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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hotel Brevoort, Bohemians’ Outpost on...
Long an entertaining trope for many a movie and stage play, the boarding house for theatrical performers offered an opportunity to gather together a colorful band of characters while at the same time...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Vice Raid and Early TV in Hollywood’s...
The Hollywood Storage Building as seen in Google Earth. Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Originally Los Angeles’ tallest building when opened in 1926, the Hollywood Storage Building at the...
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2011. I picked up “The Big Picture,” Melba Levick and Stanley Young’s 1988 book about Los Angeles murals, not realizing what a terribly sad book it would be. As Young...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which...
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Architectural Rambling: Julian Eltinge Home – 1921
The home of Julian Eltinge at 2328 Baxter Street in Silver Lake is barely visible from the street. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. Note: While trolling EBay, I found yet another article that...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Longest-Running Movie Studio in Los Angeles
Occidental Studios, photograph by Mary Mallory. Film production in the mid-1910s quickly transformed Hollywood the farming community into the world’s film manufacturing hub. Originally employing...
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July 22, 1947: TV, Jet Engine, Tucker Car on Display at World Inventors Expo
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. First-prize winner at the inventors exposition was Stanley Hiller Jr., who developed a helicopter in which two blades...
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Schaber’s Cafeteria and Einar Petersen
This remarkable postcard postmarked 1941 of Schaber’s Cafeteria at 620 S. Broadway, showing an Einar Petersen mural, has been listed on EBay at Buy It Now for $6.99. Note: This is an encore post from...
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September 15, 1947: On Rosh Hashanah, a Call to Mobilize for Peace
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. The ram’s horn, once a trumpet of war but now a symbol of faith, sounded at sundown yesterday in Los Angeles...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Olvera Street, Salute to Los Angeles’...
A postcard of the Avila Adobe, listed on EBay for $1.89. “A people that has lost touch with its historical past, forgotten its traditions and wasted its heritage is as unfortunate as a man who has...
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September 20, 1907: Suicide Note —‘Everything Is Boiling’
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. September 20, 1907 Los Angeles For weeks, Colorado mining investor John Geisel, 57, had confided in his diary as he felt his mind and his life coming unraveled...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: It All Began With a Barn
July 17, 1939: Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Seewerker and artist Charles Owens visit the Lasky Barn, being used as a gym on the Paramount lot. One Hundred Twenty Four years ago, what is now the...
View ArticleOctober 9, 1994: Julius Shulman Q & A
Los Angeles Times Interview Julius Shulman Capturing the Essence of California Architecture October 9, 1994 By Steve Proffitt, Steve Proffitt is a producer for Fox News and a contributor to National...
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October 19, 1938: Stolen statue — Nuestro Pueblo
Photograph by the Los Angeles Police Department The miner statue after being cut apart and sold for scrap. Saturday, February 16, 2008 Police strike pay dirt in hunt for stolen statue of miner Sold as...
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November 3, 1907: A House With Curb Appeal
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. November 3, 1907Los AngelesMrs. E.N. Eskey is building this 10-room house in Pico Heights, on Van Ness just south of Pico.According to The Times, the two-story...
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November 9, 1959: Paul V. Coates – Confidential File
Trials and Tribulation of Doodles Weaver It’s an axiom thought up by Sir Isaac Newton and perpetuated by Hollywood: What goes up must come down. And its proof sat in front of my desk, in striped shirt...
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November 10, 1907: Story of L.A. Real Estate Is Dislocation, Dislocation,...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. November 10, 1907 South Pasadena What sort of monument do we leave for real estate developers? For John B. Althouse, who built hundreds of homes in the Wilshire...
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Black L.A. November 13, 1947: Little Miss Cornshucks; St. Paul Baptist Church...
November 13, 1947: Little Miss Cornshucks is at the Last Word, 4206 Central Ave. The Last Word opened in July 1947 and seems to have closed in 1951. Or at least it was no longer advertising in the...
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