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Here's a jaw-dropping photograph.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...633/Wyq0E0.jpg UCLA Archive http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/Sea...ord=prosperity The "Prosperity Special" on the outskirts of Los Angeles, 1922. The train delivered twenty 2-10-2 locomotives to California. (showing 12 of the 20 locomotives!!) Arrival in Los Angeles. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/kZcBDG.jpg http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/vie...198/zz002cmh41 I believe this is the same building as in the 1922 photograph above (minus the top floor?). It's located on the SE corner of Alameda and 4th Street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/fxcTsm.jpg gsv -note the same angled corner that's visible behind the locomotive in the 1922 photograph. And here's an interesting view of the back-side of the building. (facing Seaton Street) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/TcRJXd.jpg gsv I couldn't help but notice this wonderfully archaic door that has survived over all these years. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/rqb2e2.jpg detail :previous: but notice the hap-hazard way they blocked up the window at lower left. :( __ |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_...94322%2BPM.jpg gsv It's hard not to like John C Austin. His baronial grandness never pulls any punches. |
I thought I'd try my hand at partially colorizing this image (seen before on NLA) while I was altering it to celebrate the 9 million views this thread has achieved. Thank you to everyone who contributes, especially ethereal_reality.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...n.jpg~original Original image: www.pacificelectric.org I know there are many streetcar aficionados on NLA - sorry if the colors aren't exact :). |
:previous: Great job Hoss, I love it! We must have hit 9 million while I was asleep.
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That makes for an extraordinary image Hoss. Thank you.
Nine million views? I thought we just hit 7 million last month! Who are all these people? Maybe it's just us trolling back through the thread? LOL Thank you e_r for making a place to satisfy my insatiable curiosity. Questions I've had for decades are answered in a twinkling here. |
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In a Hollywood Historic Photos picture dated 1939, that I cropped, it looks like the building had become the Marquis, with an awning (marquee) over the door and a dining porch added on the second story. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...is-cropped.jpg The photo in full, seen here before, originally from here http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...ncropped_1.jpg They also have this 1970s view of the 1953 building. Looks like it was built on the same footprint as the earlier Colonial-style one. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k.../marquis73.jpg here |
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Especially I thank ER and the other major contributors, and T2 who have befriended me in my feeble efforts to contribute to NLA. |
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The consensus seems to agree on the 8420 Sunset address for the Colonial Drive-In. Errors exist in some of the so-called source materials. E.g., here the Colonial is mistakenly listed as "6420." http://www.hpoliver.com/FEATURES/LA3...REA/index.html Searches for common addresses often produce unexpected results. 1987 CD lists 8420 Sunset Blvd., as "Poor Man's Rent-A-Car of Sunset." http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...00002/00000002 The 8420 address was also home to "Carlos 'n Charlies." https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/...c8440546_z.jpghttps://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/...c8440546_z.jpg https://c3.staticflickr.com/7/6221/6...1d788e6e_b.jpghttps://c3.staticflickr.com/7/6221/6...1d788e6e_b.jpg Just down the street at 8351 Sunset (northern side), there is a '56CD listing for the "Colonial Hotel." This seems to be the current location for "Carney's." http://www.carneytrain.com/wp-conten...75fb6fd4a1.jpghttp://www.carneytrain.com/wp-conten...75fb6fd4a1.jpg There was a Colonial Restaurant on 314 N. Camden Drive, BH http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098574.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098574.jpg |
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Michael T. Madura was born in Nebraska on March 10, 1910. He enlisted for WWII, and at that time, May of 1942, he was living in Los Angeles and his occupation was in hotel and restaurant management. He served in the Army during the war. That record shows him as being 5'11". He shows up, married to a Bernice Madura, in a voter registration in 1952. They were living at 966 3rd Avenue, Los Angeles in both the 1952 and 1954 Voter registrations. That house is still there and the "Googlemobile" gives us a nice picture without the dreaded "vegetation". Mr. Madura died in May of 1976 |
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Four amateur snapshots from an album dated 1927.
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Michael T. Madura / Chatterbox Cafe / 966 3rd Ave
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Here's an interesting architectural style several doors south of Mr. & Mrs. Madura's house on 3rd Avenue. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...901/wzZJYe.jpg gsv 974 3rd Avenue. (built 1922) It's rather odd, but I like it. (I have a soft spot for anything with a cartouche ;)) |
After Martin Pal collected e_r's recent color image finds from eBay, I decided to remove the watermarks from a few more of them. I hope no one minds the repetition.
Photobucket kindly removed three of these images due to a claim of copyright infringement - sorry if you didn't get to see them. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...m.jpg~original |
:previous: That's great HossC! I was hoping you would do that. :)
Kodachrome slide, Municipal Plunge, Los Angeles CA (1950s?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/vHf1TV.jpg eBay I wasn't sure at first, but this is the Griffith Park Municipal. And it's still there! ;) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/nTNIDO.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/citypr...ream/lightbox/ |
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