noirish Los Angeles - Page 1178

Ninja55 · #**23541** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 1:25 AM**

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Ninja55 · #**23542** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 1:26 AM**

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Ninja55 · #**23543** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 1:27 AM**

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Ninja55 · #**23544** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 1:28 AM**

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Ninja55 · #**23546** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 1:33 AM**

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sorry for the screwups. It came to me back when i first started posting around page 150 or so that a lot of the pics were withdrawn from the thread. In the future I'll try and re-post them.

And of course.........Bert Rovere. Restaurateur, Sportsman, Marathon swimmer, champion biker, and opera singer. The man did it all.

Mstimc · #**23547** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 2:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

I'm really amazed at these old street photos. Traffic control must have had a rather low priority back in those days. There appears to be no painted white lines anywhere in sight.....

I was thinking the same thing, CBD. Based on this and other pre-war photos, with cars crossing in front of each other, pedestrians wandering any which way, and street cars rolling down the middle of the street. I'm not surprised there were so many accidents...I'm surprised anyone survived at all!

loyalton · #**23548** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Godzilla

When does too much water pose a risk of shock?
March 2, 1938 - Franklin and Western Street Car. Looking west on Franklin from Bronson.

http://lacityhistory.pastperfect-onl...iv%2012157.JPG

No shock problem for people, really, because the electric motors in the trucks/wheel assemblies will short out first. Streetcars can probably carefully run very short sections under maybe a couple of inches of water, nothing like this. Note the streetcar is essentially sitting stored here, trolley pole taken down. It's been there long enough to accumulate debris on the fender.

Here's a recent view:

Google street view

gsjansen · #**23549** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 11:09 AM**

Looking west on 5th street from Wall Street. Screen cap from 1949 Van Johnson noir flick, "Scene of the Crime"

GSJ, on Flickr

HossC · #**23550** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 5:38 PM**

I know we've seen several of these pedestrian tunnels before, but I think this one is new to NLA. It's another of the new pictures from the Los Angeles City Historical Society. Their description could have been worded better!

School tunnel at Western and Browning showing cars and children exiting tunnel. (03/07/1928)

Los Angeles City Historical Society

The tunnel is still there, but it's no longer accessible. The school in the background is now the Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School. I'm guessing it changed its name at the same time as the nearby boulevard, because the 1921 Baist map labels it as the Santa Barbara Public School.

GSV

I was hoping to find a better picture of the school building in the top picture (which is rather better looking than the blank walls of the current building). So far I've only found this LAPL image from 1924, and it only shows the corner of the building in question at the far left. The white building seen here had gone by 1948, and the one to its left went sometime between 1954 and 1972 (according to Historic Aerials). At some point the school must've moved its entrance, because the address is now given as being on S Hobart Blvd. I think the commercial buildings facing Santa Barbara Avenue (Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd) are the same ones which are there today, although the one nearest the camera has had its corner chamfered off.

LAPL

CityBoyDoug · #**23551** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 7:38 PM**

1935 ...Martin M130 aircraft NC14716 China Clipper moored at San Pedro Los Angeles Harbor.

These planes were not pressurized, therefore the plane had to fly below 10,000 feet. Imagine flying to Hawaii or the Philippines in that environment...the noise and vibration would be awful.

People in those days got all dressed up to fly in airplanes...suits, hats and shined shoes.

The flight from the US to Manila took about 60 hours.

Pan Am archives.com

gsjansen · #**23552** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 10:14 PM**

This is the City..........

Dragnet 1967...Episode "The Masked Bandits" opening image.....

CityBoyDoug · #**23553** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 10:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by gsjansen

This is the City..........

Dragnet 1967...Episode "The Masked Bandits" opening image.....

I wonder....the whole image of the City Hall looks suspiciously phallic to me.

Godzilla · #**23554** Posted **Sep 8, 2014, 11:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by HossC

I know we've seen several of these pedestrian tunnels before, but I think this one is new to NLA. It's another of the new pictures from the Los Angeles City Historical Society. Their description could have been worded better!

School tunnel at Western and Browning showing cars and children exiting tunnel. (03/07/1928)

Los Angeles City Historical Society

Speaking of underground pedestrians . . .

December '27 - Southern entrance, Sunset Boulevard School tunnel.

http://lacityhistory.pastperfect-onl.../001/F0397.JPG

November 1927 - Wilshire and McCadden Place underground passageway

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November 1928 Wilshire and McCadden Place

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November '28, Wilshire and McCadden Place

http://lacityhistory.pastperfect-onl.../002/F1504.JPG

November '28 Wilshire and McCadden Place

http://lacityhistory.pastperfect-onl.../002/F1507.JPG

http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...46887900_o.jpg

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5948

mrfredmertz · #**23555** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 12:37 AM**

Re: CityBoyDoug's comment about City hall looking "suspiciously phallic...." Suspiciously? I think the word needed here is "triumphantly."

FredH · #**23556** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 1:03 AM**

L.A. Times

Posted By: Scott Harrison
Posted On: 12:11 a.m. | September 8, 2014
April 1911: The closed Midway Plaisance at Venice awaits the wrecking crew to make way for a roller coaster.

This photo accompanied a story in the April 3, 1911, Los Angeles Times:

All that remains of the historic old Midway Plaisance at Venice will soon become a memory. The unique attraction which Gaston and Ferdinand Akoun made famous in the early days of that quickly builded resort by the sea are to be wrecked, to make way for a new and unique riding device declared to abound in thrills, to be known as the “Giant Safety Racing Coaster.”

Thomas W. Prior, who is to be at the head of this hair-raising project, has arrived at the seaside, fresh from Chicago. Early tomorrow morning he will have an army of laborers on the ground to accomplish the razing of Midway. Work will be prosecuted with vigor, to the end that the new attraction may be ready for formal dedication to the public on or before June 15. …

The ringing out of the old and the ringing in of the new serve to revive memories of the days when the Midway of Venice was a veritable babel of tongues, with the pretty Princess Rajah and her wiggling dance as the headline attraction. At a later period the Turkish Theater, in which the dashing princess deported before the bald heads of uncrowned kings, the Sells-Floto circus maintained winter quarters for two seasons. It was in the Midway that bold but youthful robbers despoiled the Alaskan placer mine of its brass nuggets, which represented the royal metal, and it was here that the crocodiles on the farm shed tears over meager patronage. …

The Midway, twice unsuccessfully tried by fire, at no period in the variegated history proved a paying venture. Today it will begin to yield up the ghost, in response to the present day demand, which is for a ride that carries a genuine thrill with every foot of the course covered.

On July 1, 1911, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Giant Safety Racing Coaster was opening. It was named “Race Thru the Clouds” and was the ride sensation of the season.

The Midway Plaisance at Venice opened in 1906 and closed in 1910.

CityBoyDoug · #**23557** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 1:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by mrfredmertz

Re: CityBoyDoug's comment about City hall looking "suspiciously phallic...." Suspiciously? I think the word needed here is "triumphantly."

I agree....and welcome to the Forum, Fred. Hope to see some of your contributions.

CityBoyDoug · #**23558** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 1:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Godzilla

Speaking of underground pedestrians . . .

December '27 - Southern entrance, Sunset Boulevard School tunnel.

http://lacityhistory.pastperfect-onl.../001/F0397.JPG

Interesting to see how kids dressed for school back in the 1920s. It looks like their moms did their best to make the kids look nice.

LACITY HISTORY

HossC · #**23559** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by FredH

L.A. Times

On July 1, 1911, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Giant Safety Racing Coaster was opening. It was named “Race Thru the Clouds” and was the ride sensation of the season.

The Midway Plaisance at Venice opened in 1906 and closed in 1910.

Thanks for the extra info, FredH. I posted pictures, maps and aerials of Midway Plaisance and "Race Thru The Clouds" back in May:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=21706

ProphetM · #**23560** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 2:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Does anyone recognize this vantage point?

undated

ebay

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I held down control and spun the wheel on the mouse.

Using Google Earth to duplicate the alignment of City Hall and the Hall of Justice, my guess is Angels Point Road just south of Academy Drive.