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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
In the distance there is a turret visible on a hill. Can anyone tell me what that is? (it resembles the 'magic castle' in Hollywood)
The seller says this is the front lawn of Abraham Lincoln High School circa 1960s
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Abraham Lincoln High School is 100 years old in 2013!
An undated but early view:
LAPL --
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026080.jpg
Lincoln's principal from 1916-1945 was Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus (1884-1967). She was California's first female high school principal and went on to found the National Retired Teachers Association in 1947 and AARP in 1958. [Info from:
http://lhsaatigers.org/School_News.html and
http://assets.aarp.org/www.aarp.org_...andrus_bio.pdf]
This photo of Lincoln High is dated c. 1928, but is apparently earlier. The tall building in the rear was the auditorium. (The home next to the school is the former Woolwine house. More on that at
http://oldhomesoflosangeles.blogspot...-broadway.html):
USC Digital Library --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/3131/rec/5
Woolwine home gone. Was there a patio on the roof of the main building?:
LAPL --
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026078.jpg
Lincoln High from southeast, 1927:
LAPL --
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics13/00026079.jpg
September 17, 1929:
USC Digital Library --
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/15907/rec/4
Buildings on campus were closed after being damaged in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake; this photo is dated 1934. From LAPL: "The school was closed to students on November 2, 1934, after engineers reported many of the buildings were in danger of sliding down the hill toward North Broadway because of shifting ground of the hill. The engineers and geologists reported three of the buildings are in danger of collapsing down the hill upon other structures. The auditorium, music and library buildings will be torn down. The English building has been cracked from the weight of holding up the library with braced steel and concrete supports. The English, administration, and gymnasium buildings will be repaired. Other buildings will be used temporarily."
LAPL --
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041338.jpg
Moving tents onto campus, October 30, 1934:
LAPL --
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041321.jpg
Also October 30, 1934. From LAPL: "A newly arisen "tent village" is shown on the grounds of Lincoln High School on North Broadway where three buildings have been condemned and three others closed because of earth slippage beneath the hill on which the school is built. Students are attending classes in the tents and buildings which are not in danger. The auditorium, music and library buildings are to be razed, and the English, administration and boys' gymnasium buildings will remain closed until the other structures, which tower over and threaten them, are removed." The Mae West flick advertised on the billboard is
Belle of the Nineties:
LAPL --
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics43/00041322.jpg
The new Albert C. Martin-designed campus opened across the street in 1937; this view is c. 1940:
Huntington Digital Library --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou.../id/7698/rec/2
Still with us today:
GSV June 2012