noirish Los Angeles v2.0

[ethereal_reality]

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A very cool Kodachrome slide from the 1950s.

Slide 1950's RK Los Angeles Street Cars Bus Railway Express



eBay / asking $129.25

Unless I'm mistaken the Railway Express Agency was located at Union Station.

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[ethereal_reality]

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Another nice looking slide.


Civic Center 1960s.


eBay


I'm surprised how the buildings in the distance look like they're down in a hole.


That said- I spy the old Hall of Records and the State of California Building, both long gone.

. . .but what is the tall tan building to the left of California building?..I can't place it.

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[ethereal_reality]

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I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea but . . .

here are the teams for The Battle of the Network Stars seasons 1976 through 1979..


1976

TV GUIDE




1977

TV GUIDE





1978

TV GUIDE






1979

TV GUIDE


I haven't been able to find the rosters from the 1980s. ..If anyone finds them feel free to post them.

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[ProphetM]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Another nice looking slide.


Civic Center 1960s.


eBay


I'm surprised how the buildings in the distance look like they're down in a hole.


That said- I spy the old Hall of Records and the State of California Building, both long gone.

. . .but what is the tall tan building to the left of California building?..I can't place it.

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That's the back side of the Law Building.

https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_City_Views%20(1900%20-%201925)_5_of_8.html#Law_Building

[Lwize]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I haven't been able to find the rosters from the 1980s.

IMDB has them.

I didn't remember that the battles continued into the 1980's and beyond.

Curiously, the 1988 Battle still only had the three major networks, to the exclusion of Fox.

[ethereal_reality]

Thanks, ProphetM and Lwize.

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[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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The Noirish Chronicles:




I attempted to see if Tyler Simpson was listed in the Los Angeles directories (to find out his apartment address) but there are a boat load of Simpsons.

I wonder if the culprit was ever caught-
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Dwight Tyler Simpson was born in New Hampshire and ended up living and dying on New Hampshire.

The death cert has 747 S.New Hampshire Ave. Los Angeles as his residence and place of death.


familysearch.org


747 had a stripy gray and white makeover about ten years ago. This street view comes just before that.


Google Street View

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I was about to say that the 'Baker Block' is on the left edge of the photograph but now I think the 'Baker Block' is in the distance.

The mystery building is the large two-toned brick building on the right. ..Does it look familiar to anyone?



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Great parade photo!

The left edge building is the 1887-1912 Phillips Block at the NWC of Spring and Franklin, seen from above and behind near the lower right
corner of the second image here.

The mystery building is the 1887-1906 Los Angeles National Bank building at the NEC of 1st and Spring. It's certainly impressive, but the
lot before it was built looks rather small:



00014200 @ LAPL


Here's the bank building c. 1890:



00047817@ LAPL


I think the 1887 bank looks pretty darn cool, but it was replaced by this in 1906:



SCWHR-P-002.3-004-071 @ Seaver Center

[Godzilla]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea but . . .


I haven't been able to find the rosters from the 1980s. ..If anyone finds them feel free to post them. .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Network_Stars

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Another nice looking slide.
Civic Center 1960s.


eBay


I'm surprised how the buildings in the distance look like they're down in a hole.
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The Plaza area of the Music Center is quite elevated and that's the view you get! When the redesigned plaza area was re-opened in 2019, the L.A. Times had this article:

L.A.’s Music Center was Built as an Aloof City on a Hill. Can a Remade Plaza Change That?
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-ar...-rios-clementi-hale-studios-urban-design

From the article:

[The Music Center rises] "a full story above Grand Avenue and the rest of the city, in a design that former Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff
once likened to “the deck of an aircraft carrier.”

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ProphetM

That's the back side of the Law Building.

https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_City_Views%20(1900%20-%201925)_5_of_8.html#Law_Building

None of the Water and Power images show my favorite quirk of the Law Building - the pedestrian bridge from the parking lot on Bunker Hill. I'm not sure when it was added - I couldn't see it on a 1941 aerial. Both of these images are dated "Circa 1953".


LAPL

Here's a view from First and Hill with the Hill Street tunnel on the left.


LAPL

[ethereal_reality]

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The Murder Vicitim.



..He was a good looking fella.

Originally Posted by Noir_Noir

Dwight Tyler Simpson was born in New Hampshire and ended up living and dying on New Hampshire.

The death cert has 747 S.New Hampshire Ave. Los Angeles as his residence and place of death.


familysearch.org


747 had a stripy gray and white makeover about ten years ago. This street view comes just before that.


Google Street View

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Thanks for locating the death certificate and the apartment house, Noir Noir.




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[ethereal_reality]

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mystery location


"Hamm's Beer Billboard Downtown Los Angeles, Construction+: 1950's 35mm Slide"


Currently on eBay





Note the mystery building under construction in the distance. It appears to be fairly tall & they're not finished with it yet.
--also notice the reddish building under construction on the right side of the photograph.


Here's a closer look.


Making me thirsty.

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[ethereal_reality]

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mystery location II and vantage point.


. .plus gas-o-meter.

eBay Elster's Billboard Downtown


Good Luck!
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[Alkapone]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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mystery location II and vantage point.


. .plus gas-o-meter.

eBay Elster's Billboard Downtown


Good Luck!
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Saint Vibiana is in photo #1, making that S. Main Street on the right:

https://waterandpower.org/Museum2/St_Vibianas_Cathedral.html

Camera must be swinging left (east) to reveal S. Los Angeles Street where it meets the angled road (originally San Pedro and renamed a few times) at the junction at E. First Street. I’d guess that’s a red & orange Southern Pacific PMT truck approaching the intersection by that hotel (?) which is about where the Salvation Army had some space on that road.

[odinthor]

e_r, could the building under construction be the building at the SE corner of Spring and 6th, at present that of the Thurman Lofts, but apparently built in 1960 (I don't know the original name)?


detail of previously-posted image

[Alkapone]

Camera location seems to be City Health Building (later City Hall South) at 111 E. 1st St. and constructed 1952-54. [Parker Center goes in next block east in 1953.]

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by HossC

Favorite quirk of the Law Building - the pedestrian bridge from the parking lot on Bunker Hill.


LAPL

Hoss, I had forgotten all about the walkway between the parking lot and the Law Building...It looks precarious!


hmm. . I vaguely remember that there was a 'bridge' or walkway between the old Hall of Records and the L.A. County Courthouse.


eBay

Am I correct or did I just dream it up?..I tried to find a photograph of it but I didn't have any lunch.

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[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by HossC

None of the Water and Power images show my favorite quirk of the Law Building - the pedestrian bridge from the parking lot on Bunker Hill. I'm not sure when it was added - I couldn't see it on a 1941 aerial. Both of these images are dated "Circa 1953".


LAPL

I also had forgotten about that bridge. The photos may have been taken because the bridge was new then:



Jul 5, 1953, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com


You had to be careful in that parking lot behind the Law Building:




Feb 12, 1954, Los Angeles Times @ Newspapers.com

[odinthor]

I found this interesting:


LA Times, 2/24/1909