Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 4665453)

And some Then and Nows:

1930s: 6000 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. I'm surprised to learn this used to be a market.
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/638...tblvd1930s.jpg
USC archive

2010: 6000 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. This is now part of the Sunset Gower Studios, I think.
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5649/p1090617.jpg
Photo by Me

Nope, 6000 Sunset was not part of Sunset Gower Studios - but this building has a very unique and interesting history!

Between the 1960's and the 1980's, this was the "Western" part of United/Western Studios (United was down the street, at 6050.) The studios were built by Bill Putnam and were the home to many, many famous recordings. I know all about this building, because I worked there from 1977 to 1981.

What was recorded at Western? Many (if not most) of the hits by the Beach Boys, The Mamas And Papas, Jan & Dean, Johnny Rivers, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Rick Nelson, Ray Charles, and many many more. Along with Capital, A&M, and Radio Recorders, this was one of the most famous of the "old Hollywood" sound studios. Hundreds and hundreds of hits were recorded there.

I personally was in the control room of Studio 1 (behind the center produce section!) when Mr. Sinatra recorded "New York, New York". In that building I also worked on sessions with Santana, Jonathan Winters, Abba, Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton, Joe Cocker, The Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, Barbra Streisand, and dozens more. Needless to say it was a very exciting time in my life!

We had always heard that the building had once been a grocery store and at least two of the echo chambers resembled meat lockers or refrigerated rooms. Now I know that it was true!

I have much info about United/Western on my own web site, at http://studioelectronics.biz/URCNewsletter-13.html

In the 1980's United/Western was sold and became Ocean Way Recording. The 6050 Building is Still Ocean Way but 6000 changed hands again, and then fell into disrepair about 10 years ago. The facility came close to being demolished but was sold at auction to EastWest Studios, and has undergone an incredible multi million dollar renovation - design by Philippe Starck. Despite the plain facade, this new facility is one of the finest and most visually stunning studios in the world.

I did quite a double take, seeing the old photo from the 1930's! sopas_ej, thank you so much for posting it.

Now, it was also said that 6000 Sunset was a movie or stage theater in the 40's or 50's. Does anyone have a photo, or info about that incarnation of this famous building?

Originally Posted by 3940dxer (Post 5516235)

Sammy Davis Jr. clowning around at 6000 Sunset

http://dkse.net/david/6000.Sunset/6000.Sammy.jpg

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5515949)

I am still amazed that Los Angeles has let so much architectural magnificence go to seed. It would be the equivalent of New Orleans (where I grew up) letting go of the Garden District and the entire length of St. Charles Avenue--but being bigger, L.A. has lost even more. Not that I don't understand the economics, demographics, and geographics behind the abandonment, but I'm still staggered. Windsor Hills, Hancock Park, Bel-Air and even Beverly Hills have their charms, but one can only imagine the mature magnificence of these old Los Angeles neighborhoods were they as intact as they were in their heydays.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5516640)

A perfect example of what you're talking about Gaylord_Wilshire is the Fitzgerald House at 3115 W. Adams Street built in 1903.

Originally Posted by rbpjr (Post 5516730)

I lived in apartment house just east of the empty lot on the corner of Arlington and West Adams...there was at that time, 1951, a wonderful old mansion where the empty lot is today...perhaps there is a picture of it in the archives. I remember wondering who lived there as the only folks I ever saw was a young man who would mow the lawn and tend the gardens.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5517200)

I've searched everywhere for a photograph of the mansion that once stood at the northwest corner Adams and Arlington but have always come up empty. :(

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5013977)

The Childs house, which once stood at 3100 West Adams:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061802.jpgLAPL
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061844.jpgLAPL
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061845.jpgLAPL
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061846.jpgLAPL


As with many demolished houses in West Adams, there is a little bit left:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TQ...20521%20PM.jpgGoogle Street View
The Childs wall along Adams--it once had a corner entrance with steps (second Childs photo above),
almost identical to that which survives across Adams at the site of yet another demolished house on
the boulevard:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TL...82819%20AM.jpgGoogle Strteet View
The corner lot in this shot is apparently now part of the property of the Fitzgerald house, seen at left.
The whole corner has been on the market for $1.9 million for several years. I haven't yet found out what
house once stood on the corner--whatever it was would have been better than an empty lot, of course,
but an empty lot would be preferable to what atrocity I fear may come.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 4406558)

Here's another one, Ralph's Westwood.


http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2...hswestwood.jpg
julie wilson

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5259292)

First of all, my knowledge of the residences of Los Angeles is limited....so keep that in mind.

I found this photograph on ebay of a beautiful house in Los Angeles, circa 1910

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/8...ckrindgere.jpg

Later I found out it was the Frederick Rindge residence at 2263 S. Harward.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5519615)

I'd never heard of Teed Street, and it took me a while to find it in your map. Do we think that Bellevue once followed the alignment of Ord Street? Or perhaps that the address on the stolz website is in error?

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5519651)

Now, where is Rosas Street?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5519634)

I agree Ord Street seems to be the only possibility.

Here is a description of the J.W. Robinson residence at LAPL. It mentions Belle Vue Avenue as well.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/993...escription.jpg
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=65928

I'm going to look for an older map of that area (much older than my 1940 map)

Originally Posted by so-cal-bear (Post 5519724)

Wow! You found Teed St but not Bellevue? You have better eyes than I do. Well, I cheated a bit, Bellevue sounded familiar. And it should, I had business that took me there last week. That street Bellevue is weird! It turns left and right a lot. I took the liberty to highlight Bellevue and included a new Google map image of it highlited.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6...3816aae5_b.jpg

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5515594)

Found on ebay.

An unfinished 'Castle-in-the Sky' overlooking Cahuenga Pass.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/469...rhollywood.jpg




http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/8...stlepass1r.jpg

Has anyone heard of this place before?

_____

Originally Posted by 3940dxer (Post 5500066)

http://wwww.dkse.net/david/Wilcox/Hotel_Mark_Twain3.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Mark_Twain.jpg

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5520058)

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061643.jpg
Careful study reveals the original upstairs front bay and porthole window remaining after the remodeling.

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5519615)

Do we think that Bellevue once followed the alignment of Ord Street? Or perhaps that the address on the stolz website is in error?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5286873)

There have been several 'atomic' glow photos posted earlier in the thread. Here are two photographs I don't remember seeing before.

below: The bright flash of a Nevada test reaches Los Angeles, circa 1955.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/385...5ftmoorehi.jpg
uscdl

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 5520058)

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-F...sonford250.jpgLAPL

It seems that the Robinsons moved on from Teed Street in time for Julia S. Ford to remodel the house in even higher Victorian fashion. (In my brief pokings around for this post I haven't seen any information on the Edgemonts or girls' school mentioned by rickm, but maybe that came later. Perhaps Rick can give us some more info.)

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics24/00061643.jpg
Careful study reveals the original upstairs front bay and porthole window remaining after the remodeling.

As for Teed, he seems to have been a ubiquitous city politician, serving in a number of capacities in the '80s and '90s including as city clerk and president of the city council. The name finally struck a bell--in my research for http://stjamesparklosangeles.blogspot.com/ I remembered reference to a Teed house just at the end of what is now called variously St. James Park West or St. James Place, which, at any rate, runs directly toward a house at 2365 Scarff Street built by Freeman G. Teed in 1893. In addition to his civic duties, Teed was also apparently something of a real estate specualtor. The house we see behind the prolific vegetation there today--now L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument No. 457--is an enlargement of his original cottage by Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-2...2520AM.bmp.jpgCDNC Los Angeles Herald, March 12, 1905

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-I...2520AM.bmp.jpgWikipedia

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5520640)

G_W, I finally found a map (1899) that shows Bellevue Avenue intersecting N. Broadway as mentioned in the Stoltz Family blog (see above)


http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8...ap1899deta.jpg
1899 map detail