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Thanks for all the follow-ups on the Martin House vs Air Holes)
so we're....undecided then :shrug: half says bird house...half says vent holes Don't you have to occasionally clean out birdhouses? odinthor, is there a way to gain entry into the birdhouse from inside your attic? You know, like a removable panel that you can unscrew. Quote:
SIDENOTE: the pic with odinthor digging in the front yard does look rather...ummm...mysterious. -makes me think of the rose bushes in Rear Window where everyone thinks Raymond Burr buried his wife's head. https://imageshack.com/a/img924/9917/Fysu99.gif GIPHY |
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Earlier today I came across this night view of the Sears Store in Hollywood. [c.1925]
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Hp8lgR.png EBAY as a reminder, here's what it looks like today. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ALYMn5.png GSV Everytime I see this I :gaah: _ |
Another item currently on ebay.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/znLRFi.jpg EBAY Out on the town at https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/C1OV4k.jpg for search purposes: Billy Berg's - 1356 North Vine Street - Hollywood California - May 25, 1945 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/5zEL4a.jpg _ |
Here's one more before I call it a night.
'Orig 1958 Kodak Star 35mm Slide LAX Airport Parking Lot Los Angeles CA Photo" https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/DsZbS6.jpg EBAY This lot appears to be on the outer edge of the airport. I wonder where [in the scheme of things] this parking lot was located. (anyone have a map of LAX from this time period? __ |
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LATIMES 1958: American Airlines' flight engineer Frank Nusser, left, and Capt. Don Young wait by their aircraft for fog to lift at Los Angeles International Airport. ((John Malmin / Los Angeles Times)) |
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FINALLY!!! After all these years lurking on this site, I can finally contribute!
The architectural feature found on those homes ("birdhouses") is called a DOVECOTE. I'm a Architectural designer here in Nashville, TN and have put them on houses occasionally. From Wiki: A dovecote or dovecot /ˈdʌvkɒt/ (Scots: doocot) is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. |
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Just my luck to have the Googlemobile catch me as I . . . added organic material to the soil . . . ;) |
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gsv It looks like it might have been a large auditorium of some sort? An intriguing building to say the least. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/61w9zc.jpg google_earth Here it is in relation to the old sign shop location. _[/QUOTE] Hello....i just found a picture of this building here from the 60's https://www.flickr.com/photos/metrol...posted-public/ I think it was a Bank of America? It is a little blurry for my eyes. Anyway sorry if someone already posted this, i pass by here frequently and some old buildings and houses still stand. Some. *sigh* |
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There are a number of homes in Westchester with dovecots, although not all the dovecots have holes; e.g., 6386 W. 79th Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pswltjrrbg.jpg Nov 2017 GSV Next door, 6382 W. 79th Street's dovecot is also without holes. Across the street, the dovecots at 6371 and 6391 W. 79th have holes. The dovecots at 7342 and 7366 W. 87th Place have holes, as does the dovecot at 8010 Georgetown Avenue, but 8121 Georgetown's dovecot has slats instead. All the above-mentioned homes were built in 1950-51. |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/uQs7Mr.jpg _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thanks for your help Cyndi! You're right, Bank of America occupies the bottom corner of the building -but the second floor definitely appears to be some kind of assembly hall (masons?) If only we could read the green canopy at the farther end of the building. That entrance probably leads upstairs. (& if we could read the two smaller blade signs) afterthought: We might have figured all this out earlier in the thread..but my memory fails me. Does anyone remember our earlier findings? |
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ITSFILMEDTHERE re: Robert Murtaugh/Lethal Weapon so how'd they do this pre-digital fire scene without destroying the house? Did they simply rebuild it....because it's still standing, correct? (I hope Hazel and Gidget got out) |
X MARKS THE SPOT.
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Thanks for posting this, e_r. I learned to fly light planes at Santa Monica Airport that the City of Santa Monica is so busy trying to close. About 10 years ago my instructor one evening told me we (I) was going to fly us from Santa Monica to LAX, then back again. So I flew us in a Cessna 182 in and out; it was like being a dwarf in the Land of the Giants. To say I was super-alert would be an understatement :) My mother learned to fly Piper Cubs at the Grand Central Airport in 1947, it ran in the family it seems :) The historic aerials site shows that the original LAX developed to the east of today's south complex (runways 7/25). I've posted 1 photo with 100% 1958 aerials, another with 50/50 1958 aerials/modern streets, and finally the modern street layout. 1: https://i.imgur.com/4EG5p84.jpg historicaerials.com 2: https://i.imgur.com/azVXLiL.jpg historicaerials.com 3: https://i.imgur.com/RdIWw6n.jpg historicaerials.com With the building of the north complex, a new central loop was constructed to the west of Sepulveda Blvd which contained a street level parking lot. This replaced the terminal loop just south of Century Boulevard and east of Sepulveda on Avion Drive. On the upper left of the 1958 aerial, you can see a neighborhood with many tract homes. These were all gone by the time the north complex was developed, replaced by what is now Lot C. This area suffered the same destructive fate as Surfridge to the west. |
Terrific information Lorendoc! Thanks so much. I forgot how different the previous layout was when compared to present day LAX. (and it was still the old layout as late as 1963!)
:previous: So which of the Parking lots in the 1963 aerial do you think is the lot in the 1958 slide? I searched for 1950s brochures (like car rentals) and map/pamphlets (showing the parking lots) but came up short. ZILCH, NOTHING __ P.S. You actually flew into LAX! You are a brave soul sir. And your MOM was a pilot as well. -have any photographs you'd like to share :)..of you (or your Mom's) flying adventures? |
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I have also been searching for a good vintage photograph of Lalo's Nightclub in East Los Angeles. (or at least a larger version of the postcard below. The club was in business from around 1959/60 to 1974. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/5Oymva.jpg frontera.library.ucla Luckily, the top image of the postcard was good enough to make out the basic outline of the building (L shaped and set back a bit from the intersection) And guess what...the Lalo's building is still there! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/nZkLrO.jpg GSV / Northeast corner of Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. and N. Marianna Ave. The building doesn't appear to have changed much. Back in the club's heyday Lalo would even sign your menu. (that's a deal) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/tBeGob.jpg Lalo's 4209 Brookyn Avenue AN-2-8017 * Los Angeles You can read about Lalo Guerrero HERE, and HERE (Part 2) His story is very interesting. _ |
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