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:previous: Thanks GW.
I took the google-mobile to the Pico and Ardmore area to snoop around. While in the vicinity I came across the Water & Power Station #17 at 11th street and Irolo. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/AMZxyx.jpg waterandpower It's still looks mighty fine. (except for the wire fence!) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/DCDqdl.jpg gsv http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/61NfJF.jpg gsv detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...537/pwDZKS.jpg The house behind it survives as well. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...901/VTVibQ.jpg gsv |
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here is some information I found while trying to find more information on Santa Monica Airport's VOR antenna. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...661/ezzzwp.jpg http://airnav.com/cgi-bin/navaid-inf...e=SANTA+MONICA http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/1IKGKn.jpg http://vfrmap.com/?type=vfrc&lat=34....18.451&zoom=10 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...913/GhGKUB.jpg http://airnav.com/cgi-bin/navaid-inf...e=SANTA+MONICA and just for fun, here's a wider view of that mind-boggling map. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/538/E8x9VI.jpg :previous: I spy the "Emmy and Eva Oil Platforms" -they're like twin. |
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The house looked to me like it predated the area so I looked into it-- sure enough, according to city records, it was moved to Irolo Street in 1910-- from 1825 Oak Street, now apparently under a Harbor Freeway on-ramp at the s/w corner of the 10 & the 110. |
:previous: Good sleuthing GW. Thanks for that.
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Eugene Morahan's "Santa Monica" statue
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k...90910%2BAM.jpg davidpaulkirkpatrick The background info is here The "Santa Monica" place name comes, in a roundabout way, from Kuruvungna Springs, at Barrington and Ohio, on the University High School campus, rather than directly from the saint: Quote:
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:previous: Thanks t2.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/nSAqNs.jpg http://www.smmirror.com/articles/New...iversary/42197 From the link you provided, I see that it's another WPA project. (created in 1934 by Eugene Morahan) And it's 18 ft. high! It doesn't look that tall in the sepia pic. __ |
re: The Sunset Blvd. Bridge over Silver Lake Blvd.
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originally posted by HossC http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/uSa6Tg.jpg I was trying to get a look at the groin vaults. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...910/pKulYA.jpg gsv there are homeless sleeping there now. the original railing along Sunset is still intact. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/VD58Ty.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/KjRwGx.jpg originally posted by HossC __ |
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Noirishers probably know Merrell Gage as the artist who did the sculptures on the Edison/One Bunker Hill building and the figures over at LAT. He also did the Electric Fountain and the film stars monument, both in Beverly Hills. Gage was most famous for his Lincoln sculptures. He assisted on the facade sculptures at the Fine Arts Building on W 7th St as well. Gage was head of the Sculpture Dept at USC. He was married to painter Marian Gage. That's probably her in the photo with their daughter Jean. I wish I knew where that maquette is. More info on Gage: Wiki Archives of American Art/Gage papers California Art Club article Another aviator, "Flight" Video of Gage sculpting Lincoln: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...13211%2BAM.jpg ------------------------------------------------ Thx quickstop, you beat me to it :-). The antenna is held in great affection around these parts. |
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It's gorgeous :-) And it was to be as big as the Statue of Liberty? I am knocked-out just thinking about that! |
Birthday party at the Florentine Gardens, 1940s.
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'Some of These Days' - The Autobiography of Sophie Tucker. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...fTheseDays.jpg www.norpete.com Sophie Tucker's Wiki page is here. |
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Sophie Tucker's biography. Cheers, Earl Edit: Dang! Slow old fingers lose again :-) |
:previous: You missed by 1 second Earl. I'll consider it a tie. ;)
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From a THEN & NOW article in the Los Angeles Times:
During Hollywood's Golden Age, Florentine Gardens nightclub more than held its own against the Cocoanut Grove, Mocambo's, Ciro's, the Clover Club and the Trocadero. The Gardens on Hollywood Boulevard drew tourists by the busload, helping Hollywood forge its reputation as the world's entertainment capital. It also drew local working people who saved up to go out on the town, paying a cover charge of $1.25 -- or $2.50 for dinner too. Here, future actress Yvonne De Carlo danced until her toes bled. Sophie Tucker, known as the "Last of the Red Hot Mamas," belted out "Some of These Days." Al Jolson dropped to one knee and, with outstretched arms, sang "Mammy." And in 1942, Norma Jean Mortensen and her first husband, Jim Dougherty, said "I do" -- before Mortensen abandoned spouse and name to become Marilyn Monroe. ___ Her autobiography was published in 1945. If she wasn't performing there at the time of this photograph, perhaps they sold the book there if they had a gift shop? |
:previous: Ah-Ha, a connection!! Maybe Ms. Tucker was performing the night of the birthday photograph! (previous page)
Good sleuthing Martin_Pal. __ |
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