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This is a fascinating photograph of a trolley with porthole windows. (we have seen a trolley like this on NLA but this photograph is new to NLA) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/z9v2AN.jpg eBay (no longer listed) La Jolla and San Diego Motor Car................I believe the man holding a suitcase is looking at the Pacific Ocean. - - - > If you look closely Los Angeles is painted on the side. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/DqO59L.jpg detail Los Angeles and San Diego(?) RY. At first I was confused Ramona's Home was one of the train stops but then I remembered that two different locations claim to be the home of Ramona. One is Rancho Camulos (in Ventura County) and the other is Rancho Guajome (in San Diego County). This trolley is obviously going to the Rancho Guajome location. hmmm. . .there was also a rail-line to the Ventura County location. RE: Rancho Camulos "The 1887 completion of the Southern Pacific line increased the number of visitors, as the railroad featured the Camulos Ranch in its advertisements in order to distinguish the line from its competitors. Tourists continued to arrive even after the SP relocated its main line in 1903 through the Santa Susana Pass, by passing Camulos. Two daily trains made stops at Camulos until the service was discontinued in the 1940s." Since Ramona is a fictional character I doubt either one is her home. . |
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Getty/Ed Ruscha Sunset/Alvarado 1966....some may decry the abundant signage as an eyesore but here I think it looks great, particularly the Barbara Ann Bread neon. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds |
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[Jerry Lewis nutty professor voice]: "Well, ackshully..." The car isn't a trolley but rather a self-propelled railcar that used a distillate engine for power. See more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeen_Motor_Car_Company The LA&SDBRy ran between Old Town San Diego and La Jolla until 1914: http://thewebsters.us/2017/03/23/ele...o-the-beaches/ |
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To the other noirishers here, does Mrs. Robinson grow on you as you age? As sympathetic as villainous, as much a victim as a victimizer? I wonder what Ben and Elaine were thinking when they rode off in that bus after the broken wedding? A blend of happiness and "Oh sh*t what have we done?" would be my guess. PS..I wonder if Ben went into the plastics biz? . |
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Charles Webb wrote a sequel to The Graduate called Home School. As I recall, a terribly written book, but Ben & Elaine stayed together, had some kids.... |
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Here's another look at the railcar in the eBay photograph. (the one with the Ramona stop) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/SbNaO4.jpg sdera.org . . .and another La Jolla Line car in front of the Hotel Cabrillo. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/GRI1UT.jpg I'm not sure if the hotel is/was located in La Jolla or in San Diego. And. . . a glimpse inside the railcar. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/gRpdi8.jpg It looks like something out of Flash Gordon! Links coming / I accidentally closed all the pages. . |
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In researching another subject (Artesian wells), I ran across this 1887 article which I found interesting in several ways . . .
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File under:... Mid-Century Design. The Snack Shack at Zuma Beach, Malibu....1959 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/kzG8RH.jpg ARTNET Phonographer - Joseph Fadler It looks like Joe might have left his camera case in the field of vision - - - - > I wonder what the box-like thingy is just inside the restroom entrance. There's an oval plaque above it with an arrow pointing down. (there's an identically shaped sign inside the snack shack) Let's take a closer look at the lovely ladies. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/kLsui3.jpg detail "Two cups of Adohr milk, please." (or maybe the Adohr sign is for ice cream) . |
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Do you remember the photograph of Sigourney Weaver enjoying a hotdog at Tail O' the Pup in 1978? Here she is, fourteen years earlier, at the iconic Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl (1964). https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/8256/nAJQaO.gif gify Just amazing! She was only 15 years old. . |
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John's haunting last song "Imagine", written shortly before his death, was his parting gift to us all. If she was shouting "John" as she seems to be, Sig had good sense. |
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I'd say Paul was equal in pushing the band's boundaries. Maybe even more so. Oh and "Imagine" was released in 1971, nine years before John's death. When John died, the song getting airplay was "(Just Like) Starting Over" off of the Double Fantasy LP. |
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I wonder what the box-like thingy is just inside the restroom entrance. There's an oval plaque above it with an arrow pointing down. (there's an identically shaped sign inside the snack shack)
My best guess is the box like thingy is the end of a standing only eating area. Customers took their food here rather than take it to the beach. There is likely a trash can out of view. My other guess is this area does not have restrooms. The restrooms are behind the snack bar. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/kLsui3.jpg detail "Two cups of Adohr milk, please." (or maybe the Adohr sign is for ice cream) .[/QUOTE] |
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(Trivia: Adohr spelled backwards is Foremost) |
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