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Yes, they run from Alma to Soto. I've never seen that type before either. ................................................... Thank you Flyingwedge for the history of 720 S Westlake. I'm curious as to how the relocated house lost its second story and whether the small house behind the Westlake Hotel pre-dates it: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AB...=w1092-h585-no gsv |
At last, a Julius Shulman photoset with a manageable number of images. This is "Job 2246: Harry MacDonald, Harry MacDonald Office Building, 1956". The set's prints and contact prints mostly duplicate each other, so I've picked the best six (IMHO :)).
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original A closer look at the entrance. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The corner, showing the State Farm Insurance sign. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original This must be the rear of the building. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original A look inside the offices. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original I'll finish with this great shot of men with bow ties, and one with a pipe, looking over blueprints. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The summary for this photoset says "Location unknown. Shulman note: Irving Meyers." They can't have looked very hard, because one of the contact prints has a sign for the 5700 block of Hillcrest Drive, with what must be the 3600 block of West something Avenue pointing the other way. The avenue is actually W Slauson Avenue, with State Farm Insurance at 3633, and the offices of architects Clifford K Denman and Harry T MacDonald at 3635 (from the 1956 CD). I originally thought that the building had gone, but I think it's still there behind the newer brick wall with the three holes. The rear is even more modified, and now has virtually no windows. It's now the Peoples Tabernacle of Faith Baptist Church. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV The white building on the far right of the image above also appears to be a survivor (see the far right of the third Shulman image). Beyond that is this vintage-looking car wash. Have we covered it before? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original GSV |
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odinthor mentioned there used to be a diving bell near the spot where I was standing in the casino photograph.
Is anyone else familiar with the diving bell? (I wasn't) Here's a snapshot of a couple posing on the 'diving bell platform'. (but no actual diving bell :() September 13, 1950. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/3cll6K.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Avalon-Catal...-/361203361891 "Noah and I on the Diving Bell Platform. This is back of the casino." reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/cxIuoQ.jpg "After this we left for the Airport in the Sky." :previous: I had to giggle at this. (sounds like they passed away. ;)) __ |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7T...=w1237-h397-no gsv The two homes on Hillcrest (visible through the window in the quoted Shulman image above) are still there: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eh...Q=w826-h503-no gsv ....................................................... I haven't found a picture of the Diving Bell e_r, but this little map shows where it was: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hp...w=w582-h558-no timwagg The underwater park is outlined with buoys and lines: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rZ...=w1010-h553-no google maps |
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http://i.imgur.com/Zg7a3dY.jpg GSV https://goo.gl/maps/8F2EUcgZYHw |
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gorillas blog I suspect the Bell was gone by the time Bruce [ER] was visiting the famous art-Deco Casino. |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yj...w=w928-h370-no gsv The Larchmont Theater opened in 1922. Here it is in 1950 with an updated marquee: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U4...w=w799-h518-no cinema treasures The theater was replaced in 1960 by this (no longer a) bank building (I remember it as a Security Pacific). The old bank building , next door to the north is still a bank: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AY...w=w961-h406-no gsv The Safeway (which Chuckaluck mentioned), now a Rite Aid, was once a billiard parlor: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/h6...A=w493-h462-no silentlocations |
We've seen The El Royale (450 Rossmore Ave) and its neighbor to the north, the Ravenswood (570 N. Rossmore Ave.) numerous times. Time for a re-exploration of Rossmore and Rosewood intersection, circa 1931. Well before Rossmore Ave became a grand canyon of apartment living. Like it or not, these canyons are spreading in all directions. Worth noting that many of the once-ubiquitous, original, non-imposing and low street lamps still exist in the neighborhood. Why were these ever removed in adjacent neighborhoods? Did their replacements really deter crime or prevent accidents and help find lost keys in the dark? HollywoodGraham: notice the proliferation of self-illuminated stops signs. ;) All from: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/41911 1 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...a.jpg~original 2 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...h.jpg~original 3 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~originalGoogleSVU 4 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...q.jpg~original 5 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...0.jpg~original 6 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~original 7 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...y.jpg~original Where have all the awnings gone? . . . Long time passing. 8 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...6.jpg~original 9 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...r.jpg~originalGoogleSVU 10 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...x.jpg~original 11 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...b.jpg~original 12 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...7.jpg~original 13 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...i.jpg~original 14 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...k.jpg~original 15 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...l.jpg~originalGoogleSVU 16 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...6.jpg~originalGoogleSVU 17 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...908/fZ53ja.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31916 Mae who? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2tFvKpSU3h...ae_at-home.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2tFvKpSU3h...ae_at-home.jpg A location from where Mae obtained provisions, 133 Larchmont Blvd., the former Balzer's :previous: and later Jurgensen's. http://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/reg/LB-029.jpghttp://hollywoodphotographs.com/photos/reg/LB-029.jpg 18 Looking southward on Rossmore Avenue. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...g.jpg~originalGoogleSVU 19 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...j.jpg~originalGoogleSVU |
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Recently noticed a daylight view of the Shell Gas Station at the SW corner of Wilshire and Crenshaw Blvds., 4200 Wilshire Blvd. Now, it seems to have escaped my gaze. In any event, here is what appears to be the grand opening of the same station, circa 1935. BPermits indicate the structure was constructed in '35 and went through various iterations. It was torn down and rebuilt in '71, but by 1982, the structure was gone and the property became a Christmas Tree lot and parking lot, for approximately three decades. The final Google SVU image shows a parking lot as of February 2014. A new single-story structure has since eclipsed the Christmas Trees. http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...5.jpg~originalhttp://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/78686 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...b.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...a.jpg~original http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...b.jpg~originalGoogleSVU |
Thanks so much of those pictures of Larchmont, Ravenswood and El Royale. That's my 'hood. I drive and walk those streets every day.
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Can't get enough of that Vineyard Junction Stuff? As one who remembers the Sears, and the strange configuration of nearby streets and at least one bridge, it remains a fascinating neighborhood, to be sure. Sorry, but the two :previous: wide shots are too good not to repost. Curiously, Cooper retail Lumber and Building materials may have replaced another enterprise, Wilner Plumbing Supply, (4650 Pico [Street] Blvd. and J.D. Halstead Lumber Co. "A foot or a mile." From http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...ll170/id/47848 1 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...b.jpg~original 2 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...2.jpg~original 3 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...v.jpg~original 4 http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...b.jpg~original |
George Raft posing in the bedroom of his penthouse apartment at the El Royale, 420 Rossmore
#1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/pyBjFv.jpg https://www.facebook.com/bizarrelosa...type=1&theater "When I lived at the El Royale, there were two penthouse suites. Mack [Gray, Raft's bodyguard and close friend] and I had one and Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia, had the other. He was separated from his wife at the time. Many times as a gag, we both left our front doors open. I used to watch the stream of broads that went up to his place, and I found out later that he would check me out. Sometimes we would compare notes. I think between us we had every hooker in town. But if I ever saw a broad I had been with go to his suite -- that would finish her with me." -- George Raft from Bizarre Los Angeles update: Here's another. #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/S1E5lf.jpg http://sadhill.photoshelter.com/image/I00005Bp69v0GwgY George Raft in the den of his top floor penthouse at the El Royale Apartments (450 N. Rossmore Ave) in 1936. _ #3 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/AwkRXu.jpg https://www.facebook.com/bizarrelosa...type=1&theater He has one of those Radiobars I posted about earlier. Here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=40867 __ |
Does anyone know when the "R" on the Ravenswood went away?
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I have heard that in its day, Larchmont Village really was a sleepy village, when a parking space in front of Jurgensen's, did not seem as though it required a reservation and when a few of Jurgensen's female patrons wore hats with veils and full length gloves, directly out of the fashionable '50s. When Jurgensen's left, along with Quinn's, down the street, in the '80s, it marked the end of an era. Quote:
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Thanks for the info BifRayRock. __ Blaster, I don't remember where I learned that the R atop the Ravenswood revolved. -sorry. (it was probably a video) I'll see if I can find it again. _ |
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