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Originally Posted by gsjansen

a 1940 view looking across the future park la brea site from wilshire boulevard.

the pan pacific auditorium is just left of center. to the left of the pan pacific is gilmore field, (baseball) then gilmore stadium, (football). The farmers market is just below and to the left of gilmore stadium.....(scott....hold your nose).


Source: USC Digital Archive http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...0-14-ISLA?v=hr

a similar 1954 view. hancock park is now booming, park la brea has been built, Gilmore stadium has been replaced with CBS Television City. Gilmore field is still there, (now the home of the Hollywood Stars minor league baseball team). Pan Pacific Auditorium is on the far right above center.


Source: USC Digital Archive http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assets...-3-4-ISLA?v=hr

First photo is revealing. If the '40 date is accurate, it suggests that the airplane motif at Bob's Air Mail Service on Cochran and Wilshire ca. '36, http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7493 was short lived. Look carefully and there appears to be an empty lot, although this could be a simple gas station or parking lot. Looking across the street, one can make out the Flying Saucer's roof line. Don't believe it existed until after '35 when the A&P opened.

LAPL and http://jpg1.lapl.org/00090/00090378.jpg

Looking for photo of Genesee Avenue, which may have paralleled Fairfax Ave and bisected the Gilmore property between the Stadium and the baseball field. Sometime prior to 9-2011, Genesee ran directly past CBS and into the pre-Grove Farmer's Mkt(?).

Suspect this undated photograph is older than the first photo (above). Assume Genesee is the road closet to Fairfax that runs through the property. There is yet another road parallel to, and east of the assumed Genesee - and east of the baseball diamond. Is it the former Stanley Ave, now known as "Grove Drive?" (I would guess the next street east that runs past the Pan Pacific is Gardener.)
http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=49044