noirish Los Angeles - Page 323

ethereal_reality · #**6441** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by 3940dxer

Driving through Boyle Heights this morning, this little gem at 1544 E. Pleasant Drive caught my eye:

I've been thinking about that sagging porch roof and wondering what might have caused it.
Then I noticed the house doesn't have any gutters. Is this normal in Southern California?

ethereal_reality · #**6442** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 5:02 AM**

Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Drive in 1905.

found tonight on ebay

I'm quite impressed by the exotic buildings in this early photograph.

Notice the building at middle-left with the tall turrets (the turrets are somewhat hard to see).
Also intriguing is the building at lower-right with the prominent skylight and tower.
In the upper portion of the photograph there is a building that resembles a high school (with a 'quasi' dome).
Regrettably, I am unable to identify any of these early Hollywood buildings.

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3940dxer · #**6443** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 5:44 AM**

Right, the building with the dome is Hollywood Union High School.

http://www.ebay.com/

GaylordWilshire · #**6444** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 2:40 PM**

ASC

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Drive in 1905.

found tonight on ebay

I'm quite impressed by the exotic buildings in this early photograph.

Notice the building at middle-left with the tall turrets (the turrets are somewhat hard to see).
Also intriguing is the building at lower-right with the prominent skylight and tower.

Regrettably, I am unable to identify any of these early Hollywood buildings.

The turreted building at middle-left is the Hollywood Hotel. Gone, of course. But I was amazed to find that 107 years later, at least one of the buildings in your picture still exists, and is in use (and even iconized) by the American Society of Cinematographers. Many more historic pics at link below.

Google

Google

See the ASC site for more PICTURES HERE.

sopas ej · #**6445** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

I've been thinking about that sagging porch roof and wondering what might have caused it.
Then I noticed the house doesn't have any gutters. Is this normal in Southern California?

Not all houses in SoCal have rain gutters. The house I grew up in (which btw, my parents still live in) doesn't have rain gutters. The apartment building I live in, though, does.

GaylordWilshire · #**6446** Posted **Feb 16, 2012, 9:09 PM**

Pasadena Museum of History

Google
953 East Colorado Blvd.

ethereal_reality · #**6447** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 12:46 AM**

Thanks for the info. G_W...David(3940dxer) & sopas.

I love the fact that the American Society of Cinematographers building still stands.
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Great noir shot of the Circle bar G_W.

ethereal_reality · #**6448** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 12:57 AM**

The elegant Daniel Murphy residence 2076 West Adams Street circa 1910. (sadly demolished)

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1329440115145

sopas ej · #**6449** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 12:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

Pasadena Museum of History

Google
953 East Colorado Blvd.

Great pics! Very noir shot. I used to go to a barber in that building, which was on the Mentor Ave. side. The barber was a Latino guy who reminded me of Buddy Hackett. I went to him for a number of years, and then one time I went by his place and saw that he had closed for good, I assume he retired (this was around 2002 or so). It took me a while to find another guy who gave me haircuts that I actually liked. No offense to women who cut men's hair, but I never really liked any haircuts that I got from women. Anyway...

The comedy club called The Ice House is the building just north of there. Its name comes from the fact that, well, it used to be an ice house.

GaylordWilshire · #**6450** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:03 AM**

Los Angeles Times May 7, 1953

Los Angeles Times May 10, 1953

ethereal_reality · #**6451** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:22 AM**

ONLY in L.A.

.....would you find a swimming pool at a car dealership.
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It looks as if the DMV has always been hell on earth.

below: A loooong line in 1940.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1329441613396

At first I thought this was the same building in both photos...but count the windows to the left of the fire escape.

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below: A loooong line in 1951. The address is 3500 Hope Street.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1329441613396

So what's that neighboring building to the left?

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GaylordWilshire · #**6452** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:37 AM**

Oh no, e-r...the DMV is a nightmare from coast to coast, especially the power-tripping cretins behind the counters. I know it's perhaps uncool to wish it on anyone these days, but never have I been less sad to see people lose their jobs as more of the processes are done by the consumer online....

ethereal_reality · #**6453** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

below: A loooong line in 1951. The address is 3500 Hope Street.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1329441613396

So what's that neighboring building to the left?

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I just checked the address. The building at 3500 Hope Street (and it's neighbor) is still there!

google street view

below: A glimpse at the neighbor (the lattice-like details that appear at the corners of the building are gone).

google street view

below: They both barely survived the construction of the Harbor Freeway.

google street view

The neighbor is labeled 'East Library Building'....perhaps it's a storage facility.

unihikid · #**6454** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Earlier on the page Gaylord_Wilshire posted a 1959 aerial showing the proposed location for the SEIBU department store.
I've been meaning to do a SEIBU post for quite some time..so this seems like a good time to do so.

below: SEIBU, the Japanese department store opened on March 1962 at the southeast corner of Wilshire & Fairfax.
This was three years before LACMA.

http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/FullRecord?
databaseID=968&record=6&controlNumber=4778773

below: Looking north on Fairfax toward the May Co. department store on Wilshire.

http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...olNumber=60450

below: Interior view 1962.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53409445@N04/5447380644/

below: SEIBU 1962 rooftop restaurant (I didn't know there was a rooftop restaurant until today)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53409445@N04/page7/

below: Another view of the rooftop restaurant 1962.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53409445@N04/page7/

SEIBU only lasted from 1962 to 1964. From 1964 to 1986 it operated as an Ohrbach's department store.

below: SEIBU as an Ohrbach's in 1978.

http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/F...Number=4984278

below: Today the SEIBU building hosts the Peterson Automotive Museum.

google street views

..for comparison

LAPL

I just found out the rooftop restaurant space is still intact!

http://www.herecomestheguide.com/sou...motive-museum/

oh Ohrbach's my grandmother use to take me to the kids dept when i was younger,and the entrance on fairfax i totally forgot about that,i do remember there being a pond on the roof deck,also the one thing that sticks out in my mind is the spiral drive way! granny had full range of the store and got a big discount for being friends with the former owners off the Bullocks/I Magnin system.After shopping we would go get gas at a mid century 76 that was right behind may co and then head for the tea room at bullocks(which was still open in the late 80s early 90s).

GaylordWilshire · #**6455** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1329441613396

At first I thought this was the same building in both photos...but count the windows to the left of the fire escape. The address is 3500 Hope Street.

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search...=1329441613396

So what's that neighboring building to the left?

Google

It is the same building, e-r. The building at left in your pics is still there (3440 S. Hope). The Harbor Freeway is right across Hope from these buildings.

ethereal_reality · #**6456** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:51 AM**

OK...great...I didn't think to check the side street. Thanks G_W. (I added pics to my post above while you were posting this)

ethereal_reality · #**6457** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by unihikid

oh Ohrbach's my grandmother use to take me to the kids dept when i was younger,and the entrance on fairfax i totally forgot about that,i do remember there being a pond on the roof deck,also the one thing that sticks out in my mind is the spiral drive way! granny had full range of the store and got a big discount for being friends with the former owners off the Bullocks/I Magnin system.After shopping we would go get gas at a mid century 76 that was right behind may co and then head for the tea room at bullocks(which was still open in the late 80s early 90s).

This sounds like a day we would all like to relive. Kudos to your grandmother!

GaylordWilshire · #**6458** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 2:00 AM**

USCDL

A history of the building at 3440 S. Hope is HERE.

ethereal_reality · #**6459** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 2:48 AM**

A simple house at 4932 Cimarron Street. I found a couple photos of the interior as well.

google street view

below: I often forget what fine workmanship exists in the interior of these middle class vintage homes.

http://hotpads.com/rentals/4932-Cima...ultsPerQuad=24

http://hotpads.com/rentals/4932-Cima...ultsPerQuad=24

They just don't make them like they use to.

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unihikid · #**6460** Posted **Feb 17, 2012, 3:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

This sounds like a day we would all like to relive. Kudos to your grandmother!

it was a rare treat when that once a month day came along,i forgot to mention right next to may-co was an ortho store,it had the same curved copper awnings as the may-co building and was one story,we bought all of our mattreses there.i came across some pics that i took of it when i was little with my argoflex but im in dallas now,when i get back to la i will post.its funny that things can change so much in a 15-20 year span.