ScottyB likes tricycles.....me too. Yep, that's me on my fav tricycle.. a Velo-King, made in England in the 1930s.

The location is our rented house on Violeta Dr., Alhambra. The rent was $100 a month furnished which my mom thought was overpriced. [Minimum wage was 43 cents an hr then] We lived there for a year while our new house was being built in San Gabriel...about 3 miles away.
That's my stepdad's 1946 Buick in the garage, so this must have been a weekend.

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Same house today in 2017.
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The building at 1709 W 8th Street, which is now the Crescent Arms, spent some of its early life as the Halliburton Building, due to Halliburton Oil being a major tenant. I haven't tracked down any decent pictures of it during that time, but I believe the roof sign just says "HALLIBURTON BLDG".

BTW. The building on the corner of Wilshire and Burlington from the original post was the subject of a mystery location back in 2014:

Here are the follow-up posts:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24252 - Lorendoc

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24254 - HossC

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24258 - HossC

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=24259 - Lorendoc

Although Carpenter's Drive-In was on the northwest corner of Wilshire and Western at some point (as seen in the undated picture below), in 1931, when the photo above was taken, Carpenter's was at 667 S Western Avenue, which is on the southwest corner of Wilshire and Western. It would've been where Melody Lane is below. My original post on Carpenter's, which includes menus, other locations and close-ups, can be found here.

[QUOTE=CityBoyDoug;7713985]ScottyB likes tricycles.....me too. Yep, that's me on my fav tricycle.. a Velo-King, made in England in the 1930s.

The location is our rented house on Violeta Dr., Alhambra. The rent was $100 a month furnished which my mom thought was overpriced. [Minimum wage was 43 cents an hr then] We lived there for a year while our new house was being built in San Gabriel...about 3 miles away.
That's my stepdad's 1946 Buick in the garage, so this must have been a weekend.

I see that you are both wearing sweaters, or jackets. In my family we had a saying "put on a sweater, your mother is cold" which may have been the case here?

My stepdad always had Buicks too.

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A friend took me to lunch at that (new location) Cassell's last September...very good!








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I'm kinda surpised that street lamp (with the wordy sign on it) is still there!

No specific knowledge. Her Feb 18, 2016-post may provide a clue: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=33723:shrug:

Yes, the new Cassell's is good but the burgers and food are completely different recipes from the original. I used to go to the original about once a week for its grubby Old Los Angeles charm but it was clearly dying a slow death. Frankly, I'm not sure why the new place is using the name since older customers are likely to be disappointed, even though, on some level, the new food is better!

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as seen from Wilshire & Burlington
:previous: Hoss, thanks for solving this mini-mystery.

I stared at that damn roof-top sign for quite awhile last night trying to figure it out.

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:previous: Thanks for the MacMillan follow-ups BifrayRock.
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'mystery' location.


"Original Negative, 1937 Los Angeles"

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I thought it might be fun to try and figure out where the photographer was standing when he took this pic.
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It's been a while since we've had a Julius Shulman photoset from Palos Verdes. This is "Job 4723: Kamnitzer and Marks, Villa de Vento (Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif.), 1971". It's a mixed set of black & white and color images - I'm posting about half of them.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

I don't even know what to call this style of architecture.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

This is the only interior shot, although one of the omitted images was taken from the inside looking out over the balcony.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

Here's the entrance in color.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

A close-up of the image above showing the name and street number.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

The last photo shows some of the courtyard in the center.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

Googling "Villa de Vento" proved fruitless, so I tried combinations involving the street number. In the end, I found that the building is now known as the Knollbrook Falls Apartments at 5711 Ravenspur Drive, Rancho Palos Verdes. The apartments have hardly changed, except for the additional of lots of surrounding trees, so I've gone for an aerial "now" view.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
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'mystery' location #2 (for this afternoon)

"4 x 5 Black & White Negative, Los Angeles Street, Vintage Cars 1957"

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This is probably the best clue.

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Good Luck sleuthmeisters! :)
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NCD did have a point-- over the years there have been several sites I follow the "operators" of which sometimes, if not often, seem to lift items directly from NLA and from some of my own sites, without, as NCD says, attribution. When I noticed it, I'd chime in with a link to the "original" as a subtle way of indicating that the use has not gone unnoticed. I more or less agree with CBD--

This is the 3000/3100 west-side block of Figueroa, but from "behind." The big house on the corner is 3131 S Fig; we are on W 32nd St in this view looking east. The house was the home of BSD insurance man Otto F. Brant, whose granddaughter Marilyn (b 1931) would marry Otis Chandler.

One reason the house and its carriage barn--the bldg at left--are dilapidated is because they're about to be torn down. At least two of the cars seen are newish--the two right behind the phone pole at left, a Pontiac ('55 or '56) and a '55 Dodge. A demolition permit was issued for the house on May 4, 1956....

Good old "Flying A." They sponsored sportscasts and the announcers at college and Pacific Coast League baseball games. Every time I hear the National Anthem my mind tacks "Play ball...with *Associated*" on the end :-)

Cheers,

Earl

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