2019-07-02 23:06
You are looking at a picture from my collection. I do not think anybody else has this picture.But what are you looking at?
Hollywood. After 1903, before 1908.
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2019-01-08 01:11
RANCHO LOS FELIZ
Some years back, over a period of more than a year, I consumed many of my evenings positing whether Los Angeles would have developed in a different geographic fashion had t… Read More
2017-09-19 00:36
I was in my six car garage staring at my coolest possession, my car. She was a semi-vintage 1967 head turning Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupe143. Her exterior was stock bright Iberian red, Man… Read More
2017-08-16 18:51
When memories fade, percipient witnesses and their kin move onto the outer world, rumors become fact, lore is made, and the truth becomes unverifiable. If the below aerial view of the Holly… Read More
2017-06-23 20:11
San Fernando Valley
real estate listings from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s, and particularly 1963-1975, demonstrate a proliferation of rumpus rooms, but were they really rumpus room… Read More
2017-06-23 20:11
San Fernando Valley real estate listings from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s, and particularly 1963-1975, demonstrate a proliferation of rumpus rooms, but were they really rumpus room… Read More
2017-02-02 03:03
Retirement from vaudeville was often a residence in the San Fernando Valley, and billing at a local supper club.
June 12, 1898 Charles Fitzgerald aka Charley Foy was born to vaudeville fathe… Read More
2016-10-15 00:49
Like many Angeleons of his era, Dwight V. Babcock was born in Iowa February 19, 1909. He was raised in California and educated at Modesto Junior College. Before venturing into pulp wri… Read More
2016-10-07 23:07
THE VICTORY DRIVE-IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD CALIFORNIA
May 25, 1949 the Victory Drive-In opened at 13037 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood slightly east of Coldwater Canyon on the North side o… Read More
2016-10-01 01:21
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2016-09-24 00:55
There are exceedingly few men about whom it can honestly be said that if they did not come to Los Angeles there would be no Los Angeles. If Isaias w. Hellman did not land in Los Angeles it i… Read More
2016-08-06 01:18
In the beginning of this century a real estate agent told me the Longridge Estates was the most suitable Valley neighborhood to erect a home of distinction. My future wife and I drove up Lon… Read More
2015-09-04 18:51
The Holly Heights Polo and Hunt Club is reputed to have run 15 acres touching the corner of Fulton and Ventura Boulevard. There were two first class polo fields, a two story club house, swim… Read More
2015-07-31 02:00
2015-03-13 21:10
Bunker Hill was formerly bounded by Temple Street to the north, The Los Angeles Normal School (the predecessor to UCLA) to the south, Hill Street to the east and Flower Street to the west. N… Read More
2015-03-13 00:38
Echo Park, near Dodger Stadium and downtown Los Angeles. The park’s pond began as a catch-basin in the 1860s. A twenty foot dam across the canyon where the park now lies was installed… Read More
2015-03-07 00:35
Donald Wills Douglas, Santa Monica’s largest employer by the 1940s. In 1920, at age twenty-eight, this MIT graduate formed his own aircraft company in the back of a Santa Monica barber… Read More
2014-11-14 23:30
Lakewood, California was developed by three Jewish developers: Louis Boyar, Mark Taper, and Ben Weingart.
January 10, 1898, Chicago Illinois, Louis Boyar was born to a modest family of Rus… Read More
2014-11-04 02:06
The Beverly Hills Hotel aka The Pink Palace. The original portions of the hotel were completed in 1912 by a Pasadena architect. Paul Williams, a very important Los Angeles black… Read More
2014-10-15 19:14
The Hollywood Stars were a Pacific League baseball team. During their final years they played at Gilmore Field (as in Gilmore Oil and Bank the original landowners of the Farmer’… Read More
2014-10-14 21:55
Dorothy Buffum’s father started Buffum’s department stores which became a chain of sixteen high-end department stores. She married Harry Chandler’s eldest son Norman Chandl… Read More
2014-10-03 00:31
University of California, Los Angeles. The Westwood campus. My guess, the 1940s. UCLA came into existence as the State Normal School in 1881. Its original location is where the Los Angeles… Read More
2014-09-18 19:42
“Ok,” I started as calmly as I could in order to be heard in the open roof Model-T chugging up and down all the hills on the Ventura Highway in route to the Cahuenga Pass. &ldquo&hell…Read More
2014-09-17 23:42
Junior High School was shot in the Valley, and starred an unknown Van Nuys High School cheerleader at the time. Many of the scenes were filmed at Milikan Junior High in Sherman Oaks. I know… Read More
2014-09-09 20:50
During the 1989-1990 time frame I must have picked this up somewhere in Sherman Oaks. There is a lot in here, but for now I will focus on 14050 Valley Vista Boulevard in Sherman Oaks which w… Read More
2014-09-01 17:19
Santa Monica, California, city hall before the present city hall was finished in 1938 as a WPA Moderne project. Does anybody have an address for the old city hall? During the early 1930s, ci… Read More
2014-08-28 22:42
In this 1948 edition Marian Otis and her husband Harry Chandler (mixed up by the blue blood as Harrison, her father) lived at 2330 Hillhurst in Los Feliz. The address no longer exists. In th… Read More
2014-08-28 22:14
Suburbia, synonymous with the San Fernando Valley and any tract home development in Los Angeles County during the late 1940s through 1970. Bored housewives stifled by sexism and a lack of wo… Read More
2014-08-28 21:44
Frank Zappa, residence and recording studio in Studio City for over twenty years; Zappa Records on Colfax and Ventura in Studio City. During the 1960s, a legend of Laurel Canyon providing th… Read More
2014-08-27 22:00
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2014-08-25 22:16
If you do not know who G. Allan Hancock is you need a remedial course in Los Angeles and California history. As the name suggests, he is Hancock Park. He inherited Rancho La Brea from his fa… Read More
2014-08-25 21:35
Latitude 20 was in Torrance. It had a large volcano in front. Because there is already so much information about the restaurant on the web, suffice it to say http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicent… Read More
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