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Here is a Smithsonian photo from around 1955....googies appears to be closed. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...sc0d561cf.jpeg smithsonian |
:previous: Good find CityBoyDoug.
"The Largest Stage in the World...700ft long." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/837/0sy5.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320...0/703/faed.jpg ebay By looking at the surrounding hillside I believe this is Universal Studios. Notice the silent movie sets in the distance. Pretty cool. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/837/dibk.jpg detail/ebay __ |
Film comedian "Stepin Fetchit" (Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry) with his valet and exquisite ride.
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It's difficult to imagine the beach attire in this photograph was once considered risque.
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Dinner at Romanoff's with Gloria Graham and Ralph Meeker for anyone who can identify this house--only clue I have so far is possibly the Pasadena/Altadena area--
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..a very cozy bar, The Switzerland.
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ebay above: I just noticed they're not all from Ocean Park. There's one from Santa Monica and one from Venice...and I can't read the other one. Judging from the Westside locations of all of them, it looks like Redondo Beach to me. |
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Hey, as long as I'm lurking around on here, I feel like I should toss in one noirish tidbit: one dark night in January 1937, a man broke into Monte Sano and tried to smash in the skull of one Mrs H W Koll. She awoke in time, though, and her screams scared him off. Now, because of her description of the brick-wielding gent (large, African-American) this was likely the first of the attacks of serial killer Robert Nixon (about whom I scribbled in some detail as part of my post on Bunker Hill's Astoria Apartments -- a 2008 post that would have benefited from the following image, which would not surface for another two years).
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Looking north on Hill Street from the north portal of tunnel no. 1, ca.1920
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USC's Digital Library has a fairly large collection of Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank photos, mostly from the late 1920s. I've also found a few contemporary shots from other sites, so I'm going to work through the list in the advert below. I've split up the photos so they're not in one monumental post. My aim is to make the most complete list I can, so there may be a few repeats from previous posts.
This is their full-page advert from the 1929 City Directory. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...9.jpg~original LAPL The building shown in the advert is their head office at Fifth and Spring. Citizens National Bank, exterior view http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original LAPL The building is still there, but has lost the ornamentation on its upper floors. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV This is the Hill Street Office at 736 South Hill Street. The building is now a parking lot. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library I also found this 1925 picture which has the bank on the right. The building to the left of the bank has also gone, but the Paden-Pelton Building is still there. There's probably enough detail in this picture to make a post in its own right! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library The Broadway Office at 308 South Broadway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library The "...BURY" on the left of the picture above is part of a sign saying "BRADBURY" because the bank was on the right side of the first floor of the Bradbury Building. It's now a Subway! http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Panoramio I didn't find any pictures of the Atwater branch, but the building that's currently at 3224 Glendale Boulevard looks like it could date from that period. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...r.jpg~original GSV Citizens Trust and Savings, branch at 5415 Broadway, Southern California, 1927 http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library The building currently at 5415 South Broadway has a similar footprint, so could the original bank be underneath? The surviving buildings to the right have similar brickwork to the picture above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original GSV We know that the Union Stock Yards have gone, and I didn't find any pictures of the bank there. It's the same story with the Echo Park-Sunset and Eighth-Vermont branches. The former is now a Walgreens parking lot while the latter is a strip mall. ETA: I eventually (nearly 18 months later!) found this picture showing the sign from the Echo Park-Sunset branch. There's a much better view of the building, minus the bank, in post #30181 by e_r. It also includes a view of the building with the bank's first floor hidden by a streetcar. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...SunsetEcho.jpg Detail of picture at Getty Research Institute More to follow ... |
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