It is finished. All of my postings (excepting five) have been restored, as have all of the images. (There were two minor posts that I had neglected to archive in the first place, one post was omitted because it was an inane question to begin with, one post was simply irrelevant to the discussion at hand and was going to be a pain to copy/paste back into existence anyway, and one I decided to keep off the board for private/family reasons, but is still linked to in my blog.)
And it only took a couple days! It was fun going back through it all, actually, not to mention it gave me something to do while my car's been in the shop this week.
About a third of the formerly missing content is conveniently viewable here (requires login):
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/sear...earchid=911970
The links only go back 100 posts, but since I posted rather sporadically at the end, that goes back over a year to April, 2011. My more informative posts were more near the beginning of the thread, though; in fact, just shy of half of all of my posts were made between pages 20-50.
Here are some of my own favorites.
The Bryson-Bonebrake Block:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=414
Temple Square and the "Million-Dollar Post Office":
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=417
View from the Court House tower, c.1900:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=433
Spring Street from First:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=442
Hotel Melrose:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=622
Broadway and First:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=847
The Ramona Boulevard series begins here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2382
Time-traveling to Old L.A.:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3401
L.A.'s first synagogue:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4064
Map of Rancho land-grants in L.A. county in 1898:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4413
The Baker Block:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=4541
There is some bad news to report, though: many of the earlier pages of the thread are in pretty bad shape image-wise. A lot more pictures are missing now than when I archived the thread 6 months ago. Many posts have lost all of their linked images. Not sure what if anything can be done about that. I'm just glad I archived what I did when I did!
-Scott