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That is fantastic. I work downtown and that will make for a great lunch break. Bonnie Brea has some great apartments to check out. Thanks.
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Seems as that kind of a place would have had its share of noir being so close to Bunker Hill. |
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http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...oc=bonnie+brae But the Vista Grande is listed in the 1926 (as the Vista Grand), 1927, and 1929 LA City Directories at 400 S. Bonnie Brae: http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...nd&submit=Find http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...c=Vista+Grande http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-We...ae&submit=Find The LA County Assessor says it was built in 1923. I hope that's more than you knew before! |
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Torrential downpour 1938, corner of 7th and Grand.
http://imageshack.us/a/img542/9084/a...hgrand1938.jpg ebay Venice 1938, same storm http://imageshack.us/a/img854/5922/a...venice1938.jpg ebay __ |
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Pre - FWY (Late '40s) vvvv http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3283/3...5a9a35df_o.jpghttp://farm4.staticflickr.com/3283/3...5a9a35df_o.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3274/3...40cc7eb9_b.jpghttp://farm4.staticflickr.com/3274/3...40cc7eb9_b.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3142/3...7b4329e2_b.jpghttp://farm4.staticflickr.com/3142/3...7b4329e2_b.jpg Santa Ana Freeway circa '52 - http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...4R9PBUFUMS.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...4R9PBUFUMS.jpg |
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Yes, this was a mega-event, across the entire southland, in Feb/Mar of 1938! The foothill communities, closest to the mtn. canyons, such as Altadena, Pasadena, La Crescenta, LaCanada, Tujunga, etc. were hit very hard with the torrents; and then the L.A. basin just filled up with water, as depicted in these photos. In the first photo, Security First National Bank of Los Angeles. Is that bank building still standing, or is it since removed from the corner? The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was a major flooding event which was responsible for inundating much of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties, California, during early 1938. The flood was caused by a pair of oceanic storms that swept inland across the Los Angeles Basin in February and March 1938, causing abnormal rainfall across much of coastal Southern California. 113 to 115 people perished in the flood, which was one of the most catastrophic disasters in area history. Source: Wiki |
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American Film Noir has a page on the tanks http://americanfilmnoir.com/page21.html although the site owner seems to be under the impression that the DTLA pair three* were the only ones. *Thx BRR! |
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They're gone!!?? When did that happen!!! :P |
1934, another year, same result...
"In November of 1933, what became known as the Pickens Canyon Fire had denuded some 7,000 acres of mountainside north of the Crescenta Valley. Shortly thereafter the area was beset by weeks of steady rains, and on December 31 showers that had begun to fall intensified to a downpour that dropped a record 7.31 inches in 24 hours (in pale comparison Los Angeles’ total rainfall this year, 2009, so far is around 9 inches). By midnight when the city was ringing in 1934, the San Gabriels began wringing out massive flows of mud, rocks and trees down dozens of steep narrow canyons, which reached the basin floor as 20-foot walls of debris-choked torrents..."
Blogging Los Angeles, Will Campbell http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8391/8...7406aa95_o.jpg New Year's flood, Glendale, Montrose, Los Angeles,1934 Photo shows A. Van EEnooghe at 2615 Manhattan Avenue in Montrose, digging out debris caused by flooding. LAPL "Well, I got one here that I wrote up, uh [pauses]. When all of these okies got to California, it was a sort of a natural thing for them to drift down to all the river bottoms, along all the mountain streams and all the creeks. I know that I’ve been in a lot of okie camps in California where a hard-working man didn’t make a dollar every two weeks. And all he depended on was maybe the fish he could catch along some of the rivers or some of the creeks..." Woody Guthrie, 1934 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8123/8...7f1a6108_o.jpg New Year's flood, Glendale, Montrose, Los Angeles,1934 (2) This home in Montrose was gutted by mud, rocks and water that came through the back of the house. No one was around at that time. LAPL "So along these rivers and creeks that all these Okies was camped around, why there was a lot of things happened that sort of go down as a black mark somewhere another in history because these mountain streams and all these rivers had a habit of having cloudbursts – big rains and cloudbursts — and they’d hit up on the mountains and they’d flood all them rivers and they’d flood all them creeks. And in fifteen minutes time – a lot of times – it’d wash away five- or six-hundred families of people and totally take everything that they had in the world..." Woody Guthrie, 1934 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8525/8...2868e41b_o.jpg New Year's flood, Glendale, Montrose, Los Angeles,1934 (3) After great quantities of debris piled up behind small check dams and water pipes crossing Pickens Canyon, the dams and pipes gave way under the heavy pressure. Wall after wall of water was sent down the canyon. This water hurtled down upon La Crescenta and Montrose. The arrow points out one of the pipes. A few feet back of it was a check dam, five and a half feet high, which also was broken. In the foreground are boys holding some wire that was part of the dam structure. LAPL "In 1934 on New Year’s night was one of the worst that ever hit at anywhere and anytime and it killed over one hundred people – and that many was reported; I guess there was a hundred more than there was reported. But then they had all the morgues and all the funeral homes and all the church houses full of people that was drowned in this storm. And it rolled great big boulders down all the streets of Montrose, California; Tujunga, California; and all down the streets of Glendale, California; northern Burbank, California — and Los Angeles, California, the same thing..." Woody Guthrie, 1934 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8...d75ce940_o.jpg New Year's flood, Glendale, Montrose, Los Angeles,1934 (4) Scene near Rossmoyne, where torrents swept away 400 feet of La Canada Boulevard and buried autos under rocks and mud. The arrow points out an auto in which one body was found. Glendale High school student, Dean Meredith, peers into the second car hidden by whole trees and debris. LAPL |
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A friend's brother, hands cuffed behind his back, was beaten to death by guards here. I love LA, but this town will break. your. heart. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N...42635%2BPM.jpg gsv |
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A third tank hiding in plain sight? :naughty: Look again and you may see that the tallest tank seems to be eclipsing a smaller tank. Would expect this to be very evident with aerial shots, but I have taken things for granted . . . |
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Beaudry put up a nice post on construction here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3592 |
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Thanks for bringing back memories of the coin and paper currency dept. at Robinson’s. I had forgotten all about it. I didn’t buy much, since I was young and didn’t have much money – I was 10 years old in 1958. But I continued to stop there well into my teens and perhaps early 20s at which time I did buy some U. S. currency. I also collected stamps and went often to the Natick Store on 4th near Spring. I distinctly remember an older guy named Archie with white hair and think he may have been the owner. Robinson's ca. 1917, not long after opening http://imageshack.us/a/img248/3928/r...cardca1917.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img707/3928/r...cardca1917.jpg ebay images |
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http://departmentstoremuseum.blogspo...s-angeles.html We shopped downtown when I was a kid and in Hollywood, as well as the Miracle Mile, of course, although my mother actively disliked anything pre-war (especially our house). She wouldn't have cared if it was a Ming vase, she thought everything pre-war should be swept away. Her favorite store was the glamorous Beverly Hills Robinson's. A better match between store and customer has never existed: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-e...43430%2BPM.jpg http://departmentstoremuseum.blogspo...s-angeles.html (Wm Pereira, 1952 - Interiors by Raymond Loewy - Landscaping by Florence Yoch) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...g-tribute.html I seem to recall that at the grand opening, or maybe it was a later promotion, bubble machines were placed on the entrance canopies so one entered the store surrounded by bubbles scented with Joy, "the world's most expensive perfume". What a place. |
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I got a lot of my coins at Robinson's, too! It was mostly at the one in Pasadena, though. The last coin my mom bought me was a MS-64 1876 20-cent piece at the Downtown Robinson's. It's worth more than a pretty penny now. :D http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...ted20cents.jpg coinauctionshelp.com |
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