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re: Spruce Goose route
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Calling Scott_Charles! NLA calling Scott_Charles! https://imageshack.com/a/img924/3523/LXGyIS.gif ..or anyone else who has the skills....and the time. I don't have no stinkin' computer skills. :( _ |
AND......while we're on the subject.
Here is a mystery intersection, somewhere, along the Spruce Goose route. As you can see there are plenty of clues. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/59KlrS.jpg UNLV First of all...note that the cross street is one-way. (maybe it still is) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/ftaVD9.jpg The guy on the right, wearing the white pants, is about to be pick-pocketed! Here's a closer look at the building on the right. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/5Ocv1a.jpg detail My kingdom for the name of the restaurant. __________________________________ This has nothing to do with the location of the intersection....but The sign(s) clearly shows that Howard Hughes hired the 'Star House Movers, Inc.'. (the moving signs, no doubt, appear in the other photographs as well)...but this is the first time I noticed them. Duh. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/zvwx8x.jpg detail Note- one sign is being installed mid-journey. (the others might have been newly installed as well) Have we looked into the history of Star House Movers on NLA? _ Also..here are the markings on the cabs of the two trucks holding the scaffolding. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/kkCQEn.jpg #53 and #33. :shrug: I believe they are city trucks, correct? p.s. I'm not sure what the men on the scaffolding are doing. -any ideas? __ |
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Thanks for the information TMSeele!
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/e865Eh.jpg Article found HERE The following photographs are from the Marina Del Rey Historical Society Let the dredging begin! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/LknzGW.jpg Marina Del Rey Historical Society https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/LyZH4o.jpg Marina Del Rey Historical Society A closer look at one of the dredgers. Pacific Dredging Co. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/wViqbn.jpg Marina Del Rey Historical Society For the larger rocks, Connolly-Pacific was hired. (a division of Pacific Dredging?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/VDrxlK.jpg Marina Del Rey Historical Society hmmmm... I am surprised Howard Hughes didn't have some equity in this massive endeavor. His company...as shown by Handsome Stranger's photograph...was literally next door. Somewhere in my files I have the 1954 master plan for Marina Del Rey. I'll try to find them. _ |
Here's one of several images of the Spruce Goose at porttown.polb.com.
Moving the Spruce Goose wings -- looking east on Seaside Boulevard -- the Cyclone http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ceGooseLB1.jpg porttown.polb.com As you can see from the caption, the wings are heading east in the photo above, and the Cyclone roller-coaster on the Pike is visible in the background. The aerial below is from May 1, 1947, and shows the Spruce Goose nearly complete in the lower-left corner. I've inset an enlargement under the Pike on the right. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...ceGooseLB2.jpg mil.library.ucsb.edu |
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I see that only 1/2 of it was completed when the 1970 slide was taken. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/zRaDju.jpg GSV What is under construction right next to it? (it's a deep deep hole) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/HGIMiR.jpg GSV :shrug: _ |
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The Metro Regional Connector Project extends from the Metro Gold Line Little Tokyo/Arts District Station to the 7th Street/Metro Center Station in downtown Los Angeles, allowing passengers to transfer to Blue, Expo, Red and Purple Lines, bypassing Union Station. The 1.9-mile alignment will serve Little Tokyo, the Arts District, Civic Center, The Historic Core, Broadway, Grand Av, Bunker Hill, Flower St and the Financial District.There's more info and a map at the link above. |
[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8451072]AND......while we're on the subject.
Here is a mystery intersection, somewhere, along the Spruce Goose route. As you can see there are plenty of clues. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/59KlrS.jpg UNLV First of all...note that the cross street is one-way. (maybe it still is) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/ftaVD9.jpg The guy on the right, wearing the white pants, is about to be pick-pocketed! Here's a closer look at the building on the right. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/5Ocv1a.jpg detail My kingdom for the name of the restaurant. __________________________________ This has nothing to do with the location of the intersection....but The sign(s) clearly shows that Howard Hughes hired the 'Star House Movers, Inc.'. (the moving signs, no doubt, appear in the other photographs as well)...but this is the first time I noticed them. Duh. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...921/zvwx8x.jpg detail Note- one sign is being installed mid-journey. (the others might have been newly installed as well) Have we looked into the history of Star House Movers on NLA? _ Also..here are the markings on the cabs of the two trucks holding the scaffolding. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/kkCQEn.jpg #53 and #33. :shrug: I believe they are city trucks, correct? p.s. I'm not sure what the men on the scaffolding are doing. -any ideas? The trucks appear to belong to the Los Angeles Transit Lines (L.A.T.L.); the older truck has the old L.A.R.Y. (Los Angeles Railway) lettering on the cab. The newer truck has the L.A.T.L. logo. The men on the scaffolding probably removed the trolley wires, which were in the path of the Spruce Goose. |
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I can't find it now, but I read one account that said hundreds of power lines along the route had to be either raised or cut in order for the flying boat to pass. |
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There's an old blog post at portoflongbeach.blogspot.com which includes the following: On June 11, 1946, Star House Movers began driving the 160-foot-long wing sections on a 28-mile route to Terminal Island. From the 15th to the 16th, the hull of the plane was moved. Utility companies had to raise or cut 2,300 power and phone lines along the route, which took the hull down Santa Fe Avenue and eventually over the Pontoon Bridge onto Terminal Island. |
Unless I overlooked it, I don't believe that, in our recent rash of Spruce Goose postings, anyone mentioned this posting of e_r's from 2013, the old low-lying pontoon bridge (which I've been over many a time) at back center:
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I'm reasonably certain that we're looking at the northwest corner of Imperial Hwy. (on which the Goose is traveling) at Hawthorne Blvd. in Inglewood. Under magnification, the address number above the door of the real estate office is "11333", which yields a location just north of Imperial Hwy. The cross streets which carried LATL tracks in a median strip right-of-way would have been Hawthorne Blvd., Vermont Ave. and South Broadway. The Broadway location was a little lonely in those days, so I think it can be ruled out. As the business shown in the photo failed to tun up in the L.A. City Directories, I lean more toward Inglewood. Those directory listings aren't always definitive, though; so Vermont Ave. still might be a possibility. Unfortunately, very little of the built environment from 1946 remains on those stretches of Hawthorne and Vermont, so contemporary views aren't especially helpful. |
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oldtime radioCD Mr. Hughes said in front of Congress that if the government didn't stop pestering him, he would leave the US and never return. He eventually did just that. Hughes was reported to have died on April 5, 1976, at 1:27 p.m. on board an aircraft owned by Robert Graf and piloted by Jeff Abrams. He was en route from his penthouse at the Acapulco Fairmont Princess Hotel in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital in Houston. I remember that day, having heard the report on the radio as a News Flash in the afternoon. |
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This would tend to indicate the Goose was traveling east on Imperial when it crossed Hawthorne and traveling east on Rosecrans when it crossed both Vermont and Broadway. Based on your observation of the 11333 address I agree that this is Hawthorne Blvd. Good eye! I did look at some UCSB images from around that time and this 1941 shot is as good a look as I could find. It's not very definitive but the layout of the property is a reasonable match. The northwest corner of Hawthorne/Imperial is upper left. https://i.imgur.com/i3QJ8T0.png?1http://mil.library.ucsb.edu/ap_image.../c-7347_20.tif |
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Here is another 1970 slide that I recently saw on ebay. I believe it was taken by the same person that took THIS SLIDE
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...921/xhw7Qy.jpg EBAY Where do you think the photographer was standing when he took this pic? :shrug: __________________ Also too... I couldn't help but notice this old building that is..somewhat..hanging off the hillside. (if you look closely there's an old house directly behind it) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/vaLmuU.jpg and this one, that I circled, looks like a mini castle. (it does to me anyway)...but I'm crazy. ;) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/SOiCpS.jpg _ |
One more 1970 slide for today.
Rail Yards north of downtown. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/921/Mod0Dt.jpg EBAY I don't remember seeing that church before. Also note: the Capitol Mill Co. at far right. > > Also...at the lower edge of the photo there is an interesting rooftop sign. [close-up below] note the man walking down the street. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/K16y8L.jpg ........................................................................................................................................................:previous: The lettering style looks vaguely 'oriental'. At first I thought it was 'China City'...but I don't believe China City is in this immediate area. Can anyone make out what it says? __ |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...hBuilding1.jpg Google Maps Here's a previous appearance, sadly from just the wrong angle for comparisons. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...icesAdmin1.jpg Detail from image in USC Digital Library |
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