After a quick Google, redfin.com, zillow.com and trulia.com all agree on a build date of 1907 for 1807 S Bonnie Brae, i.e. a year after the known date for the blacksmith.
I'm always amazed when I come across an eye-catching building that I've never noticed before.
Take this building for example:
It's located on the northeast corner of E. 8th Street and Kohler Street.
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The exact address is 1205 E. 8th Street, Los Angeles....but I still couldn't find a build date.
I tried searching with 1201 East 8th Street (which I think is the same building), and got a build date of 1928 from realtytrac.com and propertyshark.com.
I see that the building was painted rather differently in 2009.
In case anyone is wondering about the location of Apablasa/Apablaza Street, it was one of the streets lost when Union Station was built. It can be seen here on the 1921 Baist map. Alameda is the street across the top.
A friendly reminder? (A time when vehicular traffic was not expected to stop for cross-walked pedestrians?)
West Hollywood just had signs installed in the middle of the road near it's crosswalks like this becasue of several pedestrians being hit in the corsswalks the past year.
Sorry to repost this query from a couple days ago, but does anyone at least remember reading the post on this forum? Or who might have written it? I'm beginning to wonder if it was here that I read it, though I am pretty sure it was. As you might've guessed, I still haven't located it.
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
Someone posted an anecdote about being a young lad who delivered the newspaper to the Hollywood Canteen and wrote about coming to collect the weekly or monthly bill for it. I have spent a long time looking for that anecdote again and am having no luck. Does anyone remember it?
I've searched Hollywood Canteen, canteen, Cahuenga, Cole, newspaper, delivery, collection, anecdote, and a few other words to no avail. Anyone have any suggestions?
-we always think of the 'good-ol-days', but look at all that litter at lower left.
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Interesting pic ethereal_reality. Great sleuthing on the location, old_stuff! If you look closely, you can see that even the original telephone poles have survived. On the GSV, you can clearly see the same slight tilt to the left and center poles. I wonder how long telephone poles usually last? And what is that at the upper left of the photo? The corner of a billboard, perhaps?
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Interesting pic ethereal_reality. Great sleuthing on the location, old_stuff! If you look closely, you can see that even the original telephone poles have survived. On the GSV, you can clearly see the same slight tilt to the left and center poles. I wonder how long telephone poles usually last? And what is that at the upper left of the photo? The corner of a billboard, perhaps?
The service life of a wood utility pole in Los Angeles is quite long. Forty to eighty years is common.
Many factors feed into the pole life: Street widening, change of service, car impacts, the need and the winner is of course decay.
Old reliable Douglas Fir poles. A wide angle view of Van Nuys Boulevard looking north in 1926.
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CityBoyDoug, You forgot Woodpeckers. I have 8 to 10 of them working everyday on one in my backyard. This is the second pole there that I know of.
I wouldn't thought that semi-arid LA would be home to woodpeckers but there are several species of the darlings here in LA. Does this mean that we're doomed.? I suppose someone brought them here as tourists and they decided to stay.
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