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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson
Here's the Sunset Boulevard shoo-fly.
Hollywood Freeway-Arroyo Seco Parkway Interchange construction, 1948
Great detailed image of the initial excavation for the four-level interchange. Figueroa/Flower crosses left to right lower, and Temple Street runs up away from the camera at the left.
Best late image of Court Circle I've seen. All houses appear intact. Court Street leading into the circle from Fremont and out of the circle to cross Beaudry is still intact.
Custer Street School is at center/left on Temple between Beaudry and Custer. Sunset Boulevard is at the right edge, a shoo-fly (detour) has been built to allow for the construction
of an overpass. Shout out to Roy Harrell for his efforts to return the archived image at UCLA to its correct orientation and for his courtesy in letting me use his copy here.
February 16, 1948
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Thanks so much
MichaelRyerson. This is quite simply amazing.
below: I take it this is the Custer Avenue School you mentioned.
detail
I thought I'd try and find another photograph of the school but the one photograph I found doesn't match the school in the 1948 aerial.
http://www.lausd.net/kids/treasures/lg_custer.gif
"The Custer Avenue School was built in 1895; it was the first Junior High (Middle) school in the district. It became an elementary school in 1914.
It was located on the corner of Custer Ave. and Temple Street."
-There's no mention of a later building.
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While searching for the Custer Avenue School photograph, I happened across several images of a house on Custer Avenue that had been moved in 1925
but I don't know if it was moved
to or
from Custer.
USC labels the house as 455 Custer Avenue (even though one photograph is clearly of a different house)
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/10823/rec/2
I couldn't help but notice that odd looking building next door (on the right).
Here's a slightly different angle that shows a odd square-like structure on the left as well.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/10823/rec/2
and a woman has appeared on the balcony.
And here's the back. (j u n k y)
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/11429/rec/1
This is the house I mentioned earlier, also listed as 455 Custer Avenue. (the trees are different too)
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/11205/rec/3
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/10823/rec/2
I just noticed it says only the third house was moved, but I'm still confused (as usual
).
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