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More missed Moxley Moderne? Circa '32
Assume the tastefully designed interior was intended for the best behaved and housebroken dogs! http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...HHYP7KXPE7.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...IIT543FCM4.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...G3I2BR15N7.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...QH44YX8SY2.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...MLNA451HAJ.jpg All from CalStLib |
A&P Market, Circa 1930. Location? Citizen's Savings Bank sign suggests Hollywood. Source suggests the location may be in Vernon. Were there multiple Citizen's Savings Bank signs or am I confusing them with similar Hollywood/B of A/Security Pacific signs?
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...2V4U3VU4LH.jpg http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...L89J5IFXGX.jpgCalStLib http://www.scripophily.com/webcart/v...altrustvig.jpghttp://scripophily.net/cinatrsabalo.htmlhttp://images.ha.com/lf?set=path%5B7...oduct.chain%5Dhttp://currency.ha.com/c/item.zx?sal...&lotIdNo=11087 Citizens National Bank: From 5th and Spring to Script. http://www.scripophily.com/webcart/v...uildingvig.jpghttp://scripophily.net/cefiprbucolo.html http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...ywood_1928.jpgwater and Power.org |
Gerry Building (1947) Maurice H. Fleishman
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I found very little: Gerry Building (1947) Maurice H. Fleishman, architect Fleishman (9 Aug 1909-12 Sept 2009) both lived (1011 Lexington Road) and worked (333 S Beverly Drive) in Beverly Hills. He practiced for 48 years. His rendering for the Joelli Building (1955), NE corner, S Beverly Dr & Gregory Way (since remodeled): http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...587&DMROTATE=0 usc digital library |
Hollywood Ranch Market
Nice color noirish pic of the Hollywood Ranch Market, 1954, Vine Street between Fountain and La Mirada (Broadway Hollywood sign, center left margin):
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-n...015%2520PM.jpg dear old hollywood And another showing the tell-tale roof of the former Mandarin Market: http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/d...anchmarket.jpg findadeath The Mandarin Market (M.L. Gogerty, 1928) went in a year after Mann's Chinese went up. It had a full-service market, bakery, restaurant and a Texaco kiosk: http://waterandpower.org/Historical_...Marke_1929.jpg waterandpower.org The Hollywood Ranch Market never closed; it had turnstiles instead of doors. It also had an automated doughnut machine one could watch through the front window. Almost twenty feet of machinery and conveyor belts that did everything from mixing the dough through delivering the finished product. On his last morning, James Dean had coffee and doughnuts here while his Spyder was serviced at Competition Motors across the street at 1219. The Hollywood Ranch Market was my local grocery when I lived in Hollywood not long before it closed forever. ethereal_reality posted some great black & whites earlier: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4160 |
Love the pix of the "Safety Zones"------
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DTLA streetlamps
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1947 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...3&w=1200&h=771 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...9&w=1200&h=771 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7638 Same area looking west. "Sitkin Furs - For the woman by a woman." http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...8&w=1200&h=771 Who knew there were hills west of Ralphs? http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...0&w=1200&h=771 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...5&w=1200&h=771 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7638 |
Santa Monica's Miramar
http://www.miramar-redevelopment.com...of-the-miramar A postcard dream or two . . . http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...=0&w=570&h=771cdlib.org http://0.static.wix.com/media/f0f1b4...33b0b6.jpg_512 December 14, 1937 http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics33/00066084.jpgLapl May 15, 1952 Miramar Dog Show featuring a boxer (J. Dempsey) and some boxers http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics39/00054238.jpgLapl http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...0&w=1200&h=771 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...0&w=1200&h=771cdlib.org 1974 http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics22/00030684.jpglapl http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...=0&w=467&h=756cdlib.org A Dreamy Moreton Bay Fig Tree http://i.rentalo.com/images/Santa-Mo...2_1924207l.jpghttp://rentalo.com/64648/thefairmontmiramar.html |
Mid 1930s. Christmas season, Block 100 of E. 4th Street, Santa Monica.
http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...0&w=1131&h=771 cdlib.org "Santiago Bldg." West side of N. Main Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Santa Monica http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...3&w=1088&h=771 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...9&w=1200&h=771 cdlib.org |
Topanga Canyon
Tent City, Circa '30 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...4&w=1200&h=771 Summit, Circa '40 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...2&w=1200&h=771 Circa '43 http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?i...05&w=719&h=771 All from cdlib.org |
May 21, 1945 - Frank's Nurseries in Santa Monica. Does Building still exist? (
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Surfridge Los Angeles Ghost Town
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Wings of a Goose
On June 11-12, 1946, the two wings of the Spruce Goose were towed 28 miles at 2 mph from the Hughes Airport in Culver City to Long Beach, where the plane was assembled. Along the way, 2,100 power and telephone lines were moved.
Here in this LA Times photo are the two wings on June 11, just after they've been towed from the west end of the airstrip, across a dirt ramp, and onto southbound Lincoln Blvd: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...ne111946-1.jpg In the distance you can just barely see the Culver Blvd bridges over Lincoln Blvd and, to the left, over Ballona Creek. A little closer in is Jefferson Blvd, marked by the line of power poles. Left to right across the picture just north of the trailing wing appears to be a creek, or at least a ditch of some sort. (I remember seeing a culvert under Lincoln in about that spot with 1930 stamped in the concrete.) I'm guessing that's a remnant of Centinela Creek, which historically flowed along the base of the Westchester bluffs and was eventually put in a concrete channel and diverted into Ballona Creek further upstream. Let's use ER's 1947 map to show where this happened. In the b/w photo the wings are about where the red circle is: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...staCircled.jpg And the same view today: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...northtoday.jpg The highrises at upper left are Marina del Rey; the ballfield and sea of condos at right are part of Playa Vista, the development at the old Hughes Airport site. The water west of Lincoln (opposite the T intersection) is part of a manmade freshwater marsh: http://www.ballonafriends.org/restor...ter_marsh.html More info and old pics at: http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10...ruce-goose/#/5 Color photo by me |
A couple of interesting news bits from the LA Times this morning:
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We've had pictures of the Palms Depot in here, right? Any before/after pictures of the Commercial Exchange Building? |
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"Before" pictures are harder to find than I would have thought. Here's an article on the opening of the building in 1924; the second picture, also from that time, shows, if not too clearly, that there were 11 double windows the length of the 8th Street facade.. http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/776...chcomplart.jpgLAT http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/5...h1924adpic.jpgLAT The current picture below reveals the slice taken out of the fourth set of windows (from Olive St) http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6778/commexchnow.jpgGoogleSV Here's one from "in between"... http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/195...capture25n.jpgHistoric Los Angeles |
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It's crazy to believe they could remove a vertical slice from a steel-reinforced concrete 13-story building, then slide the pieces together. what about the foundation and/or basement?! They must have had assistance from space aliens. |
Water & Power Museum
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BTW everyone, I was chatting by email with Jack Feldman, the webmaster over at the Water and Power Museum, and he mentioned that that they rely on visitors to help them correct any mistakes on the site, as they have a very small staff. So, if one see's any inaccuracies in the 3,000 photo descriptions, please let him know. They really appreciate it: webmaster@waterandpower.org |
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