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When my daughter was tiny (2 or 3) she said she used to think the waiting room chairs we "as big as apartments". LOL, kids. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-v...717%2520PM.jpg paladino Our many trips to see cousins in San Diego County all started off with getting to the station early so the kids could play and explore to their hearts' content (and get a Union Bagel) before boarding. Coming home was just heavenly. Most of my trips to Union Station when I was a kid were to pick-up out-of-town house guests. As our house was right on the beach, we got plenty of those. Nice color view of the outdoor waiting room fountain. Do you remember when it was planted with scruffy looking plants 15 or 20 years ago? I'm so grateful they got it working again. Makes a big difference. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...314%2520PM.jpg big orange landmarks Quote:
usc digital( detail). Cool, you caught them widening Wilshire. Up one side and down the other. Here this section finished in 1928. The unsightly telephone poles are gone. The Wilshire Specials have sprung fully-growed outta the ground, but, Yikes!, no lane lines yet: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-S...048%2520PM.jpg hollywoodphotographs.com Quote:
When not jousting with straw men ("she wouldn't have considered herself a victim"...an argument I didn't make), Bixby Smith continues to be trivialized as "Sarah" (men are referred to by their last names, but Bixby Smith is forever just "Sarah"), not much more than a bed mate: "his latest lover [Sarah]", "Sarah (sic) marital exploits", "his new lover, Sarah" or a buffoon, "the plumpish Sarah, dancing Nijinsky-like". "Do tell, Sarah". BTW, "as soon as his latest lover [Sarah] could obtain a divorce, the couple married", rather finesses the situation. Bixbey Smith had her divorce, she was waiting for the final decree when she met her second husband in Berkeley (a weird legal lull that's been mercifully shortened these days). Is that the only point all this giggling prurience has been about? A bit slim and far from your usual standard. Man, if that's "LA's dark side" we haven't got one. Kevin Starr cannot provide you with the wished-for photo, he wasn't there to take one. I'd take him with a big grain of salt anyway as he refers to Bixby Smith as "apolitical". She was very proud of being the granddaughter of Reverend George Hathaway, abolitionist, firm friend of suffragist Lucy Stone and a "conductor" on the Undeground Railway back in Skohegan Maine. As an active member of her Progressive political circle Bixby Smith seems to have born with good grace the harassment by the authorities, including the Feds (plenty of noir there if you care to look). Anyway, you haven't provided us with anything yet that would cause Bixby Smith to be remembered as even a minor poster child for sexual profligacy, rather than (or even in addition to) her actual and considerable accomplishments (no offense to anyone here, but I doubt we'll still be widely read 75 years after our deaths) or your reasons for trying to. There seems to be something about Bixby Smith that really pushes your buttons. What's going on? Is it Bixby Smith's politics? Echos of Charles Mills Gayley's famously-deplored priggishness? And LOL, you're more than welcome to call me "hysterical" GW, but until I exhibit some hysteria it won't mean much. But do it anyway, if you like, just please don't call me pigeon pie and eat me up (as my gran used to say). You've already labeled me a pendant, a buzzkill, ridiculous, a hagiographer and patronizing. Since you've been so generous, you lovable old codger, maybe I'll toss them all in a hat and pick a new username. A note on the Bixby money: Bixby Smith was an heir to the Bixby fortune, but it seems a very minor part of it. She was the daughter of Llwellyn Bixby (not George, as one of your sources states). I seem to remember it was the Long Beach Bixbys who ended up with the the big bucks. The Llwellyn Bixby house at Court and Hill is indicative of their place in the scheme of things. Bixby Smith seems to have had enough to maintain her childhood middle to upper-middle-class lifestyle without too much worry. Her houses in Claremont and Los Feliz, while certainly comfortable homes, do not qualify as "mansions" by any definition used in LA then or now, no matter how Starr cares to spin it. |
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Liberty, George Stevens, 1929 Still from Liberty, a Hal Roach/Laurel&Hardy short (20 mins) from 1929 shot by George Stevens (Shane, Giant) and directed by Leo McCarey (Going My Way, Duck Soup). Here are the boys high above Culver City(?) in a deft piece of staging on a mock-up built atop an existing structure. (I don't believe this is Culver City. It may be the confluence of Main Street, Broadway and Broadway Place. The angle of the sun tells us we're looking south) Is that the 10-story Railway Building over there with the Studebaker sign on it? You know, where Frank Clarke would have flown his Curtiss Jenny about ten years ago. That would be 11th and Broadway, so that would confirm this being Broadway, Broadway Place and Main Street, right? Okay, look over there at Main Street. Where's the pedestrian island and, more to the point, where's our ornate entrance to the subterranean comfort station? Had they simply not been installed yet by 1929? Thoughts? www.leinwand-lyrik.de/LHP/Presse_Fotos.html |
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Not that I know much about downtown LA, but this is 9th looking toward 10th and Broadway. "We Sell Homes Pay Like Rent." Examiner Bldg to the right. Seems fair to conclude that the comfort station was not long-lived. However, in your photo, there does appear to be a comfort-like shadow to the right of Mr. Laurel's leg . . . . . There does not appear to be even a shadow in the '35 image below. Regarding what remnants might still exist, would expect that labor being relatively inexpensive, much of it would have been scavenged for any value prior to entombment. That does not mean surprises do not exist, since that is why they are called surprises. Circa 1935 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics08/00013692.jpgLapl |
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It's one thing to find an interesting detail/close-up and post it with the entire photograph. It's another to post an endless line of seamless chopped up photos. They're unbearable to look at. __ |
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I thought maybe it was Fox's "Kiddies" Theater--turns out "Fox Kiddies" was a division of...Fox. The theater was actually Miller's, which had several name changes before being bought by Fox in the mid-'20s. Mr. Miller also owned the California Theatre up the block, variously known as Miller's California and Miller's New Theatre--pretty confusing. BRR recently did a big post on it here. For more on the theatres Miller, and for even more pics of Ninth & Main from various sources, see Historic Los Angeles Theatres' pages on the Miller here and on the California here. |
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Has this image somehow been overlooked on this thread? (I've looked, maybe just not enough. ) 1938 http://jpg1.lapl.org/00101/00101387.jpgLapl |
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Not to be a spoil sport, on my screen the enlarged images are together, i.e., not disjointed puzzles. (I can achieve puzzle status by zooming in or out of a page.) I had hoped most could view them as complete images. Inserting a space between each part makes them distorted on my end, and if no one else can appreciate them, I guess I will avoid the USC site or try another hosting system. My equipment is not particularly new, and I noted before that I have viewed the enlarged images successfully on other systems that are not mine. Could it be that others are filtering things or using much older monitors? Seems doubtful. Those that can see the images, it might be helpful if you chimed in. Comparing some of these enlarged higher-resolution posts to their lower resolution siblings is analogous to Oz versus Kansas. I had been hoping that most could view rather than avoid them. |
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Looks like another view of the Comfort Station.:) http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics09/00014338.jpgLapl |
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That seems to work in reverse from stitched images on the Noirish site. I tried what you are suggesting from the SC site and found it hit or miss, hence the musing for a grid from which one could assemble or reassemble an image. Once getting it right, it failed to translate as a whole image when moving to a host site. Again, it seems like a few folks are getting it. Will revisit this later when I have more time. Sorry for the confusion and thanks. |
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compare to this... http://imageshack.us/a/img441/5323/aaberspringmain.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2276 This is from my post in 2010...before the nightmare began at usc digital archives. In the earlier post, I had said "I hope to God that girl isn't strangling a puppy." lol -I don't remember writing that at all! __ This view is looking north where Spring and Main converge (just above 9th Street) |
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color slide/ebay-possibly a Cushman As most of you probably know, the United Artists building is being renovated into an Ace Hotel. below: a work in progress. Kingofthehill http://imageshack.us/a/img856/6916/a...ngofthehil.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6581 Kingofthehill http://imageshack.us/a/img822/6916/a...ngofthehil.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6581 |
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