noirish Los Angeles - Page 918

ethereal_reality · #**18341** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 6:59 PM**

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Killeye · #**18342** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 7:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I recently came across this building on the 2300 block of East Slauson Avenue.
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You can read Maran-Wurzell Glass & Mirror, the name of a construction company founded in 1969 and now based in Pomona.

ethereal_reality · #**18343** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 7:31 PM**

You have better eyes than I do! I can't read that all.

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Originally Posted by jg6544

There is one, very large, mountain lion that has taken up residence in Griffith Park; he even made National Geographic!

Here's the mountain lion.

Steve Winter

Link to the story/the comments are especially interesting.
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/...r-his-closeup/
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Great post on the Tommy Dorsey-Jon Hall fight FredH. -Quite surprised to learn Tommy Dorsey was a violent drunk.

Retired_in_Texas · #**18344** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 8:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Wilshire Boulevard west of Western

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reverse

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Fantastic photo. This model of Packard Coupe was often referred to as "A Doctors Car" though that is not how it was marketed. 1923 Price would have been around $2,800-$3,000. Today one in showroom condition will bring some $60,000 to $70,000.

HossC · #**18345** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 9:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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"Exterior view of the South Gate Masonic Temple building and the grocery store occupying the bottom floor, Los Angeles, ca.1900"

USC Digital Library

From the Los Angeles Herald, 1 May 1906.

California Digital Newspaper Collection

Could this be the same building? It's the right size and has the right number of windows on the upper floor.

GSV

HossC · #**18346** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 9:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I recently came across this building on the 2300 block of East Slauson Avenue.

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Originally Posted by Killeye

You can read Maran-Wurzell Glass & Mirror, the name of a construction company founded in 1969 and now based in Pomona.

The current building seems to have been there since at least 1952, the earliest view of that area on Historic Aerials.

I checked the 1956 and 1960 City Directories, and they list the A. J. Bayer Company at 2300 East Slauson. Would that be the same A. J. Bayer Company who supplied "ornamental iron, bronze and hollow metal doors" to the Fine Arts Building?

AlvaroLegido · #**18347** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 9:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Great post on the Tommy Dorsey-Jon Hall fight FredH. -Quite surprised to learn Tommy Dorsey was a violent drunk.

I guess they confused with his brother Jimmie Dorsey (who played clarinet and saxophone). Tommy was afraid of drinking and often threatened his brother in order to make him stop drinking.
Another reason : Tommy Dorsey mastered his trombone (sound and phrasing) until his death better than no other trombonist in the world (jazz or classical). You can't expect that from a drunken musician : the trombone is very hard to master in a physical way and you need to be in a very good shape to play it that well. One thing seems to be true : Tommy Dorsey was known to be aggressive.

ethereal_reality · #**18348** Posted **Dec 18, 2013, 11:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by HossC

"Exterior view of the South Gate Masonic Temple building and the grocery store occupying the bottom floor, Los Angeles, ca.1900"

USC Digital Library

Could this be the same building? It's the right size and has the right number of windows on the upper floor.

GSV

I believe you're correct HossC, that's the same building! -amazing find.
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CityBoyDoug · #**18349** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 12:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I believe you're correct HossC, that's the same building! -amazing find.
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Yes, same building. The wooden cornices and parapets were long ago infested with termites and rotted away.

The plaster gingerbread decorations were probably damaged by the numerous Los Angeles earthquakes. They too, fell to the sidewalk, one way or another. She was an attractive building in her day.

FredH · #**18350** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 2:03 AM**

Central Police Station - 1920

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...446547&page=43

Tetsu · #**18351** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 2:09 AM**

Before and after the ravages of stucco on Colton & Toluca, just west of downtown:

1963

LAPL

present day

GSV

In the background at the far left of this screenshot, we see a house on Colton previously discussed here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11387

FredH · #**18352** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 6:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I recently came across this building on the 2300 block of East Slauson Avenue.

GSV

To me it resembles an old transit building. (maybe we've seen it before on NLA, I'm not sure)

GSV
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ER - Were you thinking about this old car barn that used to be on 6th & Central?

lapl

Or this P.E. substation in Culver City?

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=11043

...and ER, if you look at the overhead map (your building outlined in yellow) you will notice
that Santa Fe Ave. runs next to the building, plus there are other tracks just across Slauson.

Google Maps

You may be right about it being an old transit building.

Flyingwedge · #**18353** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 7:58 AM**

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O.K. - Here is a wild story compliments of playgroundofthestars.com

The mother of all celebrity brawls occurred on the balcony of bandleader Tommy Dorsey’s apartment at 1220 Sunset Plaza Drive* off the Strip in the wee hours of Aug. 5, 1944. The primary combatants in what came to be known as “the Battle of the Balcony” were Dorsey and Jon Hall.

Here is Jon Hall with Dorothy Lamour:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm20954301...f_=nm_phs_md_1

Oddly enough, a couple weeks ago I was looking for someone in the 1940 census, and when I found him, I discovered that on the same census page was Jon Hall, living at 12805 Sunset Blvd in Brentwood, with his wife Frances Langford, her mother and brother, and a butler and a cook:

Ancestry.com

Every place I looked on the Internet says Hall was born in Fresno, California, but here it says he was born in the Philippines. And I guess the census-taker wasn't a fan; it looks like he started to spell Hall's name John then wrote over it.

GaylordWilshire · #**18354** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lwize

(CoStar Group Inc.)

http://www.latimes.com/business/mone...,2969847.story

More (including pics) on the Commercial Club/Case Hotel in vintage NLA:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2248

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2266

jg6544 · #**18355** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Retired_in_Texas

You can bet there is an abundance of rattle snakes. If there are rodents, there are snakes. There isn't a densely populated area in the world that doesn't have a great supply of rodents. Now for the bad news. Coyotes are not only scavengers, they are also among the most efficient killing machines on the planet. Disappearing pet cats and dogs in urban areas are often the handy work of Coyotes. A pack of them have no qualms about taking down a cow. About the only thing they won't tackle is a Donkey because Donkeys can kill a Coyote with one good kick, which is why we have a couple of Donkeys in every pasture where we are grazing cattle.

Yeah, urban coyotes are more than happy to make a meal off of the family pet. Smart people no longer have pet doors, either, because the animals aren't afraid to come inside the house if they smell a meal.

jg6544 · #**18356** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 5:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

You have better eyes than I do! I can't read that all.

Here's the mountain lion.

Steve Winter

Link to the story/the comments are especially interesting.
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/...r-his-closeup/
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Great post on the Tommy Dorsey-Jon Hall fight FredH. -Quite surprised to learn Tommy Dorsey was a violent drunk.

I think the humane thing to do is tranquilize it and move it back up into the mountains. It's going to want to mate sooner or later and will then start trying to roam outside of the park. Not only will that present a challenge to neighborhoods around the park, but it will mean the poor animal will have to risk crossing at least one freeway. It's such a magnificent cat; I wish it were in a safer environment.

ethereal_reality · #**18357** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 7:39 PM**

In honor of the recent posts on poinsettias, here is...

Poinsettia Court, Long Beach

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HossC · #**18358** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 8:24 PM**

"Emma" in front of Poinsettia Court.

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AlvaroLegido · #**18359** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 9:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by FredH

Central Police Station - 1920

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...446547&page=43

The "epicenter of Noir" (Gaylord Wilshire) before the noirish mood ! (which came in the 1930s with Dashiell Hammett). The building up on the right looks very modern for the 1920s. I value your come back to the thread, Fred, your photos are outstanding !

ethereal_reality · #**18360** Posted **Dec 19, 2013, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by FredH

...and ER, if you look at the overhead map (your building outlined in yellow) you will notice
that Santa Fe Ave. runs next to the building, plus there are other tracks just across Slauson.

Google Maps

You may be right about it being an old transit building.

-thanks for your help FredH.

While searching for a vintage photograph of the Slauson building I came across this similar one in San Pedro/Port of Los Angeles.

Doug Folkerts at http://dougfolkerts.com/page/2

Here's an interesting bit of information.

"Originally built in 1920. In 1935 this building was rotated 180 degrees and moved 100 feet from it's original location."

Doug Folkerts at http://dougfolkerts.smugmug.com/Even...etro/i-SVBCstS
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