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Hey, great work everybody on this topic. I hope the following adds to the discussion.
The January 1, 1924, Los Angeles Times has this photo of the Vernon Coliseum at 2340 E. 38th Street. It opened August 28, 1923: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL That building burned down in 1927. Doyle's famous bar and the arena he used for fights before building the Vernon Coliseum escaped the fire: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pswyw4nnvy.jpg July 24, 1927, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL Times sportswriter Paul Lowry had this to say about the fire two days later: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original July 26, 1927, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL We now know where the Vernon Coliseum sat; behind the left field seats at Maier Park, which we see here on the 1920 Sanborn Map (with north on the left). In the upper left corner, the Vernon Athletic Club is Doyle's older boxing arena that would survive the 1927 fire. To the left of the VAC, on the corner with an address of 3801 S. Santa Fe, is Doyle's famous bar: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psucevsqrj.jpg ProQuest via LAPL Here is another view looking SW at Doyle's bar, with, presumably, the Vernon Athletic Club behind with its taller roof (unless that's an earlier building that was replaced by the VAC). Santa Fe Avenue is in the foreground: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psfe3etxwh.jpg The Iron Fist: The Immigrant Journey of J. B. Leonis to Riches and Power in Southern California by Richard Nordin (Xlibris Corporation, 2017) @ Google Books This 1928 aerial (with north at the top) appears to show baseball is still being played at Maier Park. The yellow dot marks Doyle's Bar, and the red dot marks the Vernon Athletic Club. Vernon Avenue runs across the bottom of the photo: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psf0gcpqrs.jpg Flight C-300, Frame K-193 @ UCSB Vernon Athletic Club program -- apparently not the Vernon Coliseum -- for August 26, 1924: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original ebay Has anyone seen an aerial photo of Maier Park set up for boxing? Several years ago a kind gentleman mailed me this photocopy showing the ring set up between home plate and the pitcher's mound: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psq5ota5xe.jpg FW scan |
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I barely noticed that mid-rise building being demolished 3 weeks ago. I was driving southbound on the 110 when I saw how eerie that view was. :runaway: lol The Rochester, among other buildings, stood on that same site before it was moved. https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1789/...54c2278e_c.jpg by Conner, Palmer: Huntington Digital Library Unfortunately, it was demolished years later after being moved to its final location. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/925/4...e68014dc_c.jpg by TESSA Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library Bank of America’s data center occupied the mid-rise being taken down. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/834/4...d0d48802_c.jpg by Google Maps Urbanize.LA has reported that in its place, Geoff Palmer will develop his largest project yet. The apartment complex, Ferrante, will most likely incorporate the Italian Renaissance design theme Geoff Palmer is known for. Urbanize.LA also mentions, "Plans call for a meandering array of seven-story buildings, containing approximately 1,500 apartments, 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and parking for over 2,600 vehicles." A glimpse of the project: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1823/...5ab88f4a_z.jpg by City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning http://cityplanning.lacity.org/staff...V-2015-490.pdf https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1801/...1abb66fd_z.jpg by City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning http://cityplanning.lacity.org/staff...V-2015-490.pdf https://farm1.staticflickr.com/843/4...7b0e57f6_z.jpg by City of Los Angeles, Department of City Planning http://cityplanning.lacity.org/staff...V-2015-490.pdf |
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Thanks Flyingwedge for the "More Vernon" bonanza. :tup: Maier Park was a really versatile venue. Baseball, boxing and Wrestling -1917 https://i.imgur.com/KRnheP0.jpg cdnc.ucr.ed Football - 1926 https://i.imgur.com/XnmMPWO.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu Soccer - 1921 https://i.imgur.com/5MAwRbq.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu Greyhound Coursing - 1920 https://i.imgur.com/81VXre9.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu https://i.imgur.com/vhC1ugH.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu Aeroplane Pacemaker for greyhounds. :cool: |
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re: Maple Lanes mystery slide.
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200 W. 18th street is now a parking lot, almost under the 10 freeway. An article in the publication of the Historical Society of Southern California notes that William F. Ball came to Los Angeles in 1882 and started a cigar store located at 10 N. Main Street. In 1886, he added a billiard parlor and in 1894 established the Oak Barber Shop at 106 North Spring Street. In 1921, the tonsorial parlor was absorbed by Pricher Brothers. He sold the tobacco shop in 1915 and retired. Mr. Ball died in 1935. The house where he lived in 1930 is located at 975 S. Manhattan Place and is still there, although now broken up into apartments. |
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Here's an aerial of Caltech campus taken around 1922, pre-atheneaum. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/8FPvkW.jpg tolman_bacher The Atheneaum hasn't been built yet but, if you look closely, the squarish building shown below on the left.. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/8BvOwV.jpg DETAIL ...looks like the same building that appears in photo #2 and #4 in my last post. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/wNWtCt.jpg EBAY What do you think...same building? ___________________________________ At first I thought the Atheneaum was the building shown below on the left...and that the site of the excavation was already marked! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/6LOn74.jpg DETAIL If it's not the atheneaum what's the white circle with a X. (a helipad...in 1922!? :shrug:) -well it IS Caltech..so I guess it's possible) I'm gone for a couple days unplugged. Have fun noirishers! -keep on sleuthin' _ |
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Not sure if it's now owned by Caltech or something, but if you do Google Streetview, you can go right up its driveway and to its garage. |
Alhambra Southern Pacific Station, located at 2200 West Mission Road, April 1984.
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net...71&oe=5BDF1697 abandonedrails.com I don't know when this station was built, but it was used by Amtrak until the mid-1970s, when the main rail tracks were put in a trench. Afterwards, the station was abandoned, and then eventually demolished in the mid-1980s. Some kind of public storage-type business is now on the site. |
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Maybe, although the only symbol I know for Phi is Φ, without a horizontal bar... Speaking of the bar, 1224 Arden Rd was built in 1920 by attorney Garfield R. Jones...who, as it happens, was a member of the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi...anyway, Jones was the son of a founder of International Harvester. Which reminds me--an early trademark for IH was this: https://s22.postimg.cc/f6k5i751d/ihsymbol.jpg You don't suppose?... As HossC says, seem it's more likely a landscaping feature of the house, perhaps still being worked on.... Looks like it might have later been replaced with a tennis court. |
Wow. I can see my old office from here. It's so strange to see Los Angeles transforming from offices to apartments.
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https://s26.postimg.cc/s3zc333hl/Film.jpg Los Angeles Times 7/25/1918 via ProQuest via CSULB Library https://s26.postimg.cc/4czykziq1/Shamrock.jpg http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/9648 Shamrock Theater, alias Butler's alias Band Box alias Bandbox, 608 S. Hill St. |
I found this pair of aerial photos of the Civic Center earlier. I know we've seen similar images before, but I liked the opposing angles which give us nearly a full 360 degree view. The first is dated 5/19/38.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original www.ebay.com The second photo is undated, but it's from the same seller and progress on the Federal Building is at about the same point. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original www.ebay.com |
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