noirish Los Angeles

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

The Palace Apartments at 1361 Sunset Blvd.

I've been trying to figure out what that brown metal box is to the right of the entrance.

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Here ER...we can read the brown box...which is a sign.

That unicorn is a rather odd touch...only in LA. It might be an old movie prop.


gsv

[Tourmaline]

Everybody is doing it.



1888 - LA Bicycle Champions. (The competition must have been stiff that year)

http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajax...XT=&DMROTATE=0


(Christian Bale distant relative?)


https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...460554623d.jpg


1893 - Los Angeles Athletic Club Bicycle team.

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single.../id/7587/rec/9

How long will this last?





~1900 -- Mrs. Henry Hazard goes two-wheeling on Figueroa Street North of Washington. (Note height of utility pole-observation post in background)

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/3491/rec/18




"Mrs. H, what lovely balloon tires you have!"





~1900 - When it comes to cinched waists, Mrs. H has met her match .

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7584/rec/22





~1890 - Unidentified Los Angeles Residence. (look closely for the velocepede)
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...3F645SVB7U.jpg



~1890 - Unidentified Los Angeles Residence (these people only wish they had a two-wheeler!) (Maybe someone recognizes the house.)
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...N7VRCSEV5M.jpg





1910 - Fifth and Spring Streets (Rambler Cycle House - 207 E Fifth Street, Wm. Cowan, Proprietor) (Rambler made automobiles and bicycles, but which ones were more reliable?)

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/3520/rec/32












1940 - Catalina, Chuck Chaplin and his alleged spouse, Paulette Godard.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s0lEP-wEPf...0/P5200592.JPG



1963 - Mark and Melvin deliver the Valley Times
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00111/00111055.jpg



1932 - Undescribed Gold (left) and Silver (right) medalists for the '32 Games at Rose Bowl.
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055854.jpg



1890 - 208 Magnolia Ave., Riverside
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...AGFVG39KLM.jpg


~1900 - Family in front of Norwalk home
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...VEMAQTQ7JY.jpg




1940 - Pasadena Library, 999 East Washington Blvd.

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/2940/rec/28








January 1906. Per Tetsu (below) source misidentifies this as a Pasadena Street. More likely the Thorpe Bldg. in DTLA. As noirish as they come.

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/1040/rec/36

Ripe for the taking?

[Tourmaline]

We've seen this view before, but with less detail. Hopefully everyone's screen can handle it.



Another Thorpe Office Building.



1914 - Downtown LA from the Melrose Hotel
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...(CHS-5711).jpg

[ethereal_reality]

Fun bicycling photos Tourmaline!


below: mystery street, 1950s

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I wonder what the guy is going to do with that pitchfork?

As for clues, I believe the white building on the right says "Millie's Beauty Salon".
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[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

The Palace Apartments at 1361 Sunset Blvd.

below: There are some funky things going on with this building....for instance, the unicorn's head.


detail / gsv

I found an article called The cutest storefront in LA which shows that the unicorn now has wings (they're also visible on the September 2014 GSV image). The unicorn belongs to a women's clothing store named "The Dog Show USA", and unicorns seem to be their thing.


colourfulcactus.com

There are no GSV images for 2012 and 2013, but this one from 2011 shows that the unicorn is a fairly recent addition.


GSV

BTW. realtytrac.com says the Palace Apartments were built in 1923.

[ethereal_reality]

The "cutest storefront"? I could think of some other words for it, and "cute" isn't one of them.


I checked out that link....so where was this store located?


http://colourfulcactus.com/2014/12/0...e-front-in-la/

In my humble opinion, it looked better without the wings.

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[Tetsu]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

"Lake Street, Pasadena 1960"


eBay

On the left edge of the slide is ultra-modern Bullock's Pasadena.

Looking north on Lake towards Del Mar Boulevard. So that building on the SE corner of Del Mar & Lake was once a Barker Bros. In 90's (and quite possibly the 80's) it was a Tower Records upstairs, and the electronics chain The Good Guys was downstairs. Now it's a Walgreens.

Does anyone know what the large white building, farther up Lake, was? Pretty sure it's not there anymore.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I checked out that link....so where was this store located?


http://colourfulcactus.com/2014/12/0...e-front-in-la/

It was at 1930 Echo Park Avenue. GSV has four images between 2007 and 2014, and each has a different business there (none of them Dog Show USA). The one below is from 2011.


GSV

[ethereal_reality]

At least they kept the artsy-fartsy door.
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[Sakhal Nakhash]

~1900 - When it comes to cinched waists, Mrs. H has met her match .

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/7584/rec/22


Am I the only one who thought "Almira Gulch"?

[Tetsu]

Originally Posted by Tourmaline

January 1906. Unidentified Pasadena Street. As noirish as they come. (Yes, Thorpe Office Bldg. in LA, but Pasa?)

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/1040/rec/36

HDL has this photo mislabeled. I was looking at it a few weeks back, totally puzzled because I just knew this couldn't be anywhere in Pasadena. Turns out there's another photo that looks to have been taken at the exact same time, a few blocks down:

HDL

If I'm not mistaken, this is looking north on Broadway from 6th. Thanks to Michael Ryerson for the correction - This is south on Broadway from 5th. On the right we have the Los Angeles Examiner Building which was in the 500 s. block. Seems like the entire confusion may have come from this small detail:



Definitely looks like it says the word "Pasadena" on that sign.

Also, I literally just noticed 10 seconds ago, in Tourmaline's original photo, you can even see the Broadway tunnel under Fort Moore Hill at the far end of the street, just beyond Temple.

[bighen]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Fun bicycling photos Tourmaline!


below: mystery street, 1950s

eBay

I wonder what the guy is going to do with that pitchfork?

As for clues, I believe the white building on the right says "Millie's Beauty Salon".
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I'm just guessing, but it looks like Crenshaw looking north from around Florence Ave or Vermont Avenue from around 70th.

[CityBoyDoug]

[QUOTE=Tourmaline;6936408]We've seen this view before, but with less detail. Hopefully everyone's screen can handle it.
Another Thorpe Office Building.
1914 - Downtown LA from the Melrose Hotel


Tourmaline.....

Good grief. It appears to me that someone has laid out SHEEP SKINS on the roof to dry in the sunshine.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...(CHS-5711).jpg



REF:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=26665

[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by Tetsu

HDL has this photo mislabeled. I was looking at it a few weeks back, totally puzzled because I just knew this couldn't be anywhere in Pasadena. Turns out there's another photo that looks to have been taken at the exact same time, a few blocks down:

HDL

If I'm not mistaken, this is looking north on Broadway from 6th. On the right we have the Los Angeles Examiner Building which was in the 500 s. block. Seems like the entire confusion may have come from this small detail:



Definitely looks like it says the word "Pasadena" on that sign.

Also, I literally just noticed 10 seconds ago, in Tourmaline's original photo, you can even see the Broadway tunnel under Fort Moore Hill at the far end of the street, just beyond Temple.

Thanks for scrutinizing further. I could not locate a Thorpe Building in any of the Pasadena Directories, nor did I recognize the street. Hence my big secondary post including the LA Thorpe building.

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by bighen

I'm just guessing, but it looks like Crenshaw looking north from around Florence Ave or Vermont Avenue from around 70th.

Good guess, bighen. It's looking north on Vermont at W. 74th street:


GSV

I saw the similarity of the roof-line of two buildings on the east side of Vermont just north of the intersection. However, to the north of those, it looked like there were old bungalows where the piano store should be, so I thought I was wrong. But I went to the Assessor's website and saw that those buildings (3 of them in a row) date from 2004-5.

And in both pictures you can (barely) see the steeple of St. Raphael's Church on W. 71st St. near the left-center of both pictures just east of Vermont.

Of course this just a few blocks from Florence and Normandie, which was the epicenter of the 1992 riots. This stretch of Vermont was very much affected by the violence. So maybe it's not surprising that there are new buildings in the modern view; the old commercial ones may have burned.

[HossC]

Spot on, Lorendoc. Millie's Beauty Salon is listed at 7328 S Vermont in the 1956 CD. Here are the businesses from the east side of S Vermont in the 7200 and 7300 blocks from the 1956 CD, some/most of which might be visible in e_r's picture. It looks like the store with the "Pianos" sign was the Vermont Piano Shop at 7314 S Vermont.

7200 S Vermnt Girardo's Serv Stn...... PL 2-0505
7204 S Vermnt Av Southwest Speedometer Serv PL 9-4246
7210 S Vermnt Av A AA Upholstering. .. PL 8-2387
7216 S Vermnt Av Eddy's Cocktail Lounge PL9-3355
7218 S Vermnt Bun's Carburetor Serv.. .- PL 9-8340
7222 1/2 S Vermnt Av Calvert Lucy L.....PL 8-6298
7224 S Vermnt Kum'-Inn Cafe .... ;......PL 8-8289
7226 S Vermnt Price L B Mercantile Co,. PL 2-4490
7226 S Vermnt Av Price Mercantile Co...PL 2-4490
7300 S Vermnt Av Sleep E-Z Mattress Co.PL 1-5400
7306 S Vermnt Av Marion's Saddle Club.PL 9-9036
7306 S Vermnt Av Saddle Club MarIon's.PL 9-9036
7310 S Vermnt Av South West Camera Exchange PL8-5322
7310 S Vermnt Southwest Camera Exch... .PL8-5322
7314 S Vermnt Av Vermont Piano Shop. PL 3-0123
7318 S Vermnt'Av Hamilton John J electrcl contr. PL 2-3785
7320 S Vermnt Av Toby's Liquor . PL 2-3925
7321 S Vermnt Av Keesler Don serv str..:. PL 2-0466
7322 1/2 S Vermnt Av Kirsop Jean Merle Norman Cosmetic Studios.PL 9-2058
7322 1/2 S Vermnt Merle Norman Cosmetic Studios. PL 9-2058
7322 1/2 S Vermnt Norman Merle Cosmetic , Studios. PL 9-2058
7328 S Vermnt Millie's Beauty Salon... PL 9-8492

I don't think the riots can be blamed for the loss of most of the missing buildings, as the 1972 image at Historic Aerials shows the whole east side of the 7200 block had already become a parking lot


Historic Aerials

[ethereal_reality]

Excellent work bighen, Lorendoc and HossC.


Now do you want to try your hand at locating this photograph (biggest clue? -maybe the gas-meter in the distance)


https://scag.ca.gov/programs/Pages/P...portation.aspx

[ethereal_reality]

Here's another...


old file of mine / amateur slide / possibly eBay

There is a Route 66 sign so I'm pretty sure this is Santa Monica Boulevard.

but where on Santa Monica Blvd.....what corner?

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[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's another...

[snip]

There is a Route 66 sign so I'm pretty sure this is Santa Monica Boulevard.

but where on Santa Monica Blvd.....what corner?

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Dunno about the corner, but that three-tone Packard Caribbean is to die for ...

Cheers,

Earl

[lemster2024]

My first guess on this ER pic is looking east on Slauson, as you approach Crenshaw. The gasometer would be the one that was located behind the old Arden Milk facility, off Slauson. That shopping center with the Ralphs and National Shirt store looks alot like the one that also had a Thrifty Drug store in it (which was at Slauson/Crenshaw.