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The waterandpowermuseum site has a few more pictures of them on the start of the following page-http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...ts_Page_2.html I then was curious and street viewed a bit of Wilshire, but the only section that I could find that still has them is the short stretch of Wilshire that runs through MacArthur Park. https://goo.gl/maps/txwejEbDtW52 GSV |
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The forum doesn't resize images automatically I assume? Otherwise the forum will explode with such big image! :P Of course you can use them on your Flickr! Note that all those aerials com from here so don't forget to credit them! :) |
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Disappearance of "Wilshire Specials" has long been lamented here, in addition to other uniquely styled lighting that once adorned LA streets. I suppose I should have been more specific as I was focusing on the simple street lighting on the side street. https://www.google.com/maps/place/S+....3471728?hl=en |
Since I had some spare time today I made some more then/now aerials. The last ones for now, no more spamming the next few days :haha:
The Juxtapose versions are here http://www.weerfotos.be/LA/Blends/19...ills_blend.jpg 1936: Baldwin Hills http://www.weerfotos.be/LA/Blends/19...Town_blend.jpg 1941: West side of Korea Town http://www.weerfotos.be/LA/Blends/19...thLA_blend.jpg 1927: South Los Angeles http://www.weerfotos.be/LA/Blends/1935_Venice_blend.jpg 1935: Venice Greetings from cold Belgium! :) |
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This image is from the north side the 1300 block of Wilshire, between Valencia and Witmer (there are a total of 8 "Wilshire Specials" on the block). Little caryatids grace the four corners of the lantern: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xk...6=w323-h665-no gsv The ever popular "Urban Light", at LACMA on Wilshire, inexplicably does not include "Wilshire Specials". There doesn't appear to be a "Wilshire Special" at the City of Los Angeles Street Light Museum either. ETA: Here's one of the set of four "Wilshire Specials" outside 900 Wilshire Blvd. The shot indicates the scale and allows at peek inside: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ir...h=w483-h535-no bloximages (detail) 900 Wilshire and its beautifully-maintained "Specials": https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ym...O=w890-h474-no gsv 2017 The 4 went missing during demo and construction, but were returned: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ys...A=w841-h450-no gsv 2012 There's a pair on the east side of the block too and more crossing the Harbor. |
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intriguing - eclectic building
Ad found in the El Rodeo, 1909 (USC yearbook)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/rhBzqX.jpg usc digital archive Segnogram Press must have just moved to this location. The 1909 city directory still has the press at 110 E. 4th St https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...922/5U7UW1.jpglapl The 1719 Kane address shows up in the 1913 directory. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/3...922/dwB2WU.jpglapl __ |
Jean Porter died this past weekend (Saturday, Jan 14)
Here's Jean with her husband Edward Dmytryk. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/jxbMC4.jpg getty You might remember Jean from the very early days of the thread (page 257) -in one of my favorite photographs on nla. Quote:
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The above aerial photo of the Coliseum reminded me about a question I have for a photo that was posted here many pages ago.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=17071 This photo is the only one I've seen that has an area of development to the east of the Coliseum on the Agricultural Park/Exposition Park grounds. Earlier photos of the construction show that as flat land, and later as in the aerial a few posts above, it was styled with the current loop with greenery. If the dates are accurate, that means this was only up for a few years, between 1922-1927. Any ideas on what it may have been? Looks substantial for a short term building cluster. |
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Here's the layout of the Segnogram Press on the 1906 Sanborn (Kane is now Clinton and Lakeshore is now Glendale Blvd). Your USC yearbook photo, e_r, shows the building on the west (north is on the right): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...q.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL Here's an undated but early photo of Mr. Segno's corner building: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...5.jpg~original Echo Park Historical Society Way back in March 2016 you posted a photo of the corner building, and Beaudry ID'd it, as well as adding other photos and info very much worth examining. This is that corner building in 1977 (Kent is the next street north of Clinton): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...y.jpg~original 00075492 @ LAPL The Segnogram Press seems to have moved around a bit. By 1913/14 they were at 920-22 Santee: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...r.jpg~original The Inland Printer, Vol 53, Apr-Sep 1914 @ Hathitrust We see just a slice of 920-22 Santee (1913-1987) at the right edge of this c. 1925 photo of Engine Co. No. 9 at 916 Santee (1899-1962): http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.gif~original lafire.com |
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After I finished my post I started finding all these weird connections to Segno. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/OxVnay.jpg chasing down emma "A. Victor Segno does indeed appears "from nowhere" in Los Angeles in April of 1899, conducting lectures on his species of "scientific palmistry" and hypnotism, as of the Segno School of Palmistry, at 445 1/2 S. Spring Street, where he also does readings. He is referred to, at the time, as Prof. Albert Segno, more often than not." ehbritton Segno appeared, with his stereopiton slides, at the Masonic Hall 431 S. Hill. 1899? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/RV9hWc.jpg chasing down emma https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/KCBuUF.jpghttps://imageshack.com/a/img924/1636/wKgpMg.gif ..but this was Segno's cash cow. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/rVdPu4.jpg ehbritton ..with money flowing in from the Segno Success Club, Segno funded his elaborate home and Institute of Mentalism office on the 700 block of Belmont Avenue. -as FW showed us in the previous post. 3rd paragraph down https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/G5vXZ2.jpg ehbritton Alas, Segno's Success Club ended up here... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dty2FX.jpg extra special thanks to ehbritton _ |
Here's another character connected to the Segnogram Press.
William Walker Atkinson https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/S9QWNR.jpg ehbritton Mr. Atkinson was one of the directors in the 1905 creation of the Segnogram Publishing Company (I believe the middle initial N is a misprint :shrug:) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/Dzs4bh.jpg ..which published Segno's first periodical, The Segnogram. top billing for W.W.A. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/O3G5uA.jpg ehbritton Mr. Atkinson's was also editor of 'The Mystic' magazine. (note the Segnogram address 715 Kane St address) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/UwBTdW.jpg international assoc. of spiritual & occult periodicals We've come full circle. :) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/rhBzqX.jpg usc __ |
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And . . . a stone's throw away at Exposition Park is the Nat'l History Museum (sans rose garden), circa 1915. http://exhibits.sos.ca.gov/files/ori...d0eb35460c.jpghttp://exhibits.sos.ca.gov/files/ori...d0eb35460c.jpg http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/defaul...g_slide_06.jpghttp://www.nhm.org/site/sites/defaul...g_slide_06.jpg |
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This image was probably taken before or near the same time as the :previous: Note "Grand Opening" banner. (Was there a separate organically grown section? Raw milk ;) ) Wilshirmart circa, 1935 http://exhibits.sos.ca.gov/files/ori...bddb7ce34b.jpghttp://exhibits.sos.ca.gov/files/ori...bddb7ce34b.jpg |
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