I saw an interesting article from a month ago titled:

Why Isn't There a Freeway to Beverly Hills?

In various stages it was called the Santa Monica Parkway, West Hollywood Freeway and ultimately the Beverly Hills Freeway.

The proposed route:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...x301-71176.jpg
Metro Transportation Library and Archive.

An oddity:
In West Hollywood, the freeway turned to the southwest and followed the path of Santa Monica Boulevard, plunging below grade into a submerged trench. In Beverly Hills, the city considered capping the freeway with parking and surface street lanes.

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...%20section.jpg
Metro Transportation Library and Archive.

West of Beverly Hills, it emerged from its trench and passed by Century City before finally ending south of Westwood at the San Diego (I-405) freeway.

The 101 (Hollywood) Freeway’s wide median at Vermont is a remnant of the Beverly Hills Freeway interchange that never materialized.

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041137.jpgLAPL c. 1951

(If that’s smog in the above photo, consider there aren’t even any cars on the road yet!)

The article has other maps, links and information:
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...rly-hills.html

More Ville de Paris
 

Prior Ville de Paris:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11167

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=5153866

LAPL also has this staff photo (http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059281.jpg) and dates it 1901:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original

A slightly larger version of GW's photo with Laughlin over door at right:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
Los Angeles, The Old and The New (J. E. Scott, 1911) at HathiTrust -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=81

Below is an undated interior photo of Ville de Paris store "between Broadway, Hill, 2nd and 3rd":
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/1765/rec/1

Looking north on Hill St., 1905; the Ville de Paris building is across the street with the awning:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068227.jpg

Homer Laughlin Annex on Hill Street, 1907:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original
CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...QQHRA5G4GK.jpg

Broadway side, February 21, 1913:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original
Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/13511/rec/1

SE corner 7th and Olive location being built. Source says 1920/30; LAPL has same photo (http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics49/00059133.jpg) and dates it 1917:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original
USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/8258/rec/5

1940:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics26/00032550.jpg

Undated:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original
LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068350.jpg

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original
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:previous: -excellent post FlyingWedge. -very interesting.
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originally posted by HossC
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../843/3lvz3.jpgebay
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/834/xr4x.jpg


I wonder if Jennie ever crossed paths with Paul Chomistek down on 7th Street?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/836/4q0q.jpg
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/ebeu.jpg
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/836/pw2d.jpg

X-ER-VAC!! It looks like an early IBM with a snozzle. suuuck..pressure..grow. suuuck..pressure..grow.
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Circa '25, An imposing Patriotic Hall
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IJJI2SE6J7.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IJJI2SE6J7.jpg

Good luck with your talk Oviatt. I wish I could be there.
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1905
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/838/55kl.jpg
ad/ebay

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I don't recall that we have seen these

March, 1955
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps6610e715.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/8755/rec/61

08/15/1955
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps55bbbae7.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...id/8753/rec/80

01/16/56
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps8297cd56.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8779/rec/183

12/20/56
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps15972b1e.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8874/rec/200

The Title of this photo is: Old Barn on Bunker Hill Avenue near 2nd Street

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psa4b3b55e.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8821/rec/172

Can this really be a barn?

02/01/1957 - Courthouse being built along 1st Street while a South Olive Street housing structure has been demolished.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps9bc05da5.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8688/rec/209

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March, 1966

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps0603fbad.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8727/rec/261

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps0468ae11.jpg
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8727/rec/261

The same photo was used in an ad that ran in the Los Angeles Herald on September 3, 1905:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original
Library of Congress -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...d-1/seq-83.pdf

We just read about another of Louis Lichtenberger's buildings: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21009

One more photo of the building, second from the left, and its neighbors in 1950.

http://i1312.photobucket.com/albums/...psac020bea.jpgfrom my files

And what a coincidence! Curbed LA just posted another pic of the building (really meant to show city hall & the work of John Parkinson but it's an even better shot than the one I just posted).

http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs...ity%20hall.jpgLAPL

:previous: That is a coincidence Tetsu.


I'd say it was the carriage house,with space for hay, to the building next door. The decorative element about the "barn's" center entrance mimics
the decorative element atop the building to it's right.

I guess you could call it a quasi-barn. :)
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Wish you could too. It would be wonderful if some people from Noirish Los Angeles could come. :tup:

rescue squad 1931

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102.../841/exsgi.jpg
ebay

That is one loooong car.
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Surprisingly, we haven't seen the Lido Apartment Hotel on NLA, except for a brief mention here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7861



I came across this postcard a day or so ago.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/842/txsg.jpgebay

the same view today
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/842/ks0s.jpg
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reverse/postcard
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/05x1.jpg



With the corner entrance closed, there is an entrance on Yucca Street
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800.../836/tl37k.jpg
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and on Wilcox.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800.../845/86tu1.jpg
GVS
-what's that I see up there on roof?


could it be..?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/838/7ygd.jpg



Yes!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/835/pbj0.jpg
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I just noticed that there's another rooftop sign in this aerial of the Lido.

Can you see it?
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/838/7ygd.jpg
google_earth







There it is across the street. (looking north on Wilcox)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/835/pwj8.jpg
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-the Mayfair Apartments (1925) at 1760 N. Wiclox Ave.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/tfsb1.jpg
http://www.you-are-here.com/hollywood/mayfair.html



a noirish view.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/843/08kb.jpg
Corey Miller at https://www.flickr.com/photos/toomuchfire/5177112354/

It looks like the neon is still in place. I wonder if it still lights up?
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information
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/845/05x1.jpg

I love this card....My grandmother was another "Vivian" of that same era. She came out here as a young girl in the 20's from Minneapolis on vacation and never left - eventually drawing the rest of the family to join her. First living in the Westlake area then to Windsor Hills. She loved every day here and even 50 years+ after leaving Minneapolis still called Los Angeles a "fairyland" (in the old sense) that was every bit as wondrous and magical to her the day she arrived in the 1920's as the day she passed in the early 90's.
:)