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Flyingwedge · #**28461** Posted **May 13, 2015, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tetsu

Here's an aerial view (probably a close up) of 3rd & Alvarado, dated July 16th, 1936. e_r posted another photo from this aerial in post #1105.

Does anyone know anything about the house at the SW corner? Or have any other photos, for that matter?

USCDL

The two apartment buildings at the top, on the east side of the 300 S. block of Alvarado, are still there, though they have seen better days.

GSV

As GW foretold, 321 S. Alvarado was built by Frank Garbutt:

September 21, 1900 Los Angeles Times @ LAPL

Here's the house on the 1906 Sanborn. There was no 3rd Street, and Ocean View continued east of Alvarado:

LAPL

A recent Google Earth view shows how much the area has changed. Ocean View now stops at Lake. The intersection
of 3rd and Alvarado is at right, marked by the four red crosswalks. The Burger King is on the NE corner, so
321 S. Alvarado was kitty-corner from that:

As GW also advised, there don't seem to be any good photos of the house. Here it is a little closer from that 1936 aerial:

USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...id/1414/rec/98

You can see a little of the roof in the lower right corner of this January 1930 shot from St. Vincent's Hospital across the street,
along with those two apartment buildings -- 310 and 320 S. Alvarado -- you pointed out:

USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/3784/rec/6

BTW, the apartment building in the left foreground of the above photo is the Westbrook. You can see
a 1912 photo of the Westbrook in my post here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19697

The only street-level view of the house I could get was by lightening and zooming in on this 1928 shot facing west at
3rd, Alvarado and Ocean View:

USCDL -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...9/id/796/rec/3

A 1948 aerial photo at HistoricAerials.com shows a gas station at the site of 321 S. Alvarado.

so-cal-bear · #**28462** Posted **May 13, 2015, 7:59 PM**

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With that paint job of black with pink and tan stars, I say the old Steam Corp. building is now a nudie bar!

QUOTE=ethereal_reality;7026067]ephemera, dated 1926.

eBay

The old Steam Corp. building is still there...painted black with green and tan stars.

gsv

I couldn't help but notice the attractive building down the street a bit. Here's a closer look.

GSV

It's really impressive; let's try to dig up some information on it.

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ethereal_reality · #**28463** Posted **May 13, 2015, 8:08 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tetsu

I wanted to share a photo of Save-Way Drugs at 1795 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena (NW corner Colorado & Allen Avenue). Pic is dated 10-12-1939.

my file, prob HDL

When I was growing up, it was the Pac Mann Arcade (Google search suggests it was the Pak Mann, I must never have noticed) and was a good place to play a huge collection of old school arcade games, smoke cigarettes underage, and score dime bags.

In the early 2000's the Pac Mann (Pak Mann) closed and the building was completely remodeled. Yuck.

https://melancholick.files.wordpress...pacmanarc1.jpg

Tetsu, so this is the same building? My God, how awful.

ethereal_reality · #**28464** Posted **May 13, 2015, 8:49 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by tovangar2

The article e_r posted on the 1937 rally mentions Deutsches Haus. It was located at 634 W 15th St (at Hope).

I thought I'd check out the address of the Deutsches Haus in the google-mobile, but that block of W. 15th Street is closed off ('Dignity Health' campus)

google_earth

But here's an excellent photograph of the interior of Deutsches Haus.

http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm/...ackyard/id/102

...and here's an undated view of the exterior.

http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm/...ackyard/id/106

There wasn't much information to go along with the photograph, so I'm not sure who's doing the picketing.

ethereal_reality · #**28465** Posted **May 13, 2015, 9:16 PM**

eBay

This fine looking building is still there, and appears to be in fine shape.

GSV

I noticed that the building next door also has the same fluted engaged columns.

gsv

Here's the reverse of the vintage postcard.

eBay

Pomona Tile Co., 629-633 North La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

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CityBoyDoug · #**28466** Posted **May 13, 2015, 11:07 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I thought I'd check out the address of the Deutsches Haus in the google-mobile, but that block of W. 15th Street is closed off ('Dignity Health' campus)

But here's an excellent photograph of the interior of Deutsches Haus.

http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm/...ackyard/id/102

Hey ER. Let's go inside the Deutsches Haus - German House and Heidi will make us a nice samich of Braunschweiger .....mmm good..oh and add some mutard..

Flyingwedge · #**28467** Posted **May 13, 2015, 11:21 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by WS1911

USC Digital Archive

Quote:

Originally Posted by WS1911

Here are a couple more shots of the Willoughby Hotel from 1913.

USC Digital Library http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...hterm/CHS-5822

USC Digital Library http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/se...hterm/CHS-5819

T2 did a very nice post on the building, but its photos have disappeared: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=13702

August 1955, looking east at the Hill Street side of the de-domed A. L. Bath Building:

Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8760/rec/118

ethereal_reality · #**28468** Posted **May 13, 2015, 11:32 PM**

Wow, what a great photograph Flyingwedge. At first, I didn't think it was Los Angeles.

HossC · #**28469** Posted **May 13, 2015, 11:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Looks like the roof of the Ambassador in the distance...

Well spotted, GW, I hadn't seen that. By coincidence, here's an early postcard (the seller dates it at pre-1930) of the Ambassador Hotel that I found earlier.

eBay

Krell58 · #**28470** Posted **May 14, 2015, 12:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

My mom used to make us Braunschweiger sandwiches. Not too bad with some mustard. I guess she got the idea from some German people she knew in Russell, Kansas in the 1930s.

Remember the film "Paper Moon" 1973....it was partially filmed in Russell. I've been to all of the places seen in that movie.

I liked 'em because my dad liked 'em. I didn't join in on the sardine or potted meat sandwiches though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug

Hey ER. Let's go inside the Deutsches Haus - German House and Heidi will make us a nice samich of Braunschweiger .....mmm good..oh and add some mutard..

CBD, we didn't spread it, we just left it in slices, about 1/3 the size of these.

ethereal_reality · #**28471** Posted **May 14, 2015, 12:57 AM**

I just came across this slide from the 1960s that shows the upper-half of the old Garden Court Apartments in Hollywood.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOS-ANGELES-...item4aea068bc0

note the sign above the entrance says 'Garden Court Apt. Hotel'.

It was torn down a year or so after I moved to Los Angeles.....around 1984 I believe.

Sadly, this is how I remember it.

http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2012/03/e...od-primer.html

I tried looking over that fairly high wall on several occasions.

Godzilla's earlier post on the Garden Court Apartments here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9669

Aerial dated 1924 from Godzilla's post. (I've enlarged it)

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=9669

Does anyone recognize the house next door (on the right), with the large coach house in the back?

ethereal_reality · #**28472** Posted **May 14, 2015, 1:26 AM**

Three buses, 1950s, Edgewood Transit Co.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Negati...item51a1550d69

The seller has this listed under Englewood, but it clearly says Edgewood on the buses.

I couldn't find an Edgewood in the San Fernando Valley, but there's an Edgewood High School in West Covina.
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*I just noticed the front bus says Azusa near the rear....now I am more confused than ever.

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tovangar2 · #**28473** Posted **May 14, 2015, 1:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Did you have trouble finding it t2? I don't think we would have ever found it without Otis's directions. -So thanks Otis!

No, none at all (but it was smaller than I thought it would be). It was right where Otis said it was. It' looks sort of abandoned now though and that stand of bamboo seems to be trying to engulf it.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HossC

I found the paragraphs below in a book called 'The Great Crescenta Valley Flood: New Year's Day 1934' by Art Cobery.

google books

Thx for finding that. Even with the preview's missing pages, it's a gripping account.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

T2 did a very nice post on the building, but its photos have disappeared:

Thank you FW. The links are fixed now and your photo below added to my post on the A.L. Bath Building/Willoughby Hotel:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

August 1955, looking east at the Hill Street side of the de-domed A. L. Bath Building:

Huntington Digital Library -- http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/8760/rec/118

I was devoted to Captain Jet (advertised on the rooftop billboard above). OMG, that show was hokey. Captain Jet used to rock his chair back and forth to simulate his rocket ship taking off. He was seriously skeezy-looking too, but we kids found him oddly compelling:

youtube

Dr Gibson paid for some outstanding neon to dance along the Willoughby's roofline (don't anybody miss the animated arrows which eventually point out the entrance to Dr Gibson's on the right). That neon was a public service if there ever was one.

GaylordWilshire · #**28474** Posted **May 14, 2015, 1:47 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Three buses, 1950s, Edgewood Transit Co.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Negati...item51a1550d69

The seller has this listed under Englewood, but it clearly says Edgewood on the buses.

I couldn't find an Edgewood in the San Fernando Valley, but there's an Edgewood High School in West Covina.
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*I just noticed the front bus says Azusa near the rear....now I'm more confused than ever.

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Times Oct 2, 1960

ethereal_reality · #**28475** Posted **May 14, 2015, 1:49 AM**

Now that was quick! Thanks GW.

BifRayRock · #**28476** Posted **May 14, 2015, 3:27 AM**

6634 Sunset Boulevard - Iterations

Prior NLA discussions 6634 Sunset: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=11042 and http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...ostcount=11044

According to one source, the building dates to 1919 and and received a streamline remodel by Wilfred Tunstall in 1937. http://public.aia.org/sites/hdoaa/wi...allWilfred.PDF

June '39 (When it housed Medical Offices, including that of Buell Sprague, M.D.*)

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...id/20129/rec/1

Later images of same location:

http://telesproperties.com/uploads/2...22-475x316.jpg

http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...4b167e86b1.jpg

http://x.lnimg.com/photo/poster_768/...f1f28a80cc.jpg

*Dr. Sprague, Forest Lawn - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...GRid=85523450&

http://rescarta.lapl.org:8080/ResCar...00001/00000001

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Closer look at the structure, circa 1939:

http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/compou...id/20129/rec/1

When Clove oil isn't enough.

Likely a room used by Dr. Soderberg, D.D.S.

Tourmaline · #**28477** Posted **May 14, 2015, 3:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Until just a minute ago, I had no idea that over the years one of the several owners of
the Tropicana was Sandy Koufax and it was known as Sandy Koufax Tropicana.
(And even though I was around there in the 80's, I didn't know it had a pool, either!)

Ebay / dodgersblueheaven

Hmmm...wonder why Sandy had a motel of his own in West Hollywood?

Before Sandy?

Tropicana Motel - Card bears '51 postmark (Sorry if this is a repost)

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/compo.../id/3728/rec/3

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/compo.../id/4433/rec/6

Tourmaline · #**28478** Posted **May 14, 2015, 3:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

A forlorn looking Pan Pacific Auditorium four years before it was destroyed by fire.

John Meyerhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/donkiyoti/4401316915/

Gordon Cassidyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonc/3038384131/

looking north toward the Hollywood Hills

Gordon Cassidyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonc/3038384131/

May 24, 1989

http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1...PanPacific.htm
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1941 (per source)

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/compo...id/3146/rec/18

World's largest indoor ice rink?

1941 - Pan Pacific interior

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/singl...id/5700/rec/43

Tourmaline · #**28479** Posted **May 14, 2015, 4:05 AM**

There they went.

1941 - Hollywood Racetrack

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/compo...id/1745/rec/22

Tourmaline · #**28480** Posted **May 14, 2015, 4:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Albert's Motel Drive-IN (notices the garages for guests)

1460 Colorado Blvd.

ebay

It's still in business (as the Islander Motel).

GSV

GSV

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Healthiest spot in Los Angeles!

Albert's, the early years. (1940's ?)

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/compo...id/4157/rec/94