Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6415549)

Keep 'em coming, FredH--it's not just that you post the pictures, it's your expert building id's...

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 6415848)

I couldn't agree more. Your identifications have been superb FredH. Thanks for all your hard work.
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5589914)

I recently found these snapshots of a construction site at 1250 N. Main Street dated 1943.

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/1...in1943ebay.jpg
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http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3...n1943ebay1.jpg
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below: I googled the address and found the building still intact at N. Main & Elmyra Street.

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/3...eelmyrast1.jpg
google street view




http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/692...teelmyrast.jpg
google street view

Originally Posted by Beaudry (Post 5152497)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5054/...9e9b1be0_o.jpg

from http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/socal10a.html -- this is a fascinating postcard because it bears no relation to reality. Most postcards don't; and that's ok. But taking "artistic license" and putting it on a corner? Puh-leeeze. Gratuitous fanciful rooftop signage is a hallmark of early hotel postcards but -- placing it on a corner, was that supposed to entice out-of-town rubes to whom the card was sent? In any event, there was in fact an alley to the south of the Seminole. That the postcard makes it look like a street we'll chalk up to Angeleno boosterism.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5094/...09cecc37_o.jpg

Guess who built the Seminole? R. B. Young & Son, who built the Young Apts I wrote about earlier today. It opens in the spring of 1911. 72 apartments of two and three rooms each, and 12 single rooms. The exterior was of red pressed brick and marble trimmings. The Orenas being the wealthy Spanish family who owned the block.


What's most notable in your eBay image e_r is that they've added the large Franco-Renaissance northern addition to the Seminole
(yep, all one structure according to atlases of the times). I further drool over the cast iron & glass marquis.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/835/xl1b.jpg
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Now go back (scroll up) to that image and look at that lone house at 630 S Flower. The houses next to it have had their driveways laid out, but they're still empty lots. By the car I'd guess this to be about...1915? I'm no car expert. But I think I'm about right. And the reason those plots are empty? Our current economic sitch is nothing compared to the Panic of 1910, much less the Recession of 1913-14, where business and trade activity dropped 20-25%. Lest we forget the insane downturn of 1918-19 due to the postwar unemployment jazz. (Never ceases to amuse that people think that whatever's happening now is somehow the a) first and b) worst it has or ever will happen...) In any event, empty plots with driveways. Telling. I still can't believe I don't own this image. I always marry the inquisitive to the acquisitive. So sue me.

Originally Posted by WS1911 (Post 6414982)

The tower on the right, as several have already commented, is of LA High School. I graduated from LA High in the summer of 1967 and the earthquake occurred less than four years later. The building was demolished that year and my alma mater is forever gone. If the quake had occurred in 2014, I feel almost certain that the building would have been repaired, restored and made earthquake resistant. The 1970s was not a good time for historic preservation and there is not much to be said about the present school building.

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 6416626)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...2520PM.bmp.jpg

His narration states that the scenes, from 1931's Public Enemy with Cagney & Harlow, depict the stars in front of Bullocks-Wilshire, even mentioning that the store was opened in September 1929. However...he has placed the scene a little too far east. Who can identify the correct location?

Originally Posted by FredH (Post 6416938)

1961 - Two blocks of Commercial Street from Main Street to Los Angeles Street to San Pedro Street. Security First National
Bank branch, 302 North Main Street, is at left.

https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/81...90/14/rj6d.jpg
http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/c.../id/6276/rec/2