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Originally Posted by rick m
Originally Posted by Tetsu View Post
This brings to mind something I've long wanted to ask - is it just me or do we never see the southwest corner of 4th & Hope in pictures? We always see the Hildreth at the northwest corner; I'm wondering what stood just north of the Briggs Apartments.Actually this last image DOES include the never before imaged Williams house next to the Briggs- only the spire(s) of the further Hildreth house peek above the Williams's rooftop--- Otherwise the stone wall at the sidewalk found itself shot with some male historian in a b/w posing at the engraved house number- LAPL collection I recollect--
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It's a good question. Probably for the same reason we rarely see what's across the street from the Melrose or the Castle—people just turned their camera on the more ornate stuff. And the George H. Wms house at 401 S Hope couldn't be viewed from afar because of the built-ups around her...and then she was taken out earlier than most because of the 4th St cut.
Here's a bit of an aerial from which I know we've seen snippets before—
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Note how one can just make out the top of ol' 401 peeking above the Barbara Worth, née Briggs. Hey, I wish I had a first-class image of the Gibson, which interests me intently, and not just because it can't quite figure out if it wants to have a crenelated parapet, à la the Lovejoy, or do a sort of Mission thing; that was where, for example, Zelda B.
Gibson built her first great apartment in the fall of '03. She married H. W. La Chat at in her home at 612 W. 4th in April 1907—612 W. 4th is the small house seen at the center of this image here:
With the money from selling the Gibson, in 1908 Zelda (Gibson) La Chat builds...the
Zelda! Seen at the right in the above photo. Ok, and notice what's at the end of the block, but the Williams house at 401! (Note too there are three matching houses next to 612—which would be replaced by the Zahn boys with three rather similar apartment buildings, the Gordon at 618, the Bronx at 624 and on the corner of 4th & Hope, the La Belle at 630.) In its totality:
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But I digress. I have one decent image of the facade of the aforementioned La Belle from a family that had moved in and taken an amateur snap, and what should be in the background?— but what may be the best shot of 401 yet. YET. The hunt continues.
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.