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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Aerial view of Page Military Academy at 1201 S. Cochran Avenue. The road running left to right is San Vicente Boulevard.


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below: Aerial dated 1915.


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below: In this view the administration building is seen facing Cochran Avenue. The street at left is San Vicente Boulevard.
Notice the cadets lined up in the training field.



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The Page Military Academy was at this location from 1915 to 1958.

below: In this aerial you can still make out the triangular outline of the military academy.



google street view



Today the site is the Villa Vicente Apartment Complex.


google street view

By 1933, the paint was starting to fade. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll170/id/60052/rec/7








Page, that Military academy for "little" boys.





Cochran looking north.





Safe bet WigWag would have found the off-campus entertainment.

Looking south on Cochran. That steeple probably belongs to the Cochran Ave Baptist Church.




1504 S Cochran (Built late '20s?)
https://cabcla.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/cochrran-church-picture.jpg?w=1024



Things look sanitary on the right side of the street.
















Abandoned construction equipment or a street car capped with an extra large turbine vent? (Trackless crane/shovel?)






1933 - San Vicente looking east from Cochroach Ave





I wonder if this building was later remodeled and is currently occupied by "Splendid Cleaners?" Notice Page Military sign on utility pole. Intended for street car passengers or kite fliers?



Splendid
http://www.splendiddrycleaners.com/images/photos/ph_exterior_1.jpg




1933 - East on San Vicente (The dust bowl is wider than most thought?)





Cloverdale and San Vicente. Nice street lamps.