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Can't say if it's the same one. I guess it's not. Too much is different about it. If you haven't been there before check out their collection and have an expensive but marginally good coffee-shop type lunch. It looks like they got a temporary reprieve and will stay open for another year or two. http://www.theproudbird.com/proudbir...viewslide4.jpghttp://www.theproudbird.com/proudbird/aboutus.aspx http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec...-stay-20131212 |
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:cool: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=16979 http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...GXAMA1F5FL.jpghttp://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...GXAMA1F5FL.jpg |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i...latorcompl.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-K...2520PM.bmp.jpg LAT July 24, 1947 So.. perhaps these heads are aftermarket... the intake manifold certainly does not appear to be stock Ford... the generator seems higher than it usually is... maybe this isn't a Ford flathead at all...I mean, those water pumps are pretty high.... |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D...s512/ford2.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--...2520PM.bmp.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...2520PM.bmp.jpg LAT May 6, 1948/Hemmings (seen before, smaller) I always wondered exactly when the Los Angeles Lincoln-Mercury plant opened... |
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Sodium Vapor streetlighting, Saugus Inbound on the Ridge Route, 1937 Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library |
MacMarr Stores at 3303 West 54th Street, seen here at the grand opening on June 29, 1929.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...arrStores1.jpg USC Digital Library A better shot of the interior. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...arrStores2.jpg USC Digital Library Apart from a change of roof tiles and a less flattering paint job, it's still fairly much intact. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...arrStores3.jpg GSV |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original GSV 747 N. Wilcox is another building with egyptian-themed design elements: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...b.jpg~original GSV Vintage undated closeup of 747 N. Wilcox: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070638.jpg |
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detail http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/849/d0nz.jpg I found E. J. Jaquith in the 1898 city directory. (I didn't go through all of them) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/199/qkha.jpg LAPL ...but the street number in the photograph is 360. -so either the photograph is earlier or later than the 1898 location on State. __ Excellent post Flyingwedge on the Sale family and the Hope street area highlighting the Highland Villa. It was very interesting! Thanks Jack (Wig-Wag) for researching the Griffith Park airplanes. __ |
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Great information on E.J. Jaquith fhammon. -much appreciated
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This post is inspired by...
Martin Pal's recent Crossroads of the World excursion. I found this on ebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/138/zl0q.jpg ...and this. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/543/n2y3.jpgebay note the 'Barber of Seville'. Here's an old map...showing three additional areas of proposed shops. (NORTH is on the right) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/208/lb76.jpgOFOM Does anyone know if these proposed shops were built? (I find it odd that the front and back of the complex was built first) -leaving the middle empty. below: I always forget about that area back towards Selma Avenue. (I've outlined it in red) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/163/ypit.jpggoogle_earth The map I posted earlier labels this Selma Avenue area the Continental Villa. views from Selma http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/545/viql.jpgGSV quaint lighthouse building with sloping roof. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/849/miho.jpgGSV Selma Avenue is where this cool sign is located. Martin Pal had a couple images of it. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/844/9uud.jpgGSV ...but MP didn't include this noirish image from 1937. :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/196/mhdv.jpg http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=5091283 LAPL snapshot of a tourist posing by the lighthouse on Selma. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/33/a8ia.jpgebay I'm not sure where exactly this building is located in the Crossroads complex, but it's pretty impressive. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/577/2gwv.jpg https://www.facebook.com/VintageLosAngeles Thanks Martin for bringing Crossroads of the World to NLA __ |
Washington and Main
In 1923 a campaign was begun to widen Washington Boulevard:
http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...8.jpg~original June 24, 1923 Los Angeles Times Looking east on Washington at Main, 1926. Note the building on the NE corner: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original LAPL -- http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics37/00068456.jpg Looking east on Washington at Main, 1930. The building on the NE corner had a chunk taken out of its southern end and the wall moved in. In addition, the building on the NW corner is being renovated, but where did that apparently masonry wall come from that isn't in the 1926 photo above? That wall has me confused: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/3969/rec/63 A closer look: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original Still there: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original GSV Mr. Kress, the structural moving engineer, handled much bigger jobs than what he did to the south end of the building on the NE corner of Washington and Main: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=518 http://archive.larchmontchronicle.co...?ArchiveID=722 http://old.post-gazette.com/homes/20...ed0818fnp3.asp We've probably seen this 1930s photo looking west on Washington at the Mode O' Day building before, but the building at right is the same one on the NW corner of Washington and Main seen in the two older photos above: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...c.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/3974/rec/2 Here's HossC's post on that building: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=18688 |
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Good thinking! It is not a Ford flathead. It is a Cadillac and I'm thinking with that side-by-side dual carb setup it may be a variation of the ones used in WWII M-5 Tanks. This one looks similar but with the tubes which are actually exhaust pipes coming right out of runners (not the radiator hoses). For whatever reason it appears the engine were mounted backwards in a tank. Likely because of the dual Hydra-Matic transmissions that connected to the track via a transfer case. The one in the hot rod appears it might be mounted backwards to what a Cadillac car engine would have been. http://www.cadillacdatabase.org/ww1&2/Ww2_engn.jpghttp://www.cadillacdatabase.org Here's a 1938 Caddy V16 with the same carb setup http://c.barat.free.fr/cadillac/secondv16.jpg http://c.barat.free.fr/cadillac/cadillac.html |
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http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original ebay More info from the May 9, 1914, Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...6.jpg~original HathiTrust Digital Library -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...iew=1up;seq=24 |
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Well done for finding a picture of the Methodist Hospital, Flyingwedge. Here it is on the 1921 Baist map. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...spital1921.jpg www.historicmapworks.com I couldn't find any more ground level pictures, but here's a series of aerials showing how the site changed. The first is from 1948. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...spital1948.jpg Historic Aerials By 1972, the freeway has come pretty close, and all the small residential buildings have gone. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...spital1972.jpg Historic Aerials By 1980, the hospital has gone the same way as the houses. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...spital1980.jpg Historic Aerials Twenty four years later, and a few of the smaller buildings have changed. The freeway bridge aligned with 29th Street has also gone to make way for new elevated sections of roadway. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...spital2004.jpg Historic Aerials Here's how the site looks on Google Maps. The elevated freeway section still dead-ends in mid air. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...spital2014.jpg Google Maps |
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I am fascinated by the technique of slicing and dicing and moving back an entire outer wall of a building, details and all. As for the masonry wall--I think the camera angles are causing the confusion--while it may appear that the façade of the NW building is in line with the pushed-back front of the Merchants National/BoA building... in fact the wall you are seeing is the stripped remnant of the original first floor of the NW building. (The apparently round detail circled in red below seems to match the series of round decorations on the original first-floor frieze.) It looks like the NW building was given the same slice-and-dice/pushback treatment as the bank building, with a new first-floor storefronts constructed: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...maindetail.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-z...ntextcompl.jpg USCDL/LAT Oct 12, 1930 http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics48/00058574.jpgLAPL Here's a detail of the bank when it was a Merchants National branch...the LAPL dates this picture as April 1925. Also, FW, great find of the Methodist Hospital card-- And RiT...a further indicator of the Traffic Violator's raiding of a Cadillac engine compartment might be the GM-style long-and-thin 6V battery.... |
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Los Angeles Creamery Co. employees
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