Zapatistas (formerly Mexican Soldiers)
Image by alexmerwin13
Alfredo Ramos Martinez
Oil on canvas
Housed at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
05a La Placita - Pico House (E)
Image by Kansas Sebastian
National Register of Historic Places No. 72000231, Added November 3, 1972
California Historical Landmark No. 159
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Los Angeles Plaza Historic District
A plaque across from the Old Plaza commemorates the founding of the city. It states: "On September 4, 1781, eleven families of pobladores (44 persons including children) arrived at this place from the Gulf of California to establish a pueblo which was to become the City of Los Angeles. This colonization ordered by King Carlos III of Spain was carried out under the direction of Governor Felipe de Neve." The small town received the name El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles sobre El Rio Porciuncula, Spanish for The Town of Our Lady Queen of the Angels on the Porciuncula River. The original pueblo was built to the southeast of the current plaza along the Los Angeles River. In 1815, a flood washed away the original pueblo, and it was rebuilt farther from the river at the location of the current plaza.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Plaza_Historic_District
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The Pico House is a historic building in Los Angeles, California, dating from its days as a small town in Southern California. Located on 430 North Main Street, it sits across the old Los Angeles Plaza from Olvera Street and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. Its geographic coordinates are 34°03′23.63″N 118°14′22.07″W / 34.0565639°N 118.2394639°W / 34.0565639; -118.2394639.
Pío Pico, a successful businessman who was the last Mexican Governor of Alta California, ordered construction a luxury hotel in the growing town. The architect was Ezra F. Kysor, who also designed the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, and it was constructed between 1869 and 1870. The resulting Italianate three story, 33-room hotel, dubbed Pico House (or Casa de Pico) was the most extravagant and lavish hotel in Southern California, and its opening was cause for much celebration. It had a total of nearly eighty rooms, large windows, a small interior court, and a grand staircase.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_House
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Pico House, 1869-70
Ezra F Kysor
430 N Main St
This Italinate hotel was the first three-story masonry building consructed in Los Angeles. The openings are all arched and set between vertical pilasters and projecting horizontal cornices. The street elevations of the building were stuccoed over, and then painted to imitate light blue granite. The building as been completely rebuilt and has awaited some use for a number of years.
Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winter
Downtown, Plaza and Northeast, No. 6
Eco-Guide Ariel communicating via laptop computer, white cat, kitchen, his house, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Image by Wonderlane
My Mexican host Ariel working in the kitchen. Ariel runs Wild Travellers, an organization which manages camps designed to save endangered species.
William Bendel
Image by wallygrom
I guess this is Will Bendel Junior. His father was named Wilhelm, but he was born in Europe and this was taken in California. Presumably about March 1887.
The photo says "opposite Pico House". As a matter of interest, here is some info on Pico House.
From Wikipedia -
The Pico House is a historic building in Los Angeles, California, dating from its days as a small town in Southern California. Located on 430 North Main Street, it sits across the old Los Angeles Plaza from Olvera Street and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. Its geographic coordinates are 34°03′23.63″N 118°14′22.07″W.
Pío Pico, a successful businessman who was the last Mexican Governor of Alta California, ordered construction of a luxury hotel in the growing town. The architect was Ezra F. Kysor, who also designed the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, and it was constructed between 1869 and 1870. The resulting Italianate three story, 33-room hotel, dubbed Pico House (or Casa de Pico) was the most extravagant and lavish hotel in Southern California, and its opening was cause for much celebration. It had a total of nearly eighty rooms, large windows, a small interior court, and a grand staircase. In the days of the hotel's primacy the courtyard featured a fountain and an aviary of exotic birds. The structure forms three sides of a trapezoid of which the open end immediately abuts the adjacent Merced Theatre, thus forming the courtyard. The back of the hotel faces Sanchez Street, where the large carriage entrance can still be seen.
Its time in the spotlight did not last very long. By 1876 the Southern Pacific Railroad had linked the city with the rest of the country and more residents and businessman began pouring in. Pio Pico himself started having financial troubles, and lost the hotel to the San Francisco Savings and Loan Company. The business center of the city began to move south and, by 1900, the building began to decline. After decades as a shabby lodging house, it finally passed into the hands of the State of California in 1953, and it now belongs to the El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Monument. Parts of this building were renovated in 1981 and 1992. The ground floor is occasionally used for exhibits and other events.
The Pico House is currently listed as a California Historical Landmark (No. 159) and a National Historic Landmark as a part of the Los Angeles Plaza Historic District (NPS-72000231).
The Pico House is featured prominently in the Star Trek: The Next Generation two part episode Time's Arrow, filling in as turn of the century San Francisco.
The back end of Pico House is also used in the hit TV show The Mentalist. It is used as the CBI HQ and is frequently shown during the show. Pico House was also used, in August 2009, as the shoot location for JLS's video for their single, Everybody In Love. On January 7, 2011, the building was featured on Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures with Kane Hodder, and Rick McCullum.
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