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Here's another photo (from the same seller) that has a certain 'Wow' factor. Lincoln Park, Los Angeles 1890s. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/Jjn29z.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1890s-Long-B...3D152598913199 I'm not 100% sure which direction we're looking or what buildings are shown... but I can say the church looks somewhat 'Russian' (how close was the Molokan enclave 'Russian Flats' to Lincoln Park?) __ update: I just reread the seller's description and he/she believe the photo is of Long Beach. (?) "Lincoln Park, once known as Pacific Park. The park was created in 1887 and was the first in the city of Long Beach." |
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"An unidentified interior location in Los Angeles." [1890s] http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...922/X619kz.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/1890s-Long-B...%257Ciid%253A1 At first I thought the framed 'pic' on the left was a collection of business cards...but it might be a map of some sort. The shop appears to be selling clocks and bric-a brac (?) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/gIdsv4.jpg detail |
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The ebay seller is correct; I was able to find more information. Here's an ad for the Carnival of Flowers. In 1893 the YMCA was at 207-211 S. Broadway. |
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:previous: Easily confused? The Hawthorn and Hawthorne spellings almost suggest they are one and the same. Is 7033 Hawthorne Avenue "a stone's throw from the Roosevelt Hotel?":shrug: Per '36CD, 7033 Hawthorn Av. (without the "e") was occupied by "The New York Bridge Club." By '42, the same address was occupied by chiropractors, Max Braddock and M.H. Braden. |
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Hawthorn Avenue is the street parallel to Hollywood Blvd. a block south. It connects to Orange Grove on the east and La Brea to the west. I don't know if it was in 1934, but now you enter the Roosevelt Hotel's parking lot on Orange Grove and you exit on Hawthorn at the corner of Orange Grove. So it's very likely you could throw a stone, at least from the roof, to 7033 Hawthorn Avenue. Now, the entire street seems to consist of apartment buildings. It's not clear what exactly is now at 7033, there's a long low brown building with no signage indicating an apartment bldg. or anything else. |
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The photo of Sascha with Carmen Miranda makes him look shorter than she was, and she was under 5 feet tall! When I tried to find out his height on imdb, I noticed that The Sascha Brastoff Esplanade, 246 26th Street, Santa Monica, California that you mentioned was a filming location in the 1973 B-movie The Candy Snatchers. |
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But I must add that the West Olympic building was spectacular.:tup::tup::tup: There is no doubt that Sascha left his mark upon the LA area but just what was that mark? |
Let's start the week with a trip to the sea. This is Julius Shulman's "Job 1780: Kliegman and Leizer, Sea View Motel, 1954". You know the story - this is about half of the set.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original A look around the back. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original I believe the sea view in the motel's name is at the far right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original This deck area looks to be a good size. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original The last two images show the interior of one of the rooms. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original I'll finish with this shot looking back to the central courtyard. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute It was a pleasant surprise to find the Seaview Motor Hotel virtually unchanged at 1760 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original GSV |
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Notably, Hawthorn and Highland border Hollywood High's Memorial Auditorium. 1929 - Before the air was conditioned. http://waterandpower.org/3%20Histori...Auditorium.jpghttp://waterandpower.org/3%20Histori...Auditorium.jpg http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...oll65/id/24338 |
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I agree, Doug. In my opinion, his work looks kitschy/50's - but obviously it WAS hot stuff for several years - and there are plenty of people who collect Sascha Brastoff items...so, to each his own. It would be interesting to see those early terra-cotta "whimsies" that sold out at a NY gallery around 1941 - supposedly even the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought one. According to one source, there is a Life Magazine article about the gallery show. And yes, the building was beautiful. If it still stood it would surely be listed in L.A architectural guides. |
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___ It was great seeing the Shulman photos of the Seaview Motor Hotel Hoss. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/mRtjoG.jpgdetail I think Biff up in J-7 is trying to organize a party. The nice looking blonde at the bottom reminds me of Joi Lansing http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...922/Z5LupL.jpg for some reason ;) |
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ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/zjUxlP.jpg They left out an important detail; that the building was suppose to connect with the floors of the Alexander Hotel next door. _ |
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http://a.scpr.org/i/e60e33e76be02ac1...50567-wide.jpg From a good story linked in post 20797 (2014): http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp...to-be/?slide=3 There were a number of posts about the Alexandria annex in 2012-- below are some links, although most of the images are gone.... post 8332 post 9979 Here is a link to a DT News story pulled from one post: http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/b....88086&cbst=38 |
Hey guys,
I'm not sure if it has been mentioned before, but UCSB released an amazing tool for aerial photography. There are hundreds (thousands?) of images of Los Angeles from 1927 onwards. Check it out! http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_indexes/FrameFinder/ |
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"Famed factory, gallery and tropical gardens. . ." https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...ce3a9b4684.jpghttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...ce3a9b4684.jpg |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...924/FwkGXO.jpg Thanks to Hoss for these Sascha Brastoff building photos |
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