A great shot, Chuck--taken not long after the Bryson (behind the middle palm) went up in 1913. The Rampart Apts at the sw corner of 6th and Rampart peek out at left. The streetcar tracks come south down Commonwealth, jog east on Wilshire (in brief violation of G. Wilshire's no railways-on-Wilshire edict) and then turn south on Hoover. Starting at the corner inside the curve of those tracks is this row of house parsed individually here, starting with 2902 Wilshire.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O...2520AM.bmp.jpgHDL


More on the south side of Sunset/Lafayette Park in recent posts of Tourmaline (posts 19460 and 19461) and HossC (19462).


I'm not sure where Johnny got the info about Lafayette Pk Pl north of the park originally being called Sunset Place--it was Andrews Boulevard, a named changed to the current one when the park was renamed in 1919 (and which also helped avoid confusion with St. Andrews Place in development to the west). Anyway, there is a Sunset Place nearby--see prior post #15811.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6...33/wedding.jpg


Only thing is... what appears to be the address on the house doesn't seems to match "675"-- There are quite a few references in the Times to couples having been married ca. 1938 "in the Wedding Manor," with a couple referring to the "Wedding Manor of Hollywood"--though none with an actual address and nothing coming up in CD listings other than Lorendoc's find.

The location(s) of the well-lit Gilmore Gas Station at Farmer's Mkt was recently resolved by photos and Gilmore's post. An overlooked ER post was also on point.

http://imageshack.us/a/img402/6195/a...rketaerial.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...92#post6068792

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Njk3WDEwOT...TNwm4/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Njk3WDEwOT...TNwm4/$_57.JPG

Pre-fab construction. Fortune Mag. June 1949

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTI4MFg5NT...TNv0l/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTI4MFg5NT...TNv0l/$_57.JPG




Of course you can drift or be alive - but don't expect more that 50% financing.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjEzWDEyOD...d2g~~60_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjEzWDEyOD...d2g~~60_57.JPG


Culver City set building. Valuable skills for all of the above. ;)
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjcwWDEwMj...S8qkE/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjcwWDEwMj...S8qkE/$_57.JPG

Why do you build such large department stores?
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTE4OVgxMD...TMISg/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTE4OVgxMD...TMISg/$_57.JPG


Could you tell?

Ahead of the pack? Baker. (Sorry, probably not looking for the nearest Gilmore Station, except for a battery top up)
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~jwbruce/EVads/Baker2.jpghttp://www.ece.msstate.edu/~jwbruce/EVads/Baker2.jpg



Chicken or Egg?

Sport Model, Streamlined for vertical travel and influenced by Western Electric Design Team? Or vice versa?
http://www.rubbertherightway.com/blo...ectric-car.jpghttp://www.rubbertherightway.com/blo...ectric-car.jpg

Later prototype? Propulsion means unknown. :koko:
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00095/00095984.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00095/00095984.jpg


But will the public warm to such a radical design?

1970 (Paul Williams endorsement?) :no:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzIwWDUyMQ...pnLw~~60_3.JPG http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzIwWDUyMQ...pnLw~~60_3.JPG


http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Nzg1WDEwMD...-PQ~~60_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Nzg1WDEwMD...-PQ~~60_57.JPG

An improved view. (Ample balcony space from which to hang laundry or practice balancing act. Prior management approval appreciated?)
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAzMVgxNj...8VQ~~60_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAzMVgxNj...8VQ~~60_57.JPG

Details, details.

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwN1gxNT...TF-j-/$_57.JPGhttp://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwN1gxNT...TF-j-/$_57.JPG

If memory serves, Huell Howser did a story on that other sign, which was an advert for Outpost Estates. When the show was shot, there were still large pieces of the sign & its supports scattered along a ridge of the Hollywood Hills.

a 1948 directory has the address at 3201 W. Pico. The numbers on the porch post seem to be four numbers but are not very legible

If you were to encounter long lines, you could always head over to the next Manor. Plenty of parking for motorhomes and Electric cars (bring your own charger).

Circa 1937
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105162.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00105/00105162.jpg

G-W answered the McCadden question, but if you want to know all about all of Joan's residences, here is a link:

http://www.legendaryjoancrawford.com/joanhomes.html

Any way to decipher the movie marquee?

Chuckaluck, you're bringing back memories. When I arrived in California, the first film I ever saw here was in this Studio City theater.

And my first day here (which was April 1st) I ate in this Du-Pars in Studio City which was down the street a block:

In the two years Twin Peaks was popular, they made and served Twin Peaks official cherry pies. With damn fine coffee, too! (I wish I still had one of those boxes.)

And I stayed a few blocks from there with a friend who lived on Arch Drive, a street which “arched” from Ventura Blvd. at Vineland around to Ventura Blvd. again to the west. The street had no houses on it, only mid-century or later apartment buildings, so I was surprised to see this street on the bottom part of this 1924 map that G-W previously posted.

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/9...pmapbottom.jpgLAPL

It’s a bit hard to read “Arch Dr.”, but you can see Vineland Ave. near Universal City on the right. Arch Dr. is between Ventura Blvd. and the Los Angeles River, which probably was not paved in 1924. (?)
The entire San Fernando Valley 1924 map is on G-W’s post here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7491

In between Arch Drive and Du-Par’s on Ventura Blvd. is the Topper Motel, previously mentioned here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2185
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2186
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2188

Historic Aerials only goes back as far as 1952, but it appears to show that Arch Drive was mainly houses with a few empty lots.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hDrive1952.jpg
Historic Aerials

Many of the apartment buildings that Martin Pal mentioned have appeared by 1972 (the next available date), although it looks like there are a few houses holding out on the north side. Additionally, the 1972 image shows that the area across the river has also filled in with apartments and that Vineland has been widened.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hDrive1972.jpg
Historic Aerials

The buildings on Ventura which remain the same between the aerials include the Charles and El Royale motels. Both are still there today. Sometime in the mid-70s, the DWP substation was built to the left of the motels - I previously posted a couple of pictures here. That post also includes the links below for previous posts about the El Royale:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2192

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2209

Those are the intake gates of the LA Aqueduct just past the diversion gates on the Owens River; about 10 miles north of Independence.

Andys

Ah, the Pacific Electric Building. I'm sure this has already been posted. Circa 1910.
http://waterandpower.org/A%20Histori...ldg_ca1910.jpg
waterandpower.org

I love going to Cole's, which of course, is in the P.E. Building. I've been going to their Sunday brunches, with the bottomless mimosas. Dangerous, I must say--- I've left piss drunk a number of times. At least I walked and took the train there.

And, in Cole's men's room, I can say, if these signs are really true, that I've pissed where Charles Bukowski and Mickey Cohen have pissed.
https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/...77660165_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...35399915_n.jpg
Urinal photos by me

Probably not the original urinals, but the ones they pissed in were probably in those spaces.

Speaking of Bukowski, he lived the later years of his life in San Pedro, and is buried not too far from there, at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes. I took these photos of his grave back in 2011. I didn't put the beer and ciggies on his grave, they were already there when I arrived.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...13491173_n.jpg

You can see the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the distance.
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/...92138940_n.jpg

And, the Joan Crawford pictures from some posts back, brings me to this photo; also on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, is the Chadwick School. "I should've known you'd know where to find the boys, AND the booze."
https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/...12822113_n.jpg
Photo by me

I drove up to the school but there were teen girls and shirtless teen boys jogging around the grounds, so I felt funny taking photos. So I took a picture of the sign instead.

Agree there are 4 numbers on the street address. They were "2821" and this was (and unbelievably still is) S. Western Avenue:
http://i.imgur.com/cWhBXBp.jpg
GoogleSV

:previous:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-d...2520AM.bmp.jpgLA Sentinel Apr 20, 1950

Great sleuthing, Lorendoc. I thought maybe with the full address I might find more on the Wedding Manor in the picture, but only this ad turned up...

i never noticed that a coles ...thanks Sopas

Fats Waller in Hollywood...
 

King of the stride, Fats Waller was a colorful comedic personality and jazz legend in the 20′s, 30′s and 40′s. Waller was an influential pianist, composer, singer and comedic entertainer, whose innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano. His best-known compositions, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and 'Honeysuckle Rose' were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

One of his tunes at the link below [the same song was used as the theme for "This Old House" 1979..Home Improvement, TV show, you might recognize it::cool:;):cool:

Link:....http://youtu.be/2yuD0QptJW0

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps8e5d39a5.jpg
CD file

The Famous Door nightclub stood on Vine Street, Hollywood, some time in the 1930s. Apparently, they were very proud of the fact that Fats Waller came to play there. This may have appeared before on NOIR LA.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...pse89a1769.jpg
M. Turnbull