Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7295429)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...r.jpg~original
lacity.org (PDF file)

Originally Posted by riichkay (Post 7295881)

I have been lurking on this forum for a couple of years. You guys are so good at identifying "mystery" locations that I never had anything to contribute.

Well, finally, I have a chance to help out. The coffee shop pictured here is located at 8445 W. 3rd St., just east of La Cienega. When I went to work at this corner in 1974 the subject property was Gottfried's Deli. I was in the place hundreds of times. The Shulman photos are apparently tagged "demolished" according to the original post, so Gottfried's Deli I guess was a completely different bldg. But I don't know, the interior of Gottfied's was laid out just like this place.

Poster HossC is precisely right, he guessed that the bldg to the left of the subject was a Mode O'Day location in 1956. In 1974 old timers in the neighborhood told me that was the case. When I worked there the bldg had been converted to office space, as the Mode O'Day usage was more of a warehouse, from what I was told.

In the 3rd photo down you can see in the distance, between Johnny's and the Mode O'Day bldg, some of the offices of Dart Square. Of course on the Beverly/La Cienega corner of Dart Square was the Rexall store (Rexall, Owl Drug etc were all part of the Justin Dart empire, he really established the model for the modern drug store). Dart was also instrumental in the political career of Ronald Reagan.

I worked on the ground floor of the old Mode O'Day bldg for the now defunct Transamerica Title Insurance Co. Yes, that Transamerica, founded by A.P. Giannini, as a holding company for B of A. The people in the S.F. pyramid.

The 2nd floor of the building, when I was there, was the offices of David L. Wolper Productions. In about 1976, we saw actors like LeVar Burton hanging around the Wolper office. We were told that Wolper had a project in the works, a TV mini series of an Alex Haley novel called "Roots". I think you all know the rest of that story.

At the far end of the Mode O'Day/Transamerica/Wolper bldg, right at the La Cienega corner, was United California Bank, which later became First Interstate Bank.

Across 3rd street from Gottfied's Deli was a Chuck's Steak House location. That was demolished for an office bldg in the early '80's. Across from the parking lot you see here was a variety of small retail bldgs, including the space for The Record Plant recording studio, one of the busiest studios at that time. It was the first "living room" type studio. The address was 8456 W. 3rd. Long since torn down and assembled with adjacent properties for a strip mall.

Look up the Wikipedia page for The Record Plant, every big name in the industry was there in the '70's. The Wiki page tells the story of one of the studio's owners, Gary Kellgren, who had a noirish death. He drowned at his home in '77, along with his secretary/girlfriend. There's also a photo of the front of the building during a 1978 fire.

The Gottfried's Deli bldg is still standing, it's still a restaurant. The Mode O'Day/Transamerica bldg is now retail, TJ Maxx etc is in there, part of the Beverly Connection development. As are the Dart Square bldgs, all of which were torn down for what I have always thought was a pretty awful mall.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7293873)

Since we've been sleuthing around the San Fernando Road area I thought I'd finally post these screen-grabs taken from a train in 1946.

From my days as a San Fernando Valley resident I have been able to identify a few additional locations.


#1
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/9m1M7v.jpg


SOIL OFF (with giant blinking can) Identified by Henry Huntington as 4860 San Fernando Road, Glendale (this is between Colorado Blvd and Goodwin Sts.


#2
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below: a bus waiting at that intersection. (with it's door open) Identified by HH as Asbury Rapid Transit.

#15
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/e8qocG.jpg


below: a bar/cafe (lighted Pabst Blue Ribbon sign?), and auto wreckers yrd.

ALL AUTO WRECKING survived along with its neighbor up the street - BROKEN DRUM AUTO WRECKING (You Can't Beat It), into the 1970s. I bought parts from both in the 1960's.

#17
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...910/mqRYrf.jpg



below: a couple of impressive buildings. (the one on the left might be a garage) I really like the building on the right. Although heavily altered this building still stands 5406 No. SFR, just north of California Street.

#21
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/fLsiOK.jpg





below: interesting sign with arrow (but I can't make out what it says :() - While I can't read the top line the bottom says MATERIALS CENTER.

#24
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...633/Y334lo.jpg


below: Nursery building with nice lighting on the facade (it's blocked by a semi hauling a giant pod ;)) -spooky. Giant pod may be coming from the set of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. :)


#27
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/e5e44q.jpg



below: a bridge (for reference) This is bridging a creek that empties into the LA River a few feet north of the Ventura Freeway and is still there today.

#29
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...903/tuRJIA.jpg

below: Valley Wrecking and Lumber Company Building is still there but heavily altered. It is on the west side of SFR just south of Roscoe Hardware at Tunjunga, Ave.

#37
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...908/nU43HT.jpg

A personal note on the filming. I believe the production crew boarded their train at Glendale Station, and rode as far as San Fernando Station before returning on another train. The first two and one half minutes takes us along SFR from Colorado and Goodwin to SFR and Grandview where the track diverges from SFR until it passes Hollywood Burbank Airport,where it parallels SFR once again.

Extensive rebuilding an development has heavily changed the look of the area and altered or eliminated many of the buildings seen in the film

Cheers,
Jack

Watch the video here:
https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-5#


OK, I just realized there are two videos. In this one the train is really hauling ass.
https://archive.org/details/PET0981_R-3_LA

:previous: The film-makers were probably sent back out and told to get on a slower train. lol. :)


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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7295669)

And now, a year after the post above:previous:, we finally get to see inside that second-story colonnade!



-just found on eBay. :)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...905/6tv5DI.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Post...cAAOSw4UtWQ-Vi

Postmarked 1933.
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Colonnade, Cinderella Roof, Sixth at Olive

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7295444)

I could only find a couple of mentions of the Larronde Block on NLA, and no good pictures. This undated image shows the New Times Building in the background.

The Larronde Block was a wedge-shaped building opposite the Hotel Nadeau on the corner of 1st and Spring. There was also a Larronde Building nearby on Spring Street. I've highlighted both on the 1910 Baist map below.

Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 7296131)

The Belmont Hotel (built 1884; destroyed by fire in 1887), current site of Belmont HS, and the Ellis College for girls (built in 1886, burnt down 1888) are on the left.

Pls see Flyingwedge's excellent post here for the newspaper accounts.

LA Fire has a post on the Belmont Hotel fire, but they mis-locate it on Bunker Hill (they've promised to correct it, but haven't yet)

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7296234)

Welcome to the thread, riichkay.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...7.jpg~original
GSV

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 7295229)

:previous: Interesting information Wig-Wag.





Good sleuthing HH! The Soil-Off building is much nicer than I expected.


gsv
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...910/dpu1hc.jpg

Thanks for your help HenryHuntington!

& good luck with flickr. I hope it works for you today.



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Originally Posted by HenryHuntington (Post 7295553)

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1441/...b12cd80d_s.jpg
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Soil...-/121662694887

If this experiment worked, there'll be a regrettably small image of the Soil-Off one-quart can above. However, it can be enlarged when viewed on Ebay.

For anyone who might be interested in vintage packaging like this (or vintage products and/or companies), I found a few more details. The company name, "Soil-Off Manufacturing Co.", pretty much indicates that its namesake product likely was its only one. Ditto the slogan on the back of the can, "Perfected and Established 1932". So the inventor likely was the business owner.

The company filed a trademark application on August 7, 1947; it expired on November 3, 1992. Google Books turned up a mention in a display ad in the San Jose Evening News of September 4, 1944: 60 cents for the one-quart can pictured, $1.00 for the half-gallon glass jar. There's a photo on-line of the half-gallon jar with updated artwork (from the mid/late-1950s, I'd guess):

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1537/...96f4fb86_s.jpg
http://mrsguy.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-days-haul.html

So the company apparently lasted at least that long. A search of the CA Secretary of State's database didn't find a corporate match, but it might not have records from that far back. Ecolab, Inc. sells an industrial strength (literally) cleaner named Soil-Off II, but I don't know if there's a relationship to the original product.

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7296745)

We've seen Sardi's before on NLA, but I think this Julius Shulman interior shot is new. It's "Job 0106: Sardi's Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1940".

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...1.jpg~original

Getty Research Institute

Originally Posted by HossC (Post 7296745)

The description for this set says "6313 Hollywood Boulevard", which is no surprise, but the other image was obviously taken somewhere else. Unfortunately, this one came with a large black border, so I couldn't zoom in as I usually would, and there's no sign of "Sardi's Wilshire" in the City Directories. It almost looks like a long railroad carriage with streetcar porthole windows on the right. GW, do you know where this was?

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...2.jpg~original

Both from Getty Research Institute

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire (Post 7296850)

Sardi's Wilshire was at 6594 San Vicente. BP appears to have been issued March 23, 1937. Looks like during the '40s it became--or at least the address became--the Wilshire Seacomber and then Jerry's Joynt....