|
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library Just to the left of the gates is the Ritz Hotel, and in the corner is Darms Market. The Ritz name looks like a hasty change. The 1960 CD lists the Milner Hotel at 822 W 6th. The current building on that site seems to have been built between 1973 and 1974. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Detail of picture above. Just for fun, here's a view of the same block from 1926. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original USC Digital Library Back in 1926, the building next to the Gates was the Hotel Lee. It also appears that it was known as the Lee Building (see name at top). The corner later occupied by Darms Market was the New China Cafe, complete with one of those once ubiquitous Chop Suey signs. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Detail of picture above. |
Normandy Then and Now.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199254 |
Quote:
Empties go to Tin Can Beach. "Be kind rewind." "Wasting away." Take the pledge, don't text and only you can prevent forest fires . . . :uhh: Quote:
Nov. 1, 1957 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XT=&DMROTATE=0 |
Quote:
Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library Here's the accompanying legend. The pictures are dated 1931, but there's no indication of what date the model depicts. Other than item #61, the latest date I can see is "41 Merced Theatre 1869", so I'm guessing it's somewhen around then. The little white triangle between Hill and Broadway in the picture above says "Site of THE BROADWAY". http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1931Chart2.jpg USC Digital Library The Round House (Paradise Gardens) is listed as #59. I can't see the number "59" on the model, but based on Tourmaline's description of "bounded by 3rd and 4th, and Main and Spring Streets", I'd say it's the little round building to the left of #58. Incidentally, #58 is listed as "New York Brewery". I wonder if that was tied to the New York Saloon on the NE corner of 3rd and Spring streets which Tourmaline posted here. Today the site of the Round House and New York Brewery is occupied by the Ronald Reagan Building. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1931Chart3.jpg Detail of picture at USC Digital Library BTW. There's a zoomable version of e_r's picture (minus the white circle) in the USC Digital Library |
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...2520PM.bmp.jpgflickr
...and its matching Fiesta Red '56 Country Squire. 4937 West Century Blvd, Inglewood Still there, sort of (note the roof stacks and windows) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-z...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV |
Trunk murder
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-S...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Q...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X...2520PM.bmp.jpg A Fresno housewife was found in her '57 Plymouth trunk in Inglewood on July 9, 1959, after being reported by her husband as missing since the 3rd. Her lover apparently killed her and stashed her in the trunk. As the police closed in on him at a Hollywood apartment on July 15, he shot himself. The lady in the top photo is Iris Crochet, Inglewood mayor pro-tem at the time, according the the USCDL caption. A May 1985 Times article at the time of her resignation from her position as city clerk has it that she had held the clerk's post since 1977, "part of a public service career that began 30 years ago. She is the only woman ever to hold an Inglewood council seat, which she had from 1955 to 1963, when she lost a race for mayor." All pics USCDL |
Quote:
All you can drink buttermilk! That sounds pretty safe. One mouthful is more than enough for me. |
I guess I'll just go away now
Quote:
Signing off now. Guess I don't belong. |
http://i.imgur.com/247GMzz.jpg?1?5084K McIntyre
http://i.imgur.com/uQxfTpD.jpg?1?6870A Salazar Have we seen these shots of the Ft. Moore Hill waterfall before? The first is dated by the source as 1971; the second by its source as recent. Despite the absence of water and apparent graffiti in the second, the views seem too much alike in tone and other details to be 43 years apart. |
Quote:
|
Mini-mystery?
Source provides few clues other than 1940s, somewhere in SoCal and Herman Schultheis found and captured. (An advertising sculpture prototype reject?) Spider Pool, the beginning? :rolleyes: http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101928.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101928.jpg https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...74jY8tHyCBoXMg 1926 - Quote:
Quote:
|
South of Angel's Flight on Clay Street is the identification of this structure. Probably posted before, but I can't locate. Rural and solitary, but obviously not for long.
1959 http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026612.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026612.jpg 1960 - Clay and Third Streets without the ubiquitous funicular. http://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017479.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/spnb1/00017479.jpg |
Discovered source of unlimited buttermilk or runaway sculpture?
Quote:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00111/00111651.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00111/00111651.jpg |
1959
1959
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026612.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026612.jpg Tourmaline, I puzzled over that picture a long time myself. I believe that's a shot of the back side of 231 N. Hope. I think it was taken from Flower, looking east up the hillside at 231 N. Hope. There's a similar color shot at the Huntington Library. Look at the right side of the image. http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0 There's another shot of the front of 231N. Hope on LAPL. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026590.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026590.jpg This is the front side of 231; building in the center of the photo. To the right, next door is 237; the Pierre Larronde house. http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026618.jpg |
:previous:
Well done for recognizing Tourmaline's picture, Hoffman. HDL has another, even better picture of the house on Hope Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...A231NHope1.jpg Huntington Digital Library The picture is dated 7/23/61. The caption says "Last old house on Hope Street wrecked the next day." Is that an incinerator in the back yard? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...A231NHope2.jpg Detail of picture above. |
Quote:
Thanks for the follow-upS. Curious about the off-white object in the center right. A pediment, an incinerator, an amateur scale model of City Hall? koko: |
First photo piqued curiosity regarding Los Angeles/CA DMV history. When and where was first operator's license issued and what kind of exam was involved?
Quote:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00083/00083580.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00083/00083580.jpg Cue the Draget theme. 1965 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011669.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011669.jpg http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011661.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011661.jpg Quote:
1940s Ford Deluxe Wagon http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101930.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101930.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101929.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101929.jpg http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics29/00049379.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics29/00049379.jpg Too many drivers can lead to overcrowded streets. May '46 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics23/00046379.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics23/00046379.jpg License suspended? Take Mass transit. 1914 Washington Blvd., Venice. http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics30/00049511.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics30/00049511.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics29/00049475.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics29/00049475.jpg 1935(?) - East side of Pershing Square, Rte, 82 http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics38/00068760.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics38/00068760.jpg |
Pan Pacific potpourri of people-moving progress.
1952 - XKJag wearing fender skirts http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105777.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105777.jpg 1953 - Mercedes Diesel does Pan Pacific. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105782.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105782.jpg 1955 - 3/4 Buick V-8 does Pan Pacific. Ready for close-up.. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105811.jpg,http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105811.jpg 1955 - Quote:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105806.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105806.jpg 1955 - Plymouth Belmont http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105812.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105812.jpg 1955 - TBird gets the attention http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105788.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105788.jpg 1955 - Chevys were cutups. (A Patsy Cline Fave?) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105800.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105800.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105807.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105807.jpg '55 Buick Wildcat "Leaves em standing." http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105803.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105803.jpg '56 Olds Wagon, perfect for a moderately sized harem. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00082/00082916.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00082/00082916.jpg 1965 First generation Olds Toronado (Don't believe these were sold until '66) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105887.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105887.jpg '65 Datsun 1600 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105892.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105892.jpg 1965 Dodge Monaco (With improved ventilation) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105897.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105897.jpg 1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT hardtop, http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105894.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105894.jpg |
GM Concept cars on parade....
Quote:
This was when car shows were really exciting. Today, they're a bore. My father took me to the Pan Pacific Motorama 1956...it was dazzling. You could see a vision of the near future. Sadly, that future didn't pan out the way we thought it would. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psab32b3af.jpg LATimes |
All times are GMT. The time now is 2:26 PM. |
|
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.