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[Alkapone]

Originally Posted by riichkay

Alkapone, let's go back to the original image.....





You are correct with the 7th and Broadway i.d., and the building on the left is Bullock's (at 639-57 S Broadway), as you have noted....here's a 1920's photo from Calisphere.....





Let's zoom....





We see the north end of Bullock's and the Kress store (although the address I had for Kress, 644-46 S Broadway, can't be correct as we are on the odd number side of the street)....and there's the Grauman's sign...


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So I think the only mystery remaining is to what building was the Graumans sign affixed?....I can't find any indication that Sid Grauman was involved in any theatre in the 600 block of S Broadway. 

Annex building for Broadway entry to his Metrpolitan Theater that was on the 6th & Hill side. All sold with his other downtown theaters in 1923 and then renamed Paramount after a few years: https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/814/

Parmount demolished but Annex structure survived it.

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A rainy day outside of 20th Century Fox studios.

If I've posted this photo before act like I haven't. ; -)



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What do you think this 'SILO' -type doohickey is for?




I've stared at it for quite some time and can't figure it out......



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Hollywood Blvd. looking east toward Vine Street. (pardon the mold)


Currently on eBay




I want to say this is SARDI'S but I think it was on the opposite side of the street.



Does anyone recognize this venue? ..(I can't make out the writing)




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Have we seen this snapshot?



It's also currently on eBay


Where dis?....
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Is anyone familiar with Riverside?


Photo: Riverside California 1930s Main Street Palm Trees Cars



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[Alkapone]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Hollywood Blvd. looking east toward Vine Street. (pardon the mold)


Currently on eBay




I want to say this is SARDI'S but I think it was on the opposite side of the street.



Does anyone recognize this venue? ..(I can't make out the writing)




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A part of Squires west of Admiral Theater and Sardis. Look at 1945 images and then the 1948 one to see the letters: https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2017/02/vine-theatre.html

The roof sign on the Sardis front was the Zardis/Chi Chi sign after Sardis era. You’ll spot it too in the postwar images.

[Alkapone]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Is anyone familiar with Riverside?


Photo: Riverside California 1930s Main Street Palm Trees Cars



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Let’s borrow a map from this 1925 Rider’s listing from Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/527295167/1925-riverside-california-antique-map

I’m not immediately convinced that this is Riverside California. The downtown area surrounding Main had a lot of Raincross lighting fixtures, none of which are seen here. It was a north-south alignment that paralleled Market where the PE tracks had replaced the Southern Pacific’s original alignment. The station, until services were terminated in 1940, did have a kind of parklike reserve with some palms on the north end, but already much taller than these. The only place where an odd looking convergence of roads would have existed was on the south end where Main turned to Market and was stubbed off, so 14th Street on the map. If this is it, we’s have to be viewing westward toward the Santa Ana River basin. But I don’t clearly see any signs of rail lines to give it away. Of course the PE down to Corona might already be terminated by this time. And Riverside itself underwent some drastic alterations in the freeway arrivals. Some of the old town remained into the ‘70’s along with the mid-century developments, but in the ‘80’s it began to see very rapid additional changes. It’s probably as un-recognizable as Glendale by now.

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Two able-bodied men posing for a snapshot at the Westport Beach Club in Playa del Rey.



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A closer look of the signage.


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Westport Beach Club.



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Architect Stephen Goosson designed the Spanish Colonial Revival style 1925 Westport Beach Club located at 7301 Vista Del Mar in Playa del Rey.
Surrounding the club a small exclusive residential district was built comprised of 45 beachfront properties.


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Goosson was also a set designer.


He designed the set of Shangri-La for the motion picture, Lost Horizon. [1937]


This one.


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[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Have we seen this snapshot?



It's also currently on eBay

Where dis?....

Yes, we saw it last November. From my reply:

From hollywoodphotographs.com:

Columbia Drug Co. occupied a prime commercial location in the heart of Hollywood’s studio district. Located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street, the one story pharmacy was adjacent to Columbia Pictures and across the street from CBS' Columbia Square radio and television facility.

There are nine photos at the link.

[Alkapone]

Originally Posted by Alkapone

Let’s borrow a map from this 1925 Rider’s listing from Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/527295167/1925-riverside-california-antique-map

I’m not immediately convinced that this is Riverside California. The downtown area surrounding Main had a lot of Raincross lighting fixtures, none of which are seen here. It was a north-south alignment that paralleled Market where the PE tracks had replaced the Southern Pacific’s original alignment. The station, until services were terminated in 1940, did have a kind of parklike reserve with some palms on the north end, but already much taller than these. The only place where an odd looking convergence of roads would have existed was on the south end where Main turned to Market and was stubbed off, so 14th Street on the map. If this is it, we’s have to be viewing westward toward the Santa Ana River basin. But I don’t clearly see any signs of rail lines to give it away. Of course the PE down to Corona might already be terminated by this time. And Riverside itself underwent some drastic alterations in the freeway arrivals. Some of the old town remained into the ‘70’s along with the mid-century developments, but in the ‘80’s it began to see very rapid additional changes. It’s probably as un-recognizable as Glendale by now.

If we actually turned on the map to look eastward along 14th, this possibly lines up with where Main Street made a crossing for its’ last stretch. That would put Market behind the camera with Riverside Community Hospital just behind the photograper’s location. I believe there once was a building where Fordyce Motorcycles began, maybe on the left corner, but they moved and I’m not sure if the building in the image would be the same.That antique store called “The Nook” seems to be the primary clue here if it can be located in any listings. The seller indicates these are Library of Congress (LOC) sourced views and maybe they hold more info. on them? I’d almost swear I’m seeing a wig wag signal down the street ahead and off to the right, but it’s just not clear enough to be certain. And Main would be a bit west of where most of the industrial rail lines existed for the fruit packing houses, but exension lines were pretty common back then.

[Alkapone]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Is anyone familiar with Riverside?


Photo: Riverside California 1930s Main Street Palm Trees Cars



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Unfortunately, without a lot of photographic material to work with, we have to turn to a 1960’s postcard aerial looking northward from just below 14th Street which can be found here: https://www.hippostcard.com/listing/aeri...-c1960s-chrome-vintage-postcard/31136170

That postcard of central historic Riverside…



sourced from hippostcard.com site.

The odd confluence of roadways may have been altered somewhat, lower left corner, but the curvature that one allowed PE era streetcar service to connect from Main Street over to the Market-Magnolia alignment was still largely where it had been decades before. Riverside City College was located down where Main had jumped 14th. For the NW corner, there appears to be a building with a driveway (or auto access) on 14th which is too blurred but maybe matches the one in the image where The Nook was. On the opposite corner there seems to be a gas station or service building, and like the older image, no larger structure was there. Nothing conclusive, but still a possible.

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The general story of the Magnolia Avenue extension to 14th with maps is found here: https://www.raincrossgazette.com/new-magnolia-avenue/

In 1940, the De Anza monument was built at the 14th & Market triangle. Skip Fordyce reportedly opened his original dealershio in 1941 located between that monument and the Press-Enterprise building, at 3698 14th. The building is no longer extant, supposedly with a Bank of America presently on the site.

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The area along 14th between Main & Orange would hold the pseudo colonial styled offices of the First American Title Insurance from 1961, building extant as partially visible in RE photos of the closed (1977-) BofA, as noted here (photos lost): https://raincrosssquare.com/2009/01/county-looking-to-acquire-downtown-buildings/

In short, the area would be entirely unrecognizable from the 1930’s look.

[riichkay]

Facebook user Dale Sizer posted this photo of mom and dad on their honeymoon in 1948.

The injured sign can be taken as an inadvertent homage to Oliver Hardy.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by riichkay

The injured sign can be taken as an inadvertent homage to Oliver Hardy.

Twinned with Stanton?

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A mystery location.





....(the general area is ok)

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The Ambassador Hotel - June, 1945.



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I keep coming across this snapshot / so I'm finally going to post it.








I don't know Reseda very well. Does it have a large park?
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