These were at Alexander Fraser's "Million Dollar Pier", later just called Fraser's Pier. Two of the pages are the same picture, but I couldn't get it all in one scan. Over the years there were a lot of piers in the Venice/Ocean Park area. I've listed some below. Over time most of the burnt down as they were made of wood. Abbot Kinney Pier (Windwood Avenue Pier) Venice Pier (closed 1946) Center Street Pier Ocean Park Pier (later POP) Fraser's Pier Pickering Pier Lick Pier Sunset Pier
It's too bad they didn't put this station back to it's original "look" . My grandfather's business is half a block south of this station on Fair Oaks (since 1922) and I have many memories of visiting this station when the Santa Fe Super Chiefs went through. There was even a freight Depot just 20 yards south on the corner of Arroyo and Del Mar at one time (for lumber, etc). I was there when they filmed a scene inside the station with John Candy and Steve Martin for "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" it is one of the last scenes in the movie. They moved this station across the street to Central Park, where it sat for over a year while the stupid Gold Line was being built by the greedy and corrupt MTA. Then when they movds it back, it was damaged and never restored properly.
Chatsworth St. & Zelzah Ave....Zelzah curved around onto Chatsworth St...Although Chatsworth St. goes through now, the curve from Zelzah is still there...
Last photo of James Dean alive. Filling-up on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks about two blocks from his home...
highway 46 is where he died, and they have a huge picture up of him when you drive by the texaco. ill take a picture when i get up there again.
chevron is still there, and the richfield is now an am/pm arco station! and this is before the 5 freeway. i think its being put in, in the background? i could be wrong?
The pilings for the south (right side in this picture) trestle approach are still in place. I worked two blocks from here for 26 years, and had my lunch on those pilings often. And yes, that's the 5 going in in the later shot. I was on the Fletcher (LA river) bridge just up the street for one of the morning quakes once, they retrofitted and spiffied it up the next year.
yea i wondered for years why they were there, and behind home restaurant there is a staircase to nowhere. now i know that it was for the red car. so sad they took it out.
Yeah, up Riverside to the north you can still see the old Red Car right of way as a step up on the hillside for quite a way. There's an alley a half block south of, and parallel to, Fletcher that is lower than Fletcher at the freeway end. There's a matching declevity on the other (Riverside Drive) side of the freeway (behind the hamburger place) that used to be the end of that alley prior to the freeway.
<TABLE border=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Studio City is one of 24 named communities in the San Fernando Valley, which are part of the incorporated City of Los Angeles. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Studio City received its name as a result of the filming activities of Mack Sennett during the silent film era in the 1920's. The sound stages Sennett built have been in continuous use by CBS Television. Until then, Studio City was a large parcel of rural land. Ventura Boulevard was only a country road and the Studio City Business District consisted of nothing more than a drug store, a grocery store, a small bank, a couple of hamburger stands and a few businesses. [/FONT][/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]On June 21, 1927, the Lankershim Press broke the news that the Central Motion Picture District, a corporation set up to develop movie company sites, had arranged for the construction of a $20 million film center named Studio City. The development was planned for the NE corner of Ventura Highway and Prospect Street ( now Laurel Canyon Boulevard). The first phase of the project was the construction of the 200-acre Mack Sennett Studio. The mission-style administration building was two stories, one of the tallest structures in the Valley. In 1935 it became Republic Pictures Studio and later CBS Studio Center. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The name Studio City would become official in 1928, when the Mack Sennett Studios began shooting a two reeler, "The Keystone Cops" and the "Oh-You-Kid Bathing Beauties" along the hillsides of this beautiful area. At the time, the city considered building an airfield in the east Valley to serve Los Angeles. A private field was established at Ventura Boulevard and Fulton Avenue, and the city took control of Ventura Boulevard from the state of California. The first traffic signal in the Valley was placed at Ventura and Lankershim Boulevards. Thus, both the first airstrip and the first traffic light were built in Studio City. [/FONT][/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Many famous movie stars got their start in the "Republic Days" including, President Ronald Regan, James Stewart, Bette Davis, Jack Benny, Tony Curtis, Jack Webb, Joan Fontaine, Jane Wyman, Peter Lawford, Ray Milland, Alfred Hitchcock, Roy Rogers, and John Wayne. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Republic made a score of great and memorable pictures. Among them, Flying Tigers, Fighting Seabees, The Red Pony, Wake of the Red Witch, Sands of Iwo Jima, The quiet Man, Jubilee Trail, Johnny Guitar, Lisbon and many others. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And it's no wonder that after working for Republic, many stars, and movie industry employees made this charming and conveniently located community of Studio City their home. [/FONT] [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Famous names that have worked at these studios over the years include the following: D.W. Griffith, Mabel Norman, Ben Turpin, Charlie Chaplin, Slim Summerville, Harry Langdon, Edward Everett Horton, W.C. Fields, Gloria Swanson, Marie Prevost, Carole Lombard, Gene Autry, Vaughn Monroe, Barbara Stanwyck, Rory Calhoun, Ward Bond, and Joan Crawford. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Studio City was created by the movie industry. [/FONT][/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Growing up the area in the late 1940's and the early 1950's, Studio City was a magical place. In addition to movies being made right in Studio City, actors such as Errol Flynn walked the streets along with countless others, especially the Hollywood Cowboys. Indeed, a large number of the residents kept their own horses, and there was still room in the Santa Monica Mountains in which to ride. Studio City was destined to become the Valley's closest approximation of a "bohemian" neighborhood, an area that attracted musicians, writers, movie-hopefuls, and other artists. [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By the 1980's, Studio City contained about 25,000 people, and the only studio was the CBS Studio Center, a hundred feet or so north of Ventura Boulevard. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In January of 1985, a CBS/MTM Studios sign went up at the main gate. Since that time, some of the shows produced at the Studio include: Newhart, Thirtysomething, Dinosaurs, Roseanne, A Different World, My Two Dads, Evening Shade, Twilight Zone, and full-length features including, Father of the Bride and The Addams Family. [/FONT][/FONT]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> Thanks to anrrarealestateservices
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