LA Auto Show...A Flaming Disaster
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I have never heard of this disaster. The idea of those 100s of brand new cars burnt to a crisp is really sickening. I guess tents are not a safe place for a car show. Imagine when those gasoline tanks caught fire and the probable explosions. The tires, upholstery, the oil and lubricants...a regular feu de l'ardeur!. The site must have been a raging hellish inferno. |
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Thanks Mr. Gaylord for the reports from papers on the car show tent fire. I notice the Commission recommends that auto shows no longer be held in 'tents'.
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http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1...roadway120.jpg 21 Berkeley Square http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4...ptoday1200.jpg GoogleSV The Ville de Paris department store was the first tenant of the Homer Laughlin Building and was replaced by the Grand Central Market in 1917. The Fusenot family owned the store until 1915; the new owners moved the store to Olive and 7th, making way for the market. I'm not sure when the façade lost its detail, such as LAUGHLIN over the door. |
:previous: Interesting before and after GW. I had forgotten about the Ville de Paris Dept. Store.
Thx for the reminder. |
...more about Sierra Madre Villa.
http://imageshack.us/a/img839/6673/a...eastofalle.jpg http://eastofallen.blogspot.com/ http://imageshack.us/a/img23/5057/aa...stofallenb.jpg http://eastofallen.blogspot.com/ I love the fact that there are remnants. __ http://imageshack.us/a/img585/4681/a...drevillasa.png ebay __ |
Homer Laughlin Building (1897) and Annex (1905)
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This google maps view shows the relationship between Parkinson's 1897 building and Harrison Albright's 1905 Annex that connected the building with Hill Street, including what's left of the roof garden between the two which was part of the premises of the LAPL when they occupied two floors of the Annex between 1906 and 1908. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--...112%2520AM.jpg google maps The Children's Reading Room at the Laughlin Annex, French doors to the roof garden at left: (If this photo is identified correctly, I cannot explain the arch-top windows) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Mp9454mDo_...od+library.bmp lapl The present Hill Street facade: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...544%2520AM.jpg gsv Broadway frontage with the Million Dollar Theater to the north: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J...908%2520AM.jpg gsv Hipster-free interior: http://www.you-are-here.com/broadway...ral_market.jpg http://www.you-are-here.com http://www.grandcentralsquare.com/popup/images/pg1.jpg http://www.grandcentralsquare.com Does anyone know where, in this pair of buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright's office was while he was building his concrete-block houses here in the 1920's? Before the Laughlin Building. This 1890 shot shows the Fort Street Methodist Episcopal Church, replaced by the Homer Laughlin Building in 1916: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...2%252520PM.jpg water and power BTW, below is the first Laughlin Building, in East Liverpool, Ohio, soon after Homer Laughlin sold out to move to Los Angeles. The Homer Laughlin China Co is still going strong and has manufactured 1/3 of all the china ever sold in the US to date, including their famous Fiesta ware. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J...0%252520PM.jpg http://www.hlcdinnerware.com/about/history |
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While in the 1890s there was a Laclede House apartment building at 713 S Main St, it seems that the Laclede in the picture was at 318 Crocker St. The house at this address appears to have had several names before it was called the Laclede, among them the Palace and the Oatka. It seems to have only been called the Laclede for a short time, first appearing in the 1911 city directory; a few years later it was called the Kingsbury, the contents of which--including "a good talking parrot and cage"--were apparently auctioned off in February 1917. http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/8...kerauction.jpgLAT http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4148/320crocker.jpgGoogleSV Not surprisingly, 318 Crocker is now an empty lot... but the little building to its south is intriguing. As the area became commercial during the '20s, like the rest of the old houses in the 'hood, those at 318 and 320 gave way to new buildings. The story of 320 is below. http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/2...kerarticle.jpgLAT |
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As for FLW--I've been obsessed with him for a long time--I happen to have it my head that he occupied room 522 in the Homer Laughlin Building in the early to mid '20s. More on the LAPL's tenancy: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2684 |
[QUOTE=tovangar2;5950810]What an utter disaster. It looks like a war zone.
1924 was a bit of an iffy year for LA: L.A. THEN AND NOW It started with a dead rat in a poor neighborhood near downtown. Not two months later, 37 people had died from the plague. March 05, 2006|Cecilia Rasmussen | Times Staff Writer DO NOT miss these photos: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=...doc.view=items A thankless task at the 1924 LA plague lab: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...110%2520PM.jpg One of your pictures was the rat lab on 8th Street: http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/8...ofcaliforn.jpg online archive of california And it is still there...looking pretty original! http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7742/capturekv.jpg Google Street View The windows are still open on the second floor...trying to let the dead rat stink out, no doubt. |
1924 LA Plague District Map
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This one's hopeless if one's looking for a particular address: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/...3j3/hi-res.jpg http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/...j3/?brand=oac4 |
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Small World - I worked for twenty years, or so, right down the street from this building at the corner of East Third and Crocker: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1213/capturernz.jpg Google Street View The Gunzel family still owned the building, and Mr. Gunzel would walk down to our office every Friday to ride to the Rotary Club meeting with the owner of Modernage. This was probably late 1980's or early 1990's. In fact, I believe that the owners of Modernage may have rented that building from Gunzel prior to buying the property in the photo above. As you can see, Third Street is the border between Little Tokyo and skid row in this area. |
The Library at the Laughlin Building
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Laughlin seems to have been a pretty nice guy. According to the company website in 1880 he took 300 employees and their families in a chartered train to Pittsburgh to see an exposition in the afternoon and an opera in the evening. In 1877 a skilled Laughlin pottery worker earned $2.33 per day, an unskilled male $1.29. Boys earned 82¢ per day, and both women and girls earned 75¢. Not too shabby by the standards of the day. |
1015 8th Street - The Rat Lab
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h...009%2520PM.jpg gsv https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M...400%2520PM.jpg gsv I can't wait to share a little local history with them! (This is also just a block over from the Castle Cottage Cheese - "it's different" - building if you remember that.) And BTW, I love the original house just to the east of the Rat Lab. Without the porch, it would blend right in in 18th century Massachusetts. Here it is from the back. Looks like a barn in this view: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-F...904%2520PM.jpg online archive of california More Lab work: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M...233%2520PM.jpg online archive of california |
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That is a nice building...and large! Are they going to have live music there? Tell her "noisenik" Jeff Witscher (aka Rene Hell) is a friend of the family. http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/633/14790414.jpg |
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It looks like 736 Ceres Ave once housed another of the many printers in the area--the Le Roy Carman Printing Co, which moved in ca. 1924 and was there at least until 1938. Other than that, there was a 1979 Times article that listed 736 Ceres as one of the city's 7,876 pre-1933 unreinforced masonry buildings. Not to worry--it looks like it has since had its seismic retrofit. Ceres Street itself appears to have at one time been something of a red-light district and is the source of some other interesting stories-- http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/4...esartcompl.jpgLAT |
Ceres & 8th
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There's still a fashion company in about a quarter of the building, but they're moving out soon. I'll tell them. And here's the Macy Street School, mentioned at length in the LA Times article on the 1924 plague, just before being torn down in '37. It was inside the quarantine area.: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-f...829%2520PM.jpg reddawgcollectibles - eBay http://articles.latimes.com/print/20...local/me-then5 |
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sorry los angeles past's photographs are missing. :(
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Thank you Scott for this priceless post and sharing some of your family's history. I had to smile when I saw the white knit cap. :) __ |
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