|
Quote:
I wonder if the wild onions which were the handmaiden to finding the gold still grow nearby...? When I visit the oak, my eyes will be darting about looking for wild onions . . . |
Quote:
|
Odinthor
Me too, me too! |
Quote:
This novel has been on ice for quite a while; but somehow I'm being overtided with inspiration these days, on both this and other projects. Huh! Maybe I'll actually get something done. |
Views from Griffith Park Observatory
Quote:
Quote:
Thanks for posting the ebay pic, e_r (is that John Marshall High School at the extreme left center edge?), and thanks for IDing the location and adding your photo, Bill. In e_r's photo, the house at the bottom, directly below the watermarked green n is 2501 N. Catalina St. at Glencairn Road, as seen below: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original Here's a photo taken from almost the same spot as e_r's photo, but a few years earlier and a little more toward the east. At lower right, above the round photographer's stamp, is N. Catalina Street (but 2501 is just out of view to the right). Catalina ends at Glendower Ave., the curvy street that rises up out of the caption at the bottom. The home in the ebay pic to the left of the watermarked green e is just below center in this image (and also at the extreme edge above the lower left corner in Bill's photo): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original UCLA/Islandora |
Quote:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4755/...0c090e2f_b.jpg_3050339-HDR.jpg by BillinGlendaleCA, on Flickr |
Quote:
|
Footage of Hale House from 1969
On YouTube I was watching an episode of Top of the Pops that was aired on 2/27/69 and they were showing a promotional film of Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman. At about midway through the film we see Glen and an actress standing on the front porch of the Hale House approximately a year before it was moved to Heritage Square. Has anyone seen the house make an appearance on any movie or tv show prior to it being moved? [IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4794/...5e88823d_b.jpgUntitled by houseoftomorrow, on Flickr[/IMG]
|
The picture of the malt shop may not be the address that it seems to be. The building in the picture does not have the right papapet on the front. There is also a jog in the wall of the malt shop building, which goes in about 3-4 feet and the footprint of the current building does not have that. The county assessor's office says that this particular building was built in 1958, after the building in the photo. They may have re-numbered the street at some point or the actual number is 12805. Another possibility is 12605 but I cannot confirm that since my computer is displaying that address with a big black blob in front of it. GRRRR!
OK, now the blob has gone away and it confirms that 12605 is not a possibility, unless they have torn down the malt shop and built a strip of those storefronts with angled entrances that were popular in the 1940's/1950's |
Quote:
|
Quote:
Pertinent to the topic, though, is the contemporary cameos of the Castle & Salt Box, also destined for Heritage Square (with less beneficial result) in this episode of The Outsider . |
Quote:
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ZzMkxc.jpg 1945 slide/ detail If so, that's pretty cool. (I hadn't noticed it earlier) __ |
"Francisco Lopez pulled wild onions near an oak tree on his Placerita Canyon Ranch and found gold nuggets caught in their roots."
Quote:
Here's an interesting bit of ephemera: Walker's Camp was using the 1842 gold find as a marketing tool in the 1930s. FRONT AND BACK ONLY https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/lwaOxF.jpg SCVHISTORY and this.....(about the brochure) "In a promotional brochure published by 1930s Placerita landowner Frank Walker: "The first anniversary [in 1843] of this gold discovery was celebrated by the erection of a chapel on the site of the discovery and the chanting of a solemn high mass by three priests, two from San Fernando and one from Los Angeles, six altar boys, the entire Mission choir, consisting of twenty neophytes and eight musicians. Many prominent families of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Buena Ventura and the surrounding country and the Commissioners sent by Mexico to investigate the truth or falsity of the discovery, were present, — a date in the history of our State was solemnized, which was to be forever after forgotten." That's a surprise! I wonder what happened to the chapel? :shrug: _ excerpt HERE |
Thanks BillinGlendale for figuring out the location of the mystery slide(s), and to Flyingwedge for the follow-up. (but I'm still looking for that school you mentioned)
Here's yet another 1945 slide. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/w7fyUs.jpg EBAY "Original 35mm Slide, Burbank CA Street Scene, Furniture Store & City Hall [1945]" note that it's Christmas time (bells and evergreen cuttings on the street lights) ___ UPDATE: actually that's a whole Christmas tree up there on the pole. |
& here's a second Burbank slide for tonight. (also dated 1945)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/r3AGra.jpg EBAY "Original Slide, Burbank CA Street Scene & Post Office, c. 1945" I like the florid script used for the post office sign. It seems unusual for a government bldg. (hmm..but it doesn't appear to be spelling out "Burbank Post Office" :shrug: So is this nice looking post office still in use? __ |
Quote:
I can't tell you how much I love these animations. Or gifs? (I dunno, I'm old, I just call 'em "the flashy pictures.") I agree with what was said above, that perhaps every Angeleno has their own idiosyncratic definition of what constitutes the various hills' boundaries. (Among those Angeleni that care, of course.) And that back in the day, the majority of folk probably considered Fifth to Sunset all "Bunker Hill." For example, my personal definition of Bunker Hill is Fifth, Fig, Temple, Hill. Yep, that includes Court Hill all the way up to Figueroa and though I acknowledge Court Hill I rarely differentiate it from Bunker. Plus that includes all the structures down by the library and Pershing Square; the hill certainly rises sharply from Fifth, even looming above courtesy Winslow's retaining wall. And because I find Hill between Fifth and First so fascinating, I often consider the east side of Hill St to be "Bunker Hill" property as well. And Ft Moore just as you had 'er in red. |
Quote:
https://i.imgur.com/sphWdNp.jpgGSV And Burbank City Hall (from your other post) is just up the street. |
Quote:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1801...2!8i6656?hl=en |
Quote:
Quote:
https://i.imgur.com/xrR2PAH.jpg https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/l...of-downtown-la https://i.imgur.com/k4ajWkP.jpg Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero! So it seems that the term "Court Hill" was likely never an official term, but rather an endonym used by the area's dwellers. While researching this topic the other day, one of the links I read said that "Bunker Hill" included the eastern foothills of Elysian Park - that, to me, seems to be a very generous assessment of Bunker Hill's boundaries: https://i.imgur.com/m6KJvGc.gif ... then again, if this rather fanciful-looking map is accurate, the hills go on forever. But I'd still call them hills rather than A hill. In case anyone missed it, here are the 1958 redevelopment borders for Bunker Hill: Quote:
|
Quote:
This font is still in use on the post office Terminal Annex building next to Union Station: https://goo.gl/maps/5KPofUGo54B2 |
All times are GMT. The time now is 7:23 PM. |
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.