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Thanks unihikid, Tourmaline, HossC and HenryHuntington for locating the bus stop & posting pics.
Here's a much more difficult location. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/HWs9LN.jpg eBay I imagine what we see along the roadside is long gone. I am especially intrigued by the little brown shack that's virtually on top of that bold retaining wall. (it actually appears to over-hang it) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/Gggs39.jpg detail ...and on the right is a small white building above an old crumbling retaining wall of stone. and the bus (I can't make out the destination) -404 SOUTH something. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/IXhtPA.jpg detail / eBay __ |
This is such a great looking place. I'd love to have a beer there. What fun!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/dTLzuN.jpg Prelinger Archive "The Eastside Dog House, offering drinks on tap" [undated] -no address given. Found at http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...13-column.html |
Billboard advertising bomb shelters along Wilshire Boulevard.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/WcbuUF.jpg Prelinger Archives :previous: What is $795.00 in today's money? The "Food Center" appears to big on the site of Johnnie's Coffee Shop. This image is from http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...13-column.html but I've watched this film many months ago and saved additional screen-grabs (including this one) I'll have to go through my files and find them. __ |
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Going to the dogs...
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The Dog House on Alvarado: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o...2%252520AM.jpg Wm Reagh (1979) lapl Familiar building that, next door: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...3%252520AM.jpg gsv BTW, that sign on the first photo actually says, "Drink Eastside on Tap at the Dog House" __ |
Thanks to tovangar2, CityBoyDoug, Noircitydame and Mendotaman for your extra information and memories of Coffee Dan's in Azusa. It looks like I had the correct intersection, but was looking on the wrong corner.
There's no mystery about the location of today's Julius Shulman pictures. The American City Bank was at 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Century City. It's "Job 5843: Welton Becket and Associates, American City Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.),1980". I'd really like to see a color picture of this building, but, unfortunately, the only color shot in the photoset shows a different location. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The American City Bank didn't last long after the photos above were taken. It failed, and was taken over, in early 1983. The clipping below is from the February 28, 1983 edition of the Toledo Blade. NB. I've balanced the columns to make the article more screen-friendly. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original news.google.com USC date this image as "circa 1959-05-03". The text below comes from an Examiner article on the back of the photograph. For search purposes it says: "Construction will start this month on the first unit of Century City, a $2,500,000 office building containing headquarters for Welton Becket and Associates, architects and engineers for the project at Santa Monica boulevard and Moreno drive in Los Angeles. The structure keynotes development of the $400,000,000 Century City, master-planned by the firm for Webb and Knapp, owner and developer". USC have another copy of this image with a note on the back which says "Ground-breaking ceremonies took place May 25 ..." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original USC Digital Library Finding the building gone, I checked Historic Aerials. It's still visible on the 2005 view, but gone by the first GSV image in 2007. Here's how the site looked last year, just before construction on the new building started. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original GSV This is a rendering of the new building that I found at bellomag.com. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original www.bellomag.com There's more on the new building at: skyscraperpage.com la.curbed.com |
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"Beautiful Mary Lou Miner suns herself atop a new West Los Angeles bomb shelter at 10333 Santa Monica Boulevard, dreamed up by John Vale and executed by Arthur Lowe. Photo dated: Apr. 7, 1951": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...6%252520PM.jpg lapl |
:previous: I thought that was Ava Gardner at first glance.
I checked out an aerial of 10333 Santa Monica Blvd. hoping to find a round foundation somewhere on the lot. -without success Here are the screenshots I mentioned earlier from that same video. https://archive.org/details/prelinge...wnloads&page=2 In sequential order: -traveling west on Wilshire from Fairfax. #1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...907/AWewui.jpg old file I was wrong. The Royal Food Center was not on the site of Johnnie's Coffee Shop. #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/tyzdQ1.jpg old file #3 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/CfoXb0.jpg old file #4 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/tKYysr.jpg old file #5 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/ghMRfc.jpg old file #6 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/vKQKWc.jpg old file Rather serene for Wilshire Blvd. _ |
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The American City Bank building is gone and thankfully forgotten! |
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I just noticed on the Bomb Shelter billboard that it's also advertised as an"Utility Room" |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...633/ak2lpk.jpg detail __ Thanks for correction on the "Drink Eastside on Tap at the Dog House" tovanger2. I was looking for the incorrect "Eastside Dog House." No wonder I didn't find anything (like an address). _ |
The top picture showing the shed on the retaining wall is near the bus stop entry lane. The overhead picture is closer to the bus stop exit. So I would look more to the left in the overhead picture.
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...4%252520PM.jpg gsv And, Mmmm, I love landscaped billboards. Look at those lawns! What was that little jewelbox building on the Johnnie's site? |
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"jewelbox" detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...905/19d5ix.jpg There's a pole sign out front and lettering above the entrance, but both are too blurry to read. __ |
Wilshire at Fairfax
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Here's the permit for Simon's Drive-In (?): https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...7%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s...0%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G...1%252520PM.jpg ladbs There was a real estate office on the site previously. It was moved around the corner to 547 S Fairfax and is now gone. Johnie's went up in 1956 as Ram's Restaurant (per the permit) or maybe it was just owned by Ram Restaurant. "Johnie's opened in 1956 as Romeo's Times Square. Romeo's was in business a few years, becoming Ram's in the early 1960s, and Johnie's shortly thereafter" -per wiki ...here's the link from wiki re the quoted LAT article: http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul...surroundings15 PS https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-c...6%252520PM.jpg franklin ave (detail) <--- more pix at the link __ |
I could use some help in deciphering the messy fountain pen writing on this snapshot.
The X on the second story (left) window could possibly mark the apartment of one, or both, of the women. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...907/J0hoPA.jpg eBay described on eBay as: "1920s Photo California Long Beach Apartment Building Mrs. Satrang Automobile" I am pretty sure the shield/cartouche on the entrance marquee has a G in the middle of it (below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...633/QEtXET.jpg detail -you can see the photograph on eBay here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920s-Photo-...QAAOSwhcJWOAGy |
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:previous: The '36 permit lists Beverly Wilshire Catering Co. as owner and the owner's business location is the Transamerica building. The '37 permit for the nearby 5171 (Sycamore) Wilshire drive-in is listed as Simon's Lunch Rooms Ltd., also located at the Transamerica Building. Interesting (to me) that the familiar structure located at 649 S Olive (known to many as Giannini Place, the Bank of Italy or America building, was also known as the Transamerica Building. Curious about William Simon's possible association with the Beverly Wilshire. 649 S Olive http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...ly_ca1920s.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/Historical_...ly_ca1920s.jpg |
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