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Remember belmont bob's recollection of the monkey who would deliver horsemeat to your car for your cat? I'm still laughing about that one. I can't help it. Oh, wait that was you Hollywood Graham, and the monkey wasn't working, it was biting you. Sorry. Memory ---> shot. ---------------------------------------- https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...35120%2BPM.jpg ebay Was the photo booth outside the restaurant Hollywood Graham? Or do I have the wrong Lum? |
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I can still remember the huge bags of ground horse meat we had delivered to our home in Alhambra for our poodle dog. I used to cook it for her and once I even ate some of it. My, my....how times have changed. |
Lum's Place.
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I worked at the pet food shop on Sunset by Westerly Terr. where Mabel had the monkey. The little darling bit me once. |
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Capuchin monkeys, not an easy life. 1930 - A dog and his rider http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067194.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics35/00067194.jpg Quote:
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050625.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050625.jpg 1942 - "Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, and Josephine, the most famous monkey in motion pictures." http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics23/00046158.jpghttp://jpg2.lapl.org/pics23/00046158.jpg 1937 - Redondo Beach http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics07/00023307.jpghttp://jpg3.lapl.org/pics07/00023307.jpg 1935 - Organ Grinder visits Los Feliz school http://jpg1.lapl.org/00004/00004244.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00004/00004244.jpg |
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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12724 (Of course it was my ADHD-fueled confusion about the Victorian house that e_r liked that got us here to begin with.) ---------------------------------- Times do change CBD, but it depends entirely on where you are. "Horse meat galloping off the shelves..." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...-spite-3162605 https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r...61821%2BPM.jpg bloomberg |
Has anyone heard of the Throop Polytechnic Institute?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/537/sTkgmu.jpg eBay / postmark 1908 |
Pasadena mystery house
:previous: Throop's name was changed to Caltech.
# # # All I know about this house is that it was on Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena. I couldn't find any other information. Does it look familiar to anyone? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original March 1904 Carpentry and Building @ HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...ew=1up;seq=124 |
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...80200%2BPM.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/20103/rec/12 The cleared land gave a nice view of the County Courthouse. And now, except for the HOJ, everything in the photo is gone. |
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Los Angeles Motor Coach Company was a joint venture of LARy (later LATL) and PE which dated from the 1920s. By 1949, bus operations of each company had reached critical mass, and the respective companies decided that they could save money by dividing the assets and operations of LAMC between them and integrating its operations into their own organizations. L.A. Metro's Library has a collection of LAMC photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/metrol...7607899740431/ |
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and here: http://www.permies.com/t/45024/fores...ena-California The (older?) main house is here and here I hope that helps. I don't really know the story of Carmelita and the Carrs except this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_S._Carr P.S. Here, I shook the google a little harder and this fell out: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-5...95915%2BPM.jpg cafe pasadena The Reeds bought Carmelita from the Carrs and built this |
More about Throop Polytechnic
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Ernest Batchelder taught at Throop. He was named Director of the Art Department in 1907, not too long before the institution decided to specialize in engineering and the sciences. This change was largely orchestrated by George Ellery Hale. Batchelder wasn't exactly tossed out on his ear, and would likely have been given something to do for as long as he wanted to stay. But Batchelder was concerned for his students whose training in art had been so rudely terminated. It was for this reason that he started his tile studio. He wanted to give his former students an opportunity to learn more about art and design while at the same time learning salable skills. And so, Throop Polytechnic gave birth not just to Caltech, but the Batchelder-Wilson Tile Company as well. |
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I was all set to believe that the Market Basket might have been at the NW corner of Willowbrook and El Segundo Blvd...if that is a post office at the extreme left of the vintage shot, there is still one in the corresponding spot. Only trouble is, as Lorendoc points out, the signboard indicates a northbound train... https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-b...917%2520AM.jpg |
Hawthorne Blvd. & 133rd Street, 1950s.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/Nl743u.jpg http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Chu...a/HB5.jpg.html The Modern Way Furniture Store building still stands (see below) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/wgg4rK.jpg GSV http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/CsqarQ.jpg http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Chu...a/HB4.jpg.html The Thrifty building still stands as well. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/7ki26T.jpg GSV And here's a view of the opposite side of the street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/pWJOnM.jpg http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Chu...a/HB7.jpg.html Several of the old blade signs are still intact. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/EdxrNZ.jpg GSV _ |
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I never heard the phrase "blade sign". I checked it on Google and sure enough its a real thing. So much to learn. :tup: |
Commercial buildings on Mills Place looking toward Colorado Blvd., May 1977, Pasadena
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/hNwlW7.jpg http://cityofpasadena.net/library/central_library.aspx below: 38 years later! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...913/RbOkVc.jpg GSV above: There's brick under that awful stucco (you can see it in the 1977 photo) It looked better when the stucco was falling off. 1977, from a different angle. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/CcfgOx.jpg http://cityofpasadena.net/library/central_library.aspx 2015 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/qryoQO.jpg GSV __ Today, 22 Mills Place is now the Equator Restaurant and Bar. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/Ex3lWt.jpg GSV A peek inside. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...901/CvwPdz.jpg http://pasadenanow.com/living/growin.../#.VRmJ0ul0xDw It looks great except for the damn TV! Here's the Equator's next door neighbor again. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...673/AjbBtK.jpg I couldn't find any additional info. on it. (is it a part of Equator?) __ |
Lawrence and Martha Joseph Storybook Residences
:previous: There's a little history on the Equator building (now the Edwin Mills) here
Spandena House may have made it out of Culver City, but the Storybook Lawrence and Martha Joseph residences are still at 3819 Dunn Drive, between Washington and Venice, just a block from Sony Studios: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_...93736%2BAM.jpg gsv Started by a Disney artist, with the remodel of an existing home in 1946, construction stretched over decades. The LA Conservancy has more info. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...02531%2BAM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...02240%2BAM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-t...00343%2BAM.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-o...95737%2BAM.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...94852%2BAM.jpg https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0...95755%2BAM.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-h...10451%2BAM.jpg photos: yahoo More info on Storybook architecture: http://storybookers.com/ http://www.latimes.com/home/la-hm-st...togallery.html |
The damn TV!
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I can't stand those bars TV and of course it's useless to tell them how much it's a disturbance : the whole world runs by mimicry (if the bar at the corner diffuses TV, I have to do it. The bigger the screen and the sound, the better). Finally I had an idea that works often well : I tell the bartender that «Sorry, I have an headache : please can you bring down the sound that hurts me ? » TV without sound is 90% less of a disturbance. |
Prospect Park
I was scouting around in Boyle Heights and found lovely, 4-acre, tear-shaped Prospect Park tucked into the little pocket made by the San Bernardino, Golden State and Santa Ana freeways. Boyle Heights was subdivided by William Workman (1839-1918) in 1868 from his Paredon Blanco vineyards. One-hundred-and-five-acre Brooklyn Heights was further subdivided in 1876. It finally got off the ground in the late 1880s during the then boom. There are still a number of late 1880s homes around Prospect Park on Mitchell Place, Bridge Street and Echandia, which borders the park (some street names have been changed). Residents would have crossed the covered 1873* bridge at Macy Street to get home from town. Incredible to think how much LA has been through, the scandals, earthquakes, floods and so much built and demolished, but these unassuming little homes, isolated on their hilltop, seem to have remained blissfully unaware of it all.
1877 View over Prospect Park, looking west across Los Angeles. El Aliso is on Aliso, LAHS on Poundcake Hill, the Plaza is recognizable and the old Clock Tower Courthouse is right where it should be: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-a...21143%2BPM.jpg kcet 1887: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w...20002%2BPM.jpg 1889: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...20614%2BPM.jpg This one looks like my (probably erroneous) idea of a Hoosier farm, built 1886: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-z...14552%2BAM.jpg This one still has its barn, now rehabbed into another residence: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...14926%2BAM.jpg 1889 (the old, red-sandstone County Courthouse hadn't even opened yet when this one was hammered together): https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-R...20334%2BPM.jpg This pretty pair (probably a bit later than the others) face Prospect Park: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H...15644%2BAM.jpg all: gsv * date of the Macy Street covered bridge thx to Boyle Heights History Blog |
Here's a slide that I don't remember seeing before. The view is looking north across the 101 Freeway in 1966. Although the seller doesn't give the photographer's location, I'm guessing that it must have been the top of City Hall.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original eBay |
Carr/Reed home in Pasadena
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Here's the home in the upper right corner. The two-story addition in the southwest corner of the home (near the 290) must have come after the photo I posted, but the round water tank behind the house in that photo seems to be on the map south of the house: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original 1903 Pasadena Sanborn Map @ LAPL |
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