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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Lorendoc, is the flag on the right on Wulff's Peak? -it clearly shows the 'looped' road mentioned earlier.
ebay
-admittedly, I am a bit slow to comprehend the Lookout Mountain area.
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You and me both.
That postcard is the one I concluded was an unreliable collage, with the bottom half based on photos looking NW from Lookout Mountain to the Lookout Mountain Inn along Appian Way and upper Sunset Plaza. The upper half of the collage is a reverse view from the Inn towards Cyprean Ridge on the left, and Lookout Mountain (with flag) on the right.
Here is another (more realistic) postcard which looks from the Inn SE towards the Bandstand on Lookout Mountain:
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/...b/HA-031-3.jpg
The loop on Lookout Mountain is circled in red. If you look closely at the summit, you will see the Bandstand.
The Laurel Canyon Association web site has a close-in view of the latter:
http://laurelcanyonassoc.com/Canyon1900.html
So
both Wulff's Peak and Lookout Mountain had loops around their summits. These can be seen on the newspaper illustration
e_r found, I've circled both loops. On the left, you can barely see a caption "Lookout Mountain." And the Inn is not present in this 1909 image, so we can conclude that it was built shortly thereafter.
And finally here is a picture of the area that is new to me. From the "Los Angeles in the 1900s" blog:
http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/09.02.html
This is taken from the slope just below the Inn, looking SE towards Lookout Mountain and its loop. (No flagpole yet, but there are other photos which show one I'll try to post another time.) It clearly shows proto-Appian Way, with Lookout Mountain Avenue descending into the lower left corner of the picture, and Cyprean Drive coming off Appian at the middle-left edge.
But what interests me most about this one is that it clearly shows the site of my present house on the saddle just below Lookout Mountain on Appian Way about 45 years before it was built. Very cool
