Until I came across this circa-1940s aerial photograph of the Farmers Market at Third and Fairfax, I didn’t the roof was painted green (and still is.) This shot also reminds us that the area was also home to the Gilmore Stadium, the Gilmore baseball field, and right at the top, that white building is the Pan Pacific auditorium. But we can also see how empty the land around it was—especially to the east, which is where The Grove shopping center now is.
How that area looks now – see how the Farmers Market roof is still green!
Born in 1969 in L.A. and raised Los Angelelino, I remember at least for my generation, the last days of the original Farmer’s Market area. It was such a nice, calm, open space area, you could see the Hollywood Hills much more prominent, it’s truly a shame that the surrounding developments, including the new development at the Kmart location ruined such a nice, country like atmosphere in the middle of Los Angeles. I always lament it.
Also, a humble request, would it be possible to upload higher resolution scans of these and other vintage Los Angeles photographs or their size dictated by the internet? Thanks again!
I envy you that you got to experience some of the LA of old, before all these developments started to crowd the area. It was inevitable, I suppose, but still….
As to your request to load high res photos…most of the vintage photos aren’t very big to start with so there’s not much I can do about it. But there is an issue of the loadability of a website. The larger a photo is, the slower it is to load. The problem is that the search engines tend to push websites down the list if they are slow to load – this is especially true more and more these days with people looking at social media more often on their cell phones. If I have a large version of a photo, what I often do is upload that photo thru a site like https://tinypng.com/ which reduces the size of the photo’s file without reducing its quality.
I have fond memories of eating pancakes and French Toast at the original 1930s Du-Pars that is situated at the lower left of the green-roofed buildings. I patronized ALL the Du-Pars’ locations: the one in Thousand Oaks, most often the Studio City location, and even the short-lived Glendale location in the early ’90s. No shortage of interesting restaurants in the big city!
Until I came across this circa-1940s aerial photograph of the Farmers Market at Third and Fairfax, I didn’t the roof was painted green (and still is.) This shot also reminds us that the area was also home to the Gilmore Stadium, the Gilmore baseball field, and right at the top, that white building is the Pan Pacific auditorium. But we can also see how empty the land around it was—especially to the east, which is where The Grove shopping center now is.
I don’t see the old Rancho La Brea Adobe in the vintage pic.
Wonderful photo, thank you for sharing it.
Born in 1969 in L.A. and raised Los Angelelino, I remember at least for my generation, the last days of the original Farmer’s Market area. It was such a nice, calm, open space area, you could see the Hollywood Hills much more prominent, it’s truly a shame that the surrounding developments, including the new development at the Kmart location ruined such a nice, country like atmosphere in the middle of Los Angeles. I always lament it.
Also, a humble request, would it be possible to upload higher resolution scans of these and other vintage Los Angeles photographs or their size dictated by the internet? Thanks again!
Hi Gary and thanks for your note.
I envy you that you got to experience some of the LA of old, before all these developments started to crowd the area. It was inevitable, I suppose, but still….
As to your request to load high res photos…most of the vintage photos aren’t very big to start with so there’s not much I can do about it. But there is an issue of the loadability of a website. The larger a photo is, the slower it is to load. The problem is that the search engines tend to push websites down the list if they are slow to load – this is especially true more and more these days with people looking at social media more often on their cell phones. If I have a large version of a photo, what I often do is upload that photo thru a site like https://tinypng.com/ which reduces the size of the photo’s file without reducing its quality.
I have fond memories of eating pancakes and French Toast at the original 1930s Du-Pars that is situated at the lower left of the green-roofed buildings. I patronized ALL the Du-Pars’ locations: the one in Thousand Oaks, most often the Studio City location, and even the short-lived Glendale location in the early ’90s. No shortage of interesting restaurants in the big city!
The Studio City Du-Pars recently became a make-up store, so we now have one less LA historical restaurant.