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[BillinGlendaleCA]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

[url]https://i.pinimg.com/

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xkv-7O_zSng/TdbjcCixnsI/AAAAAAAAGkw/XDUd1fijKew/s1600/piopico.jpg


https://www.kcet.org/sites/kl/files/thumbnails/image/pico_and_family.jpg

Pre-beard Pío de Jesus Pico and his wife, María Ignacia Alvarado Pico, in 1852, with two of their nieces, María Anita Alvarado (far left) and Trinidad Ortega (far right)


Pio de Jesus Pico, c. 1800s, the last governor of Alta California, Mexico

Pío de Jesús Pico was a California rancher and politician, the last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule. He served from 1845 to 1846. He was also elected to one term on the Los Angeles Common Council.

And here's his ranch house over in Whittier:
_3180037.jpg by me, on Flickr

I took a trip out there(and the Nixon Library) earlier this year.

[HossC]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I happened upon this photo/postcard this afternoon.


worthpoint

Here's a reminder of a slightly later picture which I posted as part of a then-and-now nearly four years ago. Extra windows have been added on the 3rd Street side, which explains why they don't match the originals. The building has also acquired a blade sign.

Originally Posted by HossC

While looking for old pictures of the Harrelson Block, I came across these near neighbors at the intersection of 3rd and Los Angeles Streets. On the north west corner was Sam Sharpe's hardware store. This picture is from 1932.


USC Digital Library

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

once more

lizzies of the field [1924]
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Originally Posted by UphillDonkey

The big building in the background is the Monte Sano Hospital on Waverly Drive



USC digital archive/Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

A few Monte Sano priors:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20758

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20736

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20745

[Tourmaline]

Fresh baked bread and . . . horses.

Riding a fender-less bicycle over a road shared with horses - while wearing a suit - must have made for interesting laundry issues.



Spring Street from Third Street, ~1903 http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...0coll2/id/3504 (Reasonably certain this is not new to NLA, but worth another look.)








Ebinger's Bakery, 303 (or 301) S. Spring Street. Louis aka Lewis and other Ebinger family members kept house at 755 Maple Ave. in the late 1800s-early 1900s. Later moved to 3500 S Flower. Lewis was also affiliated with "L.A. Indicator Co." (Guessing this involved street signs, including road hazard warnings.)

[Hollywood Graham]

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

A few Monte Sano priors:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20758

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20736

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=20745

That is definitely the building in the film. I had that in the back of my mind but could not remember the name of the hospital to look for a photo. Good detective work finding it.

[LA Kitty Kat]

I was born at Monte Sano Hospital way back in the 50's!

[rbpjr]

[QUOTE=Tourmaline;7955958]Bunkerhill Hotel, 116-120 Hope Street. undated.


My mother was living at 116 South Hope when I was born in 1934...at the time it was a shelter for young unmarried women with child.

[ethereal_reality]

Lizzies of the Field [1924]

Originally Posted by UphillDonkey

The big building in the background is the Monte Sano Hospital on Waverly Drive

It's a perfect match!



Good sleuthing Uphill Donkey.

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[CityBoyDoug]

rbpjr reports that "My mother was living at 116 South Hope when I was born in 1934...at the time it was a shelter for young unmarried women with child."


LAPL

[CityBoyDoug]

1930s


waterandpower img

[ethereal_reality]

Getty collection

'The Film Noir Star Whose Boy-Toy Affairs Scandalized Hollywood'.

It's a rather lurid title for a well written article.
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[ethereal_reality]

Well-dressed children on a bench in St. James Park, Los Angeles, 1909.



Los Angeles Herald-September 12, 1909.

Wouldn't it be interesting to know the identities of the children.

My eye keep returning to the girl in white at the end of the bench on the left.
Is it just me, or does she appear rather aloof?

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[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

rbpjr reports that "My mother was living at 116 South Hope when I was born in 1934...at the time it was a shelter for young unmarried women with child."


LAPL

LAT Nov 5, 1937



UCLADL's caption reads "Women at Brandon Guest House for homeless women in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1938"

[tex_appeal]

those black and white images of the crittendon home are amazing. I drove by today and saw a plaque saying something about renovations and additions being done in the 50s. these photos were definitely taken before the addition of the new wing. cool stuff!

[tex_appeal]

Originally Posted by HossC

What an interesting post, e_r. I spotted that building's appearance on the 1921 map, but didn't even get as far as trying to read its name. I found these two undated exterior views of the Florence Crittenton Home at LAPL. They might not be that old, but I can't see any palm trees directly in front of the building.


LAPL


LAPL



That article e_r posted from The Eastsider contains some great recollections in the comments section. There's also an article at The Eastsider specifically about the Booth Home. One of the commenters called Fred says:

"This is actually a charter school now. Also, it wasn’t always Mediterranean style. It used to be a beautiful, all red brick building. I’ve looked for pictures forever, but can’t find any. I live on the same block as this building, and can verify, this used to be a bad girls home. “Unwed mothers” is a nice way to put it, but we used to get gang members, suicide cases, and lots of runaways, girls getting picked up by their boyfriends while trying to sneak out/escape.

It was really crazy growing up with that thing on my block. Too bad they stucco’d it. It used to be look really cool."

This makes me even more determined to find a picture of the building before "they stucco’d it"!

those black and white images of the crittendon home are amazing. I drove by today and saw a plaque saying something about renovations and additions being done in the 50s. these photos were definitely taken before the addition of the new wing. cool stuff!

[GaylordWilshire]

LAT Jan 4, 1915

[Tourmaline]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Getty collection

'The Film Noir Star Whose Boy-Toy Affairs Scandalized Hollywood'.

It's a rather lurid title for a well written article.
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Gloria Graham illustrates how the designers of the new 450-car General Petroleum Garage made the structure roomy enough for even the widest of present day cars like the 1949 Packard Convertible.

1949
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00095/00095730.jpg




1951 - Susan Morrow; Bob Hope; Mary Murphy; Gloria Graham; Marilyn Maxwell; Jan Sterling. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...oll44/id/89613

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Well-dressed children on a bench in St. James Park, Los Angeles, 1909.



Los Angeles Herald-September 12, 1909.

Wouldn't it be interesting to know the identities of the children.

My eye keep returning to the girl in white at the end of the bench on the left.
Is it just me, or does she appear rather aloof?

I wonder who the kids are too--the aloof girl as well as the Little Lord Fauntleroys at center. (What the hell have they got on?)
Maybe they're Clarks (who lived at 9 St. James Park, as well as next door to that) or occupants of the 1900 house behind the
palm, which I would say is 24 St. James Park:





More on St. James Park here


Could the palm even still stand? In the GSV below, 24 SJP would have been more or less to the left of where the trees at right are;
could the palm behind the kids possibly be one of the two to the left of the stop sign?...

[Rustifer]

Originally Posted by Otis Criblecoblis

Just to be clear, Martin Pal posted the link. He was the thoughtful one.

Re the value of Season 6: on its own merits, I think it was at times brilliant. Presented as a fresh show with no reference to 77 Sunset Strip or its characters, it might have survived. The way it was presented, however, it was doomed to failure, I think foreseeably.

But I think that Jack Webb was faced with going forward without Roger Smith, whom I believe was not going to be available because he was recuperating from a brain aneurysm, or Edd Byrnes, who had asked out of his contract to pursue film roles. Now, I would just have brought back Richard Long as Rex and gone forward with the same setup, but that's just me.

My apologies, Martin, for letting it slip past me that you recommended the website. Please go visit it, as I have been spending an inordinate amount of time downloading my incredibly useless storage of Warner Bros detective trivia and observations on the thread. Probably not the true intention of the site, but I feel the need to unload these thoughts somewhere.

Otis: I entirely agree with you that the show might have survived if it kept to its original premise, but without Roger Smith or Edd Byrnes--doubtful. It was already losing audience in its fifth season. Those characters were necessary to offset the older, more austere countenance of Efrem Zimblist, Jr.

[GaylordWilshire]

Originally Posted by Tourmaline

1949
http://jpg1.lapl.org/00095/00095730.jpg

"Gloria Graham illustrates how the designers of the new 450-car General Petroleum Garage made the structure roomy enough for even the widest of present day cars like the 1949 Packard Convertible"

Well, it's a '48 Packard rather than a '49 ('48 being the first of the "pregnant" Packards, due to its tubbiness),
but who's counting? Did not know that Gloria was born in Pasadena, where as a child her parents rented
620 S Grand Avenue--which is hard to see here, but it looks like an interesting house: