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Then and now
This one from Calisphere is captioned "Unidentifed street, Los Angeles, 1966." It looks smoggy.
https://i.imgur.com/cDApL1e.jpg calisphere.org The clue here is the name of the store on the corner on the right: "Edson Furniture." The 1965 CD puts it at 3401 S San Pedro. Today, it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/86W5FEy.jpg GSV 50+ years later, the place is in the same line of business, although "Edson Furniture" is now "Ayutia Muebleria." |
814 and 820 Flower Street
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The relocation of 820 was unexpected, as was that it survived through to 1960. This area seems to have undergone a lot of redevelopment in the 1920s -I guess no surprise bearing in mind its downtown location. Once again, many thanks. Best regards. Alester. |
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The Crown Market located at 1368 North Lake Avenue, just north of Washington Blvd. in the heart of the Lake Washington Village District, did a brisk business from the 1920's through the 1970's in gourmet food, supplying many of the leading hotels and restaurants in Pasadena, as it was known also as the Crown Restaurant Supply Company. The most distinguishing feature of the Crown Market was its huge rooftop neon sign, double sided, in the form of a crown, outlined in neon, and flashing "M E A T S" to passing motorists and pedestrians.There is a small black & white image of the neon sign at the link above. |
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e_r, fear not: I managed to scrape up a little on Kewen the son:
https://s26.postimg.org/c9e33gl3t/Kewen.jpg Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library Edit (additional item) Just another day in court in L.A.: https://s26.postimg.org/i96fkp2y1/Da...Calif62077.jpg |
A family shot ?
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A short bio reprinted in the LA Herald at the time of Kewens 1879 death notes he was a onetime inmate of Alcatraz. I enjoyed the photo of the mill when it was the clubhouse for the Huntington Hotel links. El Molina Viejo is supposed to be our oldest commercial structure and has certainly existed through a variety of environments: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tX...x=w954-h190-no oldmill.org |
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Thanks very much for doing that! Do you still have the photo in this post from May 22, 2011? Quote:
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Thanks for digging up the information on Perry Kewen odinthor. I really appreciate it.
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If the boy was a member of the immediate family he should have been up on the balcony with the family & if that wasn't possible they ALL should have posed together on the lawn. but perhaps I'm making too big of a deal about it. For all we know, the lad could have been the caretaker's son. If that was the case, it was a kind gesture of the family to include them in the photograph. ______________________________________________________________________ There was a 2nd stereo-view I assume was taken at the same time. (same photographer) Initially viewing this as a thumbnail, I thought it was a photograph of a fountain on the lawn. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/CRdity.jpg link coming but now I believe it might be a remnant of the old mill. :shrug: (or perhaps a well gone dry?) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/sYfNtL.jpg For all I know, it might still be there on the grounds. _____ p.s. can anyone tell which part of the lawn this is showing. (front...side...or back?) |
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Avenue to the Sky Hoss, it looks like the :previous: Butcher Block space was a TV/Radio store at the time this pic was taken. I wonder what that cluster of neon is farther down the street ? |
Hollenbeck/Coulter's -1886
I always liked this one from even earlier LAP & FW when the Bryson-Bonebrake site was still a vacant lot:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2o...L=w601-h450-no usc dl We were such a tiny town. |
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Going by the lay of the land, etc, that structure appears to be off the south end of the mill. It may have had a decorative use when the mill became a residence, as well as being useful to water the garden or for use in the house. I wish I could find a diagram of the whole water-management arrangement as built. How the water was gathered to feed into the mill, the path of the flume/race to the lake and then on to the dam and the new mill which was at/near the mission. Also Wilson Creek/ditch and the lagoon up by the Saunders' house. I'm having a bit of trouble visualizing it. Quote:
ETA It all makes more sense on the topographic map: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qQ...V=w789-h539-no google maps |
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Can you make out what's still on the old mill's south terrace (at left) e_r? It looks like something is there:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zP...8=w972-h604-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Dk...z=w973-h546-no google maps I emailed the foundation. Maybe they know. |
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I would like to take a quick look at the building next door (810 S. Flower) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/4HE3zH.jpg LINK provided by FW / 814 S. Flower being demolished See the garage-like entrance :previous: This was for the Pierce Brothers & Co. Ambulance Service. (have we discussed this before?) In this 1907 ad, a Pierce Bros. coach is shown picking up a patient, or the recently deceased, at an unnamed residence. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/1oTd14.jpg California Medical and Surgical Reporter *I just noticed it says NO MORTUARY use. (so it's prob. not a deceased body) A blurb in the same magazine about Pierce Bros.' new coaches https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...924/zpRiWM.jpg California Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1907 from 1922. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/6l7B7Z.jpg the western osteopath, 1922 ____ I'll end with this larger image of the 'mytery' house. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/9SK15n.jpg detail Does anyone recognize the house...GW....FW..perhaps? |
The Second Life of the First Presbyterian Church
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The bold text in the quote above needs a caveat. Our story picks up with dismantling the church in March 1895: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...f.jpg~original March 15, 1895, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...m.jpg~original March 17, 1895, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC Now let's skip ahead to May 1895: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...n.jpg~original May 28, 1895, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC So this building (here c. 1883 looking SE) . . . http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...j.jpg~original CHS-7385 @ USCDL . . . became the four-story building marked FRANKLIN, just south of where Court Flight will be built on North Broadway, as seen in this 1899 photo looking SW from the County Courthouse? http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...w.jpg~original Shorpy Let's take a closer look. Here's the church on the 1894 Sanborn; Broadway is at the top and Second Street is on the right. The western end of the Hollenbeck Hotel is behind the church. Please note the part of the church marked "Sunday School": http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...x.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL This is a close-up from the c. 1883 photo above. In the box is the window for the Sunday School, and what I guess is a decorative vent by the checkmark. You may also wish to note the two dormer-type roof vents: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...d.jpg~original Here is a close-up from the 1899 photo above, with what appear to be the same parts from the church marked. The appearance and placement of the two dormer-type vents are similar but not exact: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...h.jpg~original Below is the 1896 LACD, the first with The Franklin on North Broadway. The 1898 LACD tells us that E. A. and M. E. Burns were Eliza A. and Mary E. and that they were the proprietors of The Franklin along with Anne Burns (widow of P. B.), who may have been their mother: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...i.jpg~original fold3.com Here's a clip from "Removing Landmarks" from the August 14, 1907, Los Angeles Times: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...e.jpg~original ProQuest via LAPL The demolition permit for 141-143 N. Broadway -- and The Franklin -- is dated October 21, 1924: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...l.jpg~original LADBS |
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1st English Lutheran Church on the SE corner of 8th and Flower. Your mystery photo shows the south end of the Flower Street side of that church. What's weird is that 810-12 was built in 1902, but it's not visible in the 1907 ad/photo. . . . |
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/W4Ig9X.jpg hmmm....it's too difficult to tell. (it appears to be the right distance from the house) |
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http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3904 Incidentally, if anyone else finds old posts of mine (or JScott's) with dead photo links, let me know and I'll fix them. I confess, my recent repair job was limited to those posts which I had bookmarked. It would simply have been too formidable a task to go through all those hundreds of individual pages to find every post I ever made here. (The most oft-referenced ones are all fixed now, though, I believe.) -Scott |
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