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:previous: I could be wrong R_I_T, but I'm pretty sure that's an incinerator and not a hitching post since it's in the backyard.
below: I found this a couple days ago on ebay. Windward Avenue from a different perspective, 1910. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/837/0yy0.jpg ebay detail #1. -Squint and this could be the Doge's Palace. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/849/my13.jpg detail #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/849/30ou.jpg __ |
I'm guessing this impressive glass plate was taken on a Sunday morning.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/822/4cld.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1910-LOS-A...item58b0b3b6f9 The seller lists the date as 1910. __ |
Aerial view of Venice. (the seller lists the date as 1928....I would have guessed much earlier)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/842/lk1s.jpg ebay Initially I thought the 'slash' at center-right was a breakwater, but on closer inspection I realized it's a stylized beam of light emanating from a tower (see below). MEGA-SCAN..for further inspection. :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/842/lk1s.jpg __ |
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That thing is a gawd-awful backyard incinerator. ER is correct.! See it here: http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6...cinerators.jpg |
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Wondering about the imposing structure that resembles a water tower, or guard/observation tower. I am guessing it was an attempt to disguise a score board. Or maybe it was the floating garage of the future. 1954 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105783.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105783.jpg 1953 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105781.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105781.jpg 1958 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105819.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105819.jpg 1939 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105775.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105775.jpg 1939 - Streamlining perfection (per original caption). http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105798.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105798.jpg 1935 - Rug owner rethinks placement? It will wash out. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105796.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105796.jpg 1935 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105795.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105795.jpg 1935 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105793.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105793.jpg |
The people are so well dressed, even as late as 1954-all the men in coats and ties and the women wearing skirts, dresses, hats, and heels. I kind of miss those days.
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While researching something unrelated, I came across this rendering of what was apparently a new hospital soon to be built in LA... I thought the architecture was a bit retro for 1922. Then I thought the drawing must be of Angelus Hospital, actually built about 20 years before, but that building is of a different design, as seen in various pictures below. (Does anyone recognize the drawing above as a building that might have been elsewhere in the city?) Anyway, I haven't found out what the 1922 building might have looked like. But then it may have never been built at all...seems there was some malfeasance on the part of the venture's president.... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-W...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...2520PM.bmp.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_...ngelus1904.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r...2520PM.bmp.jpgUSCDL http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics46/00042604.jpgLAPL Articles: LAT :previous: Have to say, I'm one who's very glad then was then. As for the future that "didn't pan out the way we thought it would"... hasn't it? Aren't we living in the age of Dick Tracy wrist radios, men on the moon, futuristic medicine, fantastic variations in ways of life and opportunities? Love my automotive relics and living in an old building in an old city, love researching the past, but live in it? Not even if there was time travel. |
Mary Louise at WestLake Park?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/820/dg5r.jpg ebay Earlier we discussed the Mary Louise Tea Room on the 12th floor of the Brack Shops downtown. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20351 The postcard led me to this photograph. -It appears Mary Louise had a second location. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../834/axlrd.jpg lapl So the photograph (below) that we decided was taken on the 12th floor of the Brack Shops might have actually been taken at this West Lake location. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/819/z6eo.jpg Go here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20347 __ |
Have we seen this three-tiered fountain before?
Cyanotype: Westlake Park 1890s http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/855/baax.jpg ebay I'm not sure what this rock formation is. (I've seen similar shapes in other parks) A drinking fountain perhaps? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../841/lb3nb.jpg detail __ |
Two more cyanotypes showing WestLake Park in the 1890s.
I didn't realize Westlake had a sunken lawn area. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../834/3a45n.jpg ebay at leisure. -appears the lady may be an artist. (does anyone know what building that is behind the palms?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/823/sn58.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/829/6d4s.jpg ebay detail. -notice the extremely tall tower. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/822/p30x.jpg __ |
Photograph of unknown actress by Hoover Art Co. Los Angeles.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/820/0voi.jpg ebay -embossed stamp is at lower right. __ |
A night time view of Paul Verlengia's lesser known restaurant, The Four Trees. (opened in 1960)
7800 Sunset Boulevard http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/855/1uqp.jpgebay -daytime view here: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=18730 The more famous of Paul Verlengia's dining establishments was The Marquis at Sunset and Roxbury. (four blocks west of the Four Trees) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/843/t2yj.jpg George Mann https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardschave/7177894649/ __ http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/819/vadl.jpg George Mann detail __ |
Harley Earl and Virgil Exner
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My post was about Automobile shows and the emphasis on design in those days. Today the design of a car is nonexistent. We're all driving around in monotonous, dull motorized jelly beans. |
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Sounds like you need a new car, CBD. Anyway, to younger people, all cars from any given era--whether '20s-early '30s, late 30s, '40s, early '50s, late '50s, mid '60s-- like today's cars, they're all just variations on a theme, not particularly distinguishable one make from another. And today's are of course much safer and better made. Now back to NLA... |
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Cars in the 1950s were very distinguishable, one from another. You're a young man and are not that aware of the 1950s era, as I am. Yes, cars are better made but much more expensive when compared to the 1950s models....even beyond inflation values. Cars are now mostly made to last longer than in the 1950s era. |
Gaby Loraine
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/829/7nwq.jpg ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/850/eiy5.jpg and this http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/855/dq0r.jpg http://burleskateer.tumblr.com/page/2 Do we know where in Hollywood the Pom Pom Room was located? It doesn't ring a bell. __ |
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https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Dec 9, 1930 Quote:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x...2520PM.bmp.jpg Produced at the Lincoln-Mercury plant in L.A.'s CMD factory, below, July 1953 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00095/00095851.jpgLAPL Its three-years-newer cousin seen at the Pan-Pacific, December 2, 1955 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105805.jpg |
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