noirish Los Angeles

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

I believe GW and Lorendoc are spot-on with the Culver City location. I'll go a step further and say the photo was taken at the since-realigned intersection of West Washington and West Adams, looking at the northwest corner. That might be Ballona Creek coming up out of its channel at the far left edge of e_r's photo, just below the round pinwheelish sign.

Good detective work Flyingwedge. The 1931 city directory for Culver City...

...lists a Union Oil station at 5979 Washington Boulevard, which today is...



...perilously close to Ballona Creek.

[ethereal_reality]

While we're in Exposition Park here's an early postcard of the 'west wing' of the Museum of History, Science and Art.
ebay


-the massive new addition (dinosaur hall I believe) dwarfs the original 1913 museum.

google_earth





The original Beaux-Arts building was by Hudson and Munsell. (shown in 1915)


1917

http://archrecord.construction.com/n...ow.asp?slide=6

1920

http://archrecord.construction.com/n...ow.asp?slide=5

As most of you know, the Museum of History, Science, and Art is now the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I was only able to find this.

old cd of mine
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Something's been bothering me about the fencing photograph. See the girl leaning again the balustrade...where's her head?


-also, one of the team members looks like a man in a wig. (at the end, on the left...near the headless girl)

USC has quite a few pictures of Exposition Park from the '30s. Here's a couple that show the balustrade. I'm still trying to work out which building is peeking through the trees behind the fencing team. It may be the end of the building in the second picture below.

1930:

USC Digital Library

1938:

USC Digital Library

I was also confused by the apparently headless girl, but it's an optical illusion. Look where her knees are - they give a good indicator of her height. She actually has at least one of her forearms on her forehead, most likely shielding her eyes from the sun.

[ConstructDTLA]

Some extra large vintage Downtown goodness:


6th & Broadway 1927


7th & Hill 1931


Garfield Building 1931

Sorry - couldn't resist.

[ethereal_reality]

-Damn those are huge HunterK!

I like how you can see inside this room in the first photo.


It's a bit eerie, in a voyeuristic kind of way. (my noirish imagination wants to see a dead body on that floor)

[ConstructDTLA]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

-Damn those are huge HunterK!

I like how you can see inside this room in the first photo.

It's a bit eerie, in a voyeuristic kind of way. (my noirish imagination wants to see a dead body on that floor)

I feel the same way! Which is why I had to post full size instead of linking. I love zooming in on individuals, looking through windows, etc. I've got a bunch more, but I don't want to make the page impossible to load for those with slower interwebs.

[ethereal_reality]

As posted on ebay.


La Cienega & Black?



detail




-the running lady reminds me of a scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.


-note the huge ladder hanging on the utility pole.

[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

As posted on ebay.


La Cienega & Black?

Probably Blackburn, possibly Blackwelder.

[HossC]

It's funny how coincidence works. Earlier tonight, when I was looking for pictures of Exposition Park, I came across the picture below.


USC Digital Library

I noticed a roof sign and zoomed in:


Detail of photo above.

Before I had a chance to look up Birch-Smith Storage, HunterK posted the large pictures above. The picture below is clipped from the one of 7th & Hill.


Detail of photo originally posted by HunterK.

There's only seven years between the photos, so can I assume the two businesses are linked?

[Martin Pal]

This is something that startled me!

Caption: Freight service still operated on Santa Monica Boulevard until 1974.
A photo of a Southern Pacific train going east on Santa Monica Blvd. near Cresent Heights


Metro Photo Archive
gogonotes.blogspot.com/

[ethereal_reality]

Los Angeles Street & 3rd, circa 1918

old cd of mine/probably http://www.lapl.org/

Los Angeles Street & 3rd today

GSV
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[ethereal_reality]

Caption: Freight service still operated on Santa Monica Boulevard until 1974.
A photo of a Southern Pacific train going east on Santa Monica Blvd. near Cresent Heights


Metro Photo Archive
gogonotes.blogspot.com/[/QUOTE]

Martin, here's a larger view.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11373

I too was amazed when I came across this photograph Martin. I had no idea freight trains traveled down Santa Monica Blvd.
(duplicates are bound to happen..It's all cool. -it often brings up a whole new conversation.
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[HossC]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

This is something that startled me!

Caption: Freight service still operated on Santa Monica Boulevard until 1974.
A photo of a Southern Pacific train going east on Santa Monica Blvd. near Cresent Heights


Metro Photo Archive
gogonotes.blogspot.com/

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Martin, here's a larger view.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11373

I too was amazed when I came across this photograph Martin. I had no idea freight trains traveled down Santa Monica Blvd.
(duplicates are bound to happen..It's all cool. -it often brings up a whole new conversation.

Here's a couple of earlier posts featuring a train passing P.J.'s on Santa Monica Boulevard in 1970:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=3374

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=10505

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

image-archeology.com

"Near Los Angeles"? It's practically dead center! At least now it is.... Anyway, it too still stands:

Google Street View
The odd roof vents appear to be echoed in a structure (a garage?) to the rear. Now in a less affluent area,
it appears to be less well taken care of than its near-twin on Norton. But at least it's there. (Where's the
plaque?)

'Colleen Moore in front of her Bel Air Home'

old cd of mine

So is my label correct? Colleen looks a little Ruby Keelerish here.
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[GaylordWilshire]

Apparently, that's her. (Big feet!)

Here's everything you ever wanted to know about Colleen Moore's Hollywood living arrangements:

http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/...t-pierre-road/


Get a load of the hideous interior at the time it was on the market in 2012.

[Moxie]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I found this.

old cd of mine
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Something's been bothering me about the fencing photograph. See the girl leaning again the balustrade...where's her head?

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Although it's been posted before, here's sopas ej's thread about the 1932 Olympics: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=171850 The fencing was held in the Armory in Exposition Park, better known these days as The Jeffersonian on Bones. The original brick wall is still there, even if it is in need of quite a bit of repair. Here's a photo I took of it in December...

[Noircitydame]

I noticed a roof sign and zoomed in:


Detail of photo above.

Before I had a chance to look up Birch-Smith Storage, HunterK posted the large pictures above. The picture below is clipped from the one of 7th & Hill.


Detail of photo originally posted by HunterK.

There's only seven years between the photos, so can I assume the two businesses are linked?[/QUOTE]

Hoss, I happened to have some info about that. Birch-Smith Furniture Co. (they started as Lyon, McKinney & Smith c. 1902 and reorganized as B-S in 1921) merged, in 1933 along with Goodan-Jenkins and the Los Angeles Furniture Co. into the Los Angeles Furniture Co. but Birch-Smith continued to run its storage co. seperately (So Cal Music Co. became the new tenant of their building at 737-741 Hill).

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Martin, here's a larger view.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11373

I too was amazed when I came across this photograph Martin. I had no idea freight trains traveled down Santa Monica Blvd.
(duplicates are bound to happen..It's all cool. -it often brings up a whole new conversation. __

Thank for the lager pic e_r and the links HossC.

When you stumble upon a thread that's been around it takes awhile to get through it! (And I'm not in a hurry!) I have been reading some current pages while making my way through all the rest!

I'm still in the 240's!

Cheers!

[Noircitydame]

Originally Posted by HunterK

Some extra large vintage Downtown goodness:



7th & Hill 1931

Sorry - couldn't resist.

This photo is amazing! I'm so glad you posted it. I looked everywhere for a picture of the old Express building when Coffee Dan's was in there, in the basement, but had no luck. It was one of those places, like in the movie Topper, where you went down a slide to get in.


4-30-25 LAT

[ethereal_reality]

-another German press release

ebay

translation? (hint-hossc)
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