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With streetcar tracks and the streetlamps just barely visible, it wouldn't be Wilshire. I thought maybe 6th or 7th-- one day we'll find it. It looks like the tracks curve to the right... |
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phantoms Remember the purple and white "Save Cathedral High" bumper stickers from 30 years ago, after the archdiocese sold the Cathedral High site to Hong Kong developers? Even I had one. The archdiocese is amazingly tone-deaf sometimes, especially when it comes to anything historic and/or beloved by the public. What a fight that was. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...7%252520PM.jpg gophantoms I love that the school never shied away from the graveyard imagery. |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/UQytCI.jpg Is it just me or are the words "Ye Olde" and "Taco House" not meant to go together? |
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The fakery that is "Ye olde" It's spelt with the letter thorn, not a why. |
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I see t2 beat me to it! |
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Somebody explained "Ye olde" to me when I was about 7 (my father probably, who was a stickler), so it's always kind of annoyed me. I'm interested in history, but the heritage biz not so much. I never thought þ looked like Y anyway. |
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The vacant-appearing lot behind the streetcar likely was due to construction of the Golden State Freeway on right-of-way immediately west of Boyle Ave. |
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Despite all the construction, it's still a desolate-looking corner: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9...5%252520PM.jpg gsv |
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It's been a few years since I've been past this intersection, but I think the wide-angle view from the Googlemobile might be making the lot size look bigger than it is. That might explain why Caltrans hasn't released it for sale. However, to your point, desolate it remains. |
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In this case, it looks like the land drops away sharply (and quickly). Fusion, the physical therapy business, north of the intersection, has a very pointed triangular lot: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...0%252520PM.jpg gsv Better landscaping would help a lot. |
The First Culver City Speedway
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wheels were put in motion to have betless horse racing in Southern California, too: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original July 27 1923 LA Times @ LAPL They missed their December 1 goal: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original December 17, 1923 LA Times @ LAPL But they made their December 25 goal: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...g.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...u.jpg~original December 26, 1923 LA Times @ LAPL And here is the first Culver City Speedway. This photo, probably taken between June and August 1924, looks SW at the 9,000-seat grandstand and the apparently still-unfinished clubhouse to the left. I'll explain why there are cars on the track and not horses in a moment. Also, remember the house at upper left: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original 00058494 @ LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058494.jpg Here's another view probably from mid-1924. The clubhouse looks more complete, or at least less messy: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...o.jpg~original 00035854 @ LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics32/00035854.jpg Now we're looking sort of NW, again probably in mid-1924. The street behind the grandstand is now Overland Avenue, then called First Street: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original 00081841 @ LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/00081/00081841.jpg Looking toward the SE. I don't know why the roof looked like it had been through a bad windstorm; maybe it had: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original 00081839 @ LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/00081/00081839.jpg Here we're looking SE at part of the race track, with eight of the stables beyond the track at upper right. Culver Boulevard, then Putnam Avenue, runs between the curved end of the track and the MGM studios to the north: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...0.jpg~original 00013220 @ LAPL -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics07/00013220.jpg On January 7, after just 13 days of racing, it was announced that there would be no more races until January 26. According to Mr. Ferris, "the only reason we are waiting until that time to reopen the gates is for the purpose of completing the clubhouse, lawn, grand stand, and everything else connected with the plant and it will take that length of time to do it." However, betless racing was just not a paying proposition: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original February 5, 1924 LA Times @ LAPL So the horse racing track became an auto racing track, which explains the photos above with cars on the track: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original June 15, 1924 LA Times @ LAPL Two other auto racing events were held there, in July and August. That fall, the high-banked wooden Culver City Speedway was proposed: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original October 7, 1924 LA Times @ LAPL This photo looks basically north and was probably taken in late October or early November 1924. It shows the second Culver City Speedway under construction. At middle right, you can see the rectangular imprints left by some of the former stables. On the left side of the photo, below the uncompleted west grandstand, you can see the same house that's visible in the first two photos in this post: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original 00035852 @ LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics32/00035852.jpg The second Culver City Speedway, probably mid to late November 1924: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original 00081838 @ LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/00081/00081838.jpg |
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"Looking easterly showing leaning pole at northwest corner of 7th and Boyle Avenue, Los Angeles, 1928" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library This one appears to show the boxy red structure on the far left of e_r's picture. "Looking westerly showing auto top against pole at 7th and Boyle Avenue, Los Angeles, 1928" http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original USC Digital Library Before the freeways, this plot was the site of the Sisters' Orphans Home/Los Angeles Orphanage/LA Orphan Asylum which I posted about in post #27506. Below is a section of the 1921 Baist map from that post. Quote:
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...2520AM.bmp.jpgTimes Aug 25, 1927 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...2520AM.bmp.jpg |
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"Seven decrepit junk heaps." Why have the event at all?:shhh: http://cartype.com/pics/6762/full/cadillac_ad_05.jpghttp://cartype.com/pics/6762/full/cadillac_ad_05.jpg http://a.imageshack.us/img291/7433/l...ionbroacas.jpghttp://a.imageshack.us/img291/7433/l...ionbroacas.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=14690 History is blurry regarding Don Lee's demise in August 1934 at age 54. One source states he died in the Lee Suite at the Ambassador during dinner. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/...n_tab_contents Another source alleges that he choked to death. http://www.earlytelevision.org/don_lee_reitan.html While another mentions a heart attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lee_%28broadcaster%29 Noirish tragedy followed Don Lee's son, Thomas, who "reportedly developed brain cancer, and was adjudged mentally incompetent in September, 1948. (On Jan. 13, 1950, he jumped to his death from the 12th floor of the Wiltern Building.)" http://www.metnews.com/articles/reminiscing100302.htm http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...erntheater.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...erntheater.jpghttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7756 |
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His uncle inherited most of the assets. http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Tommy_Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellis...iltern_Theatre |
Verne H. Winchell opened his first donut shop on October 8, 1948, in Temple City, CA.
http://winchells.com/wordpress/wp-co...oreOld-300.jpghttp://winchells.com/wordpress/wp-co...oreOld-300.jpg https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hp...13592371_n.jpghttps://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hp...13592371_n.jpg . . . and a related "donut" success story. :) https://stories.californiasunday.com...doughnut-king/ Vintage Winchell's neon sign in Plummer Park (photo: Joel McKenna) http://www.wehodaily.com/wp-content/...-winchells.jpghttp://www.wehodaily.com/wp-content/...-winchells.jpg http://www.wehodaily.com/2010/05/30/...k-to-route-66/ Perhaps not surprisingly, as early as 1909, donuts, or rather "doughnuts" were a going concern. Per 1909CD listing, doughnuts were manufactured by the Pendleton Brothers (Ernest and L.T.) at 845 McGarry Street (near the produce market dtla). Worth a noirish repost? 1937 - Mayflower doughnuts (Eighth and Broadway) http://jpg1.lapl.org/00008/00008726.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=10196 1939 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...XTs&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...EXT&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...EXT&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...EXT&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/22252/rec/5 Dan's - Danny's - Denny's? Quote:
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BRR-- The shorter pole next to the Wilshire Special column was to be topped by a three-light traffic signal, replacing semaphores. http://jpg1.lapl.org/00104/00104334.jpgLAPL |
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