aliso St. used to be -- with the Cesar Chavez Ave. (ex-Macy St.) Bridge in the background: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pscf8979d3.jpg GSV |
Down by the old LA river.....
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Like it's name, watercress needs running water to flourish. Watercress is aquatic. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps0b4cba53.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse3b2bde6.jpg Eric Sollman |
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:previous: -short apple blossom street makes me wonder if a section of the vineyard was set aside for an apple orchard.
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1888-Sanborn/posted by Flyingwedge
http://imageshack.us/a/img826/1567/yd9u.jpg I was hoping to find Aliso Street's namesake, El Aliso...the 400 year old Sycamore, somewhere on the Philadelphia Brewery property. Do you think it could be that round circle? According to tovanger2 at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10490, the famous tree stood on the property until 1892. __ |
A couple ads for the Philadelphia Brewery.
Los Angeles Herald 1878. http://imageshack.us/a/img40/3575/xior.jpg http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ eleven years later, after being purchased by Maier & Zobelein. http://imageshack.us/a/img28/7985/93h5.jpg http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ __ |
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My guess is that it was once a bank. __ |
Recalling Fletcher Bowron?
http://imageshack.us/a/img856/8214/7at5.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/old-1950-rob...-/231019645966 http://imageshack.us/a/img32/365/vttk.jpg ebay http://imageshack.us/a/img29/6695/dha3.jpg ebay -there's more on Robert W. Kenny here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Kenny __ |
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Henry Stanford's home now looks like this, courtesy of google st. view. http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps047087d8.jpg |
:previous: -good find jaco. :)
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psccfd4f81.jpg 1888 Sanborn Map @ LAPL I gather from reading T2's post that the tree was in the court yard between the two wings of the brewery complex, facing Aliso (above the last A in PHILADELPHIA BREWERY). |
:previous: -That's too bad...thank you anyway Flyingwedge. The people at Sanborn probably didn't realize the significance of the tree.
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:previous: Thanks again jaco for the information on the 'Volunteers of America' in Boyle Heights.
I was hoping the building still stands. __ Nurse Shirley Gellman, what were you thinking? http://imageshack.us/a/img837/5870/6uu6.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950-Ad-Fati...-/300937202795 __ |
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