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Just a great pic...
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:previous: The reverse view. The Baldwin Hills were still bare, brown velvet in '49:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T...54006%2BPM.jpg http://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profi...ource=activity The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza was built to emulate the success of the Miracle Mile. Those were great stores. The Broadway is a Walmart now. The Museum of African American Art (MAAA) has been in the May Co (now Macy's) building since 1975. Well worth a visit. http://www.maaala.org/ I got stuck in the frieght elevator there in the 90's when dropping something off at the museum. Also in the 90s Rosa Parks held a book signing at the museum. The line to see her snaked around the entire third floor. Very festive. Good times. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l...54320%2BPM.jpg http://www.flickriver.com/groups/166...l/interesting/ https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k...54759%2BPM.jpg http://www.baldwinhillscrenshawplaza.com/about The Crenshaw May Co even somewhat mimiced the Miracle Mile store. The display windows, "hanging gardens" and signage are now gone: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x...54507%2BPM.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/65359853@N00/4562161785/ |
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Thanks for posting the great photos of the Church of Christ Scientist. I remember the church well, but in its 1960s version. I never realized what it looked like originally. Some of the most picturesque brick/stone and wood buildings in Los Angeles and throughout the U. S. were built from the mid 1880s to mid 1890s, until Beaux-Arts architecture took hold. |
And right next door to the Broadway-Crenshaw (see it back there?)...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8245/8...45c42c81_o.jpg Von's, Los Angeles, Loomis Dean, 1949 Curb Service Von's Von's supermarket is designed for auto shoppers, purchases are made the usual way, checked at counter, and loaded directly into car upon presentation of claim ticket. Los Angeles 1949 jalopyjournal |
View looking northeast from L. A. County Courthouse ca. 1900.
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4...ourthousec.jpg Is that an early natural gas storage tank in the background? http://imageshack.us/a/img255/4760/n...useca1900d.jpg USC Digital Archive |
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Incredible that some municipal employees were still working by gaslight at the old International Bank Building DTLA when the above photo was taken. One could really time travel back then. The divide between pre- and post-war LA was sharp as a knife. |
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I can't let Angeleno Anna May Wong get away without adding a few favorite pix:
Anna May Wong/Wong Liu Tsong ("Frosted Willows") , 3 Jan 1905 - 2 Feb 1961. Born on Flower Street in a German, Chinese, Irish and Japanese neighborhood. In 1910 the Wong's moved to an Eastern European/Latino neighborhood centered on Figueroa. Her father, Wong Sam Sing, owned the Sam Kee Laundry. Chinese-born cinematographer James Wong Howe (1899-1976) was her cousin. Wong was picked to be an extra in the Alla Nazimova's vehicle, "The Red Lantern" (1919), her first film of 50. When Anna May's mother was struck and killed by a car outside the Figueroa Street house in 1930, Wong's father, although a second-generation American, moved to his ancestral village in China, taking some of Anna's younger siblings with him. His first wife and first child (a son, born in 1890) lived there too (he'd been married at the end of the 1880s on a previous trip to China, when he was only 19). He returned to LA in 1938 where he later died at 91, outliving his famous daughter by a year. With her elegant, Edwardian-gowned mom, Lee Gon Toy, and older sister, Lulu/Liu Ying, in Los Angeles, circa 1906: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U...61809%2BPM.jpg http://gingerpost.com/?p=2049 A sensation in Europe (1929): https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-M...62223%2BPM.jpg http://chinarhyming.blogspot.com/200...-dietrich.html Rumoured to have had an affair with Dietrich in Berlin in the 20s, they later made Shanghai Express" (1932) together. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...62634%2BPM.jpg http://blackundwhite.tumblr.com/page/3 (Speaking of Dietrich and Robinson's too, I was rushing through Robinson's 7th St store on my lunch hour in the 70s when I noticed Dietrich sitting on a chair placed on a low, round plinth in the center of the main aisle completely unattended. I have no idea what the occasion was, some promotion I expect. I couldn't stop as my beeper had just gone off meaning there was a truck waiting at the loading dock which I had to deal with, but she looked terrific.) A fave undated photo: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-C...62834%2BPM.jpg http://pinterest.com/pin/138133913542488522/ A little memoir Wong wrote for Pictures Magazine in 1926 is here: http://gingerpost.com/?p=2049 P.S. A dance from "Picadilly": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njtyFAhJ6ZE In her own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rdjiMN_NSs A tribute (stills):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htl-G9kSQf0 Wong's ashes (and those of her younger sister Mary) were buried in their mother's grave at Angelus Rosedale on W Washington Blvd. The sisters' names are etched on the stone in traditional Chinese. Anna May's name, 黃柳霜, is on the right: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...63126%2BPM.jpg find a grave Obviously still a place of pilgrimage. |
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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8255/8...d980b9a5_o.jpg Third Church of Christ, Scientist, S. Hope Street, Los Angeles |
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It says here it was built in 1937. It looks like it would have blended in with the main building. |
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By blended, I meant in architectural style. It was an addition to the main building but I don't know about it being connected or not. I have no idea what the 749,000 square feet refers to. Probably a typo :) |
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7 pictures on page 694. The last exterior pic is from 1965, showing the reading room building added immediately to the left of the tower. The original church site is now a parking lot. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...0/00075525.jpg LAPL |
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I do like that they retained the wall & archway that once connected to the tower. I suppose they didn't really have to keep that. Quote:
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From Time Magazine January 29, 2005: Tall, pretty and sinuously graceful, Wong had a smoldering effect on people, especially men; they could be driven to a purple passion trying to describe her beauty. It's said that her friend Eric Maschwitz wrote the dreamy lyrics to the memorable pop standard These Foolish Things in Wong's honor. A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces An airline ticket to romantic places And still my heart has wings These foolish things Remind me of you A tinkling piano in the next apartment Those stumbling words that told you What my heart meant A fairground's painted swings These foolish things Remind me of you You came, you saw, you conquered me When you did that to me I somehow knew that this had to be The winds of march that make my heart a dancer A telephone that rings, but who's to answer? Oh, how the ghost of you clings These foolish things Remind me of you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsUVKmDHNcg She also had mesmerized set and costume designer Ali Hubert, in his little Wong rhapsody: "On her tender and youthful body, expressing every moment with the indescribable grace of the Oriental woman....only a Van Eyck or a Holbein could capture her on canvas." In 1938 Look magazine named her the "world's most beautiful Chinese girl." TIME magazine, run by, China-born Henry Luce, was a special champion, taking every opportunity to chronicle her social life. All this, for an actress who by convention, was not allowed to kiss her leading man. All this, for a Hollywood star who, at the peak of her popularity, could not have bought a house in Beverly Hills. All this, for a woman (an American citizen) no white man could legally have married in her home state of California, until 1948. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/articl...#ixzz2Q4mwN73W New Chinatown Los Angeles 1938 http://i50.tinypic.com/2im553t.jpg Tumblr.com |
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