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[odinthor]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Thanks for figuring out the location of Woodhead & Gay, riichkay.

Here's an amazing amateur slide losted on eBay.

"1950s Los Angeles California Angels Flight Railway 35mm Kodachrome slide photo"


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Wow, just wow!

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The Ferguson of Ferguson Cafe is after the family which owned the lot, that of the late William Ferguson, whose residence was at this location until he built a new home at 8th and Rampart in about 1905 (doubtless it wasn't very pleasant having Angels Flight running immediately adjacent). This is also the Ferguson of Ferguson's Alley in old Chinatown; he was the landowner of parcels in that area (as was Harris Newmark), not necessarily knowing the uses to which the structures there were being put. Relying on my notes: He was born January 20, 1831, in Washington County, Arkansas. After some time gold mining, he came to L.A. in 1868, coming back for good in 1869, when with L.J. Rose he opened a livery stable on Main near the Plaza. By 1872, he was a City Councilman, before long living at 303 S. Hill. Just about the time construction was actually commenced on the long-planned building in the photo, he died (April 9, 1910).

[ethereal_reality]

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You're absolutely correct, odinthor.

Here's a glimpse of the Ferguson Home in that spot.



Great information! Kudos

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[odinthor]

Thanks, e_r!

I was curious about Ferguson's new place at 8th and Rampart:


LA Herald, 10/29/1905


LA Herald, 10/29/1905

[Flyingwedge]

Thanks, Odinthor, I never knew that was all the same Ferguson.

This is a closeup of the Ferguson home next to Angels Flight (I think we've seen this before; there's a little angel over the
arch at the bottom), c. 1903:



1999-0026 @ CA State Library


Here's another look at the Ferguson home, with the Crocker Mansion behind it up on the hill. My notes say this is a c. 1895
William Henry Fletcher photo from the CA State Library, but I can't find it there now:





However, the Ferguson home at Third and Hill can also be seen below the Crocker Mansion c. 1890 in photo 2003-0256 at the CA State Library.

[ethereal_reality]

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Take a look at the abysmal parking situation at LAX in 1968.


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I'm reminded of an ADAM 12 episode where Reed and Malloy patrolled the airport on motorbikes. Did that actually happen or did I dream it up?

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[ethereal_reality]

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And here I thought it was just a BAND. (when I was in high school)


REO Speed Wagon.


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Info on back


That's a lot of dirty sheets and pillow cases!


The logo.


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[Tehmeh]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Take a look at the abysmal parking situation at LAX in 1968.


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I'm reminded of an ADAM 12 episode where Reed and Malloy patrolled the airport on motorbikes. Did that actually happen or did I dream it up?

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Yes, I saw that episode on cable last year.

[odinthor]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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This cabinet card is also on eBay



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Did someone notable live on the corner of Figueroa and Jefferson Streets?

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To add to earlier posts on this: Just a quick note that, contrary to a notion popular in the early 1900s, Ramon Figueroa was not a brother of California's governor Jose Figueroa. Gov. Figueroa did have a brother (named Francisco), and that brother did live in the greater L.A. area (he succeeded Gov. Figueroa as owner Rancho Los Alamitos, and sold it to Abel Stearns in July, 1842; Francisco was dead by 1856); and what's more Ramon Figueroa did own the adobe in question at Jefferson and Figueroa; but Ramon Figueroa was not related to Gov. Figueroa, and the street was named after the governor, not after Ramon.

Ramon Figueroa (Jose Ramon, to be precise) was a native Angeleno and was baptized April 9, 1806, at Mission San Gabriel (died after 1870, when he's still on the census rolls as a farmer); he did have two brothers: Salvador Ygnacio and Felipe de Jesus. Their father was Manuel Antonio Figueroa, born in Sinaloa ca. 1750, and present in California as a soldier at Mission San Francisco de Asis by July 1777; Manuel died near July 21, 1815, when his obsequies were celebrated at Mission San Gabriel.

Meantime, the Figueroas of which the governor was one were Mexican-born and did not come to California until 1833, after Jose was selected as governor. For those wanting more on him, the best biography of Governor Figueroa in my estimation is that found in the book The Bandini Papers, p. 493, by, um, me.