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First our initial image of the intersection in about 1910... https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5600/1...2636fc3a_o.jpgLooking southeast from the Mira Hershey property at 4th Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1910 Please notice the angle by which we're looking at the Fremont. And now in 1925 from down below... https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8568/1...8d170fb4_o.jpgLooking west from Hill Street as the subway tunnel and building goes in, 1925 Great image of the construction site as the PE Hill Street Station is converted to a massive building and entrance to a subway tunnel which will cross Bunker Hill to Toluca Yard (1st/2nd/Beverly Boulevard/Glendale Boulevard). Here they have breached the Olive Street roadbed and spanned the vacated Olive Street School/Health Department property. The Trenton (on the left) and the Fremont (on the right) look on nervously. The Leonard Rose Mansion at 4th Street and Grand Avenue can be seen behind the Fremont. Nice image of actual steam shovels at work. LAPL And finally, here's a shot of the Hill Street terminal prior to the subway going in and prior to the first subway building going in on the south side of the open air railhead. (you'll notice the Fremont back there, we're looking northwest in this shot) https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3789/1...0698cea1_o.jpgPacific Electric Hill Street Station, 1922 Looking northwest across Hill Street with the Pacific Electric Station on the left and the boarding platforms to the right. Wright & Callender Building at SW 4th and Hill Streets on the right and the Fremont with the peaked turrets center back. LAPL |
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And yes, there really is a Toluca Lake in Toluca Lake, but because the shoreline is entirely private, and well hidden, few have ever seen it. I've only ever viewed it via google maps: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/r-...A=w837-h511-no google maps The owners pay for the water to keep it topped up. |
This Julius Shulman photoset appears to contain pictures of at least three different locations. I've just picked out three of the building named in the title. It's "Job 5438: Darrell Howe, United Community Church (Glendale, Calif.), 1977".
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original A look under the arches. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original Going by the octagonal shape, this must be the interior. I wish there was a color version of this one. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute The United Community Church still stands at 333 E Colorado Street, Glendale. From the outside I can't see many changes. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV |
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Amazingly enough, the architect for the 1931 market was Robert V Derrah (Crossroads of the World, Coca-Cola Building). The much remodeled building has been Canter's since 1953 |
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If that's Olive , okay, but what's the cross street? I interpreted your message as that being 4th And where is the Masonic Bldg- not yet built?. It was on the west side of Hill St Station, several stories right on the property line regards Ed Hmmmm I wonder if I have my compass rotated 90 |
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https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3854/1...c60fc1d4_o.jpgP.E. Hill Street Station, ca.1920 Next door to the Masonic Temple built in 1896. The P.E. Hill Street Station served an outdoor railhead which sat just out of frame to the right. Large building directly behind the Masonic Lodge is the Trenton on Olive. USC digital archive/Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 As you can see it is south of the PE terminal, rather than west. |
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I've stitched together two plates of the 1921 Baist map to try and show the layout of the various buildings mentioned. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original www.historicmapworks.com/www.historicmapworks.com |
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Here's the church today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/LQXUXW.jpg https://horizonskyline.files.wordpre...saic-front.jpg Are we Howard Elwell didn't tear it down and start over? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...922/ucTste.jpg google_earth __ |
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Looking at the footprint of the original church, there can't have been much of it left if it was re-designed. |
:previous: Here's an image from 1977 with 'Fifth Church of Christ Scientist' still on the facade.
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Looks like all that was left of the old building was part of the basement... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/o3...Q=w619-h793-nohttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BK...A=w608-h792-no And the 1916 BP: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YJ...Q=w502-h810-no |
As well as the 1916 Fifth Church of Christ Scientist, 7107 Hollywood Blvd, Frank Meline did 5540 Hollywood Blvd in 1921:
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s6...A=w698-h544-no wiki Colorized: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zJ...Q=w678-h419-no ladailymirror Many Frank Meline residences are still standing. This 1917 example, relentlessly maintained at 5137 Franklin, is two doors west of Lloyd Wright's Sowden House: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xX...A=w774-h358-no gsv Meline's 1922 Ruskin Art Club building, 800 S Plymouth, now a private home, is much more subdued and, like many of Meline's buildings, makes charming use of Batchelder tile: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uw...A=w739-h489-no lacurbed Some fascinating info on Frank Meline. He was a big deal in his day, now all but forgotten: https://homesteadmuseum.wordpress.co...est-july-1926/ |
When I first saw this photograph a week or so ago on ebay, the noirishly titled 'Big DIME Cafe' immediately caught my eye. (there's a 'Servicemen Welcome' sign above the door)
1950 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...923/QmYVcA.jpg It was only later that I noticed the 'Follies Village' on the other end of the building. A few years back I found a matchbook from the 'Follies Village', and tovanger2 did an excellent post on it's location in the old Morgan Building. (on Main St.) Here's tovangar2's original post chock-full of information. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31003 t2 included this insurance map showing it was next door to the famous (infamous?) Follies Theater. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/r9JMzk.jpg But I don't believe we ever found a photograph of the 'Follies Village' in situ. (UNTIL NOW!) __ |
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Thank you ScottyB and e_r for the follow-ups.
Wow, the Follies Village with neon. What a treat. And Toluca Lake was lovely back in the day (just look at all the tule), especially compared to what it's become. Shoulda been a park. You can make anything out of tule. A house, a boat, floor mats, sandals, hats, baskets. It's good for anything except eating. ........................................................................... While looking for an image of that little 1880s house on the SE corner of W 4th and S Olive when nestled in its original neighborhood, I remembered the image below. It doesn't show the house in question, which is out of shot to the left, but does give a sense of the neighborhood before serious urbanization hit. The pretty house in the lower-left corner is going to fall for the P.E. rail yard. RB Young's Broxtburn/Park Hotel (just right-of-center, with the turret) at the NE corner of W 5th and S Hill, looks startlingly new. Hazard's great barn of a pavilion is at right facing out-of-view Central Park: Quote:
By 1871 though, a few hardy pioneer families had joined them in the hinterlands: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9m...Q=w779-h375-no ucla . |
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A host of Hudson & Munsells: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3665/3...561748c2_o.png Pico/Figueroa, 1907-1985 usc https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/707/32...fd7f5642_o.png Scottish Rite, 929 S Hope, 1906-1970 https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2923/3...fe425a03_o.png Shrine Auditorium, 649 W Jefferson, burns 1920, replaced 1926 https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/763/33...6675256e_b.jpg Elks Lodge, 300 S Olive, 1910-1962 (latter three images, postcards) No great surprise, Hudson & Munsell were also responsible for the recently-discussed 1910 Elks Lodge in Pedro. |
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https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5600/1...2636fc3a_o.jpgLooking southeast from the Mira Hershey property at 4th Street and Grand Avenue, ca.1910 I believe we're looking southeast from the now-vacant property from which Almira Hershey's house was moved back in '06. The house catty corner across the intersection is the house for which T2 has been looking. |
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Follies, June '56 - NEW SHOW EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT! http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/o...o.jpg~originalhttp://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...0coll2/id/8679 |
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