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human-scale streetlamps
Speaking of out-of-scale streetlamps and etc.. I often notice when streetlamps are "replaced" for filming to add charm and scale to locations.
Here's a grab from a TV show shot on the 1300 block of Cota in Torrance. I guess one's supposed to not notice the big, out-of-scale, arched lamp in the background: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-b...219%2520PM.jpg netflix In the 70's (before my time here) city crews showed up here on the old Janss tract in West LA to junk our original streetlamps and replace them with a couple of big, new arched ones per block. Apparently, the residents chased them off with torches and pitchforks. The city hasn't bothered with us since. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Y...103%2520PM.jpg gsv I'm sure our lamps are horribly inefficient and they're the worst when it comes to light pollution but they're human scale and friendly. Plus I'm sure taking them out would have a negative effect on RE prices. |
Myer Siegel House Gutted by Fire
Once Myer Siegel's mansion, by 1941 a rooming house:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...702%2520PM.jpg reddawg - ebay listed as being at 1337 South Hope The contrast could not be more stark: Myer Siegel's, Westwood, 1937: http://jpg1.lapl.org/00098/00098486.jpg first posted by BifRayRock Old & decrepit vs. clean and new |
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Natural Gas.....
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At one time these huge natural gas holding tanks dominated the skyline of Los Angeles. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps4112675d.jpg |
The Up Hotel, (A L Haley,1902), Ceres & Central
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Was it actually called the "Up Hotel" or is part of the sign missing? https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-o...550%2520AM.jpg lapl I'm really relating to the lady who's dragged a chair outdoors to sit in the shade and get some relief from the obvious heat. |
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Rather than the "Up" it's the U P Hotel (525 S Central), which appears to have been its name from the mid '20s to at least the mid '40s. I'm thinking that it may be "U.P." as in Union Pacific...do I see periods after the U and the P? |
The environs of Ceres Avenue have always intrigued me... in its obscurity the east side between Main Street and the river seems somehow to be the real vintage Los Angeles.... Here are a few
scenes of the neighborhood... http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/819...scompl1300.jpg 710 Ceres Street... http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5...scompl1300.jpg 1228 East 8th Street... http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/9...acompl1300.jpg Northeast corner of South San Pedro and Agatha streets... we might have seen this before... http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/3...scompl1300.jpg Looking south down Stanford Ave from East 6th... at left is the Ellis Hotel. A fuller view is below. http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7976/ellisfull1300.jpg And this bring us back to the La Jolla, catty-corner to the Ellis: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_z...23343%20PM.jpg More here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2994 All b&w: LAPL; color: GoogleSV |
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lapl Source notes describe the property as once being a "high class hotel," without naming it. Per 1915 directory, the building may have been dubbed the "Hotel Matson," 511-525 S. Central Ave. When full, the concierge recommends the Hotel St. Louis at 653 S. Central Ave. :rolleyes: http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...earch_doc=2441 Then, there's always the more-substantial Produce Hotel at 676 S. Central. http://farm1.staticflickr.com/47/137...c9fb837a_o.jpgFlickr South Vignes Street (?) http://farm1.staticflickr.com/52/137...a4b03eae_o.jpgFlickr East 4th Street Bridge http://farm1.staticflickr.com/46/137...9abb311b_o.jpgFlickr |
the Warehouse District / A. L. Haley Co.
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...336%2520PM.jpg lapl It is an interesting (and inexpensive) neighbohood. As we saw in the Rat Lab and Castle Cottage Cheese posts there used to be quite a few single-family homes on the cross streets, all gone now. There's still some apts and SRO hotels on the north/south streets, but really, the housing is minimal. P.S. A little more on the architect of the Ceres/Central hotel, "Identified with the grand and progressive work of modernizing Los Angeles": "A. L. Haley, Architect (Inc.) A. L. Haley, known to property owners, contractors and builders as "the lawyer-architect," Is president of the A. L. Haley Architect company (Inc.), and Is prominently Identified with the grand and progressive work of modernizing Los Angeles and suburban cities in the line of planning and constructing solid and ornamental buildings, both in the business and residence districts. The new offices of the Haley company are In suite 631, Citizens National Bank building, on the southwest corner of Third and Main streets, the rooms being fitted up In fine style and with special consideration for the comfort and convenience of the large force of skilled draughtsmen in the employ of the company. Mr. Haley, who is recognized as among the best architects of the United States, is a native of Malone, N. Y. At the early age of 15 he won first prize for artistic drawing at the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia, and subsequently In competition with twenty-two architects he produced the plans drawn and accepted for the Blue Garth county court house erected at Mankato, Minn., the building being erected at a cost of $200,000. ln Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle and other coast cities Mr. Haley Berved as a volunteer during the >SpaninhAmerican war In the ship building department in the Union iron works at San Francisco. Since locating in Los Angeles Mr. Haley has had charge of improvements Involving the expenditure of millions of dollars and In all his dealings with contractors and property owners he has enjoyed their full confidence as to his ability and Integrity. He planned and built the Harry Harrington at the corner of Fifth and Central, the Touralne on Hope street, the Wllhelm on Grand avenue, the Maryland on Grand avenue, the Bisbee, now the Manhattan, on Bast Third street, and has drawn the plans for the great Tlvoll, to be erected on South Spring street. He has built scores of dwellings and bungalows In Los Angeles and in the suburbs, all bearing the impress of his skill and excellence." -quoted from Los Angeles Herald, Volume 34, Number 167, 17 March 1907 http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdn...ARTICLE---1907 Haley collaborated with AC Martin on the Higgins Building (1910): http://www.steventeoh.com/la-graphic...g-lofts-05.jpg higginsbuildinglofts Apparently Clarence Darrow had his offices here while defending the LA Times bombers. More on the Higgins: http://blogdowntown.com/2010/09/5689...-building-hits And a little more on the Lanterman house: http://www.metropolitanmoneypit.com/...man-house.html http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...1_M15558-40553 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ened_Porch.JPG wiki |
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0...2520PM.bmp.jpgLAT Feb 2, 1909
I'm fascinated by poor 'ole Wiley's viewing his demise as "trying a change".... |
Central Manufacturing District Terminal, Vernon
Designed by Chicago architect Frank Chase and built in 1924, the Central Manufacturing District Terminal (CMDT) was located at 4814 Loma Vista in Vernon. You can read about the creation of the Central Manufacturing District in Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s, edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell (University of California Press, 2001).
Here's an early view, when it housed the Westland Warehouses: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...intheday-1.jpg http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics18/00018837.jpg The CMDT, before its two wings were extended, is at the extreme left of this 1926 view. The LA Union Stock Yards (thanks to tovangar2 and alanlutz for your kind words about my stock yards post :tup:) are just left of the LA River, above and to the right of the CMDT: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...926LARiver.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics17/00028269.jpg The tower held a water tank. I wish this picture was in color to better see the tile: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...rcloseup-1.jpg http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics39/00069377.jpg There was a rooftop restaurant, the Executive Club, along with a patio garden: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ntgarden-1.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00100/00100719.jpg This tile-covered planter looks a little weedy. Or is it an overgrown fountain? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...tgarden2-1.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00100/00100718.jpg 1956 rear view: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ookingwest.jpg http://jpg1.lapl.org/00089/00089270.jpg Near the end, mid-1980s: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...11flickr-1.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/emd111/...n/photostream/ According to an October 1986 LA Times article, and the Pacific Coast Warehouse Company website, the PCWC moved to Chino in May 1987, just before the CMDT was fatally damaged by the October 1987 Whittier Narrows Earthquake and subsequently torn down. Good timing, PCWC! http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-...ajestic-realty http://www.pcwc.com/news [First six pics from LAPL; last pic from emd111 on flickr] |
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http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7038/producecompl.jpgLAT March 27, 1938 |
CMDT, Vernon
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...619%2520PM.jpg emd111/flickr https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...620%2520PM.jpg http://www.pcwc.com The new facility :-( https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-D...616%2520PM.jpg http://www.pcwc.com But, hey, palms. I do like a nice tile & concrete dome: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Hall_Nima1.JPG wiki BHCH (Wm Gage, 1932) |
FMLY Fest 2012 - LA Fort on NOTORIOUS Ceres Ave
OK people, be there or be square. 2nite & tomorrow:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S...608%2520PM.jpg http://www.fmlyfest.org/storage/Scre...=1356650827613 http://www.fmlyfest.org/storage/Scre...=1356650703183 A fave: Truman Peyote, 2nite @9:20 on notorious Ceres Ave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KDzFCG5C_I ten bucks for one night/$15 for both https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-S...143%2520PM.jpg LA Times, 10 Feb 1914 |
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736 Ceres
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[QUOTE=tovangar2;5936751]The Afton Arms (6141 Afton Place at El Centro, Hollywood) rivals even the Alexandria Hotel for faded glamour, murders, drug-deals-gone-wrong and a clinging rep for noir. Persistently, but implausibly, rumored to have been built at the behest of Joseph P. Kennedy for Gloria Swanson (she was said to have frequented the only two-story apartment in the building, a luxe space with a spiral staircase). Gracious, beautifully-appointed apartments with dressing rooms and luxurious Batchelder-tiled bathrooms, together with spacious, light-filled hallways (courtesy of each apartment's French front door) made the place, nicknamed the Malaga Castle, a highly desirable address for actors and directors working at nearby Columbia, RKO and Paramount. Dumbwaiters ferried meals to residents from the basement kitchens. In 1947 the Hollywood Ten used the Grand Ballroom for meetings to plan their response to HUAC. After hitting a real low in the 1970's (unfortunately the time I knew it), the Afton Arms is struggling back. Designed by Leland Bryant in 1924, five years before he did the Sunset Tower/Argyle/St James Club. Historic Cultural Monument #463.
Afton Arms (Leland Byant, 1924) https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...h0ycoGux3EdX3A the city project/flickr 6141 Afton Place, at El Centro http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...m/16903653.jpg panoramino http://blog.allanellenberger.com/wp-...s/SSC_0046.JPG allenellenberger.com https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...2tj3hBJU-Yp8WQ ecru64/flickr the discreet side door http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yd9qV02w6q...-side-door.JPG hollywoodrounder Gloria Swanson, 1919 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zAoyoHwC5I...%281919%29.jpg lolitaclassics 7 of Ten http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk...llywood10a.jpg spartacus Stars march in support of the Ten http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_myX5Q4qMDh...l-baca-480.jpg truthdig My first apartment was at the Afton Arms when I moved to Hollywood in 1976. Looks much nicer now. |
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The Afton Arms
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I remember how much the tenants loved the building, even at its worst. One couple I knew had their baby born at home there, b/c they liked it so much. |
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