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Here's a WAG for e_r's mystery location: the Paradise Motor Lodge and Trailer Park which in the 1956 CD was at 3439 N San Fernando Road. This address is indeed on the border of LA and Glendale, and the hill in the background might be part of Forest Lawn-Glendale. The other 5 Motor Lodges in the CD were well inside city limits. That said, it could pretty much have been anywhere, like out in Sun Valley etc. |
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Lorendoc, I'm with you on the general area where we might find pay dirt. I tried to figure out the name of the bus operator at the bottom of the Bus Stop sign attached to the pole. Of course, I couldn't quite make it out even with a lot of magnification and squinting. But I thought the characters could match "Asbury Rapid Transit", which operated a number of East Valley routes at that time. The only two locations on their lines that I could find that would fit the criteria of crossing into the City of L.A. at an intersection with a hill on the right side would be Glenoaks Blvd. at Cohasset St. (Burbank to L.A.) or Foothill Blvd. at Lowell Ave. (La Cresenta to Sunland). I haven't fallen in love with either of these places. The first is now the entrance to the Woodbury University campus, and the hill would've had to have been cut down considerably to justify the current topography. The latter location has Lowell Ave. climbing nicely except that it's bending toward the north and the city line is on the far (wrong) side of Lowell. The 1956 Street Directory doesn't reach either location, so no help there. Back to the Bus Stop sign: it isn't the metal triangle that LARy/PE/LAMC standardized in the 1930s, but I realized that I don't know what shape Asbury used. I can't think of other operators out that way in the early '50s, but if the sign belonged to somebody else, my line of reasoning detonates in my face and it's back to Square One. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/1zM5r6xh/Annota...-01-234806.jpgvia UCSB(Framefinder) I'm pretty sure it's not the Glendale/LA border on on San Fernando either, that area was pretty built up and industrial by 1944(also the area right by San Fernando is flat for a block or so until you reach the Forest Lawn property. https://i.postimg.cc/j5x5XVSX/Annota...-01-235945.jpgvia UCSB Framefinder |
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700 N. Spring
This is the first photo at Beaudry's latest discovery (serendipitism.blogspot.com):
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...m.blogspot.jpg The 1956 LA Street Address Directory lists the Wai Sang Meat Market at 700 N. Spring, which is on the NE corner of Ord and N. Spring. That means we're looking at the 1888 Tononi Block (aka San Fernando Hotel), seen here center/right and partially hidden by a tree, with the towered 1887 Clinton Block (aka Sunset/Hill Hotel) at left, directly across N. Spring: Quote:
In 1888, what is now N. Spring was known as Upper Main, and what is now Ord was called Walters. The Tononi Block was built by Giacomo Tononi and its architect was A. M. Edelman: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...entries(2).jpg 1890 LA City Directory at fold3.com https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...-%20larger.jpg November 18, 1887, Los Angeles Herald at CDNC/UC Riverside As we've discussed here before, both the Tononi and Clinton Blocks are still standing, albeit shorn of their upper floors. The Tononi lost its in 1960: https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...ni%20Block.jpg LA Department of Building and Safety |
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Yorkshire Hotel? The photographer must have leaned waay out the window to get this shot. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/u539Qc.jpg Here is what's written on the reverse. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/0Jotmd.jpg Does anyone have information on the Yorkshire Hotel? It's briefly mentioned in this post by HossC, Here The seller included this close-up. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/pthJwP.jpg Everyone is so well dressed. I appreciate all the help on the Los Angeles City Limit sign snapshot. :) I'm still looking. . |
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I've looked at every major arterial entrance to the City of Los Angeles that's placed near hills, and I can't find a match. Freeway construction might've impacted a couple of possibilities: Venura Blvd. at Fallbrook Ave. and Colorado Blvd. at Patricia Ave. Good luck to those who continue the search, hopefully with more inspiration than I've been able to muster. |
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Taking inspiration from Odinthor's hunch, I looked at Western Avenue, heading south into San Pedro, around Palos Verdes Drive North. It is near the city limit and you do get a considerable hill on your right but I checked some Framefinder aerials from the '50s and there was nothing resembling the motor lodge in that area. I am intrigued by the Palos Verdes area possibility but it doesn't seem a likely place for a motor lodge. That's all I got. |
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Magritte's Pick of the Day. Fish on Pole....................................................................................................................... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/wjKDB4.jpg lapl LAPL isn't 100% sure of the location. "A dead fish lies on top of a post on a downtown sidewalk, as three men stand by. This may be the corner of 5th and Spring Strets, at the entrance to the Alexandria Hotel, looking south." I just had to make sure it was a fish. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/lXn9iC.png It's a fish. I'm curious about the plaque. It looks like Benjamin Franklin raising a beer. Does anyone know what it means? :shrug: . |
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Mickey Cohen's Dead Bulldog. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/9AEBcZ.jpg LAPL Mickey Cohen besides the casket containing his dead bulldog Mickey, Jr., Jun. 28, 1960. The bulldog's name was Mickey Jr. ...I kid you not. Mickey Jr. / was it murder? |
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But as I said, most I've seen are 320, like this photo I post because it's interesting, taken during the riots in 1965, and we can tell the location. https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/...=900&p=0&w=900agefotostock |
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Whatever the significance, the plaque or its predecessors have been there a long time. Here are three details from LAPL images: 1915: https://i.postimg.cc/9FSDzvvB/Alex90233-1915.jpg ID 90233 1934: https://i.postimg.cc/v80gw1hk/Alex10926.jpg ID 10926 1974: https://i.postimg.cc/tC71qXmT/Alex87103.jpg ID 87103 |
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Mt. Lukens after our Boxing Day storm last year, the Le Mesnager Barn is the structure in the foreground. |
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