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Old Posted Feb 6, 2024, 3:06 AM
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John Svenson's Ranchero statue is now 300 feet away, on the opposite end of the Millard Sheets gallery.


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Thanks, Mackerm!

So what is the impressive Deco statue on the left side?
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Monument to Young Farmers, by Lawrence Tenny Stevens, sculpted 1938-1939

Photo of the above sculpture being created.

Here's an earlier sculpture on the same plinth:

https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll...hotos/id/36053

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I'm going to say that's the Oscar Macy Block by A. M. Edelman, built 1887-88 or perhaps just in 1888.

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Holy cats! Amazing. Thank you, thank you all.
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Old Posted Feb 6, 2024, 9:08 PM
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Here is a random Calisphere photo dated 192- without any other information:


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The image there can be embiggened considerably. On the left there is a street number 9?2 and the street sign looks like it might be E. 9th Pl.

The Google mobile gives the following view looking north at S San Pedro and E 9th Pl:


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The 1920s CDs have Simons Hardware & Harness at 922 S San Pedro. Probably the dwindling of demand for harnesses didn't help their bottom line as that address became home to a variety of small businesses in the 30s and 40s. The LADBS gives a build date of 1910; it was originally intended to be a rooming house. This 114 year old brick structure has seen its share of earthquakes; the modern picture shows the floor and walls have been tied.
Excellent sleuthing, Lorendoc. Thanks so much.






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Excellent information. I appreciate it, Mackerm.


"Here's an earlier sculpture on the same plinth."


um. . .not to beat a dead horse

-but now I'm curious about this statue. ...Hopefully it was moved inside the pavilion.



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Old Posted Feb 6, 2024, 9:19 PM
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Here are a couple of intriguing 'mystery' photographs I came across in one of my old files.


#1

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#2

eBay


Hopefully one of you slaves noirishers will come to the rescue and help me figure out the 2 locations.


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e_r, you posted those two photos here last year on May 23 (page 3016). They look north from 6th Street between Flower and Figueroa.

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I haven't seen this hotel before and it's so difficult to google something like "Southern Hotel."

Southern Hotel, 2829 E. Anaheim Road, Long Beach
Part of the W.E. Nettz building
AKA Hotel Southern
20 rooms and 4 apartments
Operated by F.W. Parsons

The Long Beach Telegram and The Long Beach Daily News
10 Jul 1924



The hotel was taken over very quickly by the manager, now "E.W. Parsons"
Long Beach Press Telegram 7.6.24

Of course it became a speakeasy during prohibition. It was raided two months after it was discovered and shut down.
Long Beach Sun
17 Jun 1932

The Long Beach Sun
17 Aug 1932

By 1965 it was known as the Congress Hotel
The current hamburger stand on the site dates to 1974

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That's some mighty fine sleuthing, Snix. -very interesting!


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e_r, you posted those two photos here last year on May 23 (page 3016). They look north from 6th Street between Flower and Figueroa.
oops. Thanks for the correction, FW.
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Here's something I hope to god haven't seen before.

A horse ride at Griffith Park in the 1950s.... As you can see there's a Disneyesque tunnel with faux icicles. . How cool is that.

Seller's description:..."1950s kodachrome Photo slide Griffith Park Los Angeles CA #9 Horse ride"

eBay

So I take it the cart runs on the rails. ...*scratches head*

My guess is; the ride was either at the Griffith Park Zoo or Transportation Town.

Does anyone who grew up (on visited) in Los Angeles remember it?



P.S. I realize those ain't horses.
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I think this is the first time I've seen a handwritten MENU from the Ye Alpine Tavern on Mount Lowe.


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August 22, 1903



Time for lunch. Have a good day noirishers.
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I'm baaack!

Here's an intriguing mystery location.

"1910 California Los Angeles Mother Child Skyline View RPPC Photo"

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Clara & Margaret - At Los Angeles. Spring 1910



If only a last name had been included.


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Over the years we have seen quite a few photographs of Cawston's Ostrich Farm and I hate to say it the majority of them are rather boring. (I'm afraid of Ostriches) -

This RPPC is interesting because of the brick buildings just beyond the wood fence.


eBay

I can't decide if they're commercial buildings across the street or part of the farm.


What do you think?

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Here's something I hope to god haven't seen before.

A horse ride at Griffith Park in the 1950s.... As you can see there's a Disneyesque tunnel with faux icicles. . How cool is that.

Seller's description:..."1950s kodachrome Photo slide Griffith Park Los Angeles CA #9 Horse ride"

eBay

So I take it the cart runs on the rails. ...*scratches head*

My guess is; the ride was either at the Griffith Park Zoo or Transportation Town.

Does anyone who grew up (on visited) in Los Angeles remember it?



P.S. I realize those ain't horses.
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The reindeer ride reminds me of the old Santa Village in Sky Forest in the San Bernardino Mountains. The original Santa Village was shut down many years ago, a new company has reopened it.
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re: The brick building at Cawston's Ostrich Farm.

Once more.





Here's an interesting photograph taken just outside the ostrich farm that I don't believe we have seen before.


metrolibrarylibrary

But no brick buildings in sight.





Does anyone know why there would be a scale at the train stop?




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Old Posted Feb 9, 2024, 7:58 PM
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Look what I just found!


A plat map of the Cawston Ostrich Industrial Tract.


It's not the farm itself but a planned industrial tract nearby.


southpasadenaarchive


Could this be where my brick buildings were (are) located?


smart alecks can file this under 'beating a dead horse'.
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2024, 8:26 PM
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Take a gander at this unfortune crash involving a police car and a lamppost. 5/5/48


eBay


If you're wondering... the cross-street with 6th is Alvarado St. (it's a bit hard to see in the complete photo)






I'd be remiss if I didn't point out Bruce's Mens Shop. ..(my real name is BRUCE)



You're welcome.

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Could this have been Oscar Macy's house, just behind where his block is being built? I swear I just saw a photo of the house
with the three-story building in the rear, but I cannot now relocate it
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1888 Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LA Public Library
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This picture does show the intersection of Macy and Alameda Streets. The building on the far right is on Ord Street.


Huntington Digital Library

I found it!



Looking west on Macy from east side of Alameda, c. 1890s.
UCLA/Hazard-Dyson Los Angeles Photograph Album (Page 73)
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Impressive sleuthing, Flyingwedge.

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I found it!



Looking west on Macy from east side of Alameda, c. 1890s.
UCLA/Hazard-Dyson Los Angeles Photograph Album (Page 73)

YES! And there's the original tower of the commercial structure, too!
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OK! So now I'm going to be really annoying and just PILE on the asks. I only do it because I know y'all are the best and the brightest when it comes to this sort of thing...

So, here goes nothin':

Noirish Attribution Needs!

516-526 N Los Angeles St, with the Dragons Den, did we ever get a year built and architect?


306-308 north main, year and who did that?


229-231 Los Angeles, aka 120-130 E commercial, by whom and for whom, etc?


Oriental Hotel, AKA Alameda Building, built between 1888 and 1894, corner of Alameda and Commerical


Spence Block, 601 North Alameda, 1885. Architect?


What is that at left, 134 North main? Architect? And next to it is the McDonald Block, for E N McDonald, 1892, 132-124 N Main, can’t figure out the architect.


100-106 N main, the German-American Savings Bank built in 1894, who was the architect?


This one, once adjacent to the Lyceum theater, 221-23 S Spring:


The Claremont Block AKA Claremont Hotel, I think is about 1888, 321-23 W 4th, architect?


Northeast corner of 6th & Fig, Hotel Clinton, went up in 1902 from what I can tell, I can’t believe a major structure like this doesn’t have a smoking gun telling us the architect


the house at 533 South Fremont was built by noted philatelist William A. H. Connor, in 1895, who was architect??


Mechaelis “Michael” T. Herzog came to Los Angeles from Prussia in 1875, and built this house in 1892, architect unknown, which bugs me mightily



Thanks in advance!!
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Wait, I've got another one beside the previous dozen I need sleuthing on:



Third and Fremont, the Quaker Friends church built in 1901, and I'm dying to know who the architect was but can't figure it out!
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