Miss Abigail Stark, 723 South Flower Street & Martz Flats
Thanks so much for the background info. This little house has come up before.
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The base of Barker Bros (Curlett & Beelman, 1925) is so similar to the Roosevelt Building (Curlett & Beelman, 1926), diagonally across the intersection, that I got turned around for a moment. * Identified by rick m as the Martz Flats: http://jpg1.lapl.org/00097/00097710.jpg lapl (flag appears to be in front of the Stark house) 723 S Flower https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-S...656%2520PM.jpg gsv Flower St, looking south from 7th https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U...027%2520PM.jpg gsv The Stark house in 1871 (Abigail was 12), on Flower just south of 7th: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...409%2520PM.jpg http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/los-a...eared-in-1871/ This map section shows the land given to Ozro Childs by the city for extending the Mother Ditch (Main to Figueroa and 6th to 9th). Robert Stark bought the block between Flower and Figueroa and 7th and 8th from an intervening owner. |
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Duly noted. |
Abigail Stark
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More on Miss Stark, her family and the home, from the LA Times in 1998(!):
A 'Paradise' Lost to Progress, 8/23/98 It seems the house lasted until her death in 1939. |
Abigail Stark
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A few Stark oddments...
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-K...2520PM.bmp.jpgancestry.com
Catharine and Abigail were listed in the 1880 US census as living on Bunker Hill Avenue (no number)... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-a.../starkobit.jpgLos Angeles Times Nov 18, 1939 Abigail (sometimes spelled Abagail) died on November 15, 1939. The White & Callanan mortuary where her service took place was likely their establishment at 664 W Washington Blvd.... The Harbor Freeway eventually took that building out. The undertakers then moved to the northwest corner of Western and Fountain (or already had a branch in that part of town, according to some sources) where they seem to have been until recently.... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9...2520PM.bmp.jpgGoogleSV There a quite a number of articles on the battle over Abigail's will in the Times and Sentinel, as well as in the Chicago Defender and other papers. |
Merry Christmas
...from Paris to all the Community.
BTW, they tried to make noirish movies in Paris in the 1950's. They look fake. My city can't compete with L.A. on this topic. No Bunker Hill, no Chinatown etc. Our steep hill of world renown (Montmartre) has an « impressionistic » mood, very XIXe century. |
The Lyric theater, 7208 Pacific Boulevard, Huntington Park, CA 90255
Probably circa 1943 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics35/00037255.jpglapl http://photos.cinematreasures.org/pr...jpg?1315596345http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/2176/photos/25101 |
Lyric Theater - Huntington Beach
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u...626%2520AM.jpg gsv https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1...622%2520AM.jpg google maps Probably not anyone's favorite example of adaptive reuse. Quote:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ki6lQC6ulZ...masMarket1.jpg kyandra One of the best things about my years in London was trips to Paris. It seems a very long way away now. |
Old P.E. Right-of-Way
Have we run this route before?
P.E. right-of-way, Spaulding and Fountain to Hollywood & La Brea. Still there. Part of it driveway, part named street, part parking lot, part alleyways, part built over. Great googlemobile drive (w/ many detours). http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/hollytopo.JPG uncanny.net 2012 (not in order): https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o...609%2520PM.jpg google maps https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...358%2520PM.jpg google maps https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l...503%2520PM.jpg gsv https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-3...314%2520PM.jpg google maps https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...656%2520PM.jpg gsv https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...435%2520PM.jpg gvs https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...535%2520PM.jpg google maps https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-X...325%2520PM.jpg gsv https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...728%2520PM.jpg gsv |
Brookside/Arroyo de los Jardines
Some extremely well-watered trees:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-A...034%2520PM.jpg google maps Another shadow on the land: Arroyo de los Jardines, whose source is under the Hollywood Hills, runs the length of the Wilshire Country Club and then dives underground before appearing again south of Wilshire and east of Highland, running for about four blocks between the backs of 400 homes in the Brookside neighborhood before going underground again. The stream travels beneath La Brea until finally joining Ballona Creek. Bridge over Arroyo de los Jardines on the Wilshire CC links: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L...402%2520PM.jpg google maps More info: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb...ate/re-guide27 |
tovangar2: To go along with that last Street View picture of Marshfield Way, here's a photo I took in Sept. 2011 looking down Marshfield Way from the other direction. This is looking southwest; La Brea Ave. is the cross street in the foreground. I was there with my family at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This intersection is at the west end of the walk, next to the ugly gazebo thing.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...0/DSC00254.JPG |
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"ugly gazebo thing". An abomination and an embarrassment, plus it gives me a headache just looking at it. Didn't there used to be a nice Richfield station there? |
Merry Christmas to all. Thanks for the many informative and entertaining posts throughout the year.
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...or not. Just a bit of nicely engineered landscaping and drainage. It's easy to be cynical about these things. |
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http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5990/00028853.jpg lapl "It's rats and holes left when the Los Angeles Transit Lines abandoned the "H" line and tore the rails out of the private right-of-way as shown. Debri, old papers, rags and anything pedestrians want to toss is seen on the abandoned line." |
Arroyo de los Jardines + the Tar Pits
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In this CC Pierce aerial from 1918 one can see the oil field on the left which will later become the Wilshire Country Club. It's hard to tell if the stream is there or not, but it looks like it might be. Dunno why there's such a thick knot of trees at Melrose and Rossmore (must be b/c of water). https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9...356%2520AM.jpg cc pierce/usc It does appear rather abruptly on the links now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...950%2520AM.jpg google maps I have been unable to find a photo of the stream as it exists between the houses, but I'm told it looks very "natural" (eroded rocky outcrops, etc). The only place I could glimpse the surface of the water was under this bridge between Highland and Longwood, south of 9th. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...647%2520PM.jpg google maps The name is certainly rather silly & romantic. I don't know of any indigenous name attached to this area, but there must have been one. Makes a lot more sense when one sees the map: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...516%2520PM.jpg http://lacreekfreak.wordpress.com/la...cal-waterways/ A little stream's allowed to emerge for about a minute at the Tar Pits too. A footbridge crosses it: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-h...555%2520PM.jpg google maps ....and eventually adds to this: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-g...213%2520PM.jpg google maps |
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P.E. right-of-way / Brookside
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...358%2520PM.jpg google maps Vista crossing, south of Hawthorn then: http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/vista1.JPG ray ballash (first posted by KevinW) ...and now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-f...956%2520PM.jpg google maps ...and who owns that 6" gap between the low retaining walls (above)? One almost expects a tiny trolley to come clanking out between them. P.S. Looking for an address out near Whittier, I found Shubin Lane, a skinny new disjointed street built on an old railway right-of-way. The pattern of yard-less houses repeats for block after block. Must drive the emergency services crazy trying to find a way in: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...654%2520PM.jpg google maps |
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You don't need to run them by me. Looking back in the thread might help in your research, though, either through the "Search this Thread" tool at upper right or via Google with this placed in the search bar: "insert search terms here" site:forum.skyscraperpage.com noirish |
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