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Kirkman-Harriman Pictorial and Historical Map of Los Angeles County 1860 AD 1938 AD |
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The "Kirkman-Harriman Pictorial and Historical Map of Los Angeles County 1860 AD – 1937 AD" is a map that every child in Southern California should own and use during grades Three through Five as they study the American Indians in California, as well as the period of Spanish Exloration, the Mission period and the Mexican rule of Alta California, and the subsequent war of independence. Reproduction printed on heavy 32" x 29" Poster Photo Satin paper. Comes with a separate printed key (available HERE for downloading and perusal before buying). Shipped rolled in a 3" x 36" mailing tube. $46.99 |
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Shop to Shop on Hollywood Boulevard (1930) |
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| (Available first quarter 2012)
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Art Deco Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles (1930) |
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| (Available fourth quarter 2012)
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Art Photo Prints: Panorama and poster size |
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Castellammare Panorama |
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| In 1927 a photographer, probably for TICOR Title, stood on the spot that this Panorama was taken, and shot this picture of a garage and house under construction on a Castellammare hillside (area of Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles): The garage at 17531 Posetano Rd and the house above at 17520 Revello Dr. The home was for Actress Jewel Carmen, wife of Director Roland West, the lover and business partner of Thelma Todd, who lived on the upper floor of Todd's Cafe on Pacific Coast Highway in 1935, next to the pedestrian bridge spanning the hightway, which is visible in the center of the panorama. The garage is where Thelma Todd was found dead in December 1935, and is visible center right: The blue doors on Posetano. Printed on heavy 13" x 44" Poster Photo Satin paper. Shipped rolled in a 3" x 15" mailing tube. Actual print size is 13" x 44". $38.99
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Downtown Los Angeles Panorama (1923) |
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| This Panormaa was shot with a #6 Cirkut Camera. Taken from the balcony of a building on Hill street across from the former La Plaza Abaja (Lower Plaza), later named Central Park, and renmed Pershing Square in 1918 in honor of John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing the building is long gone and replaced by the modern International Jewelry Building. Since the Builtmore opened in 1923, and construction can clearly been seen going on the the windows of the hotel, it is reasonable to assume that this photo dates to 1923. Reproduction printed on heavy 12" x 40" Poster Photo Satin paper. Shipped rolled in a 3" 15" mailing tube. Actual print size is 6" x 40". $36.99
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Effie Street Mack Sennett Studio Panorama (1916) |
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| Another #6 Cirkut Camera Panorama, this one 26" long. Taken from the top of the Effie Street steps above the Mack Sennett Studio, home of the Keystone Kops, Ben Turpin and Charlie Chaplin, this dates to 1916. While the forground building with a scrim roof –– no talkies yet and using the vast quantities of available California sunlight, hence the scrim –– is long gone, the stage building across Glendale Blvd., is still standing. A roller rink when I was growing up in the neighborhood, it is currently a Public Storage facility, sitting above a Jack-In-the Box. Reproduction printed on heavy 12" x 26" Poster Photo Satin paper. Shipped rolled in a 3" x 15" mailing tube. Actual print size is 7" x 26". $32.99
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Traffic at Temple and Figueroa (1940) |
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| And you think Los Angeles Traffic is bad now! The intersection of Temple Street and Figueroa Circa 1940. Looking South toward Temple with the long gone classic black Terracotta Richfield Building barely visible through the afternoon smog, a SigAlert just waiting to happen! And these old cars really pumped out the hydrocarbons, gasp. Reproduction printed on heavy 17" x 20" Poster Photo Satin paper. Shipped rolled in a 3" x 24" mailing tube. $30.99
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Downtown Street scene (1927) |
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| Downtown Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties. Raymond Chandler could have seen this scene as he made his way around the downtown area daily: In fact, he may be in this picture! This photo was taken in front of the Walter P. Story building, between 6th & 7th, looking North up Broadway. Reproduction printed on heavy 12" x 18" Poster Photo Satin paper. Shipped rolled in a 2" x 24" mailing tube. Actual print size is 6" x 18". $29.95
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Los Angeles from the Hollywood Hills Panorama |
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| From "The Long Goodby, Chapter One: "I was living that year in a house on Yucca Avenue in the Laurel Canyon district. It was a small hillside house on a dead-end street with a long flight of redwood steps to the front door and a grove of eucalyptus trees across the way." This view is from Grand View Drive in the Laurel Canyon district. Chandler was known for mixing locations, so it should be no surprise that Yucca Trail, which is off Kirkwood Dr, which itself is off Laurel Canyon, isn't a dead-end street, but turns into Grand View Drive, which then circles around and turns back into Kirkwood. There is also a short dead-end bit of road named Yucca Lane which could be the model for Marlowe's Yucca Avenue address. And, just to mix things up a bit more, there is a Yucca Street in downtown Hollywood. So, just up the hill and one street over from where Marlowe was living, would have been this grand view of Los Angeles, Hollywood and the Westside. Of course, in the 1950s there would have been a bit more vacant land. Printed on heavy 13" x 44" PosterPhoto Satin paper. Shipped rolled in a 2" x 24" mailing tube. Actual print size is 13" x 44". $38.99
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Shamus Town
Photo Art Print
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| The Shamus Town "photo art" is a composite created in Adobe Photoshop CS. What that means is that Shamus Town is made up of 21 different layers. Eight (8) of those layers are different photographs. Two are historical: a postcard from the 1920s showing Hollywood and Vine from Argile. It was damaged and yellowed with age, which actually added to the total look and feel. The other is a photo of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine on August 15, 1945 - VJ Day (Victory in Japan Day, the end of WWII for those not around then). As it happens, I was in that intersection on that day. Just three years and 17 days old, my parents put me on the package shelf of my father's 1930 something black Plymouth Coupe and drove down Hollywood Boulevard. It is one of my earliest recollections -- the confetti floating down from the windows of the Taft and Equitable Buildings, perhaps the Broadway Hollywood Building as well. The other photos layers are ones I shot of Hollywood Boulevard in 2005. The other layers add different effects, like blending, boosting the saturation, masking and altering the colors. By the way, 20 8x10 photos of this photo-art, Titled "Hollywood Then And Now," were sold to Malibu Global Awareness board members, raising $2000 for Doctors Without Borders. Three 17x10 prints were sold at auction at the June 2006 MGA fund raiser at Cindy Landon's estate in Malibu, raising more money for Doctors Without Borders. Two sizes: 10" x 17" and 18" x 30". Shipped rolled in 2" x 24" mailing tube. $29.99 and $37.99
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Hollywood Then & Now Photo Art Print |
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| Same Art Photo as above with the exception that it says Hollwood Then and Now. Same size options and prices.
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© 2011 Loren Latker