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405 @ 101, 1958
Are we sure about that date? I have a note here:
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To be clear, I believe the lab school's physical location has been the same ever since it moved to the Westwood campus in 1947. The mailing addresses have been changing over the years as required by changes to street names and mail distribution protocols. Until sometime after 1984, when I finished my degree, Charles E. Young Drive used to be Circle Drive--then as now with the requisite directional prefix East, South, West, or North. IIRC when it was Circle Drive it wasn't used in addresses. The UES could be listed with a Sunset Boulevard address, as noted above, but there are documents relating to the school from at least as late as 1991, which used 405 Hilgard as the address. The Hilgard address was (is) basically a catch-all address that could be applied to any building or office on campus, with the specifics usually provided in the second line of the address. (Note also the 213 area code, as this was mere months before the change to 310.) https://farm1.staticflickr.com/566/2...c144ac_o_d.jpg Another change with Circle/CEY Drive that directly affected UES, and that also happened around the same time as the renaming, was the street's realignment to run nearer along Sunset, in fact nearly abutting it. My memories of the details from nearly thirty years ago are sketchy, but I believe that the present-day alignment this section of Circle/CEY Drive was merely a drop-off/pick-up/carpool area for parents and UES students, with a few curbside parking areas for faculty and staff. Circle/CEY used to be aligned further to the south so that it ran behind the lab school, completely separating regular university traffic from that of the lab school. For that reason I think the realignment was a bad idea, because now the main flow of traffic around the campus now has to pass right alongside the elementary school, negotiating speed bumps and stop signs along the way. ETA: Now looking at the current Google Earth aerial view, it comes back to me (north to the right). https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5728/...b33455_o_d.png In the above screengrab from Google, note Sycamore Court, a cul-de-sac near the center of the frame. I now remember that this used to be part of Circle Drive, and it went all the way through to Westwood Plaza. However, the construction of the new Anderson School Of Management facility in the early 1990s put a stop to that. Meanwhile, what is now the current day alignment of CEY drive also used to run all the way to Westwood Plaza, but you hardly noticed it unless you were actually going that way. I'm not even sure we were allowed to drive through there at all. [Aside] Regarding Google Earth, has anyone else found a way to turn off those aggravating pop-ups that say "UNITED STATES - Fly me to this location"? It seems you can't even click on the map without having the program back you out to where you can see the entire county of L.A. I'm already LOOKING at a city in the United States, so why does it keep wanting to fly me there? [/Aside] |
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Welcome to "noirish Los Angeles." __ |
I just discovered that Steven Soderbergh's "The Limey" is available on DVD from Netflix. Terence Stamp vs. Peter Fonda in a true-to-noir-spirit gem, filmed entirely on location in 1998 Los Angeles.
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But I also figure that the 405 Freeway was built and opened in sections. I just looked it up on Wikipedia; according to that, construction started in 1957, mostly north of LAX, being completed in 1961 and signed as SR-7, with the route number being changed to I-405 during the 1964 renumbering. The whole 405 Freeway with the Orange County section wasn't completed and opened until 1969. If you've ever seen that silly (but somehow fun) Tony Curtis/Natalie Wood 1964 sex comedy "Sex and the Single Girl," there's a big scene towards the end of the film where the cast of characters are chasing each other on the freeway on the way to LAX. I imagine that the freeway they're using is the 405, and there are sections that don't look completed. |
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-x...6%252520AM.jpg baist 1910, plate 7, historic mapworks |
Here's another Rood snapshot of the 1928 City Hall dedication parade.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/zZhy9A.jpg eBay This float isn't as impressive at the float with the City Hall model we saw a few days ago. -since it's a boat, I'm guessing it is representing San Pedro. At first glance I thought it had a Menorah on the bow. __ |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing |
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Whoa, I think there was more to it than that, "Employers used labor spies, agents provocateurs, private detective agencies, and strike breakers to engaged in a campaign of union busting. Local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies generally cooperated in this campaign, which often used violence against union members... Desperate union officials turned to violence to counter the setbacks they had suffered. Beginning in late 1906, national and local officials of the Iron Workers launched a dynamiting campaign. The goal of the campaign was to bring the companies to the bargaining table, and not to destroy plants or kill people. Between 1906 and 1911, the Iron Workers blew up 110 iron works...The National Erectors' Association was well aware who was responsible for the bombings, since Herbert S. Hockin, a member of the Iron Workers' executive board, was their paid spy." -from your link But, if you're gonna blow things up, sometimes it can go horribly wrong. The bombers didn't take the gas pipes into account, which greatly added to the damage, causing a ferocious fire, plus the fact that some LAT staff were working overnight. More union organizers had been killed by the union-buster terrorists, during the previous 25 years, than died in the Times bombing, not that that justifies anything. BTW, a bomb was set in the non-union, under-construction Hall of Records that same night. It didn't go off. ...and as MR said, the image shows the LAT building built after the bombing. |
We've seen the first of these Julius Shulman images before. In MichaelRyerson's post #8858, it's dated at 1948, whereas the description here says 1950. Reading back through NLA, it looks like this discrepancy in the recorded dates has been noted before. This is "Job 786: Douglas Honnold and John Lautner, Coffee Dan's (Los Angeles, Calif.),1950". It shows the Coffee Dan's at 9561 Wilshire Boulevard. In the left window you can see the reflection of a sign which says "SLOANE". This must belong to the W & J Sloane furniture store at 9560 Wilshire Boulevard (according to the 1956 CD).
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original Here's a look through that left window. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original And finally, Mr Shulman took this shot inside. I love all those circles on the ceiling. Does anyone know what color the interior was? http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...3.jpg~original All from Getty Research Institute This is what 9561 Wilshire looks like today. The property websites give a build date of 1934. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...4.jpg~original GSV There'll be more Coffee Dan's in my next Shulman post! |
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Myself being an advocate for workers' rights and a leftist, I also wanted to respond to that comment. Historically, Los Angeles wasn't very friendly to unions. |
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LOL, Ten Million Views and apparently Lindsay Blake/IAMNOTASTALKER.COM is one of them:
The Pasadena Main Branch of Bank of the West from “Falcon Crest” (HossC got a double mention) Is this our first time on that site? |
'mystery' photo, 1928.
I just happened across this intriguing photograph this afternoon on eBay. I thought perhaps someone here on NLA could help figure out the location. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/WSPbNn.jpg eBay Here's what the seller had to say: " From a group of images from Los Angeles, CA students who went to Glendale High School there. Here they are in some outdoor venue where they are doing a skit. Name on back is Dot Wachs. " below: Here's a close-up of the large apartment building under construction in the distance. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...911/IudNi0.jpg detail __ & here's the photo extra-large to see all the details: Be sure to pan right------> http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/911/WSPbNn.jpg I thought the date of 1928 was too early until I noticed the parked cars. _ |
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__ vintage 'girlie' ashtray. Ace Saw Works, 9220 South Broadway, Los Angeles 3, Calif. phone: PLymouth 6-3748. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/nvCCyN.jpg eBay from the days when everyone seemed to smoke. Q: Why the 3 behind Los Angeles? __ |
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