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:previous: I love the vintage aerials FW. I've been trying to figure out the USCB site but haven't had much luck yet.
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It had one of the most impressive retail interiors in the city (at that time). http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...923/UmeFer.jpg https://issuu.com/wh-mag/docs/whm-autumn-2016* "In 1983, the space was purchased by Doug and Susie Tompkins, owners of the popular San Francisco-based Esprit de Corp. clothing brand. The site was to become the company’s first freestanding retail store. The couple quickly began a $15-million, 15-month renovation of the building and hired famed designer Joseph D’Urso to carry it out. He remodeled both the interior and the exterior of the property and added a three-story, 150-space parking lot. The 32,000-square foot store, which became Esprit’s flagship, opened in December 1984." *Esprit clothing was pretty expensive so mostly I just walked around and pretended to shop. :sad: Martin_Pal researched the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and La Cienega for a post back in 2013. You can find it here: skyscraperpage/martin_pal It's an amazing post. Check it out. (and all the photographs have survived the recent purge) _______________ slufty, I believe you meant to say the bus was on N. La Cienega, right? (or am I looking at it wrong?) :shrug: |
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Greetings hivemind, got a favor to ask.
I'm doing some work on the Richfield and am not having a lot of luck finding a good shot of that NW corner of 6th and Flower pre-1928. I'm sure at some point I saw an image of area, perhaps from a panorama? But coming up empty now. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance. |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/HL0fyD.jpg divinemarilyn I believe you're correct Tikiman Here's a second image that shows a matching patio table. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...922/2dqqx6.jpg divinemarilyn "Marilyn Monroe in a bikini at Johnny Hyde's house." Photographed by Earl Leaf, May 1950. __ |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original Several stores had peace-themed ads. Silverwoods' ad has only its name along with a man and woman with their hands clasped in prayer. However, I thought I'd show Desmond's ad instead: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original All FW photos |
Thanks so much for posting the newspaper(s) Flyingwedge. You da man. :)
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These help a lot, and I am studying these now, and having fun with the time machine areal resource. At this point, they seem like the same trees, close to 80 years ago, but I want to study it more. I'm downloading images as we speak. I'll keep posting as this develops. |
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If you live in California get a library card and password from the Los Angeles City not county Library. Their on line database allows you get sandbord maps form 1901 to 1951. that should get you a footprint of that corner. Also you can get issues of all the LA times newspaper from the city library web site too, The trick to using the times newspaper is to search for somebody common like Roosevelt then almost all the issues from 1931 to 45 are accessible from the times.. |
Here is VE day newspaper my dad had
https://preview.ibb.co/j6OpSQ/1942_m...1_VE_day_1.jpg next page https://preview.ibb.co/hdcNgk/1942_m...2_VE_day_1.jpg |
I was only an infant at that time....so its hard for me to understand the joy and relief felt by those who had lived through WW II. The faces of the people in those photographs tell part of the story of that day.
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Northwest corner of where 6th Street intersects Flower Street. Seen are businesses, billboards, and a glimpse of Hotel Ryan and the Jonathan Club (upper left). http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...6thFlower1.jpg LAPL |
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That last photo; the advertisement by "Desmonds": Let this day be an eternal warning to all evil men who deny human rights and outrage human decency. Indeed... |
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Not a 'good' shot but something... https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8857/...f1d33c32_b.jpgThe Hotel Snow, SW corner of Flower and 6th Streets, April 25, 1912 Looking southwest across the intersection of Flower and 6th Streets. The Hotel Snow will ultimately become the Southland (by 1916). The Richfield tower will occupy this corner on the right supplanting this little grocery store. Huntington Digital Library |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Z8...Q=w763-h622-no gsv The ghost of the Richfield is in there somewhere. ETA: "Angels Flight Reopens Thursday" |
I notice they're painting over the sign on the side of the building.
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...924/KTlLK2.jpg And what about the billboard on the roof? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...923/NMJgG7.jpgdetail I see City and Site....what are the other two words? _ |
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It only appears in the 1928 CD, but I think that the billboard was advertising the Deauville City Club, which was at 525-526 Pacific Bank Building, northwest corner of Hill and Ninth Streets. I'm guessing that it was connected with the one on the coast. I couldn't find a Sunset Cafe around that area. The corner building (801 W 6th Street) was a restaurant in the mid-20s, but always seems to be listed under the owner's name. I'll keep looking. |
Boyle Avenue from 1st to 4th, July 14, 1949
Here's one more for you, GatoVerde:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...s.jpg~original Flight c-13990_1-105 @ UCSB The trees on Boyle just north of 4th seem to be good-sized in all four aerials from UCSB (1941, 1949, 1960, 1971). It's hard for me to believe the trees there are only 50-60 years old, as the city claims. |
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The Deauville City Club building never actually got off the ground--it was indeed meant to be an adjunct to the one on the coast, which we've seen on NLA before. Among those who hoped to create a unisex downtown club to answer the California and the Jonathan etc were industrialist Charles Wild and hotelier George Hart of Fremont Place and AAA prexy Horace Miller and banker Fred Swensen of Berkeley Square--Morgan Walls & Clements came up with a design for it, as the firm had for the beach club...never built, but the architects did, of course, produce the Richfield building on the same site.... (More here) https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Vl...A=w637-h634-no |
Help...
Anybody put a name on this beautiful building in the background?
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4441/...6b6ded1a_b.jpgChristmas decoration, Hollywood Boulevard, 1930 Kind of a spare image (in a good way). I feel as though I should recognize that beautiful building back there. Hoping to find out. |
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