I believe the following two snapshot are from the R.H. Rood photo album (that is being sold in bits and pieces
on eBay)
You remember Rood don't you? He's the guy that was Rudolph Valentino's chauffeur.(so he claims)
1924.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1924-LOS-ANGELES-...-PHOTO-/171908074768?hash=item2806850d10
"ROOMED" 3300 So. Figueroa Street
below: close-up of the Cedar Lodge Inn sign
detail
Can anyone make out the other writing on the sign? I believe the bottom line might be
'Special' something.
This would have been a block away from the John Marcellus Steward house built in 1871 (circled in red).
google earth
It looks like the Cedar Lodge Inn is long gone...so I thought I'd see if there were any cedar trees left in the area.
Well, the only tree(s) that resemble the tree(s) in the 1924 Rood photograph are actually across from the John Marcellus Stewart house on 31st street.
gsv
Then I realized the house beneath the cedar looks
very much like the Cedar Lodge Inn.
gsv
Just a coincidence? -perhaps. -or did Rood give the wrong address?
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The second photograph shows where R. H. Rood worked for
one month.
1922
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1922-VAUGHN-SCHUL...-PHOTO-/391238245925?hash=item5b179dde25
Vaughn-Schuler Storage Battery Co., S. Figueroa & W. Jefferson Sts. L.A. Cal.
here's a close-up of the street number.
detail
3241 (?) Has anyone heard of the Vaughn-Schuler Co. before?
Here's the post where R.H. Rood first claimed to be Valentino's chauffeur (with a very interesting photo)
-there's also a photograph of him at the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=7105450&postcount=29906
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