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http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/466/6...469e201157.jpgKate O'Hare


Apparently it is there in the lobby--

The Times reported on October 13, 2002, that the "...bronze eagle sculpture, which weighs more than 200 pounds and has a wingspan of 7 1/2 feet.... was designed by Gutzon Borglum, the noted sculptor of Mt. Rushmore, while he was living in Sierra Madre in the 1890s. The statue stood atop three successive Los Angeles Times buildings from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century; it now stands in the Times lobby as a symbol of courage and strength."


And something more recent from LA Weekly: http://www.laweekly.com/bestof/2012/...useum-1889741/

:previous: Well that was quick! Thank you GaylordWilshire.

That art deco 'Telephones' door is amazing.....I can't read the other door.
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A fantastic postcard from the 1920s.

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Another impressive postcard....this one is postmarked 1974.

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5th Street Landing, San Pedro (Los Angeles Harbor).

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Holy cow, those doors manage to be both comical and deadly serious all at once--love it!

The truck is a Kelly, built by Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Co in Ohio.

I already knew Joe holed up at the Alto Nido (when not dodging the repo man, of course)......

........but to take one look at the Peter Graves pic and place it like that?

Impressive.

Per the American Truck Historical Society: "When Kelly introduced their own water cooled engine in 1912 they became Kelly-Springfield. This was also the year the Renault-style hood with the radiator behind it was introduced also. K-S built trucks ranging from one to six tons. By 1929 Kelly-Springfield trucks were gone."



http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1601/a184321.jpgSouthwest Museum


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Mill Supplies January 1914


https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V...124%2520AM.jpgebay


PS Dunkel & Mayfield's Arizona (?) Bar was apparently at 658 S Main. Have we seen it here before?

Makes more sense than a Renault. Looks like the Kelly Co. did a good job of copying the basic design.:tup:

Found this bit of info:

Errett Lobban{E. L.} Cord estate. 10-acre Southern planter's mansion designed by noted architect Paul R. Williams. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(architect) Landscape architect A. E. Hanson. Resembling a pastoral East Coast setting featuring tennis courts, Olympic-sized pool with bathhouse, a large party pavilion and spacious stable with living quarters, an aviary and kennels. During the Great Depression of the 1930's this estate was known as "party central" in Beverly Hill! Demolished in 1963 with only the short street Cord Circle as a reminder.

That's the street sign attached to the Wilshire Special at the northeast corner of Wilshire and ALEXANDRIA.... (The rise of Wilshire toward the east accounts for its difference in height from its counterpart on the northwest corner.)


It is indeed in gsjansen's shot... a fragment:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2...andriasign.jpgLAPL

I could of sworn we were just talking about this a few days ago.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...7527546.column

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7784/derbybusstop.jpgLAPL


That's a bus-stop sign. I don't think the alignment of El Camino Real through L.A. included Wilshire--the east-west alignment was along Sunset. Here's a previous thread post on El Camino Real:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4348


Somewhere online is the full history of the ECR.