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1938, California Hotel is seen on right at 522 'E' Street http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099778.jpghttp://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099778.jpg |
Nice, Brett!
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http://imageshack.com/a/img661/9452/fmnT64.jpg At first I thought these two photos showed the aftermath of an actual car accident, but then I noticed how much the two cars had been moved between shots. In the second photo both cars have been moved at least a dozen feet further west on 6th Street (and further into 6th Street as well). This was obviously a set-up shot, but why? Maybe for a traffic safety ad campaign? |
I have to admit, when I came across this vintage postcard on ebay, I hadn't thought much about the 'City Flag of Los Angeles'.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/rFDIze.jpg http://www.ebay.com/itm/Official-Fla...item1a02174f28 Have we seen this flag in any of the hundreds of vintage photographs that have been posted on NLA? -and what's up with that bell festooned with fruit? __ |
Another first; the word 'Sanitarians'.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/04Rq5P.jpg eBay UCLA Dept. of Health, School of Public Health, 1944. __ |
It only took one click to straighten a photograph on my old computer....yet I haven't figured out how to do it on my new computer. :(
-please feel free to straighten this photograph. below: A rare amateur photograph from the 1920s(?) that appears to show a movie location featuring either KKK members or Knights Templar on horseback. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/MAEovl.jpg eBay Here is the same scene enlarged. (and still f**king crooked) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/R8nxaZ.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...911/TyJpOY.jpg eBay Any ideas what movie this might be? I would guess D.W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation', but the buildings in the scene are too contemporary.... and besides, 'Birth of a Nation' was filmed in 1915. (note the horse turds CityBoyDoug ;)) __ |
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(note the horse turds CityBoyDoug ;)) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I know....kinda glad I didn't live in that era. :D:cool::D 1898 ad....Winton sold 20 cars that year. I say...ban the horse!!! I'm sending for that catalogue today. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...psd4lfvomo.jpg file CD |
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Home of Benjamin Franklin Mathenson, Lordsburg Calif.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...537/5TkhTe.jpg eBay One of the details that makes this fine looking bungalow unique is the decorative water fountain in the front yard. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/SlrPeA.jpg Photographer R. H. Gardiner, Whittier Cal http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/oCTSSS.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/YycIBK.jpg ...and on the back of the photograph. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...673/6Ww0cB.jpg A little bit of Lordsburg history. Entrepreneur Isaac W. Lord purchased a tract of Jose Palomares' land and convinced the Santa Fe Railroad company to run it's line across towards Los Angeles. Lord had the land surveyed for building lots and in 1887 had a large land sale, naming the new town 'Lordsburg' after himself. He also had the large Lordsburg Hotel constructed, but the land boom was over by the time it was completed. In 1906 the town was incorporated as 'La Verne'. (La Verne is 30 miles due east of downtown Los Angeles) Lordsburg Station http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...912/uX98jz.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Verne,_California 1914 Pacific Electric map, City of Lordsburg. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/633/9DeMGw.jpg https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/enlarge/31892df 3rd Street, East end. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...673/6Ww0cB.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...911/4CirIG.jpg detail :previous: So perhaps Mr. Mathenson's bungalow was located here. (red circle above) __ |
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"Audience entrances for soundstages 8 (Our Miss Brooks) and 9 (I Love Lucy), 847 Lillian Way, Hollywood."
Desilu-Caheunga Studios (name circa 1960) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...538/fkfv0P.jpg https://www.pinterest.com/pin/367958232030937143/ Here are the two entrances as look they today. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/540/iumqnr.jpg gsv :previous: Note the lone sign bracket still in place. that, and two light fixture that probably haven't been used for 50 some years. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...911/i6Yfgn.jpg gsv Stages 8 and 9 were located in the large soundstage at lower left. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/673/yYlPDn.jpg http://www.retroweb.com/tv_studios_and_ranches.html :previous: The studio didn't have a backlot, but the houses across the street on Lillian Way were used for occasional exterior filming. Including Thelma Lou's house on The Andy Griffith Show (below) -can you spot it in the 1947 aerial above? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...909/CWws0H.jpg http://www.retroweb.com/tv_studios_and_ranches.html |
Max Neft and the Park View Apartments, or, Skeletons in the Taxidermy Lab
--below, bad paraphrasing by me, sorry. just shortening an amazing post by FW.
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But somewhere during 1986-1988, I visited the strange "unknown" taxidermy laboratory building - retrofitted with an excessive amounts of earthquake-damage-preventing I-beam girders and tiebacks - which had no markings that it was affiliated with the campus. And no security. It still just had aged painted signs declaring it was property of History Museum and no easy means of entry. Locked doors, dusty windows, unused all day, dark all night. Many rumors but no facts. (Wish i could remember the exact year now.) The tiny old barn out back that you see on the Sanborn Map was even still there, with, between the Lab and barn, an old rusted truck sunk a half foot into the ground - the barn's wooden building walls decaying in a manner that i could have shot a depression-era tiny ol' opry without a production designer. Heavy, light-killing, old bushes completely hiding it from campus view. Usually, the barn's porch was used by drama's Greenroom Theatre staff for a smoke break, by the numbers of modern cigarettes butted out amongst the weeds. Oh, but the hulking laboratory, what a frightening hidden gem. Also hidden by dense green plants all around it. Some of us decided we had to see a way inside and discover its treasure. Unfortunately, in night sleuthing, we forewent our 35mm SLR flash cameras as to not attract attention, so no pictures. Under a full moon, a couple of us climbed up the closely-spaced outside I-beams to the roof, to find a rooftop stairway door unlocked ('certainly this was safe, else the university would have removed the whole building by now, right?' - was our late-night teenage reasoning)... a single flashlight between the three of us (others waited downstairs outside for us to come open the door). Rough wooden staircase without railings to the second floor. Shelving units built out for hefty weight. Thousands of jars covered in dust lining the shelves. Each with a pickled animal or body part. Some vaguely humanquese. Some very not so. [Cue lightning and thunder] We realized the building really was a leftover lab of the Natural History Museum, just like the faded sign claimed. Didn't seemed entered for a decade, at minimum. Salamanders, Skinks, Snakes, Fish, Birds, creatures of all sorts and of all parts, each lovingly hand-labeled and carefully pickled in formaldehyde. Thousands filled the building. Quickly moving to the first floor (another open staircase without railings) and seeing even more of the same, and getting squeemish, we rushedly left through a regular push-button lock door to the outside, promising the others they really didn't want to take that particular trip through the building. The Lab building and barn were gone within a year, definitely before 1990. I intended to sneak back in and shoot a short film for a film class, but by the time i had the class, the land was cleared. I can't remember if the Neft/Park View went before or after the Lab - the University lent Neft and Harris Plaza to some pre-Homeland Security 1980's anti-terrorism governmental agency to practice with live ammo in urban spaces over the summer before they tore them down. I'd bet the NHM would have a drawer full of photos somewhere. cheers, brett |
:previous: That's such a great story brett! Thanks for sharing.
taxidermy lab / 1950 Sanborn http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...661/WBfJS3.jpg originally posted by Flyingwedge I just noticed the Boy's Dormitory at upper right. Is this one that you remember brett? (it appears to be fairly large with a rounded 'corner' at the point) __ |
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'Joe' on flickr has numerous photographs of Los Angeles in the 1980s.....
but he doesn't recall the exact locations in several of his pics. I thought maybe we could help. He labeled this LA 1980, with..... "I was told this was Joni Mitchell's offices." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/N5PQR2.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/centra...n/photostream/ One viewer suggested Venice, but Joe didn't think it was Venice. Does anyone here on NLA recognize this location? __ |
'Joe' also posted this contemporary photograph under...
"guess where LA"? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/pijzRr.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/centra...n/photostream/ An eagle-eyed viewer located this vintage photograph that appear to show the building in question. (I've enlarged the photograph and added the red arrow) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/iMX2Gf.jpg Mary-Austin & Scott at https://www.flickr.com/photos/echo_29/235962531/ Here's the view today / 5959 W. 3rd Street. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...661/OVkueB.jpg gsv I just noticed the weather-vane is missing. I was about to leave the area when I noticed this second building on the opposite side of the modern building that had a somewhat similar 'tower'. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...540/55GZRK.jpg gsv Sure enough, if you look closely, it's also visible in the vintage photograph. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/128...661/5i7rdd.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/echo_29/235962531/ Here's a closer look at vintage building #2. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...537/j8LRZI.jpg and a detail showing the leaded glass & weather-vane....as well as a secretive balcony. :) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800...538/fatKEM.jpg gsv :previous: I don't know about you, but I'd love to live in that upstairs apartment. |
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