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We've seen the Heinz 57 sign near Culver City before, but today I found that the Huntington Digital Library has these much higher resolution pictures. Going by the caption, the first was taken from Adams Street on Dec 10, 1916.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library This close-up shot shows the lighting rig in front of the sign. The horse in the other field gives a good idea of scale. I'm assuming that the "AirLine" in the caption refers to the Pacific Electric Santa Monica Air Line which opened a few years earlier. For some reason it took the photographer a day to get a field closer! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library And finally, let there be light ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original Huntington Digital Library Previous posts about various Heinz 57 signs around Los Angeles: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7700 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8993 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8995 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16696 |
http://i.imgur.com/K2p9ZSK.jpg?2LAT/BSQLA
I recently discovered this picture from the Times of June 25, 1911, showing Pickfair as it was originally conceived as a country house for attorney Lee Allen Phillips and his wife Catherine in 1911. Full story here: http://www.berkeleysquarelosangeles....ips-house.html So far I can find little information about Horatio Cogswell, although it seems that he was active in West Adams during this period. He built his own house at 1244 S. Van Ness the same year he designed the Phillips house in Beverly Hills: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-u...2520AM.bmp.jpgThe City Project More information: http://www.victorianhomes.com/listin...97a47094a22e95 |
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__ M_P, thanks for the additional information on Monkey Island & Hanna-Barbera. -always interesting! |
Log House @ 1701 W. Adams @ Normandie
GW introduced us to the Log House, and er and Tourmaline found other postcards of it:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7353 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11653 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19661 Here's more, starting with a larger version of one of the photos GW posted; USC dates it c. 1905: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/147/rec/1 USC also dates this one c. 1905; the landscaping is different, and there appears to be a driveway on the east side of the house, unlike in other photos and postcards: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/147/rec/1 This early photo shows the Normandie Avenue side of the house: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original Autry National Center -- http://collections.theautry.org/mweb...ex=P_14753.jpg It was built by Judge Edwin H. Lamme, apparently in late 1897: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...2.jpg~original October 24, 1897 Los Angeles Times The home, misplaced at Budlong and Adams, is mentioned in the last sentence of this article: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original April 29, 1898 Los Angeles Times It may have also been known as Casa Rusticana (was the Judge fond of listening to Cavalleria rusticana?): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original Autry National Center -- http://collections.theautry.org/mweb...x=LS_12367.jpg The house changed little between the 1900 and 1921 Sanborn Maps: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original LAPL http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original LAPL The LA County Assessor says the building that's now on the NW corner of Adams and Normandie was built in 1923, so the 1921 Sanborn (and Baist) may have been the Log House's last documented appearances. |
:previous: -good stuff on Judge Lamme's Log House flyingwedge.
__ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/138/viff.jpgebay I found some information on the house next to Mr. Swan's early Greene & Greene. It belonged to B. Frank Wood Esq. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/69/xxwm.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/822/wqbz.jpgebay detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/22/xm0c.jpg |
Here's another fine home.
1915 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/34/p08z.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/33/afwx.jpgebay detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/163/tnmu.jpg I wish the street address was included. |
I know this photo was posted eons ago on NLA. (I just found it again on ebay)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/801/4vgr.jpgebay Does anyone remember the earlier discussion? I'm curious about the large wooden building in the background on the right/I'd like to figure out what it is. __ |
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We saw it here in 2011...http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4421 Another post followed (#4423), but all the pictures have vanished. They had come from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/. I'll see if I can dig them back up. EDIT: I looked. No luck. (I'd forgotten what a total pain in the ass that forum is to maneuver...I'll never complain about the "search" feature here again.) Here's part of a USC picture: http://i.imgur.com/bloLkYd.jpg Full zoomable shot here: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...590/show/16585 |
:previous: Thanks for your help GW. -much appreciate.
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That reminds me I need a car wash...
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The Auto Laundry also appeared in a post by BifRayRock, but in case the picture breaks up, here's a solid version (click the link under the picture for a zoomable version).
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...llroom1931.jpg USC Digital Library Back in post #645 e_r posted a smaller version of the picture below. It shows the El Patio Ballroom and Bimini Baths before the auto laundry was built. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ioBallroom.jpg LAPL Another of e_r's posts on the Rainbow Gardens/Palomar Ballroom: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=644 |
ginger noir
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/833/4o98.jpg www.dlisted.com Wow, www.dlisted.com recently posted this photograph of Tina Louise in honor of her 80th birthday. She sure makes a great lookin' femme fatale. I wish she had found more success in movies (before Gilligan's Island). Has anyone seen her as Griselda in the 1958 film 'God's Little Acre'? It's really an impressive performance. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/849/wypr.jpg http://www.royalbooks.com/pages/book...film-pressbook __ Hey, thanks MichaelRyerson, HossC and RiT for the El Patio Auto Laudry information. When I came across the photo again on ebay, I didn't associate the el patio auto laundry with the el patio ballroom. duh! -and it was kinda' obvious wasn't it...sorry. __ |
El Patio Auto Laundry
With a bit of looking around I found other views of the El Patio Auto Laundry taken in different years. It was located at 260 Vermont Street, which might make it a bit easier to figure out the buildings seen in other images on a street more or less behind it.
http://cdm15799.contentdm.oclc.org/u...XT=&DMROTATE=0 USC DIGITAL LIBRARY The El Patio Auto Laundry was the brain child of real estate developer B.K. Gillespie. Gillespie is credited with coming up with the super service station concept. |
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:previous: Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a survivor!
-many thx Graybeard. |
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The Age of Innocence
[QUOTE=FredH;6484194]It is a gathering of the Signal Oil Tarzan Club
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps10e37192.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co.../51004/rec/309 What a great shot, FredH! Good kids excited over a wholesome hero (and free stuff). Sad that the Signal station is now a Liquor store. And Tarzan is nowhere to be seen. The building across the street is still there, though. It looks like it has been well cared for over the years. Curious why the signs were blacked-out on the original photo. http://imageshack.com/a/img89/5427/1hf5.jpg GSV Imagine what would happen these days if a stranger tried to give a kid a free popsicle! |
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