My Dad, Jack Corey, took these shots looking southbound at 10:35 AM at Fourth & Pike, and looking northbound at 11:15 AM, probably in 1950. Two movies are playing at the Colonial, one with Randolph Scott, one with William Gargan. According to IMDB, they never co-starred in a movie, and Gargan didn’t make a movie from 1949 to 1956, so the 1949-50 Ford sedans semi-confirm a year. Men’s tailors Lundquist-Lilly shares the 4th & Pike Building with HFC (Household Finance), in an office they occupied until at least the mid-1970′s, and the Arden Ice Cream shop was there until supplanted by Pay-N-Save. (I’d guess that my Dad was probably downtown visiting my Mom, who was an elevator operator in the 4th & Pike Building)
Marty Corey
5/12/2010
Marty Corey
5/12/2010
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| Fourth & Pike (Liggett) Building, 1950. Photograph by Jack Corey; courtesy Marty Corey. |
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| Fourth & Pike (Liggett) Building, 1950. Photograph by Jack Corey; courtesy Marty Corey. |
Actually, that’s the Joshua Green building. I know that, because that’s where our old HistoryLink office was up until a few years ago. One of the elevators had a Kalakala on it.
Cool pictures. In the second one you can see the 1411 building, where HistoryLink is located now. I’d love to see some good vintage shots of that building. It was designed by the guy who did the 5th Avenue Theatre and Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Inn, among other things.
Good catch, Alan. They are right across the street from each other. I’ve updated the post to correct the error.
Cliffe
So they removed the cornice from the Green Building in 1950? It looks like they’re fixing to tear down the building next to it where Office Depot is now.
Oh, maybe as a result of the 1949 earthquake?
Carrolls’ Jewelers were on the first floor/main entrance to the Joshua Green building. That is their street clock you see in both photos. Dad had a store in the Bigelow Building around this time. I think that building is across Pike from the Arden storefront. Fun to see the photos and think this may have been what he would see on his way to/from work in the 1950s!
That is some high-res goodness. Thanks Marty! Pretty neat that your mom was an elevator operator. I wish elevator operators and fountain lunch counters were still the norm.
Colin- Good call on the possibility of earthquake damage. ChrisA- To quote Dan Jenkins “Most of them are too stupid to operate a self-service elevator”. I loved the fountain lunch counters at Bartells, Kress, and I think it was Newberry’s at Northgate. Alan- I offered these to Paul 10 or 12 years ago
i use to wash dishs in the arden sanders fountain lunch in 1956
I vagley rememeber the Arden lunch fountain on the corner
in the early 60s before they tore it down “nothing new” then after that it was several things, but never had the class or karma of the infamous Arden!
To: Marty Dawg
You mentioned Dan Jenkins. This may sound odd, but he left a photo album at my restaurant and I’m trying to get it back to him. Hopefully we are talking about the same Dan Jenkins – his kids are Nick and Kaitlyn. If you have any contact info for him please let me know at mjgillis12@yahoo.com. Or, have him call The Summit House at 714.671.4111.
Thanks,
Mike
Just to get the details right – those ’49 – ’50 sedans parked on the street are Chevys, not Fords.