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Here's a remarkable snapshot showing a silent film being made on the streets of Los Angeles. (1910s or 20s?)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/FwxYS1.jpg ebay (it's no longer listed / I tried to find it again without success) I'm not 100% sure, but the two men on horseback (in the empty lot) might possibly be portraying KKK members. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/peFIGn.jpg detail This photograph reminds me of a group I posted several years ago (but this is not one of them) You can see the earlier 'silent film' pics here: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=28763 _ |
Just a simple Julius Shulman photoset today. This is "Job 2634: Pereira & Luckman, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Maternity Wing (Pasadena, Calif.), 1958".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original This one shows a covered walkway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original The grounds seem to be well landscaped - odinthor can probably name the plants :). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute I can't get any decent street-level images, but the building in the Shulman photos is the one in the center with the tiled roof. The covered walkway from the second shot is on the eastern end. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original Google Maps via supercharge.info |
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1228 S Flower was built as a garage/auto dealer in 1912; then, 17 years later, in what must have been a widening of Flower Street, five feet were chopped off the front and a new floor added for the printing company... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6I...366-h768-rw-nohttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XL...366-h768-rw-no |
:previous: Very interesting GW. Thanks for looking up the permits.
Any information on the white building next to it? -with the coat-of-arms cartouche x 2. I'll go snap a gsv of it now. ________ update: Here ya go. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...921/uwhnGL.jpg gsv I bet there's a good chance it was an automobile showroom as well. (note :previous: handsome young businessman ;)) And here it is back in 2008. Holy-Moly! http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/pVYCyX.jpg back_in_time gsv |
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As for 1224 S Flower, it was built for a Jeffrey dealer...that year, the Jeffrey became the Nash.... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YH...366-h768-rw-nohttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zJ...366-h768-rw-no |
:previous: So that's the interior of the showroom?! I never expected to see that. -very cool.
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'mystery' block in Glendale, 1951
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/SLRJaA.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Real-Photo-S...cAAOSwEzxYOJ0v None of the businesses look familiar to me. here's the stamp on the reverse http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/UhyAJu.jpg __ |
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I'm not able to confirm that there was ever a General Petroleum filling station nearby on Aliso or Lyons, although the block bounded by Aliso and Lyons and including 431 Aliso is one of the oddly shaped narrow blocks in which DTLA once abounded. So one could well imagine a gas station occupying the very tip of a roughly triangular block, but I don't think this is it. In particular I don't think 431 Aliso, at this point quite near Macy Street, is anywhere near American Toy Manufacturing, though there again they could have moved too. |
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I've been staring at these two photos for a couple days. I'm convinced that the little General Petroleum Station has been moved 10-15 feet farther away from the Pacific Trunk Factory in the top photo to accommodate two lanes at the gas pumps. However, this would have not only involved moving the station, but also extending the curb out and relocating telephone poles. This seems like it would have been a huge expense. Looks like the time period between the two photos was fairly close. Anyone know what actually happened here? |
Spic N Span Bakery
Over the holidays my cousin (once removed) shared a photo she found while searching for information about her grand and great-grandfather. GGF was Otto Nagel, who owned and operated the Spic N Span Bakery at 343 S Western. This interesting block is from the Whittington survey of Western Ave. in 1927.
https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5528/3...724f5a90_o.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/30819/rec/3 https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5612/3...f0189b1f_o.jpg His son Norm (my uncle) used to bring us baked goods when he would visit. I'm guessing the building was pretty new in this photo, as the 1921 Baist doesn't show any properties on the lot. The Wilshire Theater is in the background, showing a John Barrymore flick, "When A Man Loves" https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5445/3...e1894d8e_o.jpg https://c4.staticflickr.com/6/5524/3...9bc439c9_o.jpg http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018566/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1 Glad to see the building still standing (with some of the usual quake hazards removed- but the ornamental shields are still there!). Sadly the awesome streetlamps and the Wilshire Theater are long gone (I believe this was recently discussed on NLA) https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5458/3...3665d039_o.jpg GSV BTW, great to see the Schulman photos of the Huntington Maternity ward, Hoss; I was born there shortly after the photos were taken. I remember it well! |
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https://rssgtd.files.wordpress.com/2...tail.png?w=696 https://rssgtd.files.wordpress.com/2...treet-view.png https://rssgtd.files.wordpress.com/2...pg?w=696&h=928 Get the scoop here: https://esotouric.com/2016/10/31/hartwell/ |
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https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5449/3...2f42f6e3_b.jpg Now the area is the dominion of the Americana at Brand: https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5494/3...734007a7_b.jpg |
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I wonder if they considered incorporating the classic facade into the new building? Fuck I'm upset, did they save the cartouches? And I would have nabbed this. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/CutFTj.jpg Photo by Roger Price __ |
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I had a horrible feeling that the building might have gone when I found the demo permit yesterday. Could they may be redeveloping the whole end of the block? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Online Building Records |
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:( Excellent post on Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #21 Hoss. (I meant to tell you earlier but I kept getting sidetracked) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/IHFrvL.jpg Getty One thing (among many) I was curious about was that hilltop you see in the distance with the top leveled off. Do you think someone was preparing to build on it? (they saved the tree) The same hilltop can be seen out the bedroom window. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...921/CkpIW0.jpg Getty In another of the photographs there's a large water tank visible on a different hill. __ Color view into the bathroom. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/hvAZPI.jpg Getty I've been trying to figure out what the 'chrome-orb-thingy' is that's in the hallway. (behind the cactus plants) Is it a rather uninspired decorative fountain or something more utilitarian like a sump-pump? -halfway kidding ;) If you look closely, the bottom of the rectangular pool is slanted.....from very shallow to deep at the other end. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/NTKMKL.jpg Oh my, I just now noticed that spray of water hitting the wall. -so this really is a fountain!? The modernity of the house...the shallow pools surrounding it ...and that strange hallway 'fountain' made me think of the home with the ridiculous fish fountain in Jacques Tati's 'Mon Uncle'. 1958 __ |
Meanwhile......somewhere in Glendale (in 1954)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/09NSWY.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/T219-1954-PA...oAAOSwGtRXy6IL I wonder what is in the distance on the left that looks like the top of a drive-in movie screen. I love the red pickup truck that perfectly matches the Pacific Electric street-cars. And that Glendale sign is pretty nifty too. |
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It may well have made it to the century mark, at least technically-- the item below appeared in the Herald on Jan 20, 1917; it could be that at least the basic shell had been completed 100 years before demolition, with the interior being fitted out in the months before Hartwell's opening day on Jan 13, 1917. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/v_...366-h768-rw-no Note that the rendering posted by Beaudry was wider by two middle bays--and that somewhere along the line the cornice was altered, removing the angled portions over the side bays that are seen in the Herald picture and suggested in the rendering... Quote:
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