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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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You might be right,
e_r. The direction of the photo seems to be OK for that. I can't pick out any landmarks, though,
other than the Baldwin Hills in the distance.
There was (and still is) a street called Lilac Terrace. The north and south sides of the street are on different Baist
Maps, and one of the maps didn't enlarge as much as the other. But you can match up the cross-streets like Boylston
and Chavez Ravine Rd. Sunset angles off of Lilac Terrace at the lower left corner of the top map, matching where
Sunset angles off Lilac in the upper left corner of the bottom map. The "dip" at the right side of Lilac Terrace on each
map is where Lookout Drive comes down off the hillside. Yale Street is at the extreme right of the bottom map (partially
cut off):
1921 Baist Maps @ HistoricMapworks --
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/19434/Plate+028/ and
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/19412/Plate+006/
This is described as a 1951 Sanborn Map, but I think it's actually more like mid-40s. It shows the streets north of
Lilac Terrace (in the pink square on the top Baist map). I'm sorry that putting north at the top put most of the
names upside-down. In the lower left corner is Joplin Street:
LAPL
I would now ask you to please scroll back up and look at the lower Baist map and review where it says "Los Angeles Brick
Co" below the Los Angeles Detention Hospital and the City Quarantine Station (between Lilac Terrace and Chavez Ravine
Road) . . . . OK now here's that same area on the 1951 Sanborn. "Steep Hill Side" and "High Clay Hill" are on the left side
of the map. The sort of bullseye thingy is a 75-foot-tall brick chimney:
LAPL
Now, with those maps in mind, here are some c. 1950 Chavez Ravine photos.
Here is an overlapping panorama that includes what must be that 75-foot brick chimney between Lilac Terrace
(diagonal, just in front of chimney) and Chavez Ravine (rear, at the base of the steep hill side). I'm pretty sure
this is looking southwest. I am less sure of which streets, but I think coming up out of the lower left corner of the
left photo is Joplin Street. The home at upper right in the right photo might be on Lookout Drive. In any case, the
home is also in the next pic:
LA Daily News/Islandora/UCLA --
http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ailyNews%3A494 and
http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ailyNews%3A493
The house in the upper right corner of the right-hand photo above can be seen at left here:
LA Daily News/Islandora/UCLA --
http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...ailyNews%3A126
Here is one last photo showing two women walking up . . . well, I'm not sure where. Could it be Lookout Drive?:
LA Daily News/Islandora/UCLA --
http://lit250v.library.ucla.edu/isla...DailyNews%3A27
Here is a 1952 aerial of Lilac Terrace (with that same "dip" from the Baist Maps at right; the dip is Lookout Drive)
and Chavez Ravine Road (now Stadium Way). The Naval Armory is just about in the middle. I can't exactly
make out the brick chimney, but it's probably there:
Historic Aerials --
http://www.historicaerials.com/