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Broadway Central Building / The Judson
Thanks! The pix are great.
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Broadway Central Bldg: Thanks for sharing your photos and observations on Downtown and its changes. Growing up for me, it was the place to go.
When I was a child mother and I took the streetcar Downtown for shopping and lunch. May Co., Broadway, Robinsons, etc. Pig n' Whistle and Clifton's. It was vibrant and crowded. The toy departments were memorable to a child. We would visit friends of my grandmother on Bunker Hill. When I was old enough I went by myself shopping and to the movies, at those big old movie palaces - endless carpets, crying rooms, beautiful decor, big balconies, and the big screens. During the Summer, and Christmas, breaks from school my parents sent me to the Downtown Y, at 7th and Hope, for day long activities - exercise, swimming, field trips. Before and after the Y my friends and I would explore Downtown - the knife shops, music stores, books shops, coin shops, and pen shops and wander the department stores. Along Spring Street was the financial area - banks, brokers, etc. Main Street had the, ummmm, colorful bars and burlesque houses, theaters showing Asian movies, and pawn shops. As a teenager and later I would haunt the pawn shops looking for deals on guitars and amps. One of my uncles was a Western Electric phone installer and worked in the big buildings, another was a diamond merchant and jewelry maker n the jewelry district and my grandfather owned a restaurant in the 1920s near present City Hall. Later, as an adult I would travel to LA for business, and during downtime explore downtown. I'd show colleagues the Bradbury Bldg., take them for Mexican food in the Grand Central Market, and drinks at the Biltmore. Or to eat in Little Tokyo. Despite being somewhat frayed and neglected Downtown was still a vibrant place, reflecting the needs of current LA residents, and now with an influx of new people with a vision of urban life and plans, it is changing again. |
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of making money off selling the name rights as USC is considering to do for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. I say, it's been that way about a century, so leave it Pershing Square. I overheard a relative youngster recently saying they had just seen a movie at the TCL. I wondered where that was until later it dawned on me he was talking about the TCL Chinese Theatre. From Grauman's Chinese Theatre to Mann's Chinese Theatre to TCL Chinese Theatre. Kodak Theatre to Dolby Theatre. Did you guys know that awhile ago the city of Los Angeles was trying a program of licensing advertising on the waste receptacles and other type things in the city public parks? Trash cans and the like were adorned with posters for the new, at the time, Yogi Bear film. It was not greeted with any enthusiasm. One night at Dodger Stadium a movie company got the Dodgers to place a strip at the bottom side of each "base" advertising their upcoming film. The more players who got on base. The more advertising. I wonder if the people operating the cameras were told to focus on those? It wouldn't surprise me. Attending a game once I wondered why a small MasterCard advertisement was in a really strange place in the stadium on a seemingly innocuous wall near the visitor's bullpen. Until later in the year I was watching a game on TV and noticed it all the time on the TV coverage. And I'm sure the way they're spending money now it won't be long before Dodger Stadium is sold out to be called something else like Farmer John Dodger Dog Stadium. How about Noirish Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum? NLA Chinese Theatre? |
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All of us have our particular interests and I am pretty sure not everyone is interested in everything posted, but so what? It's what has made this thread go on and on. Sometimes, if something of lesser interest to me is being discussed, I get more interested in it because of the passion in which people are discussing it and I find myself getting involved. So thank you ALL. |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1000Pages2.jpg Original photo from USC Digital Library |
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Love your photos BCB. We never get too much of anything really. There's always some of us who like any new discovery, no matter how ordinary it may appear. New photos of something we haven't seen are always welcome. |
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Are they planning on having seating where you can sit under a shady tree and talk to people or have lunch? What kind of madness has infected the City Manager and municipal planners? |
1940s kodachrome slide.
Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/h8GARe.jpg eBay I'm confused about the building(s) in the lower left corner that appear to be located on the east side of Roosevelt Highway (P.C.H.). I'm not sure if it's one building or two. Here's an enlargement to see the details better. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/52J9m9.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/YEGSG8.jpg eBay Could this be a remnant of that building? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/yNe5LO.jpg gsv Or is that a remnant of this building? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...538/06PNy0.jpg http://waterandpower.org/museum/Earl...ta_Monica.html kinda' confusing I know __ |
And from that same group of 1940s kodachrome slides, here is Marion Davies Santa Monica Beach House.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/blPKSa.jpg eBay Can you imagine this is just a beach house. __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...sBuilding1.jpg Detail of picture in USC Digital Library Here's the full picture. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...sBuilding2.jpg USC Digital Library |
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Western Star Soap - 633 East First Street March 17, 1899 - Los Angeles Soap Company building with personnel and John A. Forthmann Senior. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/12784/rec/87 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0 Quote:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=18836 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0 http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/...lue&DMROTATE=0 2013 - Redlands https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3893/1...b9cc6446_b.jpghttps://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3893/1...b9cc6446_b.jpg Grocer's Jollification |
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__________________________________________ And oh my goodness, Marion Davies' beach house. It sure didn't look like the one I grew up in: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0...35900%2BPM.jpg the daily mirror (more pix at the link) The interior is very well documented on the web. __________________________________________ Quote:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w...40932%2BPM.jpg ephemeralnewyork Paseo de Los Pobladores stood for fifty or sixty years before it was changed to "Grand Park" without any discussion I can recall just now And, I, of course, do not want naming rights auctioned off. (That would be highly confusing if they did that with our streets!) |
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No offense, just a small rant and I liked the article you linked about that as well. ;) |
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Sunspot Motel
The Sunspot (formerly Carl's) Motel is the one I was thinking of e_r. Could this be the ruin?
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-J...52915%2BPM.jpg smpl |
hmmm....I don't think that's the building t2 (and the hill/cliff behind doesn't seem to match).
But it's good to see the Sunspot Motel. :) |
Four 'mystery' snapshot from Oct. 4 & 5, 1922. The seller mentioned the Hollywood Bowl area.
#1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/u0HX3B.jpg eBay #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/xIA8cQ.jpg eBay The following photograph is the most intriguing (to me anyway) #3 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...913/yc4xCt.jpg eBay :previous: "Mrs. Hamilton Estate. -whole mtn." #4 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...540/lnmWEu.jpg eBay for closer inspection: #1 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/B2KE4E.jpg #2 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/fvmJOE.jpg #3 Mrs. Hamilton estate, whole mtn. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/myi9O7.jpg :previous: I'm hoping Mrs. Hamilton rings a bell for someone. #4 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...905/aaPxN5.jpg Are the three "orbs" on top of the pole at left electric lights? -and I think I see a house in the valley. __ |
I believe this is pretty much the same view as photograph #2. Twenty-five years later!
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/Ur3qsM.jpg posted about a month ago. Here's #2 again. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...673/fvmJOE.jpg eBay What do you think? pretty close? __ |
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http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/YEGSG8.jpg detail / eBay :previous: Is that rebar sticking out of the flat roof? I think it lost the second floor. |
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But I do have some info on that ruin. It’s the remnant of the parking garage and glass-roofed pool for the ill fated The Gables beach club, built in 1926 and burned down in 1930. The garrage was started in 1928; planned as a 23 story tower- they made it to 3. The garage was across the street built into the bluffs. It was unfinished, but used as a parking garage up to 1962 at least. The Gables, what was salvaged, became another beach club, The Sorrento. Hoss C posted these great veiws here: http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/...ostcount=17793 along with its near neighbor The Deauville. The 3rd one down shows the garage under construction. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/00030318.jpg LAPL http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/sorrento.jpg unk http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...rento-ruin.jpg unk http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...rrentoUCLA.jpg UCLA http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...lle/64_big.jpg http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...e/gables53.jpg UCLA http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...gables53-1.jpg UCLA I walked past the site of the Gables/Sorrento in November (to and from Cary’s, and also popped in at Marion’s and Norma’s) and noticed this sidewalk tile. There’s one of those hideous pedestrian stairs there… It looks ye olde style at first, but I finally concluded the tile has to be new (new as in same time the overcrossing went in). http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...IMG_1695_1.jpg my photo |
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