noirish Los Angeles

[Snix]

At least three photos of Pershing Square and the Biltmore Hotel have appeared on eBay in a lot of 17 photos from a 1930 trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco. (not my sale) There may be others in there to be identified.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186277819340




(eBay)

[Beaudry]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

I believe the above photo shows the old Los Angeles County Hospital from the grounds of the new (1932) Los Angeles County General Hospital.

This photo was taken from about the same angle as the one above. See the building below near the right center edge with the glare spot?
I think that building is in Beaudry's photo just right of center:

Thank you FW!!!

[ethereal_reality]

Interesting snapshots, Snix.

This one looks so wintery I didn't think it was Los Angeles.

Originally Posted by Snix

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[ethereal_reality]

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Here is a rare amateur snapshot taken on the Lasky Studio backlot.



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I believe there was an early Lasky Studio in the Bronx (NY) but judging by the dryness and the hill in the distance this looks like California to me.



Written on the reverse.


Something, something. . Mary Pickford. . .something.


Where art thou, mystery castle?

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[rick m]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Here is a rare amateur snapshot taken on the Lasky Studio backlot.



eBay

I believe there was an early Lasky Studio in the Bronx (NY) but judging by the dryness and the hill in the distance this looks like California to me.



Written on the reverse.


Something, something. . Mary Pickford. . .something.


Where art thou, mystery castle?

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-- "Pollys Arrival Was _____________ to myeyes

[odinthor]

Me

Taken at Lasky's

Studio in March

Where Mary Pickford

in Polly Anna was

(I can't read the final line.)

"Polly Anna" = "Pollyanna," film of 1920.

[ethereal_reality]

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Our recent conversation about the (what turned out to be) statue in the photograph of the man sitting on a bench . . .

. . . . me of this photograph that I recently happened upon on eBay.


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As you can see, it's HUGE!





Does anyone know if it's still on display at the fairgrounds?...If not, find me that statue!



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[Martin Pal]

Originally Posted by Snix

At least three photos of Pershing Square and the Biltmore Hotel have appeared on eBay in a lot of 17 photos from a 1930 trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco. (not my sale) There may be others in there to be identified.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186277819340

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The date on this photo doesn't make sense.

There's also a date, if that's what these are, of 2-29-30 on one of them at the link and 1930 wasn't a leap year.

[sopas ej]

Photo by Doug White for SoCal Edison, probably 1942 or 1943. Pacific Gear Works on the left. 2053 E. 38th Street in Vernon.

[Martin Pal]

Great atmospheric and decidedly noirish photo!

[Mackerm]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

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Does anyone know if it's still on display at the fairgrounds?...If not, find me that statue!



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You're gonna have to keep shopping for that perfect hood ornament.

The building in the background was originally the Domestic Arts building, and is now used as the NHRA museum. [Edit- The source says the building opened in 1925, but this photo doesn't show it. Plus, there's a 1939 plaque on the building.]



Streettreeseminar (PDF)


HMDB


HMDB (The Big Round)

John Svenson's Ranchero statue is now 300 feet away, on the opposite end of the Millard Sheets gallery.


HMDB

[Beaudry]

Hey y'all!

What, if anything, do we know about this miniature golf course, bounded by 5th, Fremont, Beaudry and Maryland? Don't recall it every being mentioned. Here it is in a 1940 aerial, and the 1950 Sanborn, and then it was wiped out by the freeway by the 1953 Sanborn.

I'm surprised it's not more documented since it was apparently there for more than a decade, and a stone's throw from the thick of downtown. What was it called? Who built it and when?

framefinder@ucsb



saborn@loc

Aha! I seem to have answered it!

Gittelson Brothers, built about 1937. Still need to dig up the LADBS but it's proving elusive.

[odinthor]

Beaudry, it seems to have been called Twin Links (at least, by 1949):


LA Times, 11/21/1949

This pic, accompanying the 1937 article you've excerpted, appears to be of the same course, as it is the one mentioned in the article as the $100,000 one:

[Lwize]

Originally Posted by fullpower

SwasTika soda?

I can't post pictures at the moment, but here's some text from an ad online:

1910's or 20's Pacific Coast Portland Swastika Soda Cracker tin. Tin is in very good shape. Label is not as good, but still very readable and decent color. There is actually another label underneath. It looks as if it was double stamped way back when. Pictures are the best description...box measures appx 11x11x10 1/2 I have never seen another one of these in person and even if you search the net for photos mine will come up and only one other. Feel free to ask any questions..thanks
Swastika Soda Cracker Tin - Pacific Coast Biscuit Co Portland Or:
$199.00
Buy Now

[ethereal_reality]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Does anyone know if Svenson's giant (25 ft. tall) redwood statue is still on display at the fairgrounds?

Originally Posted by Mackerm

John Svenson's Ranchero statue is now 300 feet away, on the opposite end of the Millard Sheets gallery.


HMDB

Thanks, Mackerm!

So what is the impressive Deco statue on the left side?

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[Lorendoc]

Here is a random Calisphere photo dated 192- without any other information:


calisphere.org

The image there can be embiggened considerably. On the left there is a street number 9?2 and the street sign looks like it might be E. 9th Pl.

The Google mobile gives the following view looking north at S San Pedro and E 9th Pl:


GSV

The 1920s CDs have Simons Hardware & Harness at 922 S San Pedro. Probably the dwindling of demand for harnesses didn't help their bottom line as that address became home to a variety of small businesses in the 30s and 40s. The LADBS gives a build date of 1910; it was originally intended to be a rooming house. This 114 year old brick structure has seen its share of earthquakes; the modern picture shows the floor and walls have been tied.

[Beaudry]

Hey all! Back again with another question. Anyone know the formal name and/or architect of this structure?

It was at 700 N Main, and a J W Frey is there in 1890 as a mantel dealer. I assume it was built about '88, probably had more going on with the tower.


Italian Hall at 644 N Main is at right, and while in the image we look north across Macy, now it's Sunset (well, Cesar Chavez)

lapl




this particular "triangle" still exists but the whole thing was redeveloped with a Standard Oil filling station in 1956

[HossC]

I don't know the formal name or the architect, but here's some pictures I posted back 2014:

Originally Posted by HossC

At various points in its life, this building at 700 North Main Street has been close to both the iced tea stand on Alameda and the Terminal Annex building on East Cesar E Chavez which have been discussed recently. USC describes it as "Office / retail building just north of Union Station and the Plaza, R.F. Frans, & C.R. Irwin machine shop & electrical contractors". They date it as circa 1920/1930.


USC Digital Library

HDL incorrectly title this picture as "Macy and Alameda Streets". Macy Street, the old name of East Cesar E Chavez Avenue, is where the bus is turning, but it's North Main Street that dominates the picture (Alameda is just out of shot to the left). This picture shows the building above in June 1956 - not long before demolition.


Huntington Digital Library

This picture does show the intersection of Macy and Alameda Streets. The building on the far right is on Ord Street. Next to the utility pole is what looks like another of the railroad signal bases recently identified by Wig-Wag.


Huntington Digital Library

FredH previously posted details of this picture in post #21450. It shows the same view as the picture above, and is described as "A Standard Oil Station replaces a block of slums." Again, the Ord Street buildings can be seen on the right. HDL has a great picture of these buildings here and FredH found a demolition picture in post #21190.


Huntington Digital Library

Today there's still a gas station on the corner, but not much else has been left behind.


GSV

[odinthor]

700 N. Main and vicinity, from the 1909 Birdseye map, to show the cupola missing in the other pictures:

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by Beaudry

Hey all! Back again with another question. Anyone know the formal name and/or architect of this structure?

It was at 700 N Main, and a J W Frey is there in 1890 as a mantel dealer. I assume it was built about '88, probably had more going on with the tower.



lapl

I'm going to say that's the Oscar Macy Block by A. M. Edelman, built 1887-88 or perhaps just in 1888.


I think New Main was renamed North Main:



January 1, 1889, Los Angeles Herald @ UC Riverside






September 14, 1894, Los Angeles Evening Express @ Newspapers.com


Could this have been Oscar Macy's house, just behind where his block is being built? I swear I just saw a photo of the house
with the three-story building in the rear, but I cannot now relocate it.



1888 Sanborn Map @ ProQuest via LA Public Library



"For years his home was at Macy and Main Streets"



November 2, 1910, Los Angeles Herald @ UC Riverside