The Days Before Seat Belts
O.K. So, according to this story, the guy laying on the freeway under the big arrow flew out of car 1, 2, or 5.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...psa79bd0f7.jpg L.A. Times "Two accidents on Santa Ana Freeway Posted By: Scott Harrison Posted On: 12:48 a.m. | February 27, 2014 Jan. 13, 1962: Four men were injured in two accidents on the Santa Ana Freeway. At 8:30 a.m. a stalled car was rear ended in the fast lane of the northbound Santa Ana Freeway – numbers 3 and 4 in above photo. After the first accident, Los Angeles Times staff photographer Frank. Q. Brown arrived to take pictures and parked his car, foreground, on the southbound shoulder of the freeway. Forty minutes after the first accident, five cars collided in the southbound lanes. They were, according to the Los Angeles Times, “slowed by curious drivers ahead of them.” These cars are numbers 1, 2 and 5 in photo above. The overturned car missed Brown’s car by an inch. Arrow points to injured driver in the second accident, Jesse Kasner. Two cars involved in the second accident were able to drive away." A couple of things...One, how do you fall out of you car on the freeway?...Two, how do you drive down the freeway on a dry, sunny day and have your car flip over on its top? |
"Two accidents on Santa Ana Freeway
Posted By: Scott Harrison Posted On: 12:48 a.m. | February 27, 2014 Jan. 13, 1962: Four men were injured in two accidents on the Santa Ana Freeway. At 8:30 a.m. a stalled car was rear ended in the fast lane of the northbound Santa Ana Freeway – numbers 3 and 4 in above photo. After the first accident, Los Angeles Times staff photographer Frank. Q. Brown arrived to take pictures and parked his car, foreground, on the southbound shoulder of the freeway. Forty minutes after the first accident, five cars collided in the southbound lanes. They were, according to the Los Angeles Times, “slowed by curious drivers ahead of them.” These cars are numbers 1, 2 and 5 in photo above. The overturned car missed Brown’s car by an inch. Arrow points to injured driver in the second accident, Jesse Kasner. Two cars involved in the second accident were able to drive away." A couple of things...One, how do you fall out of you car on the freeway?...Two, how do you drive down the freeway on a dry, sunny day and have your car flip over on its top?[/QUOTE] I wonder if the car caught the wheels on a curb and flipped. Note that it was another Olds that almost hit Brown's Olds. The No.1 car looks like it could be the same model as the movie car "Christine" Cheers,Pat |
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Two other houses in that old photo are also survivors; the house to the left of 1274 W. Court, 1272 W. Court, and the house behind 1274 W. Court, 1305 W. Colton St. Here's a closeup of the older photo, which USC dates c. 1901: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original USC Digital Library -- http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/11728/rec/40 1272 and 1274 W. Court; 1274 seems to have its original brick retaining wall: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...a.jpg~original GSV 1274 W. Court is behind the trees, between the two light blue houses, the right light blue house being 1272. The two houses in the lower left corner, 1309 (left) and 1305 (right) W. Colton, have build dates of 1885 and 1890 per LA County Assessor, though 1305's roofline has changed since the c. 1901 photo. 1260 W. Court is at the right side of the photo, behind the trees: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...9.jpg~original Bing 1894 Sanborn; Colton Street is at left . . . Toluca Street is at top . . . Court Street is at right. 1274 W. Court is on the fourth lot down from the top, with 1272 (b. 1890) and 1260 W. Court (b. 1890) -- on either side of the big 12 at middle right. The dotted squares are oil wells/derricks: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...3.jpg~original LAPL 1906 Sanborn; this time Toluca St. is on the left, with Bixel on the right. Some of the houses on the 1894 map are missing: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...7.jpg~original LAPL 1260 W. Court: http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/...4.jpg~original GSV |
Insult to injury
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics48/00043933.jpgLAPL The library's caption: "Japanese-owned farm machinery in storage at a garage just off Washington Blvd. in Culver City is seen on April 23, 1943. The machinery is enough to farm 3000 acres. In the background is Frank M. Kramer, administrative assistant to the State Agricultural Commissioner. Kramer testified before the sub-committee of the U. S. Senate Committee on Military Affairs, demanding that something be done by the committee to release the machinery to Los Angeles County farmers who are crying for farm equipment. It was decided that during the first week in May Kramer, Harry Oakley, Los Angeles representative of the War Relocation Authority, and Boyd Stewart, member of the State Committee AAA in Berkeley, would go to Manzanar in an effort to buy these machines from their Japanese owners." Well, at least the Manzanar internees might have been paid for their equipment. But do we suppose they were even given a choice? |
Wow, Great info on Court St WW and FW
I wonder if those derricks are now are completely gone or if there are underground pipes going to some pumping station? Cheers,Pat |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F...ardadcompl.jpgLAT March 22, 1903
jballou-- Trying to figure out what you might mean by "Card houses named after poker games"... please let us know what you find out. Above is an ad for the subdivision in which ER's Oxford Avenue houses stand.... |
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I will try to find out more information from her. |
I don't remember seeing this 1928 picture of Nielsen's Super Service on NLA before. It stood at 3436 W First Street, on the corner of S Westmoreland.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...NielsenSS1.jpg USC Digital Library A closer view showing their special offers. I also like the "NOT BOOTLEG" sign. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...NielsenSS2.jpg Detail of picture above. In the background, there's a familiar roof sign. Given the location, at first I was thinking of the Bimini Baths ... http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...NielsenSS3.jpg Detail of picture above. ... until I remembered the Belmont Theatre on S Vermont. Quote:
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...NielsenSS4.jpg USC Digital Library Speaking of the Bimini Baths, while I was looking for pictures, I found this 1952 auction card on eBay. An article in the LA Times says it sold for $125,000, but sat empty until 1956 when it was torn down. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...uctionCard.jpg Ebay |
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HossC, can you dig up one of your vintage aerials of this 4 acre place? Here's another view. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/843/ngjp.jpgold file of mine __ |
Paramount Drive-in Theater to Reopen
Good news from the L.A. Times today. The Paramount Drive-in (originally the Roadium) is going to reopen this Spring,
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps5dab4a4a.jpg L.A. Times The story is here: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-a...#axzz2uwSXIsc1 |
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http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...lageAerial.jpg Historic Aerials I also found this page from a book called 'Vanishing Los Angeles County' by Cory Stargel and Sarah Stargel. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...k.jpg~original books.google.com |
:previous: That's great HossC! I especially like the illustration.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/542/i54x.jpg http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=19409 Quote:
below: Here's a Gruen Time sign that's been hiding in plain site on Sunset Boulevard. We've seen Bit O' Sweden before on NLA, but this is an especially good scan. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/513/gm82.jpgebay I see that the Rotary Club met there. |
I was hoping to come up with more details on this missing cache of dynamite.
1934 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/208/0wr5.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...90/41/5wc6.jpg |
The bottom of the article I posted about Mission Village mentions that a couple of the buildings were donated to the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society. I'm very familiar with their website because a lot of the Dukes of Hazzard was filmed around that area. In fact, the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society's HQ is the old Saugus station, which once played Hazzard station in the brief time between the station closing and it being moved to its current location. The Mogul steam engine which now sits outside the old station used to belong to Gene Autry. He acquired it in 1957 and used it in several TV shows before donating it to the SCVHS in 1981. But I digress ...
Here's the Mission Village Little Red Schoolhouse while it was at Callahan's Old West Trading Post in the '60s. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...choolhouse.jpg www.scvhistory.com/Louis & Virginia Kay This is the Ramona Chapel, also at the Old West Trading Post. Both were relocated to William S. Hart Park in the '80s. I tried to find them on Google Maps (and Bing Maps), but they're quite small and seem to be mainly hidden in the trees. http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...monaChapel.jpg www.scvhistory.com/Louis & Virginia Kay The site also has this great picture of a Mission Village Good Luck Charm. "Be kind, be happy, be cheerful and think before you speak." http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/z...llageCharm.jpg www.scvhistory.com |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...acomplarti.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1...2520PM.bmp.jpg LAT Sept 6 , 1934 2414 South Vermont today... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-o...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV You can't really tell from the vintage shot above, but--given the peaked roof evident in the aerial below--could the original building be buried in later construction? https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...2520PM.bmp.jpgGSV |
The plot thickens...
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1934. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/541/caij.jpgebay http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...0/829/osok.jpg If one case equal 240 sticks of dynamite... the dynamite found at the Denver Moving & Storage Co. at 24th and Vermont equaled 1,680 sticks! * __ *I stand corrected. 350 cases were found at the storage company!!!! Let's see...that's...hmm..where's my calculator, lets just say it's hellava a lot more than 7 cases. ___ |
Drive your own car to ''camp''....
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The idea of being forced out of your home and business and shipped to a camp is noir, to say the least. Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 2 Apr 1942 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps6d8941c2.jpg WW2 db library. |
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