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http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...arRange&page=1 The Hauser plant was built in 1906. Comparing the above photo with the 1906 Sanborn map below, it looks like the photo was taken from the E. 11th Street side. That inclined structure in the photo looks like the "cattle drive" represented by the dashed parallel lines on the left side of the map (between the two buildings that are to the right of "1481"); the drive leads from a corral up to a platform adjacent to where the cattle were, um, dispatched. If the photo is looking sort of NE, that must be the orphanage in the background; what else other than the orphanage was that big in that direction at that time?: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psc49bfff2.jpg LAPL The map closer up: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7726887f.jpghttp://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psb17041c6.jpg Over on the right side we have the Lard Room . . . I guess that's where the executive offices were (ha ha, just kidding). The former plant site and surrounding area in March 2011. East Ninth is now East Olympic, and St. Elmo Street (lower left corner of 1906 Sanborn) is now Imperial Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psa288673e.jpg Google Earth |
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A little more on the Hauser Packing Company. Here's an article from the Los Angeles Herald, dated 3 September 1905: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAHauser1.jpg cdnc.ucr.edu The 1921 Baist map still shows a fairly sparsely populated site: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAHauser2.jpg www.historicmapworks.com By 1948 the site had filled in. The old Santa Fe railroad route can still be seen curving into the site, but no rails are visible. The 1952 aerial looks much the same, but most of the site had been cleared by 1972. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z.../LAHauser3.jpg Historic Aerials |
:previous: Excellent information on the Hauser Packing Co. Flyingwedge and HossC! Thanks so much.
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Thanks, Gaylord Wilshire, for all the info about my block and neighborhood. I was completely unaware that Lucerne was once El Centro. It certainly explains why Lucerne south of Third makes such a dramatic jog to the east. |
What intersection is this?
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These other slides were including in the group.
-the Harbor Freeway http://imageshack.us/a/img708/119/45l1.jpgebay Does that say Grandburger? -if so, this is probably Grand Avenue/but what intersection? http://imageshack.us/a/img844/7377/97v8.jpgebay This one is easy. -looking east on Wilshire (Rex Arms left, Statler Hotel right) http://imageshack.us/a/img7/2216/8nvs.jpgebay These last two are pretty much a mystery to me. http://imageshack.us/a/img41/9490/c16v.jpgebay especially this one. http://imageshack.us/a/img20/9479/csyc.jpgebay __ |
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The northeast corner of Wilshire & Bixel... the Wilshire Specials give away the main drag... the Grandburger was at 1065 Wilshire. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV Quote:
That was the Statler, but it's still visible in this May 2011 shot, directly under the footbridge (?) past 1000 Wilshire. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV |
:previous: So much for my Grandburger theory. ;) -thanks GW -and HossC
__ The Historic Wall The 110 year old limestone wall that was once a part of the old Fremont Hotel http://imageshack.us/a/img59/1839/2ga2.jpg http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....c-wall-of.html Fremont Hotel site/4th and Olive http://imageshack.us/a/img36/5307/tfp9.jpg google_aerial I thought I'd check it out myself (via the google-mobile) yep, there it is! http://imageshack.us/a/img62/1937/exkp.jpg GSV This makes me wonder what might be buried beneath that parking lot. -another view from Los Angeles Revisited blog. http://imageshack.us/a/img28/4316/mlsy.jpg http://losangelesrevisited.blogspot....c-wall-of.html __ from way back on page 17 Quote:
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I believe that is Fort Moore Hill (with high school) in the distance.
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...another great slide/gentlemen watching the construction of the 101.
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Eight unnamed ingenues from the 1940s. (recognize any of them?)
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First, thanks all, to several very nice additions to some of my earlier posts.
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From L.A. Curbed, from Sept., link: http://la.curbed.com/tags/sunset-millennium WeHo's Giant Sunset|La Cienega Hotel/Residential/Retail Project Finally Beginning West Hollywood's decades-in-the-making, four-tower Sunset|La Cienega project (formerly known as Sunset Millennium) is finally starting work, the city has announced. Demolition begins next Monday on several blocks on the south side of Sunset Boulevard, around La Cienega. Mid-century buildings like the Petersen office tower and the Tiffany Theater will bite the dust. They'll make way for two 10-story hotel towers with up to 296 rooms (east side of La Cienega) and two eight-story residential towers with 190 units (west side); all four buildings will feature ground-floor retail totaling a maximum of 70,000 square feet. Developer CIM hired Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to design the hotels, with SOM and Lorcan O'Herlihy teaming up for the apartment buildings. "Large public viewing terraces are integrated into both parcels with plaza amenities designed by the landscape architecture firm of Mia Lehrer + Associates," the city declares. http://la.curbed.com/uploads/sunset-millennium-3.png http://la.curbed.com/uploads/09.13su...cienegares.jpg *** The reason that this has been delayed is that sensible people were fighting it. (The developers in West Hollywood always seem to get their way, even if it's delayed. The city council bows to all developers.) Residents are concerned about the already bad traffic from this montrosity. People who own houses in the hills opposite this don't want their views obstructed (and property value to fall?) and preservationists didn't want the Tiffany Theatre or the Petersen Bldg. or the two locations on the corner used in the filming of the TV series 77 SUNSET STRIP (the detective agency and what's left of "Dino's" next door where Ed Byrnes [Kookie] parked cars), to be obliterated. There's a huge plaque, if that's the right word, in the sidewalk proclaiming the site of this filming location...but TOO LATE. I walked by there last Friday and it's all gone. Except the sidewalk plaque, but...move along...nothing to see here... Dino's (Dean Martin) on the left of the Tiffany Theatre. http://photos.cinematreasures.org/pr...jpg?1324933471 Cinema Treasures I understand a group from the valley rescued the Tiffany sign for preservation at least. 77 Sunset Strip http://www.edsel.com/pages/sunsetstrip.jpgEdsel A screen grab of Ed Byrnes (Kookie) parking cars at Dino's, next door to the title location. The last year or two I've walked by this spot (there's a great view across L.A. here) once or twice a month and every time I stepped on this sidewalk plaque... http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/S...unsetStrip.JPG SeeingStars ...I snapped my fingers twice...if you get the drift daddy-o. You can see the plaque on the sidewalk in this image. The rounded entrance is where the detectives offices were located, there was an awning over it, I believe, and "Dino's" was next door to the right. Although...this image makes it look rather modern, maybe it was extensively remodeled, I'm not finding an image of it back then right now. The actual location according to the poster is 8524 Sunset Blvd. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6...d466b8f5_z.jpg ? @ Flickr I've actually always wanted to see this series, but never an opportunity to do so. I believe the credit sequence is on youtube and you can see one of the leads driving down Sunset to La Cienega to the office here. |
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The lady second from the right looks something like Sandra Gould (from Bewitched)...? |
1943/44 Columbia Starlets?
One of my "specialties" is obscure B starlets of the 40's and I even I can say that all but one here look only vaguely familiar or not familiar at all. The sporty-looking beauty with the scarf in her hair, third from the left, looks very much like Columbia starlet and fashion model Dusty Anderson. Dusty was in Columbia's "Cover Girl," had a prominent role in "A Thousand and One Nights" (both were made in or around 1944), and married director Jean Negulesco.
Interesting to think that all of the major studios had many dozens of beautiful young women like these under short-term contract to populate those musical numbers and scenes set in nightclubs, hotel lobbies and swimming pools, sorority houses etc. Few went beyond a handful of mostly uncredited cameos and walk-ons. Gorgeous Dusty Anderson, already a successful model with a vivacious personality, "married well" and was the exception, although her career in movies was brief and her roles were minor. According to Wikipedia, she is still alive at age 94. |
That car in the screencap of "Dino's" is a '59 Edsel!
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Kookie...
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The hat-less man in the photo is Edd Byrnes, born July 1933. He's still combing his hair at age 80. As a tribute to his enduring celebrity and his iconic "Kookie" character, Edd Byrnes has ranked #5 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psc8b213c0.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps58785dbb.jpg Wiki |
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A little vintage Noirish Los Angeles on 77 Sunset Strip and Dino's Lodge... http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6047 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6052 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6200 |
Lugo House at Rancho San Antonio
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