noirish Los Angeles

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Thanks for information on Frank Thompson, the man behind that whopper of a sign.
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The houses shown below are from the
1957 USC School of Dentistry Yearbook

Luckily, the street addresses were included below ea. photograph.

I thought it might be fun to see what the houses look like now (but I could use some help there are 21 houses!!)

#7

usc

#8

usc

#10

usc


Ok, that's the first 10.

You can learn more about the fraternities and sororities (that occupied the houses) here: 1957 School of Dentistry Yearbook. (it's the same link as the one at the top of the post)
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I imagine alot of the houses are gone.


I'll post the remaining 11 houses later tonight. (I have to run an errand)

As for the three Adams Blvd houses-- they're gone (but they're in this Adams inventory: adamsboulevardlosangeles.blogspot.com).


Re the Blaisdell/Newmark house--880 W Adams--see http://adamsboulevardlosangeles.blog...ease-also.html

We've also seen it on NLA before:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=31361


and you're right, we've seen 1005 W 28th too--

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13525 (missing images)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...05#post6430292

[ethereal_reality]

Thanks for the information GW. I really appreciate it.



Here are the remaining 13 houses. (my count was off)


#11

usc




#12

usc




#13

usc




#14

usc




#15

usc




#16

usc




#17

usc




#18

usc




#19

usc




#20

usc




#21

usc




#22

usc




#23

usc

All from !957 USC School of Dentistry Yearbook

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[ethereal_reality]

This is #1 again from the first group of houses.

#1

usc / Kappa Kappa Gamma




I believe this the same house modified.

716 W. 28th St.

gsv / now Phi Gamma Delta

It appears they built an addition in the back and got rid of sleeping in the attic/dormer.



it's the middle building in the aerial shown above.


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[Mstimc]

Originally Posted by HossC

Today's Julius Shulman post takes us back to DTLA. It's "Job 692: Stiles Oliver Clements, National Automotive and Casualty Insurance, 1950". I've left a few images out.

I've never seen an interior quite like this one.



Full-length curtains, wooden partitions and patterned pillars.



All from Getty Research Institute

GSV

I've never been a fan of mid-century modern but I gotta admit I like the interior. The curved walls and curtain partitions are pretty avant-garde for an insurance company. Certainly better than Dilbert cubicles.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by HossC

Today's Julius Shulman post takes us back to DTLA. It's "Job 692: Stiles Oliver Clements, National Automotive and Casualty Insurance, 1950". I've left a few images out.



A look from the other side.



Here's the rather impressive counter.



I've never seen an interior quite like this one.



Full-length curtains, wooden partitions and patterned pillars.



All from Getty Research Institute

The National Automobile & Casualty Insurance Co was at 639 S Spring Street. I think that most of the original features survive under the awnings. The upper floors certainly look unchanged. The same can't be said for the building on the left, which is now a parking lot.


GSV

Insurance companies make billions of dollars off of your fear of an accident.....sad. Look at how lavish this office is. Insurance companies are some of the richest high profit companies in the world.

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Guess what, I found another photograph of the Bristol House.


PDHC

"View of the Bristol House, 1st house built in Pasadena. This photo was clearly taken after its use as a house had passed." [no date]
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I'm curious about the white horse-barn on the right (in the photo I just posted )

Do you think it's this building? (with the red star)



What confuses me is that the two buildings look aligned in the photo (if you look at the roofs) & as you can see on the map, the Bristol house is at an angle.

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The photo of the barn and the 1874 Bristol house appear to match a later map. If we can believe the Sanborn Maps, the
barn was nudged a bit off the property line (compare with the 1903 map above), and the old Bristol house, marked "SHED"
below, was apparently aligned to be parallel with the barn:



1910 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL


I guess that's the Bristol house above the barn on the 1930-31 Sanborn:



ProQuest via LAPL


The 1951 Pasadena Sanborn shows that barn still standing, and 591 Lincoln as well, but not the 1874 Bristol house.


I found another photo of the 1874 Bristol house, too, with Mr. Bristol and his family. The shape of the house compares
favorably with the 1903 Sanborn, but I can't explain the building we see part of at far left:



Pasadena Digital History @ Flickr







Pasadena, California, Historical and Personal (1917) by J. W. Wood @ GoogleBooks


I could not find out what ultimately happened to the Bristol house. Surely NLA has a correpondent in Pasadena or elsewhere
who knows the story. If the home didn't survive, it wasn't for lack of an opportunity to preserve it:



January 17, 1921, Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL

[JimCraig]

The office format shown in these photos is years ahead of its time. I worked for an insurance company from 1973-1998. In the 70s and 80s they still had the floors configured as you see in the old silent movie 'The Crowd.' Large open floors with row after row of gun-metal gray desks. Supervisors sat at the back of each area they supervised, but without any partitions or privacy. Management and above were in private offices. This slowly began to change in the early 90s as partitions were introduced and then cubicles toward the end of the decade. These photos show a much more "worker-friendly" environment.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by JimCraig

The office format shown in these photos is years ahead of its time. I worked for an insurance company from 1973-1998. In the 70s and 80s they still had the floors configured as you see in the old silent movie 'The Crowd.' Large open floors with row after row of gun-metal gray desks. Supervisors sat at the back of each area they supervised, but without any partitions or privacy. Management and above were in private offices. This slowly began to change in the early 90s as partitions were introduced and then cubicles toward the end of the decade. These photos show a much more "worker-friendly" environment.

I was once offered a job in such a dreadful bull-pen environment. I said "no thanks".

[odinthor]

Photobucket is advising me today that, because of my membership level, technically known as the Skinflint Level, my 3rd party pix (those I post here!) will be taken down (when, I don't know). So if among them there is anything you wish to have in your own collection . . .

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by odinthor

Photobucket is advising me today that, because of my membership level, technically known as the Skinflint Level, my 3rd party pix (those I post here!) will be taken down (when, I don't know). So if among them there is anything you wish to have in your own collection . . .

Same for me.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by odinthor

Photobucket is advising me today that, because of my membership level, technically known as the Skinflint Level, my 3rd party pix (those I post here!) will be taken down (when, I don't know). So if among them there is anything you wish to have in your own collection . . .

Same here. Photobucket put a 'hold' on my free account at 16% 3rd party web posting.

Today I switched to Flickr web posting. I have a pro flickr account.

It seems like these photo hosting sites want some big bucks from their little account holders.

It appears that our thread has been trashed today by the Photobucket foto hosting site.

[HossC]

I still haven't heard from Photobucket (my subscription runs until January), although these photos won't display at full size today. How much is a Pro Flickr account? I'm open to other suggestions for a place to move my 8,000 images.


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I'm following up yesterday's Julius Shulman post with another National Automobile and Casualty Insurance office. This one appears to be room 1200 in a large, unknown building. It's "Job 1997: Stiles Oliver Clements, National Automobile and Casualty Insurance Executive Offices, 1955". I'm posting three of the five images. Taken five years after yesterday's photos, these seem to show more conventional décor.



A large table within sight of the reception desk.



I'll finish with this shot of an office.



All from Getty Research Institute

[ethereal_reality]

Flyingwedge, I glanced at your post on the Bristol house this morning. (I had to return to IN)

Now that I'm back in Lafayette, I was going to respond but now the images are not showing up.
Are the images showing up for you? (I tried Google Chrome and Windows Explorer)

Is it something to due with this Photobucket calamity?

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Flyingwedge, I glanced at your post on the Bristol house this morning. (I had to return to IN)

Now that I'm back in Lafayette, I was going to respond but now the images are not showing up.
Are the images showing up for you? (I tried Google Chrome and Windows Explorer)

Is it something to due with this Photobucket calamity?

All my images are now just icons. My PB subscription doesn't run out until the third week in September, so this should not be
happening to me now. I guess PB is just reminding all of us what a great company they are.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Flyingwedge, I glanced at your post on the Bristol house this morning. (I had to return to IN)

Now that I'm back in Lafayette, I was going to respond but now the images are not showing up.
Are the images showing up for you? (I tried Google Chrome and Windows Explorer)

Is it something to due with this Photobucket calamity?

Yes, it appears that Photobucket is in destruct mode. They have pulled the plug on Free Accounts posting to Forums. Most of our recent photo posts are not showing.

Here's the story:

Plus 50 offers 50GB of Storage and No Linking or 3rd Party Hosting
Plus 100 offers 100GB of Storage, Unlimited Linking and No 3rd Party Hosting
Plus 500 offers 500GB of Storage, Unlimited Linking, Unlimited Bandwidth, and 3rd Party Hosting*
502.0 GB Storage $39.99 / MO
Billed Annually
$399.99 / YR

.....the only way Photobucket will host posting to Forums is if you pay them $400 per year.

[Flyingwedge]

My PB pics have turned into icons before, though perhaps not all of them at once. This was described to me as "a live test of
an update." So I hope that's what's happening now. My paid subscription is not up yet, so my images should be displaying.

This episode does not give me confidence in PB's competency, nor does it encourage me to accept their 1,233% rate hike.

It's really a sickening situation.

[ethereal_reality]

It truly is.

Photobucket is going to hollow out the thread with thousands of missing photographs.

I'm in mourning.

[Bristolian]

Originally Posted by HossC

I still haven't heard from Photobucket (my subscription runs until January), although these photos won't display at full size today. How much is a Pro Flickr account? I'm open to other suggestions for a place to move my 8,000 images.

For what it's worth:
I'm a real novice when it comes to photo hosting, in fact I had to learn the basics to be able to post photos here. I use Imugr and it was pretty easy to learn and free so far. I don't have nearly as many photos compared to many here but I have had zero problems since I started. I don't know if it will be as reliable for larger quantities but it's been good for me.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

It truly is.

Photobucket is going to hollow out the thread with thousands of missing photographs.

I'm in mourning.

I agree with you ER.

The reality is that Photobucket gave free account holders the option of posting to Forums without reservation. Therefore we thought it was OK. Today PB has
a new policy....given without warning.

Now Photobucket has put a knife in the back of all of their free account holders by demanding money or else. .....that's extortion.

That's dishonest and unethical. Photobucket lied to us.

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by Bristolian

For what it's worth:
I'm a real novice when it comes to photo hosting, in fact I had to learn the basics to be able to post photos here. I use Imugr and it was pretty easy to learn and free so far. I don't have nearly as many photos compared to many here but I have had zero problems since I started. I don't know if it will be as reliable for larger quantities but it's been good for me.

I wonder if skyscraper.com archives these threads. They might.

I am a lightweight poster, but I have had no problems with imgur either.