noirish Los Angeles - Page 567

tovangar2 · #**11321** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 1:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by FredH

tovangar2: The tract descriptions on this block are called the "Mills and Wicks Extension of Second Avenue and Adjoining Subdivisions". Possibly it was created as an extension of Second Street in order to reach that Santa Fe Freight House on the old map.

Thank you FredH. The Santa Fe Freight Depot actually hasn't come up in a while.
A quarter mile long and taller than the Empire State Building (if one stood it on end that is).
I do like skinny buildings. A nice instance of adaptive reuse:

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Originally Posted by sopas ej

Here's an old rendering of what was the Santa Fe Freight Depot, which opened in 1907, from ulwaf.com.

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIA) is worth a look if you'e in town.

scia

Denzel Washington gets taken for a ride:

devil in a blue dress (1995)

The Arts District (east of Alameda) is a whole different place from the Warehouse District. More expensive for one, although I notice they want almost a million bucks for the Rat Lab back at 8th & Ceres:
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17875...os-Angeles-CA/

I must be getting old. The price of almost anything leaves me completely gob-smacked.

ethereal_reality · #**11322** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 1:24 AM**

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I wish I knew the street. I'd love to see if these homes have survived. Do you recognize them GW?
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ethereal_reality · #**11323** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 1:54 AM**

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today

google street view
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tovangar2 · #**11324** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 1:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Somewhere in one of my old files I have a photograph of the big palm being transported to the Arcade Depot site.
I'll have to look for it.
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I would love to see that.

Palms are so easy to move (so I'm told). Palm brokers go around buying them from people's yards to dress up new development.

I remember watching the original matched set of eleven or twelve palms being installed on the plaza at 444 S Flower (corner of 5th) thirty years ago and wondering about their prior history. Some have been replaced by shade trees and I notice the crowns of the remaining ones are tied up in the 2012 overhead shot on Google maps, meaning they must be on the move again (unless they're incoming replacements).

I sure miss the set of palms pinned against the west side of Clements' Carnation Milk building on Wilshire. Those were the best. Great shadows.

anoxlou -flickr

tovangar2 · #**11325** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 2:11 AM**

Caption reads:
"1931 Harry Smith Builds Newsstand- Feminine Newsies Los Angeles California"

reddawgcollectables - eBay

Location?

It's certainly more festive than my local:

gsv

ethereal_reality · #**11326** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 2:11 AM**

http://danielhernandez.typepad.com/d...city-cafe.html

today

google street view
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ethereal_reality · #**11327** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 2:22 AM**

from unknown periodical

Does anyone know the address?
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FredH · #**11328** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 2:29 AM**

I've driven by the Santa Fe Freight Depot many times and never knew what it was.

Google Street View

And right next to it, is this fine building...

Google Street View

...which was also around in 1909:

memory.loc.gov

Also, the smaller one next to it.

FredH · #**11329** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 2:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Palm being moved to Central & 5th for depot, 1889.

usc digital library

I love the Wolfskill shanty.

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ethereal_reality: I found your picture! I think I also noted back then that the Wolfskill Tract extended
all the way up to where I worked at E. Third Street and Crocker.

ethereal_reality · #**11330** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 3:01 AM**

Many thanks FredH!!

FredH · #**11331** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 3:15 AM**

I love this "tree guy". He's a classic.

usc digital library

BDiH · #**11332** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 3:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hollywood Graham

Going to a movie in Hollywood in the early fifties was fun. We rode our bikes or took the Streetcar and sometimes walked. No rush then. On the way home we would stop at Reginald Denny's Hobby Shop and marvel at the airplanes hung from the ceiling. Later stop would be the miniature golf place by Vermont and Hollywood. Fun times.[IMG]

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LAPL Photo

That miniature golf park was Gittleson Brother's, where they also had table tennis and other simple pleasures from another time.

ethereal_reality · #**11333** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 3:35 AM**

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Originally Posted by FredH

I've driven by the Santa Fe Freight Depot many times and never knew what it was.

Google Street View

And right next to it, is this fine building...

Google Street View

I've been intrigued by this block of E. 3rd Street for quite some time. Two buildings on the periphery of the Santa Fe Freight Depot
have the old Santa Fe logo incorporated into their architecture (both are located further west on E. 3rd St.).

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http://www.seeklogo.com/santa-fe-logo-122429.html

detail

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..and this building is across the street from the building above.

gsv

So how many buildings did the Santa Fe Railroad own in this area?
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Apart from that, there is this magnificent building on the same block.

NE corner of E. 3rd St. and S. Garey St.

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I'm trying to find out the history of this building.
It looks as if it could have been a school (doubtful in this area) or a post office (note the flag pole). Does anyone know?
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tovangar2 · #**11334** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 3:46 AM**

Outstanding! e-r and FredH :-)

and they're still at it, trying to give a little dignity to "Mediterranean" McMansions:

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ethereal_reality · #**11335** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 3:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by BDiH

That miniature golf park was Gittleson Brother's, where they also had table tennis and other simple pleasures from another time.

Quite serendipitously, I found this postcard yesterday! -Honest-

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GaylordWilshire · #**11336** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 4:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

from unknown periodical

Does anyone know the address?
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The American Architect Jan 3, 1912

The Neustadt house was at the northwest corner of Adams and Western, facing Western. It was bought only a year or so after being built by J. T. Fitzgerald, who had lived a few years earlier at 3115 West Adams--see (among other posts and online info) http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5510

ProphetM · #**11337** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 4:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by FredH

I love this "tree guy". He's a classic.

usc digital library

This guy?

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/re...oll65/id/25483

ethereal_reality · #**11338** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 4:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by tovangar2

The old west entrance of the Fox lot.

movielocationsplus.com

It's still in there somewhere, now sans lantern and lots of other great details:

gsv

With T2's post, I thought I had finally placed this photograph...but on closer inspection it doesn't match.

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Thanks for the location of the Neustadt's house GaylordWilshire.
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MichaelRyerson · #**11339** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 12:25 PM**

Here's an aerial from an angle we don't see all that often. The Central Station replaced the Arcade Depot in 1914 and was bigger still. It appears at the lower left. At this distance you can get a nice sense of scale. The thing was humongous.

los angeles (calif) civic center and downtown, ca. 1930
LAPL

BTW, Happy New Year all.

last edit (I promise): not sure I believe the date on this pic as I think you can see the Times building rather far along for 1930.

ethereal_reality · #**11340** Posted **Jan 4, 2013, 7:37 PM**

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