All over Southern California there are opportunities to buy houses for the moving… houses which stand in the way of such building projects as shopping centers, apartment buildings, parking lots, filling stations, churches, government construction and road projects.
Approximately 700 houses are moved each year in the Los Angeles area alone. John Koslov, right-of-way clearance agent for the State Highway Department, District 7, says that to make room for one 3-mile section of the Foothill Freeway, the Highway Department purchased 396 improved parcels, of which they sold 251 and demolished 145.
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Aug. 31, 1958: A house moved from Hollywood is elevated to clear its new neighbor's roof on East 90th Street. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
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PREVIOUS Jan. 8, 1959: A house is raised 25 feet to move into its new location on West 43rd Street. The structure was moved from 94th Street and El Manor Avenue. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Aug. 23, 1960: A barge carrying a pair of houses is prepared to sail from Los Angeles Harbor to Port Hueneme in Ventura County. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Aug. 16, 1973: John and Cheryl Fremdling moved their 349-ton home in Pasadena to keep it from being demolished. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Aug. 16, 1973: John and Cheryl Fremdling check out their house after its move to a new Pasadena location. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Oct. 22, 1973: An early 1900s house crossing over the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland stops so workers can free its eaves from being entangled with a light pole. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
September 1974: A house being moved in LaCrosse, Wis., stalls on a railroad track, but workers were able to move the structure before a train arrived. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
May 11, 1989: The Edward Strong mansion in downtown Los Angeles is moved from its site of 102 years on West 15th Street to make room for an expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
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July 10, 1951: Cables are used to pull a six-room, 20-ton house up a hill – one of the steepest in town – on Baxter Street, just east of Lake Shore Avenue, in Silver Lake. |
Vintage Photos of Houses Moving in Los Angeles From the Past
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June 1952: Parked cars block the path of a two-story house being relocated from Doheny Drive just south of Sunset Boulevard to Santa Monica. |