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Here's an interesting slide from the 1970s looking south on N. Main Street toward the Federal Courthouse and City Hall.
On the right is the Brunswig Bldg. (built 1888) and the shorter Garnier Bldg. (built 1883). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...903/2QHtXf.jpg eBay What first caught my eye was that 'old school' bakery cafe in the Garnier Building. I don't recall seeing it before. close-up http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/Gx9bQp.jpg detail :previous: Try as I might, I can't make out the name. (help please) __ Believe it or not, here are the same two building in the early 2000s. (we've probably seen this photograph before on NLA) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...910/12f4rj.jpg http://wikimapia.org/6418013/Vickrey.../photo/3781914 And today :): (I tried to line up the google-mobile to match the angle of the vintage slide) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/R90gd5.jpg gsv __ Great photographs of the Oviatt Building HossC, Noircitydame and CityBoyDoug. I've always thought the Oviatt was one of the most interesting buildings in downtown Los Angeles. _ |
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The sign is for La Esperanza Bakery and Cafe at 507 N Main Street. I found this rather sorry-looking version of their sign on Flickr. The Flickr user has tagged the image as "Downtown Los Angeles", but gives no other information, so it may be from another location. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nzaBakery1.jpg cyan79 on Flickr |
"La Esperanza" is a common name for a bakery. Just a guess.
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Here's the old Brown Derby interior. You know the one...."Eat In The Hat"....that's shaped like a hat.
It was owned by Bob Cobb, inventor of the Cobb Salad. I don't think we've seen this one before. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psypmc6zth.jpg CDfile :previous: |
:previous: Interesting look at the Brown Derby interior CBD. I'd say this was taken not long after it opened in 1926.
__ ...another 1970s bus slide. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/tLU7wJ.jpg eBay note the address is written on the optometrist's sign on the second floor. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/DtkQRE.png detail same view today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/MS4BNL.jpg gsv __ |
bus noir, 1970s.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/AFiVD5.jpg eBay Here's a better look at the building behind the bus. (the old Burbank Theater on Main Street, seen many times on NLA) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...908/4vhhY9.jpg https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater note the Bill's Chicken sign that appears through the window of the bus. (the Rick's sign on the left also appears in the bus slide) Wild Wooly Beaver. lol ;) _ |
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Washington Gardens
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Although the bakery had already existed for many years, it didn't move to 507 N Main until sometime before 1935, based on a photo from that year appearing in William David Estrada's historical study of the neighborhood, The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space (Link to Google Books page, where the book is available in preview, and you can see the photo in question on page 131. You might need to be logged into your Google account for that to work.) The last we see of it in the LAPL directories collection is in the 1969 volume: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/613/2...74fcf4_o_d.png It must have closed a few years later in the early to middle 1970s. When I first took an interest in the neighborhood, around 1980 or so, the sign with the cheerful little baker guy and platter was still there but had become so faded and weathered as to be indecipherable. It was a very sad scene; the main entrance was just a large locked door which, IIRC, didn't even have a knob or handle on the street side, and the entryway was filthy with accumulated dust and dirt. This, especially, was the period when I began thinking of the Plaza neighborhood as California's largest ghost town this side of Bodie. I'm very glad to have seen what the sign was supposed to look like when it was in business. |
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"Eat in the Set"
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At the original Derby, shown here, there were a pair of double doors on either side of the cigar counter/cashier, unlike the rebuilt version across the street, which had a centrally-sited, single pair of doors. P.S. My question is finally answered re if the Brown Derby interior in "What Price Hollywood?" (1932) is a set or not. The exteriors are real, but, alas, the interior is not. The door and booth end do not match your photo and, even more tellingly, I at last noticed the change in the door as Lowell Sherman ("Maximilian Carey") enters. It goes from multi-paned to single pane (something I should have noticed long ago). IRL: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...6%252520PM.jpg youtube clip/an RKO Pathé Picture Make-believe: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...4%252520PM.jpg youtube clip/an RKO Pathé Picture ...and are there undercurrents in this film or what? "I'll take vanilla", "Who's your tailor?" LOL, when subtext becomes text. |
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Saltamontes for what is now Figueroa; just Chapulín (sometimes spelled phonetically) and Chapules. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original http://www.spanishcentral.com/translate/chapul%C3%ADn |
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Edit I found the problem Go to this link http://www.lapl.org/collections-reso...-photo-archive Type in a search for 127-SB-0015 and 127-SB-0015 The results will show you a thumbnail of one photo, and when you click on it you get an entirely different photo. For example this is dbase1.lapl.org/images/el_pueblo/tn/127-SB-0021.jpg http://dbase1.lapl.org/images/el_pue...27-SB-0021.jpg And this is dbase1.lapl.org/images/el_pueblo/ws/127-SB-0021.jpg http://dbase1.lapl.org/images/el_pue...27-SB-0021.jpg |
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pslthev4lo.jpg CDFile.CBD Interesting history of the unique Hollywood dish: http://kitchenproject.com/history/CobbSalad.htm |
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The "E Moreno" on the La Esperanza sign was Ezequiel Moreno. I've had a quick look through the City Directories, and found the following: I think the first appearance of La Esperanza Bakery is 1929, when they were based at 1430 N Main Street. By 1930, the business is listed at 367 and 1430 N Main Street. The "La Esperanza" name disappears from the CDs during the mid-1930s, but I found listings for bakeries belonging to Albert Moreno (1932) and Ezequiel Moreno (1934 and 1936) at 367 N Main Street. The 1938, 1939 and 1942 CDs all show La Esperanza at 507 N Main Street. The next CD, 1956, has three addresses: 507 N Main Street, 1803 E 103rd Street and 139 S Broadway. Throughout the 1960s, La Esperanza is listed at 507 N Main Street and 2131 N Broadway. That appears to be where the story ends. The 1973 CD doesn't have a listing for La Esperanza or 507 N Main Street, and 2131 N Broadway is listed as a pharmacy. |
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Going by the awning remnant, etc. I'd guess this is the Plaza House location. |
In 1959, Julius Shulman photographed these two service stations. The description says they were taken "For United States Steel Corporation, market development division", but gives no other details. This is "Job 2755: Service Stations (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1959".
I haven't been able to find the location of this Shell station. Probably the biggest clue is the "Fifield" sign on the roof above the canopy on the left. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original This Flying A Service station was easier to track down. Next to the door I could read "37?? S Sepulveda Blvd", and on the right is a street sign for the 3700 block of S Dufresne Court. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Both from Getty Research Institute The view below is from 1948 - the Flying A Service station is the one at top center. The photo above is from 1959, but by 1964, the station was replaced by a squarer design. The croissant-shaped station on the left was redesigned by 1967. There's now a 7-Eleven on the site of the Flying A. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Historic Aerials. |
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"Fifield Manor" was an interim name of the Arcady, now the Wilshire Royale, at 2619 Wilshire (http://wilshireboulevardhouses.blogs...e-see-our.html); the top of its north side appears in the photo. The Shell station was at 2500 W Sixth Street at the SW corner of Coronado. At right is a glimpse of the top of the Rampart Apartments, which we've seen before here, at the SW corner of Rampart & Sixth. James Fifield was an interesting character--sort of an upper-class Aimee McPherson, who presided over the nearby First Congregational Church for many years. Like Amy, he believed in living not humbly like Jesus but well--in his case at 118 Fremont Place. He was a supporter of Joe McCarthy, btw. The Rev Fifield founded the Manor, which was a nursing home once with a location in the Chateau Elysee/Scientology Celebrity "Centre"-- Fifield died in 1977--the 2619 Wilshire Boulevard location lasted until at least the next year. |
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