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BillinGlendaleCA · #**45321** Posted **Feb 3, 2018, 8:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by WS1911

I think the church is St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 10800 Moorpark, North Hollywood.

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Nope, not North Hollywood. That's St. Mary Magdelen in Camarillio. The road the cars are on is US 101.

CaliNative · #**45322** Posted **Feb 3, 2018, 9:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

I can believe you Sady. The people of Sydney, Australia are desperate to get rid of the thousands of parrots that are breeding in their suburbs...such as Blacktown. I have seen the damage they do there...like eating the covering off of telephone wires.

The screeching is horrendous.....day & night. People have let their ''pet'' parrots free...now we see the damage it does. Parrots are best left to their native jungle habitats where they come from..... such as South America, etc.

Funnel web spiders are huge and menacing and venomous. The scourge of the Sydney area. But I think a parrot could win in a fight. They just might relish them. Train parrots to eat the nasty spiders. They would be heros in Sydney.

CityBoyDoug · #**45323** Posted **Feb 3, 2018, 2:45 PM**

BillinGlendaleCA; That's St. Mary Magdelen in Camarillio. The road the cars are on is US 101.

Dedication of St. Mary Magdalen Church on July 4, 1913... 2532 E. Ventura Blvd....picturesque photo of the faithful gathered at the portal or Porta Sancta of the new House of Worship.

http://media.jrn.com/images/666652_3....0_640_480.jpg

HossC · #**45324** Posted **Feb 3, 2018, 5:09 PM**

I thought I'd do a "then and now" aerial comparison of the St. Mary Magdalen Church location. The first, from 1952, seems to match e_r's picture quite well. I've arrowed where I think the photographer was standing.

mil.library.ucsb.edu
Flight ID: AXI-1952, Frame: 1K-36, Date: December 14, 1952.

The 101, as mentioned by BillinGlendaleCA, really changed the layout.

Google Maps

Otis Criblecoblis · #**45325** Posted **Feb 3, 2018, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

I can believe you Sady.
The screeching is horrendous.....day & night. People have let their ''pet'' parrots free...now we see the damage it does. Parrots are best left to their native jungle habitats where they come from..... such as South America, etc.

Perhaps there is a problem in Australia with illegal alien bird species, but bear in mind that according to Wikipedia, there are 18 parrot species endemic to Australia, and that is not to mention all the cockatoo, conure and lorikeet species.

HossC · #**45326** Posted **Feb 3, 2018, 6:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

USC 'mystery' buildings.

"1949 USC Los Angeles Kodachrome Slide"

EBAY

I believe this is commercial building acquired (temporarily?) by the university. -it appears to be an Information Center.

"1949 USC Univeristy Los Angeles Kodachrome Slide"

EBAY

the stripes on this one make it seem a bit modern. that blue car needs to SLOW DOWN!

"1949 USC university los angeles kodachrome"

EBAY

I should probably know this one, but I don't.

I'm still looking for the first building, but the other two are still standing. The one with the thick "stripes" of brick and stone is the USC Fisher Museum of Art. The trees along Exposition Boulevard make it difficult to get a good view, so here's an aerial.

Google Maps

The other brick/stone building is the Allan Hancock Foundation Building. The Googlemobile can't get close, so I've gone for an aerial again (this time looking east). Older aerial views show a large radio mast on the roof.

Google Maps

ethereal_reality · #**45327** Posted **Feb 3, 2018, 9:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Earl Boebert

Plus you get a (very) short cameo shot of Raymond Chandler.

Cheers,

Earl

there's your man...sittin' in the chair.

ProphetM · #**45328** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 12:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

USC 'mystery' buildings.

"1949 USC Los Angeles Kodachrome Slide"

EBAY

I believe this is commercial building acquired (temporarily?) by the university. -it appears to be an Information Center.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC

I'm still looking for the first building, but the other two are still standing.

How about this - the corner of today's Trousdale Parkway and Hellman Way, where VKC Library is now located.

The building in the center of this 1960 aerial might match. It's two buildings together like the slide (second building of slightly different height at the left edge of the slide). The background building from the perspective of the photo is potentially correct, and the foreground island dividing a street is also a match.

What say you?

GaylordWilshire · #**45329** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 12:33 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

USC 'mystery' buildings.

EBAY

the stripes on this one make it seem a bit modern. that blue car needs to SLOW DOWN!

"1949 USC university los angeles kodachrome"

EBAY

I should probably know this one, but I don't.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC

I'm still looking for the first building, but the other two are still standing. The one with the thick "stripes" of brick and stone is the USC Fisher Museum of Art. The trees along Exposition Boulevard make it difficult to get a good view, so here's an aerial.

Google Maps

The other brick/stone building is the Allan Hancock Foundation Building. The Googlemobile can't get close, so I've gone for an aerial again (this time looking east). Older aerial views show a large radio mast on the roof.

Google Maps

A bit more on origins of the Fisher museum is here: 3043 Wilshire Boulevard

A bit more on the origins of the Hancock museum is here: 3189 Wilshire Boulevard

odinthor · #**45330** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 12:51 AM**

As I go through my recently found cache of photos I took from 1983-1985, I keep an eye out for items which conceivably could be of interest to NLA.

Here, remarkably coincidentally, is a picture of a Conure eating fruit on one of my Catalina Cherry trees. It happens to be widely acknowledged as the world's worst photo of a Conure.

odinthor collection, embarrassment division.

Not to be outdone, about the same time I took the world's worst photo of Burbank Studios:

odinthor collection, embarrassment division.

Diversifying my talents, I then went to Santa Monica and took the world's least interesting picture of the corner of a building:

odinthor collection, embarrassment division.

All of this was very tiring, so I stayed in Santa Monica and took some nicer pix:

odinthor collection.

odinthor collection.

And I leave you with this kind Santa Monican gastronomic invitation:

odinthor collection.

ethereal_reality · #**45331** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 1:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by HossC

The building with the thick "stripes" of brick and stone is the USC Fisher Museum of Art.

The other brick/stone building is the Allan Hancock Foundation Building.

Good ol' Hoss comes through

. Thanks buddy.

The photograph below shows the north side of the Hancock Foundation Building facing Childs Way.

"Merrell Gage bas reliefs, photographed in 1958."

publicartinla

The large bas reliefs depict animal discoveries at the La Brea Tar Pits.

The reliefs are still there, but rather difficult to see because of the trees.

gsv (the google-obile stopped at this point so I couldn't get any closer)

Hancock, an avid naturalist, constructed the building to provide facilities for zoological and botanical research, which included six levels of fireproof storage for specimens.

He also installed a telescope...which I believe is still visible on the roof.

gsv

And as a friendly reminder and a f.y.i. to newcomers:

The Hancock Foundation Building also contains four rooms preserved from the Hancock family mansion that was once located on the northeast corner Wilshire & Vermont.

Here's a sampling

bigorangelandmarks

bigorangelandmarks

always amazed by these rooms!

The rooms are in the southeast wing of the Hancock Foundation Building, which serves as a museum and memorial to Hancock's mother.

(we covered the mansion and the rooms earlier in the thread)

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ethereal_reality · #**45332** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 1:57 AM**

I just noticed something.

Any idea what the tower was for on the roof of the Hancock Building?

Here's another view that includes the tower.

usc insidesocial

I just rechecked Google Earth...the tower is no longer there.

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Flyingwedge · #**45333** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 2:47 AM**

It's the tower for the KUSC radio antenna, built in 1946.

Martin Pal · #**45334** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 2:47 AM**

Concerning a book and movie we talk about on NLA from Time to Time:

CBS Orders a Pilot for Its L.A. Confidential TV Series

https://www.avclub.com/cbs-orders-a-...ies-1822686297

ethereal_reality · #**45335** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 2:47 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ProphetM

The building in the center of this 1960 aerial might match. It's two buildings together like the slide (second building of slightly different height at the left edge of the slide).
The background building from the perspective of the photo is potentially correct, and the foreground island dividing a street is also a match.

What say you?

I say....that's a very good possibility ProphetM

but I'm not sure if it has that wedged corner that you see in the 1949 slide.

it could be there in your aerial, but it's just a bit too blurry to be 100% sure.

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Flyingwedge · #**45336** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 3:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by ProphetM

How about this - the corner of today's Trousdale Parkway and Hellman Way, where VKC Library is now located.

The building in the center of this 1960 aerial might match. It's two buildings together like the slide (second building of slightly different height at the left edge of the slide). The background building from the perspective of the photo is potentially correct, and the foreground island dividing a street is also a match.

What say you?

Nice pic e_r and good eye ProphetM!

Here, above the lower left corner, is an angled view of the same building. If you zoom in at the link, you can
see the building's wedged corner, plus the window pattern seems to match, as does the building behind:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

By the time of this c. 1940 aerial, Hoover had been blasted through south of Jefferson, with the buildings on both the NE
and NW corners of Hoover and Jefferson having been shaved as a result. The triangular intersection of Hoover/Kingsley
(Severance)/32nd is in the upper left corner. The Shrine Auditorium sits on the north side of Jefferson, and the green
dot is again Royal and 30th:

CHS-32883 at USCDL

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

USC 'mystery' building.

"1949 USC Los Angeles Kodachrome Slide"

EBAY

ethereal_reality · #**45337** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 4:34 AM**

Thanks for the follow-ups on the mystery pic WS1911....BillinGlendaleCA....and CityBoyDoug.

with your help I now know the photo is an image from a 'book'...you can read the caption below.

no mention of Camarillo though
i.pinimg

& for some reason, this large church is called a chapel

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The actual St. Mary Magdalene Church is located at 25 N Las Posas Rd, Camarillo.

The large St. Mary Magdalene Chapel was built as a private place of worship for the Camarillo family [1914]. That might be why it's considered a chapel.

Here is a look inside the beautiful chapel.

yelp

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Thanks for this pic CBD.

BillinGlendaleCA · #**45338** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 4:39 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Dedication of St. Mary Magdalen Church on July 4, 1913... 2532 E. Ventura Blvd....picturesque photo of the faithful gathered at the portal or Porta Sancta of the new House of Worship.

http://media.jrn.com/images/666652_3....0_640_480.jpg

You have a sharp eye... Bill.

Nah, I grew up in Thousand Oaks and my dad worked at Pt. Mugu; so we went by there a lot.

ethereal_reality · #**45339** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 5:01 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

Nice pic e_r and good eye ProphetM!

Here, above the lower left corner, is an angled view of the same building. If you zoom in at the link, you can
see the building's wedged corner, plus the window pattern seems to match, as does the building behind:

Yep, that's it FW! It even has the rounded side door towards the back.

1949 kodachrome slide

Mission accomplished!

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ethereal_reality · #**45340** Posted **Feb 4, 2018, 5:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

It's the tower for the KUSC radio antenna, built in 1946.

Helicopter Clips USC Radio Tower, Lands on Campus

A helicopter made a forced landing on the USC campus Saturday morning after the pilot,
blinded by the sun, clipped a radio tower and hit a tree, police said. No one was injured.

The pilot of the Sikorsky chopper suffered only a cut on the nose, and a passenger escaped injury
when the craft came to rest in an intersection on the campus at about 7:30 a.m., Lt. Tom Runyen said.
Neither was immediately identified.

Part of the helicopter's rotor was sheared off when the craft hit KUSC-FM's radio tower, Runyen said.
Metal debris and pieces of a tree hit the walls of a nearby dorm and scattered over several blocks.

May 1, 1987