LARy at 5th and Central
Los Angeles Railway car and tracks pass the Golden State Hotel and the Tacoma Bar on November 1, 1911, which is believed to be looking north at the corner of 5th and Central Streets in this real photo postcard. It is near the Los Angeles Ice and Cold Storage Company which can be seen in the background. The hotel and bar property are now a parking lot.
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Is this view now in the 2012’s showing Phillip’s French Dipped Sanwiches?
Our group does not do the display at Philippe’s but we do have one now running at the Pasadena Museum of History through January 2013. learn more at http://www.pasadenahistory.org.
Phillip’s French Dipped Sandwiches is now and as far as I know allways been at 1001 N. Alemeda
As far as I’ve been able to determine, Philippe’s http://www.philippes.com/ has occupied six different locations – one of them twice – since 1903:
617 N Alameda: 1903-1908
316 N Alameda: 1908-1912
138 N Spring: 1912-1913 (site of today’s City Hall)
617 N Alameda (again): 1913-1916
-(gap between 1916-1918)-
246 E Aliso: 1918-1925… ?
346 E Aliso: 1925-1951
1001 N Alameda: 1951 – present
Quite a journey within a radius of less than half a mile!
Is the actual name of the place “Phillipe” ?
Been too long
I had a friend who prounounced it Fee Lee Pay’s
But french makes more sense cuz mexican dip is salsa
Indeed, the true pronunciation is “Phi-LEAP.” Note that there is no “apostrophe s” as it is not a possessive name.
Been that way since I first encountered it in the early 1950s.
The Los Angeles Cold Storage Building is still there. Painted and without the word “ice” in the name, but still there.
If I’ve got the right road junction on Streetview, it’s all changed. It looks more of an industrial type of area now. Found the old cold storage place in the background of the old photo is still there. There’s also a news item about a black special police officer named Arington who arrested a man and had to fight off a mob at Fifth and Central Avenue…”MOB ATTACKS NEGRO OFFICER” from the Los Angeles Herald, October 15, 1905. Opposite this junction there was an old rail road depot called Arcade Station.
Yep, the Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage Company building at the N/E corner of 4th & Central – 707 E 4th St –
http://goo.gl/maps/QGPcJ was built in 1905 and improved in 1950:
http://tinyurl.com/AssessorsRecord
The “Golden State Hotel” from which the postcard picture was taken, was at 844 E 5th Street from *at least* as early as 1923 and as late as October 1961 according to City directories
http://tinyurl.com/GoldenStateHotel-1923
http://tinyurl.com/GSHotel-1961
This is the view as it is today:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=central+ave+and+5th+street+los+angeles&hl=en&ll=34.041672,-118.239863&spn=0.010046,0.01929&sll=34.041702,-118.239863&layer=c&cbp=13,25.1,,0,-3.64&cbll=34.041787,-118.240002&hnear=S+Central+Ave+%26+E+5th+St,+Los+Angeles,+California+90013,+United+States&t=h&z=16&panoid=6H2Q8eSXcxGsq6pNr9a42Q
OK – You’ll have to copy and paste the whole of the above link to get a StreetView from the corner of 5th and Central.
Try this link for a street view – http://tiny.cc/zw9fnw
There was a LARY carbarn on Central Ave between 6th & 7th Streets? Now a bus depot I believe. Found this on Flickr: http://tiny.cc/21zinw
If you look at the Sth Alameda Street side of the bus depot there are still tracks in the road. No idea if these belonged to the Los Angeles Railway. It’s hard to tell what guage they are. http://tiny.cc/pk1inw
5th Street does not cross Alameda Street. It ends it’s eastbound route at Central. The tracks on Alameda were once double track standard gauge Southern Pacific main line, single tracked in the late 70’s, now owned by the Union Pacific. I dont think this street trackage has been use for many years.
Wow! This is so cool. I actually work LA Cold and according to company history, that building was built in 1895. It’s amazing that it is still fully functional to this day.