noirish Los Angeles

[ethereal_reality]

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I'm Back!

I have a mystery location to try and solve.

Marshall Apartment House, Pasadena or Los Angeles [no date]


eBay


Here's a closer look at the sign above the porch.



I believe THIS is the same house but without the sign.



Help me out noirishers.


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[Lorendoc]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I'm Back!

I have a mystery location to try and solve.

Marshall Apartment House, Pasadena or Los Angeles [no date]


eBay


Here's a closer look at the sign above the porch.



I believe THIS is the same house but without the sign.



Help me out noirishers.


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The 1928 CD has Marshall Apts at 1330 W 11th st downtown, and various newspapers have Marshall apartments at 34 Magnolia Ave in Long Beach and at 129 S Benita in Redondo Beach. Only the first address still exists, and is not a good match for e_r's photo.

[odinthor]

The Long Beach one was four stories tall (a boy hanging up laundry on the clothes line on the roof fell through a duct and . . . didn't live to tell about it), so we can rule that one out too.

[Mackerm]

This page has a map showing Redondo Beach's Benita Avenue. It's right by the harbor in an area that's been redeveloped.

https://lastreetnames.com/street/catalina-avenue/

[Noir_Noir]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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I'm Back!

I have a mystery location to try and solve.

Marshall Apartment House, Pasadena or Los Angeles [no date]


eBay

According to the seller the rear of another picture in that ebay "Marshall Apts." series lists the address as 244 S. Euclid Ave. Pasadena.


Which tallies with the directory.


loc.gov -Pasadena Telephone Directory 1935


It was demolished along with the surrounding buildings in about 1980.


Another picture from the album showing nearby houses.



ebay


So on a 1956 aerial, I'm guessing this may be 244 arrowed with the two other houses in the picture immediately to the north of it.



mil.library.ucsb.edu

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by ScottyB

Hopping into the wayback machine for a moment, this early (ca. late 1870's) Watkins photo on the HDL site of Sonora Town caught my eye (sorry if it's been posted before) of the area, including the S.P.R.R. Depot in the distance. The neighborhood seems orderly and quiet.


https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/c...d/23479/rec/81


A close-up of the wall has the street name painted on it, I can't quite make it out, and I'm fumbling trying to find a street map to confirm. Any help?



https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/s...ion/mode/exact

I can't make out the writing either, but using the street railway tracks as a guide, I think we're looking north on Buena Vista
(later, North Broadway) at Bellevue Avenue (later, Sunset Blvd.) This very cool 1885 map shows the path of the street railway
with a dotted line, and I've arrowed Bellevue and Buena Vista:



164400 @ HDL


In the HDL photo I noticed this building in the distance, which seems to have had a bad fire. I wonder what that structure was?



HU12TD49 @ HDL