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[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by HossC

I'll see if I can find the building in any other pictures.

That would be great Hoss. I'll look too.

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[ethereal_reality]

"Family snapshot, Los Angeles Calif. 1925"


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I couldn't take my eyes off of the LAPD doll the little girl is holding.


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It's so cool, and probably worth a small fortune today.
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[HossC]

I haven't found another picture of the Detrick-Joslyn building yet, but here's what was there before it. The title of the picture is "Corner of Banning and Alameda St. Site of 1st elec. light mast in L.A." HDL date the picture at between 1890 and 1908.


Huntington Digital Library

MichaelRyerson posted this earlier picture in a round-up of early electric lighting in post #8581. I think it's the same building, although the windows differ between the two pictures.

Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson

first electric light plant, los angeles, 1883

(1883) - The first electric light plant in Los Angeles was built in 1882 by C. L. Howland (Los Angeles Electric Company) on the corner of Alameda and Banning Streets.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by JeffDiego

In 1986, the strange odyssey of beauty queen and WW2-era starlet Claire James came to an end in her decrepit 3,000 square foot home at 1287 Ozeta Terrace in West Hollywood, a house her parents had bought new in 1938.

[condensed]

Soon after Ms. James' death, Claire's brother, Robert James, has two 40-foot dumpsters delivered to Ozeta Terrace and throws everything out. Later, actor Julian Sands (the hunky blonde in "Room With a View") buys the house, which today is worth three million dollars.

I couldn't resist checking out 1287 Ozeta Terrace JD.


Adding a bit of mystery, it's blocked out in the Google street view. (but you get a glimpse of the house in the background)


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...but there's a fairly good look of the estate from up-above


Google_aerial

It's a bit odd that the garage appears to be in front of the house






Here's the garage as it appears on Bing maps....unblurred.


Bing

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[JeffDiego]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I couldn't resist checking out 1287 Ozeta Terrace JD.


Adding a bit of mystery, it's blocked out in the Google street view. (but you get a glimpse of the house in the background)


gsv









...but there's a fairly good look of the estate from up-above


Google_aerial

It's a bit odd that the garage appears to be in front of the house






Here's the garage as it appears on Bing maps....unblurred.


Bing

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You are quite the sleuth, Detective ethereal. Thanks for the very interesting photos BUT - adding to the "mystery" - if you just google 1287 Ozeta Terrace LA, it takes you to the various real estate sites and they all have this photo of a driveway and shingle-roofed ranch style garage which are nothing like what is shown in your photos of a large Spanish house & red-tile-roofed garage:


Google

This photo also has a large section blurred-out. What's up with that? To repeat myself, I really am kinda confused by the real estate ads that show a modest shingle-roofed garage (looks like a one-car garage) and your photos which show a tile-roofed garage clearly marked 1287 and your first photo showing a two-story Spanish-style house. The ads say that 1287 was built in 1938. The Spanish house looks more like 1920's to me - but I certainly may be wrong about that. Most puzzling. The wooden fence and low brick wall along the street are seen in your first photo and also the real estate ad photo. Claire James' father was the head fireman at 20th Century-Fox. How they were able to afford a grand 3,000 SF house in the Hollywood Hills is unknown (to me).

[ethereal_reality]

Hmmmmm.....it is a bit of a mystery JeffDiego.

I took a closer look at the white garage in your post above......If you look closely the street number is 1279.


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...and here's the house behind the white garage.


GO HERE to check out the interiors http://www.theagencyre.com/for-lease/1279-ozeta-ter-hollywood-hills/


I had to agree with you JD, the large tile roofed home looks more 1920s, while this more modest home next door looks 1938.




update: I just found the build date for 1279.

Zillow says it was built in 1935.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1279-Ozeta-Ter-Los-Angeles-CA-90069/20799298_zpid/

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[ethereal_reality]

here's another mystery.



Building #10 -from the sepia series [ca.1925]


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Yates-American Machine Company, Los Angeles Calif.





I just noticed there's another name along the roof-line (partially hidden by the utility poles), 'something' Pike Co.


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Actually, there are three different names.

[HossC]

I found the Yates-American Machinery Co at 1500 Santa Fe Avenue in the CDs between 1927 and 1932. There's no sign of the building today. The only thing I turned up at the online building records was a range file from 1981, and that's not available to view.

I haven't found the "... Pike Co" yet, but the business behind the utility poles is the Guiberson Corporation at 1506 Santa Fe Avenue.

[Bristolian]

Having worked at a gas station in my high school days, I have a thing for old service stations and wanted to post some photos of the decaying remains of a Phillips 66 station on the SW corner of Western Avenue and El Segundo Bl. in Gardena. As can be seen in a recent GSV image it remains but has been left to the elements for some time. For a while in the '90s it was used as a real estate office, unusual considering it's original purpose.
Phillips 66 stations are of particular interest to me. First, from what I remember, the company seemed to have abandoned Southern California sometime in the 1970s although they are back now by way of corporate mergers. More striking though is the fantastic roadside architecture of their stations. I think this one is a classic example and the jutting, triangular canopies are amazing. Some refer to these as the "batwing" design. According to a page devoted to them, the double canopy of this one was quite rare.
If anyone here could possibly find any photos or info on this place in its heyday I would love to see it.
There are numerous images on the net of former Phillips 66 stations that either sit abandoned like this one or have been re purposed into anything from a Goodwill store to a hamburger stand but this has to be one of the last remaining examples, if not, the last in the L.A. area.

From Western Ave:
GSV

And the view from El Segundo Bl:
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Aerial view showing the unique layout:
Google Maps

Here's a classic example from Midwest City, OK

https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitechipmunk/1460250804

[ethereal_reality]

That's a great looking station Bristolian. I hope one of us can find a vintage photo of that location.



Originally posted by Flyingwedge

ucla

FW, I've been searching but I haven't located the house yet.

I thought maybe the unique roof might help, but I couldn't think of the name for that type of shingles.
Are they considered steam bent shingles?

(I thought if the house still exists, part of the description might mention the roof)

And you said the number on the tree looked like 520?


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[Bristolian]

Double post

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Originally posted by Flyingwedge

ucla

FW, I've been searching but I haven't located the house yet.

I thought maybe the unique roof might help, but I couldn't think of the name for that type of shingles.
Are they considered steam bent shingles?

(I thought if the house still exists, part of the description might mention the roof)

And you said the number on the tree looked like 520?

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Thanks, e_r. "Steam bent shingles" seems correct for the roof, and the addy on the tree appears to be 520.
I'm guessing that at some point a new owner wasn't keen on the style of the house and had it redone.

[Bristolian]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Today's 'mystery' location from the series of 12 sepia photographs. [ca.1925]

Building #9


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This is a very impressive building, especially with the all the arched windows. I hope it's still standing.

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There was a Joslyn Lumber Co. in Torrance that was in business until the mid 1990s. It was a decent sized lumber yard, not too far from the 110 N Alameda address Hoss came up with.
Building materials - lumber. Could they be related?

[John Maddox Roberts]

ER and FW, I Google-imaged "Fairy Tale Houses" and found several pictures of an all but identical house in Vancouver, BC, on Prince Edward Avenue. I would guess the same architect though I couldn't find what they called those shingles. I think they're intended to resemble thatch. There were a couple of cottage-type fairytale houses in Santa Barbara/Montecito similar to this and I was told the architects were two women (sisters?) who were building houses there in the 20s-30s.

[HossC]

Today's Julius Shulman post is "Job 168: Sears, Roebuck and Company (Compton, Calif.), 1948".



The Garden Shop.



A reverse view to finish.



All from Getty Research Institute

The building, or at least most of it, is still standing near Orchard Avenue on N Long Beach Boulevard. The latest GSV images show it boarded up, but I found several articles like this one at mynewsla.com which say that a Walmart Supercenter will be opening in the old Sears site in late 2016.


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[Flyingwedge]

June 2015:


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1936; the house doesn't seem to have changed since then:


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Here it is just a tad closer, also 1936:


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This is the March 30, 1925, building permit for 344 S. Muirfield:


LADBS


After I found the BP, I thought, "OK, so who was Lloyd K. Hillman?" It turns out he lived from 1889 to 1966.
Here he is in the 1942 LACD:


LAPL


This is his first appearance at 344 S. Muirfield:


1927 LACD @ LAPL


Here's where I ran into quite a coincidence. Before his auto businesses at 507 S. Flower, Hillman worked here:


March 8, 1917, Los Angeles Herald @ CDNC


This is 526 S. Flower (c. 1916), which is now part of the Central Library property:


CHS-5790 @ USCDL


And 526 S. Flower is where the nephew of the Los Angeles Times' Harry Chandler, Ralph Chandler, and his friend,
Charles Wellington Rand, had their auto business (they sold ALCOs until they were no longer made). Rand, you may
recall, built and later committed suicide in the Baldwin Hills Oil Field House (aka the Rand-Cone House):


1917 LACD


In fact, Hillman had been Rand and Chandler's foreman as early as 1912, when their business was at 1246 S. Flower.
Hillman probably knew all about Rand and his troubles, as well as lots of interesting Chandler family info:


1912 LACD @ LAPL


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P.S. Thank you very much JMR for looking around for the fairy-tale house; what you discovered is very interesting!

[PHX31]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

That's a great looking station Bristolian. I hope one of us can find a vintage photo of that location.



Originally posted by Flyingwedge

ucla

FW, I've been searching but I haven't located the house yet.

I thought maybe the unique roof might help, but I couldn't think of the name for that type of shingles.
Are they considered steam bent shingles?

(I thought if the house still exists, part of the description might mention the roof)

And you said the number on the tree looked like 520?


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I saw that house one time about 3 years ago while driving the google street view car around Los Angeles. It caught my eye because it's nearly identical to a house just up the street from me here in Phoenix that I know well, they call the type Cotswold Cottage. If it helps you find it, I'm probably 90% sure it, or another just like it, was south of Wilshire in the Mid-Wilshire/Miracle Mile area. I looked around just now but didn't find it again.

Here's the one in Phoenix. Is it just a common floor plan? Or did a specific person design it and build it around the country, or at least in LA and Phoenix?

[JeffDiego]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Hmmmmm.....it is a bit of a mystery JeffDiego.

I took a closer look at the white garage in your post above......If you look closely the street number is 1279.


detail

...and here's the house behind the white garage.


GO HERE to check out the interiors http://www.theagencyre.com/for-lease/1279-ozeta-ter-hollywood-hills/


I had to agree with you JD, the large tile roofed home looks more 1920s, while this more modest home next door looks 1938.




update: I just found the build date for 1279.

Zillow says it was built in 1935.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1279-Ozeta-Ter-Los-Angeles-CA-90069/20799298_zpid/

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Pretty amazing, ER.

First of all, I want that house! Where's my checkbook? 1297 Ozeta Terrace, that is. What a beauty with those high ceilings, big glass doors and sunlight-flooded rooms. That is a classic 1930's Hollywood house.

Now why in the heck do all those real estate ads for 1287 Ozeta Terrace show the driveway and garage of 1297? Odd.

In writing about Claire James, I took the liberty of saying that the James family bought 1287 in 1938 because the real estate ads claimed that's when the house was built, and that's when the James family moved to Los Angeles (1937/38). That was the only *assumption* in my article, and may well be wrong - just as the claim that the big "ol Spanish house with Clerestory windows (sp?) dates from '38.

I'm also intrigued by the VAST structure whose dark roof we partly see at the bottom of your google aerial photo. Could that be "The Castle of the Fairy Lady?"

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by PHX31

I saw that house one time about 3 years ago while driving the google street view car around Los Angeles. It caught my eye because it's nearly identical to a house just up the street from me here in Phoenix that I know well, they call the type Cotswold Cottage. If it helps you find it, I'm probably 90% sure it, or another just like it, was south of Wilshire in the Mid-Wilshire/Miracle Mile area. I looked around just now but didn't find it again.

Here's the one in Phoenix, is it just a common floor plan, or did a specific person design it and build it around the country, or at least in LA and Phoenix:

That's great info, PHX31. I'll look south of Wilshire. Thanks!

[ethereal_reality]

The Pump Room, 14445 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks Calif.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205796611828237&set=o.695549203803671&type=3&theater

"In early 1945, Roy Harlow opened a restaurant at 14445 Ventura Blvd, near Van Nuys Blvd, which he named the Pump Room."




It moved to a new location in 1948.





We saw the 2nd Pump Room location in this post from 2013 (below)

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Roy Harlow's PUMP ROOM
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Today it's a Moroccan restaurant.

I see they're reusing the original pump sign minus the spout & handle!


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The original Pump Room at 14445 Ventura Blvd. has been demolished.
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