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Now, back to the City of Angeles... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...0/833/ezza.jpgebay The cover of a 1956 brochure |
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http://hollywoodlocations.com/100-wi...nica-ca-90401/ http://www.hollywoodlocations.com/wp...Wilshire_1.jpg http://hollywoodlocations.com/100-wi...nica-ca-90401/ Anyone want to take a guess on who had this 21 story Santa Monica building constructed that is often called the "Refrigerator" and resided in it for number of years? |
End of an era............
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Brochure a la 1955
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Here's a 1955 Buick brochure.... Century Riviera model 63. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps34315144.jpg |
Who Lived There?
Hello Retired_in_Texas
Lawrence Welk??? P.S. You and Earl_B and GW and others provide amazingly useful expertise with the cars to the thread. In these Found photos of LA, cars are everywhere and dates are frequently nowhere. So keep at it, guys! :cheers: |
It seems entirely possible; county records give a build date of 1924 for the structure at 3601 S. Western Avenue. However, in the 1928 photo it seems that most of the property is just a loggia-like open space with no actual building as such. Maybe they added in some lath and plaster between the original posts, but if they did that, it's rather odd that such an extensive remodel isn't listed on the record.
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USC has a series of assembly line pictures that it says were taken at the General Motors South Gate Plant in 1952. They give the address as 7700 Tweedy Boulevard, but this is obviously a typo as the GM plant was actually at 2700 Tweedy Boulevard (confirmed by the 1956 CD). Most of the pictures show Pontiacs, and I don't want to start another argument, but I believe the car at the front is a Dodge Coronet. It's picture eight in a series of ten, so could this Dodge really be in a GM plant, of has the picture been placed in the wrong set? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original USC Digital Library Here's how the plant looked in 1952. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...GatePlant2.jpg Historic Aerials Not long to go - this aerial shows how the plant had grown slightly by 1980. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...GatePlant3.jpg Historic Aerials After the plant was demolished, the site was cleaned up before the South East High School opened in 2005. This is what the former assembly plant site looks like today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...GatePlant4.jpg Google Maps |
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The first six digits of your serial number (VIN) should be 464396--followed by a letter, which, if built at South Gate, is "C"--followed by a six-digit production number. EDIT: Sorry--now I realize you weren't even asking. You probably already know how to decode. Btw, if you're not already a member, you might want to consider joining the Buick Club of America--great support, home of the real Buick aficionado. HossC: The labeling of that picture with the Dodge ('51 or '52) is in error--there is no chance that a GM plant would have built Chrysler products. |
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What's different today is that more people are attracted to the idea of urban living if it means not having to spend so much of your cash, time, and patience on your car, and not having to pony up $15 or $20 just to park at the museum or the football game--or for that matter, five days a week at the office. Even the process of driving, itself, becomes a burden when you are doing 15 mph on the 10, or when it takes you a half hour to crawl from Barrington Avenue to Sepulveda because the 405 on-ramp is backed up to Bundy. You just want to keep your windows up and the AC on so you can hear the radio or music player and frankly it's depressing. In such conditions, the original appeal of being able to drive everywhere loses a lot of its luster. It's certainly not as if everyone wants to move back to living in city apartments, but then it's not necessary for everyone to do so to make it viable. It only needs enough people. As for me, I'll gladly endure this: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5524/1...c7541cee_c.jpg (Own work) …and this http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7324/1...56e9fb6a_c.jpg (Own work) if it means I don't have to do this: http://www.laweekly.com/binary/b29a/traffic.jam_prv.jpg L.A. Weekly (http://www.laweekly.com/binary/b29a/traffic.jam_prv.jpg) Granted there are times when using transit is isn’t practical, but without it being one of those times I’ll never drive myself into DTLA again. |
No worries GW i found out all that info when i was trying to figure out the original color (silver with a black vinyl top),and thanks AL,i bought the car less than a mile from the old plant on alemeda and the place was about to crush it. Im not a memeber of BCOA yet,but one day soon. But like GW back to los angeles...although i do keep an eye out for 66 buicks in all of the post.
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...slerPlant1.jpg Historic Aerials And how the site looks today. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...slerPlant2.jpg Google Maps This picture is another one from the USC set. It's far more plausible that this Pontiac was being built in the GM plant at South Gate. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...5.jpg~original USC Digital Library |
The new NOIR economy......
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Here is the now closed Chrysler plant in Commerce...circa 1940. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps24de6a42.jpg LAPL http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps6285e56b.jpg LAPL |
Here's something a little more fun. It's Woofy the Walrus at Marineland of the Pacific in 1965.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...s.jpg~original Ebay Previous post about Marineland of the Pacific: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4086 |
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About the auto identity bit, even "motorheads" like me can be wrong, as I recently proved. Personally I happen to be a somewhat serious collector of '50s, '60s, and '70s cars having some eleven of them of various makes and though having a rather extensive library of auto info going back to the 1920s I can still miss the mark on identity. Built my first hot rod in 1955 at the ripe age of 14. |
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EDIT: yup, parking for the tower is primarily at 120 Wilshire, which is a 7-level garage, mostly below grade. There is also parking next door at 1221 Ocean Ave. http://www.100wilshireblvd.info/main...es&pid=parking |
Two towers coming down
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-U.../twotowers.jpg Left, seen here before at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11234 and right, well, also seen here before, but I'll make it a guessing game. |
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