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Here's a OOAK (one of a kind) snapshot of downtown Eagle Rock. (1920?)



Currently on eBay

I don't recall seeing the bandstand(?) and flagpole in the middle of the street*.

*The small town I grew up in also had a bandstand in the middle of the Main Street. (now IL RT. 49)
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[ethereal_reality]

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I just realized the same eBay seller also has this snapsnap listed on eBay.


Currently on eBay

If you look closely I think someone might be up there.

I didn't know Eagle Rock had their very own 'Hollywood' sign. (except it says Eagle Rock )...So where was this located?


We might have covered this before but I don't remember.
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[Mackerm]

Eaglerockhistory

The business center at Eagle Rock and Colorado Boulevards had continued to grow in 1927 with the construction of the three story Ritchy Hardware building on Caspar, and the post World War I addition of a trolley waiting area and flag pole in the center of the intersection, dubbed the "Merrie Go Round”. The concrete structure became a great obstacle to increased auto traffic and was removed in the mid-thirties perhaps embodying a shift of priorities from rail to automotive transit. (ERVHS)



Eaglerockhistory (Near the bottom of the page)

This detail from a panoramic view shot in February 1923 shows the Eagle Rock sign in the upper left. This item quoted from the Eagle Rock Sentinel in 1922 tells all we know about the sign. “About the last of October, the name of Eagle Rock can be seen as a pillar of fire by night near the summit-of Eagle Mountain, officially named by the Booster Club.” said an article of The Sentinel under date of September 28, 1922. “The short range of heights directly north of the city is a ridge of the Verdugo Hills. It’s now officially Eagle Mountain. The contract to construct Eagle Rock’s new advertising sign has been let by the Chamber of Commerce to the electric sign factory of Los Angeles. Funds to the amount of $800 was raised by public subscription to defray expenses of this illumination.” It was no longer there in the panorama shot in 1924. (unknown-ERVHS)


The intersection at the lower-right is Ellenwood Dr. and Colorado Blvd.


Eaglerockhistory

This closeup of the sign appeared on ebay

[ethereal_reality]

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I love the older gentleman standing in the 0...I wonder how difficult it was for him to reach the sign.
.Does anyone know if there was a road nearby? (I mean, the sign builders had to get the LETTERS up there somehow) . .and I don't think they used a helicopter.

It took me awhile to find the sign in the larger photograph.
If anyone else had the same problem here it is circled and cropped.

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Thanks again for your help, Mackerm. it's much appreciated.


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[ethereal_reality]

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While we're in the area and discussing hilltop signs. (and since I already had these photos uploaded on imageshack )



Last month when I happened upon this old photo-album on eBay I was surprised that I didn't remember (or never knew about) the rather tasteful Art Deco-esque 'Tower of Legands at Forest Lawn, Glendale.


Here's a closer look at the Tower of Legends taken in 1929.


eBay (I've enlarged the photo / I just noticed the car)

It turns out, the reason I don't remember it is because it was TORN DOWN in 1948 to make way for the less-than-tasteful Hall of The Crucifixion-Resurrection built in 1951
to house the two Gi-normous paintings on the life of Christ.

I just found this:.."The Tower of Legends was built in 1924 to disguise a water tower and was torn down on April 2, 1948."..SDSU


Wait there's more!

The album also included a couple of amazing snapshots taken from behind the Forest Lawn sign. (or one of the signs, anyway) I don't know how many signs Forest Lawn had back in 1929.










These photgraphs have never been seen before except by the family who owned them.

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[Mackerm]

LAPL

This was the only photo showing the big Forest Lawn Memorial Park signs I could quickly find on Calisphere. They pretty much flattened that whole hilltop.


Google Books The American City Magazine

UPDATE: I guess ER knew what he was talking about when he suggested the possibility of multiple Forest Lawn signs. This 1926 aerial shows two.

Then again, the Tower of Legends has been discussed here as early as 2012. Or is it Tower of Legions?

An even better shot of the two signs.

This sign is all on one line.

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[ethereal_reality]

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THE PALMYRA, January 1911, Los Angeles, Cal



Here's an interesting snapshot recently listed on eBay.


eBay


A somewhat closer look.



Does anyone know where the Palmyra was located?


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[HenryHuntington]

L.A. City Directory 1911 edition lists "Palmyra The (fur rms)" at 831 S. Flower St., e_r.

[Grandpa Dan]

I think I found a survivor in the Eagle Rock picture! 2199 Colorado Blvd
https://maps.app.goo.gl/wJVyW7kKTdBXAAvD7

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington

L.A. City Directory 1911 edition lists "Palmyra The (fur rms)" at 831 S. Flower St., e_r.

Thanks for that photo, e_r, and thanks for putting an address to that name, HH.

Here are photos and info on that building from a previous post.

[ethereal_reality]

Thanks so much HenryHuntington and Flyingwedge.



I happened upon this rare cabinet card last night on eBay.

Has anyone heard of the ROMA HOTEL?..We're talking the 1880s!



And the reverse:




Let's take a closer look at this astonishing photograph.


eBay now I can't find it again / perhaps it sold(?)

Ga-Zowie!







I found three listings -and two different addresses- in the LA directories.

I located this one first.


LAPL


Luckily this next entry had a more specific address.


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The hotel appears to have moved to a different location by 1887.


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I don't think it's possible (even for you wonderful sleuths) to figure out if the photograph is of the Alameda Street location or the N. Los Angeles Street location.



Never-the-less . . ..Try to figure it out, minions!


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