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[ethereal_reality]

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Thanks so much odinthor. I appreciate your help.

Hmm. .what's the large building behind the Masonic Club with the peaked roof?.. It doesn't look familiar.


LAPL

It reminds me of an old hospital.
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I happened upon this slide of Coco's Famous Hamburgers this morning on eBay.


eBay Link

Does anyone remember Coco's? (because I don't)

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[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Thanks so much odinthor. I appreciate your help.

Hmm. .what's the large building behind the Masonic Club with the peaked roof?.. It doesn't look familiar.


LAPL

It reminds me of an old hospital.

I think that's the back of the University Club of Los Angeles at 614-622 South Hope Street. The full post containing the picture below is here, with some color photos including its demolition here.

Originally Posted by HossC

After a bit of Googling I found it was the University Club of Los Angeles at 614-622 South Hope. A quick search of NLA yielded no previous mentions, so I don't think this is a repeat (I won't be surprised if someone else finds it!). According to an article on www.csulb.edu, the building had its formal opening July 6, 1922.


Ebay

[unihikid]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Thanks so much odinthor. I appreciate your help.

Hmm. .what's the large building behind the Masonic Club with the peaked roof?.. It doesn't look familiar.


LAPL

It reminds me of an old hospital.
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I happened upon this slide of Coco's Famous Hamburgers this morning on eBay.


eBay Link

Does anyone remember Coco's? (because I don't)

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Coco's is slowly dying out here. The one closes to me just closed (on Hawthorne soon to become a Raisin Canes). I want to say the one in Gardena (Crenshaw Bl?) is still open. Coco's had great pies and was a good Breakfast/Lunch place, i'd say a step above Denny's. The one i grew up going to was on Pico near Robertson... our favorite pie was a Lemon cream cheese pie (Lemon filling layered on top of a cheesecake topped with whipping cream).

[BDiH]

Originally Posted by unihikid

Coco's is slowly dying out here. The one closes to me just closed (on Hawthorne soon to become a Raisin Canes). I want to say the one in Gardena (Crenshaw Bl?) is still open. Coco's had great pies and was a good Breakfast/Lunch place, i'd say a step above Denny's. The one i grew up going to was on Pico near Robertson... our favorite pie was a Lemon cream cheese pie (Lemon filling layered on top of a cheesecake topped with whipping cream).

The Coco's on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana closed a few years ago. It's now a Black Bear Diner.

[BDiH]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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oops, this was supposed to go in my previous post.


1990s.

The former Music Box / Pix Theater.

cinematreasures

jhuxid, have you ever been down in the basement?...(if there is a basement)


When I was a kid a classmate's father ran a theater here in the midwest and we used to snoop around in the basement which -at the time- was full of old movie posters and lobby cards.

I remember being in the basement about 60 years ago when there was still a dressing room from the early days. It must have been left over from the Carter DeHaven Music Box when live revues were presented on stage.

[JeffDiego]

Originally Posted by BDiH

The Coco's on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana closed a few years ago. It's now a Black Bear Diner.

My memory is that Coco's was owned by or associated with the Reuben's steakhouse chain. It was less expensive & had a simpler menu than Reuben's. The 1970's & 80's were the heyday for both chains. I assume all of the Reuben's restaurants are long gone?

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I happened upon this slide of Coco's Famous Hamburgers this morning on eBay.


eBay Link

Does anyone remember Coco's? (because I don't)

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The eBay link says this was taken in 1977.

Although I've been trying to verify it with no luck yet, the building and this photo gives me the vibe of being on Cahuenga Blvd. near Universal City. It might have been at or near 3640 Cahuenga Blvd. where there is now an In 'n Out Burger.

[JeffDiego]

Originally Posted by nealberke

Sometimes Church's come up with odd jobs for folks who need money. That does not make him a Church employee as such.

What in the world are all of those giant, round yellow objects in the google photo?

[ethereal_reality]

Mini-Pods



and 6,500 plants!




It's called Second Home Hollywood.
You can read about it at the architectural firm, Here.


And as Martin Pal mentioned earlier:

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

It was interesting to read that the main building there was designed by the architect Paul Williams.

"The site was originally home to two structures: the Anne Banning Community House, a two-story wood building designed by pioneering African American architect Paul Williams,
and a Family Resource Center with associated below- and on-grade parking.

Completed in 1964, the Anne Banning Community House headquartered the Assistance League of Southern California for the latter half of the twentieth century.
To preserve this historic landmark, Walter P Moore repurposed the facility by relocating several wood shear walls, converting the first-floor roof into exterior patios and removing non-structural partition walls."


Paul R. Williams

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[stanklem]

We used to go to the Cocos on Hawthorne Blvd. and eventually decided that Norms was a better buy. There was another on Redondo Beach Blvd. in Gardena. Have not been by there in a while. No idea if it is still there. The Gardena storee always seemed to do a good business. The Hawthorne place was busy on weekends only.

Originally Posted by unihikid

Coco's is slowly dying out here. The one closes to me just closed (on Hawthorne soon to become a Raisin Canes). I want to say the one in Gardena (Crenshaw Bl?) is still open. Coco's had great pies and was a good Breakfast/Lunch place, i'd say a step above Denny's. The one i grew up going to was on Pico near Robertson... our favorite pie was a Lemon cream cheese pie (Lemon filling layered on top of a cheesecake topped with whipping cream).

[ethereal_reality]

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It appears that Coco's liked to hand out visors.







One of the visors included the list of all the locations.



HOLY MOLY! That's quite a list.


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[sadykadie2]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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It appears that Coco's liked to hand out visors.








One of the visors included the list of all the locations.



HOLY MOLY! That's quite a list.




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The kids menus were printed like this all through the 70's. My sis and I used to put them on like headbands

[Bristolian]

I can report that the Manhattan Beach location has been closed for years, now a Chilis, and the Gardena location which does not show up on the visor closed in the last year or so.

[Bristolian]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

My story on Silent's property, which of course became Chester Place:
https://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/05/711-west-adams-street-please-also-see.html

Question for you, Mr. Wilshire:

I have read on your excellent Historic Los Angeles pages instances of thoroughfares being upgraded from streets or avenues to boulevards back in the earlier parts of the last century.

It seems that most of the big ones eventually became boulevards but why never so with Western Avenue? It seems similar in capacity to nearby Crenshaw and others.
Was it a custom that was phased out?

[ethereal_reality]

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From an earlier post.

What's the large building behind the Masonic Club?


Originally posted by odinthor

Originally Posted by HossC

I think that's the back of the University Club of Los Angeles at 614-622 South Hope Street.

Thanks for answering my question, HossC.


I especially like these two photographs from your earlier post.

AUGUST 1, 1967


Huntington Archive


OCTOBER 1, 1967


Huntington Archive

I wonder if the peaked area on the top floor was a public space or a space for utilities? ....I envision a large (long) banquet hall.


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[beachboyz2men]

There was a Coco's on York Blvd. in Highland Park until very recently. Now it's a Denny's.

Looks like there are still a handful of locations in SoCal and Arizona.

[stanklem]

Coco's map is out of date. Still has the Hawthorne location that closed.

[riichkay]

A gentleman named Bill Greene, who grew up in Hermosa Beach in the '50's/'60's, posted a collection of family photos to flickr.com some years ago....I culled out a few of local interest....the captions in quotes are Mr. Greene's....




"My great grandparents owned this glass emporium in San Francisco at 18 Sutter St. at the beginning of the 20th Century. It was destroyed in the earthquake of 1906, and they moved to Los Angeles, where my grandmother met my grandfather when they were children.

So I guess without the earthquake I wouldn't be here!

Notice the Burlington Route calendar on the wall, I compared it to a 1905 calendar and I believe it is for May 1905."






"This is the house my great grandfather, John Stirk, built in Gramercy Park, Los Angeles after he lost his business in San Francisco due to the 1906 earthquake. This house is still standing and looks just about the same as this! It's located a block north of the well known West Adams street.....photo is about 1912."



The 1920 census locates the house at 2448 Gramercy Park....




The "occupation" side of the census ledger indicates John Stirk was still in the glass business, he's listed as "representative, U.S. Glass Co."




Mr. Stirk died in 1928, and was buried in a family plot at Inglewood Park Cemetery.....









"Friends of my grandmother visiting when she, my father and aunt lived in Hermosa Beach, 1930's. Dottie and Leo Ward. Leo was also the family attorney."







"My great-grandmother's house at 916 Edgewood St. Inglewood, 1950's.....I remember this place when I was a kid in the 1960's. It had wonderful stonework done by her husband Monty."




gsv







"Hermosa Biltmore Hotel....1965.

This was taken from the roof of our house on Monterey Blvd, right off Pier Ave.

Last time I was in Hermosa Beach a few years ago it didn't look much the same!"






"This was taken from our house on Monterey Blvd, just a few houses south of Pier Ave., the end of the Hermosa Biltmore in 1969.

The building just left of the Mobil sign was the old Baptist church, now long gone too!

The rooftop below the Mobil sign is the top of the Alta Dena, which was still there last time I was in Hermosa Beach."

[nealberke]

It appears that Coco's liked to hand out visors.

That reminds me of HODY'S Clown masks. Didn't they put the kids menu and locations in their paper masks? I remember getting their masks when I was like 5 years old...

And, I agree. NORM'S is a better value with better service. I'm sorry DuPar's didn't take over CoCo's and reopen as DuPars..

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by Bristolian

Question for you, Mr. Wilshire:

I have read on your excellent Historic Los Angeles pages instances of thoroughfares being upgraded from streets or avenues to boulevards back in the earlier parts of the last century.

It seems that most of the big ones eventually became boulevards but why never so with Western Avenue? It seems similar in capacity to nearby Crenshaw and others.
Was it a custom that was phased out?

The upgrading of some streets to Boulevard status came out of the 1924 Major Traffic Street Plan. It seems to have been primarily east-west thoroughfares that were designated as these major routes because of the expansion of the city, westwardly in particular--with their widenings anticipating the freeways to come. Washington, Adams, and Jefferson streets became Boulevards; 16th Street became Venice Boulevard and 10th Street became Olympic Boulevard (with some alignment variations). Major north-south streets and avenues such as Figueroa, Hoover, Western, and Vermont weren't redesignated. My impression is that the new "Boulevards" were in emulation of Wilshire and Sunset, the term having grand connotations considered more suitable for the higher-end residential expansion west while being considered unnecessary going south into the mix of less expensive housing tracts and industry toward the harbor.

The 1924 plan was produced by the Major Highways Committee of the Traffic Commission after studies and recommendations by Frederick Law Olmsted, Harland Bartholemew, Charles Henry Cheney.