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2510 S. Central Avenue
this building was the original law office space occupied by Attorney Tom Bradley in 1962. He was in association with attorney Charles Matthews. The Los Angeles office of the Urban League was also in this building. There is an article in the California Eagle Oct 2, 1941 urging workers with mechanic skills to come apply for jobs. This building was known as the Blodgett Building...and i am sure it did not originally look like this.
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2510 S. Central Avenue
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I don't think the building was actually boarded up before; it just had some unfortunate-looking louvered sunshades over the windows. They were cleared away in 2016 or so, so the building looks like this now: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Tl...s=w674-h600-no gsv |
Here's a look at those 'louvered sunshades' t2 just mentioned.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/J8yC04.jpg detail See the complete slide HERE Thanks for the information cjefferson. I didn't realize the building had such an interesting past. I'm going to try and dig up some more info. |
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The Blodgett Building when it was, among other things, the home of the Urban League. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/aMH1uf.jpg cwis.usc.edu 2150 South Central Avenue, 1940 and 1999. The three-floor building with addresses beginning with 2150 was the home of many professional offices circa 1940. Display advertisements from the Central Avenue Business Directory of 1940 are synthesized here with the 1999 fabric. The Urban League, a leading civil rights organization, had its offices on the top floor in 1940. Talent agents were busy signing neighborhood actors like Myrtle Anderson (side of building). Real estate agents and physicians served a prosperous, mainly African American middle class. In 1999 "Garcia's Tienda C[entavos] Noventa y Nueve" filled most of the first floor, catering to a primarily working-class Latino clientele. Credit: Composition Philip J. Ethington © 2000. here's a closer look at the top floor. (so you can read the information :)) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/bXnUAD.jpg detail Thanks for sparking my interest in this overlooked building cjefferson. __ Now for Myrtle. ;) |
Here's one of the damaged houses in the Portuguese Bend landslide.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/RvNjHB.jpg https://books.google.com/books?id=5V...college&f=true |
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I don't believe we have seen this fascinating depression era photograph on NLA. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/1TMyDK.jpg ebay reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/sFyjyk.jpg Does anyone have an idea where this was taken? __ |
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While trying to find more information on the above :previous: photograph, I came across a 2nd depression era photo taken from Los Angeles. "Bread Line, 1933" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/58Nf9p.jpg felix in hollywood It looks as if the bread/soup kitchen is located in the building behind the 'The Champ' billboard. so what is this building? I thought one of you NLA'ers might be able to figure it out. (the sloped embankment in the distance look familiar but I can't pin it down) __ |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4520/...a300ece3_b.jpg_B050252.jpg by me, on Flickr |
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Bill, I checked out the other photos you have on your Flickr link. Very nice! ___ A couple posters recently referred to the Dodger Stadium parking lot and what a "heat island" it is. There's a whole lot of places like that now in Los Angeles. Yesterday I was reading about some actions to try and curb this problem. From October 6: Los Angeles is Painting Their Roads White to Cool the City Down and Improve Air Quality In a first step towards tackling overheating, the city of Los Angeles is painting black asphalt roads with a white reflecting coating. It has been proven to reduce temperatures significantly. Link HERE. ___ This article HERE, from May, talks about testing this out in Canoga Park. Some of the articles call the sealant white and others refer to it as gray. Another article HERE mentions a downside: Of course, Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert tells the Daily News that, while the “cool pavement” could help reverse the Heat Island Effect, it won’t be enough to offset the loss of urban forestland, should drought conditions cause vegetation to continue drying up in coming years. Trial roads in all 15 council districts were coated with the reflective surfacing this past June. Dodger Stadium should do this in their parking lot. Anyone else heard of this or seen it? |
I've been reading this topic for years but still didn't succeed in picking up on the large amount of posts passing here. I'm somewhere halfway I guess lol. I've posted some then/now's before but now -about a year later- I have a few more I'd like to share with you, especially some aerials. If they are posted before I apologize.
http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/1.jpg 1927 vs 2017. LAX and surroundings http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/2.jpg 1928 vs 2017. Santa Clarita. The intersection of Lyons and Newhall hasn't changed a bit! http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/3.jpg 1929 vs 2017. West L.A. Santa Monica Blvd in the middle going from left to right. W. Pico Blvd in the bottom right. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/4.jpg 1928 vs 2017. Santa Monica Airport and surroundings. Pico Blvd in the top left with just south of it Pearl St and one more south Ocean Park Blvd. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/5.jpg 1928 vs 2017. Culver City. The biggest Blvd is Venice in the top left with Washington Blvd south of it. In about the middle we see National Blvd from left to right. Note the Hal Roach Studios on the intersection with National and Washington. They were famous for the Laurel and Hardy productions. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/6.jpg 1933 vs 2017. Union Station. Main St just west of the fontain, Los Angeles st east of it (not sure if the names were the same back then) and Alameda St east of that. Note that the bend where the tracks used to be still is visible in the new buildings. That's sort of nice.. I guess. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/7.jpg 1940 vs 2016. Bonvue Ave, Hollywood. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/8.jpg 1930 vs 2016. Mines Field, now know as LAX. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/9.jpg 1930 vs 2016. Southern Glass Company, Vernon. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/10.jpg 1925 vs 2016. Warner Brothers Studios. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/11.jpg 1931 vs 2016. Wilshire Blvd and Bronson Ave. Not too much has changed. http://weerfotos.be/Uploads/LA/12.jpg 1945 vs 2016. Surv-all Market, Slauson Ave and Angeles Vista Blvd. More to come! :) Sources: The Regents Of The University of California. USC. |
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https://i.imgur.com/fYyd71p.jpg?1 Wikipedia And what's left today https://i.imgur.com/bXIxRLh.jpg?1 https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/201...-palos-verdes/ What may be nothing more than urban legend is the thinking that the massive wheat cargo the ship was carrying spilled into the ocean and helped the local lobster population thrive for decades. |
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Here's the Dominator just a day or three after it ran aground. That's my mom on the left, expecting a little Handsome Stranger to emerge about eleven weeks later. (Not from the shipwreck.) |
:previous: You and I are about the same age Handsome Stranger. ;)
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/teX8Px.jpg 1927 vs 2017. LAX and surroundings This is Surfridge that I mentioned yesterday. (courtesy of FW) LAX ghost town a home to memories and rare butterflies __ |
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Wrecked, 13 March 1961 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/80...bb59d53efb.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/80...bb59d53efb.jpg |
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was covered with the heat-reducing coating: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original FW photo |
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