Gladden Apartments, Los Angeles

 

Thank you to LAPL. 

Jim Dawson notes, 

The building on the right is the Gladden Apartments, at First and Olive. It was featured in the Philip Marlowe film "The Brasher Doubloon" (1947). Raymond Chandler lived there with his mother when he first came to Los Angeles. 

Pasadena Freeway, 1948

 At the bottom of this photo, you can see the sign that reads "Adobe" with an arrow to the right, and "Pasadena" with the arrow straight ahead.  This is right before Stadium Way just as you come away from the Four Level on the Pasadena Freeway, or the 110. 

San Gabriel Apt, 1993-2013

 

From the early 1980s from an old friend, Natalie Mejia.  I always loved her name.  And she was a sweet young woman.