There's certainly no mystery about today's Julius Shulman location. This is Gilmore Field in 1949. It's "Job 511: Matcham and Heitschmidt, Gilmore Field (Los Angeles, Calif.),1949".
The International Bank/Bank of Italy has featured many times on these pages, but I can't find any previous posts of these demolition pictures from the Huntington Digital Library.
Interesting....Broadway from Second south for several blocks was blocked off to traffic for a "Night on Broadway" event tonight. Kind of fun walking down the middle of the street with no cars in sight...
I got invited by some friends, so I went to the Night on Broadway event last night! (8th Annual.) I got to see some of the interiors of theatres like the Los Angeles Theatre, The Orpheum and the Tower Theatre. If I weren't so versed from NLA about the Rosslyn Hotel it probably wouldn't have registered when we walked by it as I was telling the group all about it's past. (I wanted to go in, but...) We also visited The Last Bookstore. Anyone heard about that place? (453 South Spring St.)
Before all of those festivities we had an early dinner at Clifton's! It was packed.
We also visited The Last Bookstore. Anyone heard about that place? (453 South Spring St.)
Here's their website. It has a virtual tour and photos. The photos are worth it because they use old books for various design elements within the store.
Have we definitively discovered when Crescent Ave. was renamed Fairfax Ave.?
I thought it was in the 20's, but if these are dated 1918, well circa 1918, that's not correct.
The date has been corrected to 1924-25. FWIW, Burdell is listed in the '18 CD as an electrical contractor residing on Wilcox and per the '23CD, a salesman residing at 1619 N. La Brea.
Here is another page from the same magazine featuring the [Thief of] Bagdad (1924) set at the UA studio (Formosa and Santa Monica). Also a curious image of Fritz Lang und Ernst Lubitsch pictured at a pool in November.
Looking for Joseph's Cafe. 5637 Wilshire (From 4-9-32 Filmography) Currently a Ralphs grocery store. Formerly Alpha-Beta. East of Hauser and the former Western Auto Store.
August 3, 1929. Good time to sell - before the crash. (Dramatically different foliage today.)
August 3, 1929 - Wm "Uncle Charlie" Demerest, endorses clothing. Who knew? (Related to Bob Duvall?)
Club Airport Gardens, "Look for directiOn sign." Plane's glide angle mighty steep?
Will goat gland implant eliminate need for this?
Sam Kress, 6556 Hollywood Blvd. (Yes, the same Kress as in the deco Kress building, also on Hollywood Blvd. https://books.google.com/books?id=fh...lywood&f=false )
Always good to have friends in the construction business.
below: But what's that Viciour's sign to it's right? I couldn't find it in any of the directories.
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It was Victor's French restaurant for a teeny blip in time, opening at 208 N. Main around July 1934. I don't think it was there long enough to make it into the directories, but funny that it was captured in a photo.
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There's certainly no mystery about today's Julius Shulman location. This is Gilmore Field in 1949. It's "Job 511: Matcham and Heitschmidt, Gilmore Field (Los Angeles, Calif.),1949".
I don't think I'd seen it from inside the field before.
Gilmore Field opening May 2, 1939
Derby ad LAT 5-2-39. (The Derby would take out a big ad: its owner Bob Cobb also owned the Stars. His wife Gail Patrick tossed out the first ball at the opener).
I don't believe we've seen Peck's Pavilion on NLA.
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No doubt this pavilion has something to do with George H. Peck, San Pedro real estate developer. Does anyone know where in San Pedro it was located?
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It was Victor's French restaurant for a teeny blip in time, opening at 208 N. Main around July 1934. I don't think it was there long enough to make it into the directories, but funny that it was captured in a photo.
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Thanks NCD.
One reason I thought it was Viciour's (duh, I should have known better) is because that's how it's labeled in the description at USC archive.
I got invited by some friends, so I went to the Night on Broadway event last night! (8th Annual.) I got to see some of the interiors of theatres like the Los Angeles Theatre, The Orpheum and the Tower Theatre. If I weren't so versed from NLA about the Rosslyn Hotel it probably wouldn't have registered when we walked by it as I was telling the group all about it's past. (I wanted to go in, but...) We also visited The Last Bookstore. Anyone heard about that place? (453 South Spring St.)
Before all of those festivities we had an early dinner at Clifton's! It was packed.
A very unexpected evening.
My wife and I have already decided to go next year. I walked by Clifton's yesterday morning but it wasn't open yet. Tried to get a peek inside without much luck..
As a fan of Laurel and Hardy I came across the movie 'Sould married man go home?'. In the movie they are playing golf with some oil fields in the background. At firlst I thought this was filmed in a random place, but after some research it seems to be the famous Riviera Country Club. Not sure if posted before, but here are some images from that movie from 1928.
I also found the location of 'Hats Off' - 1927. It's filmed on 3811 Bagley Ave, Culver City .
Same for 'Liberty' - 1929. Location: S Broadway / West Olimpic, Downtown and another one is at the Chamber of Commerce in Culver City. This place changed drastically also with the highway just behind it.
Notice the Werstern Pacific Building on the right side.
This looks like a large complex with some notable architecture, but my mind is drawing a blank.
As well as a couple of similar postcards, I also found this reference to the Formosa Apartments in a book called 'The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol' by Allan R. Ellenberger. It names the address as 7139 Hollywood Boulevard.
The view below is from 1948. Assuming that this is the Formosa Apartments, they were gone by 1964, and the current apartments were in place by 1972. Hollywood Boulevard runs across the bottom of this aerial.
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A look through the building records for 7139 Hollywood Boulevard shows several new construction permits for three and four room structures dated 21/10/12, and one for a 50 room tenement house dated 10 days later. There are three demolition permits for the site dated 1961 and 1962. I was hoping that the Formosa Apartments and Cottages would show up on an angled aerial view, but I haven't found one yet.
Here's how the building originally looked when it was the Bank of Italy. This photo is dated 1930. The City Directories of the late 1920s name it as 220 N Main, and describe it as the "International Branch". The Bank of Italy became the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association near the end of 1930.
Despite photographic proof that the building became a branch of Bank of America, and survived until 1955, I can't find it in any of the later CDs. Here's the building permit from February 1, 1926. It shows that the Bank of Italy cost $170,000.
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. This is the best shot I've found so far. It's dated 6/1/55.
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