noirish Los Angeles

[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

first and the original Hof's Hut was on the beach in Long Beach...1940. Hofman started out with a burger stand on the beach
in the 1940s at 5th Place in Long Beach serving "Hofburgers" for 15 cents


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Does this Hofman have anything to do with this?

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Does this Hofman have anything to do with this?

Don't know for sure but I doubt it. Hot dogs are bit low-brow for today's Hof's Hut image.

[GatoVerde]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Before I call it a night, here's another image of 2619 S. Figueroa taken in 1893. -might be a repeat.


homestead museum-city of industry via http://oldhomesoflosangeles.blogspot...-figueroa.html [Bradford Calson]

I was going to say the photograph was taken after a nice rain, but the water might be running from the front yard.

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1893 photo with trees that look well into their 50s, planted in a street array. Likely the trees were planted in the Mexican era as street trees. I wonder what stood here before.

Harris Newmark notes that the zanja ran along Figueroa to Adams. I wonder if the water is run-off from the zanja terminus.

Appears to be the site of Buster Keaton’s Haunted House movie? Sorry if this is a repeat.
https://silentlocations.wordpress.co...haunted-house/

[CityBoyDoug]

http://cdn.onlyinyourstate.com/wp-co..._n-700x933.jpg

Musso & Frank restaurant....nice place for good food in cool comfort.....since 1919 in Hollywood.
Only been there one time.

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

UCLA/Islandora

Thanks for the excellent photographs and info on the Los Angeles Country Club FW and GW. The clubhouse is such a beautiful building (and still is!)





Here is some information on the club's earlier locations. (that I didn't know about until today)






I'm hoping to turn up some additional info (and possibly photographs) of the 'Windmill Links' and the 'Convent Links'.
-so far I haven't had any luck. [stay tuned ]



present day location




from
lacc.org

[ethereal_reality]

While searching for something entirely unrelated, I happened upon this strange advertisement in the March 26, 1887 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Herald.







https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc


Has anyone heard of this crazy contraption before?

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[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Looking north on San Pedro Street from north of 1st Street. [February 22, 1933]


California Historical Society
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

I'd say you've got it, Hoss... this building was the Hub lodging house, according to a mention in an article in the Herald on December 28, 1897 (here).

This photo looks south on North San Pedro Street from Jackson Street, c. 1906-08. The Hub is on the right. There is a sign
for Jackson Street above the head of the guy in the lower right corner. Straight head in the distance, where the streetcar is,
is 1st Street. Behind the streetcar we see the cupola of the Woodworth Mansion at 2nd and Wilmington (ex-San Pedro St.):



487865 at Huntington Digital Library

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

While searching for something entirely unrelated, I happened upon this strange advertisement in the March 26, 1887 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Herald.







https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc


Has anyone heard of this crazy contraption before?

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Never heard of it but i'm happy its ''pleasant and harmless"...I wouldn't want to breathe in any smoke that was harmful.

I could only calculate the price in 1887 ..$3.00, back to 1913....but this rather expensive stuff in 2017 dollars....$75.00 But if it cures a cold in the head in 15 minutes....heck, its worth it.

[sopas ej]

I ditched work on Thursday to ride Angels Flight on its grand re-re-re-reopening---it opened in 1901, closed in 1969, reopened in 1996, closed in 2001, reopened in 2010, closed briefly for a month and then reopened in 2011, closed in 2013, and finally reopened again August 31, 2017. Hopefully it'll be running for the long haul. Fare is now a buck one way, 50 cents if you have a valid Metro TAP card.

A then and now of sorts:

Angels Flight station house, 1955,

LAPL

1960.

LAPL

Angels Flight station house, August 31, 2017.

Photo by me

1962.

LAPL

August 31, 2017.

Photo by me

Angels Flight Arch, 1930s.

LAPL

Angels Flight Arch, 1957.

LAPL

Angels Flight Arch, 1962.

LAPL

Angels Flight Arch, August 31, 2017.

Photo by me

Peggy Lee riding Angels Flight (!), 1968.

LAPL

Riding Angels Flight, minus Peggy Lee, August 31, 2017.

Photo by me

Here's a noirish film from the 1960s called "Angel's Flight." It's so bad, it's hilarious. And you get to see a young Rue McClanahan (billed as "Rhue" McClanahan in the credits) in a bit part. Sorry if it's been posted here before.

• Video Link

[GaylordWilshire]

Is that all there is?

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by sopas ej

I ditched work on Thursday to ride Angels Flight on its grand re-re-re-reopening---it opened in 1901, closed in 1969, reopened in 1996, closed in 2001, reopened in 2010, closed briefly for a month and then reopened in 2011, closed in 2013, and finally reopened again August 31, 2017. Hopefully it'll be running for the long haul. Fare is now a buck one way, 50 cents if you have a valid Metro TAP card.
Angels Flight Arch, 1957.
• Video Link

Its needs massive new and up to code engineering and rebuilding. I wonder how long it will last this time?

Sopas....those are cool new photos...........

[Flyingwedge]

Here is 1239 Boston Street today. Boston Street was formerly Ionia Street. There is a July 27, 1926, building permit to move
what was then still called 1243 Ionia "ten or 12 feet from where it is now on the same lot," and to renumber it 1239 Ionia:



Feb 2017 GSV


The reason 1243 Ionia was moved and renumbered 1239 was so that 455 Custer could be moved onto the west side
of the same lot and become the new 1243 Ionia:



LADBS


Here is 1243 Boston, ex-1243 Ionia, ex-455 Custer:



Feb 2017 GSV


We've seen 455 Custer before:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

While searching for the Custer Avenue School photograph, I happened across several images of a house on Custer Avenue that had been moved in 1925
but I don't know if it was moved to or from Custer.

USC labels the house as 455 Custer Avenue


http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/co...id/10823/rec/2

On the current Googlemap, 1239 Boston is right of center near the bottom, on the NW corner of East Kensington Road:



Googlemap


Here is part of the same neighborhood on the 1894 Sanborn Map. You can see 1243 Ionia in the lower right corner:



ProQuest via LAPL


This is 1243 Ionia c. 1893. Behind it and to the right is the Bethany Presbyterian Church. In the distance just to the
left of 1243 Ionia is 714 E. Edgeware (dark green on the July 2015 GSV), and the two large homes to its left are on
the corner of Edgeware and Carroll. At the left edge in the foreground is 1247 Ionia/Boston:



UCLA/Islandora


The people we see at 1243 Ionia in the c. 1893 photo may be E. Edgar Galbreth and his family at their new home
(he is at another address in the 1891 LACD):



1892 LACD @ fold3.com

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P. S. Thanks for the Angels Flight photos and the movie link, sopas ej!

[John Maddox Roberts]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Is that all there is?

Let's break out the booze.

[CityBoyDoug]

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4377/...7398b9_o_d.jpg

flyingwedge.....previous post. Its hard to imagine how unoccupied most of LA was in the 1890s.

Moving houses from about 1925 thru the 1950s, due to LA redevelopment, was a big deal. I recall my father in 1955 [and his business partners] bought 4 or 5 old houses... moved them
and converted them into apartment buildings. The last one we sold off in 1989.

[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Thanks for the excellent photographs and info on the Los Angeles Country Club FW and GW. The clubhouse is such a beautiful building (and still is!)





Here is some information on the club's earlier locations. (that I didn't know about until today)


I'm hoping to turn up some additional info (and possibly photographs) of the 'Windmill Links' and the 'Convent Links'.
-so far I haven't had any luck. [stay tuned ]

For starters:
https://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum...ostcount=20405 Believe we have seen more as an adjunct to other photos of the Pico-Alvarado neighborhood.

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4377/...7398b9_o_d.jpg

flyingwedge.....previous post. Its hard to imagine how unoccupied most of LA was in the 1890s.

Moving houses from about 1925 thru the 1950s, due to LA redevelopment, was a big deal. I recall my father [and his business partners] bought 4 or 5 houses... moved them
and converted them into apartment buildings. The last one we sold off in 1989.

Every LA house has a little noir... I'm always amused when people get nostalgic for the good old "safe" days, full of good people properly dressed and oh so straight. LA newspapers were full the stories of porch-climbers and murderers and swindlers, and sad tales of family despair etc, in poor neighborhoods and rich, from the earliest days through the 1950s (for which people seem to be especially nostalgic) to the present day...


As for the original 1243 Ionia-now-1239 Boston:


LAT Oct 15, 1891/LAT Feb 5, 1899



Regarding the smaller Victorian in the scene above, 1247 Ionia-now 1247 Boston:



LAT May 16, 1901


Not exactly, noir, but a death at 1247--someone seems to have died in almost every older house, especially before the era of modern prolonged death available in hospitals via modern technology and not at home...



LAT Sept 30, 1911

[Martin Pal]

Is Angel's Flight air-conditoned, heh!

Los Angeles greeted the reopening of Angel's Flight with a high temperature of 102° for the day.

(It's been a brutal week. This morning at 7am it was already 89°.)

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Every LA house has a little noir... I'm always amused when people get nostalgic for the good old "safe" days, full of good people properly dressed and oh so straight. LA newspapers were full the stories of porch-climbers and murderers and swindlers, and sad tales of family despair etc, in poor neighborhoods and rich, from the earliest days through the 1950s (for which people seem to be especially nostalgic) to the present day...



LAT Sept 30, 1911

I grew up in the upper middle class suburban Los Angeles of the 1950s...there was crime everywhere constantly.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Is Angel's Flight air-conditoned, heh!

Los Angeles greeted the reopening of Angel's Flight with a high temperature of 102° for the day.

(It's been a brutal week. This morning at 7am it was already 89°.)

This is the hottest summer of my lifetime in LA.....yes absolutely brutal.

Martin...you have to be joking...air-conditioned?

[unihikid]

Hi all, I just finished reading a bio of Bill Medley from the Righteous Brothers. Its an ok read and pretty short, but in it he mentions that his ex wife got murdered in Hermosa Beach in the mid 70's (i think 1975). I know we have a few South Bay residents in this group, do any of you remember this? The murder went unsolved for over 40 years and it was solved earlier this year. Im looking for the location of the house or a newspaper article. Thanks in advance.