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
 

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m...712%2520PM.jpg

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

One of Citizens Bank's founders (1890) was none other than Thaddeus SC Lowe, of Mt. Lowe fame. http://blog.wellsfargo.com/guidedbyh...tizenship.html

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3...ddeauslowe.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=754
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=745

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"------

Somehow I doubt if they would pass muster these days.....LOL

DTLA streetlamps
 

When did we lose the great DTLA five-globe streetlamps?

May 21, 1945 - Frank's Nurseries in Santa Monica. Does Building still exist? (


http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1r29n7bv/hi-res

Surfridge Los Angeles Ghost Town
 

http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps481e9883.jpgPhoto-tumblr
http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/...ps46485990.jpgphoto-tumblr

ca. 1931) - Early 5-globe street light at Second and Hill Streets
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/9...reetlights.jpg
water and power.org

tovangar2: If you are interested in the history of street lights in Los Angeles, this is a very good website:

http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...eetlights.html

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:

http://www.latimes.com/business/real...0,293355.story

We've had pictures of the Palms Depot in here, right?

Any before/after pictures of the Commercial Exchange Building?

http://heritagesquare.org/wp-content...ore/palms1.jpg
http://heritagesquare.org/wp-content...ore/palms2.jpg
images - heritagesquare.org

http://heritagesquare.org/about/tour

"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

^^^

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
 

Thx FredH, I know the W&P site. They show the lamps into the late 30's and then mention that a few were still around in the 50s. I was hoping to find out when the bulk of them went missing. Probably a post-war "progress" effort.

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