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:previous: Fantastic set of Shulman photographs Hoss. Beautiful color.
originally posted by HossC http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/lVKGOm.jpg google.books Here's a layout from the 1950s that shows where the Rendezvous Ballroom was located in relation to Balboa Pavilion. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/DHXP9a.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/496897...3843/lightbox/ below: "Late 1930s Early 40s aerial of the Rendezvous" http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/908/d2PTem.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/496897...3843/lightbox/ "Something is going on as all the parking lots in the area are full. Even the gas stations seem to be parking cars. So this had to be pre Dec 1941 or post Aug. 1945. The cars look late 30s but I can't be sure." -Barry Kazmer-flickr __ |
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My Grandmother, Lorraine, is on the right end, in the hurraches. I wish I knew the names of the other gals. They stayed in touch for years, though scattered abround LA didn't see each other very often. They had a nickname for themselves that I can't remember, the "[Something] Gang." |
The top of Bunker Hill
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Without the Victorians and apartment buildings, I see two competing tops : at Third and Olive (Angels Flight Station) and at Second and Grand. |
Congregational Church, Vine Street
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John Bengtson, in his book "Silent Echos", identifies it as the Congregational Sunday School building and mentions that it appears both in Chaplin's "The Fireman" (1916) and Keaton's "One Week" (1920) Here, the subject building is on the left margin. The camera is looking south down Lillian Way from just below Eleanor. The Lone Star Studio, such as it was then, is on the right: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...8%252520PM.jpg The Fireman (1916) Lone Star Studios The building later played Buster Keaton's wedding venue. The camera is facing south: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...1%252520PM.jpg One Week (1920) Metro/Keaton Studios Union Congregational Church bought the facility from the Episcopalians: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-n...2%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...3%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...8%252520PM.jpg cdnc / la herald, 31 january 1908 |
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Union Station arrivals
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More Woolen Mill
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along with what I guess is Woolen Mill Creek in the little ravine immediately south of the mill. http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original 1875 Map of Canal and Reservoir Company Land @ Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/12985/rec/11 Chapulín is Spanish for Grasshopper. |
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Grasshopper in Spanish is: Saltamontes Chapulines, plural for chapulín are small grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium, that are commonly eaten in certain areas of Mexico. The term is specific to Mexico and derives from the Nahuatl word chapolin |
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The plane is a Curtis JN-4 "Jenny", cruising speed, 40-60 MPH. The man in the foreground is Ivan Unger. The woman in the high-heeled boots is Gladys Roy. The pair were members of the "13 Black Cats" famous wing-walkers of the 1920s. There were many other troops, including "The 5 Blackbirds" (all African-American) and "Mabel Cody's Flying Circus", headed up by Buffalo Bill's niece. Charles Lindbergh was a wing-walker. Roy (née Smith), from Minnesota, moved to Los Angeles in 1921. She also maintained a residence in her home state. All three of her siblings were flyers too. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t...2%252520AM.jpg air&space Roy was killed in 1927, at the age of 27, when she, apparently momentarily distracted, walked into the spinning propeller of a parked plane she had just exited after a photo shoot: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p...4%252520AM.jpg findagrave Gladys Roy's IMDB page is here https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...8%252520AM.jpg slideshare I couldn't find anything else on Unger. ........................................................................................ Quote:
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Down by the old mill stream...
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- the main part of a modern-fronted garage. There was a little stream there called Los Reyes" Bixby Smith's quote from "Adobe Days" is wonderfully confirmed by your photo. I am so pleased to see it. Such a handsome building. Your series of images, showing the mill transitioning from rural outpost to an urban setting, was both typical for LA and totally astounding. e_r tells us that the Bernard Bros built the mill in 1872. I was delighted to see "Mill Street" on your plat map. Other blocks, from the same series show, "Canal St" was the next street west of Mill St: Quote:
As you indicated, the flume entered the back of the mill (#3) on a trestle. The waste water exited at the front of the building, and, after being piped under Pearl St, continued on its way, together with the stream. Woolen Mill Ditch, in those days, carried the waters from Los Reyes (together, apparently, with LA River water captured at Elysian Park), which started above Echo Park Lake, and, after filling that (and a swimming hole at 2nd and Beaudry), made its way down through the hills to sometimes cause flooding havoc at 5th and Flower. The Los Angeles Canal and Reservoir Company made these changes, in part, to power industry. I'm guessing that the trestle delivered water to a wheel to power the mill to spin the wool (?) I can't quite work that out. LOL, the technology is lost on me. Glover, 1877: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...6%252520PM.jpg loc After the mill ceased operations, the facility became an ice company. By 1909, the building was a garage (it got a concrete floor that year and "two new openings"). In 1919, the garage (still owned by the BF Coulter Association) got the "modern front" that Bixby Smith mentions and the photo above shows: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3...3%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...9%252520PM.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...3%252520PM.jpg ladbs I wasn't able to locate the demo permit. The mill must be just out of shot to the right in this post-1886 view (I think the shed, south of the mill, and the tank are just in view though). I kept missing it: Quote:
Note the little arroyo (behind the dark house in the center foreground at the NW corner of 5th and Flower), which carried Los Reyes and the waste water away from the mill. The waste water was piped under what-was-then Pearl Street (as shown) before being, once again, exposed to the air. Note that the water was piped under Flower St too. 5th and Flower today, now Ray Bradbury Square: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/1m...366-h768-rw-no google maps 1876: The shed and tank on the south side of the mill and the flume on its trestle. The stream is hidden by the berm in the foreground: Quote:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...0%252520PM.jpg LAT via creek freak Thank you again so much. P.S. Here's the info I was looking for: "Echo park, containing thirty acres, is another park evolved from the city’s refuse lands. In 1868 the city council contracted with the Los Angeles Canal & Reservoir Company, a corporation, with a capital of $200,000, of which George Hansen was president and J. J. Warner, secretary, to construct a system of reservoirs and canals in the northwestern part of the city. The reservoirs were to be filled by water from the river conducted in a canal. A dam, twenty feet high, was built across a canon near the head of the Arroyo de Los Reyes and a ditch following the canon of this arroyo down to Pearl street, now Figueroa, was constructed. This zanja in later years was known as the Woolen Mill ditch. Los Angeles had an ambition to become a manufacturing city. The water brought down by the ditch could be used for power to propel machinery and for irrigation. The ditch was extended down to the southern part of the city. For this improvement the company was to receive several thousand acres of hill land in the northwest part of the city. In 1873 a woolen mill was built on the line of this ditch near Figueroa and Fifth streets, and for a decade or so manufactured a fair quality of blankets. Then it was turned into an ice factory. Competition froze it out. The Woolen Mill ditch disappeared before the march of improvement and all the city has left for its leagues of land is a pond or reservoir now known as Echo Lake. The other reservoirs that appear on the old maps as reservoirs 1, 2, and 3 were never completed. The land surrounding reservoir No. 4 (Echo Lake) was converted into a park and the land below the dam—about four and one half acres—belonging to the city was converted into a children’s playground. Echo Lake is the largest body of water in any of the parks." -A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs by James Miller Guinn (1915) Also this. __ |
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This Julius Shulman photoset is vaguely labeled "Job 5051: Miscellaneous Los Angeles Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.),1973". The six pictures seem to cover three different buildings, two of which I've identified.
Initially, I couldn't see any clues to the location of these apartments. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Then I spotted a name on the wall above the Beetle. Even at full-resolution, it's still hard to read, not least because the script is very similar in color to the background, and the shadows don't help either. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original By comparing the view above with the one below, and with some Googling, I managed to read "Château Brentana". That led me to 11666 Montana Avenue in Brentwood. The number 11666 is just visible in the shadows of the trees in the view below. I assume that "Brentana" is just a simple portmanteau of Brentwood and Montana. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original With the help of GSV to study the building opposite, I'm happy that this is the entrance to the Château Brentana apartments. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original This location was considerably easier to find, mainly due to the street name being part of the apartment name, and a visible street number. The address of the Bedford Terrace apartments is 1054 S Bedford Street. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original The last picture in the set is a mystery. I can't see any clues to narrow my search. Does anyone recognize it? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute Today, it's very hard to see Château Brentana behind the trees, although the street number is now more prominent. The property websites give a build date of 1969. I like the little green Triumph TR250 at the front. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV Bedford Terrace is equally well hidden. This is the only view I found where some of the name is visible. It seems to have been built in 1965. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...8.jpg~original GSV |
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Here's a better view of the First German United Methodist Church from the mid-80s. It also shows the San Carlos Hotel and Googies. The Biltmore Tower is under construction in the background.
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I did a total spit-take when I saw this. Felt like Danny Thomas. And Silverlaker, what a wonderful recollection! The best color shot I'd seen so far was this: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5829/...0a3a9ef9_o.png which I'd found here ...on a site in which they say the image is from 1995; I reckon one of these Zschorlauern just have their memory off by a few years, as the demo permit is pulled in '88 and the Gas Tower was undergoing construction soon after. (That neon sign with the cross was added in 1959, btw.) https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5699/...7d766329_z.jpg Here's the original plan for the church, from February 1910, https://farm1.staticflickr.com/708/2...dc8d8587_c.jpg (Walker & Vawter) but after the Auditorium Hotel was built, https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2106/...d84dacb3_o.gif "the designs first prepared...have been altered with the view to making the architecture of a sturdier type to harmonize with the new Auditorium Hotel building a the northwest corner of Fifth and Olive and with the Clara Barton Hospital, immediately adjoining the church site on the north." (LAT June 12, 1910) They lay the cornerstone in August. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3183/...8c8c0431_o.gif Of course it had two taller towers https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3235/...d32ef8c49a.jpg but they were removed after Sylmar. Someone out there's got a first-rate image of the pre-Sylmar (and pre-1950 removal of the gable ends) 449 Olive German ME. I'm going to have to start knocking on some Methodist church doors around town. In the meantime I've got a fat bid in on that eBay slide! |
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"View of the Pacific Telephone Mobile Emergency Service trailer switchboard, which is parked at 433 S. Olive. The mobile switchboard unit can move right into any disaster area and save hours of communication failure time. Photograph dated October 7, 1958. In the upper left is the First German Methodist Church, later demolished." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original LAPL Here's a slightly better view of the taller towers from 1928. "Olive Street between 4th and 5th Streets in 1928, looking south toward Pershing Square and the Biltmore Hotel. Cars are seen, and a Savoy Auto Park is at right. Also at right is a small German-speaking church, the First German Methodist Episcopal Church (later United Methodist), founded in 1876." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original LAPL The church and San Carlos Hotel were gone by 1989. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original California State Library |
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My father was the daytime parking lot attendant at 447 S. Olive ca. 1954-61. During summer vacations, he'd occasionally give my mom a break by taking me to work with him, so to some degree I grew up on that block. Some of the fondest memories of my childhood involve breakfast at Googie's (short stack, glass of milk), playing handball off the building at the back of the lot, wandering through downtown and especially watching my dad and his evening relief dig cars out of the back spaces with stunt driver skills for early-departing commuters. As the lot was near the Philharmonic Auditorium, he took care of a variety of celebs from the era - though they didn't always take care of him. I could name a few names, but they're all gone now and no point taking shots. Thanks so much for those photos, even though the church isn't my personal focus. |
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