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Sakhal, given the aerial photo and your info on the historic street numbering I think it's likely I have the wrong corner....so it's now officially a "mystery location".
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It was there for awhile in 1987, but didn't last very long. https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...BlaFv0Yy.s.jpgHollywood Photographs 1986: A year earlier it was a Howard Johnson's. https://na-st01.ext.exlibrisgroup.co...2OZCZ36VGVASIA |
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I am researching an artist named Leonard Del Sonno AKA Leonardo Del Sonno who had a studio at 3319 Sunset in Silver Lake starting in 1958. I found someone by the same name on findagrave who died in 1981 but could not locate an obit on Del Sonno.
He did these outlandish chalkware table lamps, but had some other wild decor on display in his shop window. Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...nardo-delsonno https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2be66494_b.jpg 1973 Ed Ruscha/Getty https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3da5d2a1_b.jpg Etsy https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ec246c24_z.jpg Etsy https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3082c8d6_b.jpg Ebay https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...476c170c_z.jpg Monrovia Daily News-Post 11/14/46 |
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I think the lighter photo is an earlier photo. I came to that conclusion due to the growth at the top of the tree, and I noticed in what I'm calling the darker photo, there is a birdhouse/mailbox (?) type of wooden object next to/behind the young boy in that photo that is missing in the lighter photo. Another thing that struck me about the darker photo is the drop off from the bottom step that the young girl is standing above. It seems like quite the cliff face there, exposed roots and all. Then after looking closely at the rest of the cobble-stone wall, I got the impression that the sidewalk may have been recently regraded. That got me to thinking. So I looked at the topo. map and moved west to where about I was guesstimating the 1000 block would have been in that era. I ended up zoning in on the intersection where "Montana Ave." and "Bringham Ave." meet. Just a hunch. It would seem that sometime in the 1920's Montana Avenue was graded over some kind of ditch or depression. I am also of the suspicion that the Spanish-style building that can be seen in the distance in the darker photo is one of the buildings at the VA Hospital, however it's hard to tell. I wasn't able to match it exactly to any existing building that I could see, however it does look to be similar in style to the rest of the remaining buildings. So at best, I've got a wild guess, stemming from a hunch that was based on speculation.:shrug: I've done more with less. |
From this knowledge junkie: Thank you everyone.
Thank you Martin Pal and Snix.
I am still somewhat surprised that I'm somehow only just now finding out about The Brown Derby being in the old Melody Lane building. Then again, that's why I've spent the past 10 years lurking on this forum. I thought that I knew quite a bit about L.A.'s history, however I have learned so much from everyone here. Years ago I attempted to collect the information that I was learning from this site, so that I could create some kind of history database. However I quickly learned that there is SO/TOO much information to keep track of. Also, trying to save each photo and organize them became something of a nightmare. I had it in mind that I was going to try to organize all of the information into some sort of Los Angeles history wiki. It became too daunting, too quickly. I suppose that's a rather long-winded way for me to say: "Thank you everyone!". |
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There is also a photo of the tree house at the Santa Monica Public Library. It says the tree house was on Barrington, but that didn't look quite right. Could Amos' tree house have been on the SE corner of Federal and Rochester Avenues? Assuming for the moment that the UCLA photo looks east, compare it with this May 2019 GSV looking east at the above-mentioned corner. Federal slopes downhill to the right/south like in the UCLA photo. Also, east of Federal, Rochester has a short, slight rise, then it dips down, like in the UCLA photo. At the left center edge of the UCLA photo close-up directly above, we see a house in the distance with what I guess are three attic vents arranged in a triangle. If you look at 11504 Rochester on GSV, the house (built 1929) seems to have the same attic vents, windows, and roofline we see in the close-up (not including the darker roof circled in red). |
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Flyingwedge, here is the S.M. Library photo of which you speak, it's dated 1915 and as you say the caption locates it on Barrington Ave....could that be Ol' Amos up on the roof? Re a positive location i.d. on this one, the assumption I made was that the buildings in the background left on the UCLA image were on the V.A. grounds....in the sliver we see of these structures they seemed to me of an institutional type and height, and not single family residences....so I thought the tree house property was hard by the V.A.....I could be way off on this, maybe they are SFR's, if so it throws the location open to the Brentwood streets further west, including Barrington Ave. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds In the UCLA photo here is the house to the right of the tree house property, I thought this would be our best clue....I read the number as 1106, but as Sakhal has pointed out the historic Sanborn maps do not show any street with an 1100 block adjacent or close to the V.A. grounds.... As you are aware all the east-west streets in this part of Brentwood are in the 11000+ blocks, I should know, over the years I lived in the 11700 block of Goshen Ave., the 11800 block of Kiowa Ave., the 11700 block of Sunset Bl., among other Brentwood locations....what I am thinking is looking at this street number it looks like it was set in an arc-type pattern....the natural progression would have another numeral, maybe that number fell off, and this house is actually in an 11000 block....if that helps us at all. |
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Monrovia Daily News-Post 11/14/46[/QUOTE] Before this thread drifts along too much farther, I wanted to acknowledge Snix's inquiry out of courtesy. I did try to find some information about Leonard Del Sonno/Leonardo Del Sonno. I came up empty-handed. I even tried alternate spellings (Delsonno, etc.). Nothing. Or, nothing more than what Snix has already discovered. I wonder if "Leonard(o) Del Sonno" was his real name. Ancestry.com seemed to have a few hits on that name, but I wasn't going to sign up for a membership just to answer that question. :shrug: As an addendum, I did find a single mention of "Roger Merrill Lamps" "General Desk Book...: Office of Price Administration": "5158-RogerMerrill Lamps, Los Angeles, Calif. Order No. 5158 established maximum prices for sales and deliveries of cast plaster stone, handpainted, horsehead table lamps and oblong parchment shade, model No. 215 manufactured by the applicant, of $16.67 to jobbers and $19.61 to retailers by the applicant, and $35.30 to consumer by any person* (Issued 9-9-46)." https://books.google.com/books?id=OR...mps%22&f=false |
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Quite the elusive treehouse.
"One Hundred and Ninth Street near Santa Monica Boulevard."
Hmmm, now I'm really confused. Do those two streets intersect somewhere? And, now to add even more confusion... According to the 1920 census, it seems that Amos Aspey was residing at 2406 Rochester Ave. (I don't think that address is correct either.) Not that I'm paranoid, but I'm beginning to think that someone's just messing with us. /s Copy of the 1920 census: https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...BnFST9Qyq7BNjC https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...2N7aUq6PQim0GI I tried creating a Google Photos page to upload the photos, however, apparently it wont actually upload them. It will let me post a link to them. The first one is a close-up of line 68, and the other is the entire sheet. I got this copy of the census from:https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...3A1%3AMHQ6-5PF I also noticed that as I thought, the sidewalk was regraded at some point. https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...sCBgRYgNzUXUYD https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...F9vf9mfixtmr1u In the 1930 census, (taken a few months before he died) he's listed as living in the "National Military Home", apparently with a bunch of other veterans. Additionally, according to the 1910 census, from Haynes Neb. his wife was living with him (Martha L. Aspey 62 from Ill.) and a daughter (Pearl Aspey 37 Kansas). So far, I haven't been able to find out much about Pearl Aspey. |
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It should be "Avenue" instead of "Street". Then you get - https://i.imgur.com/d9YtpPM.png rescarta.lapl.org I think Flyingwedge's suggestion of the SE corner of "Federal and Rochester Avenues" is right. From the 1927 aerial it's the corner along Federal (109th) Ave. that fits with the pictures. A tree right at the corner and two small houses close together. https://i.imgur.com/Dd1mfte.jpg dl.library.ucla.edu mil.library.ucsb.edu Where the tree house would have been on the 1924 Sanborn map. https://i.imgur.com/FK6OZVZ.jpg loc.gov |
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And here's a little more on 109th: https://i.postimg.cc/hGbxNQC5/Aspey-LAT-25-3-27.jpg LA Times, 3/27/1925 |
S.E. corner of Federal and Rochester is correct....
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds I thought there was a chance that this was "1406", and not "1106"....and recall that a "2" is visible as the last digit of the tree house property, initially I figured that street number as 1102. Turns out that the subject properties were in the 1400 block of Federal Ave....I ran 1402 Federal Av. on Building and Safety's site, this came up, dated 1932, two years after Mr. and Mrs. Aspey died.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds Great work by all in solving the puzzle. |
Infamous Amos:
I had way too much fun with this, that is to say, just the right amount.
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