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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hBuilding2.jpg Google Maps The church is St. Anthony's Croatian Catholic Church at 712 N Grand Avenue. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...nysChurch1.jpg GSV |
:previous: Here's the same church in the January 1911 The American Globe:
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I believe that's the sign for the Dorothy Mae Apartments (Google Map puts 821 Sunset at the corner of North Figueroa): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...psah3riqcr.jpg March 27, 1927, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL The Dorothy Mae burned down in an arson fire on September 4, 1982, and 24 people died. In the upper right corner of the close-up . . . is that an older, now-demolished version of the Castelar Street School? Thanks for that interesting photo, e_r! |
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"Old Castelar School building, 850 Yale Street, 1973 (now demolished)." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...larSchool1.jpg LAPL |
I've been looking for the location of this Spruce Goose photo for days. After checking the maps/aerial images once again, I realized that the parked cars in the foreground were on the wrong side of the street, so the photo must be mirrored. It's correct below.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...GooseSFAv1.jpg mashable.com/Bettmann/Corbis Now searching on the opposite side of the street, I found the location several blocks north of the Coca-Cola plant identified by August-Marathon recently. We're facing east at the intersection of Santa Fe Avenue and N La Vere Drive. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...GooseSFAv2.jpg Google Maps |
Here's another picture of parts of the Spruce Goose in transit. One source names the location as Hermosa Beach, but it's actually a little south of there in Redondo Beach.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ceGooseRB1.jpg mashable.com/Underwood Archives/Getty Images This 1947 aerial shows the intersection of the PCH and Diamond Street, with Redondo Union High School just to the right of center. I think that Kendall Chevrolet is visible in the top left corner of the photo above. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ceGooseRB2.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu Most of the buildings are long gone, so here's an earlier view. The building on the right is the one on the right of the Spruce Goose photo. "Photograph of an exterior view of the Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, ca.1925." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ceGooseRB3.jpg grabilla.com This would seem to be a fair way west of the route that I thought the Spruce Goose took. |
:previous: This is some amazing sleuth work, HossC, and my hat is off to you! I was puzzled about the locations of both photos. The wings must have traveled a different course than the body, down Sepulveda/Pacific Coast Highway from Lincoln all the way south and east to Wilmington. A very logical route, now that I think about it.
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Was browsing through home for sale in the Inglewood area and while being nosy on Google maps came across an over grown area and after some snooping found an over grown estate that unfortunately has recently been demolished. 355 La Colina Dr Inglewood, CA 90302 https://www.openlistings.com/p/355-l...ewood-ca-90302 "Excellent rehab opportunity or development site. This may be the largest house in Inglewood at almost 5,000 sq. Ft. Built in 1922 by Frank Parent, this house has high ceilings, a majestic foot print, in need of a total rehab or a fresh start. Includes lot next door and behind the main property. The lot goes from E. Beach through to La Colina Drive. Motivated Seller. Features - Built 1922- Building style: art deco- Fireplace" More on Frank D. Parent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_D._Parent Shame it was destroyed and wondering if anyone on here could dig up some more information on the property and pictures. -Victor in LA |
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I haven't found anything about the past of 355 La Colina Drive (I didn't really look), but its future seems to be as a green open space near to the new Inglewood Metro Station. The house was demolished between October 2014 and April 2015, which was shortly after the businesses along the north side of Florence Avenue (just across La Colina Drive) were razed. There's more about the new station on la.curbed.com. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...aColinaDr1.jpg inglewood.arroyogroup.com (PDF file) |
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Yes, amazing indeed! (Thanks for IDing the school, too, Hoss.) The Spruce Goose's wings were moved first, then the hull. Wednesday, June 12, 1946, Los Angeles Times: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pskazq2mgs.jpg ProQuest via LAPL Thursday, June 13, 1946, Los Angeles Times: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...pssgd2fvyt.jpg ProQuest via LAPL Neither of these articles mentions the specifics of either route or the reason for the different routes. |
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1974 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/q8TNDn.jpg LAPL CENTER: HEALTH SERVICES BLDG. beneath arrow. Here are two more 1970 slides on ebay. (no doubt from the same photographer) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/VS8Qsn.jpg ebay I believe this is proof positive that Hoss is correct. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/4BZhfi.jpg ebay foreground: Ahmanson Theater left.....Mark Taper Forum right. _ |
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Dorothy Mae Fire
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from a 1988 article: LATIMES https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/mH97EJ.jpg "Near Sunset Boulevard and Figueroa Street, just north of downtown Los Angeles, there is a flurry of construction work taking place these days. More than 400 apartments are being built to meet the growing demand for housing in the area. But in the midst of the hammering and sawing, a piece of vacant land at 821 W. Sunset Blvd. remains untouched--dwarfed by the activity around it. Upon it once sat a 43-unit apartment building, which became the scene of one of the deadliest residential fires in city history. The Dorothy Mae Apartment Hotel was swept by flames early in the morning of Sept. 4, 1982. Nineteen people, including an unborn baby and its mother, perished as the fire roared through the 50-year-old, three-story structure. Thirty-six other people were injured, and, within 10 days, six of them had died. Only the 1973 Stratford Apartments fire, in which 25 people were killed and 52 were injured, was as deadly, Los Angeles fire officials said. The building was informally known as "Little Salitre" because virtually all its nearly 200 residents came from the rural town of El Salitre in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Many fire victims were related to one another. Authorities said the inferno was a case of arson--the result of an argument between the manager and a nephew, who lived in the building, over the latter's membership in a street gang, his smoking of marijuana and spray painting of graffiti. Upset, the nephew, Humberto de la Torre, then 19, brought a dollar's worth of gasoline, threw it on the floor of an apartment and then ignited it with a match, investigators said. The flames spread quickly, engulfing the building. The uncle, Mateode la Torre, was unhurt in the blaze. Humberto de la Torre was arrested the following December in Texas, pleaded guilty to 25 counts of murder and in 1985 was sentenced to 625 years in prison. He is now serving his sentence at Folsom Prison. The fire rendered even the land itself practically useless for a while, its owners, a group of businessmen holding it for investment, said. "It was as if the devil himself lived there," said attorney Hiran Kwan, a member of HLL Management Co. that owned the Dorothy Mae, expecting the land's proximity to the city's growing Chinatown would make it an increasingly valuable site. Kwan said his group found little interest in its plans to build a new apartment house or hotel on the lot. He blamed adverse publicity stemming from the fire and false rumors that owners were going to be prosecuted because fire officials had found unsafe conditions that might have contributed to the toll. (Fire Department records showed the building had generally been kept up to city fire code standards and had been cited in the past for only minor violations.) Kwan's group, which is a major player in the current round of construction near Sunset and Figueroa, sold the Dorothy Mae land in 1984 for $500,000 to another group of businessmen, headed by Chinatown banker Kenneth Wong. Wong said his group, U.P. Investment Inc., wants to use the Dorothy Mae site as part of a major hotel and a shopping center development along Sunset. The group is trying to put together financing for the $19-million project, said Wong, board chairman of United Pacific Bank." http://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-..._1_dorothy-mae |
Re: Los Angeles Music Center (above)
If you didn't know, the Music Center plaza is under reconstruction for the first time since it opened. The 40 million dollar project has been underway for just over a year and is scheduled to open in August. Rendering: CLICK ON THE PHOTO BELOW TO SEE A VERSION OF THE RENDERING AT NIGHT. https://www.latimes.com/resizer/wDvU...WEHEIILO5A.jpgL.A. Times Rendering of the new planned entrance for the Music Center plaza. Gentler steps and new escalators lead to an open space (which can be used for an outdoor performing area) with a new restaurant, bar and coffee house, plus permanent restrooms. The Music Center's website (HERE) about the renovation says it will be "a warm, welcoming public space that offers an open invitation to all and a front door, now even wider, to The Music Center." I don't know...the space in the rendering doesn't look warm to me, it looks hot...and a bit harsh. I couldn't find the NLA post where I saw the photo below at first, but I found it on LAPL again. Does the new rendering of the plaza area really look much different than in this photo from 1965, a year after it opened? 7,000 people lined up to buy tickets for Hello, Dolly, which happens to be playing at the Pantages Theatre right now. http://historiccore.bid/wp-content/u...r_Pavilion.jpgLAPL |
per: our very recent discussion about the Health Services Building. (which Hoss pinpointed as the epicenter of the 1970 slides)
Does anyone remember the fire in 1992? (I didn't) looking NORTH https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/20HWU1.jpg LAFD note: The fire appears to have been located in the northeast corner of the building. If that's the case, why is there a small burnt area on the south facing wall? hmmm....I wonder what that's all about :shrug: _ |
And here's yet another slide taken from the roof of the Health Services Bldg. in 1970.
looking NORTH https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3psJgx.jpg EBAY That lighter area, in the distance, looks like a freshly harvested field of hay. (from my midwest perspective :farmer: I spy a Union 76 gas station. __ |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/IW3JcX.jpg ebay / SLIDE 1970 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/vn1jfA.jpg EBAY cough. cough...cough...cough. . |
Aerial view of Watts, looking northeast, showing a smog bank covering the city. 13 September 1956.
https://i.postimg.cc/V6kBq8nL/smog.jpg [source: LAPL] I wonder what years the smog was at its worst? The situation has definitely improved. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...HuntleyDr1.jpg LAT Demo permits indicate that the building was razed soon afterwards. Here's what it looked like from Huntley Drive... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...HuntleyDr2.jpg GSV ... and here's all that's left: http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...HuntleyDr3.jpg GSV |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...EmeraldSt1.jpg Detail of picture in USC Digital Library |
:previous: Oh, so what I 'saw' as a squarish turret on the roof was actually the cottages behind it....peeking above the roofline.
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