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Lose the G and an S, and you get T E R I S... (there's a reason that second tier on the sign is as long as it is)... http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/3716/xyiz.jpgLAT Oct 12, 1925 Perhaps it has something to do with a double murder, which may account for changes in ownership in 1927 ans '29 and then the name change: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Aug 10, 1926 (partial article) |
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City Of Sirens
Hiding in plain sight around Los Angeles are over two hundred rusty looking air raid sirens. Just for fun, I looked up the one in my neighborhood at 1st and Larchmont and it said the power was still connected as of 2006. Does anybody know if these things are still operational?
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Outstanding post on the old Hotel Teris HossC! I don't remember seeing the interior before. -good find.
Hotel Teris lobby posted by HossC. http://imageshack.us/a/img34/2531/c2tx.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img845/599/0a3s.jpg USC digital archives The Hotel Teris lobby today http://imageshack.us/a/img546/2088/8r9p.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img32/5122/1trt.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img703/6361/xvoh.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img707/3240/qur3.jpg http://shm.fmdatabase.com/FMSearch/d...I7czoxOiI1Ijt9 In that last photo, I love the vintage lighting fixture still intact above the old front desk. -a vertiginous view of the old hotel stairwell http://imageshack.us/a/img834/6335/tvuj.jpg http://www.skylinelocations.com/fmse...oyOiIzOSI7fQ== __ |
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I also didn't notice that doorbell on the rabbit business. If they wanted to discourage children, why did they shape the building like a giant rabbit? lol While checking out the St. Regis/Teris/Weingart building I noticed one of those vintages houses hidden behind store front additions. -that's the old Hotel St. Regis-Hotel Teris on the right http://imageshack.us/a/img716/1207/t39r.jpg GSV aerial http://imageshack.us/a/img837/8874/dr9t.jpg google_earth view from Witmer Street/the old Hotel Teris is on the right. http://imageshack.us/a/img202/9646/h4kw.jpg GSV Witmer view/blocked on all sides but one http://imageshack.us/a/img43/7881/lbi8.jpg GSV __ |
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And man, according to the Good Samaritan Hospital's website on this building, "Each guest room is equipped with color television and phone service." http://goodsam.org/support/weingart.php WOW! Not only television, but, C O L O R television! Maybe they even have that fancy touch-tone telephone service too! :P |
-so where does this sign place these two young men?
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Here's another interesting sign, circa 1927 (notice the arrow on top) -I've been trying to locate the building on the right.
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Elysian Letters
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:previous: -thanks Sonny_LA! It appears the bottom of the base is now buried.
Ralphs 1947, an extremely noirish view. http://imageshack.us/a/img11/6236/t7l2.jpg ebay/oct.2013 __ |
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Boyle Heights Sears Update
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Also, does anyone need 10 acres on the westside?: http://www.latimes.com/business/mone...#axzz2lQ3j11Xd |
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality]:previous: -thanks Sonny_LA! It appears the bottom of the base is now buried.
Not sure - the whole spot seems to have been reconfigured. The monument now seems to be placed where the lower stairs are in the original photo. The upper wall, at left, seems to be the same. The existing structure might even be a copy - the rough-hewn stone of the main pedestal is so different from the super-smooth sides of the original. Looking at old maps, Buena Vista St and its bridge across the river were changed quite a bit by the time it was called Broadway. |
Thanks for the up-to-date photos of the Hotel Teris' interior, e_r. It's still got some great old decor (if you ignore the anachronisms of the vending machines and TV screen by the elevators). It's a shame the stairwell picture isn't available at a higher resolution.
------------------ GW, thanks for the info about the Hotel Teris being the St. Regis - I wondered why there wasn't a listing for the Teris in the City Directories before 1932 when it was built in 1925. I only found one entry for the St Regis in the 1926 CD: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...StRegisCD1.jpg By 1927 there were a couple of residents listed: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...StRegisCD2.jpg And by 1929 the list had nearly doubled: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...StRegisCD3.jpg All from rescarta.lapl.org They could've kept all the letters from St. Regis and called it the Hotel Tigress (and got their furniture from the same place as the Zebra Room at the Town House). :) |
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I've wondered about the location of this photo, too, since first seeing it a couple years ago. Judging by the list of towns on the sign, the "new boulevard" would almost have to be Arrow Highway, which is Live Oak Ave. in El Monte. Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with El Monte to be able to hazard a guess about the church, and looking around on Google Maps, I couldn't find anything in the vicinity of the intersection of Live Oak and El Monte Ave. that resembles this view. (Not that I was really expecting to.) Mystery remains! |
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I just found this postcard of Les Comiques in the Hollywood Plaza Hotel. I wonder if this was located in the It space, or was the hotel large enough to have two separate restaurant spaces? http://imageshack.us/a/img35/236/xbhs.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img27/1105/dt1m.jpg ebay/nov.2013 reverse http://imageshack.us/a/img23/4281/4j8q.jpg __ |
Found!
Boy, will my face will be red if this has been posted, but the little brick building "on Vermont, on Mt. Hollywood, on the way to Griffith Park" is actually on Glendower, just off Vermont, south of Mt. Hollywood, and south of Griffith Park. Address is somewhere around 2693 Glendower Ave. I'll have to stop by this place...I see new solar panels, rooftop patio, ubiquitous trashbins...but the little garage is neat.
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http://imageshack.us/a/img62/8993/ixt2.jpg -What's going on below the side entrance is something quite sordid (and noirish). suicide leap from fire escape 1951 http://imageshack.us/a/img51/2885/4se6.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img842/6149/cmkq.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/91245/rec/5 I vaguely remember posting this photograph years ago on the thread. At the time I commented on the little blonde boy on the right; wondering what must be going through his mind. __ |
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So my supposition is that today's Ramona Blvd. west of Valley was Columbia St., and today's Ramona Blvd. east of Valley was the proposed El Monte Blvd. Where the direction changes slightly at Valley, a jog cutting off the corner is required to join the two parts. |
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