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Feb. 4, 1907: Architectural Ramblings — South Pasadena
Note: This is a post I wrote in 2007. Feb. 4, 2007 South Pasadena The Times publishes three architectural drawings of “artistic bungalows” prepared by the firm of Wilson and Barnes. One is being built...
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Centennial Ramblings
Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 5, 2007 Sierra Madre Because it’s celebrating its centennial this month, I paid a visit to Sierra Madre and while savoring a cinnamon dolce latte at the...
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Incendiary Ramblings
Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 6, 2007 Los Angeles Here’s an architectural drawing of the O.T. Johnson Building, which burned in yesterday’s fire. Looking north on Broadway at 4th...
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Black L.A. 1947: Black Passenger Sues Greyhound After Driver Has Her Arrested...
At left, a three-unit property at 3509 5th Ave., listed for sale in 1947 at $17,500. Above, the property sold for $600,000 in 2016, according to Zillow. Feb. 6, 1947: The Sentinel reports on a...
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Feb. 10, 1907: Architectural Ramblings
Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 10, 1907 Los Angeles The Times features a hillside home “near the ostrich farm” in Pasadena. Presumably that was the Cawston farm in South Pasadena. (What,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood National Bank Watches History Go By
Carol Hughes as photographed by Schuyler Crail, with Hollywood and Cahuenga in the background, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. One of the most important and busiest...
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Feb. 18, 2007: Architectural Ramblings
Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 18, 2007 Los Angeles The buildings featured in The Times for this week have been torn down, but in glancing through the listings, I found the sale by the...
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Feb. 24, 1907: Samuel Tilden Norton Designs Eagle Rock Bank Building
Eagle Rock bank building designed by Samuel Tilden Norton, via Google Street View. Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 24, 1907 Eagle Rock Architect Samuel Tilden Norton has designed a bank...
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Los Angeles Has No History
Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Feb. 24, 1907 Los Angeles Google Earth, 2007
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March 20, 1907: St. James Raises a Church — Burned in 1973 as Hate Crime...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. The Methodist Episcopal congregation, formed from a merger of the Centennial and Central churches, planned a wonderful new building at 22nd Street and Union....
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Opens
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. By the early 1920s, real estate development was booming all around Los Angeles. For decades, the city had boldly advertised itself as a mecca in which average...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: N. Hollywood Playhouse Promotes Theater in...
The North Hollywood Playhouse in 1962, when “Rebel Without a Cause” was being performed, from the Los Angeles Public Library. In her memoir, actress Teri Garr wrote being in the production. For...
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Black Dahlia: Elizabeth Short Was Last Seen Alive at — Record Scratch
Wow. Sorry, Uproxx, this is totally wrong. Elizabeth Short was last seen alive at — before you say the Hotel Cecil — she was last seen alive at the Biltmore.
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Marion Davies’ Santa Monica Beachside Cottage
Marion Davies’ beach house, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst inherited and erected lavish estates for himself around...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 6533 Cahuenga Terrace, Designed for a Diva
An overhead view of 6533 Cahuenga Terrace, via Google Street View. Hyperbole reigns in the world of real estate listings, inflating a dump into a dream palace or attempting to gild a lily. Nowhere is...
View ArticleMay 24, 1947: Where Is the Overell House?
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. Of course, all through this period is the sensational case of Bud Gollum and Louise Overell, who were accused of...
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A Theater Rises on Broadway
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. June 2, 1907 Los Angeles The Hamburger Department Store announces plans for a theater just south of its new building on South Broadway at 8th Street, designed...
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June 15, 1947: Visiting the Edgar Kaufmann House in Palm Springs
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. Tract developments may be sprawling across the Valley, but The Times’ Sunday Home section for June 15, 1947, features...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mary Andrews Clark Home Provides Affordable...
306 Loma Drive, via Google Street View. Long a beautiful site at 306 Loma Drive in Los Angeles, the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home has been a site of affordable housing for more than 100 years....
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Historic L.A. in ‘Illegal’| Part 1
If you are cursed with the memory of having seen “Gangster Squad,” you may recall this ridiculous shot of Spring Street from City Hall. In last week’s mystery movie, “Illegal” (1955) we have the...
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