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Have a cast list for "The Searchers" with everyone's address and phone number. I'll list a few for fun...
When the movie was filmed John Wayne lived at 470 Louise Avenue, Encino. http://www.architecturaldigest.com/d...sl05_wayne.jpg Architectural Digest http://www.architecturaldigest.com/d...sl07_wayne.jpg Architectural Digest http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9ad2f1f9.jpgDukeWayne.com http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6919407b.jpg DukeWayne.com http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/...ps659c237b.jpgDukeWayne.com Some of the addresses are not so glamorous, like ole Mose Harper's (Hank Worden). |
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http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9913/taftad.jpg Holly Leaves Nov 17, 1922 The Lawlor Professional School/Denny hobby shop building was originally the office of the Taft real estate concern. A. Z. Taft had a good bit of property along the north side of Prospect Ave/ Hollywood Blvd, including a lemon grove between Van Ness and Wilton. His son A. Z. Jr. developed the grove, running Taft Avenue up the middle; the arroyo-stone pillars marked the tract's entrance. Both are seen in the photo in this prior post: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5418 |
The Taft Tract, Hollywood
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www.mar-ken.org Thank you GW, I was hoping this was one of the neighborhood gates you knew. I'll bet neighborhood kids were constantly climbing these. When I first saw the photo, it instantly reminded me of the charmingly hokey fruit and nut exhibits at the State of California Building, which were such a hit at the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition: Mabel Normand posing with an elephant made of California walnuts: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...206%2520PM.jpg http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com Cow made of California almonds: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...814%2520PM.jpg U of WA Library and, of course, this one: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-i...823%2520PM.jpg U of WA library There's still some beautiful blocks of homes on the Taft tract. Makes a pleasant drive in one's Googlemobile. |
Arcade Station / Central Station
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-L...408%2520PM.jpg metro transportation library and archive Nice that the big palm was included on the panoramic map view: http://www.ulwaf.com/images/ArcadePostcard.gif ulwaf.com What a beauty spot, one couldn't say that now. One of the four little onion domes shows in this view: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/The-Park-Sout...89w~~60_57.JPG eBay The intervening buildings had apparently been cleared by the time 1914's Central Station was built which replaced the old depot. It opened directly on Central Ave: http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_fo...al-Station.jpg loyola marymount university library The old stations are finally coming into focus for me. Thx to everyone who's posted re this area. |
Circa December 1937 - Hollywood Plaza Hotel, 1637 North Vine Blvd.
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Mystery block
Checking out the relationship between the Santa Fe Station (upper right) and the Arcade/Central site (lower left) on the 1909 map, I got focused on the out-of-kilter block directly between them:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-V...324%2520PM.jpg http://www.bigmapblog.com/2011/birds...f-los-angeles/ It's still there: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k...549%2520PM.jpg google maps I was wondering if it was an old estate, a hold-out or even a hill, but I cannot find an older map that solves this one for me. It may just be the result of two grid systems crashing into each other as the city grew. |
probably just the latter......
Street and road systems were pretty local and haphazard affairs 120 years ago (an alley behind someone's dairy farm attracts more traffic, it is widened, another street is cleared parallel to the original, which intersects with an existing road at an angle seen only in geometry textbooks (e.g. Ceres and Central).....:haha: You needed a relatively strong city government to impose some order on things, which you didn't get until......1890 or so? Quote:
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Imposing some order...
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-b...916%2520PM.jpg Oh, brave new world. Tom Mix would never recognize his old ranch. Looking approximately NE. New Olympic Blvd through the Fox lot (the bridge connecting the two halves of the studio was later removed): https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-a...633%2520PM.jpg reddawgcollectables - eBay Reverse view. Looking up to where the two men were standing in the view immediately above: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-i...900%2520PM.jpg gsv Although not a patch on the havoc and isolation caused to so many neighborhoods by the freeway system. Before. The Fox lot with Beverly Hills on the right and WLA on the left. (Looking north): http://www.movielocationsplus.com/20fox001.jpg movielocationsplus.com The old west entrance (center left in the previous photo and top right in the Google Street View above that): http://www.movielocationsplus.com/20fox003.jpg movielocationsplus.com It's still in there somewhere, now sans lantern and lots of other great details: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-G...532%2520PM.jpg gsv |
The Mysterious Case of Two Reginald Denny's?
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Stone pillars in Covina
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These pillars bear a strong resemblance to two very old river-stone pillars still standing today in Covina on the east side of North Hollenbeck Avenue. I wonder if there's a connection between the monuments above and those shown below. http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...pse4255b5d.jpg Google Maps Street View They were originally erected by Covina's founder, Joseph S. Phillips, c.1886. Here are the Hollenbeck pillars at the turn of the last century. [Incorrect: the two stone pillars pictured below were located on Badillo Street in Covina, and are no longer standing. Also, these pillars (along with the other two extant ones on Hollenbeck Avenue), were not erected by J.S. Phillips, but by James H. Adams, to mark the boundary of his 45-acre 'El Dorado' ranch in Covina. Edited 9/2/2021.] http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps30228dad.jpg Calisphere/Covina Public Library - This image is in the public domain Phillips bought the tract in Rancho La Puente which would become Covina from noted Los Angeles historical figure John E. Hollenbeck. -Scott |
Covina & Hollywood Pillars
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How odd they no longer frame anything except the back of some complex that goes all the way through the block. I'd like to know how the stones are attached. They seem to be vandal-proof and have lasted through the decades very well. Horribly unfortunate streetlamp. I love all our old chimneys and porches made of river stone. Some neighborhoods are chock-a-block with it. Doesn't perform well in earthquakes though. |
More imposing order....
True enough, Tovangar.
Just thought of this...... For the Grandaddy of all grid collisions we need look no further than Hoover Ave. That baby re-orients the old downtown grid into a true N-S pattern from Fountain all the way to MLK. Quote:
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[QUOTE=GaylordWilshire;5950138]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1925/brookcompl.jpgLos Angeles Times July 30,1933
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3658/brookmap.jpg Just back from holiday break and what a surprise to see your post Gaylord. I have a photo of my grandfather taken right on the spot (male in pic with tennis racket next to my great grandmother...current Google map street view inset looking north on Longwood Ave with a house on 9th in the background...the Hunter's house would be just to the passenger side of their car). They lived close to that house in the article on Longwood (not sure how many down from the Hunters). Wonder if they knew the Hunters and if their house had the creek as well. I wish he was still around to ask! http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4997/longwoodave.jpg |
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http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/3...ftartcompl.jpgLAT
The building that housed the Taft Realty Co. and later became the Lawlor Professional School and then Reginald Denny's hobby shop replaced an earlier Taft office.... |
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I'll have to look for it. As for now, here is the big palm from a stereo-view found on ebay. I wonder what the sign says at it's base? http://imageshack.us/a/img547/1123/a...othugeebay.jpg detail of stereo-view sopas_ej posted this wonderful photograph of the vast train shed of the Arcade Depot back in Nov. 2009. http://imageshack.us/a/img62/269/aabarcadesopasej.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img138/1530/a...esopasinfo.jpg __ below: This is from an earlier post of mine, also back in 2009. http://imageshack.us/a/img837/5459/a...vacantlots.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img837/2999/a...hereal2009.jpg __ |
originally posted by Los Angeles Past
http://imageshack.us/a/img145/7609/a...eckpillars.jpg http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/ I am amazed that these two pillars have survived! Thanks Scott. __ Silverlaker, great photograph of your grandfather. |
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Here is an illustrated postcard I found on ebay. http://imageshack.us/a/img221/2003/a...nerilluspc.jpg reverse http://imageshack.us/a/img255/4716/a...luspcrever.jpg It's odd how they pre-wrote the sentiment. __ |
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