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Beautiful fragments of the past in downtown L.A.
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Great DTLA sidewalk shots, ethereal! I used to not be a fan of terrazzo until some years ago, when it seemed to have made a comeback. Now I look at terrazzo floors in old buildings and some of them look pretty cool. Some then and nows: Wilshire Professional Building, 1929 http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/8...ssionalbui.jpg USC Archive Another view from 1929 http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/8...ssionalbui.jpg USC Archive Same building, from Google Street View http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/412/picture1gq.png http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/4681/picture2yn.png Google Street View I would like this building if the ground floor weren't so horribly destroyed. Screw Mr. Pizza! |
Oh my....that is tragic what has happened to the ground floor.
Just look at photograph #2....it shows a sophisticated retail area with elaborate art deco lattice-work. I'm hoping the original facade is somehow/somewhat still intact under all that awfullness. |
Another cabinet card on eBay.
https://otters.net/img/lanoir/hollenbeckhotel1888.jpg photoantique on eBay Shows the Hollenbeck Hotel with Coulter's occupying the retail space on the ground floor. Can be dated pretty precisely as 1888, because the Bryson-Bonebrake block at right is in the earliest stages of its construction. -Scott |
it was a warm june day 1938. with no scratch in my pockets, i decided to knock off the easy pickings arrow drug at 4th and hill. made my get-a-way up 4th. my plan was to high-tail it like quick up olive and duck into my rear flat in the ems...............
i turned the corner onto olive, http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/...98dd4bf9_b.jpg Source: LAPL this was not my day....................................... |
a beautiful tile mosaic mural in the lobby of the Parker Center Police Headquarters building 1955
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011813.jpg Source: LAPL and what was on the back side of the mural? http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics04/00011798.jpg Source: LAPL very cool................................. |
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:yes: We're standing on Spring here looking up Second Street. Farther up, there's the First Presbyterian Church at the SE corner with Broadway. And I just noticed - the trolleys appear to be cable cars... |
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Just curious... Which of these structures was/were replaced by the Law Building? |
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in this 1953 photograph looking west from city hall, the building, directly to the south of the law building exists in both photographs. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/...68019c8a_o.jpg Source: LAPL without seeing sanborn maps, i don't know for sure if the law building took one or two lots. in 1959, the law building and it's short neighbor to the north hang on, (can't say as much for the hill) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3376/...060dcd15_o.jpg Source: LAPL 1963? still hanging on.......................................... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/...00c30137_o.jpg Source: LAPL 1974?.....................(not so much) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3546/...878d7a8f_o.jpg Source: LAPL |
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http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-EN-28-50?v=hr Source: USC Digital Archive |
View of the aftermath from a major automobile accident on Fifth Street, outside of Central Library. Photograph caption dated July 21, 1983 reads, "An LAPD, pipe in hand, ponders the mess on Fifth Street near Hope after a truck loaded with Scientology books by L. Ron Hubbard failed to make a turn and crashed through a wall before overturning yesterday. The driver of the truck managed to jump from the vehicle and escaped injury. No other vehicles were involved."
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00082/00082141.jpg Source: LAPL http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics14/00026778.jpg Source: LAPL "it is indeed a great wall".....................richard m. nixon, (nixon in china) |
I envy the USA. It's such a large place and your archives are brimming with amazing images. Those images defiantly have a nior feel to them. Maybe it's because their black and white, but they have character.
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here's a building that i have to say that i am not familiar with. it's the metropolitan building which was at 5th and hill
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics49/00044405.jpg Source: LAPL apparently the central public library was housed in the building for 12 years between 1914 and 1926 when it then permanently moved into it's new and current building at hope and 5th. What got me really intrigued about the building, are some of the interior images on the LAPL site of when the library was located here. that means that the images are prior to 1926 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics24/00031866.jpg Source: LAPL http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078956.jpg Source: LAPL http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078951.jpg Source: LAPL http://jpg1.lapl.org/00078/00078959.jpg Source: LAPL could this possibly be the space 18 years later that served as the filming location of walter neff's pacific all risk insurance company in double indemnity? for some reason, i can't seem to find suitable images from the film right now to do some comparisons................... |
Thanks for the photo...any idea what the sign on the top of building says...behind the Holsum Bread sign and trees? "furnished apartments" and....
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http://www.you-are-here.com/broadway/metropolitan.jpghttp://www.you-are-here.com/broadway/metropolitan.html The Metropolitan Theater was at Sixth and Hill -- it's more commonly known as the Paramount, for that's how it spent its days after remodeling -- http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater3/00015540.jpglapl It went from this http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...84-4-ISLA?v=hr usc to http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater3/00015542.jpglapl in 1961...and was a parking lot for twenty years... http://www.you-are-here.com/los_ange...lry_center.jpgyouarehere |
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below: A view from the opposite direction in 1967. The Law Building is still standing (along with it's tiny neighbor to the north). http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5...center1967.jpg uscdl |
The only information I have on this photograph is "A view from the top of the Foy Residence, 1903."
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/316...ofthefoyre.jpg possibly ebay...I'm not exactly sure. |
I vaguely remember a gasometer visible in photos of the 'Black Dahlia' murder scene.
A few days ago I came across this cropped photo from a website. http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/255...meterdeath.jpg This book is very interesting....especially for anyone interested in art and Surrealism. |
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