Originally Posted by Scott Charles (Post 8275900)

Aww, the poor little thing! :(

https://i.imgur.com/GANdzNg.jpg

Many thanks, Hoss! :)

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 8276512)

As ubiquitous as refrigerators are today, this was not always the case. When first introduced, refrigerators were not the most affordable appliances and often bought on credit. Exactly when they became "affordable" and "mainstream" is blurry, similar to the practical extinction of daily horse and buggy use. Not that I disagree with your guess, but one of the set pieces on the early '50s Honeymooners sitcom was . . . an icebox. This prompted the question of Los Angeles' last commercial ice delivery service. Considering that ice is still commercially available today, albeit in bags, one supposes that there may be an icebox still in use along with a swamp cooler and crystal radio set. :shrug: Somewhat related, I recall seeing a 1930 advertisement for an apartment that was equipped with a central refrigeration unit and presume that was a "built-in" feature.




Circa 1937
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8276044)

Thanks for finding the location Orth's Mayflower Warehouse Henry_Huntington and Noir Noir. I really appreciate it.


While snooping around in Pasadena I happened upon two things.



#1 Hub Cap Annie

I spotted this Quonset hut at 1446 E. Walnut St.

I imagine this is one of the hundreds of thousands of surplus Quonsets the government sold after World War II.

The V on front of the Qounset stands for Vapemastaz
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/32TKdG.jpg
GSV

"By the end of WWII, an estimated 150,000 units had been built around the world. Designed to serve 86 official uses, two basic sizes were offered:
the 20 and the 40. The 20 measured twenty feet by forty-eight feet, while the 40 (also called the “Elephant Hut”) stood forty feet wide by one-hundred feet long."
from DAHP



This particular Qounset previously housed Hub Cap Annie.

Here it is in 2009.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/hr0ycI.jpg
gooddayla.blogspot

and again, in 2011.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SqV0lI.jpg
gsv

I'm snoopy curious, did any of you fine Pasadenians ever buy a hub cap from Annie?



#2 'Ghost Spur'

I couldn't help but notice a distinctive angle running southeast from the Hub Cap Annie Qounset. (it's quite short...pretty much ending at Marion Ave.)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LrMnGe.jpg
google_earth

Does anyone know if this was, in fact, a rail spur? ...and if it was [a spur], what R.R. used it?

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Originally Posted by oldstuff (Post 8276742)

It does not appear to have been a spur. there are a number of early 20th century houses on the angled property so it appears that someone bought a funky shaped piece of land which may have previously been farmland and put houses in line with the angle. The houses also may have been there in relation to a farm or ranch. There does not appear have been a creek there, but who knows?

There is a faint line on some maps which follows the line this one and may have been an original boundary of someone's land.

Originally Posted by goodj037 (Post 8276926)

(loooongtime lurker, first time poster)

This was nagging at me so I looked at the 1931 Sanborn Map and it was still just a bunch of funky property lines. I went back to the 1910 map and it appears that there was a dry creek that ran through this area.

1931 Sanborn Map, LAPL

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 8276103)

I think that robeach has the right place, but just made a couple of typos.
21922 S Main Street does have a "rusted and faded" sign, but it's by the parking lot, not on the building.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/guABTa.jpg
gsv

Another typo was the name. It was actually Henri's Lariat.

Originally Posted by Godzilla (Post 8276512)

As ubiquitous as refrigerators are today, this was not always the case. When first introduced, refrigerators were not the most affordable appliances and often bought on credit. Exactly when they became "affordable" and "mainstream" is blurry, similar to the practical extinction of daily horse and buggy use. Not that I disagree with your guess, but one of the set pieces on the early '50s Honeymooners sitcom was . . . an icebox. This prompted the question of Los Angeles' last commercial ice delivery service. Considering that ice is still commercially available today, albeit in bags, one supposes that there may be an icebox still in use along with a swamp cooler and crystal radio set. :shrug: Somewhat related, I recall seeing a 1930 advertisement for an apartment that was equipped with a central refrigeration unit and presume that was a "built-in" feature.

Circa 1937
https://i.imgur.com/fpXM5LC.jpgLAPL https://i.imgur.com/dr2jy4w.jpgLAPL

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 8275247)

Well, ER, it seems that Betty Danko lived at 6522 La Mirada all those years, next door to 6526.

Originally Posted by Scott Charles (Post 8277050)

The house I live in (built in 1946) still has a swamp cooler. https://i.imgur.com/j5cBMXj.gif No crystal radio, though.

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There used to be a similar ice dispenser to the one above in my parents’ neighborhood, in nearby Burbank, specifically here (Google Maps).

It was finally removed sometime in the 90s. It was still in use, I’d see people getting ice out of it.

Here’s a photo I took of it, sometime in the mid to late 80s:

https://i.imgur.com/Wol2m8K.jpg

I wonder when this one was built. You can’t really tell from the photo, but it was old. Perhaps the 1950s?

Originally Posted by Bristolian (Post 8277174)

There are a couple of ice dispensers still in operation in Gardena.......

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8277139)

Thanks for giving it a shot odinthor. I appreciate it.



Early postcard "Taken in Los Angeles California"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/o5mozS.jpg
old file / possibly ebay

This handsome young man is obviously wearing a sailor suit but his hat is civilian, right?
I've been trying figure out a date by the style of his sailor's uniform. (any help would be appreciated)


Here's the reverse of the postcard. (so frustrating that there isn't a postmark)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/THqzL1.jpg

to "Pal Andy Bartko, Toledo Ohio"

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Originally Posted by Bristolian (Post 8277174)

There are a couple of ice dispensers still in operation in Gardena.

This coin operated version is on 162nd Street.
https://i.imgur.com/d59obpg.png?2GSV

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8276044)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SqV0lI.jpg
gsv

I'm snoopy curious, did any of you fine Pasadenians ever buy a hub cap from Annie?




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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8277139)

Thanks for giving it a shot odinthor. I appreciate it.



Early postcard "Taken in Los Angeles California"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/o5mozS.jpg
old file / possibly ebay

This handsome young man is obviously wearing a sailor suit but his hat is civilian, right?
I've been trying figure out a date by the style of his sailor's uniform. (any help would be appreciated)


Here's the reverse of the postcard. (so frustrating that there isn't a postmark)

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/THqzL1.jpg

to "Pal Andy Bartko, Toledo Ohio"

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