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ethereal_reality · #**25301** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 8:36 PM**

I just found these as well.

"1880s-90s early views of oil wells, Los Angeles area, Mt. Lowe."

http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1880S-90S-PAGE...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item566eea8bba

below: Here they are individually (and a bit larger).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1880S-90S-PAGE...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item566eea8bba

http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1880S-90S-PAGE...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item566eea8bba

below: This is by far my favorite. Could this be the early days of Westlake Park?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1880S-90S-PAGE...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item566eea8bba

http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1880S-90S-PAGE...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item566eea8bba
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1880S-90S-PAGE...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item566eea8bba

Mt. Lowe Incline

http://www.ebay.com/itm/C-1880S-90S-PAGE...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item566eea8bba

The seller didn't include close-ups of the other three from this page.
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CityBoyDoug · #**25302** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 9:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I just found this slide a few minutes ago on ebay. (love that red car!)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-1950s-S...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item339b85859d

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Look at the front of the bus.

Here are the old Kaye-Halbert TVs that were sold mostly in Los Angeles around 1949. KH stopped their LA production of TVs in 1956.

radioguy

1952 ad for the KH TV. That price would be $2,200 in 2014. A lot of money for a little B/W TV.

newspapersonline

ethereal_reality · #**25303** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 9:36 PM**

Gibbie's Seaside Inn, 1314 West Sixth Street, DRexel 0904. Thursday, August 22, 1935.

ebay

ebay

As far as I can tell, Gibbie's location is now a parking lot for the Pacific Dining Car.
I'm not sure why it was named Gibbie's Seaside Inn....the nearest body of water is a good distance away.
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ethereal_reality · #**25304** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 10:17 PM**

Los Angeles 1920

E. Burton Ceruti, NCAAP founder, L.A. Branch, Los Angeles Calif. 1920. 421 W. 7th St., Orpheum

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920-LOS-ANGELES...8745?pt=Postcards_US&hash=item566ef579e9

I found a Buster Apts. at 141 1/2 N. Broadway in the 1923 city directory. (I've never seen a apt. building with a 1/2 address before)

In the same directory:
Mr. Ceruti's (attorney) office was at 132 N. Broadway, RM 501.
His home address was 1300 W. Florence Ave.

The date (1920) of the RPPC predates the Orpheum at 636 S Broadway (it opened in 1926).
Then there's the address 421 W. 7th St. Is this the location of an earlier Orpheum?

-I'm a bit confused...can you tell? Help!
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Also...there are some interesting things going on back toward the Hotel Buster apartments. There appears to be a lighted billboard in front of a sloping hill
...and there's another billboard on top of the hill. And what's that to the right of the billboard? It looks like a white statue to me.

so-cal-bear · #**25305** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 10:32 PM**

Yeah, it would cost an arm and a leg to get custom-made curved glass. Why pay $3,000 for a window when you can pay $300 for it? But, yeah. It does look cheap.

Images: as noted or Chester Williams Bldg.[/QUOTE]

HossC · #**25306** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 10:36 PM**

NB. I've cropped e_r's images as they originally came in threes.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Earlier tonight while I was perusing ebay, I found these impressive photographs from the 1920s.

above:
First photo...Hollywood Station Post Office. (I'm not sure where this was located)

The 1921 CD lists the Hollywood Station Post Office at 6379 Hollywood Boulevard, but I think this is 1620 N Highland Avenue where the Post Office is listed in the 1923 and 1926 CDs. That would mean that the building on the left is the Hollywood Storage Company at 1666 N Highland Avenue (they were also at 6818 Santa Monica Boulevard). The Hollywood Station Post Office later moved to Vine and then Wilcox - read more about various Hollywood Post Offices here, here, here and here.

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

above:
I can't quite make out the name of the building in that last photo. (there's a café at the far end of the building...along with a drug store and grocery store)

Throughout the 1920s, the Goodlett Grocery Company is listed at 5536 Hollywood Boulevard. That address is now just a small parking lot (the hedges and gate below), although this distinctive 1921 building at 5540 Hollywood Boulevard still stands (see also post #17219). Is the corner of this building just visible on the far right of e_r's picture?

GSV

On the other side of the parking lot is this structure. I can't find a build date, but I'm wondering if it's the building with the cafe on the left of e_r's picture.

GSV

A 2012 article in the LA Times details a $100 million apartment and shopping complex proposed for this block.

ethereal_reality · #**25307** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 11:04 PM**

Good eye HossC. That building certainly has the same proportions as the café building in the 1920s photograph.
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ethereal_reality · #**25308** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 11:23 PM**

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stolen-Dog-Aired...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item48778b8692

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stolen-Dog-Aired...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item48778b8692

Stolen Dog.

ethereal_reality · #**25309** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 11:58 PM**

I just found this group of six slides, dated 1966. A majority of them show a building being demolished by the Cleveland Wrecking Co. I was hoping someone could tell me what building is coming down.

Here's the building in question. (with the Chan Co. sign)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966-DOW...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f3d4205d

Here you can see the 'Cleveland Wrecking' sign.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966-DOW...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f3d4205d

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966-DOW...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f3d4205d
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...and here are the last two slides.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966-DOW...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f3d4205d

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966-DOW...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f3d4205d
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CityBoyDoug · #**25310** Posted **Jan 4, 2015, 11:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stolen-Dog-Aired...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item48778b8692

Stolen Dog.

That penny Post Card in 1915 is.... $.23 in 2015 money.

But today in 2015 a ''penny'' post card actually costs you $.34. I wonder if he got his dog Scraps back.

HossC · #**25311** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 12:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Los Angeles 1920

E. Burton Ceruti, NCAAP founder, L.A. Branch, Los Angeles Calif. 1920. 421 W. 7th St., Orpheum

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920-LOS-ANGELES...8745?pt=Postcards_US&hash=item566ef579e9

I found a Buster Apts. at 141 1/2 N. Broadway in the 1923 city directory. (I've never seen a apt. building with a 1/2 address before)

In the same directory:
Mr. Ceruti's (attorney) office was at 132 N. Broadway, RM 501.
His home address was 1300 W. Florence Ave.

The date (1920) of the RPPC predates the Orpheum at 636 S Broadway (it opened in 1926).
Then there's the address 421 W. 7th St. Is this the location of an earlier Orpheum?

-I'm a bit confused...can you tell? Help!
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Also...there are some interesting things going on back toward the Hotel Buster apartments. There appears to be a lighted billboard in front of a sloping hill
...and there's another billboard on top of the hill. And what's that to the right of the billboard? It looks like a white statue to me.

Here's the 1921 Baist map of that block of N Broadway. I think the Hotel Buster/Buster Apartments must be the yellow building marked "HOTEL". Just to the right, where is says "COURT ST", is the location of Court Flight. The photo above must have been taken in the white area next to the Thorpe Office Building (under the word "BROADWAY") - check out the angle of the wall.

So far, this is the only other picture I've found of the Hotel Buster/Buster Apartments - it's just across the street from the top of the Times tower. The plot next to the Buster Apartments would soon be filled with the Law Building, so maybe that's what the billboard in e_r's picture is advertising. I can't see the Buster Apartments in any of the pictures of the Law Building that I've come across so far, so was it knocked down when the Law Building was constructed?

LAPL

In the early 1920s, 421 W 7th Street was one of the addresses of Earl V Lewis, the photographer/Kodak dealer. Could this be why the address appears on the postcard?

fhammon · #**25312** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 12:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

OK, I'm pretty sure I 've never heard of this place called the "Cliff Dwellers" (located somewhere on Beverly Boulevard).

"Five rare photographs of the Cliff Dwellers Café on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, in 1928."

Wow, ER!
That captured my attention tout de suite. I have never heard of this place. Has this really escaped everybody's attention? I don't recall it. These gems just keep turning up...

http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/cornellpapers%3A349

http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/islandora/object/cornellpapers%3A350

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1st & Beverly Blvd - LA - 5-15-32,

...makes it somewhere near the The Bob Baker Marionette Theater.

Squab again....

http://laheyday.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-in-los-angeles-1920s-part_31.html

http://cdm16693.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16693coll18/id/10/rec/6

HossC · #**25313** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 1:08 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I just found this group of six slides, dated 1966. A majority of them show a building being demolished by the Cleveland Wrecking Co. I was hoping someone could tell me what building is coming down.

Here's the building in question. (with the Chan Co. sign)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1966-DOW...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f3d4205d

I haven't found any pictures of the front of the building, or a name for it, but it was originally next to the Martz Flats. The same Tai Chan Co and Rushton's Shoes signs can be seen on the left of this 1965 picture. Maybe someone else will have more luck finding a frontal shot. Beaudry posted a couple of color images of the Martz Flats in post #15645, but sadly they show no more of the mystery building.

UCLA Digital Repository

Godzilla · #**25314** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 1:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

That's an excellent detail GW!
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-posted earlier by HossC/looking west on Wilshire from Bixel in 1934 ( http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6374728&postcount=18272 )

HossC's photograph reminded me of this scale model of the Good Samaritan Hospital by Wm. McCallum. 1/8 inch=1 Foot.

old file of mine/probably ebay

I wasn't aware of the chapel until I came across this model.

After a few searches, I found another view showing the chapel.

PatricksMercy/Flickr

1936 - More of widened Wilshire west of Lucas Street

http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092831.jpg

1936 - Same view, a little cleaner.

http://jpg1.lapl.org/00092/00092830.jpg

Possibly worth noting that an original Wilshire street light may still be standing proud near the "Lucas" street sign.

Wig-Wag · #**25315** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 2:37 AM**

[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;6863375]I just found this slide a few minutes ago on ebay. (love that red car!)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-1950s-S...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item339b85859d

ER, your red car is a 1941 Pontiac Streamliner "Torpedo" coupe. Pretty rare these days as there are very few even in the Pontiac-Oakland Club International, of which I am a member. That lovely red is "Parma Wine"

As to Mt Lowe in the snow, those are rare also. Nice find!

Cheers,
Jack

Those Who Squirm! · #**25316** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 3:22 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

That penny Post Card in 1915 is.... $.23 in 2015 money.

But today in 2015 a ''penny'' post card actually costs you $.34. I wonder if he got his dog Scraps back.

Amazing, when you consider that, today, we still have that penny, the one that costs twice its face value to print, and it can't buy a French Fry or stick of gum...

Tetsu · #**25317** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 3:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beaudry

What I want to know is, why have they barricaded the street? Construction? The only clue I have to a date is in pen on verso, "Sat 4-15" which makes it most likely 1922. 428 S Hope is early 20s, I believe, so that's my guess.

Thanks Beaudry (and rickm as well) - finally seeing the Williams House has truly made my day! While it's easy to see why most photographers turned their attention to the Hildreth, the Williams was none too shabby at all! So, as far as you guys know, it lasted until the 4th Street cut was put in?

CityBoyDoug · #**25318** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 4:16 AM**

[QUOTE=Wig-Wag;6863655]

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I just found this slide a few minutes ago on ebay. (love that red car!)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-1950s-S...?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item339b85859d

ER, your red car is a 1941 Pontiac Streamliner "Torpedo" coupe. Pretty rare these days as there are very few even in the Pontiac-Oakland Club International, of which I am a member. That lovely red is "Parma Wine"

As to Mt Lowe in the snow, those are rare also. Nice find!

Cheers,
Jack

Nice car Jack.

That appears to be Tilfords Coffee Shop at the left with the neon sign. Click the link below.

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5930928&postcount=10751

ethereal_reality · #**25319** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 7:51 PM**

HossC, thanks for figuring out the location of my 1920 Ceruti postcard.

ebay

If you look closely, you can clearly see that it's the same building. What a sleuth you are.

I also like how the peaked roof of the Hotel Buster/Apartments is situated in the middle of the building. (quite unusual).

ethereal_reality · #**25320** Posted **Jan 5, 2015, 7:59 PM**

Wig-Wag,
Thanks for identifying the 1941 Pontiac Streamliner 'Torpedo' coupe Jack. 'Parma Wine'....what a color!
...and that light green car across the street is nice looking as well.

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Originally Posted by fhammon

Wow, ER!
I have never heard of the Cliff Dwellers Cafe'. Has this really escaped everybody's attention? I don't recall it. These gems just keep turning up...

I was as surprised as you were fhammon. How did we miss this place?

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