Excellent post on the Park Lane Apartments
Flyingwedge. I wonder at what point in time it lost it's rooftop sign?
I was half hoping to see it lying on the roof in disrepair.
It was good to see the La France Apartments as well.
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I know we've seen this panorama taken from the Hotel Lankershim.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/923/rec/1
While looking at it in detail, something caught my eye in the bottom right corner of the photo below.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/923/rec/1
And what did I find? -two
insanely placed incinerators!
How could anyone in their right mind think it was a good idea to place an incinerator on the roof of a back porch..especially in a wooden tenement.
Weren't there city laws forbidding people from doing this? Until this photograph, I've only seen them in backyards.
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The architecture of the Hotel Rookwood is also interesting, with it's fairly unique side arches.
same panorama
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...5/id/923/rec/1
Design wise, I'm not sure what was gained by this. Was it purely ornamental?
It seems they gave up a lot of apartment space.
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We've covered gas holders (gasometers) on NLA almost as often as we've covered incinerators.
Despite that, I can't remember if there was a gas holder near Slauson and Western.
I tried to used historicaerials.com but it's not working on my computer (because of silverlight). Can someone look it up for me? (HossC
) -thx.
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