Whoop there it is.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/fC8viq.jpg
GSV


It appears to be hooked up.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/BhHNk1.jpg

I assumed the remaining sirens were simply old relics. Are they still used on occasion?

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Long Beach food stand. 1930s? (I'm guessing by the automobiles) THE SMALL SIGN HANGING FROM THE FRONT AWNING SAYS "HOT PUPPIES"

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I couldn't help but notice that the food stand appears more 'modern' than the cars that surround it.

What first caught my eye is that square area on the front of the stand.


Is this an automatic drink dispenser?

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/KQGFaO.jpg

If not, what else could it be?



Also note how the two bread-basket-like compartment on the counter face the customers.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/HMTpQk.jpg

Initially I thought it was for self-service (you know, reach in and retrieve your steamy hotdog),
but if you look closely the compartments angle downward in the back. Now I'm guessing they're for trash instead.
(so the trash is going in to where the food is prepared. :yuck:
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All very important questions ;)

Oh wait. I forgot about the mystery building that looks like a fort.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/7Lft01.jpg

I believe there is a tall flagpole on top.

I was aiming my Instamatic at the "Mission Bell" street light on Temple, but caught a bit of the City Hall siren. It would have still been functional at the time of this October 1969 photo.


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L.A.'s gothic-noirish "castle"--the kooky old Hall of Records & Courthouse, demolished in 1973. Note the angled line of the building from the old alignment of New High St. This view from the L.A. Times not long before it was torn down to make way for the mall extension. The building on the right under construction is the new Superior Courts building.

https://latimesphoto.files.wordpress...rdsfile500.jpg

I'm on a Mac, so no microsoft browser here.

Kooky-gothic & noirish
 

CaliNative you seem very interested in the Hall of Records. Just leaf through the first pages of Noirish Los Angeles.

35mm Slide Los Angeles 1963 Street Scene IHOP House of Pancakes Sunset Blvd

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I don't remember this IHOP on Sunset Boulevard. The only IHOP I remember is the one at Santa Monica Blvd. and Holloway Drive. THIS ONE

p.s. Is this even Sunset Blvd?

Here's another 1963 slide.

35mm Slide Knotts Berry Farm 1963 Street Scene Sign

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EBAY

This must be Grand Avenue (in Buena Park, of course), but Knotts has grown so much over the years it's rather difficult to be 100% sure.
The statue appears to be on a corner (the cross street is visible behind the miner & his mule), so perhaps this isn't near the actual entrance to the park. :shrug:

I just noticed the Highway 39 sign.

P.O.P. Ocean Park with a nice view of the old dome in the distance.

35mm Slide Pacific Ocean Park Santa Monica POP Diving Bells 1960

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EBAY

To be honest, I thought it (the dome) had burnt down by 1960. (and I thought there was only one diving bell) MY MEMORY SUCKS.




close-up - Sorry about the lint storm. :yuck:

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The dome is rather beautiful.

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That IHOP is still there:

https://i.imgur.com/Gwnpy99.jpgGSV

The Sunset Orange Hotel was where the IN-N-OUT Burger is now.

https://i.imgur.com/mrSw1aa.jpgLINK

The building seen beyond the palms on the left is the Blessed Sacrament church, next to the Crossroads of the World. To the right of it can be seen the rooftop of the Hollywood Athletic Club. Behind the palm trees to the left is Hollywood High School.

Long Beach
 

I think that might be the Pacific Coast Club, which was built about 2 years before its still-extant neighbor Villa Riviera which would place the photos about 1927...are any of the cars parked at the hot dog stand later than that? Maybe the car experts can weigh in...I think the "flagpole" might be an artifact.

KCET has an article https://www.kcet.org/history-society...-of-long-beach

It does look fort like:

https://i.imgur.com/DZ46WgK.jpg
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https://i.imgur.com/rIhahqk.jpg
and more at https://www.flickr.com/photos/ocean_...7626899926476/

Have you heard this month that IHOP changed their name?

http://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/...ob-220x145.jpg

IHOP, which recently changed its iconic name to IHOb, has revealed what the new consonant stands for: "burgers." The name change accompanies a line of new burgers at the chain.

IHOP seems to be hedging its bets by saying the IHOb name is "for the time being," suggesting the effort may be more of a marketing ploy rather than a true rebranding campaign. Stay tuned.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ihops-n...d-for-6-11-18/

Will check the pages out.

Nice pics Ethereal! Must of been where detective Giddes in "Chinatown" tore out the page of a S.F. Valley land record with a ruler and coughed to hide the tearing noise. Great neo-noire film.

More classic Hall of Records pics. Lots of gems in the original pages from years ago that deserve a relook. Love those old diagonal streets. Right angle grids with no diagonals and meandering streets may be logical but boring. Salt Lake City strict street grid and numbered names may be logical but sooooo boring in my opinion. At least L.A. still has Spring & Broadway meeting in a diagonal--perfect location for an L.A. "Flatiron" building. And of course many streets outside of downtown meander because of the topography. Sunset Blvd. is a prime example.

It's La Palma and Beach, e_r, just before Beach splits into Beach and Grand. We're at the northeast corner of Knott's.

OH NO is the familiar old miner and mule statue gone now?

https://s26.postimg.cc/dau51gbt5/Kno_Be.jpg
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Yep--gone!

That's a Home Savings across the street. There's another Home Savings building across La Palma from that. I forget which one was the earlier one.

The original Dome Theatre was destroyed by fire on 01-06-1924. It was rebuilt in 1925, eventually becoming the show building for Pacific Ocean Park's "Magic Carpet Ride" in 1958.

The building was demolished in the summer of 1969, along with the two adjoining structures a couple of years after P.O.P. closed. It was an abortive attempt to begin a redevelopment scheme by John (Jack) Morehart. The great fires that swept through the P.O.P. ruins from time to time did not begin until 1970.

Source: Christopher Merritt & Dominic Priore's "Pacific Ocean Park: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles' Space-Age Nautical Pleasure Pier" (Port Townsend, WA: Process Media--2014). Pages 15-16 & 233-234

Never knew Knott's Berry Farm was once Knott's Berry Place...from the 1941 CD


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