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To remind readers who are less devoted to/interested in Laurel Canyon than I am (i.e. the entire thread readership :)), I had identified Wulff's Peak as a landmark in the 1908 Lookout Mountain Park subdivision. It was the highest spot between Laurel and Coldwater Canyons.
In earlier posts, I located this peak, and even, with the help of 3940dxer, climbed it. I also found that in 1913 the LMP owners sold the land containing the peak ("The Belvedere of America" - LA Times) to Teapot Dome crook and LA philanthropist E.L. Doheny. Having nothing better to do at lunch today, I googled "Wulff's Peak" and to my surprise, the first hit was from the Stanford University Libraries: http://imageshack.us/a/img38/4228/szm2.jpg http://insight.stanford.edu/luna/servlet/detail/Stanford~3~1~479098911~9597:Wulff-s-peak-area "L.S.J.U. Geological Survey" seemed like an odd acronym, but then I realized it was "Leland Stanford Junior University." Who knew they had their own version of the USGS in 1910? Looking at the map, I saw that the only named feature was Coldwater Canyon, but the general topography was familiar. Wulff's Peak is present at the right lower edge of the map, and only if the surveyors had gone even 300 feet to the east, they would have picked up the Lookout Mountain Inn. (The irregular strip on the right side of the map is an elevation view of a line "A" to "B" running from the top to the bottom of the map on its west side. Here is an inset: http://imageshack.us/a/img822/3320/d7sn.jpg I have marked the curve of Wonderland Avenue (still there) and the Peak itself. As you can see, a road climbed up from Upper Crescent and ascended Wulff's Peak from the south, and ended with a loop around the summit. This rang a bell with a 1909 newspaper "bird's-eye view" posted by e_r: http://imageshack.us/a/img28/1070/ruew.jpg This highly embellished view shows a loop road around the summit, too. So it seems that the newspaper view was based in reality, although it called the mountain "Wullf's Peak." When Doheny bought the mountain in 1913, I am sure he blocked off access for the unwashed who would have come from the area of the Lookout Mountain Inn (today 2355 Sunset Plaza Drive). Samuel Johnson's observation that patriotism is the last refuge for a scoundrel is furnished here an object lesson from 1914: http://imageshack.com/a/img543/4755/psaw.jpg Interestingly, the road up the peak is missing from the 1926 USGS topo, an insert of which follows below, with the missing road drawn back in in blue: http://imageshack.us/a/img94/5299/04qv.jpg Today Wulff's Peak is anonymous on maps, fenced off from the public, and festooned with water tanks and antennas. I wonder how long the giant flag lasted. These things seem to be seen only at SoCal car dealerships today, possibly some scoundrels there, too :) |
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I remember going to McDonnell's when I was a child. There was one on San Fernando Road and Sonora in Glendale, just opposite the Grand Central Airport. They did have a dining room, not just car service, since I recall sitting inside and watching the planes take off and land from the airport. (very exciting to a child of 2-3 years old) They had the most amazing cream of chicken soup, with big, fat, homemade noodles and big pieces of chicken. I have tried to replicate it but cannot get it right.
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You must have been thrilled when you located this map Lorendoc.
originally posted by Lorendoc http://imageshack.us/a/img199/1838/ttce.jpg And thanks for explaining the irregular strip on the right hand side. I thought it was a scanning error at first. I was going to surprise you with a vintage photograph of Doheny's giant flag flying over Wullf's Peak but I came up empty handed. I tried every combination of words I could think of, to no avail.:( I've seen flags flying over Lookout Mountain in postcards. (maybe one of the flags was on Wullf's Peak and I didn't realize it was Wullf's Peak) p.s. I was surprised the road 'loop' on the 1909 illustration showed up on the map. I thought most of what was featured on that illustration was fantasy and wishful thinking. __ |
something truly noirish.
At first I was confused by this 1932 photograph of a John Doe in Los Angeles. Why did they just have his clothes on the slab? http://imageshack.us/a/img820/1883/yzju.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/7388762...-cAAFmj-aRhWND Well it turns out, this is the flayed skin of a murder victim! http://imageshack.us/a/img34/4726/su74.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/7388762...-cAAFmj-aRhWND -unsolved it says. -f*cking frightening. __ |
Los Angeles Times Pressmen 1930
http://imageshack.us/a/img853/7688/b0tx.jpg from the collection of Frank O.H. White, whose father was a L.A. Times pressman for forty years (1924 to 1964). photograph found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/2109644...-9Q2YqA-7Auwr2 |
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Wow, ER--my blood ran cold. So why was I a little disappointed when I read "no evidence of foul play"? https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3...211%2520PM.jpgLATimes Dec 31, 1932 |
:previous: Perhaps the murderer 'embalmed' the victim's skin himself, formaldehyde wasn't all that difficult to find in 1930s Los Angeles.
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http://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097466.jpg lapl Each floor had only four units, and semi-private elevators meant you shared the elevator with only one other person on your floor. Here's how it looks now: http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...ps057e4012.jpg Actually, it looks like this: http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0e96643b.jpg (That blob in the upper left is a tree canopy. I couldn't get rid of it while keeping the same perspective) The cottage-like section on the left is a separate 3-bedroom unit where Pick and Fair lived while they were building Pickfair. Trianon is still an in-use apartment building. (There's always a chance this info has already been posted. As of page 71, it hadn't been.) |
BTW, in the early pages I'm now going through, roughly a third to a half of the photo links are broken. A lot of knowledge from a lot of contributors is going down the memory hole. Again.
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:previous: sportbiker, the early pages of noirish Los Angeles were archived by several members befoe the photographs disappeared.
The thread will live on, one way or another. -perhaps in a library, or resurrected online sometime in the future. (with help from skyscraperpage.com of course) __ Lorendoc, is the flag on the right on Wulff's Peak? -it clearly shows the 'looped' road mentioned earlier. http://imageshack.us/a/img513/9969/3tc0.jpg ebay -admittedly, I am a bit slow to comprehend the Lookout Mountain area. __ |
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sportbiker--Pickfair actually came first. Fair bought it for Pick from Lee Allen Phillips around the time they got married in 1920. Maybe the couple lived at the Trianon during a later renovation, but they were living at Pickfair for 8 years by the time the apartment building went up. |
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Koveralls--a long defunct brand of children's playwear from a widely known manufacturer of jeans and casual slacks. The ad copy informs us, "Koveralls Keep Kids Kleen!" |
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That postcard is the one I concluded was an unreliable collage, with the bottom half based on photos looking NW from Lookout Mountain to the Lookout Mountain Inn along Appian Way and upper Sunset Plaza. The upper half of the collage is a reverse view from the Inn towards Cyprean Ridge on the left, and Lookout Mountain (with flag) on the right. Here is another (more realistic) postcard which looks from the Inn SE towards the Bandstand on Lookout Mountain: http://imageshack.us/a/img513/8876/zj7o.jpg http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...b/HA-031-3.jpg The loop on Lookout Mountain is circled in red. If you look closely at the summit, you will see the Bandstand. The Laurel Canyon Association web site has a close-in view of the latter: http://imageshack.us/a/img690/9893/stu5.jpg http://laurelcanyonassoc.com/Canyon1900.html So both Wulff's Peak and Lookout Mountain had loops around their summits. These can be seen on the newspaper illustration e_r found, I've circled both loops. On the left, you can barely see a caption "Lookout Mountain." And the Inn is not present in this 1909 image, so we can conclude that it was built shortly thereafter. http://imageshack.us/a/img856/1479/r5sg.jpg And finally here is a picture of the area that is new to me. From the "Los Angeles in the 1900s" blog: http://imageshack.us/a/img826/5805/zsec.jpg http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/09.02.html This is taken from the slope just below the Inn, looking SE towards Lookout Mountain and its loop. (No flagpole yet, but there are other photos which show one I'll try to post another time.) It clearly shows proto-Appian Way, with Lookout Mountain Avenue descending into the lower left corner of the picture, and Cyprean Drive coming off Appian at the middle-left edge. But what interests me most about this one is that it clearly shows the site of my present house on the saddle just below Lookout Mountain on Appian Way about 45 years before it was built. Very cool :D |
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