Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7395922)

Thanks for your personal recollections of 3424 Wilshire Boulevard, lemster2024.


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Today's Julius Shulman post features the same architects and same street as the IBM building. We've seen the Signal Oil and Gas Company Building before, but not in this much detail. This is "Job 3362: Charles Luckman Associates, Signal Oil and Gas Company Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1962".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

I've said this before, but it makes my research so much easier when the address is on the building. In this case, 1010 Wilshire Boulevard.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Here's the back of the building.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original

An angled view. NB. I've omitted a similar but darker shot.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original

And the obligatory arty shot to finish.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original

All from Getty Research Institute

Just a quick reminder - you can see the Signal Oil and Gas Company Building fully illuminated in a 1967 Julius Shulman image I posted in post #32200.

Now complete with rooftop swimming pool, the building has been transformed into TenTen Wilshire. I think I prefer the original design.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original
GSV

If, like me, you were wondering about the identity of the lost Art Deco building on the corner of St Paul Avenue, it was the 1936 Claude Beelman designed Woodbury College at 1027 Wilshire. The college moved out in 1987, and the building was demolished soon afterwards (there appears to be a demo permit dated 1989, but it's not available to view online). The destruction of the former college building seems rather ironic considering they added architecture as a major in 1984! Woodbury College has been mentioned a couple of times before on NLA, but I think this wonderful night shot is new to the thread.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original
USC Digital Library

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7400875)

Thanks for the follow-up on the Azusa Pacific University. I see it was originally located at 111 So.Figueroa. Let's try and find a photograph of that location.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7400770)

Thanks for your information on the telephone/intercom in the DWP building, CityBoyDoug.


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Today's Julius Shulman post concerns the Los Angeles Theatre Center at 514 S Spring Street. It was originally built as a bank, but after that, I didn't find much (admittedly, I haven't had a lot of time to look). The History & Background page at thelatc.org only goes back as far as 2006. This is "Job 6434: John S. Fisher, Los Angeles Theatre Center (Calif.),1986".

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7059054)

Here's an enigmatic.....and spooky photograph.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/nIcLnd.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/early-Angeles-...ge+photographs

Mary S. Ertl M.D. Tourmaline

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7399098)

Thanks for identifying the license plate in yesterday's post, MichaelRyerson.


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Today's Julius Shulman photoset needs no introduction, but it does deserve a title. This is "Job 3883: Los Angeles (Calif.) Dept. of Water and Power, 1965".


I'm not sure what this room was used for. The chairs with desks make it look like a lecture hall, but there's nowhere to teach from. On the other hand, the counter at the front could mean it's waiting room, but then why would the chairs need desks, and why would they be so far apart?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original


All from Getty Research Institute

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7400359)

I thought you might like this.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/2lKkR3.jpg
http://www.ebay.it/itm/720-RAILROAD-...-/171305700671

:previous: "noiseless and smokeless" -really, why the smokestacks then;)?



Despite being over 3,000 miles from L.A., here's a 'noirish-looking' photograph of the H.K. Porter Co. building in downtown Pittsburgh, 1953.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/76layV.jpg
http://bradystewartphoto.photoshelte...000tXhQ09JLamg



Thanks for all the information Wig-Wag. It's much appreciated.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7401075)

I should have put two-and-two together, considering the placement of the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station.

(I always assumed subways ran beneath the surface streets......you know, so they don't have to dodge obstacles like foundations and basements and what-not ;))

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7401181)

Last night I came across this excellent photograph of L.A.'s first female doctor Mary S. Ertl M.D.

Here's the seller's description:

"Extremely RARE original photo of the first female doctor in Los Angeles. Dr Mary Ertl is widely believed to be the first woman to serve the Los Angeles area.
This is an unpublished photo of her and family members in front of her doctors office at 4003 Carmona St."


But if you look closely, the street number on the front of the bungalow is not 4003.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/HSUbxD.jpg
detail

Anyone feel like trying to solve this 'mystery'?

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7323038)

A 1940s Kodachrome slide of the parking lot at the new Chinatown [1940s]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/obY8lA.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Orig-1940s-3...4AAOSwKtlWpTDP

I haven't noticed that unsightly utility pole in other photographs. What's it for?

Originally Posted by Wig-Wag (Post 7401383)

If I recall correctly a friend of mine has a Porter builders list. When he returns from his current travels I may, just for giggles,
see if I can find the construction number and build dates of the two CVR locomotives.

Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7401408)

The boxy-looking vehicle in the lower-right corner of their promotional illustration was called a "steam dummy";
it was designed with "camouflage" to avoid scaring horses. Even in those days, newfangled technology had its drawbacks.