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I love
gas holders, AKA gasometers. Here
http://users.bergen.org/dondew/GLA/WGPModule.html is a site that describes these curious structures, once ubiquitous in American cities.
In the TTP pic we're looking south on Ducummon across Vignes; I've never seen
Best Years of Our Lives so I can't say. There were big tanks the other side of Aliso at Howard, and above Keller. Also scattered throughout the city (7th & Alameda, Hollywood, etc.)
But the ones behind Union Station are my faves. I never got to see them in person, that I can recall; I think they disappeared in the mid-70s.
lapl
They are discussed in some detail here
http://viewfromaloft.typepad.com/vie...for_the_m.html and here
http://blogdowntown.com/2006/11/2417...on-gas-holders
-- in short, the Big Three down by the river date to 1906, 1912, 1906 was felled and replaced in 1922, and 1925. Here's some more stuff about our gas holders in general:
The first LA Gas & Electric plant was opposite the Pico House and ran between 1867 and '69.
June 27, 1906:
March 3, 1912:
American Gas Journal, April 16, 1921.
P. 349 (googlebooks):
Jan 18, 1923:
Feb 11, 1923:
May 13, 1925:
Sept 14, 1930:
Anyone out there with memories or images of the gas holders, please drop 'em by here. Oh, and here's something I penned for a local mag a short while back (I know this is an image-driven forum, but I thought it germane to the gassy topic).
...seems likely I'll buy and build one of
these.